Hush was intended to be the main antagonist of the planned The Batman vs. Hush direct-to-video film, based on and the second film adaptation of the Cartoon Network animated series The Batman. He was an iteration of the Hush from DC Comics. After the planned DTV didn't materialize, there was an attempt to include Hush in the show, but it didn't go anywhere either.
Biography[]
Since the beginnings of The Batman, designer Jeff Matsuda had been thinking over including Hush in the show due to being good friends with legendary comic book writer Jeph Loeb, who created the character for the Batman: Hush comic book storyline.
Sometime after the release of The Batman vs. Dracula, Jeff Matsuda made concept art to pitch a second The Batman direct-to-video feature film, this time pitting Batman against Hush like its predecessor did with Dracula, most likely because of producer Alan Burnett's hopes to make one or two more DTVs of The Batman for Warner Bros. If the concept art is to be believed, Hush was going to gather Clayface, the Riddler, Catwoman, the Penguin and th Joker in a plot to take Batman down once and for all, likely adapting Hush's first comic book appearance. However, the project never panned out for reasons unknown.
Sometime later during the fourth season of The Batman, the writers considered to use Hush this time around in the episode "Rumors", with him capturing all of Gotham City's criminal underworld to execute them all in vigilante fashion, doing what Batman and Robin are unable to do due to their strong morals. However, Warner Bros. and Cartoon Network vetoed the idea of using Hush, either because he was deemed as a too dark villain for the show or because he was relatively new within Batman's rogues gallery, resulting in the episode's original concept being rewritten and Hush's role being filled by an original character named Rumor instead, resulting the finished version of the episode we got.
Trivia[]
- It's unknown if The Batman version of Hush was meant to be Thomas Elliot or some original character.
- As "Rumors" was named after the titular villain, had Hush remained the episode's villain, it's possible the episode would have gotten a different title.