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he will use every chance he gets to be a drama queen and if he doesnt have one he will create one
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I went back and reread this issue, and I thought this scene was really interesting. Thanks to an experiment carried out by another criminal scientist working with Crane, the entire city of Gotham is crippled by horrible nightmares in which they see the Scarecrow. These nightmares bring forth a deep-seeded phobia of Scarecrow’s silhouette, and the effect lasts even in daylight, allowing The Scarecrow to to terrorize the city simply by walking the streets.
Scarecrow wreaks havoc across Gotham, and he’s only naturalized once Batman unmasks him in front of the terrified crowd. Without that mask, he can no longer cast forth his nightmare-inducing silhouette. The crowd of onlookers are no longer afraid, and they ambush the Scarecrow. Think about that
Look at his face, he’s stricken with terror. He plan has failed and he’s lost. Crane wants nothing more then to be seen as a horrifying phantom, a beast that no one can fight back against, but under the mask? He’s afraid.
The Batman Adventures #19 || Scanned at 300dpi
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Jonathan Crane and Ichabod Crane: An Analysis
There’s one origin story that does not get enough attention, and that is the comic Batman Annual #19 aka Masters of Fear. This comic tells the story of Jonathan Crane and how he became the Scarecrow. Jonathan is first introduced through a flashback, we see him in his youth, lanky and gangly as ever. He’s minding his own business when a group of teenagers start assaulting him with more than just words, the begin throwing rocks!
They joke about him dating some crows and compare him to his future namesake, a scarecrow. But what’s more interesting is the fact that they call him Ichabod Crane, making a jab at the classic fairy tale of Sleepy Hollow.
That day a cruel nickname was born, and Jonathan Crane would forever be known as Ichabod Crane.
Later on in the story, Jonathan is seen in a library. Destined to be a loner and a bibliophile, he seeked solace in books. They couldn’t laugh at him or mock him, unlike his bully and nemesis Bo Griggs and his girlfriend Sherry Squares. Crane had suppressed a lot of these feelings, and one day, he burst.
“I am nothing but a Scarecrow. …and the only things I scare are small, weak things….nothing but birds”
That day was significant for Jonathan. As they say, curiosity killed the cat–and for Jonathan that meant he had to finally read Irving’s class tale, Sleepy Hollow. At first he was disappointed to learn that he was just like his literary namesake, but then was he delved deeper into the story he discovered that Ichabod was quite the skilled dancer, his long, spindly physique was actually admired!
Immediately inspired by his new hero, Crane ran to a cornfield (where nobody could see him) near his home and began experimenting with dance. However, his version was inexplicably more violent. It was only inevitable that he would take this new form of “violent dancing” and teach himself martial arts. This is how he learns the Crane Style of Kung-fu.
That night he continued to read the novel, for he was at the climax of the story and he couldn’t want to see how it ended. If you are familiar with the story, you know that the ending is anything but happy. Crane reads on in horror as he imagines the terrified Ichabod running from the Headless Horsemen. He wished Ichabod could’ve fought off his foe, but knowing full well that would’ve ran from the same threat, he couldn’t fault him for his cowardice.
It was the ending reveal that really soured his reception of the story. When the headless horsemen was revealed to be the nemesis of Ichabod Crane. Jonathan felt betrayed and hurt. His hero, his namesake fled in horror over nothing but a harmless pumpkin. That day he vowed to be something MORE than Ichabod Crane, more than just his namesake
“In the story of my life, the scrawny Scarecrow will win in the end–and the last laugh, I swear, Will be mine!”
Jonathan Crane is no Ichabod. He may look spindly and cowardly, but he’s so much more than that. He’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Don’t underestimate him, or you’ll get bit. And that’s exactly what happens in the rest of the story, I won’t spoil the ending, but it is worth a read even if you’re just a little interested. This origin always falls by the wayside when people talk about Crane, so it’s time it got the recognition it deserves. Batman Annual 19 is a masterpiece in storytelling. In this origin, Crane gets the last laugh.
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Batman #145 (preview)
It infuriates me how Zdarsky kept having his Joker refer to Zur en Arrh as the real you or the true Batman. I understand there are many ways to write a character such as Joker, but to have him regard the OG Batman, who in part made him, as a second best to Zur, whom he had only met twice in his entire career, is so...jarring.
I sure damn hope Zdarsky was still cooking and intentionally having Joker spouting nonsense to mess with Batman here because God forbid if Joker was truly being sincere, it would taint all the history between him and Batman in the past decades, turning their dynamics lukewarm if not deploringly lackluster.
And why would Joker care to break the like of Zur in the first place? As formidable as he may, what's so sacred about Zur that needs defiling?
His swift execution of justice? Disproportionate uses of violence? Or his unadulterated brutality? Were these the qualities that left the Joker so enamoured?
