>>106565691We almost got that story back when J.M DeMatteis tried pitching Last Hunt as a Hugo story (before that he tried it as a Joker story and it was rejected because of Killing Joke).
I get the sense that if Hugo thought that he needed to save people and avoid killing to beat Bruce at his own game and prove himself unquestionably superior, he'd do it until he got tired of restraining himself and began to see it as unpractical.
I guess you can argue he could reform and fight crime as another Batman, kind of like Lex did for a while, but Hugo refuses to let anyone "leech off The Batman's power" and would never agree to Bruce living as long as he was Batman.
Sometimes I like to think of Hugo as the Fredric Wertham of Batman villains, and industry-ruining campaigns and disturbingly misguided projections aside, Wertham did plenty of good for others in his life.
Hugo has a similar thing going on in universe, that he was a very respected psychiatrist who could even do good things (his interactions with Sanjay hint as much), but whose Batman obsession destroyed what little morals he had and ruined his reputation to the point that's all his career became known for (the latest Deathstroke arc seems to bring this up)
>>106566617Not "incel", because Hugo is well capable of charming/manipulating women into doing what he wants outside of the Moench stories, but Prey paints him as a straight up misogynist and kind of hints at a backstory related to that.
The first thing Hugo thinks of when trying to guess Batman's background is that maybe he lost his wife, which to me suggests a similar thing might have happened to him, and he's been married with children in at least one continuity
