The Prince of Panic is coming to HBO Max's Titans.Season 3 will see Vincent Kartheiser portraying Dr. Jonathan Crane, as announced by Titan's Twitter. In DC lore, Crane becomes the unhinged DC supervillain Scarecrow.
Kartheiser is known to Angel fans as portraying the titular character's sinister son, Connor, for Seasons 3-5. As of late, he's better known as portraying the conniving and opportunistic account executive Pete Campbell from Mad Men, starring in the AMC series for the entirety of its seven-season run. The role of Dr. Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow will mark Kartheiser's first time portraying a DC character on-screen.
Crane is described as a current "inmate at Arkham Asylum who used to terrorize Gotham City using toxins to exploit his enemies' phobias," as reported by Variety.
The fear-obsessed DC character was created by writer Bill Finger and artist Bob Kane, debuting in 1941's World's Finest Comics #3. Crane goes by many names, including the Master of Fear, and is an ex-psychology professor who has turned into a villain fixated on experimenting with and on the fears of Gotham City's residents by any means possible, including toxins. Known as a primary enemy of Batman, the sadistic villain has appeared in a variety of villainous DC teams, including Legion of Doom and the Injustice League.
Titans star Alan Ritchson teased recently that the show's upcoming third season will be the show's best, noting, "All of the seasons have been good, but there’s an excellence to this because everybody has figured out what we wanna focus on and who we wanna tell the story through. It’s just a little more focused than it has been, and it’s working really well. It’s the best season yet, by far."
Titans stars Brenton Thwaites as Dick Grayson, Anna Diop as Kory Anders, Teagan Croft as Rachel Roth, Ryan Potter as Garfield Logan, Curran Walters as Jason Todd and Conor Leslie as Donna Troy, with Minka Kelly as Dawn Granger, Alan Ritchson as Hank Hall, Joshua Orpin as Superboy, Chelsea Zhang as Rose Wilson, Chella Man as Jericho, Drew Van Acker as Aqualad, Esai Morales as Deathstroke, Damaris Lewis as Blackfire, Savannah Welch as Barbara Gordon, Jay Lycurgo as Tim Drake and Iain Glen as Bruce Wayne. Season 3 has yet to receive a premiere date.