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DC Comics’Fear Statehas come to Gotham City , beginning with the cover end ofBatmanhimself . Much like the recentFuture Stateevent , which declare oneself a potential look at what ’s to come for the Dark Knight ’s city , Gotham again consider that Batman has been killed ( albeit due to very unlike circumstances ) . Rather than the Magistrate taking over and rick Gotham into a fascistic state , Scarecrow has choose to betray the paramilitary violence , choosing instead to push Gotham to the very verge by impel it to experience level of fear it ’s never reached before . However , it seems as thoughFear Statewill continue to serve as a darker mirror to the anterior event with the rise of the Next Batman .
In DC’sFuture Stateevent , Batman was believe to have been end by PK-01 , the Magistrate ’s top hatchet man . However , Bruce Wayne hold up while letting Gotham cogitate he was all in , choosing to stick to the fantasm and work in enigma to make for the organisation down . However , the present has revealed that the route that was channelize towardsFuture Statehas been importantly changedthanks to Dr. Jonathan Crane ’s Scarecrow . While he and the Magistrate were work together in the present ( and would have continued to do so as insure inFuture State ) , recent issues see Crane betraying the Magistrate and continuing his fear movement , sowing distrust and terror within the city without even needing a cliff of his signature toxins .
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Scarecrow has kidnapped Batman , who ’s being held hostage and excruciate with the Bat - Family have no idea where he is . WhileBarbara Gordon ’s Oracletried to use the city ’s parking brake broadcast system to reassure and lull Gotham ’s residents , her message was hijacked by Crane himself . Using Oracle ’s voice , Scarecrow created even more distrust and affright by telling the city that Batman is dead and that neither the Magistrate , government , nor Bat - Family can be trusted , plunging the city into further terror .
Unfortunately , Scarecrow is at a monolithic vantage . With the declamatory - scale leaf and devastatingCity of BaneandJoker Wareventshappening in such quick sequence , Gotham was already struggling and full of fear , making it a quality target for Crane . Using the medium and his confederation with the Magistrate ’s founder Simon Saint ( until he did n’t demand him anymore ) , Crane has positioned the metropolis to rip itself aside while still believing that whatever world remain will become stronger thanks to the monumental psychic trauma he ’s go to impose . Additionally , with Gotham believing that Batman is stagnant and that they ’re unable to believe anyone , there ’s literally nothing for Gotham City to do except palpate fear thanks to Crane .
However , just as Batman ’s " death " and disappearance led to the ascension of Tim Fox ’s Next Batman inFuture State , it does look the same will be happening withFear Stateserving as the Next Batman ’s canonical debut . Whatever befall , here ’s hop-skip the Bat - Family will be able to conjure on and potentially rescueBatmanas Scarerow’sFear Statecontinues . If something does n’t modify soon , Gotham could fall into a darkness it may never be able-bodied to climb out of , leading to something even regretful thanFuture DoS .
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