Our first look at Bane in Gotham has been met mostly with, well, ridicule but does the villain look any better in action? Not really. It's hard to figure out what the show is going for with that odd looking contraption on his chest but the mask was clearly inspired by The Dark Knight Rises rather than the character's appearance in the comic books.
From day one, Gotham has taken its inspiration from Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy, so this is no great surprise and the show - which is now heading into its fifth and final season - has probably done the best it can on a television budget.
As you can see in the set photos below, Bane is attacking a group of police officers and seemingly crushing their skulls as he grabs onto their heads and takes them out. Jim Gordon (who once served in the military with the villain) is also knocked out but he presumably isn't killed during this adaptation of the "No Man's Land" storyline as we'll need to see his moustache in the finale!
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