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I think the point wasn't that Bane was "more evil" or more anything else than Ra's or The Joker. I think there was more than one point to the movie, too. This movie was about the consequences of the mistakes made in the first two films. While Bruce had let Ra's die in the first film, effectively cutting the head off the snake that was the League of Shadows, he didn't kill the body and it grew a new head. In the second film, instead of dealing with the fall-out of Harvey Dent going insane after what The Joker did, Batman and Commissioner Gordon built a victory on a lie. It's like a moral parable about finishing what you've started and the ends not justifying the means.
Of course Bane succeeded where The Joker didn't. What he did to create chaos went way beyond anything The Joker did. The Joker killed a few people, but Bane cut Gotham off from the rest of world and threatened it with nuclear annihilation. He also didn't really succeed as The Joker would have wanted, since Bane was inviting people to the chaos. The Joker wanted them to see the opportunity and snatch it for themselves, not be told it was there and given a party invite. There were also the intervening eight years after The Joker's reign of terror that we don't get a lot of information about that might explain why people were more readily prompted to regress into violent anarchy.
Hell, you could even say that after Bane exposed what really happened with Dent, that it was The Joker who set everything off since making Dent go crazy and letting Gotham see what their heroes were really like was his end-game all along.
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