While Bruce is still trying to track down the armored vigilante Azrael, a small militia force arrives and takes Gotham City over by force, closing all bridges not letting anybody in or out of the city. As Batman is relentlessly trying to take down the militia, he is also trying to find who their leader is, eventually the militia leader reveals himself as Bane. Batman begins to research and learn everything that he can about Bane in order to beat him and take his city back. Bruce eventually finds out that his name is Eduardo Dorrace who was imprisoned in Pena Duro on Santa Prisca as a baby to pay off the debt of his father. The prison was heavily influenced by the League of Assassins for their scientific experiments and they had made a chemical named Venom that gave the user the strength of 100 men and Eduardo used it to escape prison becoming addicted to it. Because he grew in a prison all he knew was pain, fighting and fear. In prison he had been forced to fight in a ring to the death against other prisoners so he always felt the need to fight and defeat whoever he viewed as the best, leading him to Gotham to break the bat and prove he is the best and strongest- and he succeeds, breaking Batman's back and freeing every inmate of Arkham Asylum, and took over Gotham because he viewed the harsh, fearful, city as close to his own home of Pena Duro.
