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While testifying in court that Victor Zsasz , one of Falcone's assassins, was legally insane and should be moved to Arkham for rehabilitation, Crane was approached by the Assistant District Attorney Rachel Dawes , who commented on the high number of Falcone's associates that he had at Arkham and implied that he was corrupt in his assessments. The psychiatrist responded by telling Carl Finch , Rachel's boss, to make sure that she knew what accusations the DA Office had authorized her to make.

Crane then met with Falcone to discuss the latest shipment of drugs, and explained that the packets hidden inside toy bears went to the drug dealers, and those that were hidden inside toy rabbits went to his apartment in The Narrows. Crane also explained that the less that Falcone knew, the better. When Falcone was apprehended, Crane visited him after Falcone cut his wrists, and hoped for an insanity plea.

Falcone threatened Crane with his unexpected knowledge of Ra's plan and asked to be a part of it. After he knew that Ra's would never trust a criminal like Falcone, Crane donned his Scarecrow mask and doused Falcone with his Fear Toxin, which drove the mob boss insane and left him repeatedly uttering "Scarecrow". Crane attributed that to Falcone identifying the image with a Jungian Archetype. After he anticipated that Gotham's vigilante, Batman , would find the stash of fear toxin laced into stuffed animals, Crane went to his apartment with two of his thugs with the intention of burning the evidence, but both men ended up knocked out by Batman before they could actually do anything beyond spraying gasoline all over.

After he donning his mask again, Crane sprayed Batman with his fear toxin and set him on fire, though Batman narrowly escaped with his life and mind intact, and later acquired an antidote to the toxin that was developed by Lucius Fox. Three nights later, Rachel was furious, yet concerned about Crane's actions on transferring Falcone to Arkham Asylum on suicide watch, and Crane showed her that he had poured his fear-inducing drug into Gotham's water supply.

Crane dosed Rachel with it, but Batman saved her by overpowering Scarecrow's Thugs and sprayed Crane with a dose of his own medicine, after he ripped off his mask, which destroyed what was left of his sanity and divulged his real superior: Ra's. But Batman found the identity of Scarecrow's employer impossible since he was trained by the League of Shadows in the Martial Arts and killed Ra's by burning his headquarters down on him when he found out his actual scheme was to destroy Gotham though he claimed that Ra's was dead because he was oblivious that the "Ra's al Ghul" that he killed was a decoy.

Crane was subsequently arrested by Sgt. James Gordon and Detective Arnold Flass , but later escaped in the mass release of Arkham Asylum's inmates that was prompted by Ra's as part of his plot to destroy Gotham. As Ra's unleashed his pawn's fear gas on Gotham's slums, Scarecrow pursued Rachel and a boy through an alley on a horse that he had stolen from a riot policeman, which dragged the officer's corpse from its stirrups.

To the boy, who was affected by the fear gas, Scarecrow appeared as a fiery eyed, deep-voiced monster who rode a fire-breathing horse who stated: "There is nothing to fear, but fear itself - and I'm here to help! After Batman foiled the League's scheme to spread the gas on the entire city via the monorail train, everything in the city but the Narrows started to return to normal, but Gordon informed Batman that Scarecrow and half of the Arkham patients that he freed were still at large.

Crane gathered a cult of mentally ill derelicts and drugged Killer Croc with fear toxin to make him try to kill everyone in his path. He also trained Croc to not fear bats. Batman encountered Croc and beat him, then moved on to find Scarecrow, who was about to slaughter Cardinal O'Fallon.

Scarecrow attempted to injure Batman with his scythe, but failed. Batman defeated all of Scarecrow's Henchmen, but Scarecrow escaped.

The Chechen , his thugs , Scarecrow, and Scarecrow's Thugs met in an empty parking lot to discuss the negative effects of Scarecrow's drug had on the Chechen's customers, with one in particular who was brought along as an example.

Users who misuse the template will be blocked for a week minimum. Jonathan Crane , also better known as Scarecrow , is a major antagonist in The Dark Knight Trilogy by Christopher Nolan, serving as the secondary antagonist of the superhero film Batman Begins and as a minor antagonist in both its sequel The Dark Knight and its threequel The Dark Knight Rises. He is the corrupt, sadistic chief administrator at Arkham Asylum , who is secretly working with League of Shadows leader Ra's al Ghul and mob boss Carmine Falcone , who bring shipments of drugs in for Crane to use to create his Fear Toxin , which he later sells as a drug to criminals like The Chechen.

