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This is a follow up to this one stevenely.deviantart.com/art/A… and this one stevenely.deviantart.com/art/2… These are my character designs of Batman villains the Scarecrow, Ra's al Ghul, his daughter Talia al Ghul and the Killer Crocodile Man because I've wanted to see them treated with some faithfulness, some style and grandeur. Batman's third top early classic enemies. Psycho sickies.

I was inspired by the classic comic books of course and also partly inspired for these designs by envisioning what I think Tim Burton might have done with the Scarecrow, Ra's Al Ghul, his daughter and Killer Croc (I think Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) Gill Man monster fan Tim Burton would have preferred and chosen Killer Croc instead of Bane, and calling Killer Croc the Killer Crocodile Man as a homage to the Gill Man. Tim Burton's Undersea Gal in Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) was based on the Gill Man) if he was kept on by Warner Brothers studio executives as director of Batman in the '90s and beyond, long past Batman Returns (1992), that really broadened my mind in thinking about these character designs and casting ideas. Tim Burton planned to cast Brad Dourif as the Scarecrow and with the mask on it could be an acrobat, martial artist stunt double throughout much of the movie with Brad Dourif doing the voice in voice over as he did Chucky. I think Tim Burton would cast Terence Stamp as Ra's al Ghul, Anne Hathaway as Talia al Ghul and Tim Burton would have likely casted Michael Clarke Duncan as the Killer Crocodile Man, now probably Terry Crews as the Killer Crocodile Man. Tim Burton likes to reuse his favorite actors. Tim Burton casted Terence Stamp in Big Eyes (2014) and in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016), Tim Burton casted Anne Hathaway as the White Queen in Alice in Wonderland (2010) and she was in the sequel Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016) that Tim Burton produced. Tim Burton casted Michael Clarke Duncan in the Planet of the Apes (2001) remake.

I designed the Scarecrow based on Brad Dourif as my model in Dune (1984), with his Scarecrow costume a Tim Burton based combination of the hat, potato sack face and straw hair from a Tim Burton designed scarecrow in Sleepy Hollow (1999) and the clothes of Tim Burton's Pumpkin King as a scarecrow in Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) and it came out surprisingly faithful to the Scarecrow look from the classic 1940s-1990s comic books, Scarecrow in The Batman/Superman Hour (1968), Scarecrow in Challenge of the Super Friends (1978), Scarecrow in The Super Power Team: Galactic Guardians (1985) and Scarecrow in Batman: The Animated Series (1992-1995). Underneath the Scarecrow potato sack face mask he is wearing a small gas mask to protect himself from his own fear gas chemical weapon. The skull head he is holding in his right hand is filled with his fear gas he is unleashing. He is holding his scythe in his left hand. His squawking pet crow is on his shoulder.

Tim Burton's method is to embrace and play up the characters freakishness, bizarreness, eccentricities, Gothicness, artfulness, expressionistic, operatic theatricality. Joel Schumacher rebooted the characters into flamboyant ambiguously gay for the gay subculture while also supposedly making them kid friendly. Christopher Nolan conservatively rebooted and downplayed the characters and tried to normalize the characters into a Bondish secret agent style and terrorist Bondish villains with gimmicks. Zack Snyder rebooted the characters into grim glum angsty anti-heroes and hipster thug villains.

I'm disappointed and annoyed at the way the Scarecrow was portrayed by Cillian Murphy as just a minor bland villain, reduced to just a guy in a business suit with a potato sack on his head and little screen time, I'm disappointed and annoyed at the way Ra's al Ghul was portrayed by Liam Neeson as "Ducard" and basically just rehashing Jedi trainer Qui-Gon Jinn from Star Wars under Christopher Nolan's direction (Batman Begins (2005) action-drama), I'm disappointed and annoyed at the way Talia al Ghul was portrayed by Marion Cotillard, Joey King and Harry Coles under Christopher Nolan's direction (Dark Knight Rises (2012) action-drama), and by Lexa Doig under Greg Berlanti and Marc Guggenheim's production (Arrow (2012-2017) soap opera-drama), I'm disappointed and annoyed at the way Killer Croc was portrayed by Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as just a prison thug with a bad skin complexion under David Ayer's direction and Zack Snyder's production (Suicide Squad (2016) action-drama, which Zack Snyder also directed one scene).

