As a young child, Jonathan Crane was subjected to sick and twisted experiments on fear conducted by his own father. Emotionally scarred and mentally unstable from the ordeal, Crane spent his childhood living in fear until he made an important realization—if he could control fear, it would never again control him.
Jonathan Crane, a professor of psychology turned criminal mastermind. Abused and bullied in his youth, he becomes obsessed with fear and develops a hallucinogenic drug—dubbed "fear toxin"—to terrorize Gotham City and exploit the phobias of its protector, Batman.
His background is similar to his comic book counterpart; he is portrayed as a psychiatrist who is obsessed with fear, and who was fired from his teaching job for experimenting on his students. He sought revenge on the superiors who fired him, using his Fear Toxin.
The character serves as a secondary antagonist in Batman Begins as a corrupt psychologist at Arkham Asylum, working with Falcone and Ra's al Ghul to poison Gotham's water supply with his toxin. After an encounter with Batman, Crane becomes the Scarecrow after being forced to inhale his own concoction.
The first scarecrows in recorded history were made along the Nile River to protect wheat fields from flocks of quail. What was the first scarecrow made out of? Egyptian farmers put wooden frames in their fields and covered them with nets. The farmers hid in the fields and scared the quail into the nets.
In Europe, scarecrows have long been tied to the supernatural boogeyman, a monster who is often depicted in tattered clothing. To a superstitious agrarian society, not only would scarecrows keep birds away from crops, but they could also scare children away from the fields where there might be strange things hiding.
In Batman Begins, Scarecrow's mask is a means of inflicting pain—the mouth is the only definable feature in the patchy sack he wears to terrify his patients.
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.
It is to be expected that this villain who specialized in the fears of the people had his own fear that tormented his soul. This fear was intended for the one who was willing to disrupt his plans: Batman.
Even though Killer Croc was the one who mutilated him, Scarecrow solely blames Batman for his near-death experience and never takes into consideration that he willingly yet ignorantly went into Croc's lair in the first place, thus making him a deluded hypocrite. He's also more than deserved it for all his actions.
But on one world where the Scarecrow's fear toxin has become a permanent part of the atmosphere, it is revealed that John Henry Irons, aka Steel, is immune to the effects of the fear toxin, something that not even Batman can lay claim to.
As a young child, Jonathan Crane was subjected to sick and twisted experiments on fear conducted by his own father. Emotionally scarred and mentally unstable from the ordeal, Crane spent his childhood living in fear until he made an important realization—if he could control fear, it would never again control him.
Batman worries about things like his loved ones dying, failing to save Gotham, or his successors becoming evil. Unfortunately for the Dark Knight, these fears have often manifested in reality, with Bruce Wayne having to face his worst nightmares and push his mental limits.
There's no doubt that recalling the fate of his parents is Bruce's biggest fear and regret. No matter who kills Batman's parents in different media, it's the catalyst to the person he becomes. Bruce spent all his childhood and early adulthood scared of remember what had happened.
Mental Illness: After being doused with his father's fear toxin, Jonathan is mentally unstable, unable to shake the hallucination of an animated scarecrow. Phobia: Jonathan suffers from a severe case of chiropteraphobia (fear of bats) and a chronic fear of Batman.
Scarecrow, aka Jonathan Crane, is a terrifying villain in the Batman: Arkham series, most notably in Batman: Arkham Knight, which cements him as the series' best villain over the Joker. The strength, resilience, and success that Scarecrow has over the course of the games make him the best villain in the series.
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.
Scarecrow was the only villain that appeared in all three of Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy. Some viewers believe that maybe he was featured in the three films as one of the trilogy's core themes is fear.
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.
Scarecrow is one of the more evil villains Batman has, less so then Joker, but not by much. Scarecrow doesn't have some sort of big goal, like Poison Ivy, he isn't in it for the money, like Deadshot, he's not in some sort of bad situation, like Killer Croc, and he's not being manipulated like Harley.
During the medieval times of Britain, scarecrows originated as actual young children who would go through the fields throwing stones when birds would land in the fields. They would also bang on items called clappers (two pieces of flat wood banged together) to chase them away.
A beautiful, simple story about the beauty of leading a simple life. Scarecrow is a great example of "being in the now" and appreciating everything life gives to him, without ever being worried about what will come next or be taken away.
