Scarecrow (comics):
The Scarecrow (Dr. Jonathan Crane) is a DC Comics supervillain, an enemy of Batman. Created by Batman creators Bill Finger and Bob Kane, he first appeared in World's Finest Comics #3 (Fall 1941). His scarecrow costume, cranky appearance and surname were inspired by Ichabod Crane of the horror fable The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
The Scarecrow is a former psychiatrist who uses a variety of drugs and psychological tactics to exploit the fears and phobias of his adversaries. He does not commit his crimes for wealth, but rather as a form of "research" to further study the effects of fear on humans, making the innocent citizens of Gotham City his unwilling guinea pigs. While he will occasionally commit robbery or other types of larceny, he does so only to get the funding he needs to carry out his experiments.
The Scarecrow made only two appearances in the 1940s.[1] Revived during the Silver Age of Comic Books by writer Gardner Fox and artist Sheldon Moldoff in the pages of Batman #189 (Feb 1967), he has since become a staple Batman comic book villain.[2] He was featured several times in the cartoon Batman: The Animated Series, where he was voiced by Henry Polic II. When the series was revamped and shown together with Superman: The Animated Series, the character was voiced by Jeffrey Combs. Portrayed by Cillian Murphy in both the 2005 film Batman Begins and the 2008 film The Dark Knight, the Scarecrow is the only villain to appear in two films in a row.
[edit] Biography
[edit] Golden Age
In his first appearance in World's Finest #3 during the Golden Age of Comic Books, the Scarecrow is first introduced as Jonathan Crane, a professor of psychology, who turns to crime after he is fired; an expert in the psychology of fear, he had fired a gun in a classroom full of students to illustrate a point. The only thing revealed about his early life is that, as a child, he had liked to frighten birds. Ostracized by his fellow professors for his reclusiveness and shabby clothes, he turns to crime to make himself part of the social elite. His modus operandi is to use his Scarecrow persona and threaten his victims into doing whatever he wants. In terms of his costume, he merely wears a ragged black hat, trenchcoat and mask, and wields a tommy gun.
His first crime involves a businessman named Frank Kendrick being sued by a former partner, Paul Harold. When Harold refuses to cooperate upon meeting and hearing his demands, the Scarecrow kills him and becomes a media sensation. Bruce Wayne, who happens to be a patron and trustee of the university, investigates the matter as Batman and discovers Crane's disturbing behavior and forced resignation, leading him to suspect the professor. Crane then approaches a store owner named Dodge with the offer to rob other establishments, in order to increase his sales. After Batman and Robin learn of the plan and question Dodge, Scarecrow attempts to kill him, but the Dynamic Duo capture him in the nick of time. He is then sent to Gotham State Penitentiary.
Two years later in Detective Comics #73, he escapes from jail and forms a gang of criminals to do his bidding. While he struggles to rob a Chinese antique dealer, Batman and Robin foil the plan, and he and his cronies are sent back to prison. This version of the Scarecrow was much like other gimmick villains in that he based a lot of crimes around nursery rhymes and words that rhymed with "hat". The Golden Age Scarecrow does not appear again until The Brave and the Bold #197 when it is revealed that he developed a hallucinogenic chemical toxin that could be used to invoke deep phobias within those who breathe it in. When Batman tries to intervene, he is affected by the toxin and hallucinates that all of his allies have disappeared. Feeling he has no one else to turn to, he confides in an old enemy, Catwoman, to help him stop Crane, and she is successful in helping stop the Scarecrow and getting Batman over his delusions. Exactly what happens to Crane is not revealed because of the revelation that the Golden Age universe is actually Earth-Two, part of the Multiverse.
[edit] Silver Age
From Batman #189 onwards, the Scarecrow is a recurring villain in the later Silver Age Batman stories. He is a frequent member of the Injustice Gang. Ironically, in this Earth-One incarnation, he has a pet magpie named Craw, while the post-Crisis Crane has a phobia of birds.
[edit] Post-Crisis, Modern-Age Version
Following the 1986 multi-title event Crisis on Infinite Earths reboot, Crane's origin story was greatly expanded in the 1989 graphic novel Batman/Scarecrow #1, part of the Batman: Year One continuity. In the novel, he becomes obsessed with fear and revenge from being bullied throughout his childhood and adolescence for his lanky frame and bookish nature, especially his resemblance to Ichabod Crane from Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. At the age of 18, he brandishes a gun in his high school parking lot during the senior prom. Dressed in the ghoulish scarecrow costume that would later become his trademark, Crane causes the head bully, Bo Griggs, and his girlfriend, Sherry Squires (who had rejected Crane), to have an automobile accident which paralyzes Griggs and kills Squires. Crane discovers a savage delight in literally frightening people to death.
