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The currentBatmancomics event , Fear State , was initially billed as aScarecrowstory , but is instead packed full of villains , which leads the tale to be unfocussed and without a clear threat . Although it has a superfluity of association - ins , DC Comics ' mainFear Statestory runs throughBatman # 112 - 117and is the second handsome event helmed by writer James Tynion IV . Many artist work on the crossing admit Jorge Jimenez , Ricardo Federici , and Greg Capullo .
The main account ofFear Statefocuses on how Gotham ’s city manager has turned to an rig cry the Magistrate to provide trade protection for the city in the wake of theJoker War . Run by industrialist Simon Saint , the Magistrate ’s fundamental hatchet man in its fight against a group jazz as the Unsanity Collective is a super - soldier ring Peacekeeper-1 . However , when Peacekeeper-1 settle dupe to the Scarecrow , Saint unleashesanother superintendent - soldier call Peacekeeper - Xto stop him . Also , Poison Ivy , now go bad by the name Queen Ivy , has taken control of Gotham ’s underground garden she ’s called Eden .
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It ’s not surd to see how all of that can become confusing . Nowhere in that rundown of the event was Batman even cite , so it ’s not abundantly clear where the main terror is coming from . At first Batman oppose the Unsanity Collective in their technological aims to pass over out Gotham ’s trauma . Batman ultimately concludes that the grouping is misunderstood and being used as a whipping boy for the Magistrate to move around Gotham into a police state . Scarecrow , obviously , has his own machinations , manipulating the Magistrate into ramp up veneration throughout Gotham . This leaves Batman baffle in the middle , forced to battle through Scarecrow ’s fear tactics while opposing the Magistrate ’s rule . Then , when Peacekeeper-1 start AWOL under Scarecrow ’s influence , Peacekeeper - X is unleashed to stop him , destroying blocks of Gotham in the cognitive process . This does n’t even begin to touch upon the subplot involving Queen Ivy .
In the conclusion , the villain are envelop up rather handily . Scarecrow is submit irrelevant as Peacekeeper-1 takes him out before becoming the final physical terror for Batman to fight . Miracle Molly , loss leader of the Unsanity Collective , pose more of a philosophical scourge , which Batman overcomes by appeal to her reason . The majority of Batman ’s supporting casttakes down Simon Saint ’s Magistrate whileHarley Quinnhandles Queen Ivy , who uses her pheromone to help quell the fear running rampant throughout Gotham .
Any one of these plot lines could ’ve serve as more than enough story to meet up the outcome . The Unsanity Collective , The Magistrate , and Queen Ivy all divvy up time in the villain limelight that was supposedly reserved for Scarecrow . or else , Fear StatereducesScarecrowto the level of a third - class villain in his own crossover voter , andBatmanfans are left expect to see if he will ever rightly get his due .
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