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* A poster of Two-Face is found in the Amusement Mile in ''[[Gotham City Impostors]]''.
* A poster of Two-Face is found in the Amusement Mile in ''[[Gotham City Impostors]]''.
* Two-Face makes a cameo appearance in ''[[Injustice: Gods Among Us]]''. In the Arkham Asylum level, if one of the characters is thrown through the cell door on the right side of the second tier, they will be attacked by Two-Face, the Penguin and the Riddler before being punched by [[Killer Croc]] into the next tier of the Arkham arena. He also appears in certain missions of mission mode, and will attack one of the two fighters based on the coin flip.
* Two-Face makes a cameo appearance in ''[[Injustice: Gods Among Us]]''. In the Arkham Asylum level, if one of the characters is thrown through the cell door on the right side of the second tier, they will be attacked by Two-Face, the Penguin and the Riddler before being punched by [[Killer Croc]] into the next tier of the Arkham arena. He also appears in certain missions of mission mode, and will attack one of the two fighters based on the coin flip.
* Two-Face appears in ''[[Batman: The Telltale Series]]'', voiced by [[Travis Willingham]]. In the series, Harvey Dent has been Gotham's District Attorney for some time and is running for [[List of mayors of Gotham City|Mayor]] against [[Hamilton Hill (comics)|Hamilton Hill]]. He is also a close friend of Bruce Wayne, who financially supports his campaign, and dating [[Catwoman|Selina Kyle]]. In the second episode, Harvey distances himself from Bruce following a scandal involving Bruce's late parents, but still asks Bruce for campaign contributions. In the climax, a terrorist group known as the Children of Arkham ambush him and Hill and inject a specialized drug in him. Batman has the option to save Dent from an attack by Penguin or rescue Catwoman from Penguin's thugs. If Batman rescues Catwoman, the Penguin smashes a hot light on the left side of Dent's face, disfiguring him. In the third episode, Harvey Dent is sworn in as the new Mayor of Gotham City following Mayor Hill's death. He then begins to show signs of a more aggressive split personality, regardless of whether his face is scarred or not. If Harvey was saved, then he tries to push Batman's style of vigilantism for Gotham's future, and if he's not, he'll view Batman in a negative light similar to the Children of Arkham. In the fourth episode, Harvey has drastically increased security around town to stop the Children of Arkham and has directed the city's wrath towards the Wayne family as revenge for Bruce possibly having an affair with Selina. After Harvey orders Bruce to give up his estate in order to finance his security, Bruce goes as himself or Batman to talk to Dent on a rooftop, during which, Two-Face orders a city block that has the building containing the Children of Arkham's drugs in it blown up, which kills several innocent people in the process. Afterwards, Batman has to choose between defending himself from Two-Face's assault or Penguin's hacking. If he goes to Wayne Manor, he defeats Two-Face and his men (during which the left side of Dent's body except his face is burned) and sends him to Blackgate or Arkham Asylum. If Batman fights Penguin, Two-Face burns down Wayne Manor.
* Two-Face appears in ''[[Batman: The Telltale Series]]'', voiced by [[Travis Willingham]]. In the series, Harvey Dent has been Gotham's District Attorney for some time and is running for [[List of mayors of Gotham City|Mayor]] against [[Hamilton Hill (comics)|Hamilton Hill]]. He is also a close friend of Bruce Wayne, who financially supports his campaign, and dating [[Catwoman|Selina Kyle]]. In the second episode, Harvey distances himself from Bruce following a scandal involving Bruce's late parents, but still asks Bruce for campaign contributions. In the climax, a terrorist group known as the Children of Arkham ambush him and Hill and inject a specialized drug in him. Batman has the option to save Dent from an attack by Penguin or rescue Catwoman from Penguin's thugs. If Batman rescues Catwoman, the Penguin smashes a hot light on the left side of Dent's face, disfiguring him. In the third episode, Harvey Dent is sworn in as the new Mayor of Gotham City following Mayor Hill's death. He then begins to show signs of a more aggressive split personality, regardless of whether his face is scarred or not. If Harvey was saved, then he tries to push Batman's style of vigilantism for Gotham's future, and if he's not, he'll view Batman in a negative light similar to the Children of Arkham. In the fourth episode, Harvey has drastically increased security around town to stop the Children of Arkham and has directed the city's wrath towards the Wayne family as revenge for Bruce possibly having an affair with Selina. After Harvey orders Bruce to give up his estate in order to finance his security, Bruce goes as himself or Batman to talk to Dent on a rooftop, during which, Two-Face orders a city block that has the building containing the Children of Arkham's drugs in it blown up, which kills several innocent people in the process. Afterwards, Batman has to choose between defending himself from Two-Face's assault or Penguin's hacking. If Batman fights Penguin, Two-Face burns down Wayne Manor. If he goes to Wayne Manor, he defeats Two-Face and his men during which the left side of Dent's body except his face is burned and tells Gordon whether to send him to Blackgate Penitentiary (where Batman will say which is what murderers deserve) or Arkham Asylum (where Batman claims that the people there might be able to help him).


