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Original title:Nothing to Fear
Category:TV Episode / Animation / Action / Adventure / Family / Sci-Fi
Released:1992–1995
Director:Boyd Kirkland
Actors:Kevin Conroy,Robert Costanzo,Bob Hastings
Writer:Henry Gilroy,Sean Catherine Derek
Duration:22min
Video type:TV Episode

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Rating 7.2: Votes 157

1992–1995 Kevin Conroy Robert Costanzo Bob Hastings Boyd Kirkland

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Batman faces off against the Scarecrow whose fear gas makes the superhero afraid of disgracing the Wayne name.

This episode marks the first appearance of the Scarecrow in this series.

Bullock calls Batman "Zorro" when talking to Commissioner Gordon. Coincidentally, Bruce had just seen a Zorro movie the night his parents died and the hero has had an influence on him.

The guard at the University Bank is reading a comic book for Tiny Toon Adventures. This is a hat-tip to Bruce Timm and 'Eric Rodomski', who were responsible for this cartoon series.

Thomas Wayne has a speaking appearance in Batman's hallucinations, and this is his first appearance in the series. Martha Wayne is also seen with him in a photo.

This was the first episode of the series to feature Batman's past. Only Batman Begins (2005) and an episode of the Super Powers Team (the last season of Das Powerteam - Superman und Co. (1973)), incidentally also featuring the Scarecrow as main villain, explored the Dark Knight's origins outside comics medium before this episode.

Batman's line "I am vengeance... I am the night... I am BATMAN!" became somewhat iconic, and was used by Cartoon Network throughout their advertising campaign when they first began airing the series. It was later used as the opening line of the Batman musical in Batman of the Future: Out of the Past (2000). The line has also become a signature of Kevin Conroy, and he often performs it the start of his appearances at conventions. Conroy later said the line in The Daly Show: Batman vs. Superman (2013) starring Tim Daly (the star of Superman (1996) and his son, Sam. Conroy also said the line when reprising Batman during Batman: Arkham Knight (2015). The line is also part of Green Arrow's "Batman impression" in Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil Mutant Hellbound Flesh Eating Crawling Alien Zombified Subhumanoid Living Dead, Part 5 (2011) and Batman: The Brave and the Bold: Night of the Batmen! (2011).

Production-wise, this is the last episode to feature Clive Revill's voice as Alfred Pennyworth before he left due to a previous commitment. After Revill left, Efrem Zimbalist Jr. took over Alfred's role for the rest of the series and the DCAU.

At one point the Batmobile computer shows a list of nearby chemical companies. Among the companies shown are S.T.A.R. Labs from Superman's comics, which would later be featured in Superman (1996) and Axis Chemicals, which is the company that turned Jack Napier into the Joker in Batman (1989).

Near the end of the episode, the people of the university are exposed to fear toxin and attack Batman in fear of him. Later, Batman exposes the Scarecrow to the fear toxin, which causes him to hallucinate that Batman is a monstrous bat-like creature. Similar scenarios later occur in Batman Begins (2005). The former was similarly used in Batman (1989) in which Joker gasses the people of a restaurant to sleep. A much darker and ruthless version of Scarecrow also sees Batman as a more demonic creature at the end of Batman: Arkham Knight (2015).

Scarecrow originally used his fear toxin to extort money from Gotham's elite, instead of trying to get revenge on the university.

The producers disliked this episode, believing the script to be mediocre, the pacing bad and the method used to defeat Scarecrow to be overly cliché. To quote Bruce Timm, It was written by Henry Gilroy, who had never written cartoons before. He was a film editor here and always wanted to get into writing. At the time we didn't have a story editor, so we gave it a go. When he turned in his first draft, which wasn't bad, we had hired our first story editor, Sean Derek. We immediately came to loggerheads over this show. Some of the dialogue she changed wasn't changed for the better.

This episode was adapted into The Adventures of Batman & Robin (1994) for the SNES as the sixth stage, "Perchance To Scream", although Scarecrow appeared in his third mask instead of his first one shown in this episode.

The Danny Elfman theme is used twice in this episode.

