{"id":1920708,"date":"2026-05-06T13:04:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T10:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1920708"},"modified":"2026-05-06T13:04:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T10:04:48","slug":"renowned-comedian-matt-berry-helped-create-lots-of-fun-bane-bits-in-lego-batman-legacy-of-the-dark-knight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1920708","title":{"rendered":"Renowned comedian Matt Berry helped create &#8220;lots of fun Bane bits&#8221; in Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article \" data-ads=\"true\" data-article-type=\"news\" data-article-group=\"news\" data-paywalled=\"false\" data-premium=\"false\" data-sponsored=\"false\" data-type=\"article\">\n<header class=\"article_header\" data-component=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n<nav class=\"nav_breadcrumbs\" data-component=\"nav-breadcrumbs\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\">\n<ul class=\"nav-links\">\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Home<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/news\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      News<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/lego-batman-legacy-of-the-dark-knight\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/nav><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_details\" id=\"main-content\">\n<h1 class=\"title\">Renowned comedian Matt Berry helped create &#8220;lots of fun Bane bits&#8221; in Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight<\/h1>\n<p class=\"strapline\">A caper crusader.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_asset\">\n<figure class=\"headline_image_wrapper\">\n<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"headline_image\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/Bane-in-Lego-Batman-Legacy-of-the-Dark-Knight-holds-up-a-red-lego-brick.jpg?width=570&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;dpr=3&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"Bane in Lego Batman Legacy of the Dark Knight holds up a red lego brick\" loading=\"eager\" data-uri=\"Bane-in-Lego-Batman-Legacy-of-the-Dark-Knight-holds-up-a-red-lego-brick.jpg\" data-lightbox width=\"570\" height=\"321\"><figcaption>\n          <span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>TT Games<\/cite><\/span><br \/>\n        <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"metadata\">\n<div class=\"avatar\">\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Victoria Phillips Kennedy avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/1644925423.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"180\" height=\"179\"><\/p>\n<p>  <img alt=\"Victoria Phillips Kennedy avatar\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-uri=\"1644925423.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"180\" height=\"179\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<div class=\"byline\">\n                  <span class=\"article_type\" data-slug=\"news\"><br \/>\n                    News<br \/>\n                  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"by\">by<\/span> <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/authors\/victoria-kennedy\">Victoria Phillips Kennedy<\/a><\/span>                    <span class=\"job_title\"><br \/>\n                      News Reporter<br \/>\n                    <\/span>\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"published_at\">\nPublished on <time datetime=\"2026-05-06T13:04:48+00:00\">May 6, 2026<\/time>              <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mypop-header-wrapper\">\n<p><button class=\"mypop-button button wide\" data-state=\"follow\" data-type=\"tag\" data-uuid=\"b28caeec-a493-4968-98c0-e0bec3145604\" data-name=\"LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight\" data-follow-text=\"Follow LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight\" data-unfollow-text=\"Following LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight\" data-aria-follow-text=\"Follow LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight\" data-aria-unfollow-text=\"Following LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight\" data-popup=\"true\" data-force-login=\"true\" aria-label=\"Follow LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight\" title=\"Follow LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight\"><br \/>\n  Follow LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight<br \/>\n<\/button>          <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>British comedian Matt Berry is voicing Bane in TT Games&#8217; upcoming release, Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, and it sounds like he will be bringing an especially mischievous twist to the iconic DC villain.<\/p>\n<p>Berry is known to many as the IT Crowd&#8217;s bombastic and rather inappropriate boss, as well as What We Do In The Shadows&#8217; vampire Leslie &#8220;Laszlo&#8221; Cravensworth. More recently, the actor also starred in Amazon&#8217;s acclaimed Fallout TV adaptation, where he voiced Mr. Handy\/Snip Snip.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"primis_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"primis_video\">\n<p><span class=\"embed_placeholder\" data-type=\"targeting\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"message\">To see this content please enable targeting cookies.<\/span><br \/>\n<button class=\"optanon-show-settings link\"><br \/>\nManage cookie settings<\/button><\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption>Here&#8217;s a trailer for Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight. <a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WiGYZN5QvbM\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Talking to Eurogamer at a recent preview event for Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, executive producer Matt Ellison spoke about working with Berry, calling the experience &#8220;really cool&#8221; and the actor himself &#8220;excellent&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was good fun being in the session with [Berry],&#8221; Ellison told me when I said I recognised Bane&#8217;s in-game voice immediately. &#8220;There are lots of fun &#8216;Bane bits&#8217; that we have in the game,&#8221; he continued, mentioning prank calls the villain makes to Batman in the Batcave as a particular highlight.