Fan Casting Scarecrow

Jonathan Crane has always had a strange relationship with fear. He was raised on a farm by his crazy scientist father, who was working on a weaponized fear toxin. He did this by subjecting kidnapped victims to their greatest fears before killing them. He would then harvest their adrenal glands, blend them into a liquid, and mix it with various psychotropic and hallucinogenic chemicals. His plan was to create a formula that could cure mankind of it’s fears and create a stronger world. Jonathan was his unhappy assistant and had an intense fear of the farm’s scarecrow. Despite his father’s cruel actions, he still loved him. Just as his father perfected the formula, he was killed by the police when they finally caught up to him. Jonathan was greatly saddened by his father’s death, but didn’t want to become the monster he did. He eventually managed to become a college psychology professor, but was a bit too fanatical about teaching fear. He would do all sorts of experiments, like releasing a live rat into the class and monitoring his student’s reactions, to firing a live gun in class. This is what eventually got him fired from his position. Enraged, Jonathan traveled back to his farm and dug up his father’s formula for the Fear Toxin. He first injected himself with the toxin to conquer his fear, and then went outside and stabbed the scarecrow to “death”. He then donned a brown frock coat, a plague doctor’s mask, and a gas tank full of the fear toxin.