Harvey Dent: "Two-Face is gone." 15,633 people, simultaneously: "I'm One-Face now."

Hush: "What are...friends for?" Superman: "Hey Bruce there's a creepy man standing on the adjacent roof spying on us with binoculars and repeating everything we say suspiciously. Presumably he's unaware I have super hearing and telescopic vision."

I like to imagine during this entire story, the Penguin was just working at The Iceburg Lounge, not noticing anything. At one point, he looks up and thinks, "Huh, quiet week," and then goes back to business.

To all those asking about Superman not noticing Hush, there's a simple answer to that: Hush was _over there_ and over there has to take care of itself.

Fun fact; even the choice of Gianni Schicchi is thematically relevant. The opera's about a family who's father had just died and the son lies about a fake family inheritance.

A quote I like about Batman: "Would your Batman comfort a scared child? If yes, you have Batman. If no, you have the Punisher in a silly outfit."

You know what would've been much better? If Talia and Ra's heard about Hush and Clayface impersonating Jason Todd and decided to dig up his body and do it for real. That would've made more sense and would require no retcons at all.

That line about Clark being a good guy deep down, while deep down Bruce isn't has always been one that's driven me nuts. It's like: Bruce, you have three adopted sons, a biological son you took in without so much as questioning it, you don't kill, and if any of your rogues asked for therapy and help you would move heaven, earth, and hell to make sure they got it. Tell yourself you're a bad man all you want, but the truth is deep down you're a bigger boyscout than Clark Kent will ever be and you're just lying to yourself to keep that cowl on your head.

" His parents died when he was so young. Shot. Killed right in front of him. He was raised alone. A kid in a huge mansion. With his memories of his mother and father. He had love, and they took it from him. He should be a killer. He should want to tear the world apart for what it did. And yet he took that pain. That shock of death. And he turned it into hope." Superman explaining the perfect reason why Bruce is the hero he is.

honestly when Linkara was talking about Hush's motivation i half expected him to use the TFS clip about Broly's origin "thats really dumb.....but he's so cool!! but thats SO DUMB!!!"

Linkara/Superman: "Bruce, this is why fans ship us." Linkara/Batman: "As long as the fanart always depicts me as the top, it's all good. I'm Batman."

Considering Hush's main motive, I'm surprised he never teamed up with Hugo Strange. One wants to be Bruce Wayne (or have everything he has, at least). The other wants to be Batman. Together, they could wage war on Wayne on two fronts - on both of his personas. There's some quality story potential there I think.

In all honesty, I feel like Batman’s crime families only work when he’s in his earlier days as the Caped Crusader. It’s a sort of food chain that helps ramp things up to the point where Batman puts less focus on them and more on the supervillains he faces today. It’s something that The Long Halloween balances really well, given that it takes place during Batman’s early-ish years, not long after Year One but still before he’s become the established crimefighter he is.

33:09 "Where was THIS Jeff Loeb during Ultimatum?" Jeff Loeb's son died of bone cancer in 2005, and from what I can gather it was (understandably) still deeply affecting him and his creative work for the next few years. In hindsight, it makes sense that the main villain in Ultimatum is a parent whose driven to irrational and self-destructive actions by the death of their child. It's what the dude was going through at the time.

29:48 But see, that's where you're wrong. Turns out Joker's mom was named Martha.

Linkara: "The nice thing about writing my own rules is getting to decide when I'm okay breaking them." Me: **glances at the bullet-riddled remains of Top 15 Comics I'll Never Review**

33:54 Despite being a criminal, Catwoman is a thief, not a killer. This is the one reasons why Batman have feelings for her. With the exception of Black Mask she never killed anyone and consider how Selina knows Batman well, I don't she would want to see him becoming a monster and losing his humanity and compassion.

Batman watching the Alan Scott Green Lanturn fighting a supervillain as a kid is a neat little retcon & the fact superheroes existed back before his parents were killed, really goes to show that Bruce becoming a costumed crime fighter makes sense as I'm sure Bruce wished that a hero like Green Lanturn had come along & stopped Joe Chill from killing his parents & thus became the hero Gotham needed! Also, Thomas Elliot being present is ironic as he would one day become a villain that Batman would one day face!

You know, with all injuries he’s sustained to his head in this story, it’s a wonder Bruce didn’t turn into Crazy Steve.

My Grandma and I loved this show, and we watched this one together a few weeks ago. My Grandma passed away a few hours ago. Thank you for all the fun, Lewis. RIP Barbara M., 1943-2021.

