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Real Name: Ebenezer Laughton
Occupation: Former carnival performer, now professional criminal
Legal Status: U.S. citizen with a criminal record
Identity: Known to the police
Place of Birth: Rhinebeck, New York
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Ralph (brother)
Base of Operations: New York area
Past Group Affiliations: Former operative of Count Nefaria and the Cowled Commander
Known Powers:
Contortionist: The Scarecrow is double-jointed and can fit his entire body through any aperture at least one foot wide. This same flexibility allows him to Escape as if his Strength were Amazing.
Pet Crows: The Scarecrow has a flock of two dozen pet crows, which have been taught by him to kill on command, or when anyone attacks their master. Their statistics are:
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Talents:
The Scarecrow is a trained Acrobat and Tumbler. He has Remarkable skill in lockpicking, safecracking, and escapology.
Contacts:
The Scarecrow has been employed by both Count Nefaria and the Cowled Commander. His brother, Ralph, has stood by him through thick and thin, despite knowledge of Ebenezer’s insanity.
Role-Playing Notes:
Originally a youth who sought fame as an escape artist and contortionist, Laughton turned to crime as a way to better himself. Over the years, he has slowly gone insane from frustration and imprisonment. He is now a sadistic killer and thief who takes offense at any slight.
History:
Ebenezer Laughton was a naturally flexible, lithe, double-jointed youth who saw a “rubber man” perform at a traveling carnival and became obsessed with emulating him. Training himself almost incessantly, Laughton learned to twist and bend his body into numerous unusual positions and perform various acrobatic stunts. A brief audition of his abilities gained him a job at a live variety show where he billed himself as Umberto the Uncanny. During one of his performances, Iron Man entered the theater in pursuit of a criminal whom he observed robbing the ticket vendor outside. Seeking publicity, Laughton stopped the thief with a simple acrobatic move. As Iron Man carried the criminal away, Laughton realized the potential in his particular skills for illegitimate gain.
After stealing a scarecrow outfit from a costume shop, he chose for his first outing as a costumed criminal, the apartment of wealthy socialite and industrialist Anthony Stark. At first attempting to steal Stark’s valuables and money, the Scarecrow discovered top secret industrial designs in the apartment and decided to sell them to the highest bidder. This theft led him into battle with Anthony Stark’s alter ego, Iron Man, and imprisonment.
He later was freed by Count Luchino Nefaria and was teamed with the Eel, Plantman, and the Porcupine in Nefaria’s bid to capture and hold Washington for ransom. When Nefaria’s plans failed, the Scarecrow and his fellow henchmen fled. They were later recruited by the Cowled Commander and pitted against Captain America and the Falcon, who defeated them.
While serving a several-year prison term, including a year in solitary confinement, the Scarecrow went insane from his hatred of various enemies. When he was finally paroled, the Scarecrow set out on a campaign to murder supporters of the Coalition for an Upstanding America, a morality-in-media organization. He managed to kill two of them and take over a fund-raising telethon before Captain America defeated him. The Scarecrow is currently in prison again.