If you spent enough time in Batman: Arkham City you may have noticed Crane’s hideout in a barge located between… you guessed it – two Cranes. In Batman: Arkham Origins, several posters seeking research subjects can be found if you look closely enough but this by itself is not that strange seeing as how this game takes place before the events of Arkham Asylum. Montréal but he was mentioned and hinted at with a variety of not so subtle easter eggs. Scarecrow did not appear in the next games from either Rocksteady or W.B.
This explanation does seem rather flimsy but nevertheless the results of Scarecrow’s encounter with Croc can be seen in the E3 2014 gameplay trailer where Scarecrow looks scarred and disfigured. Much speculation exists around the Internet that Crane simply injected Killer Croc with his fear toxin thereby driving him mad with fear and allowing him to escape. Naturally those of us who played the first game assumed he had died until we were treated to a scene where we saw Scarecrow’s needled hand clinging onto a crate of “Titan” after surviving his crocodilian encounter much like Steve Irwin the Crocodile Hunter. Scarecrow, or Jonathan Crane’s first appearance was in Batman: Arkham Asylum where he was apparently eaten alive by Killer Croc who is obviously not choosey about what he eats. Perhaps Rocksteady are taking a different approach and they believe that the Scarecrow can dominate him mentally.
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Batman has never truly been bested physically in the Arkham series and there is a chance that even the Arkham Knight won’t stand a chance in the end. This obviously leads to the conclusion that Rocksteady has had big plans for Scarecrow for many years, possibly ending with him being the penultimate villain for Batman.
Many people might be unaware of the fact that just like Cillian Murphy who played Scarecrow in all three of Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight films, Scarecrow has been present or at least referenced in every one of the Batman Arkham games.