Oddly enough, Batman: Arkham City included one of the best Hush stories by focusing on the "surgeon mummy" part of "surgeon mummy Aristotle-quoter trenchcoat guy with two guns". That Hush doesn't even know Bruce Wayne is Batman, and focuses his ire solely on Bruce, which makes his actions (particularly the face-reconstruction thing) fit his motive better. The Arkham Knight continuation of Hush was a little weaker, but still included a very memorable moment (Batman stunning Hush by unmasking himself).

Ari S. Tottle is the most underrated Batman villain.

Haha, "Ivy's plans come to *fruition*..." I just caught that. Love it.

I totally get the apathy to Gotham's crime families, but I think they get a pass in stories that show them dying out. Like in Long Halloween it's all about the Falcone family getting wiped out which imo helps build the world where now it's mainly super villains

Personally I like the idea of Jason being an anti-hero both as a response to his own murder and his hatred of criminals, but also as a reflection/anti-thesis of Batman and his teachings. Basically using his training and skills to take out criminals and control what he can't kill. He's someone who does what he does because he feels it's the only way to take down criminals, but he still has a deep love and respect for his adoptive father. At least that's my take on it. I was only really exposed to Jason as a character via the Red Hood film and I really liked the tragedy of him becoming a dark reflection of Batman haunted by his own death and Batman's seeming inability to avenge him.

The Batman not killing the Joker thing doesn't bother me. What I find laughably stupid is the notion that, in a city as corrupt and crime riddled as Gotham, in the US, the Joker would not at some point have had a .357 emptied into the back of his head by a cop one of the times that he was captured.

the "batman won't go down on catwoman" joke will never stop being old, and I hope people NEVER forget it

“Where was this Jeph Loeb during Ultimatum”? He had watched his beloved son die slowly of cancer. I’m more than willing to forgive Loeb for telling some grim, depressing, messy stories after losing his son. If anything, I wish he had been allowed to take a sabbatical from the biz in general…it’s clear that the loss of his son was devastating.

Honestly, even though i didn't like Hush as a villain, i find nothing wrong with his motivation. Yeah, it's simple , but it's also realistic. Not every Batman villain needs to be an almost-sympathetic figure with severe mental trauma and a sad backstory; some of them can be just jerks who want to be rich.

Was hoping for a toilet-roll Hush mask to go with the Batman mask, and was disappointed.

You know everyone thought Mr. Freeze was lame until Heart of Ice, everyone thought Calender Man was lame until The Long Halloween, everyone thought Kite Man was lame until The War of Jokes and Riddles. Someday One Face is gonna be Batmans most nuanced and complex villain and his origins movie will win DC another Oscar.

Context for people in the future: DC veto'd a scene in the Harley Quinn cartoon where Batman "goes down" on Catwoman. Internet had a field day with it.

14:24 "You did eat a cat that one time" Nonsense! According to DC, heroes don't do that kind of thing.

To me, the question of "Should Batman kill the Joker?" is a sign that the comic book writers have pushed the Joker to the breaking point of our suspension of disbelief. By default, Batman shouldn't kill his enemies. Just arrest them and let the police and justice system deal with the rest, which often takes them to jail. And then occasionally, have the criminals break out for another conflict with Bats, no questions of continuity. It's why we accept this scenario in other shows like Darkwing Duck or really any superhero based show. It's standard routine of the superhero world. But the reason why it works is because the supervillains aren't doing anything so heinously evil to make the audience want bigger punishment. Often, in the past, a villain like the Joker would rob banks or remake a city into their own image. It's standard cartoonish villainy that entertains the audience and distracts them from reality. But when the villain does something that hits too close to real life, like say mass murders or harming a hero's loved ones, that is something that cannot be resolved with a trip to prison. The editors of Spider-Man realized this when Green Goblin killed Gwen Stacy. They knew there was no going back and Norman Osborn had to die in the following issue. Now Spider-Man didn't kill Norman there, but Norman ended up being impaled by his own glider and remained dead for over 20 years. That is a statement to heinous of his crime to the audience. So when the Joker does something similar to Jason Todd, you expect he suffer the same fate as Norman Osborn. Being killed off for real and not show for decades to come. But no. The Joker did not suffer that fate and because so many people want to top the Killing Joke, they end up giving the Joker more heinous crimes to his name. This lack of punishment for the Joker eventually cast a light into Batman's no killing code, and caused many people to advocate that Batman should kill the Joker because evidentially throwing him to prison isn't enough anymore since he constantly escapes. The suspension of disbelief is broken for many and will remain as such until writers realize this darker interpretation of the Joker has done more harm to the character than helps. The truth is that the Joker has become less funny, more predicable, and generally more uncomfortable when his crimes bear resemblance to real-world mass shootings and other horrible crimes seeking out attention. I don't recall the Joker doing anything that is over-the-top and campy anymore. Now he just kill lots of people plus Batman's loved ones because it hurts Batman. That's sad interpretation of the Joker. Any killer can do that; Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, Ridley, Pennywise. The modern Joker wouldn't stand out from them.