One may say it's only natural that Joker would want to unleash his chaos upon Zur, who thinks himself a personification of control and order. But even considering his extreme measures, Zur has never stood against Joker at his core in the ways that Batman has.
In a world where nothing matters, Batman swoops in and fights him by trying to give meaning to everything. And he saves Joker, too, because he believes all lives are worth saving. And that's why Joker is determined to break him. He needs Batman to be wrong.
But what about Zur? Zur is just another man in power. He's dangerously competent, but he upholds no sanctimonious codes. They fight because they have different goals, but there's nothing inherently personal. Joker would not mourn the loss of Zur, and Zur would never feel the weight of guilt from refusing to let his monster bleed to death.
Then again, it might simply be my fault that I lack media literacy. Perhaps it has been Zdarsky's intention all along that Joker was lying. Maybe Joker elevating Zur to such esteem was just a part of his plan to push Bruce to ascension?
On a not-so-unrelated note, as there are many references to Scott Snyder's work in this run, I can't help chewing on how Zdarsky and Snyder differ in their interpretations of Joker.
While Snyder's Joker made it clear that he only cared about Batman and not Bruce, he had never wished for Batman to forgo his humanity.
The most Joker demanded of Batman was to get rid of the family that burdened him (which, funnily enough, Zur agreed). But his resentment stemmed from loneliness and jealousy.
In his heart of hearts, Joker knew they could continue their dance because Batman let it be so, hence the belief that his feelings towards Batman were reciprocated.
Joker even came to admit at one point that he no longer wanted to see Batman broken. What he wanted was for neither of them to win.
The Batman Who Laughs #4 (2019)
And unless something akin to 'Last Knight on Earth' happened, I see this as their dynamic in later years until either (or both) of them perished (which is unlikely to be soon as they both refused to let the other die).
Therefore, this Joker would never want Zur to enter the picture as it had been shown time and time again that when met with the more brutal, more...radical Batman(s), he always chose to side with the Batman who stayed humane.
Like when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object, Joker is in love with Batman, who refuses to change.
Batman: Last Knight on Earth #4 (2019)
The True Batman, for him, was the Batman who could withstand any test Joker and the world threw at him and remained the same.
Well..., who would like to keep dancing with a man who wouldn't dive from the top of the building after you anyway?
Still, I want so bad to be wrong about Zdarsky. I hope he has plans for them more than he lets on. (T w T)
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Valentine’s Day according to Joker
Happy Valentine’s Day my friends ❣️💞❤️
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Recently, I saw some people criticizing Scott Snyder for trying to make Joker an immortal demon archetype while praising Zdarsky for giving Joker a past and making him more human. And I was like...sorry, but did we read the same comic? Because that was a complete opposite of what actually happened.
Snyder didn't write the Joker as a monster emerging from hell or nothingness. His Joker was a man who found death preferable to the reveal of his real name (DotF). When confronted with the life he left behind, Joker was terrified.
And despite his darndest attempts to reinvent himself and ascend into something beyond mere man (Endgame), he failed.
That's it. That's the very point. He failed.
Hell, Joker might have achieved a modicum of success, had he just left Batman behind. But no, he couldn't help himself. So in his last moment, Batman held him down and forced him to accept his own mortality.
Yet inexplicably, people are so hung up on the introduction of 'the Pale Man' myth even though it can be inferred (rather plainfully so) from the text that Joker was lying.
Batman broke his heart. To retaliate, Joker destroyed his city and haunted him with a tale of the devil whose existence might predate even Gotham itself. Joker knew he outliving Batman was one of Bruce's greatest fears, so in his resentment, he tried to make Batman die believing the Joker to be an unstoppable force of evil that would continue to exist indefinitely without him.
The Pale Man was invented, partly, because Joker wished he could escape from the entwining of their own fates. He no longer relished in the belief that Batman had helped make him.
All in all, I understand not being a fan of Snyder's work. That's absolutely valid. But to accuse him of pushing the narrative of Joker being the devil incarnate is just...unfair.
And wrong.
The pic has nothing to do with my rant btw. I'm just upset it was rejected and replaced by something rather generic so I find any opportunity to randomly include it lmao.
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master and servant huh?!???!? play between the sheets huuh?????!?!!?
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When you realise, that the "You can't kill the Joker because it's against my code." is just the Batman's version of "You can't do that cuz it's against my religion." .
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Batjokes (toxic yaoi moment)
I watched the lego movie again and a obsession with them emerged
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i think it's great when someone tries to pull off a tragic self-sacrifice in a story and there's at least one guy who's just like "no this is fucking stupid actually. you're an idiot." about it. because it kind of is. i love a good tragedy but let's be honest with ourselves if a friend tried to indulge a noble sacrifice fantasy would you not be a little annoyed. like come on man.
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