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Two-Face
File:Two-Face (BATMAN AND ROBIN 23.1 TWO-FACE).jpg
Two-Face, as depicted on the page of Batman and Robin (vol. 2) #23.1 (2013)
Pencils by Guillem March
Publication information
PublisherDC Comics
First appearanceDetective Comics #66 (Aug. 1942)
Created byBill Finger[1]
Bob Kane[2]
In-story information
Alter egoHarvey Dent
Team affiliations
Notable aliasesApollo, Janus, Mr. Duall, Count Enhance
Abilities
  • Schizoid criminal mastermind obsessed with duality
  • Extensive knowledge in law
  • Experienced hand-to-hand combatant and detective
  • Expert marksmanship skills with twin semi-automatic handguns
  • Toxic immunity[3]

Two-Face (Harvey Dent) is a

rogues gallery
.

Once an upstanding

James Gordon
and Batman.

Two-Face was ranked #12 on

The Dark Knight. Nicholas D'Agosto currently portrays Harvey Dent on the live-action TV series Gotham
.

Publication history

Two-Face first appears in Detective Comics #66 with the name Harvey "Apollo" Kent; later stories changed his name to "Harvey Dent" to avoid an association with Superman (Clark Kent) (Superman appears on screen in the story, although almost certainly this is one of the Fleischer cartoons).[5][6]

The character only made three appearances in the 1940s, and appeared twice in the 1950s (not counting the

impostors mentioned below). By this time, he was dropped in favor of more "kid friendly" villains, though he did appear in a 1968 issue (World's Finest Comics #173), in which Batman declared him to be the criminal he most fears. In 1971, writer Dennis O'Neil
brought Two-Face back, and it was then that he became one of Batman's arch-enemies.

In his autobiography, Batman creator

Black Bat whose origin story included having acid splashed on his face.[7]

In the wake of

Commissioner Gordon, making him an unsettling and personal foe for both men.[9]

Fictional character biography

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Harvey Dent gets half a faceful of acid in Batman: The Long Halloween.

Harvey Dent went through much hardship during his childhood. Growing up under the parentage of an abusive and mentally-ill father, he started developing repressed mental illnesses of his own, such as bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. His hard work ethic, however, later allowed him to rise as the youngest district attorney to serve Gotham City, nicknamed "Apollo" for his good looks and clean-cut image, at age 26. He is elected about six months before Batman begins his war on crime.[8]

Dent forges an alliance with Captain

James Gordon and Batman to rid Gotham of crime boss Sal Maroni,[10] and Carmine Falcone, with the former murdered by the latter's son. Gordon also speculated that Dent might have been Batman, but dismissed this theory on grounds that Dent lacked Batman's financial resources. Falcone hires the corrupt Assistant District Attorney Vernon Fields to provide Sal Maroni with sulfuric acid to disfigure Dent with. Two-Face gets his trademark coin from his father that would employ the coin in a perverse nightly "game" that always ended with a beating. This would instill in Dent his lifelong struggle with free will and his eventual inability to make choices on his own, relying on the coin to make all of his decisions. Eventually, the scarred Dent takes his revenge on Fields and Maroni, leading to his incarceration in Arkham Asylum.[11]

During the

Joker
. Batman admits in the aftermath that, even if Two-Face has survived, Harvey is gone forever.

During a much later period, Two-Face is revealed to have murdered the father of Jason Todd. When attempting to apprehend Two-Face, Jason briefly has the criminal at his mercy, but lets Two-Face's punishment be decided by the law. Two-Face similarly serves as a 'baptism by fire' for Tim Drake. When Two-Face has Batman at his mercy, Tim dons the Robin suit to save Batman.

In Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth, Arkham's doctors replace Dent's coin with a die and eventually a tarot deck; but rather than becoming self-reliant, Dent is now unable to make even the smallest of decisions—such as going to the bathroom. Batman returns the coin, telling Two-Face to use it to decide whether to kill him. Batman leaves safely; but implication is made that Two-Face chose to let Batman live.[12][13]

In the

No Man's Land, with Two-Face as both judge and prosecutor for Gordon's illegal alliance with him; but Gordon plays upon Two-Face's split psyche to demand Harvey Dent as his defense attorney. Dent cross-examines Two-Face and wins an acquittal for Gordon, determining that Two-Face has effectively blackmailed Gordon by implying that he had committed murders to aid the Commissioner.[14]

In Gotham Central, Two-Face meets detective Renee Montoya. Montoya reaches the Dent persona in Two-Face, and is kind to him. He falls in love with her, though the romance is one-sided.[14] Eventually in the Gotham Central series, he outs her as a lesbian and frames her for murder, hoping that if he takes everything from her, she will be left with no choice but to be with him. She is furious, and the two fight for control of his gun until Batman intervenes, putting Two-Face back in Arkham.[15]

In the Two-Face: Crime and Punishment one-shot book, Two-Face captures his own father, planning to humiliate and kill him on live television for the years of abuse he suffered. This story reveals that, despite his apparent hatred for his father, Dent still supports him, paying for an expensive home rather than allowing him to live in a slum. At the end of the book, the Dent and Two-Face personalities argue in thought, Two-Face calling Dent "spineless". Dent proves Two-Face wrong, choosing to jump off a building and commit suicide just to put a stop to his alter ego's crime spree. Two-Face is surprised when the coin flip comes up scarred, but abides by the decision and jumps. Batman catches him, but the shock of the fall seems to (at least temporarily) destroy the Two-Face side of his psyche.

In Two-Face Strikes Twice, Two-Face is at odds with his ex-wife Gilda Dent, as he believes their marriage failed because he was unable to give her children. She later marries Paul Janus (a reference to the Roman god of doors who had two faces). Two-Face attempts to frame Janus as a criminal by kidnapping him and replacing him with a stand-in, whom Two-Face "disfigures" with makeup. Batman eventually catches Two-Face, and Gilda and Janus reunite. Years later, Gilda gives birth to twins, prompting Two-Face to escape once more and take the twins hostage, as he erroneously believes them to be conceived by Janus using an experimental fertility drug. The end of the book reveals that Two-Face is the twins' natural father.

In the

Hush
. He manipulates the courts into setting him free, as Gotham's prosecutors wouldn't attempt to charge him without a body.

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Cover art for the second printing of Detective Comics #818 (April 2006), by Simone Bianchi

In the Batman story arc

Orca
are all shot twice in the head with a double-barreled pistol. When Batman confronts Dent about these deaths, asking him to confirm that he was not responsible, Dent refuses to give a definite answer. He then detonates a bomb in his apartment and leaves Batman dazed as he flees.

Despite escaping the explosion physically unscathed to a motel, Dent suffers a crisis of

scars half his face with nitric acid and a scalpel, becoming Two-Face once again.[16] Blaming Batman for his return, Two-Face immediately goes on a rampage, threatening to destroy the Gotham Zoo (having retained two of every animal—including two humans) before escaping to fight Batman another day.[17]

On the cover of

Streets of Gotham, Two-Face has been at odds with Gotham's latest district attorney Kate Spencer, also known as the vigilante Manhunter. Two-Face has recently been driven out of Gotham City by Jeremiah Arkham
.

In the

reboot
, Two Face's origin is revised significantly. Harvey Dent is a successful defense attorney whose clientele includes twin sisters from the McKillen crime family, Shannon and Erin. The sisters coerce Dent to become their family's legal retainer for life. They then place a contract on James Gordon and his entire family, despite Dent's protestations. The Gordons survive the attempt on their lives, but Dent, trapped by attorney client confidentiality, is unable to dissuade the McKillens from continuing their lethal vendetta. The violent attempt on the Gordons' lives prompts Bruce Wayne to use his resources to initiate and fund Dent's campaign for district attorney. Dent becomes D.A. and has the McKillen sisters prosecuted and sentenced to life in prison. After Shannon commits suicide, Erin escapes by switching places with her sister's corpse. Blaming Dent for her sister's death, Erin breaks into Dent's house, kills Gilda in front of him, and pours acid on his face, transforming him into Two-Face.

