Phobia is another obvious one, but that doesn’t make him any less fun. Mysterio and Scarecrow both teeter on being silly or incredibly menacing depending on the story, both characters who play with their enemies’ fear and cast visages to haunt them. 

Quentin Crane is a washed up Horror movie director who has been relegated to making terrible B-Movies. Fed up with his life and career, Quentin decides it’s time for a change – not to himself, but to the horror movie industry. Using his love for special effects and a knack for chemistry (he’s been making smoke bombs ever since high school for his student films), Quentin makes a strange substance that, when inhaled, would create horrific hallucinations, instill a deathly sense of dread and send chills down the spine of everyone who as much as sniffed it. 

One night, during the premiere of his latest schlocky slasher, Quentin pumps the substance through the cinema vents, hoping to create a new sort of horror experience. And horrific it is, perhaps the dosis was too high, perhaps the substance was faulty to begin with, but as the movie goes on the audience slowly loses their minds. Most of the moviegoers ended up not surviving the experience, clawing their eyes out of their heads or jumping from the balcony during the second act. 

Quentin, now one of the biggest mass murderers of all time, goes on the run, and with half of the superhero community after him decides to don a killer outfit and become a real super villain: Phobia!

Obviously a Mysterio amalgamation needs the fishbowl, don’t do Mysterio if you don’t do the fishbowl I say! But I changed the usual smoke pattern inside into something more sinister and gave it those cool respirators that Scarecrow usually has attached to his mask. The costume is straight forward; taking inspiration from that raggedy old look usually associated with Scarecrow and kind of melding that with the Mysterio cape and gauntlets. 

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