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Berry&#8217;s voice &#8220;works really well as Bane&#8221;, Ellison continued, confirming that the actor was very skillful when it came to improvising and embracing his character&#8217;s wicked but still humorous side in the voice over booth. A large proportion of What We Do in the Shadows is improvised, so Berry has had plenty of experience in this art. &#8220;It was really good fun to have him,&#8221; Ellison said in closing.<\/p>\n<p>Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight is the latest and most thorough brickified retelling of Bruce Wayne&#8217;s story. It is due to release later this month, on 22nd May, across <a href=\"https:\/\/store.playstation.com\/en-gb\/product\/UP1018-PPSA16833_00-LEGOBATMAN000000\/\">PS5<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xbox.com\/en-GB\/games\/store\/lego-batman-legacy-of-the-dark-knight\/9N0PBQXBF0RL\">Xbox Series X\/S<\/a> and PC (<a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/2215200\/LEGO_Batman_Legacy_of_the_Dark_Knight\/\">Steam<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/store.epicgames.com\/en-US\/p\/lego-batman-legacy-of-the-dark-knight-c82b6b\">Epic<\/a>). It will also come to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/en-gb\/Games\/Nintendo-Switch-2-games\/LEGO-Batman-Legacy-of-the-Dark-Knight-2984554.html\">Switch 2<\/a> at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>I recently went hands-on with Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, and thoroughly enjoyed my time wandering between missions and the Batcave. &#8220;I would go so far as to affectionately dub it Arkham for kids,&#8221; I wrote in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/lego-batman-legacy-of-the-dark-knight-preview\">Eurogamer&#8217;s Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight preview<\/a>, praising the game&#8217;s open world Gotham, its more sophisticated combat mechanics and &#8211; of course &#8211; its humour.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"preferred-source\" data-component=\"preferred-source\">\nLove Eurogamer.net? Make us a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\">Preferred Source on Google<\/a> and catch more of our coverage in your feeds.  <\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>British comedian Matt Berry is voicing Bane in TT Games&#8217; upcoming release, Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, and it sounds like he will be bringing an especially mischievous twist to the iconic DC villain.<\/p>\n<p>Berry is known to many as the IT Crowd&#8217;s bombastic and rather inappropriate boss, as well as What We Do In The Shadows&#8217; vampire Leslie &#8220;Laszlo&#8221; Cravensworth. More recently, the actor also starred in Amazon&#8217;s acclaimed Fallout TV adaptation, where he voiced Mr. Handy\/Snip Snip.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"primis_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"primis_video\">\n<p><span class=\"embed_placeholder\" data-type=\"targeting\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"message\">To see this content please enable targeting cookies.<\/span><br \/>\n<button class=\"optanon-show-settings link\"><br \/>\nManage cookie settings<\/button><\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption>Here&#8217;s a trailer for Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight. <a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WiGYZN5QvbM\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Talking to Eurogamer at a recent preview event for Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, executive producer Matt Ellison spoke about working with Berry, calling the experience &#8220;really cool&#8221; and the actor himself &#8220;excellent&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was good fun being in the session with [Berry],&#8221; Ellison told me when I said I recognised Bane&#8217;s in-game voice immediately. &#8220;There are lots of fun &#8216;Bane bits&#8217; that we have in the game,&#8221; he continued, mentioning prank calls the villain makes to Batman in the Batcave as a particular highlight.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Berry&#8217;s voice &#8220;works really well as Bane&#8221;, Ellison continued, confirming that the actor was very skillful when it came to improvising and embracing his character&#8217;s wicked but still humorous side in the voice over booth. A large proportion of What We Do in the Shadows is improvised, so Berry has had plenty of experience in this art. &#8220;It was really good fun to have him,&#8221; Ellison said in closing.<\/p>\n<p>Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight is the latest and most thorough brickified retelling of Bruce Wayne&#8217;s story. It is due to release later this month, on 22nd May, across <a href=\"https:\/\/store.playstation.com\/en-gb\/product\/UP1018-PPSA16833_00-LEGOBATMAN000000\/\">PS5<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xbox.com\/en-GB\/games\/store\/lego-batman-legacy-of-the-dark-knight\/9N0PBQXBF0RL\">Xbox Series X\/S<\/a> and PC (<a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/2215200\/LEGO_Batman_Legacy_of_the_Dark_Knight\/\">Steam<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/store.epicgames.com\/en-US\/p\/lego-batman-legacy-of-the-dark-knight-c82b6b\">Epic<\/a>). It will also come to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/en-gb\/Games\/Nintendo-Switch-2-games\/LEGO-Batman-Legacy-of-the-Dark-Knight-2984554.html\">Switch 2<\/a> at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>I recently went hands-on with Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, and thoroughly enjoyed my time wandering between missions and the Batcave. &#8220;I would go so far as to affectionately dub it Arkham for kids,&#8221; I wrote in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/lego-batman-legacy-of-the-dark-knight-preview\">Eurogamer&#8217;s Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight preview<\/a>, praising the game&#8217;s open world Gotham, its more sophisticated combat mechanics and &#8211; of course &#8211; its humour.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home News LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight Renowned comedian Matt Berry helped create &#8220;lots of fun Bane bits&#8221; in Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight A caper crusader. 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