Erin McKillen flees the country and remains in hiding for many years. She is forced to return to Gotham City to reassert her control of her family's criminal operations by killing Two-Face. Her return sparks a climactic battle between her, Two-Face, and Batman. Two-Face scars McKillen with the same acid she used on him, but Batman stops him from killing her. Batman and Two-Face continue battling, with Batman trying to convince his foe to end his vendetta. Two-Face then calls Batman, "Bruce", revealing that he has known Batman's true identity for some time. Dent reveals that he struggled internally for quite some time over whether to kill him, but decided not to because it would have violated his sense of justice. He disappears after the battle and Batman is unable to track him. Several panels of Batman and Robin #28 imply that Two-Face commits suicide by shooting himself in the head.

Powers and abilities

Before his transformation into Two-Face, Harvey Dent had a successful career as Gotham's upstanding district attorney, proficient in nearly all matters pertaining to criminal law.

Following his disfigurement, he became obsessed with duality, and thus staged crimes centered around the number two—such as robbing buildings with '2' in the address or staging events that will take place at 10:22 p.m. (2222 in military time). Two-Face has also proven to be a genius in criminal planning, and has constantly demonstrated a high-level of intelligence in plotting heists as a brilliant and respected mastermind in the criminal underworld. In addition, Two-Face is a skilled marksman, and regularly used a variety of firearms (such as dual .22 semiautomatics or a

double barreled shotgun) during his battles with Batman. To further improve his proficiency in the use of firearms, Two-Face hired the sharpshooting assassin Deathstroke to train him.[21]

The Batman: Face to Face story-arc revealed that Batman had previously trained Dent extensively in detective work and hand-to-hand combat (specifically

Kung-fu
), enhancing his already proficient talent in both.

Family

This section details various members of Harvey Dent's family across various interpretations of the Batman mythos.

  • Gilda Dent – Gilda is Harvey's wife in most comic-book incarnations. Gilda wanted to have children with Harvey but his busy schedule precluded this. This led Gilda to become the serial killer known as Holiday, who killed several key members of Carmine Falcone's criminal empire. Gilda fled after Two-Face's first arrest and disappeared. Two-Face constantly denies the chance for plastic surgery and a life with Gilda again but has stated that Harvey Dent is a married man. In the New 52 reboot, Gilda is a socialite that Bruce Wayne introduces to Harvey at a graduation party. She is killed in front of Harvey by Erin McKillen.[22]
  • Christopher Dent – In Batman: Two-Face - Crime and Punishment, Harvey Dent's father is renamed Christopher Dent, although he is once again characterized as a mentally ill alcoholic who frequently abused his son. Harvey represses this trauma for years, fueling the inner torment that eventually turns him into Two-Face.
  • Murray DentBatman: Jekyll & Hyde reveals that when he was a child, Harvey Dent had an older brother, Murray Dent, who died in a fire because his brother was too scared to save him. The comics explain that Murray is Harvey's second personality, and that Harvey's father abused him because he blamed him for Murray's death.

Other characters named Two-Face

Two-Face from Detective Comics #66

During Two-Face's third appearance in the 1940s, his face and sanity are restored. Although there was a demand to use him again, the writers did not want to

retcon
his last story, so they had other characters assume the role.

Wilkins

The first impostor—Wilkins, Dent's butler—uses makeup to suggest that Dent had suffered a relapse and disfigured his own face, giving Wilkins cover to commit crimes as Two-Face.[23]

Paul Sloane

Paul Sloane becomes the second version of Two-Face. An actor who was set to star in a biography of Harvey Dent, Sloane is disfigured by an accident on the set. Sloane's mind snaps, and he begins to think he is Dent. Sloane recovers some of his own personality, but continues to commit crimes as Two-Face. Sloane is reused in later Earth-Two specific stories as Two-Face II of Earth-Two where the original Earth-Two Two-Face remains healed.[24] Sloane is revived in the current continuity as a successor Two-Face,[25] though not replacing Dent as done in the earlier Earth-Two specific storyline.

After the Crisis on Infinite Earths event the Paul Sloane character, with a near identical history to the pre-Crisis version, appears in Detective Comics #580 and #581. In Double Image, Harvey Dent (as Two-Face) employs The Crime Doctor to re-disfigure Sloane. Dent does this out of jealous bitterness and the hope that Sloane would commit crimes based on the number two, thus confusing Batman. At the end of the story, Sloane is once again healed physically and mentally.

