WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Titans Season 3, Episode 11, "The Call Is Coming From Inside the House," available now on HBO Max.

No one expected Dr. Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow to be this decisive, effective and scary in Season 3 of Titans. He's been 10 steps ahead of Nightwing's team, luring Jason Todd to the dark side as Red Hood and also breaking a suicidal Bruce Wayne as Batman. More so, he's plunged Gotham into a fear state, getting cops and citizens to turn on the heroes. Now, the latest episode reveals another dimension to Crane's personality as we discover he shares something in common with the Dark Knight's most complex enemy.

As Crane takes over the Bat-cave, he listens in to Bruce's diagnosis of Scarecrow, getting angry as the Bat deems him a split personality in the recording. Bruce thinks Crane is weak and a failure, but he believes Scarecrow, the masked fiend with fear toxins, is the true monster. It's insulting, as Crane thinks his human side's the genius, ergo why he doesn't care for his gas mask anymore -- so he puts this to the test.

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

Crane kidnaps a pizza delivery guy and tries to cut him up, but he's scared, reaffirming what Batman thought. Crane's mommy issues come out too, frightening him as he becomes that child Bruce talked about. It gets pretty shocking when we finally see two personalities emerge in a hallucination, with the more sadistic one goading the doctor to slice the victim up.

It's akin to Harvey Dent, aka Two-Face, who's struggled with his monstrous side in a Jekyll and Hyde arc across so many cartoons, movies and video games. It's torn Bruce apart as he's always wanted to rescue the good lawyer he believed could have saved Gotham, but the beast inside always made Dent an irredeemable villain after he got acid thrown on him.

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However, Crane accepts that he needs to fix his broken mind to move on and fully conquer Gotham rather than embrace it like Dent. It's why, when Jason returns to the lair after leaving Dick for dead, he finds the pizza guy gutted. Crane emerges, in charge and as sadistic as ever with his smile, but what's most unsettling is that he's scarred his face too.

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Crane's given himself a disfigured look, a la Two Face, to signify that he has a new mask and that he is indeed the boss of the show. Crane affirms he doesn't need Scarecrow and he's finally evolving to prove it to everyone else who's ever doubted him.

It also upgrades what Dent went through as his personas needed each other as crutches. But this new and improved Crane is truly liberated, worrying Red Hood who realizes this unstoppable, uncontrollable tyrant is more than even he bargained for.

The first 11 episodes of Titans Season 3 are available now on HBO Max. Episode 12 releases on Oct. 14.

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