Ever think of Doomsday being preciously the alien version of Bane?

[Mr. Holmes]

Have the writers ever had Bane and Doomsday team up in some issue?

...That's not even possible.

Really, Bane is more like Lex Luthor than Doomsday.

[Buried Alien]

It's not a perfect analogy, of course, but I've always seen the parallels too: in each case, Doomsday and Bane were introduced expressly for the purpose of posing an unprecedented threat to the World's Finest heroes, removing them from the action for the better part of a year to facilitate an event in which we got to see "replacement" heroes in action.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

[Mr. Holmes]

The parallels are there, but the difference is that Knightfall was just so much better planned and executed. I think the Doomsday in JLU was sort of like Bane. He was more intelligent. The way that Bane had nightmares about a Bat-demon that gave him the purpose to hunt Batman, Doomsday was psychologically conditioned to hate Superman.

[Mat001]

Have the writers ever had Bane and Doomsday team up in some issue?

No, because of the differences between them. Doomsday is mostly a force of nature as mentioned. He seldomly has intelligence and that would make a World's Deadliest team up impossible. The closest was in "Infinite Crisis" #7, when Doomsday and Bane were present during the big battle in Metropolis, but neither one interacted with the other. Doomsday was attacking random people and heroes, before the Supermen showed up while Bane took out Judo Master.

[NotSuper]

Besides the fact that both were the antagonists in financially successful storylines that resulted in the title hero being taken out for a while by them, they're not similar.

Bane is an actual character, Doomsday is a plot-device (and not a very good one).

[TomServoFan]

I wish Bane and Doomsday would team up, that would be a dream come true.

[KnightErrantJR]

I wish Bane and Doomsday would team up, that would be a dream come true.

"Doomsday, for this part of the plan, we must wait until Superman . . . argh!"

::Doomsday rips Bane in half because he saw something red and blue behind him::

I'm not seeing it.

[dreyga2000]

Perhaps some how Bane somehow gains control of Doomsday maybe even his mind transferred into the creatures body and decides to test his new found power in battle with Superman. Doomsday's brute force combined with Bane's diabolical mind prove to be too much for the Man of Steel. While Superman struggles to hold his own Doomsday/Bane, Batman rushes to find away to break a connection between the man and the monster.

[Super Buddies Forever]

It's funny. Bane's definitely the better character, but I feel like the Death and Return saga is the better story.

Sometimes I feel Conduit could have been Superman's Bane, but they quickly killed him off and forgot about him.

[Mr. Holmes]

I think Knightfall was a much stronger conceptually, but Death/Return was executed better. Knightfall developed a good character in Bane and it set out to make the point to why Batman won't become a violent antihero and follow that trend in the 90s. Death was just a sales stunt.

However, with Death/Return, we got some good characters in Superboy, Steel, Eradicator, and Henshaw, who have been mainstays (well less so Eradicator) whereas now people want to forget about AzBats. Unlike Death/Return, Knightfall dragged out and overstayed its welcome.

[KnightErrantJR]

I enjoyed them both. Bane is definitely a stronger character, and Doomsday is more of a plot device, but sometimes you need a strong villain, and sometimes you need a plot device. I don't think the problems came in to the "death/replace" storylines until the second tier heroes started doing it. Not entirely unlike Year One and Man of Steel, the opening salvo was great, but even when the second tier wasn't bad, it was all just too much. Every character doesn't need a big origin reboot, and every character doesn't need a "death/replaced" storyline.

[earl]

Doomsday hasn't really been able to be replicate or move that successfully beyond his first apperance.

Bane kept on by other writers being developed into a much more interesting character. Gail Simone did some cool stuff with Bane in the Secret Six.

[Eric Chang]

I wish Bane and Doomsday would team up, that would be a dream come true.

I hate it when writers cater to wishes like this lol

[Mr. Holmes]

Bane kept on by other writers being developed into a much more interesting character. Gail Simone did some cool stuff with Bane in the Secret Six.

Nah, the Bane as he was in Knightfall was much more scarier and badass than what Simone did in SS.

[carabas]

Nah, the Bane as he was in Knightfall was much more scarier and badass than what Simone did in SS.

It's the same guy, minus the venom. And occasionally put into situation he isn't socially/emotionally qualified to deal with.