Fan Casting Jonathan Crane in The Last Vengeance of Bane

Jonathan Crane, the Scarecrow, is the tempter and the voice of buried fear. He is a chemist employed by the Santa Priscan cartel to cut the new Venom supply with his fear toxin. In a sterile lab, he confronts Bane not with violence but with psychological dissection, injecting him with the hybrid poison and whispering the question: "What are you afraid of?" He represents the insidious truth that Venom was merely a symptom—the real disease is the fear that made Bane crave strength. Crane is not a physical threat; he is an intellectual predator who forces Bane to hallucinate his mother's accusatory ghost, breaking him down so he must choose to rebuild.