He grows up to become a professor of psychology at Gotham University, specializing in the psychology of fear. As in the original version, he loses his job after he fires a gun at his students to prove a point; in this version, he injures a student. After his dismissal, he kills the regents who fired him and becomes a career criminal. Following this, he transfers to Arkham Asylum and becomes a psychiatrist, where he performs cruel, fear-induced experiments on his patients. He takes the moniker "the Scarecrow", the favorite taunt of the hated bullies, as part of his revenge. The 2005 miniseries, Batman/Scarecrow: Year One, expands upon the earlier origin story. The novels explains that Jonathan Crane is born out of wedlock and also suffers severe abuse from his fanatically religious great-grandmother. His father takes off before he is even born, and his mother does not show any love or affection towards her son. He develops a taste for fear and an affinity for crows when his grandmother locks him in a dilapidated church full of birds. The story also shows Crane murdering his grandmother, and learning that his mother gave birth to a baby girl.
During a Batman Confidential story arc, he is shown out of costume at Arkham Asylum still working as a psychiatrist, while planning the renovation of Arkham, and he briefly comes face to face with the criminal who will one day become The Joker.
In the Knightfall storyline, Scarecrow is one of the prisoners that escaped from Arkham after Bane blows it up. He first attacks one of The Joker's henchmen, who tells Scarecrow that his boss is after Commissioner Gordon. Scarecrow goes to the Joker and decides to become partners in terrorizing the mayor. Soon they go to the sewers with the mayor, where Batman arrives. Scarecrow gasses him with fear toxin, forcing him to see the Joker's murder of Jason Todd, but Batman responds with anger rather than fear. Panicked, Scarecrow floods the sewers with water. Batman escapes with the mayor but Joker and Scarecrow escape as well. Later, at Scarecrow and Joker's hideout, the Scarecrow attempts to poison Joker with his fear toxin, only to find that it has no effect on The Joker, who in turn beats Scarecrow with a chair. He is then sent to Arkham.
In the Shadow of the Bat storyline, Scarecrow escapes and brings together a small group of boys to terrorize the city while he enjoys the chaos. Soon, Batman's successor, Jean-Paul Valley, and Anarky arrive and together they defeat the Scarecrow and save the boys.
In stories written by Jeph Loeb, such as Batman: The Long Halloween and Batman: Hush, Crane is shown to have an inclination to sing nursery rhymes at times. In the Elseworlds story Batman: Crimson Mist, Crane is shown to be singing a modified version of "Ding, Dong, The Witch Is Dead", from The Wizard of Oz.
Crane undergoes a major change in the 2004 Batman story arc As The Crow Flies. While working with The Penguin, he is mutated into a monster. He turns into this "Scarebeast" during times of great strain or when it is necessary to defend himself. More recently, the outworlders Desaad and Darkseid turned him into an even worse creature, Schrocken, powerful enough to engage Superman unaided. It took the joint efforts of Batman and Superman to return him to Earth and to human form.
Scarecrow rejoins the new Secret Society of Super Villains, and is part of the assault on the Secret Six (Villains United #6). He is caught in an explosion caused by Parademon. He is later seen in Villains United Special #1, alive and well. He is also seen in Detective Comics #820 as part of One Year Later, where he is defeated by Batman and Robin. In this appearance he is depicted in a costume that appeared to be an amalgamation of his original costume and the costume seen in Batman Begins.
Recently, the Scarecrow has decided to stop using his typical fear gas, as he feared that other Arkham inmates are right that he is nothing without them. Instead relying on his training as a psychologist, he drives two inmates to suicide using only his words, also apparently terrifying the rest of Arkham's inmates. After manipulating the guards to freeing him, Crane embarks upon a string of murders, terrifying Gotham without using his trademark gimmicks.
On Green Lantern vol. 4 #27, after Laira murders Amon Sur, the son of the deceased Green Lantern Abin Sur and a member of the Sinestro Corps, his yellow power ring attempts to reach Crane as his successor in Arkham Asylum, but is thwarted by two Green Lanterns Hal Jordan and John Stewart.
