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Current alternate identity: Harvey Dent

Two-Face is a criminal who has one half of his face horribly scarred, and the other stunningly handsome. He's completely obsessed with the number "2," duality, and fate. As such, all of the crimes that he commits revolve around the number "2," and he's psychologically unable to do anything else. He carries a double-headed coin around with him that has one of the heads scarred, and he flips the coin before he makes any decisions involving a question of law and illegal activities; even when it would senselessly inconvenience him, sometimes surrendering when he otherwise could've escaped. Tragically, before becoming Two-Face, he was "Harvey Dent," Gotham City's District Attorney, and one of the Batman's closest friends and allies. Batman considers Harvey Dent's descent into madness to be one of his own greatest failures. Two-Face was created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger, first appearing in Detective Comics #66. (1942)

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Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight (2008)
  • The character of Two-Face was created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane.
  • Originally, he was one of many gimmicked comic book villains: he plotted crimes around the number two, such as robbing Gotham Second National Bank at 2:00 on February 2. In more recent years, more serious-minded writers have portrayed his obsession with duality and his criminal behaviour as the result of multiple personality disorder.
  • In the comics, Two-Face often formed temporary alliances with Gotham City's other criminals, in particular The Joker and The Penguin.
  • In the 1980s, Frank Miller rewrote Two-Face's origin, making him a victim of bipolar disorder and paranoid schizophrenia. Miller also introduced a much stronger aspect to the dual nature, using Two-Face as a metaphor for the charitable and hostile sides of human nature. In this incarnation, Two-Face/Dent was reimagined as a tragic character, with a back story that included an abusive father and struggling through law school. Miller further expanded on the character by making the pre-accident Dent a major heroic figure in Batman: Year One. Dent's past actions and ties to both Batman and Commissioner Gordon make him an unsettling and personal foe for both men.

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  • In the alternate future setting of The Dark Knight Returns, Dent's face was returned to normal, but at the unforeseen cost of permanently destroying the good-hearted Harvey Dent personality, leaving the monstrous Two-Face in control forever.
  • In earlier incarnations of the character, the scarred left side of Harvey's face was colored green. Later interpretations of the character however shows his disfigurement as either blue or purple, presumably to simulate the physical appearance of actual burn victims.
  • Billy Dee Williams played Harvey Dent in Batman (Movie) so he could be Two-Face in a sequel. