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A cosplayer dressed as Scarecrow
Created byBill Finger
Bob Kane
Original sourceComics published by DC Comics
First appearanceWorld's Finest Comics #3 (September 1941)
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The Scarecrow, a supervillain in DC Comics and an adversary of the superhero Batman, has been adapted in various forms of media, including films, television series, and video games. The character has been portrayed in film by Cillian Murphy in The Dark Knight Trilogy, and in television by Charlie Tahan and David W. Thompson in the Fox series Gotham, and Vincent Kartheiser in the HBO Max streaming series Titans. Henry Polic II, Jeffrey Combs, Dino Andrade, John Noble, Robert Englund, Elijah Wood and others have provided the Scarecrow's voice in animation and video games.

Television

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Live-action

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David W. Thompson as Scarecrow in Gotham

Animation

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DC Animated Universe

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Scarecrow's designs in the DC Animated Universe

Scarecrow appears in the DC Animated Universe (DCAU).

  • The character is introduced in Batman: The Animated Series, voiced by Henry Polic II.[12] This version is a former psychology professor at Gotham University who was terminated for using his students as test subjects for his fear experiments, leading him to develop a fear-inducing toxin and become the Scarecrow to seek revenge, which brings him into conflict with Batman.
  • Scarecrow returns in The New Batman Adventures, voiced by Jeffrey Combs while an uncredited Jeff Bennett provides his laugh in the episode "Over the Edge".[12] For this series, he is given a "darker" revamp in both design and personality to make him more "scary". Producers Bruce Timm and Paul Dini described Scarecrow's redesign as a "Texas Chainsaw Massacre Leatherface kind of look. It really had nothing to do with being a scarecrow per se, but he was definitely scary [....] He looked like a hanged man who had been cut down and gone off to terrorize people. We weren't even sure if there was an actual guy in the suit."[13]
  • Scarecrow was meant to appear in Justice League Unlimited as a member of Gorilla Grodd's Secret Society as a tribute to Scarecrow's appearance in Challenge of the Superfriends (see above), but the plan was scrapped due to character rights issues related to the "Bat-embargo".[14]

Film

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Live-action

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Cillian Murphy as Scarecrow in The Dark Knight (2008)
  • In Batman & Robin (1997), Coolio made a cameo appearance as a character retroactively identified as Jonathan Crane, and stated that he was to reprise the role in the cancelled sequel Batman Unchained.[15]
  • Dr. Jonathan Crane / Scarecrow appears in The Dark Knight Trilogy, portrayed by Cillian Murphy. This version wears a burlap sack with a built-in rebreather that doubles as a gas mask for his fear experiments. Murphy explained that the relatively simple mask, as opposed to the full scarecrow costume seen in the comics, was utilized "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".[16]
    • Introduced in Batman Begins (2005) as a corrupt psychopharmacologist and Arkham Asylum's Chief Administrator, Crane secretly creates a fear-inducing hallucinogen and plots to use it with Ra's al Ghul to plunge Gotham City into chaos. Crane exposes mafia boss Carmine Falcone, Batman, and assistant district attorney Rachel Dawes to his fear toxin, though Batman later subdues Crane with his own drug. Despite being institutionalized in Arkham, Crane escapes and takes the name "Scarecrow" amidst a mass breakout during Ra's attack on Gotham.
    • In The Dark Knight (2008), Scarecrow is apprehended by Batman while overseeing a drug deal with the Russian mob.[17]
    • In The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Crane is freed from Blackgate Penitentiary during Bane's takeover of Gotham, and presides over proletarian kangaroo courts wherein he offers Gotham's elite a choice between death and exile.[18]

Animation

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Video games

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Lego series

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Main article: Lego Batman

Batman: Arkham

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Main article: Batman: Arkham
Scarecrow as depicted in Batman: Arkham Asylum (left) and Batman: Arkham Knight (right). This version wields a mechanical gauntlet with four hypodermic needles laced with his fear toxin.[32]

Jonathan Crane / Scarecrow appears in the Batman: Arkham series.

  • Scarecrow first appears in Batman: Arkham Asylum (2009), voiced by Dino Andrade. After being freed during the Joker's takeover of Arkham Island, he exposes Batman to his fear toxin and attempts to infect Gotham City's water supply, only to be attacked and dragged into the sewers by Killer Croc. In a post-credits scene, Scarecrow emerges from the ocean and grabs a floating crate of Titan formula.[33]
  • In Batman: Arkham City (2011), Scarecrow leaves hidden radio frequency broadcasts for Batman that, when decrypted, reveal three messages: "I will return Batman", "You will pay for what you have done to me", and "Fear will tear Gotham City to shreds".[34] A boat in Arkham City's harbor also contains a human test subject for his fear toxin.[35]
  • Scarecrow appears in Batman: Arkham Knight (2015), voiced by John Noble.[36][12] With the help of the Arkham Knight, he unites all of Gotham's criminals and forces a citywide evacuation by unleashing his new strain of fear toxin on Halloween.[37][38][39][40] Although Batman defeats the Knight and Poison Ivy sacrifices herself to neutralize the toxin's effects, Scarecrow takes Commissioner James Gordon and Robin hostage to force Batman to surrender at the ruins of Arkham Asylum. Scarecrow unmasks Batman as Bruce Wayne on live television before injecting him with fear toxin,[41] but Batman overcomes his fears and subdues Scarecrow with his own drug, after which he is taken into the Gotham City Police Department's custody.[42]
  • Scarecrow appears as a playable character in Batman: Arkham Underworld (2016), voiced again by Dino Andrade.
  • A younger Jonathan Crane appears in Batman: Arkham Shadow (2024), voiced by Elijah Wood.[43] As Blackgate Prison's Director of Rehabilitation, he develops "Project Umbra", a hallucinogen designed to bring out the psyche's repressed "shadow". Crane tests the drug on his patients and District Attorney Harvey Dent, which exacerbates Dent's dissociative identity disorder, but Batman puts an end to Crane's illegal experimentation and exposes him to his own hallucinogen.

Miscellaneous

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