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Warning ! spoiler in the lead forFuture State : Gotham # 7
In the latest take of DC Comics’Future State : Gotham , it ’s been let out thatRed Hoodhas not been working forBatmanas previously believe . In a major twist , someone much more nefarious and sinister has been pull the strings , working against both the Magistrate , which has taken over Gotham City in the future , as well as the survive members of the Bat - Family who have become a underground movement . However , while Jason Todd think he sleep with who he was working for he ’s come to realize that he ’s been majorly played .
In previous issues ofFuture State : Gotham , Red Hood has become Peacekeeper Red , work for the Magistrate while secretlygathering intel for Batman as a double agent . However , this has put him at odds with Nightwing and the remainder of the Bat - Family , take care as how he ’s been keeping his true design and Batman being live a secret , leading them to believe that he ’s simply betrayed them . Tragically , the newFuture State : Gotham # 7from Joshua Williamson , Dennis Culver , and Giannis Milonogiannis has expose that Jason Todd never needed to become alienated from his phratry at all had he live who he was really put to work for .
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While Red Hood and the unexampled Batman , Jace Fox , save the Bat - Family and prevent the chaos that has been create by Warmonger using Mad Hatter intellect - ascendence technical school , the Red Hood begins to put the pieces together in the aftermath that something deeper is going on . encounter with " Bruce Wayne " in a shadowy skittle alley as they have been , Jason demands to know who he really is and why he cave in Red Hood regretful intel . Not only has he provided misleading evidence that the new Batman is the one responsible for for the latest attack on Gotham , but that he must have helped Warmonger get his manpower on the Hatter tech in the first position . While he does n’t bring out himself to Red Hood by the issue ’s end , it is disclose on the last page that " Bruce Wayne " is really Tommy Elliot , otherwise known as the classic Batman villain Hush .
With Hush being let on as the human in the shadow , it makes total sensation that Jason thought he ’d been working for Batman all this time , seeing as how Elliot perform surgery on his own face long ago to make himself look like Bruce Wayne , model himself after his old childhood friend turned rival . Having known for age that Bruce is Batman , it looks like Hush has been hold advantage of Bruce ’s disappearance ( and widely presumed death)to mess with both the Bat - Familyand Magistrate by manipulating Red Hood . However , it also look like he ’s work with the New Joker , a next foe who will soon be reveal in the issues to come .
While it ’s inauspicious that the sacrifices Jason has made to be a Hero of Alexandria in mystery have really been in service to a scoundrel , at least he last knows that " Bruce Wayne " is not who he says he is and can try and take him down . In any instance , the reveal thatRed Hoodhad been make for for Hush and notBatmanin Gotham ’s future is a pretty major and surprising twist only a few potential saw hail .
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