Most of the figure’s costume is done in molded colors – the black uniform and the brown trench coat, but the paint details that need to be there are there and it really sells the figure. This is a figure that had a lot of opportunity for sloppy paint, but I’m happy to report my figure came with almost no slop. The paint on the figure was also well done, check out the eyes and teeth on that head sculpt. I really can’t tell you how much I like it, I mean, just look at it… It just looks kickass and we simply must have it on a traditional Scarecrow figure at some point. I love the head sculpt! The crazed eyes, the wicked grin, the damaged hat, etc. It’s a great piece, but the cherry is literally on top. Any where you look on his upper body, there’s detail – straw sticking out from his jacket, a raised Sinestro symbol, and the rope and bottom of his burlap mask added to the torso sculpt.

His torso, arms, and coat are all-new pieces that capture the right details for this look down to the threads and stitching. The possibilities seemed interesting, but Luthor stole his ring almost immediately and that plot point never got the chance to go anywhere in the cluttered mini-series.īelow his ab crunch, Scarecrow’s the standard lanky buck (meaning he sports tights instead of comic-accurate pants) with Sinestro’s boots, but above? Above, he’s kinda awesome. The solution turned out to be a Sinestro Corps ring. With Batman dead during this time, he’d gone a little crazy – like a junkie in need of a fix. During Blackest Night, Scarecrow had become immune to his own fear toxin and was desperately in need of the only thing that scared him: Batman. Scarecrow and his yellow ring is actually something I wished the comics would’ve spent more time on. Batman has to overcome his fears and pain to defeat the Scarecrow. It retells Batman’s origin (the first TV/movie/cartoon to do so, I believe) by means of Scarecrow making Batman relive the deaths of his parents. While there are plenty of groan-worthy SF episodes, the later ones are better, and this one, “The Fear” is particularly awesome. The only story that I can really remember liking him in is actually an episode of The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians.

Scarecrow isn’t my favorite Batman villain, not by a long shot. Yeah, Sinestro Corps (Yellow Lantern?) Scarecrow is that cool. Sure, there’s the old DC Superheroes figure from long ago (and I do like that one), but this Scarecrow figure makes me realize that we need a new one. That said, at that point, you're better off scaring people with big, loud, scary constructs.Ībout the kryptonite, that'd be possible because the rings could somehow produce the same kind of radiation (or one with similar enough effects) that kryptonite does.Scarecrow technically hasn’t had a proper DC Universe Classics figure. Presumably, a lantern with enough creativity, knowledge, and skill could also create nano-constructs that could mechanically simulate the effects of a chemical within an organism, i.e., simulating caffeine's effects by blocking adenosine receptors, or in Scarecrow's case, physically stimulating the amygdala to produce the typical fear effects. So all Scarecrow would need to produce the gas would be either carrying the materials, or know from what readily field-available items he could extract the materials, and then synthesizing the gas from those materials. However, a knowledgeable enough Lantern could create the equipment required to process the appropriate substances into the desired effect. Like, you couldn't create food constructs that'd actually provide nutrients. To the best of my knowledge, Lantern constructs aren't capable of producing chemical effects.

Scarecrow with yellow lantern ring