One week later:

• The crime rate is rising rapidly. Multiple gangs, criminals and leftover Riddler followers are causing chaos pushing Martial Law to go into effect. Batman and the GCPD are fighting back while also showing hope to the citizens.

• As Bruce Wayne, he continues to hide himself from the public but he uses Wayne Enterprises to assist Mayor Bella Real in funding Gotham City for the damages such as rebuilding the broken seawalls, provide aid and shelter to those injured as well as those who lost their businesses and homes. This helps raise stock for the company.

• Mob families are fighting for control over the Drops Operation. We also hear hints of citizens going missing.

• Bruce Wayne is still fearful of what he almost lost in the first film, so he moved from Wayne Tower into the Clocktower to keep Alfred safe. He has built a mini-base in the Clocktower.

• Mayor Bella Real has appointed Chief Mackenzie Bock as the new Commissioner. Jim Gordon is promoted to Captain.

• With the Mayor pushing a special election for a new District Attorney, Wayne Enterprises funds Harvey Dents campaign. Bruce continues to hide from the public so he and Dent haven’t met.

• Penguin becomes the kingpin of Gotham. Not only he is the sole distributor of the Drops but he also controls all corners of the black market. Penguin made a deal with other mob bosses such as Sofia Falcone and Salvatore Maroni to work under him. That way no other criminal has the advantage over the other. Penguin has the advantage. This helps maintain peace with all the mob and keep the GCPD off them while Penguin maintains the top position. Batman and Penguin make a deal to inform him on any bigger crimes happening around the city. The Drops would still be the center control of organized crime.

• (Time jump to Mid-Year 3) although lots of criminals are still active, the crime rate has lowered. Martial Law has been lifted. Batman secretly meets with Penguin on keeping things in check and now his criminal informant.

• Salvatore Maroni has been released from Blackgate Prison. He plots to take out Penguin and reclaim the Drops.

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Imagine Hugo Strange is in The Batman Part 2, and discovers Batman’s identity, fears, and other secrets during his therapy sessions with Bruce. Strange then teams up with Scarecrow and uses what he has learned about Bruce Wayne to take Batman down. Eventually, the Flying Graysons are killed, and that, coupled with Scarecrow’s use of fear toxin, causes Bruce to fear that he is failing his parents and himself. By the end of the film, Scarecrow is caught, but his accomplice Hugo Strange isn’t captured and returns in Part 3 when he frees Batman’s rogues from Arkham Asylum to wreak havoc on Gotham.

This idea drew inspiration from the BTAS episodes “The Strange Secret of Bruce Wayne” and “Nothing to Fear.”

Here's an original take on hush that strays away from the Tommy Elliot Bruce Wayne childhood friend narrative. I personally don't like the Thomas Elliot Hush story and found it to be too predictable. My concept revolves around the idea of Hush not being one character but several personnel, but it still keeps the theme of "identity" with Hush.

So Hugo Strange a doctor at Arkham (entirely obsessed with the identity of Batman, just like his objective in the comics) creates hypnotized assassins by selecting john doe patients at Arkham (ones that their identities have gone so in the dark that no one will notice they're missing) and uses chemical serums and hypnosis to completely erase their identities and programs them to their only objective being Batman as their #1 target and to unmask him.

He bandages his test subjects faces so that they don't associate their face with their forgotten identity. Strange uses a command phrase to control his subjects, "Hush".

However Strange's injections and psychological implants cause lethal after effects which cause him to select more and more patients at Arkham like a mad scientist.

I thought this would be interesting since from Batman's perspective as he would think Hush knows him on a personnel level and he becomes unnerved when he notices he's being stalked by Hush, it would make a great detective story. The image of Batman entering a basement lab at Arkham and seeing several inmates with bandaged faces strapped in gurneys, seems very eerie and dark.

let me know what you guys think :)

Have Bruce / Batman investigate a string of OD’s on “Drops” only to find Ivy is the “Botanist” that creates the Drops drug using a specific foreign flower she grows herself with her powers.

“Poison Ivy” is just her codename.

After the first movie, Bruce is struggling with depression and realizes he needs to be in a better place mentally to be a better hero for Gotham. That's where he Goes to Hugo Strange to be his therapist. Little does Bruce Know that Hugo is working with Jonathan Crane and getting Intel for Crane. Throughout the movie Crane uses his fear toxin on Bruce and Bruce goes to Hugo to tell him about his fears of losing both Alfred and failing Gotham. By the end of the movie Hugo and Crane have kidnapped Alfred and forces Bruce to either save Alfred from dying from the fear toxin or save Gotham from having Crane put his fear toxin in Gotham's water supply

Better Call Saul and The Boys fans, eat your heart out.

I did see some Jan 6 type comparisons with the recent version of The Riddler and obviously there's the Zodiac Killer inspiration, but that being said I kinda saw him as like if a totally cynical "Doomer" type was given a sense of determination and the desire to enact an actual plan of destruction. Basically he's someone who doesn't think the world is capable of change, thinks anyone saying so won't win and is dishonest and thinks it's all corrupt and broken so it might as well be flooded and destroyed. Like one of these "the world sucks" person who keeps on commenting on it if they actually decided to do something rather than remain complacent. The problem is that what they wanted to do wasn't helpful unless you count Bruce's character shift.

Oooooo I like! All the Clayface rumors may have been related to this show, not the film as many incorrectly thought. Or maybe we’ll see him in both? Either way, this is SOLID https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/matt-reeves-batman-tv-series-first-look-1235894658/amp/

The red bandana covering his deformed face along with the hat and blade look so cool and creepy and I can definitely see a villain like this existing in the Matt Reeves Batverse. Maybe have him be a hired killer brought in to pick off certain targets in Gotham and takes the skin from his victim’s faces as a trophy after he’s finished them off.

Better Call Saul and The Boys fans, eat your heart out.

They are the halfway point between the style of the old mob gangs (Maronis, Falcones) and the tactics of the 'freaks' (Joker, Scarecrow, Bane, etc). I wonder if they are gonna end up sharing the crime stage and are fierce rivals like the Arkham series by the end of The Batman trilogy.

Still working on both bicep pieces, Scaling down still needs to be done on the chest. Gauntlet fins have tags on so I know left and right. Gloves need a bit of tinkering. 🦇