He works with the League of Shadows again years later when Bane and Talia al Ghul take over Gotham City, serving as a judge in a kangaroo court for Gotham's wealthy citizens, forcing them to choose between death, exile, or "death by exile". Jonathan Crane started off as a Gotham University professor in psychology, specializing in fear and phobias.

He took advantage of his position by testing his "Fear Gas" on his students, subjecting them to terrifying hallucinations that literally frightened them out of their minds. During his "experiments", he would wear a gruesome scarecrow mask that also functioned as a gas mask.

He was finally exposed after one of his students jumped through a window to assault a Santa Clause mannequin. Wanting to protect the institution's reputation, the university fired him quietly. It was then that Crane started working at Arkham Asylum, where he subjected the patients to the same treatments.

Crane eventually went into business with crime boss Carmine Falcone , having Falcone's thugs, including Victor Zsasz , declared legally insane and moved into Arkham Asylum in lieu of prison time. In return, Falcone pays him generously and supplies him with a fear-inducing toxin supplied by Ra's al Ghul to use in his experiments. When Batman appears in Gotham City and begins interfering with Falcone's criminal empire, Crane, as Scarecrow, doses him with Fear Toxin and sets him on fire.

Fortunately, Batman is able to recover with help from scientist Lucius Fox, who creates an antidote. Later in the film, after Falcone is captured by Batman and imprisoned in the Blackgate Penitentiary, he slits his wrists in order to get an insanity plea. When Crane is summoned to evaluate him, Falcone attempts to blackmail him into letting him in on his and Ra's al Ghul 's plan to destroy Gotham City.

Instead, Crane puts on his Scarecrow mask and gasses Falcone with his Fear Toxin, leaving him in a permanent state of psychosis. When Assistant District Attorney Rachel Dawes hears about Falcone being moved to Arkham, she personally goes to Arkham to meet with Crane, believing him to be the one responsible for Falcone's condition.

Rachel informs Crane that she has arranged for a doctor from County General to have their own evaluation of Falcone that same night, to be on the Judge's desk by the next day. Crane takes Rachel down to the basement level and shows her where his Fear Toxin is created. Frightened, Rachel attempts to escape, but Crane, now wearing his Scarecrow mask, catches up with her and gasses her with a concentrated dose of the toxin.

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. Rachel Dawes : Crane? The Scarecrow : [leaning towards Rachel and holding up his finger as though to correct her] No.

But you know who I'm working for, and when he gets here Carmine Falcone : He-he's coming to Gotham? Jonathan Crane : Yes he is. And when he gets here, he's not gonna want to hear that you have endangered our operation just to get your thugs out of a little jail time. Jonathan Crane : [to Rachel Dawes] This is where we make the medicine. Perhaps you should have some.

Clear your head. Rachel Dawes : You really think a man who butchers people for the mob doesn't belong in prison? Jonathan Crane : Well, I would hardly have testified to that otherwise, would I? Jonathan Crane : The work offered by organized crime must have an attraction to the insane. Rachel Dawes : [calling after him] Or the corrupt! Jonathan Crane : [to Rachel's boss] Mr. I think you should check with Miss Dawes here just what implications your office has authorized her to make.

If any. Jonathan Crane : [after being called down to Arkham by Rachel. She is observing Falcone, who is muttering "scarecrow" over and over] Miss Dawes, this is most irregular. I have nothing further to add to the report I filed with the judge. Rachel Dawes : I have questions about your report. Jonathan Crane : Such as?

Rachel Dawes : Isn't it convenient for a 52 year old man who has no history of mental illness to suddenly have a complete psychotic breakdown, just when he's about to be indicted?

Jonathan Crane : Well, as you can see for yourself, there is nothing "convenient" about his symptoms. Rachel Dawes : What's "scarecrow"? Jonathan Crane : Patients suffering delusional episodes often focus their paranoia on an external tormentor.

Batman Begins was followed by The Dark Knight in , which had the Joker played by Heath Ledger as the main villain, and which has become one of the best superhero movies ever made. His specialty was the psychology of fear, and used a fear-inducing toxin to torture criminals and pretty much anyone who stood on his way.

Christopher Nolan has his favorites too, and Cillian Murphy is one of them. But in terms of narrative, Nolan might have had other reasons to bring Scarecrow back.