The theme music that plays in this episode's title card is later used in the one in Batman: Fear of Victory (1992).

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Author: Goldfury

Here's another cool villain, "The Scarecrow," who is an ex-professor of psychology. (No wonder he's nuts.) Anyway, things didn't go well for him at the local university, so he's paying them back with terrorist attacks. His gimmick is a smoke-bomb in which people who inhale it suddenly face their worst fears. So, if it's rats or spiders or parental rejection - whatever your greatest fear - it will consume you, while 'The Scarecrow" does whatever he wants to do.

With Batman, his fear is more psychological: fear of his father's rejection.

This was another entertaining show with nice Deco art and a cool-looking villain. Alfred the butler also had some humorous remarks. It kind of freaks me out knowing Efrem Zimbalist Jr. is voicing that character, as I still associate that actor from his glory days as a television star way back in the 1950s and 1960s.

Author: Kit

The Scarecrow is finely introduced to us for the first time in this episode. His aim: to get revenge at the university of former employ after they fired him for going way over the top in his experiments on fear. Sounds easy enough for Batman to foil, right? Wrong. Scarecrow uses a fear gas bomb, which when inhaled, will bring out your uttermost fears, giving him the perfect opportunity to casually walk past and set about his business. Then things get tougher when Batman himself gets affected, and bringing out a horrible fear of bringing shame to his father's name. Can Batman overcome the effects and stop Scarecrow? The episode is simply fantastic. Humour in the right moments, courtesy of Alfred, it has great action sequences, and a really decent villain. This episode is one of the darker ones, which is why its so amazing, and also shows us for the first time a highly troubled Bruce Wayne, struggling to overcome the guilt and fear, and not to let himself slip away.

Brilliant episode. 10/10.

Author: Fek

If any villain in Batman's Rogues Gallery could be worse than The Joker, I'd say it'd have to be Scarecrow. I remember always finding Scarecrow the scariest of the villains. I mean, what's scarier than a gas that makes your deepest fears come to life? I can't think of much. The episode itself is certainly a darker turn from the previous two and showed that even something labeled as a "kids cartoon show" had the potential to cover dark subjects like human testing, revenge, and feeling like a disappointment to your family. I'm not the biggest fan of Scarecrow's costume in this, but hey, they worked with what they had I suppose.

Author: Frostdefender

---HIGHLIGHTING THE PSYCHOLOGICAL IN DC'S PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLERS.----

------- ------- ------- ------- A Psychological Thriller is by definition that in which the unstable psychological state of one or more characters is emphasized. Hitchcock and King (Stephen) are recognized as some of the most famous authors of this interesting sub-genre. Following this definition, many of the adventures of Batman can be considered at least partially (IMO) as psychological thrillers as many of their villains have some sort of disorder, even when it is not always very emphasized. From that point of view, the SCARECROW creates a particular kind of PSYCHO THRILLER as he can artificially induce fears into normally healthy people to the point of experimenting some temporary phobias.

This is also why the SCARECROW has given us some of the most memorable adventures of the DARK KNIGHT along the years both in the screen and the comic books, being the villain that Tim Drake defeated proving himself and the Batman that he was worthy of becoming ROBIN saving both BATMAN and Vicky Vale from dying (in the comic Robin: A Hero Reborn or specifically Batman #457), the one that showed us the origin story of the BATMAN in "FEAR" one of the episodes from the last season the SuperFriends, the one that once made BATMAN mad instead of afraid with the visions of the gas ( KNIGHTFALL series) and the one that he has to face in this adventure against a fear Bruce very probably wasn't even aware of: the possibility of the apparently relaxed and playboy-like life of Bruce damaging the good name of the Wayne family, mostly eminent Doctor Thomas Wayne's , the late father of Bruce.

By facing accusatory images of his father telling him he is a disgrace at the same time that he battles the SCARECROW, Batman will have to prove smarter that the false accusatory images of the deceased Thomas Wayne and put the Scarecrow into custody before he can hurt much more people.

Thanks for reading.

IMDb Review written by David del Real.

November 2017.

Mexico City, Mexico.

