User blog comment:Lasifer/Anniversary Special: The Joker vs. Bane/@comment-5232784-20120725010827

I do not know enough most of the weapons listed to give a good reasoned discussion about thei comparative strengths/weaknesses, so I will stick to the X-Factors:

1. Intelligence:

In the Comics, both Joker and Bane are very intelligent. But whereas Joker's knowledge is more inclined to magic tricks and Science, Bane's is leaned more towards tactics (like Alexander the Great). I saw the Dark Knight but no the Dark Knight rises, and to tell y'all th truth I think Heath Ledger's Joker is not as good as Jack Nicholson's Joker: No Joker venom/gas, no clown-gags, low on dark humor (or almost any humor to think of it), so on. It seems from the movies that both Joker and Bane are big time terrorists and masterplanners, but their characters (at least for the Joker) have lost their more unique qualities they had in the comics.

However, this is certain: Bane, like Osama Bin Laden, is an evil man but not a mad man (really insane). Joker is insane, and the insanity factor can be a hinderance to critical thinking.

Bane wins on Intelligence

2. Strength

Bane can overpower Batman (who is at the peak of physical performance in the comics and a superb physical athlete in the movies). Joker, though a powerful warrior in his own right, is nowhere near as physical or as fit as either Batman or Bane. Joker has to use knives in close quarter combat: Batman and Bane can do well without them as well as with, and they are physically capable of the latter.

And this is before the Bane venom is introduced (why was this left out?)

Edge: Bane by magnitudes!

3. Experience

In the comics, Joker would have the advantage here: being older, he's had more time to gain scrap experience against fellow crooks and crazies, cops and caped crusaders. However, this is the movies and both seem fairly around the same age, and not enough facts are given to show how long comparatively they have been commiting their acts of super villainy.

I agree with lasmoore: Tie

4. Creativity

Joker in the movies is not the same as Joker in the comics. The latter is a genius, albeit a dark and mad genius. He never runs dry thinking up ingenious toys and acts in the comics that keep Batman pulling out his bat ears in stress! Bane, though just as dangerous, and though with plans just as effective (if not more so, considering that Bane actually beat Batman) is basically the brute force terrorist/Crime Lord opponent. In the movies, Joker moves away from being a clown prince of crime to the uncomfortable birthday clown that violated Hannibal lecter when he was 8. Bane, however, seems to have kept his persona in this regard to a point. Both seem to be able to preform the same creative feats in these Nolan-Bat-Movies.

Tie

5. Speed

Joker is a bit fast, but Bane has the venom: no matter how thickset of lightset you are built, if you are suddenly twice or three times as strong as normal, you will go two to three times faster than normal. And Bane can reach superhuman levels of strength. This is why the Hulk can run at 300 mph even though he's the size of a rhino, and why both Grizzly Bears and Gorillas can both outrun a full grown man even though they are several times bigger than a man.

Speed: Bane

6. Brutality

No debate here: these guys are sadistic and without a bonafide conscious.

Tie.

I think Bane is the Victor