Gotham: 10 Villains That Should Appear In Season 4
8. Hush
Fox
It's been a while since we've last seen Tommy Elliot, with the character having only made one appearance in Gotham thus far, as a bully at Bruce's school.
Those who are clued up on the Elliot of the comics will know that he's a tad psychotic and that, unlike Bruce, he actually harbours a huge disliking towards his own parents. In Paul Dini's Heart of Hush, it's revealed that Elliot sabotaged the brakes on his father's car. His abusive dad was killed instantly, but his mother was rescued by Thomas Wayne, something that - in Tommy's Mind - was simply unforgivable; hence the whole 'masked vendetta against the Waynes' thing.
Because Gotham has so often opted to adapt some of Batman's most famous rogues, the show has failed to really acknowledge the lesser-known characters that would best serve its own interpretation of the mythos. Tommy Elliot's origin fits neatly into the story of a young Bruce Wayne navigating the world, and yet here we are in the series' fourth season with only one appearance to the character's name.
Bruce may be growing up as quickly as his villains, but there's still plenty of time for the show to introduce a truly organic sub-plot in its fourth season. Hush should be that story.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
