Chiropteraphobia: Suffers a chronic fear of bats and Batman.Intimidation: Crane is able to scare people even without the use of his toxin, due to either his reputation, mask and (later) his disfigured face.Toxicology: Crane is an expert on poisons as well, specifically ones that affect the mind more than the body.Chemistry: He is a brilliant chemist as he concocted his ingenious fear-toxin.He is able to unnerve people by making them see everyday things as a product of fear, such as going to a doctor (fear of death), marriage (dying alone), having children (leaving nothing worthwhile behind). Psychiatry: Crane is a gifted psychiatrist in the study of anxiety disorders, specifically phobias.He has planned out several contingency plans and hideouts for future crimes. Genius Level Intellect: Crane is a master strategist and manipulator.His actions made Batman commence the Knightfall Protocol. Crane was stung by the fear toxin and got sent to GCPD. Crane exposed Batman's identity as Bruce Wayne to the news. Crane gave Batman fear toxin so his Joker counterpart would be free. After Jason Todd failed Crane, he took Robin and Commissioner Gordon to Arkham Asylum so Batman could surrender. He and his alliance contacted Simon Stagg to make a dispersing fear toxin device called the Cloudburst. Scarecrow returns to Gotham City with the mysterious Arkham Knight and the former assassin Deathstroke to turn Gotham into a city of fear and unmask Batman. He is later spotted trying to dump a particularly strong fear toxin into Gotham's water supply but he is dragged into the deep by Killer Croc.Ĭrane, having survived his encountered with Croc, began to occupy a small boat near the entrance to Joker's Funland were he occupies his time torturing captured Joker thugs, a hobby funded by the Falcone Crime Family. As Batman reaches the end of the last nightmare, he is found grasping the real Scarecrow, who is perplexed by the fact that his opponent was able to overcome nightmares that would have broken weaker men.
In The Final Nightmare, Batman is presented as a patient brought into the mental facility by the Joker and is examined by the Scarecrow prior to the Joker shooting the Dark Knight with a bullet, only to soon dig himself out of a grave. The Batman is subjected to nightmares induced by inhaling fear gas, in each of which he confronts a giant version of Scarecrow who torments the Batman as he navigates his way through an obstacle course to reach the Bat signal in order to end the nightmare. Even though Scarecrow was back in Arkham, he continued his plans from a secret loft hidden in the Intensive Treatment Center, plotting his next move and even getting his hands on the blueprints of Arkham Asylum. It was revealed that the vial came from Dr. Batman apprehended the Scarecrow and locked him back up into Arkham Asylum. The Scarecrow was found by Batman using his Fear Gas to attack his state-sponsored psychologist. Using this, Batman was able to create an antidote. Main article: Batman: Arkham Asylum: The Road to ArkhamĪn anonymous tip to Scarecrow's activities noted in the patient interviews in the form of a vial of the Scarecrow's Fear Gas was left at police headquaters.
His ongoing criminal reign of terror makes him one of Batman's most psychologically dangerous foes. Kicked out of his university for experimenting on human subjects, Crane adopted the identity of the Scarecrow and armed himself with a specialized fear-inducing gas that makes a person's deepest fears become frighteningly real. Taunted and bullied in his youth, Jonathan Crane vowed to overcome his fears through the study of psychology and biochemistry.
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