Batman: Hush Movie

Batman: Hush is a 2023 American animated superhero film and part of The DC Bruce Timm Fanon-Verse and it is based on the 2002 comic book story arc of the same name. The film follows, Batman forms an alliance with Catwoman to defeat a new villain named Hush, who knows all of Batman's secrets and targets the key figures in his life.

### Plot

Bruce Wayne is attending an evening party where he meets Selina Kyle and his childhood friend and renowned brain surgeon Thomas Elliot, until he receives an alert from Alfred about a child kidnapping from Bane. After a brief fight, Batman is confronted by Lady Shiva who tells him an unknown intruder has used the Lazarus Pit and asks for his assistance in identifying them. Batman rescues the child but Catwoman steals the ransom money. As Batman swings through Gotham City in pursuit of her, a mysterious villain shoots his grapple line and he falls to the ground, fracturing his skull.

### The Injury

Catwoman rescues him from a gang of criminals who tried to unmask him, but Batwoman chases her away. Batwoman takes Batman back to the Batcave where Alfred and Dick Grayson create an alibi for how Bruce Wayne suffered the injury. Alfred summons Thomas Elliot to remove skull fragments from Bruce's brain. When Bruce declares himself ready to be Batman again two weeks earlier than Thomas advised him to be up and around.

### Stopping BANE

Alfred gives him a new bulletproof batsuit with a padded cowl for better skull protection. Meanwhile, Catwoman delivers the ransom to Poison Ivy, who has been controlling her with a hypnotic kiss. The masked vigilante who shot Batman then arrives to confront Ivy about the ransom and gives her Kryptonite. Batman recovers and pays a trip to Blackgate Prison to interrogate Bane on the whereabouts of the money. Bane eventually escapes, and Batman strikes a deal with Amanda Waller, who allows Bane's escape so Batman can track him. Bane leads Batman to Poison Ivy's now abandoned greenhouse where Catwoman is. Waller captures Bane and returns him to prison.

### Where Is Poison Ivy?

Catwoman, seeking retaliation for Ivy's manipulation, offers information on her whereabouts to Batman in exchange for a kiss and a tenuous romance blooms between them. Batman and Catwoman follow Poison Ivy to Metropolis.

### Facing Mind Controlled Superman

Batman finds Lex Luthor, now a probationary member of the Justice League, and asks for information on a delivery list of an ethylene compound to track down Ivy's location. There they find Ivy has taken control of Superman and she commands the Man of Steel to kill Batman and Catwoman. Batman observes that Superman’s subconsciously resisting Ivy's influence, holding back on his attempts to kill both of them. Using knuckledusters made from Kryptonite, Batman stalls Superman while Catwoman lets Lois Lane fall from the Daily Planet building. Superman breaks free of Ivy's control to save Lois. Batman, Superman, and Catwoman work together to capture Ivy, who reveals that she was being manipulated by a mysterious foe called Hush.

### Attack At The Opera

Bruce Wayne goes on a date with Selina, who’s unaware of the former's identity as Batman, much to the encouragement of his family. The two, along with Thomas Elliot, attend an opera but Hush later kidnaps the Joker to persuade Harley Quinn into attacking an opera, when she arrives and attempts to kill Bruce. In the ensuing struggle, Dr. Elliot is apparently shot dead by the Joker. An enraged Batman violently beats Joker who claims that he’s innocent, and he’s stopped short of killing him by James Gordon. Bruce attends Elliot's funeral and deduces Joker's innocence as well that Hush must know his secret identity.

### Harvey Dent

At Wayne Manor, Hush sneaks into the manor, Bruce heard the noise and saw Hush and attacks him but Hush unwrapped bandages from his face to reveal to be his old friend and da, Harvey Dent, who has his face fixed by Thomas Elliot. Dent heard about Thomas' death and he wanted to surprise Bruce with it as Bruce smiled.

### The First Encounter With Hush

Batman and Nightwing foiled a robbery by The Riddler, Batman chases after Hush but fails to catch him. Although Hush tricks him by using mirrors. He then threatens to hurt everyone close to him, prompting Batman to reveal his identity to Catwoman. Bruce takes Selina to the Batcave, where she meets Dick and Alfred and learns of Bruce's son Damian. The two become a crime-fighting couple.