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This is a follow up to this one stevenely.deviantart.com/art/A… and this one stevenely.deviantart.com/art/2… These are my character designs of Batman villains the Scarecrow, Ra's al Ghul, his daughter Talia al Ghul and the Killer Crocodile Man because I've wanted to see them treated with some faithfulness, some style and grandeur. Batman's third top early classic enemies. Psycho sickies.

I was inspired by the classic comic books of course and also partly inspired for these designs by envisioning what I think Tim Burton might have done with the Scarecrow, Ra's Al Ghul, his daughter and Killer Croc (I think Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) Gill Man monster fan Tim Burton would have preferred and chosen Killer Croc instead of Bane, and calling Killer Croc the Killer Crocodile Man as a homage to the Gill Man. Tim Burton's Undersea Gal in Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) was based on the Gill Man) if he was kept on by Warner Brothers studio executives as director of Batman in the '90s and beyond, long past Batman Returns (1992), that really broadened my mind in thinking about these character designs and casting ideas. Tim Burton planned to cast Brad Dourif as the Scarecrow and with the mask on it could be an acrobat, martial artist stunt double throughout much of the movie with Brad Dourif doing the voice in voice over as he did Chucky. I think Tim Burton would cast Terence Stamp as Ra's al Ghul, Anne Hathaway as Talia al Ghul and Tim Burton would have likely casted Michael Clarke Duncan as the Killer Crocodile Man, now probably Terry Crews as the Killer Crocodile Man. Tim Burton likes to reuse his favorite actors. Tim Burton casted Terence Stamp in Big Eyes (2014) and in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016), Tim Burton casted Anne Hathaway as the White Queen in Alice in Wonderland (2010) and she was in the sequel Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016) that Tim Burton produced. Tim Burton casted Michael Clarke Duncan in the Planet of the Apes (2001) remake.

I designed the Scarecrow based on Brad Dourif as my model in Dune (1984), with his Scarecrow costume a Tim Burton based combination of the hat, potato sack face and straw hair from a Tim Burton designed scarecrow in Sleepy Hollow (1999) and the clothes of Tim Burton's Pumpkin King as a scarecrow in Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) and it came out surprisingly faithful to the Scarecrow look from the classic 1940s-1990s comic books, Scarecrow in The Batman/Superman Hour (1968), Scarecrow in Challenge of the Super Friends (1978), Scarecrow in The Super Power Team: Galactic Guardians (1985) and Scarecrow in Batman: The Animated Series (1992-1995). Underneath the Scarecrow potato sack face mask he is wearing a small gas mask to protect himself from his own fear gas chemical weapon. The skull head he is holding in his right hand is filled with his fear gas he is unleashing. He is holding his scythe in his left hand. His squawking pet crow is on his shoulder.

Tim Burton's method is to embrace and play up the characters freakishness, bizarreness, eccentricities, Gothicness, artfulness, expressionistic, operatic theatricality. Joel Schumacher rebooted the characters into flamboyant ambiguously gay for the gay subculture while also supposedly making them kid friendly. Christopher Nolan conservatively rebooted and downplayed the characters and tried to normalize the characters into a Bondish secret agent style and terrorist Bondish villains with gimmicks. Zack Snyder rebooted the characters into grim glum angsty anti-heroes and hipster thug villains.

I'm disappointed and annoyed at the way the Scarecrow was portrayed by Cillian Murphy as just a minor bland villain, reduced to just a guy in a business suit with a potato sack on his head and little screen time, I'm disappointed and annoyed at the way Ra's al Ghul was portrayed by Liam Neeson as "Ducard" and basically just rehashing Jedi trainer Qui-Gon Jinn from Star Wars under Christopher Nolan's direction (Batman Begins (2005) action-drama), I'm disappointed and annoyed at the way Talia al Ghul was portrayed by Marion Cotillard, Joey King and Harry Coles under Christopher Nolan's direction (Dark Knight Rises (2012) action-drama), and by Lexa Doig under Greg Berlanti and Marc Guggenheim's production (Arrow (2012-2017) soap opera-drama), I'm disappointed and annoyed at the way Killer Croc was portrayed by Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as just a prison thug with a bad skin complexion under David Ayer's direction and Zack Snyder's production (Suicide Squad (2016) action-drama, which Zack Snyder also directed one scene).