A comment on the ending: 1. I love how Riddler literally does the "Finger up, finger down" meme. My only disappointment is that his line in the next panel isn't "Shit, you've got a point there." 2. I may be an outsider to the greater Batman lore, but it does seem like gradually, one by one, *all* of Batman's arch nemeses are figuring out his secret. Ra's Al Ghul knew from the start as the one who trained Bruce to become Batman. Scarecrow worked it out through his psychological profile. The Joker has found out multiple times by way of being Batman's closest foil. Now The Riddler solved the puzzle. At some point, I have to wonder if Batman being unmasked wouldn't just be met with a collective cry of "Duh, everybody knows that already!"

Other reason Batman isn't responsible for not killing the Joker. Every single time Joker is captured he would be arrested and tried. And every single time he is sent to an Asylum instead of being sent to a prison, or executed. People forget the second reason Batman doesn't kill. Its not his job. Batman isn't Judge Jury and Executioner, he's the policeman. Batman catches the Joker and gives him to the court system to deal with, who then offscreen fail to do anything.

Catwoman trying to stop him makes sense to us at least. She's not stopping him because she has a moral objection to killing. She's stopping him because she knows he has a moral objection to killing so she knows he would regret it.

Years later and the Superman "over there" bit still gets me. Can't believe JMS wrote that garbage.

I like this comic ending with Bruce's trust issues messing up his relationship with Selina but the promise that someday, after the necessary character development, they'll make it work I *don't* like the fact that it seems like *every* BatCat story these days ends with a less good version of that

39:28 "Word under the street is that you're seeing Catwoman." I just love this idea of supercriminal gossip. 'And I heard that Batman like... totally made out with Catwoman.' 'Oh mah, gawd, no way!' All the supervillains and goons just exchanging rumors about who hooked up with whom. Having like little meetings where they exchange gossips.

Maybe off-topic, but Viga went the fůquè off with the title card, it looks lovely

Speaking as a nursing student, telling a member of a trauma patient’s family that everything would be ok is a big red flag. Naturally, child Bruce wouldn’t understand that, but just saying.

An hour and 16 minutes of this guy! Ladies and gentlemen, get the pretzels and soda!

Only legit reason for the "giant moon in the sky" trope is so you can read "CHA" more clearly.

I love your speech about why Batman shouldn't kill the Joker. It's one thing if someone dies in a fight for your life, or falls off a roof and you're unable to save them. But actual murder? That's a step Batman shouldn't take. Like Sam Vimes from Discworld says: "I'm not a natural killer! See this? See what it says? I'm supposed to keep the peace, I am! If I kill people to do it, I'm reading the wrong manual!" Loved this episode btw.

One thing I will say is the best defense I’ve heard for Batman and other superheroes refusing to kill is: what right does Batman have to kill? When fans ask for Batman to kill what the are asking for is the glorification of extrajudicial murder. They are asking for Comic book stories where the good guys circumvent the due process of the law and deprive super villains and common criminals of their right to trial. And the reason why they’re asking for this kind of thing to be glorified is that when fans are asking for stories where Batman kills they’re certainly not asking for stories where Batman kills a completely innocent person he wrongly suspected of having committed a crime. Despite the fact that when masked vigilantes kill people in the real world that’s usually the result. They want a fantasy world where the kind of violence they want Batman and other superheroes to commit is only committed against “deserving” targets and is thus justified.

Joker's neck is SO easy to snap that sometimes it snaps itself!

As a priest in the Church of the Algorithm, I bless this video with a comment.