On the cover of Justice League of America #13 (Vol.2), it shows Scarecrow as a member of the new Injustice League.
In Gotham Underground, Scarecrow has met with Hugo Strange, Penguin, Mad Hatter, and Two-Face who had gathered together to escape Gotham in light of the disappearance of other villains due to the Suicide Squad and Amanda Waller kidnapping and deporting villains offworld in Countdown to Final Crisis. During their meeting, however, the Suicide Squad breaks into the building and arrests them. It is revealed that Penguin is involved with the Suicide Squad, and that he set up the other villains to gain the favor of the Squad. Scarecrow, who has recently reconsidered his decision to abandon his fear toxins, gasses Bronze Tiger and escapes to warn the Ventriloquist II. However, when the Ventriloquist and her gang accuse Scarecrow of being Suicide Squad's snitch and then lead an assault on the Iceberg Lounge, Scarecrow leads them into a trap by Tobias Whale. Whale then betrays him, leaving him beaten and tied-up, though alive, as a sign to all "masks" that they are not welcome in Whale's new vision of Gotham.
The cover of DC Universe Special - Justice League of America shows Scarecrow as a member of Libra's Secret Society of Super Villains.
[edit] Company crossovers
In the 2000 AD Batman/Judge Dredd crossover comic Judgement on Gotham, by writers Alan Grant and John Wagner, Scarecrow is shown breaking into a morgue along with his Igor-like henchman Benny, collecting various juices from corpses to include in his fear gas. He delights in scaring "a ghost" by creeping up on it and saying "boo". The ghost turns out to be the spirit of Judge Death, whom he promptly allies himself with on the basis that the Judge can show him "a veritable feassst of fffear". After inhabiting a corpse, Judge Death dispatches Benny, but is treated to a whiff of fear gas, revealing his fear of losing his power to frighten. The Scarecrow ushers the Judge to a rock festival, where all carnage ensues (he records it on camera for "his private collection"). Scarecrow is apprehended when Judge Dredd's partner Anderson shoots his can of fear gas, dousing him with it and sending him into a terrified delusion that he is being attacked by birds. Judge Death is taken down by the combined efforts of Batman and Dredd.
The second Batman/Daredevil crossover book features Scarecrow in New York, apparently attempting to kill Wilson Fisk (aka the Kingpin) and take over his crime operation. In reality, this is merely a setup to draw attention from his true scheme: unleashing a massive dose of fear toxin into an incoming storm from atop the Statue of Liberty. This would spread the gas throughout New York City, causing all its citizens to suffer like "Sodom and Gomorrah." In the end, he blasts Daredevil with a dose of fear toxin, but Daredevil lives up to his "Man Without Fear" trademark by quickly brushing off the effects of the gas and defeating Scarecrow.
[edit] Other appearances
The Scarecrow also makes a cameo appearance in The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes. Specifically, he appears in Sandman #5: "Passengers" as a friend of Doctor Destiny at Arkham Asylum. He quotes Marlowe and attempts to dissuade Destiny from escaping, saying Arkham is a better home for their kind than the outside world. (See Characters of The Sandman - Minor Mortals)
Later, Sandman characters Cain And Abel make a guest appearance in one of Jonathan Crane's dreams in The New Batman Adventures, in which they briefly pretend to be prison administrators allocating him to a teaching job following his parole. However, though they resemble Cain And Abel physically, their personalities and habits are radically different - Cain makes no witticisms, while Abel repeats Cain's sentences rather than stutter - and both have small horns entangled in their hair.
In JSA: The Liberty Files, an alternate version of the Scarecrow appears as a Nazi agent of Adolf Hitler. This version of the Scarecrow kills The Owl and is eventually killed by Mister Terrific, the Batman and The Clock.
Crane also teams up with his Marvel Comics counterpart in Marvel vs. DC, where the two teamed up to kidnap Lois Lane, but were defeated by Ben Reilly, who knocked both of them out with a single kick.
[edit] Powers and abilities
[edit] Fear evocation
Crane is a psychiatrist with a specialty in phobias. Using a variety of toxins that cause his victims to hallucinate that their phobias have come to life, the Scarecrow can instill fear in all who see him. However, recently he has displayed the ability to literally frighten people to death without relying in the chemical, suggesting a great ability to dominate the human psyche using fear as a weapon. In Batman Begins, the fear toxin he uses is extracted from a mountaintop blue flower from Tibet, and only works in vapor form. Crane uses his Scarecrow mask to enhance the effect of the hallucinogen as well as to avoid being poisoned by his own toxin.
