Scary Scarecrows: Difference between revisions

Also, their humanoid appearance means that having a person looking like a scarecrow, imprisoned, dead, or hiding, gives extra creepiness. Compare [[Creepy Doll]].

* [[Hollywood Voodoo|Basil Hawkins]] in ''[[One Piece]]'' can cover himself in straw to turn into a scarecrow.

* The ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' set ''Shadowmoor'' introduces a veritable plethora of animated scarecrow monsters, from the lowly [http://ww2.wizards.com/Gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=154395 Heap Doll] to the mighty [http://ww2.wizards.com/Gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=159408 Reaper King].

** [[Oh Crap|"Its harvest time."]]

* ''[[Batman]]'' and ''[[Ghost Rider]]'' both had separate villains called the Scarecrow. The Marvel version sometimes fights ''[[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]]'' as well.

** The Batman version has also been adapted in the film ''[[Batman Begins]]'' (you'd think [[Cillian Murphy]] would be slightly less creepy with a mask, but you'd be wrong), the video game ''[[Batman: Arkham Asylum]]'', and various animated TV series.

* ''[[Mickey Mouse Comic Universe|X-Mickey]]'' has an interdimensional sorcerer named Mow that is capable of bringing puppets to life, choosing a small farm town named Gothic Hill's scarecrows to turn into minions to do his bidding. Though defeated and trapped in other dimensions and his scarecrows having long since disappeared, he makes his way back to do the same thing again, only for Mickey to destroy his staff. {{spoiler|Mow's original scarecrows from three centuries earlier have since reformed and lived in hiding in the old village in disguise}}

* The underrated, made-for-TV ghost story ''Dark Night of the Scarecrow''.

* The Creeper disguises himself as one at the start of ''[[Jeepers Creepers]] 2''.

* One of these is responsible for the [[Zombie Apocalypse]] in ''[[Zombie Blood Bath]] 2: Rage of the Undead''.

* One of the ''[[Dresden Files]]'' books involved horror movie monsters coming to life; the biggest and baddest was a scarecrow.

* The short story ''Know All'' by [[Paul Jennings]] featured a scarecrow coming to life after being dressed in a cursed tightrope walker's outfit.

* An unmade ''[[Friday the 13th (film)|Friday the 13 th]]'' novel would've had Jason's spirit possess a scarecrow.

* ''[[Are You Afraid of the Dark?]]'', "The Tale of the Silent Servant": Two kids staying at a farm find a magic scarecrow who takes everything they say literally, i.e. the boy says he'd "like to ''kill''" his cousin for taking his baseball glove.

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'': The "Human Nature"/"Family of Blood" two-parter contains animate scarecrows attacking people. (Arguably, however, they're more goofy than scary.)

* One of the cursed antiques in ''[[Friday the 13th: The Series]]'' was this.

* [[Boondox]]

* [[Nick Cave]] & the Bad Seeds' titular "Black Crow King" is one of these.

** Actually subverted here, as the SCARECROW isn't actually a scarecrow. It's the surveillance unit for the Draculoids, supposedly staffed by real people.

* ''[[Changeling: The Lost]]'' features the Scarecrow Ministry, a [[Prestige Class|noble order]] of the Autumn Court that creates (or reinforces) urban legends so that mortals stay away from the places where the ''really'' bad stuff goes down. As part of their membership, they receive masks that can instill phobias in those who look at them.

* ''[[GURPS]]'' had a horror supplement called "Creatures of the Night" that had an entry on Jackdaws- golems made of once living material (straw, wood, cotton, etc.) that were pathological liars.

* [[Dungeons & Dragons|4th edition]] ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' have scarecrows as constructs built by hags that attack anyone who gets too close.

* Scarecrows are late game enemies in ''[[Izuna]]''. Considering that they can cut your earned XP in half at will, they are scary indeed.

* Somewhere between scarecrows and pumpkin people are the Fir Bolg in ''[[City of Heroes]]''. They inhabit the Croatoa area among all kinda of supernatural nastiness and appear everywhere else for the annual Halloween event.

* ''[[Adventure Quest]]'' has at least one.

* In ''[[Tales of MU]]'', a phantasmal and possibly demonic scarecrow menaces Mackenzie in the campus labyrinth, and gifts her with a pitchfork that turns out to be {{spoiler|demonically possessed}}.

* ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'' kept changing their design for the Scarecrow; his initial appearance wasn't so scary at all, but he got progressively more ghoulish. Their final depiction of him doesn't look all that Scarecrow-y, but looks very much like a corpse, and has a broken noose around his neck. The noose was so popular that many subsequent versions of the Scarecrow have it, including the one played by Cillian Murphy in ''[[Batman Begins]]'' and the freaky gas-mask-faced Scarecrow of the ''Arkham Asylum'' game.

* Lord Pumpkin (see Comics examples) also appeared in the shortlived ''[[Ultraforce]]'' animated series.

* In ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers|Galaxy Rangers]]'', one of the team's nastiest enemies was a [[Forgotten Superweapon]] that took on the appearance of a scarecrow. The Scarecrow ''killed'' a couple of [[Red Shirts]], and ''several'' Tarkonian villages, almost murdered two of the Rangers, and managed to brainwash half the Tarkonian court. Worse, the thing wasn't even killed by being lit on fire! It just ran into the darkness - laughing.

* ''[[Naruto]]'' has Team Seven's sensei, Kakashi, whose name means "scarecrow".

* There's a [http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/strawman.htm really obscure Marvel superhero] called the Strawman (no, not [[Straw Man|that one]]) who is a scarecrow, though he's still pretty scary.

* [[Land of Oz|Oz series]]:

** The Scarecrow from ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]'', probably the most famous non-Scary Scarecrow.

* [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]]'s "Feathertop" is a scarecrow brought to life by a witch, and made by her power to pass for a living man. He ''does'' frighten a couple of people, but ends as a [[Woobie]] himself.

* ''[[Worzel Gummidge]]''

* ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]: Ocarina of Time'' and ''Majora's Mask'' both featured benevolent dancing scarecrows.

* Obscure [[Adventure Game]] ''[[Toonstruck]]'' features a friendly "carecrow" who, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|as its name states]], takes care of the birds instead of scaring them away.

* In ''[[Hatoful Boyfriend]]'', {{spoiler|a really ''fucking creepy'' scarecrow mecha with more than a passing resemblance to [[Silent Hill|Pyramid Head]] shows up to terrorize the characters in the Bad Boys Love route. It's made even creepier when you take in account that said characters are ''birds'', and then it's taken to new heights of creepy when it's revealed that the scarecrow's head contains the brain of the murdered heroine.}}

* Spud from ''[[Bob the Builder]]'' (sort of a [[Tricksters|mischief-maker]], but not scary).

* [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|Applejack]]'s scarecrow costume is adorable.