"killed black mask after some horriffic things he did to her friends.....and now I'm iffy about Bruce's continued association with her." First of all, the horrific things Black Masks were: 1. torturing Selina's brother-in-law in front of Selina's sister, and then fed her dead husbands eyeballs to her, before continuing to torture said sister until she wound up retreating into a catatonic state 2. Murdering the father (Slam Bradley Jr.) of Selina's then unborn child right in front of her 3. Having no qualms about murdering various orphaned street kids (the Strays) that Selina has under her protection. "horrific things done to her friends" is a massive, massive, massive understatement. Second: By that logic, he should disassociate himself with Jim Gordon, who has killed multiple people. I'm usually against superheroes killing, but imo what Selina did was a far cry warranting being cut out of Bruce's life. Hell, I don't see you arguing he should cut Zatanna or the other heroes behind the mind wipe out of his life, which in my opinion, is akin to rape.

I've always though the villain that makes the most sense as the mastermind behind all this is SNOWFLAME!

1:03:50 For those wondering about the change, Riddler was both the brains behind the whole operation as well as Hush himself.

I feel like what happened with Jeph Loeb is easy enough to explain; his son died, and he never really came to proper terms with that. All of his worst material for Marvel was produced in the brief time afterwards and it carries the marks of ugly grief, presenting a bleak world because that’s how he must have felt. I actually read somewhere that he intended to retire from comics, but was brought on by Quesada, convinced to do the Ultimates stuff. I don’t know how accurate that is, but it explains a lot. The man just was not in the headspace to work properly

I remember reading Hush and being like "HOLY CRAP SOMEONE REMEMBERED HAROLD FROM THE 90'S BOOKS!"

Thankfully "Heart of Hush" expands Hush's backstory and makes him more complicated

You say that "So we should make more war" line as a joke, but that was literally Zech's plan at the end of Gundam Wing.

Apparently back in a random Silver age comic, Killer Moth had plastic surgery to masquerade as Bruce Wayne and even found out he was Batman. Now I really wish Moth would’ve been Hush instead of Bruce’s never mentioned before childhood friend

Knew it! As soon as Tommy Elliot showed up, my immediate guess was "he's the secret villain." I mean, him "getting killed" did make that dubious, but villains have faked their own deaths before. I think Bleach did something like that years ago. Die as a sympathetic character so nobody suspects you as the villain.

As a teenager, Batman: Hush was one of the first Batman stories I ever read and was one of my favourites. Ever since I started watching this series, I wanted to hear Linkara talk about it. So thank you to the Patreon who requested this review.

“DON’T WORRY KID! I AM THE NIGHT! GIVE ME A HUG”! God bless you Lewis. 😂

I’m gonna say this...his reading of Batman’s inner monologue when he’s attacking Joker. Genuine chills. It’s not loud or over the top gruff. Like Jesus Christ...wow.

Batman: [thinking] Deep down, Clark's essentially a good person... ...and deep down, I'm not. Linkara: [as Batman] I never put the cart away after loading my groceries. Me: ...Batman, I'm sorry, but you can't shop at my store anymore. XD

Funny. I wanted Jason Todd to be Hush but in turn we got Tommy Elliott in this story. Meanwhile I wanted Tommy to be the Arkham Knight in video game and instead we got Jason Todd. Life is weird .

I'm curious how many ordinary criminals try to pin the blame of their crimes on supervillains, especially murderers trying to blame the Joker.

you know this story would have been better if Hush was actually Rock and Roll the whole time.

"Jason saw Robin as a game, and that's probably what got him killed." Or it might have been him being manipulated by his mother who he thought he could save. But sure, whatever, bruce

That rant about Batman killing the joker… kinda made me think about the Batman story I’ve always wanted to see. (And hope someone has written at some point) Batman facing a dark reflection of himself… one who shares in his goals, and is his equal in skill… but lacks that morality. Who shares in wanting to take down crime, to prevent needless suffering like what happened to him as a child, but DOES hold that view that “refusing to kill someone like the joker would just be enabling him to do more harm, and thus only harming my mission.” And thus is fully willing to kill their opponents. Really force Batman to question if his desire to hold onto his morality is a selfish desire, one that allows more suffering to occur at the hands of his villains who keep getting to live. That’s kinda the story I’ve always said “if I get to write Batman, this is the story I would write.” Has anyone beaten me to the punch on that?

I do kinda like stories from that weird time where the crime families were being supplanted by supervillains. Video killing the radio star and all that

I feel like the biggest strength of conventional crime families is that they add variety and make the super villains more impactful in contrasting them with more "realistc" antagonists.

The game Thomas and Bruce are playing is most likely "Little Wars". Is the precursor of tabletop games like Warhammer and other miniature wargames. But instead of fantasy and sci-fi, you got Napoleonic era armies.

