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How Gotham Gets Its Batman Villains Right

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Warning: Spoilers for Gotham through Season 3...

How is Batman's famous Rogues' Gallery of supervillains holding up on Gotham without Batman? Pretty well, actually.

Gotham returns to FOX on (new night) Thursday, September 21st for a Season 4 premiere, "Pax Penguina," that finds fear-mongering Batman villain Scarecrow (Charlie Tahan) making his in-costume debut in the midst of the city's most peaceful, crime-free era ever.

Of course, we've already met young Jonathan Crane on the show, back in Season 1 during a two-episode arc focused on his father, Dr. Gerald Crane (Julian Sands) - a story that left Jonathan incapacitated and mentally tormented by his dad's own fear toxin. So how will Gotham's full version of Scarecrow hold up to his comic book counterpart? Or even other representations of Crane from films like Batman Begins or games like Arkham Asylum and Arkham Knight? One thing we do know is that Gotham has been at its best, since the very beginning, when spotlighting the city's crooked and cracked evil-doers.

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