Batwoman has fully embraced Tommy Elliot’s (Gabriel Munn) comic book counterpart as the Batman villain Hush, but he's been given a new origin story for the Arrowverse. Since Batwoman season 1 began, Tommy became one of the earliest DC characters to invade the Ruby Rose-led drama while serving as a connection to the still-missing Bruce Wayne. With the promise that Batwoman would feature the origin story of how he becomes Hush, viewers had to wait quite a while after his debut in episode 3. Following Crisis on Infinite Earths, the second half of the season has dived deeper into the criminal world of Gotham City, which includes the current plot at Arkham Asylum.
With Alice (Rachel Skarsten) plotting away inside the walls of the infamous psychiatric hospital, Tommy is the latest member to join her squad. Having both been defeated by Gotham’s new heroine, Batwoman season 1, episode 18 “If You Believe in Me, I’ll Believe in You” explores Alice beginning her obsession with Lucius Fox’s mysterious journal while the heroes are doing the same. Tommy believes it has a “failsafe” in taking down the Dark Knight and perhaps even Batwoman. Along with Mouse, Alice offers to help Tommy break out of Arkham Asylum in exchange for the journal. But to help Tommy get out, the villainess had to go great lengths to accomplish it and that’s where Hush begins to get his Arrowverse origin story.
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Alice cuts Tommy’s face-off that she attaches to a different inmate to make it look like Tommy had committed suicide by hanging himself. Teasing that his new face could be anyone he wanted, Alice gives Tommy his Hush look once his head is all wrapped in bandages. While this version of Tommy still has a massive obsession with Bruce, the birth of Hush is a bit different in the comics. Throughout DC Comics lore, Tommy is responsible for making himself look almost identical to Bruce by self-performing plastic surgery. Unlike the comics, Tommy became a real estate mogul rather than being a neurosurgeon or having any ties to the medical field.
Given the brief hints that were given in the latest Batwoman episode, it’d appear that Tommy will want his new face to look like Bruce. If Alice actually honors their deal, it might get tricky in how Batwoman tackles the issue that Bruce is presenting currently without being there in the flesh. Since he is MIA and no one has been cast as Kate’s famous cousin since Batwoman began, the plot point might get resolved off-screen, but never a true pay-off on-screen. Even if Tommy has Bruce’s face underneath the bandages, it’d be odd for the Arrowverse to introduce Earth-Prime’s Batman through Hush having his face before viewers even meet the real deal.
Since the Arrowverse can’t properly use Batman/Bruce Wayne, excluding Kevin Conroy’s older (and now dead) version of the Caped Crusader on Earth-99, Hush’s new face may never be seen until the show gets the green light to properly introduce him by Warner Bros. Taking Alice out of the equation, Tommy's evolution into his villainous counterpart still sticks mostly to the source material with an Arrowverse spin. But given that Hush only played a small part in Batwoman season 1, episode 18, it remains to be seen what role he plays in the rest of the shortened season.
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