The Épouvantail ( The Scarecrow ) is one of super-unpleasant spicing the various adventures of Batman, emblematic figure of cartoons (Comic S) published by cd. Comics. It appeared for the first time in World' S Finest Comics #3 (1941). It will make only another appearance in the Années 1940 and of principal the adversaries of Batman only starting from the Années 1970 will become one.

Biography

Jonathan Crane was professor in psychology at the University of Gotham City. Specialized in the phobias and the various manifestations of the fear, it was congédié to have implemented dangerous experiments of research. Whereas he was still child, at the school, Dr. Crane was constantly made reject for his old-fashioned style of bookworm. Called the Scarecrow by its torturers, it was not long in using this nickname to be avenged by planning stratagems of terror directed against the latter.

After the murder of its ex-employers, the Scarecrow, raising a costume worthy of the most alarming spectra which exist, got busy to develop various gases and solutions being able to exacerbate the fear at its victims. However, cut off in its capacities to defend oneself in body with body, this shady draws its pin very well from the play thanks to the technique of Kung fu which is clean for him, the “violent dance”.

The Terrible one

In the arc Ace the Crow flies ( flight of the Corbel ) scenarized by Judd Winick and drawn by Dustin Nguyen appeared in Batman #626-630, the Scarecrow is handled by the Penguin and its accomplice, the genetician Linda Friitawa, who transforms it without her knowledge into an inhuman monster baptized the Terrible one, able to naturally exhale a new version of its toxins. The genetician in addition used Cranium work to obtain with a superhuman agility and a force in addition to the capacity to exhale toxins. This version of the Scarecrow however never reappeared thereafter.

Appearances

• Created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane, its first demonstration in the universe of Batman was in the third number comics of World' S Finest Comics #3 of the autumn 1941.

• In the years 1970, the Scarecrow belonged off to the “ Legion Doom ” directed by Lex Luthor in the animated series of the Super Friends .

• Between 1992 and 1995, the Scarecrow appears, incarnated by Henry Polic II (Vincent Violette in French), in the series Batman, the animated series ( Batman: The Animated Series in its English original version) diffused on Fox.

• At the end of the years 1990, there was a new incarnation of Jonathan Crane and its alter ego in the animated series Batman: Gotham Knights which proves to be, in fact, the continuation of the preceding animated series. It is this time there interpreted by Jeffrey Combs (the French voice remains on the other hand the same one).

Film adaptations

• Interpreted by Cillian Murphy, it is one of the adversaries of Batman in the feature-length film of Christopher Nolan, Batman Begins (in French Batman, the beginning ), which lands on the Nord-américains screens on June 15th 2005. This iteration of the Scarecrow differs substanciellement from that to which the mythology of the Knight of Gotham accustomed us. Jonathan Crane is an eminent psychologist in load of the patients of the asylum of Arkham. In complicity with the underworld local and the Company of the shades it outlines a plan to subjugate Gotham city by vaporizing in a general toxin Hallucinogène and phobic way on its inhabitants. The jute mask which it door makes it possible thus becomes not only one accessory to frighten its victims under the influence of known as the Poison but also him not to succumb to the effects of its own medicine. This version of the Scarecrow outlined by David Goyer and Christopher Nolan makes it possible to the character to move away from his roots comics to take a more realistic, violent and sinister appearance.

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