YMMV / Doctor Syn ("The Scarecrow")

• Adaptation Displacement: Syn's lieutenants don't have bird and skull masks of their own in the books, but the way they do have such masks in this version has stuck with the fandom.
• Awesome Music: The theme song from the miniseries is fondly remembered as spooky and catchy by many Disney fans.
• Cult Classic: Disney's The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh. Not embedded into the public conscious as much as Davey Crockett but still fondly remembered enough by the baby boomers who saw it that it became one of the most requested Disney titles to be released on home video. When it was released in 2008 as part of the Walt Disney Treasures line, it sold out within three weeks.
• Designated Hero: By modern standards Syn is hit by this. It's partially to be expected with his Anti-Hero status but you will find people who think he is just too violent for the hero label.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The 1939 novel Amazing Quest of Doctor Syn is set around Portmeiron. After his role as Doctor Syn, Patrick McGoohan would star in The Prisoner (1967), which was filmed in Portmeiron.
• Improved by the Re-Cut: The condensed British movie version is often regarded as being better than the miniseries and American movie version due to cutting out a Romantic Plot Tumor and a lot of long conversations between secondary characters while leaving in a comprehensible story plot and all the chases and spooky scenes.
• It Was His Sled: The first novel, Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh, is the only one that conceals Syn's Secret Identity from the reader, with this only being revealed at the end. These days, it's unlikely that the average reader will come to this book unaware that Doctor Syn and the Scarecrow are actually the same person. Some versions of the book even give this away in the blurb on the back cover!
• Magnificent Bastard: Doctor Syn himself — a Cultured Badass who is able to outsmart just about everyone who tries to put an end to the very well-organised smuggling operation that he's running on Romney Marsh. He's so good, they don't even realise that he's their main antagonist, leading some of them to confide their plans in him!
• Values Dissonance: The fact that the Mulatto is only ever referred to as such (it's a term used to describe someone of mixed European and African ancestry, and is nowadays considered offensive) really does date the books.

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