History Characters / BatmanTheScarecrow

* PetTheDog: He has had these moments especially with students that he either finds very smart like [[ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures Molly Randall]] [[spoiler: who was raped by her boyfriend]] or has problems with bullies.

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!!! '''First appearance:''' ''ComicBook/WorldsFinestComics #3'' (August, 1941)

* BadassNormal: He doesn't have any superpowers, relying on his genius intellect and [[SupernaturalFearInducer fear toxin]] for most of his plots. If forced to fight, he's actually learned how to be a decent martial artist, having trained himself in a kung fu fighting style that he calls "violent dancing", which makes use of his long limbs. He did briefly become an EmpoweredBadassNormal a few times, when he came Scarebeast, Schrocken and even a yellow lantern.

** Later on in ''ComicBook/SupermanBatman'', ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} and [=DeSaad=] ''also'' captured experimented on him, turning him into a creature called the Schrocken, and said form was strong enough that it could take on ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' in a fight. He was eventually rescued by Batman and Superman and returned back to normal, this time also losing the Scarebeast transformation powers.

* RaisedByGrandparents: In his post-Crisis backstory, due to being conceived in a TeenPregnancy, both of his parents [[ParentalAbandonment didn't want to raise him]] so he ended up being raised by his great-grandmother. [[GruesomeGrandparent She was not a pleasant woman]], with Crane described that she "maintained" him more than she raised him, doing the barely necessary to keep him alive, and often [[AbusiveParents abusing him emotionally and physically]].

* UnwittingPawn: To [[Characters/BatmanThePenguin The Penguin]] and Fright during the "As the Crow Flies" story arc, as he thought he was working for Penguin in order to create a formula to keep Penguin's man scared and loyal, but in actuality, Penguin had ordered Fright to take advantage of Crane's DNA research to turn him into the Scarebeast monster just so he would murder Penguin's enemies for him without, Penguin taking the blame.

* WouldHurtAChild: While generally tries to avoid hurting children, in some depictions he is willing to cruelly experiment on them, and in ''Year One: Batman/Scarecrow'', he is willing to [[SiblingMurder kill his toddler half sister]], due to [[InfantSiblingJealousy spite she got to be raised by the mother who abandoned him]].

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Much like Mr. Freeze, and to some extent, [[Characters/BatmanTheRiddler The Riddler]], the Scarecrow was a one-shot character in the comics, revived decades later to become a major part of Franchise/{{Batman}}'s RoguesGallery. Thin and bookish, he was (predictably) bullied by kids at school. As a result, he became even more withdrawn and angry at the world, culminating in him pulling a prank of his own during the high school senior prom and attacking JerkJock Bo Griggs and his AlphaBitch girlfriend Sherry Squires (who had rejected Crane's affections), killing the latter.

* AbusiveParents: His great-grandmother [[RaisedByGrandparents who raised him]] was very abusive, emotionally ''and'' physically. In the Comicbook/{{New 52}}, he was subject to similar experiments he uses on others when he was a child by his father, and kept in a basement filled with crows when not.

** In ''Comicbook/BlackestNight'' when drawn by Creator/IvanReis, without the mask Crane doesn't look anything like how artists usually portray him.

* BirdsOfAFeather: During the ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'', Scarecrow was temporarily deputized into the Sinestro Corps, a Franchise/GreenLantern villain organization that also weaponizes the use of fear.

** Later on in ''ComicBook/SupermanBatman'', ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} and [=DeSaad=] ''also'' captured experimented on him, turning him into a creature called the Schrocken, and said form was strong enough that it could take on ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' in a fight. He was eventually rescued by Batman and Superman and returned back to normal, this time also losing the Scarebeast transformation powers.

* RelativeButton: Playing on the natural, instinctive fear in people by threatening their relatives is not above him, and is one of the way he can instill fear and panic into people. Notably, this did backfire on him during the ''ComicBook/{{Knightfall}}'' Saga, when he sprayed Franchise/{{Batman}} with one of his [[SupernaturalFearInducer fear toxins]] and forces him to relive the memory of the ComicBook/{{Joker}} killing [[ComicBook/RedHood Jason Todd]]. Batman, who has already run himself ragged capturing many other criminals that night, responds by going into UnstoppableRage, knocking out the Scarecrow with a single headbutt and [[ExtremeMeleeRevenge beating the Joker (who's partnered up with Scarecrow) within an inch of his life]], [[PapaWolf calling Jason's name all the while]].

* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Has been a Franchise/GreenLantern villain a couple of times, mostly due to his fear expertise making him an ally to the Sinestro Corps. He was even given a yellow power ring during the events of ''ComicBook/BlackestNight''.

* WolverineClaws: Has taken to using a mix of this and PlayingWithSyringes in the Comicbook/{{New 52}}.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Victim of a PrankDate, [[BullyMagnet bullying throughout his school years]], [[ParentalAbandonment absentee parents]] and an [[AbusiveParents abusive great-grandmother]] with trained [[FeatheredFiend crows]] to attack him for the slightest mistake, no wonder the poor kid became obsessed with fear. This went FromBadToWorse in ''ComicBook/BlackestNight''. Due to [[AcquiredPoisonImmunity being exposed to too much]] of his [[SupernaturalFearInducer fear toxin]], he [[EmotionSuppression can't even feel fear, or nearly any other emotion anymore]], except when facing Batman. Yeah, it means the Black Lanterns don't consider him a priority target and he brought it upon himself, but it's still a raw deal. By the ''Comicbook/{{New 52}}'', however, he seems to have overcome or had never had this problem, as his toxins have become so powerful they even affect him again.

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* ArtisticLicenseReligion: In the "God of Fear" story Scarecrow claims there is no such thing as a god of fear to be found in any mythology. This is simply false. To take just Greek mythology as an example, they had ''two'' gods of fear: Phobos (from which the word "phobia" is derived) was the god of panicked fear, and his twin brother Deimos was the god of the kind of fear that is the dread of things to come.

** In ''ComicBook/{{Gothtopia}}'', The Scarecrow has all of Gotham in a gas-induced hallucination, making them think everything is wonderful while attacking anyone who thinks otherwise. This includes the heroes, they eventually break free of the hallucinations and try to figure out what's going on.

** In ''Superman/Batman'' issue #77, Scarecrow's fear toxin makes [[Characters/SupergirlTheCharacter Kara]] believe that Robin is her parents' killer Reactron so she fights him.

* {{Pheromones}}: He uses these for his SupernaturalFearInducer, the fear gas/toxin. [[DependingOnTheWriter Sometimes]] he calls it his '[[IncrediblyLamePun Fearomone]] gas'.

* IronicNurseryTune: When written by Creator/JephLoeb (such as in ), he [[VerbalTic tends to sing bird-related nursery rhymes]].

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He gets gassed with his own toxin by Batman in ''Film/BatmanBegins'' and ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight''.