Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-11255996-20130712192018/@comment-1038387-20130726201854

But then, he was transported back in time without apparent memories. Or something. And he's fought Darkseid plenty of times before that, and behaved like it was anything else.

The biggest threat was probably not Bane breaking his back, but his road to recovery. He was helpless and watched his city go down in fire. A threat is only dangerous if you can't do anything about it.