Author: Lemana

As Batman villains go, The Scarecrow is is full-on horror movie material. If you take his depiction in the Arkham games especially, the guy can get pretty scary. But feature him on a kids show and you're limited to . . . pretty much a literal scarecrow, with straw and everything. This is why 'Nothing to Fear' relies primarily on the writing, which is what makes this so effective. The bad guy, gangly and harmless, gets at Batman psychologically. Bruce is forced to conquer his inner fears (particularly those of failure and it results in one of the show's great lines: "I am vengeance. I am the night. I am Batman!"

There's a big zeppelin fight, but otherwise nothing flashy. Yet, it's still a great character story and well-executed, at that.

7/10

Author: Dagdarad

This is one of the earliest episodes of the series and is one of the first that I ever saw as a kid and I still love it a lot, it's dark, the villain's lively and a ton of fun, and it delves a little into the very nature of why Bruce Wayne is also Batman - and they never did an origin episode as such on the show, just rightly assumed it was common knowledge. Call me crazy but I always liked this version of the Scarecrow best. Some people find it a poor design but I think it's fine, he's a classic scrawny straw boogeyman figure, it's fun! To me a lot more fun and interesting than the goofy charmless look he's sporting the next time he appears in the show. They kept changing the design to try and make him appear more scary but I think they lost something about the character that's certainly not missing here. I like that wily voice, it's kinda spooky and a little demented! I could've sworn it was David Warner doing the voice.. I hate his dumb goons though, they're so stupidly clichéd that they might as well have just gone ahead and named them Rocko and Knuckles! So the story is that Batman confronts a vengeful Scarecrow and gets gassed by his fear toxin and then has to wrestle with his conscience as it wrecks havoc with his mind until he has to make a stand and take control. But is that really Bruce's greatest fear or were the cruel words of cranky old Dr. Long working in conjunction with the poison of the Scarecrow to stir his own buried guilty feelings over his parents deaths and that he might not be properly honouring his family name and making his late father proud? I love the emotional buildup and payoff of Bruce Wayne as he exorcises a personal demon as he shouts out what's probably the single most well-written and fine piece of dialogue in the entire series. I love how powerfully striking the Gothic atmosphere was at this point, the tone and atmosphere that the look and the backgrounds bring is just amazing and so masterfully done, especially in the poignant closing scene where Bruce lays the flowers on his parents' grave and walks away with the cold wind blowing and the symbolic shadow of the bat following him. There's such a strong visual poetry to that. This rather excellent episode is one of the all-time fan favourites and one of mine too. Brilliant timeless stuff, as far as this episode goes, you most certainly have nothing to fear!

Author: Jugore

Story: Great theme of Bruce being a disappointment to the family and really drives the episode in an impactful way. Bit too much exposition though, mainly from Scarecrow. The flashback origin scene is interesting though. The blimp scene is great. (6/10)

Characters: Scarecrow's design is by far the worst of the three. His voice isn't very scary either. However, it is a good introduction to Scarecrow. The relationship between Batman and Bullock is great. The thugs are funny. Kevin Conroy is brilliant again. (7/10)

Animation: Good facial expressions and sound effects throughout. The beard animation is lazy. The skull scene at the end is exciting and even quite disturbing. However, nightmare Batman could be more detailed and look better. (5/10)

Verdict: 6/10

Author: caif

Despite getting gassed multiple times by the Scarecrow, the Dark Knight overcomes the toxin with his most famous statement: "I am vengeance. I am the Knight! I AM BATMAN!" The performance of Kevin Conroy making that statement would be repeated again in the 2015 video game "Batman: Arkham Knight." In fact, Kevin would receive more requests for that statement than any other line he delivered as Batman.

