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MONITOR'S NOTES: Hank Henshaw or Martain Manhunter
Here's series executive producer Andrew Kreisberg on how the big change to Henshaw's character came to pass:

"So, we were on the set of the pilot and we were talking about, as it happens when you’re on the set of the pilot, you start seeing the sets, you start seeing the actors and you start thinking about, well, what we could do next and all the possibilities that there could be and we were - all of us - just so in love with David [Harewood] and, so happy to have him on the show and just loved everything that he was doing with Hank [Henshaw] and Geoff Johns and Greg Berlanti and I were standing there and we were saying collectively amongst us, 'It’s so funny we cast David because he’s got those weird ears, you know? He’s got a little bit of alien ears and I don’t remember which one of us said it, but it was like, 'Oh, if we were ever gonna make a Martian Manhunter show or something, David would have been the perfect Martian Manhunter.' and it was Geoff who said, “Well, why can’t he be?” [laughs] and we looked at each other and started, like, 'Well, wait a minute!'

"And, then we started thinking about everything that was happening in the pilot and the, sort of, notion - because we already had the Hank Henshaw idea, you know, sort of, set up that we would be playing this, sort of, bad secret that he was holding and, then we started thinking about - what if it’s a good secret? What if it’s, like, the reverse of the Reverse-Flash? That you think he’s bad, but then he turns out to, not only be good, but, literally, the most good person in the DC Universe.

"And, then we started thinking about what all of Hank’s, you know, ‘cause originally Hank was gonna have, obviously, a different backstory - everything they said in the pilot - and then we were like, “Oh, actually, you know, if he survived Mars and came here and his whole goal was to protect Earth and not let Earth suffer the same fate as Mars, well, then he’s doing exactly what Kara says and what Astra says, which is, ‘Not here. Never again.’

"And, you know, he’s had to, like, sort of, lead this crazy existence being Hank Henshaw and he doesn’t want Supergirl around - she could mess everything up - and we were like, “Oh, it actually all fits.” and, then we started talking about what the feasibility of it was.

First we had to tell David, 'Oh, by the way …' [laughs] and, you know, he was so funny because we - Ali [Adler] and I took him out to lunch - and he was like, 'I’m not gonna be Shrek am I?' [laughs] and - that was his biggest fear - and we said, 'No, no, no, no,' and we went to Armen [V. Kevorkian]."