Paul Sloane is introduced into post-

Zero Hour continuity as a criminal called the Charlatan in Detective Comics #777 (February 2003). In this incarnation, Sloan (now spelled without a silent e) had been hired by Gotham's costumed criminals to take Two-Face's place in a scheme to kill Batman. When the real Two-Face learns about this, he captures Sloan and disfigures his face. Scarecrow
then experiments on him with fear toxins. Driven insane, The Charlatan becomes obsessed with both getting revenge on the criminals who hired him and completing his mission to kill Batman. Charlatan is defeated by Batman and incarcerated.

George Blake

The third version of Two-Face is petty criminal George Blake. However, he is not actually disfigured but is wearing make-up. Furthermore, his makeup is worn on the opposite side of his face to Harvey Dent or Paul Sloane.[26]

Batman as Two-Face

Also noteworthy is a 1968 story where Batman himself is temporarily turned into Two-Face via a potion (World's Finest Comics #173).

Harvey Apollo

Another Two-Face appears in the Batman Sunday strips. Actor Harvey Apollo is scarred with acid when testifying against a mobster in court, and becomes a criminal. At the end of the story arc, he accidentally hangs himself after slipping on the silver dollar piece he uses as Two-Face.[citation needed]

Harvey Dent

As mentioned above, Harvey Dent does return as Two-Face in the 1970s. With the establishment of the

Clark Kent
, and his shared name with the latter creates confusion.

Two-Face-Two

In Batman #700, which establishes

Robin
and Batman's biological son. Unlike the original Two-Face, this version of the character was born deformed with a second face, rather than being scarred by acid or fire, and flips two coins instead of one. He is then killed when a machine falls on him.

Another Two-Face-Two is briefly mentioned during the course of the DC One Million storyline, with the Batman of the 853rd century comments how this villain was defeated when the second Batman convinced him that the law of averages proved his coin-tossing would ultimately cause him to make more 'good' decisions than he would 'bad' ones.[volume & issue needed]

Other versions

As one of Batman's most recognizable and popular opponents, Two-Face appears in numerous comics which are not considered part of the regular DC continuity, including:

The Dark Knight Returns

In the alternate future setting of The Dark Knight Returns, plastic surgery returns Dent's face to normal, but at the unforeseen cost of permanently destroying the good-hearted Harvey Dent personality. The monstrous Two-Face is left in permanent control—to the extent that one of his henchmen now refers to him only as "Face". He attempts to blow up the Gotham Twin Towers with his face swathed in bandages, with the intention of dying in the explosions. He then sees both sides of his face as scarred, or as he later says to Batman when he captures him, "At least both sides match". Later in the series, his psychiatrist (who is characterized as completely inept) describes Dent's condition as "recovering nicely".

Batman Black and White

Two-Face has a brief short story in the first issue of Batman Black and White, in the comic titled "Two of a Kind" featuring him receiving plastic surgery to regain his original identity as Harvey Dent, only to suffer a relapse when his fiancée—his former psychiatrist—is revealed to have a psychotic twin sister, who kills her sister and forces him to become Two-Face again in order to take his revenge.

Elseworlds

In the Elseworlds story

Star Sapphire (who in this reality is Selina Kyle).[27]

In The Doom That Came To Gotham, an Elseworlds story based on

Lovecraft, Harvey Dent is hideously mutated on the right side of his body by Talia Al Ghul, and used as a conduit for a ritual intended to resurrect her father, the ancient sorcerer Ra's al Ghul
, to bring about the end of Gotham City and the world. He is euthanized by Batman by the end of the story.

Two-Face also appears in the

Mr. Hyde for the purpose of using Hyde as an "incubator" to grow an organic microchip, giving Hyde drugs to speed up this process (regardless of the fact that this would kill him). It is also revealed in this book that Harvey Dent had once been friends with Matt Murdock, who is secretly Daredevil. Prior to his disfigurement, Dent believed in giving criminals a chance at rehabilitation
, while Murdock believed in final justice; having reversed his outlook to what Dent had once believed, Murdock talks Two-Face out of killing Hyde without Two-Face using his coin. Two-Face, however, insists that act is merely "the last of Harvey Dent".

In the Elseworlds comic Batman: Masque, a pastiche of The Phantom of the Opera, Harvey Dent takes the role of the Phantom.

