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Baneposting is the act of referencing and parodying an awkward dialogue between a CIA agent and the captive villain Bane from the opening scene of the 2012 DC superhero action film The Dark Knight Rises, the final installment of the Batman film trilogy directed by Christopher Nolan.

Origin

In early December 2011, a video clip of the prologue sequence from the then-upcoming 2012 superhero film The Dark Knight Rises was leaked online.[10] The prologue features a CIA agent (played by Aidan Gillen) threatening three men with sacks over their heads aboard a moving airplane, explaining the first one to give up information would not be thrown out of the plane. The first two men are silent, but the third begins to talk with a muffled sounding voice. When the sack is pulled off, the man is revealed as Bane (played by Tom Hardy). He then reveals he plans to crash the plane, which he does with the help of his associates, before escaping himself.



On December 11th, 2011, an audio file of the leaked scene was posted to 4chan's /tv/ (Television & Film) board,[1] featuring the following dialogue between Bane and the CIA agent (shown below). Soon, commenters in the thread began scrutinizing the last two lines in the dialogue, as some misinterpreted Bane's interspersed quote "[it would be extremely painful] …for you" as a double-entendre with suggestive connotations, i.e., "[I'm a big guy] …for you."


CIA agent: "If I pull that [mask] off, will you die?"
Bane: "It would be extremely painful…"
CIA agent: "You're a big guy."
Bane: "…for you."

Spread

On July 23rd, 2012, a user started a thread on a forum hosted on GameFAQs[11] titled "Bane: It would be extremely painful…." discussing the quote and exchange. On August 9th, 2012, Reddit user captinc added a thread titled "Settle a stupid argument about Bane's line for me please!" to the r/Batman[12] subreddit, explaining he questioned the subtext of the exchange, saying:

"In the opening scene of TDKR when the man asks Bane if he dies if the mask comes off Bane says "it will be very painful" the man follows it up with "Youre a big guy" When of course Bane says "For You." So my friends seem to think Bane is saying "im a big guy for you" where as I claim he is saying "It will be very painful, for you"
can someone please clear this up for me!"


On January 24th, 2014, YouTuber Muh Waifu[9] uploaded a video titled "The Dark Tyrone Roges," which features two testimonal spokespersons known as Rog & Tyrone reciting the scene's dialog in a monotone style. As of September 2014, the video has gained over 90,000 views. On April 3rd, 2014, YouTuber Real Human Bean[7] uploaded a video titled "/tv/ dubs The Dark Knight Rises" which featured the scene dubbed with cartoonish sound effects. As of September 2014, the video has gained over 35,000 videos.



On April 23rd, 2014, it was announced that Tom Hardy would be joining in an Ask Me Anything with director Steven Knight on Reddit[2] to promote their film LOCKE. When 4chan users discovered that Tom was partaking in the thread, users decided to "raid" the interview by asking him questions pertaining to the now-infamous scene from The Dark Knight Rises, while users were encouraged to downvote legitimate questions about the subject of the interview and only upvote questions featuring references to that opening scene. The thread received more than 1,000 upvotes and over 1,200 replies. By the next day, the AMA thread was featured on several sites including Yahoo Canada[3] and the Daily Dot[4], and a screenshot collage of the thread was later submitted to /r/4chan subreddit,[5] which received over 100 upvotes.



The AMA raid renewed interest in the scene and corresponding meme. On May 12th, 2014, SoundCloud user Masketta Man released a four-part musical tribute titled "UUUU", which utilizes lines taken from the film. As of September 2014, the most listened to track has received over 20,000 plays.



On June 25th, 2014, YouTuber kekallday[8] uploaded a video titled "Bane Star (Big Guy For You) ft. CIA" which features the scene with a cover of the Smash Mouth song "All Star" layered over it. As of September 2014, the video has gained over 62,000 views.



Association With Germanwings Flight 9525

On March 24, 2015, Germanwings Flight 9525 crashed in the French Alps after French air traffic controllers lost contact with the plane less than an hour after takeoff. In the days following the crash, users on 8chan's /bane/ board began to note several similarities between the crash and the opening scene of The Dark Knight Rises (shown below).