[edit] Unarmed combat
When forced to fight, he has used a style called "violent dancing", which is based in partly off the crane style of kung fu and drunken boxing, which makes full use of his long arms and legs. Most storylines, however, have suggested he has no real means of hand-to-hand combat, presenting him as physically unintimidating.
[edit] Scarebeast
Scarecrow is mutated into the terrifying Scarebeast. Image from Batman #630.
Art by Dustin Nguyen and Richard Friend.
During the "As the Crow Flies" story arc (commencing with Batman #627, July 2004), the Scarecrow is transformed into a murderous creature known as the Scarebeast by the Penguin and his assistant Linda Friitawa (Fright) to kill off his disloyal colleagues. Through the intensely traumatic mutation, the Scarebeast possesses super strength, endurance, clawed hands and can release an even stronger hallucinogenic gas. After being defeated by Batman by injecting it with massive amounts of tranquilizers, the Scarebeast reverts back into Jonathan Crane, who ends up in a critical coma, from which he later awakens.
The Scarecrow has also transformed into the Scarebeast in the "War Games" story arc. However, the Scarebeast has yet to be seen again after this storyline, and his recent appearances in Villains United Special and Batman seem to indicate the Scarebeast may be gone.
[edit] In other media
[edit] Animation
[edit] The Batman/Superman Hour
The Scarecrow's first appearance outside the comics was the 1968 Filmation series The Batman/Superman Hour, in an episode titled "The Great Scarecrow Scare". This series' portrayal of the character was tamer than others; he didn't use fear-based attacks, and merely wanted to rob the farmers' market. His voice was provided by Ted Knight.
[edit] Super Friends
In the 1978 animated series Challenge of the SuperFriends, the Scarecrow appears as a member of Lex Luthor's Legion of Doom. In this series, he is voiced by Don Messick. This version speaks in a hissing voice.
The character's identity and motivation are expanded upon in an episode of The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians titled "The Fear". Andre Stojka voiced the Scarecrow in that episode.
[edit] Batman: The Animated Series
The Scarecrow is a recurring villain in Batman: the Animated Series. He has appeared in three major roles, as well as having four cameo appearances. He is well-known for having variable character designs, changing drastically from time to time. He is voiced by Henry Polic II.
In his first appearance in the DC Animated Universe, the third episode of Batman: the Animated Series entitled "Nothing to Fear", the Scarecrow's past is revealed in a flashback. As in the comics that spawned the series, the Scarecrow's real name is Jonathan Crane, and his fascination with fear emerged as a young child. While growing up, Crane experimented with the effects of fear, eventually becoming a professor at Gotham State University where he worked on developing fear toxins, conducting experiments on human guinea pigs until the experiments became too dangerous. Shortly after creating a fear toxin that caused victims to see their greatest fear, Crane was fired by the head of the university. Crane then became the Scarecrow, and attempted to exact revenge upon the university.
While attempting to burn down the university, the Scarecrow hits Batman with a dart filled with fear toxin. Batman foils the arson attempt, but the toxins have a great effect on him; he begins to hallucinate that his dead father is rejecting him as a failure. This is Batman's weak point in this battle, and when the Scarecrow attacks the university a second time, Batman has to struggle to ignore the images. He overcomes his fear, forcing himself to realize that the visions are not real and convincing himself that his father would be proud of him. Batman then defeats the Scarecrow's henchmen and arrests the villain. During this encounter, Scarecrow is exposed to his own fear gas and is revealed to suffer from an ironic fear of bats. When Batman finds him cowering in fear, Scarecrow hallucinates Batman becoming a large, monstrous bat.
The Scarecrow makes his next appearance (in a more altered version of his costume) in the episode "Fear of Victory", in which he fixes sporting events by giving telegrams dusted with his powdered fear toxins to the players. Crane, having bet on the other team, wins large quantities of money, with which he buys the chemicals he uses in his research. In a confrontation at the end of the episode, Robin, who was previously affected by the powder, overcomes his fears and prevents the Scarecrow from dropping a vial of fear toxins on the crowd below.
In his third and final appearance (his costume now more grotesque than the first two versions), in the episode "Dreams In Darkness", the Scarecrow plans to poison Gotham's water supply with his fear toxins to discover what would happen when a whole city went mad with fear. When Batman fights one of his henchmen, he once again gets a dose of fear gas, and experiences hallucinations of his parents' murder, his worst enemies triumphing over him, and his greatest friends turning against him. Batman fights his fear once again, and infects Scarecrow with his own gas then sends him back to Arkham, out of his mind with fear.
