#and then to the preening judge of bane's mock court doling out death sentences like it's a game to him

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thank god i've come back to tumblr after all this time bc where else could i say "i've been simping for the scarecrow from batman begins lately" with impunity. anyway thank you cilian murphy for your service

[rollforjackass]

y'know what i'll take it out of the tags. cilian murphy's take on scarecrow fascinates me primarily because of the way he progresses through the trilogy. like we're all familiar with the 'villain descends into madness' trope and how it's usually played as a tragedy, we see traumatic backstories & flashbacks & the underlying narrative is 'i don't want to be this way' or 'i just want it to stop'.

so i'm obsessed with the fact that when we see crane again in dark knight & dark knight rises he's Even More Confident than he was in batman begins. he goes from quiet meek-ish schemer to wise-cracking criminal who smirks at the batman when he's unmasked, and then to the preening judge of bane's mock court doling out death sentences like it's a game. like we Could have had the scarecrow that we saw in the end of batman begins, straitjacketed & descending into madness, we Could have had a harvey dent-ish downfall where he becomes someone to pity rather than someone to fear, but we didn't! we got a guy who said 'what drives you crazy makes you stronger' and went on to have a whole lot of maniacal fun. and i think that's really the essence of how batman villains Become iconic batman villains: by being utterly, 100% ride-or-die for their shtick.

scarecrow: oh i got gassed & went a little delulu? i'm a known criminal who will never hold a job as a doctor again in my life? scarecrow: so what i'm getting here is that i'm free to become Worse~

thank god i've come back to tumblr after all this time bc where else could i say "i've been simping for the scarecrow from batman begins lately" with impunity. anyway thank you cilian murphy for your service