In the Elseworlds book Batman: Crimson Mist, the third part of the trilogy that began with

Batman & Dracula: Red Rain, where Batman became a vampire, Two-Face, having only recently suffered his accident, forms a new gang accompanied by Killer Croc as his muscle and forges an alliance with Commissioner Gordon and Alfred Pennyworth to stop Batman when his insane thirst for blood drives him to kill his old enemies. After Batman is believed killed in the old Batcave, Two-Face turns on the two men, forcing Alfred to flee and rescue Batman while Gordon kills Two-Face's men. As he confronts Gordon, Two-Face is interrupted by Batman, restored to life after Alfred sacrificed himself so that his blood could restore his master. Batman drives two crossbow bolts into each side of Two-Face's head, citing it as "One for each face".[28]

In the Elseworlds tale

Batman/Tarzan: Claws of the Cat-woman, explorer and adventurer Finnegan Dent is revealed to be stealing the sacred artifacts of an African Tribe in the lost city of Mnemnom. During an encounter with Batman and Tarzan- Tarzan had been visiting Gotham to attend to business when Batman learned about Dent's true agenda, teaming up with the Dark Knight to help him stop Dent raiding the city-, half of Dent's face is mauled by a lion, prompting him to decide to remain in Mnemnom and establish himself as its ruler on the grounds that society would have no place for a man with half a face. He is last seen being sealed away in a tomb of the rulers of Mnemnom after he triggers an explosion in a fight with Tarzan and Batman, Tarzan informing Dent as he takes the unconscious Batman to safety that taking Dent back to Gotham to face trial is Batman's idea of justice rather than his; he later tells Batman that Dent died when the falling rubble that knocked Batman unconscious crushed him.[29]

In the

Catwoman: Guardian of Gotham, model Darcy Dent has half her face scarred when a rival model hires a hitman to lace her facial cream with acid. Unlike the regular Two-Face, Darcy does not rely on a coin toss to make her decisions, nor does she suffer from any type of personality disorder. Her motive is simply revenge based against those responsible for her disfigurement, and her motif is mutilating her victims faces and wearing a half business suit with a spiked metal bikini.[30]

Thrillkiller

In the

Gotham City Police Department, whose face is scarred in a manner similar to the version of Two-Face in the mainstream continuity. Duell is arrested at the end of Thrillkiller: Batgirl and Robin.[31] In the sequel, Batgirl and Batman: Thrillkiller '62, Harvey Dent is the new District Attorney. He appears at the end as the new mayor of Gotham.[32]

Earth-Three

The new

Justice Underground
, opposing Ultraman's Crime Syndicate.

Evelyn has three personalities (Irrational, Practical, and Hedonistic). To portray this, she wears a costume that is divided in three parts. Her right side favors loud fabrics like polka-dots, stripes, or plaids; her left side favors animal prints like tiger or leopard; and the center is a wide stripe of green. Over her leotard she wears a leather jacket that is a brown bomber jacket on the right and a black biker jacket on the left. Her face is not scarred but is instead usually painted all white with a vertical green center stripe and dark green or black lipstick; sometimes she is shown with her face parted into light green on the right, white in the middle, and mauve on the left. Her black hair is divided into cropped short on the right (sometimes dyed pink or red), worn shoulder-length on the left, and a mohawk in the center. She carries a revolver in a holster slung on her right hip.

She later has a

cybernetic left arm after Superwoman
mutilates her and leaves her for dead.

Gotham By Gaslight

The Earth-19 version of Two-Face is a serial killer called "The Double Man", as mentioned in Countdown: Arena.

Tangent Comics

On the

psionic powers and is that world's Superman
, although he has no other similarities to the Two-Face character.

Flashpoint

In the alternate timeline of the

James Gordon locates Joker with Dent's children in Wayne Manor, and goes in without any backup. Gordon is tricked into shooting Dent's daughter, as she has been taped to a chair and disguised as Joker. Joker then appears and kills Gordon before Batman arrives.[34] Batman rushes in and manages to save Dent's daughter by resuscitating her. Batman then moves them away from Joker.[35]

The Batman Adventures

In The Batman Adventures, which is set in the continuity of Batman: The Animated Series, Two-Face is on the verge of being cured when the Joker convinces him that his fiancee, Grace Lamont, is cheating on him with Bruce Wayne. His evil personality takes hold once again, and he kidnaps Grace. Batman and Robin foil his plan and send him back to Arkham. Grace, meanwhile, realizes that Dent will never be cured and leaves him.