### Scarecrow

Batman investigates the office of Thomas Elliot and discovers one of his patients was someone called Arthur Wynne who sought an operation for an inoperable brain tumor. Nightwing and Catwoman investigate a graveyard break-in and are attacked by the Scarecrow. Nightwing is overpowered by the fear toxin but Catwoman defeats Scarecrow and gets Nightwing to safety. However shortly after the Batmobile takes Nightwing back to the Batcave for medical treatment, she’s captured by Hush.

### The Truth About Hush

At Arkham Asylum, Batman interrogates Riddler, who reveals that Riddler is one of Thomas Elliot's patients and give Batman, a phone and answer it to be Hush and it is Thomas Elliot, who is alive and reveal to Batman since childhood, he attempts to murder his own parents and inherit their massive fortune. His plan fails when Bruce's father, Dr. Thomas Wayne, saves his mother's life, beginning his grudge against the Waynes. Tommy grows up to become a gifted surgeon and, out of jealous resentment, allies with the Riddler to ruin Bruce's life upon discovering that he is Batman. Wrapping his face in bandages to conceal his identity, Tommy becomes a manipulative criminal mastermind called "Hush" to seek revenge against his former friend. He fake his death by using a man pretended to be him to get killed by Joker and use villains like Poison Ivy, Bane, Harley, Joker, and Scarecrow to do his dirty work for him.

### Clayface

Thomas also put a bomb near a cell and blows the cell open to be Clayface. Clayface attacks Batman and Gordon but the guards tried to stop him but Clayface defeated them and tried to kill Batman and Gordon but Batman use water to defeat him and put him into a new cell for him. Batman learns where Hush has taken Selina: a factory whose name is an anagram of Arthur Wynne.

### The Final Fight With Hush

At the factory, Batman rescues Selina and faces Thomas and the two engage in a final confrontation during which Catwoman barely manages to escape her predicament and teams up with the Dark Knight to defeat Elliot but the factory is going to blow. Batman begs Thomas to come with him but Thomas doesn't listen and falls into the fire allowing the two to barely escape the facility as it explodes.

### The Aftermath

In the aftermath, Batman and Catwoman decide to go their separate ways after Catwoman reveal that she is going to Italy and retired as a criminal. Both of them acknowledge that while their relationship can’t happen presently, it may someday. Meanwhile Harvey Dent watched the news about the event and decided to become Two-Face again by using a bottle of acid to his half face and burn it, becoming Two-Face again.

## Cast

* **Benjamin McKenzie** as the Voice of **Bruce Wayne/Batman.**
* **Laura Bailey** as the voice of **Selina Kyle/Catwoman.**
* **Maury Sterling** as the voice of **Thomas Elliot/Hush.**
* **James Marsden** as the voice of **Dick Grayson/ Nightwing.**
* **Troy Baker** as the voice of **The Joker.**
* **Tara Strong** as the voice of **Harleen Quinzel/ Harley Quinn.**
* **Tom Hardy** as the voice of **Aleksander Volkov/ BANE.**
* **Tara Strong** as the voice of **Kate Kane/Batwoman.**
* **Michael Caine** as the Voice of **Alfred.**
* **Bryan Cranston** as the voice of **James Gordon.**
* **Jacob Tremblay** as the voice of **Damian Wayne/Robin.**
* **Tara Strong** as the Voice of **Vicky Vale.**
* **Briana Cuoco** as the voice of **Barbara Gordon.**
* **Matthew Gray Gubler** as the voice of **Edward Nygma/The Riddler.**
* **Cillian Murphy** as the Voice of **Jonathan Crane/The Scarecrow.**
* **Ethan Hawke** as the voice of **Jack Ryder.**
* **Lake Bell** as the voice of **Pamela Isley/Poison Ivy.**
* **Brian Keane** as the voice of **Basil Karlo/Clayface.**
* **Richard Moll** as the voice of **Harvey Dent/Two-Face.**