Gerald Crane is a character in DC Comics and a father of Jonathan Crane, first appearing in Year One: Batman/Scarecrow, published in July 2005. Gerald had a brief relationship with Karen Keeny which resulted in the son's birth, but as they were not married, Karen's mother and grandmother raised Jonathan as theirs, not even hiding their contempt for Karen, Gerald and Jonathan. Years later, Gerald moved to Gotham City, married and had two kids, finding a job in construction. His son (as Scarecrow) came back in attempt to kill him, but was prevented by Batman. In The New 52 (a reboot of DC Universe continuity), he appears in Batman (vol. 2) #1, where he is portrayed as a villainous doctor who experimented on his son and locked him in a small dark room. Gerald Crane suffered a heart attack and died, which left his son trapped inside the dark test chamber and wasn't discovered until days later by the cops when Dr. Crane's disappearance was reported. Gerald Crane in other media Gerald Crane appears in Gotham, portrayed by Julian Sands. He is a biology professor, Jonathan's father and Karen's husband who died in a fire accident year ago. Gerald has a severe form of pyrophobia for most of his life (inheriting this trait from his father), a factor which prevented him to save her. He took wife's body and crashed a car to make it seem that she died in a car crash. Debuting in "The Fearsome Dr. Crane", Gerald tries to develop an anti-fear formula to cure his and son's fear, by kidnapping several people with various phobias with the help of his son and unnamed accomplice. He kidnaps Scottie Mullen (who runs a phobia support group), in trying to test her fear and later killing her to harvest the adrenal glands and acquire the levels of cortisol, a hormon which causes the fear and adrenalin. Gordon and Bullock prevent this and save Scottie. In "The Scarecrow", Gerald injects himself, believing that he conquered fear and injects it in his son, but is soon killed by Gordon and Bullock. His son is taken to the hospital, but develops a severe fear of scarecrows. Ned Creegan Ned Creegan is a supervillain in DC Comics. Ned Creegan is a crook who was tipped off by Billy Blabbermouth about valuable jewels that are being used for scientific experiments. He breaks into the