In another issue, Two-Face's life is thrown into chaos when he loses his coin during an unplanned breakout from Arkham, and replaces it with a quarter. Little Jonni Infantino, the mastermind behind the breakout, threatens to hurt Grace if Two-Face doesn't provide information on one of Rupert Thorne's thugs: Weird Tony Hendra, one of Harvey Dent's last cases as District Attorney. Two-Face runs into a pay phone and warns Grace to get out of her apartment before Jonni can get to her. Later on, Grace is seen crying at a Chinese restaurant, calling Bruce Wayne to tell him that Dent saved her life; it is implies that Grace still loves him.

Batman: Earth One

In the graphic novel,

Oswald Cobblepot. Jessica takes over Cobblepot's term as mayor following his confrontation with Batman, which resulted his death and his crimes are posthumously outed.[36] In Volume Two, Jessica discovers that Bruce is Batman, and they each reciprocate the romantic affection they had for each other since childhood. However, after Sal Maroni kills Harvey, Jessica is disfigured following the incident when she presses her face against Harvey's burns, her final exchange with Bruce suggesting that she has developed a split personality with her brother as the other identity.[37]

Batman Beyond

In the Batman Beyond universe, Two-Face is revealed to be reformed into Harvey Dent again. He then set up a law preventing deceased villains to have public graves in order to prevent martyrdom.[citation needed]

Injustice: Gods Among Us

In Injustice: Gods Among Us's prequel comic, Two-Face first appears in Chapter Fourteen, crashing a live broadcast on a Gotham news channel, having murdered a guest speaker and taken his place. His obsession with duality appealed too by the recent actions of Superman due to the destruction of Metropolis and with half the nation in favor of his recent actions and the other not, Two-Face himself admits, "I couldn't stay away. I tried. But the coin...".

Two-Face flips his signature coin to decide which of the anchors he will kill when the coin is vaporized by a blast of Superman's heat vision before it has a chance to land in his hand. Shocked, infuriated and at a loss, Two-Face brandishes his gun at the Man of Steel but the weapon is easily destroyed. Two-Face is then subdued by the news station's security guards and he is last seen back in

Robin. Two-Face is still bound and restrained throughout both Chapters 15 and 16, witnessing the heroes arguing in the former and attempts to attack Robin during Harley Quinn's riot, but is knocked out by one of Green Arrow
's boxing arrows.

DC Comics Bombshells

In an alternate history set in 1941, issue 13 of the DC Comics Bombshells comic depicts Harvey Dent as the newly elected mayor of Gotham City. Despite having been elected on a platform of supporting World War II refugees from Europe, he becomes an anti-immigrant isolationist in office, who vows to crack down on vigilantes under the slogan "Make Gotham Golden Once More". Tim Drake acknowledges this as a "heavy-handed-but-uncomfortably-timely political allegory" of Donald Trump, whom Dent is drawn to resemble. During the issue, it is revealed that Dent's change is due to him being mind controlled by Hugo Strange, and Dent is freed from the professor's influence at the end. After Dent was saved, he dedicated himself to aiding the Batgirls in their cause. During a battle between Killer Frost and the Reaper, Harvey saves Alyssa Yeoh and Nell Little from one of Killer Frost's blasts, causing half of his face to get frozen and blackened from severe frostbite. Harvey's facial damage doesn't drive him insane, as the Batgirls remind him that since he got it from risking his life to save them, it shows that he's more whole than two-faced. He is seen in their layer serving as their butler similar to Alfred Pennyworth.[38]

In other media

Television

Live action

Nicholas D'Agosto as Harvey Dent on Gotham.
  • Clint Eastwood was considered for the role of Two-Face in the 1960s Batman television series, where he was to be reimagined as a news anchor who was disfigured when a television set exploded in his face.[39] But the character was labeled "too gruesome and too violent" for the "kid-friendly" attitude that surrounded the show (as comics and cartoon strips were subject to strict censorship at this time), so he did not end up appearing. The story was eventually made into the Batman '66 comic, called "The Lost Episode".
  • A younger, pre-disfigurement Harvey Dent appears on the live action TV series
    James Gordon, and helps investigate the murders of Thomas and Martha Wayne. He and Gordon also work together to uncover the secrets of corrupt Commissioner Gillian B. Loeb. D'Agosto was promoted to a series regular for the second season.[41]

Animated

DC Animated Universe
Harvey Dent / Two-Face, as depicted in the DC Animated Universe.

Two-Face appears in several cartoons in the DC Animated Universe, where he is voiced by Richard Moll (as Harvey Dent / Two-Face) and Malachi Throne (as the Judge).

