Although Hush has made live-action appearances in TV series like “Gotham” and “Batwoman,” we have yet to see him in a live-action film. In the comics, Hush, whose real name is Thomas Elliot, is Bruce’s childhood friend. He grows up in an abusive household, so one day, he enacts a plan to get his parents killed in a car accident in order to inherit their fortune. His father dies, but his mother is saved by Bruce’s father, Thomas Wayne, leading Thomas Elliot to develop a grudge against the Wayne family. As an adult, he becomes the villain Hush and teams up with the Riddler to take down Batman, who Thomas Elliot realises was Bruce all along.
Interestingly enough, in “The Batman,” we find out a reporter named Edward Elliot gets killed by Falcone. Thomas Wayne asks Falcone to silence the reporter after they get dirt on his wife, Martha Wayne, but Bruce’s butler, Alfred Pennyworth, reveals Thomas Wayne only wanted Falcone to intimidate Edward, not kill him. Thomas Wayne wants to come clean to the police about what happened, but before he can do so, he and Martha are killed. It’s possible we might see Thomas Elliot in a sequel to “The Batman” where he tries to avenge Edward, who is reportedly his great-great-grandfather in the comics, by killing Bruce. A tie-in website for “The Batman” also teased Hush as a potential villain.
In a March 4 interview with Twitter Movies, Reeves said he would love to see Hush in a sequel, although right now, it’s just an idea. “I’ll choose Hush, but that doesn’t mean the next [villain] will be Hush,” Reeves said. “That is a character that I love that I would love to see done, and maybe we’ll get the opportunity to do it, but there are many [villains to choose from].”