「Anonymous 03/24/15(Tue)22:48:23 No.39321161 Ξ >>39321254 >>39321295 >>39321361 >>39321398 >>39321453 >39321529 >>39321587 >>39321748 >>39321856 >>39321874 >>39322824 >>39325005 Germanwings Flight 9525 Cancelled CIA (84 KB, 625x700) google igdb BCNナ DUS Dr. Pavel brought frie Arrived Düsseldorf, Tuesday, March 24 Scheduled 11:55 AM Terminal 11:49 AM Departed Barcelona, uesday, March 24 Scheduled 9:35 AM Terminal 10:01 AM 2 Gate Gate A72 Showing airport times In the news Germanwings flight 4U9525 crashes in French Alps - live The Guardian 2 mins ago Le Monde reports that 80 fire department staff are on their way up on manwin Airbus A32 ern France CBC.ca 19 mins ago Fightrada24 on Twitter: "Germanwings flight from Flightradar24 at 6800 feet at … #AU9525 (registration D-AIPM was lost Bains ear Digne-les-Bains' in French alps 03/25/15(Wed)00 Demonte Dalma (288 KB, 625x700) google iadb Saint-Etienne-deTinée Bains du Mercant Bains Parc naturel les-Bains Bains? sur-Verdon Grasse Cagnes-sur-Mer Digne-les-Bains is about 100 miles north-west of the southern French coast Credit Google Maps An Airbus A320 reported to h UP rrached in thρ cn"thern French Alps is believed to have gone down near Digne-les-Bains. Last updated Tue 24 Mar 2015 IS also said urvivors were e xpected lan hed n the Alpes de Haute Provence Germanwings plane 4U 9525 crashes in French Alps no survivors ion the clea t lea believe there will be ufthansa said Tuesda Twitter that "we d at has happened to flight 4U 9525.' Anonymous 03/24/15(Tue)06:47:43 No. 54606222 2254606310 >254606484 Lucian luCIAn fw+you+s (13 KB, 249x386) Bruce Robin, a prosecutor from Marseille, told the Reuters news agency that he had seen the wreckage of the aircraft from a helicopter. 「Anonymous 03/24/15(Tue)22:22:28 No.39319908 >>393 19974 >>39320008 >>39320601 >>39320989 >>39321295 4U9525 4U FOR YOU >Le Bains no survivors >flight number starts with 4U >region called les Bains >possible big guys on board >may or may not be a CIA master plan rev up those big guy folders we might be here for some time >Bruce Robin, a prosecutor from Marseille, told the Reuters news agency that he had seen the wreckage of the aircraft from a helicopter. >Bruce >Robin Anonymous 03/24/15 Tue 07:58:42 No. 54601561 2 54607585 >>54607641 >>54607699 >>54607728 >>54607736 54607741 >>54607789 >>54607835 >2546 CIAipg (29 KB, 350x250) google igdb 178 KB, 456x628 This is vour fault /tvl. You manifested this demon into reality Your constant bane postign and plane crashes with no survivors have all turned into a reality All the signs are there, the 4U flight number, the region being in les BAINS You have brought into the world pure evil. 4 shame. I NAnonymous ー03/24/15(Tue 21 55:10 this >Plane named 4U crashes near village of Bains >No survivors Where were you when Baneposting tore the fabric of reality?

CIAss

On March 31st, 2014, an anonymous user on /tv/ posted a still from the plane scene of the CIA agent's backside.[13] The image has since been reposted on [s4s] and /tv/ multiple times.


A cropped version of the image, uploaded to /tv/ first on June 5th, 2014[14], has been reuploaded for more than 2000 times on [s4s], making it the most reposted image on the board.[15] There are also numerous photoshop parodies of the image. There are also single serving sites dedicated to the meme.[16]

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THEYRE CRASHING THIS PLANE... S LWITH NO SURVIVORS! AIDAN GRLEN PLANE Man

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