Scarecrow in other media

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Created byBill Finger
Bob Kane
Original sourceComics published by DC Comics
First appearanceWorld's Finest Comics #3 (September 1941)
Film(s)
Adaptations of Scarecrow in other media
A cosplayer dressed as Scarecrow
Created byBill Finger
Bob Kane
Original sourceComics published by DC Comics
First appearanceWorld's Finest Comics #3 (September 1941)
Films and television
Film(s)
Television
show(s)

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, and others have provided the Scarecrow's voice in animation and video games.

Live-action

David W. Thompson as Scarecrow in Gotham

Animation

DC Animated Universe

Scarecrow's designs in the DC Animated Universe

Scarecrow appears in the DC Animated Universe (DCAU).

  • Scarecrow appears 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 students as test subjects for his fear toxin. He becomes the Scarecrow to seek revenge, which brings him into conflict with Batman.
  • Scarecrow appears in The New Batman Adventures, voiced by Jeffrey Combs.[12] 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 also develops a new toxin that removes fear and causes dangerous recklessness in its subjects.

Film

Live-action

Cillian Murphy as Scarecrow in The Dark Knight
  • In Batman & Robin, Coolio makes a cameo appearance as a character credited as "Banker", who would have been revealed as Jonathan Crane in the cancelled sequel Batman Unchained.[14]
  • 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".[15]
    • Introduced in Batman Begins 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 al Ghul’s attack on Gotham.
    • In The Dark Knight, Scarecrow is apprehended by Batman while overseeing a drug deal with the Russian mob.[16]
    • In The Dark Knight Rises, 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.[17]

Animation

Video games

Miscellaneous

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