| Tommy Elliot grew up with Bruce Wayne, and was one of his only true friends. The two played strategy games, and Tommy would always beat Bruce. One night tragedy struck when Tommy’s parents’ car went out of control and off a bridge. Bruce promised that his father would be able to save them both, but Thomas Wayne could only save Tommy’s mother. What Bruce didn’t know was that Tommy had cut the break lines on the car in the hope of inheriting his parent’s vast fortunes. Ironically, Tommy’s mother died many years later of cancer. In those years, Tommy had become a very famous and successful doctor. |
| Years later, The Riddler, dying of a brain tumour, consulted with Dr. Elliot, who was unable to help him. When the Riddler found his cure in the form of a Lazarus Pit, and came to the amazing realization that Bruce Wayne was Batman, he went to Elliot, who he knew hated Wayne, and the two formed a plan to destroy their mutual nemesis. They recruited the Scarecrow to profile Batman’s rogues so they could manipulate them, and they went to work on destroying Batman. With Tommy adopting the identity of Hush. |