  • In
    Commissioner Gordon's trust, and the two eventually arrest Thorne. Although Two-Face and Mason frame Gordon for working with Thorne, they are eventually exposed by Batman, Dick Grayson and Barbara Gordon. In the episode "Trial", Two-Face acts as the 'prosecutor' when Batman's rogues gallery hold the Dark Knight prisoner at Arkham Asylum in a kangaroo court. In the episode "Second Chance", Dent undergoes cosmetic surgery to destroy the Two-Face persona permanently. But before he can go through with the operation, he is kidnapped by thugs under the orders of Two-Face in an attempt to remain in control of Dent's psyche
    . Eventually, Batman and Robin recapture Two-Face, and is later grateful to Bruce as he's returned to Arkham.
  • Two-Face returns in The New Batman Adventures. In the episode "Sins of the Father", Two-Face is indirectly responsible for Tim Drake's transformation into Robin. He murders Shifty Drake, motivating Robin to join forces with Batman and Batgirl in order to bring Two-Face to justice. In the episode "Judgement Day", Harvey Dent's psyche fragments again in the form of the Judge, a court-themed vigilante who apprehends criminals by using extreme measures. Neither the Two-Face nor the Dent persona are aware of the Judge's existence within their shared mind.
  • In the
    alternate reality version of Two-Face makes a cameo appearance as a lobotomized janitor in the Justice Lords' dimension. In the series finale "Starcrossed", Two-Face's coin is seen on display in the Batcave
    .

Film

Live-action

Batman: The Motion Picture Anthology
Tommy Lee Jones as Two-Face in Batman Forever (1995), with Sugar (Drew Barrymore) on the left and Spice (Debi Mazar) on the right.
The Dark Knight Trilogy
The Dark Knight
(2008).
  • son
    to inflict upon Gordon the pain of losing a loved one. But before he can do so, Batman, who is unharmed because he was wearing body armor, tackles Dent off the ledge of the building, killing him. Batman takes the blame for Dent's crimes to ensure that their fallen ally is remembered as a hero.
  • Harvey Dent's legacy plays an important role in
    Bane
    acquires Gordon's speech regarding the cover-up of Dent's crimes, and reads it on live television to undermine confidence in the legal system and throw Gotham's social order into chaos.

Animated

Video games

Lego series

Arkham series

Two-Face in a promotional image for Batman: Arkham Knight.

Troy Baker voices Harvey Dent/Two-Face in the Batman: Arkham franchise.

  • In
    Joker, a police radio states that Two-Face is robbing the Second National Bank, resulting in Batman
    leaving Arkham Island to pursue him.
  • Two-Face appears in
    Penguin's turf in Arkham City, effectively making him the only crime boss in Arkham City. Catwoman later goes to the museum after Two-Face's men bomb her apartment and take her valuables. There, she manages to defeat Two-Face and retrieve most of her loot. Two-Face also appears as a boss in the mobile game Batman: Arkham City Lockdown
    .
  • In the prequel Batman: Arkham Origins, Harvey Dent's election as district attorney is shown on several newspapers.[47]
  • Two-Face returns in Batman: Arkham Knight. He joins Scarecrow's band of supervillains in an attempt to end the Dark Knight once and for all. Using a selection of firearms supplied by the Penguin, Two-Face and his men oversee a string of bank heists in the side mission, "Two-Faced Bandit". He is ultimately defeated and sent to the GCPD lockup by Batman. Two-Face later returns as the main villain in the DLC "A Flip Of A Coin" which features Robin (Tim Drake) protecting Gotham after Batman’s apparent death and hunting down the newly-escaped Two-Face at Hell's Gate Disposal Services.[48]

Miscellaneous

  • During the
    Joker
    .
  • Chris Allen portrays Two-Face in a musical production entitled Holy Musical B@man by StarKid Productions.
  • From 1999 to 2009, Vekoma made an Invertigo roller coaster in Six Flags America, called Two-Face: The Flip Side. The ride was SBNO for two seasons until its removal due to repeated mechanical failures.[49][50]
  • The CollegeHumor "Badman" series parodies the final scene in The Dark Knight, where Two-Face threatens Gordon's son. However, Batman doesn't know that Harvey Dent and Two-Face are the same person, so he thinks he sees three different people whenever the villain turns his head, greatly annoying Dent and the Gordons.[51]

In popular culture

Merchandise

See also

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