Flsahforward to a future DC reboot, it will all be retconned so the true mastermind behind the whole thing was... **Granny Goodness**

so Hush is to batman what doomsday is to superman, where the more he returns, the worse his impact at all is destroyed

But Elliot is a fascinating idea: He's a Batman Fanboy. In the extreme. He's resentful that he couldn't be the rich, mysterious, super-badass. He's jealous that someone else became that man. And he hates that Bruce got what he wanted. Tommy even went so far as to want his parents to die, and Bruce beat him to that, too.

Batman writers like to show Jason's relationship with the bat family as if he was an archetypical "bad boy" someone who batman disapproves of but still loves and keeps around. The problem is that Jason isn't some 16 year old who crashed his dad's car and smokes weed. He's a literal murderer.

36:19. Two face? No. Judging by the the fact the bandages cover his entire face, it can only be one of batman's greatest enemies, ONE-FACE!!!

Linkara: Huntress' belly window. Me, an intellectual: Those metallic bananas holding up her cape.

The real question shouldn't be "Why hasn't Batman killed the Joker," it should be "Why does he keep taking him back to a place that he repeatedly and easily breaks out of?" Come up with a better way of keeping him contained for Christ's sake, Bruce, you have advanced technology and billions of dollars, and the resources of the Justice League!

18:49 “Bruce, I don’t like you in that way” “Oh, Sorry….” Also 42:17 When I read the comic, I always thought Joker noticed the plastic surgery, thinking it was someone else he recognised, but only at that moment did he connect the dots and realise “Oh my god, that’s TWO FACE?!”

You know the opening made me kind of think, I'd be super down to watch a list video of Linkara talking about his favorite story lines from the big 2, or really any comic series he likes. We already know that the Technis Imperative is his absolute favorite but I'd love to see what the other 9 or 14 are. Gonna add some thoughts here as I rewatch the episode. This one might have my favorite "Over there" bit yet. I love the idea of Alfred and Bruce gossiping about superhero couples and comparing ships. It's just hilarious to me. The whole tangent about Batman and killing the Joker is so on point especially the bit about the writers making the Joker more and more of a monster.

"I'm not mad, I'm angry." Riddler must be a fan of Attack of the Killer Tomatoes

Batman having a stroke after Superman burns out the tracker needs to be on the next Top Ten Jokes.

Chieri and Starfire are basically co-hosts at this point.

I've never understood the whole "Why has Batman never killed the Joker?" thing that people gripe about. Batman doesn't kill. Simple as that. No, my issue has always been, why hasn't anybody else killed the Joker? Batman writers love to hammer on about how corrupt Gotham's cops are, yet all the times Batman has brought him into custody not a single one crossed the line to cap a notorious cop killer and try to get away with it by claiming he was resisting arrest? Then you have all the Gotham mob bosses he's crossed - none of them had hitmen who could cap a guy who never wears body armor and is always flamboyantly dressed (ie hard to miss in a crowd)? None of them thought it'd be a good idea to hire Deadshot or Deathstroke to take a out a major thorn in their side that wastes their hired goons because it amuses them? Then you have all the other Batman rogues who've A. shown they have no qualms when it comes to killing and B. have been used, betrayed or targeted by the Joker yet have never made a serious attempt to take the guy out. Then you have all the heroes/anti heroes who don't have no kill codes - Vigilante, Red Hood (seriously?! THIS guy actually took till 3 Jokers to ice one?! HOW?!?!), at one point the Helena Bertinelli Huntress would kill iirc, etc - none of these guys thought it'd be a good idea to end the Joker's reign of terror with a double tap to the back of the skull? And finally, Gotham is a crime ridden city in the gun-loving USA. You can't tell me over half the people living there aren't strapped, so how has a notorious homicidal psycho that has a reputation for killing people randomly on a dime just because it makes him laugh not been capped by some nervous and paranoid Gothamite's concealed carry Glock the second he shows his face in public. This is the problem comics have had since the Dark Knight movie came out: when you go out of your way to constantly hammer audiences over the head with how "realistic" you're being, you just draw their attention to the things you can't make realistic when it comes to superheroes, because they're ultimately a wildly unrealistic premise at their core. And ironically, it's that unrealistic larger-than-life, over the top shit that makes them so fun and enduring... when they aren't being written by guys who feel like they have to make them darker and more serious because they have some kind of persecution complex where they think everyone is making fun of them for liking "kid stuff" ie superheroes - and make no mistake, thats exactly what superheroes are, kid stuff. Superheroes are children's power fantasy stories at the end of the day, no amount of grim and gritty realism will ever change that, it just makes the writers who go to further and further lengths to do so (and the audiences they pander to) only look more and more like the cringey, insecure incels they don't realize they're being. Ever since 1985 (although, again, it REALLY took off after Nolan's Dark Knight), the comic book industry's problem has been that its writers have been trying to justify their choice of entertainment medium to a world that, in reality, couldn't care less about their enjoyment of superheroes, and the sooner they realize that and get over it, the better

