Piggybacking on myself here but:
Actually, I wonder if Tommy/Hush will *be* the Talon (at least, functionally) for the Court. Hush is definitely an “anti-Batman” character in the vein of Owlman, The Wrath, etc., and with the added “righteous revenge” angle Tommy will have in this universe (given what Bruce found out about Tommy’s reporter father being “hushed”), it would make sense for him to be a pawn of the Court the way the comics version was ultimately a pawn of the Riddler.
That's a good theory. I don't know how sold I am on Hush being the villain for the next movie. Not that I'd necessarily be against it, I just think that the logic most people are using regarding the "easter egg" in part 1 is a little reaching.
That said, depending on how he's used, I wouldn't be against it. Hush has almost started to suffer from the Pyramid Head Problem, where it feels like they're kinda starting to just throw him in things based on name recognition alone; because people like that original story so much, they know they can just throw Hush into something, or do a quick little Hush story, and people will bite. But in the capable hands of someone like Reeves, I'd trust it. Part of my favorite thing about the comic storyline is all the different villains making appearances, but if I'm being honest, even if it's adapted in Gunn's universe, we'd probably never get all those characters anyway.
I also just worry that he's too similar to this universe's Riddler. Not as much as someone like, say, Calendar Man or The Holiday Killer, but still. Then again, Riddler being such an important part of the original story means they could keep Dano's Riddler in play without him being the main villain. I wouldn't be against it, as long as we could get at least a Talon or two. I don't think they'd go the supernatural route either, but there's things they could do, I'm sure. Maybe continue the Drops/Bliss storyline to make them feel less pain, making them more dangerous to fight.
At this point, I just wanna know who the heck the villain is so we can stop theorizing that, and start theorizing their part in things.
