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This Batman Villain Provides A Lesson For Superhero Movies

Written by Joshua Kristian McCoy
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Cillian Murphy's Scarecrow rarely receives his flowers, but he's a rare example of a supervillain who gets the time he needs to shine.

For a genre named after its protagonists, superhero movies tend to rest a lot of their quality on their villains. Batman, perhaps more than any other hero, carries a reputation as a guy with a killer rogues gallery. He's dueled many of the most iconic antagonists on the big screen. The Joker alone has multiple excellent interpretations, including Heath Ledger's genre-defining performance in The Dark Knight. The same film saw the second appearance of a far less celebrated but still very interesting villain in Cillian Murphy's Scarecrow.

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