If Scarecrow is "researching" fear, what is he even doing with the results...

>bara and muscle in general, probably whacks off to self-written smutfics about genius bodybuilders rubbing each other up with oil n shit
>Debut is all about running Batman ragged just so he can personally walk up to him and manhandle him to prove how big his dick is
Bane clearly has a sadism and humiliation fetish.

SCIENCE!
also once upon a time you could mail order monkeys to your house out of a catalog.
Guns too

It was a better time

Presumably they were purchased with grant money.
In his defense didn't this lead to people realizing that children need love and affection and the tough love style of parenting popular in the day was just fucking them up?

He’s a mad scientist. You’re thinking way too hard about this.

YEAH BUT EVEN MAD SCIENTISTS HAD AN END GOAL
FRANKENSTEIN WANTED TO PROVE HE COULD CREATE NEW LIFE
JEKYLL WANTED TO RESEARCH THE DARK SIDE OF MAN OR SOME BULLSHIT
SCARECROW IS JUST "OOH SPOOKY" AND THAT'S IT

Sort of, but there are a lot of ways to learn that without sticking a monkey in a pitch black box for a year to see if it comes out sane

In Arkham Knight a corrupt billionaire pharmaceutical mogul waxes on all the possible applications of a substance that creates personalized hallucinations. Treating or curing phobias, dementia, schizophrenia, traumatic memories, memory retrieval for Alzheimers. And Crane uses it to frighten people.

In Arkham Asylum a doctor theorizes that Crane doesn't suffer from any definable mental illness. He's just an evil sadist.

The Pit of Despair experiments are probably one of worst the things humans have done to a lesser species

You’re still thinking way too hard about this. Scarecrow’s goal is to expose people to his fear gas because he’s CRAAAAAZY.

>a forced-mating device he called the "rape rack"

my fucking sides this dude was an absolute mad lad

there were better ways but to put it in perspective even at the time with his experiments his findings were still considered controversial

at some point from when we were first evolving to now humans just stopped thinking that kindness was a necessary thing

Plenty of his colleagues agreed that he went way beyond what was required to figure that out. He was a miserable man who wanted to spread his misery

An enlightened age it was.

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Love in general is hard. You can't go tough love or they'll be all fucked, you can't love too much or else they become coddled and can't really make their own decisions, you gotta punish children enough so they stop doing bad behaviors, but not so much they become mentally scarred for life.
My mother was too coddling yet too abusive and now I'm so fucked in the head I shut down when I even look at her

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The only real purpose of his learning about people's fears and about his toxin's effect on people is to scare people even more so and satisfy his own sadistic curiosity.

Consistent motivation has never been a strong point for any Batman villain.

My preferred takes on Scarecrow are ones where he is either;
A: Genuinely invested in researching fear for academic purposes, but who turns to crime just so he can pay for his experiments and his books
Or
B: Guided by a genuine, pathological obsession with fear and a morbid interest in picking apart the human mind, and who is equally capable of doing those things without fear gas

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I mean, no. Not at all.
There's any hypothesis to test, no control groups, and it sure as shit ain't peer reviewed. All those fear drugs have to be improvised because he doesn't have a permanent lab, so they were probably cooked in a trash can out of hobo piss and microwave burritos, making the formula nigh guaranteed to be contaminated every batch.
Face it, hes a adjunct that pulled a tenured professor move, lost his job from it and blows his time making people shit themselves because that's how he gets his rocks off.

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>>Riddler
>Riddles n shit, probably has a sphinx fursona who vores people who gets her riddles wrong
I hate you so much I laughed too hard at this not to think about it forever.

I'd like to see a comic where Crane finds a guy who has an unusually niche fear and is generally unfazed by all his attempts to spook him except for that ONE VERY SPECIFIC THING that Scarecrow doesn't even understand why he's scared of it but not maggots and rotting bodies and sharp things. Once he finds the guy's fear, he just obsesses over it, taking days at a time pondering, researching, going through the guy's history to try and understand why this ONE THING scares him but not LITERALLY EVERYTHING ELSE. Then he finds out one day after just asking the dude while torturing him with his fear. Turns out It was due to some weird childhood incident that scarred him for life. Nothing even major, just some little moment that haunted him for days

Bump

I want to see this. Old and on his deathbed, he gives a reporter all his hundreds of notes.

>The entire story is the reporter piecing together the scattered knowledge of Dr. Crane and searching for the hidden pieces of his opus
>Story switches between past(our present) and present(our future), with panels mirroring each other
>As the reporter learns more and more, he starts getting scared
>What will he do with this terrible knowledge, can he really even let people see what horrible things Scarecrow has done in his dogged pursuits, what if this knowledge fell into the wrong hands?
>As he concludes his journey, the two threads come together
>Johnathan Crane, the old Scarecrow, dies, his deepest fear put to rest
>The mysterious reporter, the new Scarecrow, is reborn, his greatest fear come to light
>The Scarecrow's Curse lives on

He probably started off with the usual academic stuff but now his fear research probably just goes into finding new, better ways for him to scare people.