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The Sinister Plan of Tom Servo

Outfit: old hat / old Pilgrim blouse / arms and legs stuffed with old clothes

Tagline: "The black and green scarecrow is sadder than me
But now he’s resigned to his fate
’cause life’s not unkind - he doesn’t mind.
He stood in a field where barley grows."

Plot summary: You can learn a lot of things during your time at Gotham University. They have a good creative writing program, a critically acclaimed Pre-Law faculty, and, oh yes, AN INSTRUCTOR WHO SPECIALIZES IN THE SCIENCE OF FEAR. Professor Jonathan Crane, tired of being called a "scarecrow" by peers and students because of his gaunt features and shabby clothing, decided that he would cope by making toxins that cause hallucinogenic reactions and use them to scare people to death. Makes sense.

So he dressed up like an actual scarecrow and started countering dangling participles with DEATH GAS THAT COVERS YOU IN FAKE SPIDERS WHO EAT OFF YOUR SKIN. Deep down, though, Scarecrow is still a gangly college professor, so as long as Batman could stay away from the "YOU ARE NOW MADE OF MEAN SNAKES GRRR" smoke cloud the Scarecrow was going to get his ass beaten. After a while the fear toxins got less and less impressive, and now if you turn in your research paper a few days late Professor Crane stands behind your desk and cracks a fake egg with his hands on the back of your head repeatedly.

Now Scarecrow is a member of the Legion of Doom, arch enemies of the Superfriends, because the best way to beat a team full of walking Gods is with a talking monkey and a dude pretending he's made out of hay. (more)

User Comments: The question here is not why the Scarecrow is dressed like that; it's obvious, he's supposed to look like a Scarecrow. The question here is why does the Scarecrow dress like that all day? You never see him chilling out in the Gulag cafeteria eating lunch or going out to the shed to play video games with Solomon Grundy as a normal college professor. You always see him sitting at the big table as a scarecrow, thinking up frightening kinds of lipstick and keeping any crow-themed super villains from joining the Legion.

If he only had a brain he'd know that dedication to a gimmick is not as important as psychology. Being a scarecrow ALL THE TIME isn't scary. Sure, it's fun to lay there in your chair motionless until Captain Cold walks by so you can leap up and startle him, but that's got to get old at some point. Batman is a crazy sociopath and even he takes off the cowl long enough to poop normally. Although I guess when the Scarecrow passes gas the next person to take a dump starts freaking out and crapping scorpions, so what do I know, pooping normally might be out of the question. All I'm saying is that sometimes the anticipation of being frightened is a lot scarier than actually being frightened.

User Rating: 3.7/10 (90,323 votes)