We’ve done this dance for so long.
Aren’t you a least bit curious?
Bats with Cats now?
Ugh.
I just threw up in my mouth a little.
Uh.
Ah.
That hurt.
It was supposed to.
This just gets better and better.
It’s like they are all crawling under from
their carpets now.
Hush knows.
He has been one step ahead of me the whole
time.
Motherfr.
None of this is my fault.
He made me control Superman.
Can’t say he put up much of a fight.
What’s his name?
Hush Batman Hush.
Created by Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee in 2002,
the Batman:Hush storyline has become an iconic
issue in The Dark Knight mythology and comics
overall in a relatively short span of time.
The story gives us the origin of Hush and
how he gets under the Caped Crusader’s skin.
And less than a month back, it got the animated
movie treatment which deviated from the comic
in many ways.
So today, I’ll tell you guys what changed
for the better and what should have been left
as is.
Let’s get right in.
In the movie, the first pawn Batman has to
fight is Bane, who has kidnapped the son of
a wealthy family to get jacked with more Venom.
Stupid old Bat.
My Venom is stronger.
I am stronger.
As law enforcement officers try to deliver
the money to him, Batman finds and defeats
him, but the ransom is stolen by Catwoman.
After Bane escapes custody, Batman tracks
him to Poison Ivy’s hideout and helps Amanda
Waller tranquilize him.
Now while the banter between Batman and Waller
was enjoyable, the comics actually did it
much better here.
Because it is Killer Croc who is the kidnapper.
And his reason for wanting the money was to
stop the advancement of his genetic mutation
which was making him into a monster.
This actually made him a gray character and
not the mindless villain Bane turns out to
be in the movie.
Where is my money?
In the comics, when Hush cuts Batman's zipline
and he falls in an alley, Huntress saves Batman
from the thugs who want to kill him.
But in the movie, we find Batgirl and Catwoman
working together to save him, although they
fight for a little while.
She also crashes Bruce’s car as a strategy
to get him admitted to the hospital, so that
he could be operated upon by doctor Thomas
Elliot.
The comic, instead, has Barbara in her Oracle
avatar.
She is the Bat-family’s computer expert
and also the one manning comms.
She helps Bruce figure out that his former
tech specialist, Harold, has been compromised
by Hush.
In the movie, Harold’s story is not present,
and Batman deduces Hush’s location on his
own.
I am not sure if I like one version more than
the other here to be honest, both are different
and they both work.
Alfred, Batman’s hurt.
Really hurt.
The comics have Lex Luthor as the President
Of The United States and hence Batman obtains
intel from LexCorp President Talia al Ghul
in Metropolis about an ethylene compound Ivy
was using.
He suspects Ra’s Al Ghul is working with
Hush against him and therefore kidnaps Talia
to lure him out.
They fight in Africa and come to the conclusion
that they were both actually pursuing the
same person who had also breached a Lazarus
Pit.
At the same time, while Selina is watching
over Talia, Lady Shiva comes to free Talia,
which leads to a fight, but Talia saves Catwoman
in the end.
The movie alters all this drastically because
Batman gets Ivy’s location from Lex - who's
an unofficial League member.
Talia and Ra's are not even in the picture.
Lady Shiva is present though and has a minor
role where she informs him of the Lazarus
Pit.
In my opinion, the comics definitely did it
better here.
It was a please to see you work.
Next time call first.
In the movie, Hush kidnaps the Joker and makes
Harley Quinn attack the opera where Tommy
Elliot, Bruce’s childhood friend, Bruce
and Selina are enjoying a performance.
But the comics did it better in my opinion.
First the trio at the opera are joined by
Leslie Thompkins and here the Joker and Harley
Quinn are actually part of the plan to get
Batman to almost break his code.
Huhu hahaha ha.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
In both the comics and the movie, Batman reveals
his civilian identity to Selina Kyle but the
movie takes it a notch further, where they
become a couple and she moves in with Bruce,
They even fight crime together for a brief
while.
She is accepted by Nightwing right away, but
in the comics she actually doesn’t get along
with Tim Drake, the third Robin.
Another difference we see is that when Batman
wants to kill Joker after believing that he
had killed his childhood friend, Tommy Elliot,
Catwoman and Jim Gordon both try to stop him,
but in the film, it's just Gordon.
The film also uses her as the damsel in distress
towards the end where she is kidnapped by
Hush to compel Batman to rescue her.
This is not done in the comics.
In both, Bruce and Selina break up in the
end.
But the reasons are quite different.
In the comics, Batman decides that he couldn't
trust her and also because he didn't want
to lose anyone ever again.
In the film, Catwoman realizes Bruce will
never stop being Batman, something which was
clearly inspired by Nolan’s Rachel Dawes.
I think I enjoyed the film’s interpretation
much more in this case.
I’m such a stupid fool.
I can’t believe I let myself caught up in
this again.
No I changed.
I would have a changed a lot more for you.
For us.
Goodbye Bruce.
The movie has Selina and Dick at Tommy's grave,
where Scarecrow ambushes Nightwing.
Selina manages to save Dick, using the antidote
he had on him.
The comics deceived its readers with Hush
revealing himself as Jason Todd, taking Tim
Drake as his hostage.
He claimed to have cut Batman's line in the
beginning of the story so that Batman landed
in the alley where he caught Jason stealing
his car.
He tries to manipulate Batman using his guilt
over not being able to save him, but Batman
figures out that it is Clayface impersonating
him.
The Clayface-Batman fight is actually epic
and it’s clear that the comic wins here
against the much simpler plot in the movie.
Jason.
In the books, Tommy is revealed to be the
true Hush.
Bruce thinks that Tommy was his best mate,
but reality is he had always been cruel to
him.
He is also jealous of Bruce's life and tries
to murder both his parents as a kid to inherit
their estate.
Because he blames Thomas Wayne for saving
his mother, he stalks Bruce his entire life,
and joins forces with The Riddler, who uses
the Lazarus Pit and becomes his partner in
crime.
The Tommy Elliot in the alley who was shot
by Two-Face was actually Clayface pretending
to be the surgeon to push Bruce to the edge.
Hush is ultimately defeated and shot by Two-Face,
who has been cured of his multiple personality
disorder after having a successful plastic
surgery.
During the surgery, Tommy had planted a tracking
device in Bruce’s head, which is destroyed
by Superman at the end.
The film flips the plot here, because when
Tommy is shot outside the opera by Hush, it's
not a ruse -- he really dies.
He is also portrayed as a true friend to Bruce.
Hush is actually the new identity of the Riddler,
who becomes insane after being revived by
Lazarus Pit.
He fools everyone in the beginning by having
Clayface impersonating him at Arkham Asylum.
Edward Nygma had a previous grudge against
Tommy, who couldn't cure his cancer, and hence
he kills him.
The Riddler becomes Hush just to prove a point
to all the other villains who see him as a
C-lister.
In the end, Batman almost single-handedly
defeats him after he kidnaps Selina, there
is no added help from Jim Gordon or Harvey
Dent.
In the end, I think Jeph Loeb’s original
story was much better as a whole and more
complex as well.
However, jamming a 12-issue comic into an
80-minute animated film is hard and the folks
at DC did a fine job adapting the original.
So, if you’ve only read the comic or watched
the flick, go ahead and watch or read the
other, because that’s what makes us true
Batman fans.
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