A new trailer for the upcoming Batman: Arkham Asylum video game has been released on GameTrailers.com, featuring one of the Caped Crusader’s most dangerous enemies, Bane. In the trailer, the villain Bane uses the drug Venom to change from a 100  pound weakling into a 350-plus pound monster. In his massive form, Bane gains the enormous strength that earned the villain a place in comic book history for breaking the back of the Bruce Wayne Batman and sidelining him for several months.

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Coal can get a bad rap this time of year, but look at the good things it does for us: heat, energy, coal of the char kind makes a nice BBQ, but at Christmas, we only associate it with a lack of effort in gift giving or a signal that we’ve been bad, bad kids.

That’s sort of the case with the twelve heroes, heroines and villains listed below. Each has a unique set of talents and gifts, and we’ve used them for loads of action and entertainment in the past, but for these folks, 2008 just didn’t seem to be their year. Here’s hoping all of them will have a much-improved 2009.

If they can. So, without further delay, I present the twelve LEAST essential of 2008, in no particular order.

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