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>Batman villains are known to be universal threats
I mean, if we are playing by Batman logic with prep time being the great equalizer, Bane IS a universal threat. The whole point of Bane was that he was the ultimate nemesis to Batman as well as being twisted mirror of Bruce Wayne. His intelligence is on par, his overall experience is close to Batmans and his combat ability ouright surpasses the dark knight. The only thing he lacks is sheer resources and being limited to the underworld which he still used to devestating effect with demonstrating his own prep time superpowers to cripple Batman in his original run. He only got defeated afterwards by a totally different Batman under Jean-Paul whose whole schtick was being an MKULTRA religous supersoldier who was willing to burn people alive to dish out justice. So if Bane is at worse a sidegrade or at best an upgrade from Batman, and Batman borders on being close to universal with bullshit prep powers, Bane is a universal threat too. Everytime Batman pushes the limits of prep time he carrys Bane with him in powerscaling.