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Post by Raoul the Great on Dec 21, 2005 1:18:02 GMT -5
My friends and I have discussed this since it became obvious that Hush wasn't Elliot. My theory is that Hush is Jean Paul Valley, formerly known as Azrael. Here are my reasons:
- Azrael disappeared shortly after No Man's Land and hasn't been seen since (his comic was cancelled).
- Jean Paul Valley has a history of violent and psychotic behavior.
- Valley has the potential to be a brilliant criminal mastermind.
- Having taken the mantle of Batman before, Jean Paul Valley knows the inner workings of the Batcave and knows every secret about Batman and Bruce Wayne himself.
- In the spirit of Two-Face (and in light of Harvey Dent having been cured) it is possible that Jean Paul Valley's mind could have fractured to become a seperate evil persona of Hush.
What do you think? Who do you think Hush is?
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Post by Swarm on Dec 21, 2005 1:23:41 GMT -5
... Wasn't it Riddler pulling the strings of Ra's Ahl Gul to portray a phony Jason Todd?
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Post by Raoul the Great on Dec 21, 2005 2:59:18 GMT -5
... Wasn't it Riddler pulling the strings of Ra's Ahl Gul to portray a phony Jason Todd? No, Riddler discovered he was dying of cancer so he secretly used one of Ra's Al Ghul's Lazarus Pits. After his dip, he was not only cured but given a moment of clarity (since he was already insane) and realized that Bruce Wayne is Batman. He then decided to f*ck with Batman and re-establish himself among the criminal elite of Gotham. Ghul really had nothing to do with the story beyond Batman's investigation of Lazarus Pit residue in a ransacked armored truck. Jason Todd was (apparently) Clayface, although the recent bouts with a resurrected Jason Todd tell a different story. A man calling himself Jason Todd has returned under the guise of Joker's old alias the Red Mask. He confronted Batman, exposed who he was, and challenged him to check his DNA (which turned out to really be Todd's). Todd then told Batman that he convinced Clayface to impersonate him basically so he could lay low but still screw with Wayne. None of this story has been confirmed by Batman, nor do we know if he truly is Jason Todd and if he is, how did he come back from the dead. (Or if it isn't really Todd, how/why he had the second Robin's DNA.) The odds seem high that Jason Todd was Hush, but I am really hoping that DC goes the more complex route seeing as that is too easy. It would be a slap in the face to the brilliant Hush storyline to make the character's identity so obvious. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2005 10:01:46 GMT -5
Wasn't the Hush thing over a long time ago?
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Post by Thumper: One Year Later on Dec 21, 2005 12:55:24 GMT -5
I am pretty sure they have scrapped that storyline. Batman: Gotham Knights #74 will be the final issue fo that comic and i think they just scrapped the alternate identitiy storyline. As for Hush beign Jason Todd, i do not think that Jason would go through that amount of effort, rather I think he would just come out like he is doing right now. The fact that he is the red hood is just sort of ironic as the joker started off as the red hood and the joker killed Jason and now Jason has become the red hood. So Hush is still Thomas Elliot.
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Post by Raoul the Great on Dec 22, 2005 2:54:47 GMT -5
I am pretty sure they have scrapped that storyline. Batman: Gotham Knights #74 will be the final issue fo that comic and i think they just scrapped the alternate identitiy storyline. As for Hush beign Jason Todd, i do not think that Jason would go through that amount of effort, rather I think he would just come out like he is doing right now. The fact that he is the red hood is just sort of ironic as the joker started off as the red hood and the joker killed Jason and now Jason has become the red hood. So Hush is still Thomas Elliot. So Elliot got someone else to dress as Hush to make it look like he was kidnapped by Hush? |
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Post by Thumper: One Year Later on Dec 22, 2005 14:31:46 GMT -5
I am pretty sure they have scrapped that storyline. Batman: Gotham Knights #74 will be the final issue fo that comic and i think they just scrapped the alternate identitiy storyline. As for Hush beign Jason Todd, i do not think that Jason would go through that amount of effort, rather I think he would just come out like he is doing right now. The fact that he is the red hood is just sort of ironic as the joker started off as the red hood and the joker killed Jason and now Jason has become the red hood. So Hush is still Thomas Elliot. So Elliot got someone else to dress as Hush to make it look like he was kidnapped by Hush? Hush always has some sort of clayface running around, but i doubt that this will ever be fully explained. In this month's Gotham Knights, Hush is hardly mentioned. ALso the final two issues look like they are going to focus on Hush v. Joker, so I doubt we will ever really get an explanation, unless it is in a different comic at a different time. |
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