The Scarecrow makes no other major appearances in the original animated series, but does appear in a few cameos. He appeared playing chess with the Mad Hatter in "Joker's Wild", and was seen being arrested again in "Harley's Holiday". In the episode "Trial", he is seen only escorting the prisoners and attempting to kill Batman with a scythe. In the episode "Lock-Up", the Scarecrow is said to be the only prisoner to escape from Lyle Bolton, the new Head of Security who tortures the asylum's prisoners, but not to commit any crimes - only because he is terrified of him. Ultimately, after Bolton becomes a criminal and is imprisoned in Arkham, the Scarecrow is last seen, uncostumed, triumphantly promising to teach him new lessons in fear and chuckles mischievously.
[edit] The New Batman Adventures
The Scarecrow also appears in the New Batman Adventures, in the episode "Never Fear". Here, he has a different scheme; he infects his victims with a gas that removes fear, causing them to become reckless risk-takers. The Scarecrow infects Batman with this anti-fear gas, causing him to go berserk and try to kill his enemies. The Scarecrow holds the city ransom, demanding large sums of money in exchange for the antidote to the gas' effects. Batman tries to kill the Scarecrow, but Robin stops him at the last minute, and the Scarecrow is arrested.
In the episode "Over the Edge", the Scarecrow kills Batgirl by knocking her over the side of a building. The police blame Batman, discover his secret identity, and attempt to arrest him. However, at the end of the episode, this is revealed to be Batgirl's dream, caused by the Scarecrow's fear gas.
Bruce Timm, the show's creator, writer, and part-time director, felt that the Scarecrow was supposed to be scary, thus when the New Batman Adventures came out, the designers completely redesigned his costume, giving him a twisted death mask with completely blank eyes, black clothes styled after a western preacher, and a noose around his neck, giving him a much more corpse-like or undead-like appearance. In this version, he is voiced by cult horror favorite Jeffrey Combs, who would later voice the Question on Justice League Unlimited. This version is never shown out of his costume. Timm actually commented that there may in fact not even be a person inside the costume of this version of the Scarecrow; The producers felt that creating an identity outside of the costume would detract from the fear element of the design.
The Scarecrow never appears in Batman Beyond, nor is he mentioned. However, in the animated movie, Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, there is a member of the Jokerz gang, Ghoul, whose design resembles the Scarecrow's. The Batman Beyond villain Spellbinder, like the Scarecrow, is also able to show people horrific illusions. However, in a series of comics that take place in the same continuity as Batman Beyond, Scarecrow appears in a flashback when Commissioner Barbara Gordon starts to become haunted by the events of "Over the Edge".[3]
As part of the original 13 members of the Legion of Doom, the Scarecrow was originally slated to appear again in the DC Animated Universe in the third season of Justice League Unlimited, but apparently due to a "Bat-Embargo" enforced by Warner Bros., this did not occur.
The Scarecrow was set to appear in The Batman, but was not included because he appeared in Batman Begins. According to writer Joseph Kuhr, he had originally conceived the fourth season episode, "Strange New World", to introduce Scarecrow into the show, only to find the character was still off-limits to them.
The Scarecrow was originally going to appear in two canceled Batman projects that would have taken place after Batman & Robin. In both projects, Batman Triumphant and Batman: DarKnight he was the main villain. However, due to Batman & Robin's poor critical reception, neither film came to fruition.[citation needed]
[edit] Batman Begins
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Main article: Batman Begins
The Scarecrow appears in the 2005 movie Batman Begins, where he is portrayed by Cillian Murphy. Similar to his comic counterpart, this version of the Scarecrow is Dr. Jonathan Crane, a corrupt, sadistic psychiatrist. The novelization of The Dark Knight says that he was fired from Gotham University before being accepted to Arkham Asylum. The film incarnation specializes in psychopharmacology at Arkham, and is secretly allied with Ra's al Ghul (Liam Neeson), as well as paying crime lord Carmine Falcone (Tom Wilkinson) for his services in smuggling the hallucinogenic drugs into Gotham. Crane also agrees to lend Falcone his services by declaring Falcone's thugs insane in court, thus saving them from serving time in prison. During his Arkham investigations, Batman overpowers Crane's henchmen and sprays Crane with his own toxin, destroying his remaining sanity. Crane is subsequently incarcerated in Arkham as an inmate, later escaping in a mass break-out of Arkham inmates as part of Ra's al Ghul's plan. Crane — now calling himself "Scarecrow" — pursues Rachel Dawes (Katie Holmes) and a young boy through an alleyway while on horseback. Rachel eludes Scarecrow by shocking him in the face with a taser, but Crane is revealed to remain at large by Gordon in the film's final scene. During his fight with Batman, Ra's states that Crane was under the impression that Ra's was going to hold Gotham for ransom. Hence, Crane was unaware of Ra's actual plan to destroy Gotham.
