In the comics, Dr. Jonathan Crane was a psychologist who enjoyed studying the effects of fear, usually by putting on a truly hideous mask and spraying his victims with a panic-inducing drug.
He's still at it here, peddling his fear gas as a drug and finally getting sent back to Arkham Asylum as the movie opens. It tidies up a bit of plot from Batman Begins —which ended with Crane still on the loose—and further emphasizes that the Caped Crusader is seriously kicking butt.
With Crane going back to jail, it seems like Gotham can finally sleep easy at night. Despite the toxin's frightening effectiveness, Crane was quite defenseless once the gas was bypassed, as witnessed when Batman subdued him with little trouble. Crane wore a mask, that was a seemingly a poorly-stitched burlap sack with a hangman's noose that dangled around the neck.
The mask had a built-in re-breather and acted as a gas mask, in addition to enhancing the effect of the hallucinations in his experiments. The mask was put to good use when a victim was poisoned, which made Scarecrow's appearance all the more terrifying to the victim: Batman hallucinated bats crawling out of the "mouth", Rachel hallucinated maggots writhing in it, Falcone saw him moving about in a blur, while a boy saw both Scarecrow and his mounted police horse with fiery eyes, with the horse also breathing fire.
Scarecrow wore an unbound straitjacket at the climax of Batman Begins due to his incarceration at Arkham Asylum. Crane's gas caused each specific victim to suffer from their individual fears based on what caused each person most horror. Notable examples included:. Cillian Murphy as Dr. He takes on the persona of the Scarecrow to intimidate others and further his study of fears and phobias. Nolan decided against Murphy for Batman, before casting him as Scarecrow.
Murphy read numerous comics featuring the Scarecrow, and discussed making the character look less theatrical with Nolan. Murphy explained, "I 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. Batman Wiki Explore. Batman: Soul of the Dragon Batman vs. Video Games.
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However, before he can continue experimenting on her, Batman arrives, battles Scarecrow, and gasses him with his own Fear Toxin. Terrified by visions of a monstrous bat, crane tells Batman he is working for Ra's al Ghul. Crane is then put in a straitjacket and institutionalized in Arkham.
Near the end of the film, when the League of Shadows releases Arkham's inmates, Scarecrow is freed as well. When Ra's releases the toxin into Gotham's atmosphere, Scarecrow takes part in the ensuing chaos by killing a mounted police officer and riding his horse through the terrified crowd, who hallucinate that he is a demonic, red-eyed figure riding a monstrous, fire-breathing beast.
He attacks Rachel as she protects a small child, but she shoots him with a taser before he can harm them. Scarecrow screams in pain and falls out of the saddle, flailing as his horse rides off wildly into the crowd.
At the end of the film, Batman's ally Lieutenant James Gordon tells the Caped Crusader that Scarecrow is still at large, along with half of Arkham's escaped inmates.
Scarecrow briefly appears at the beginning of The Dark Knight , still at large a year after the events of the first movie. He sells his Fear Toxin to Gotham's drug dealers to sell to their unsuspecting clients, who suffer psychotic breakdowns as a result. In the film's novelization, he tests his Fear Toxin on a junkie and murders him before deciding to sell the compound as a hallucinogen. He goes into business with crime lord The Chechen , who becomes disenchanted with him after too many of his customers suffer from side effects.
He meets with Scarecrow intent on killing him, but they are interrupted by a group of gun-toting Batman impersonators. The real Batman eventually shows up, and Scarecrow attempts to escape in a van. However, Batman catches up to him and apprehends him, leaving him, the Batman impostors, and The Chechen's men gagged and bound for the police.
In the animated film Gotham Knight , the Scarecrow leads a cult of mentally ill homeless people, who worship him as the "God of Fear". To further strike fear into Gotham's citizens, he doses Killer Croc with Fear Toxin and lets him loose in Gotham's sewers, where the mutant criminal kills dozens of people.
Scarecrow later invaders a church and tries to kill its cardinal, but Batman, who has defeated Killer Croc, arrives in time to stop him. Batman helps the police apprehend Scarecrow's minions, but Scarecrow himself escapes.
In The Dark Knight Rises, set eight years after the previous movie, Crane once again appears as a minor antagonist, following Bane's takeover of Gotham City. Crane is also allied through Bane with Ra's al Ghul's daughter Talia , but it is not revealed whether he knows this.
After being set free from Blackgate Penitentiary, Crane serves as a judge for mock trials against Gotham's rich and powerful citizens. He offers them the choice between death and exile, with the latter choice leading to the prisoner's death anyway when they fall through the thin ice surrounding Gotham into the freezing waters below.
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