Dr. Jonathan Crane, also known as the Scarecrow, is a Gotham City supervillain and a major enemy of Batman. Created by Batman creators Bill Finger and Bob Kane, he first appeared in World's Finest Comics #3 (Fall 1941).
For much of the Scarecrow's comic book past, he was simply a psychiatrist obsessed with the concept of fear as the result of being bullied in childhood — not only by classmates in school, but, in some versions of his origin story (most notably in Batman: The Long Halloween, which has been an inspiration for Gotham more ...
After getting a degree in psychology, Crane began using his patients as test subjects to create a hallucinatory, fear-inducing gas called Fear Toxin before beginning his criminal career as the Scarecrow.
Crane is obsessed with fear, and takes sadistic pleasure in frightening his victims, often literally to death, with his fear toxin. Crane also suffers from brain damage from prolonged exposure to his own toxin that renders him nearly incapable of being afraid of anything - except Batman.
Why did Scarecrow have a massacred face in the game Batman: Arkham Knight? - Quora. In the Arkham Asylum game, Scarecrow got attacked by Killer Croc. Scarecrow survived, but Croc mauled his face. After the mauling, Crane got facial reconstructive surgery and altered his face to look the way it does in Arkham Knight.
Batman has abandoned his "Bruce Wayne" name and adopted a new secret identity as a dock worker named Lenny. Batman's alter ego, Zur-En-Arrh, has started influencing his actions due to exhaustion and trauma, making him more vicious than ever before.
Created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane, the character first appeared in Detective Comics #33 (November 1939). Batman: Three Jokers #1 (August 2020). In Batman's origin story, Joe Chill is the mugger who murders young Bruce Wayne's parents, Dr. Thomas Wayne and Martha Wayne.
Anxiety Disorder: Crane once suffered from corvidophobia (fear of crows) after being attacked by a murder of crows at his family aviary. He managed to overcome this somehow and is often seen with a crow named Craw. Since his first encounter with Batman, he had developed chiropteraphobia (fear of bats).
This fear was intended for the one who was willing to disrupt his plans: Batman. The Dark Knight is what the Scarecrow fears the most and curiously the one who was closest to becoming a reality.
The Joker is still the biggest villain from Batman: Arkham Origins through to Arkham Knight, but when it comes to actual villainry, Scarecrow has him beat in several ways, including effectively defeating Batman.
Weakness: Scarecrow's weakness is his anxiety disorder. He is also addicted to and obsessed with fear, including a fear of bats and a fear of crows after being attacked at his family's aviary.
The Scarecrow's greatest fear in Batman Begins was Ra's al Ghul. Throughout Batman Begins Crane refers to the man he works for as a cudgel against Carmine Falcone. When the freshly-gassed Crane sees Batman as the coal-faced demon, he says, "Ra's al Ghul." Sure, he might be just answering Batman's question.
Ray Bolger, the loose-limbed song-and-dance man who became known to millions as the Scarecrow in ''The Wizard of Oz,'' died yesterday of cancer in Los Angeles. He had his 83d birthday last Saturday and lived in Beverly Hills.
Robin the Boy Wonder was actually Dick Grayson, the youngest of a family of circus aerialists, who witnessed his mother and father plunging to their deaths from a sabotaged trapeze. This murder was also observed by wealthy socialite Bruce Wayne.
The two have a rivalry dating back decades, and it's hard to portray one without the other eventually coming back into their lives. It's interesting therefore that Joker has come up with a personal nickname for Batman, often referring to him as Bats or Batsy.
Batman's lack of superhuman abilities makes him especially vulnerable to physical trauma, as his body cannot withstand continuous beatings without severe consequences. Batman's past trauma and lack of emotional healing make him easily manipulated by his enemies, who use his fears and personal losses against him.
The Joker is immune to toxins and poisons of all kinds. He has been exposed to Joker venom, Scarecrow's fear gas, and a number of other toxins to no effect.
His face has an even more a skeletal like structure, with some of his face peeling or falling off, and (as evident in the Arkham Knight Toy), his left leg also needs braces. So clearly he was heavily injured in that fight, and no doubt that he blames batman for it, fueling his hate for him.
Crane is usually portrayed as a middle-aged guy on his 40s/50s, but his physical appearance in general is rather inconsistent, greatly varying depending on the artist.
Scarecrow: I haven't got a brain... only straw. Dorothy: How can you talk if you haven't got a brain? Scarecrow: I don't know... But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking... don't they?
The Scarecrow constantly proves to be a dangerous threat to the Dark Knight not due to physical strength, but to the emotional and psychological damage his toxins can cause. In fact, Scarecrow tends to shy away from physical confrontations and instead lets his victims fall prey to their own waking nightmares.