As the Scarecrow, Crane wears a mask seemingly created from a poorly-stitched burlap sack with a hangman's noose dangling around the neck. The mask has a built-in rebreather, doubling as a gas mask to protect Crane from the effects of his own toxin, while also allowing him to appear terrifying to the victims of his toxin. Murphy explained that the relatively simple mask was done because "[He] wanted to avoid the Worzel Gummidge look. Because he's not a very physically imposing man, he's more interested in the manipulation of the mind and what that can do."[4]
[edit] Batman: Gotham Knight
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Scarecrow appears as one of the villains in the "In Darkness Dwells" segment of the direct-to-DVD animated production Batman: Gotham Knight (2008). The Scarecrow was voiced by Corey Burton in this version.
After the events of Batman Begins, the Scarecrow and a gang of Arkham escapees including Killer Croc flee into the sewers of Gotham City. From his underground refuge, the Scarecrow was performing experiments with his fear toxin on members of Gotham's homeless community. Angered by Cardinal O'Fallon's work caring for the homeless, Scarecrow orchestrates his kidnapping, hoping that his absence will facilitate more people to seek refuge underground and thus be available for experimentation. Batman, however, infiltrates the Scarecrow's lair and frees the cardinal and flood the room, although the Scarecrow himself manages to escape.
The Scarecrow's appearance in this short is radically different from his portrayal in Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. He retains the sack-like mask, but it's torn, leaving his mouth and lower face visible. He also wears a costume similar to that of his animated series counterpart, with a wide-brimmed hat and tattered clothes. What appear to be wooden struts are inserted into the shoulders of his costume, mimicking both the supports of an actual scarecrow and a pair of wings. He, along with his minions, carries a large scythe, with which he intended to kill Cardinal O'Fallon.
However, in order to bind Gotham Knight with the Nolan films, the novelization describes the Scarecrow as depicted in Batman Begins and The Dark Knight.
[edit] The Dark Knight
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Murphy reprises his on-screen role in the Batman Begins sequel The Dark Knight (2008), appearing in a scene as Crane/Scarecrow. After the film's opening scenes, the Scarecrow is seen dealing his fear toxin to the Russian mobster Chechen (Ritchie Coster), who is outraged that Crane is intentionally poisoning recreational drugs for unknown reasons. Dr. Crane dismisses an ambush by a vigilante who appears to be Batman, but is revealed to be one of several Batman lookalikes. The real Batman arrives and is recognized as such by the Scarecrow, who immediately attempts to leave. Batman captures some of the Chechen's henchmen and the false Batman crusaders, as well as stopping and capturing the fleeing Scarecrow by landing on the roof of the van he tried to escape in. He is last seen when all are left bound by Batman for the police to incarcerate, mocking the vigilante.
[edit] Video games
The Scarecrow appears in four video games: Game Boy's Batman: The Animated Series, Super Nintendo and Genesis's Adventures of Batman & Robin, Batman Begins (a tie-in to the 2005 movie) and Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu. His role in the movie tie-in game is almost the same as the movie and is one of the game's boss fights. In the game, extra information is given about the Scarecrow's various quirks; he uses his patients as a form of personal army who frequently attack Batman in various levels. In Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu, he is dressed in the same costume used in the new batman adventures and is the first major boss to fight in the game, spraying the player with fear gas. The Scarecrow appears in Lego Batman: The Video Game as an enemy of Batman and a follower of the Joker.[5] Contrary to one of the game's trailers, he does not remove his hat and use it as a weapon to attack enemies. He has very limited use of his fear gas, as well as some mind-controlling abilities. He also has a biplane that fires fear gas torpedoes.
Scarecrow is set to appear in the upcoming video games DC Universe Online and Batman: Arkham Asylum.
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