I like that the conflict between Bruce and Selina is trust. Rather than the movie making it about his no-kill rule. Like, I get it, one of Batman's most dramatic and complex traits his his no-kill rule. But there's plenty of other things to his character. And it fits much better that trust would be his conflict with Selina. Bruce is an overly paranoid nutjob, but Selina also is a thief who has been established time and time again as manipulator and a master of deception. They love each other. But can they trust? Are either of them willing to change? It's good stuff.

26:15 Okay this was so funny. Like I have watched this video more a couple times and its not even like a complex joke. Linkara's delivery is just so good and always makes the videos amazing.

This is one of the best explanations for Batman's unwillingness to kill.

I saw the animated version first, and didn't really have an issue with it. having the random new character turn out NOT to be the secret villain was a much more interesting twist I felt.

I was honestly hoping for a "Batman Beyond" opera clip...

I love the idea that there are just an insufficient number of relevant Aristotle quotes about friendship.

Really with Jason he either needs to continue as an anti-hero/villain, killing and at odds with the bat family, but possibly still doing what he thinks is right/necessary, or the culmination of Morrison's Batman should have seen him totally abandon killing and truly play by the rules, but unfortunately we had Outlaws at the same time so that didn't happen. He could keep up being Red Hood as like a Matches Malone type deal, which might be what Red Hood Outlaw was doing, but after Incorporated he should have either been with the family as Wingman, or at odds with them as Red Hood.

Marvel brought Deadpool as their version of Deathstroke, DC made Harley their version of Deadpool, and Gwenpool became Marvel's version of Harley. All that remains is for Punchiline to become DC's version of Gwenpool, and the circle will be complete.

I can't argue that some of these writers do need to learn when characters, especially villains, need to be retired. Heck, that's why Limbo is full of guys in silly outfits at this point, because writers used to know that, and would actually create one off villains, even if they didn't die, they weren't the Joker, Lex Luthor, Obadiah Stain, Deathbird, Thanos, or dozens of others who have reasons the heroes won't kill them, and the system can't kill them(The Joker is a stretch, but no jury could reasonably convict him for death if the lawyer went with the insanity defense because...well, Joker), the others are just too powerful, or too well connected for the system to put them down. But some random shyster like this? Let him have his shining moment, let him 'inspire' others to his greatness, and then kill them. Heck it's why I liked some of the animated versions more, because they could do that with big villains, show them off, let them have their moment, and then shuffle them off forever. Not everyone can break out of a prison, even if they live, and even then, not everyone's going to be crazy enough for another go round. Sometimes, the best ending for a character is, there's no more stories to tell about them, and that's something writers need to relearn.

28:11 I'll do you one better. Harley has a romance with Green Goblin. Not even kidding. Watch _I'm a Marvel, and I'm a DC._ It's hilarious, heartwarming, and heartbreaking.

Let’s not forget to note he calls his grappling line a “batrope” Bat-branding! 🦇

"whats your favorite part of the opera?" "the fact that im batman...crap!" hahahaha

This is one of the first Batman stories I’ve read and still love it a lot. While the ending is a bit lackluster and Hush has had diminishing returns over time, one Hush element from his later appearances I like is him trying to steal Bruce‘s identity; if that had been the endgoal for Elliot in this story already I think it would have made for a better conclusion.

Hes talking to himself. Lonely people do that waaay too often, we talk to ourselves as a way to have someone to listen even if that someone, is just ourselves. Him talking to himself denotes that he has separated himself so much from the world that in his void there is only himself, the only person he can rely for company the only ears that will listen to him.

Oh boy linkara at 3 am!

"Goofy, overcomplicated, and dumb." Yep, that's Jeph Loeb.

“I am vengeance. I am the night. I am-“ “Batman hush.”

I love DC characters named after songs. Hush, Starman, Ragdoll