WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for Titans Season 3, Episode 12, "Prodigal," available now on HBO Max.

One of the most shocking aspects of Titans Season 3 has been how easy Dr. Jonathan Crane has shattered Gotham City. He's killed a few heroes, chased Batman away, imprisoned Barbara Gordon and gotten corrupt cops to turn the place into a "No Man's Land." However, rather than ease off the pressure, Scarecrow's going for the jugular as his arsenal just received very deadly upgrades.

Crane wants to finish this war on Gotham so he can raze and rebuild, finally getting over his own Two-Face dilemma. Unfortunately, Jason Todd's turned on him so he attacks Red Hood for the betrayal. Crane's accessed his sickle and chain from Batman's cave, trying to hook and rip Jason up, but as the teen flees, Scarecrow knows he doesn't need to chase him down.

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Brenton Thwaites as Dick Grayson/Nightwing and Vincent Kartheiser as Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow in Titans Season 3, Episode 4, "Blackfire."

After all, he's got a bigger plan in play, and once he can enact it, he'll finish off the resistance Donna Troy and Tim Drake are seeking out. This involves breaking into one of Bruce's armories that stores Crane's fear toxin. The villain initially used anti-fear toxin to break Jason and send the city mad, but now, with his signature fear gas, he can bring them back under his thumb after chaos gifted him the city.

What makes it even more dangerous is Crane now has an army of his own -- rogue cops and dissidents who love anarchy. As Crane gathers all his old weapons after sourcing them through Batman's files, he'll just need the icing on the cake -- his mask.

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He already located it at Wayne Manor and while he didn't want to embrace what the mask meant, now that Crane believes his human side's the more superior Scarecrow, he could don it to give Gotham a better class of criminal. After all, he's been a mix of Joker and Riddler, and with his newly scarred face, he might want something more vintage and iconic to become that familiar face of fear again.

scarecrow and bruce wayne from titans

And so, with all these elements and a more cerebral, scarier personality in tow, Scarecrow's ready to evolve and kick it up a notch. He's broken the Bat-family, frightened the Titans by killing Nightwing too, and now it's all about adding the finishing touches on his master plan.

More so, he'll want to prove Bruce wrong from the psych evaluations the Bat did, making it clear he can be a devious leader and someone the city, and in time, the country, will cower under. As Scarecrow preps for the final assault, it becomes obvious that his endgame -- creating a fear state -- is nigh, and unless the divided Titans get on the same page, Gotham won't survive.

The first 12 episodes of Titans Season 3 are available now on HBO Max. Episode 13 releases Oct. 21.

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