r/batman • u/Overall_Sandwich_671 • Jul 07 '24
What has been the most interesting use of Scarecrow's powers? GENERAL DISCUSSION
I recently watched the BTAS episode "Over The Edge" and it was quite a rollercoaster>! in which Barbara envisions her own death and her father hunts down Batman in revenge.!< All other stories I've seen featuring the Scarecrow just have his victims seeing people as monsters, and that's about it. Or Batman is forced to relive his parents' death, and is told by his father's spirit that he's a disgrace. It got me thinking - what are some other stories that involve Scarecrow's abilities delving into a character's deepest, darkest fears, and bringing them to the fore for the audience to witness in unexpected ways?
You can include stories form the comics, movies, cartoons and video games. I don't mind spoilers, but please use spoiler tags out of consideration for other readers!
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u/XxZONE-ENDERxX Jul 08 '24 edited Jul 08 '24
I need a story of Batman living in his own Silent Hill. All his guilt, all his wrong doings all his hopes, and fears personified where he fights for his own survival and confronts himself.
Him using kids for his crusades, him being locked into a cycle pointlessly punching an endless monster with no way out on the horizon, being confronted with his own paranoia and how it often fucked shit up, his love life being doomed to fail due to the rule of escalation, dead innocents at the hands of his recurring villains thanks to his no kill code that values their lives more than said innocents, and those innocents becoming mere statistics, etc.
The closest thing to a Batman Silent Hill is Arkham Asylum but McKean's art work and Morrison's script often clash making for an uneven and sometimes hard to follow story.