Author: Getaianne

Batman: The Animated Series

One of the most successful and loved franchise of Batman, depicts the comic version at its best by going deep into the character's perspective rather than trying to cover-up or justify its sketchy tone. The animation is not only convincingly good but also seems like a lot of thought is invested on its cinematography which for the most part of it works on metaphorical way. Kevin Conroy seems the apt choice to be the voice of Batman (although not so sure about Bruce Wayne) and so does Robert Hastings for Commissioner James Gordon as it has the right amount of depth in it. A smarter approach by the makers by narrowing it down to only 20 minutes and get right to the point, keeping the audience engaged. It also brings in bigger cast like Mark Hamill to do the voice over of Joker, which is done with genuine passion and enthusiasm that is clearly visible on screen. Addition to that, the makers keep some of the villains under their sleeve and uses it as a trump card whenever felt necessary that helps in continuity and glue all individual cases as much as possible.

Season 01

It, being the longest and acclaimed season of it all since this is where the scrutiny began which got the series its Emmy too. Since the season covers up more than half of the series, it comes with larger expectations to fill especially on terms of character development; the key that helps the viewers last long and enthusiast throughout the course of it. Also, it takes a smarter approach on projecting more of newer character's perspective (mostly its the villain), as it helps to create the anticipated impact.

Nothing To Fear

It may be more heroic, more cheesy, more emotional, but all of it culminated into this 20 minutes of horrific showdown, it works just fine. If they'd shown more phobia's of the characters, it would have been a lot better to get an insight on them.

Author: Vudomuro

A madman in a scarecrow outfit who is Professor Jonathan Crane aka The Scarecrow (voiced by Henry Polic II) who was once a professor of psychology of fears and stuff, the university thought he went too far with his fear experiments and they called him a lunatic. After that he wants revenge, so he terrorist attacks with gas bombs that make people see their fears like bats, spiders or parental rejection. Apparently Batman (voiced by Kevin Conroy) has been exposed to the gas and sees his fears of parental rejection as he thinks his father is telling him he is disgracing the Wayne name and must try to get the fear out of his system so he can find out what Scarecrow is planning on doing next.

A very good debut to one of Batman's best enemies! i knew the character since the late 80s with reruns of Superfriends and Filmation's Batman cartoon and the comics back in 1989 and i knew he would be on this show and was excited. It's a well written episode that is a psychological one on what if our fears consumed us but if we want to fight that fear and Batman says his amazing line "Your not my father! i am not a disgrace! i am vengeance, i am the night, I AM BATMAN!" which is the best line he has ever said. Clive Revell voices Alfred in this one and a few episodes before Effon Zimibist Jr voiced him. Henry Polic II is pitch perfect as the Scarecrow yet in his debut costume he looks average then he evolved in no time with different scarecrow costumes.

Author: Quttaro

Plot; A villain calling himself the Scarecrow preys on Gotham with his fear toxin.

Many of Batman's rogues' gallery--particularly the more iconic members--can't touch the Dark Knight in a hand to hand fight, and thus must rely on their cunning. That's certainly true of the Scarecrow, who uses a gas toxin that makes those exposed to it see that which they fear most. Given Batman's modus operandi often involves him using fear against his enemies, it makes the Scarecrow a nice foil. The episode is solid I wish they'd found a stronger fear for Batman/Bruce than that of disappointing his Father.

Henry Polic II, who voiced the Scarecrow, had experience playing scary characters having played Dracula (albeit a reformed one) in the 70s TV series Monster Squad (not to be confused with the 80s film of the same name).

The episode was co-written by Henry Gilroy, who has gone on to write 11 episode of Star Wars Rebels to date.

Christopher Nolan famously and effectively used the Scarecrow in his Dark Knight trilogy, but never as the primary villain. I hope at some point he gets center stage in alive action Batman feature. I think he's absolutely strong enough to be the main baddie.

Episode cast overview:
	Kevin Conroy	-	Batman / Bruce Wayne (voice)
	Robert Costanzo	-	Detective Harvey Bullock (voice)
	Bob Hastings	-	Commissioner James Gordon (voice)
	Clive Revill	-	Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
	Mari Devon	-	Summer Gleeson (voice)
	Kevin McCarthy	-	Dr. Long (voice)
	Richard Moll	-	Bat Computer / Thomas Wayne / Anthony (voice)
	Henry Polic II	-	The Scarecrow / Dr. Jonathan Crane / Security Guard (voice)

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