The Question & Martian Manhunter
The Question has two forms in the DC Comics universe. The first being Vic Sage, who is the most well-known version and had a romantic fling with the Huntress. The other version of The Question is Renee Montoya.
Yes, that Renee Montoya from Gotham City who was recently seen in Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey. It’s the Renee version of The Question who would be the central character in the game. Or at least, she’s one of the central characters.
Her partner in the game is J’onn J’onzz, aka the Martian Manhunter. With his ability to shapeshift and read minds, he makes a human life for himself as a Private Investigator.
In this game, he and Renee would join up to take down an overarching villain who has created a dastardly plan to rise to the top of the criminal world.
While Renee is the central Question, Vic Sage will also be in the game but more as a guide and in flashbacks.
The idea for Vic Sage is that he died while working with Renee and she’s at the beginning of her career as the Question. His death plays an integral part in Renee joining up with J’onn as both are going after the same villain and need to team-up to take him down.
The game is an open-world experience in the same vein of L.A. Noire where as Renee you can decide to doubt those you investigate.
As the Martian Manhunter, you’ll be able to read their minds and reconstruct moments from their past in a similar fashion to the Detective mode in the Arkham series.
Another cam that it be compared to is the Sherlock Holmes ones such as The Devil’s Daughter and Versus Jack the Ripper.
By doing this, it means players get to delve more into the minds of the heroes and show how they work. Other DC Comics characters can cameo in it.
Since it’s based on Detective work it can have the Question and Martian Manhunter looking for help from Batman, The Flash, Elongated Man, and Detective Chimp. The help would be because their overarching villain is The Riddler.
Bringing in characters who deal with him makes sense.
The Riddler as the villain means the story can be more intricate and darker. There’s also the idea that the Riddler leaves riddles at the crime scene. The player needs to figure out the riddle in order to progress to the next case.
The larger conspiracy sees the Riddler vying to take out all of the major players to become the boss of the criminal underworld. He takes Vic Sage out of the equation as he figured out the Riddler’s plans.
If there’s a story from DC Comics that shows how dark and intricate this case would go it’s Batman: Hush. I’m talking about a no holds barred with nothing to lose Riddler.
He leaves behind a trail of bodies and creates a dark conspiracy that will shake Montoya and J’onn J’onnz to their core.
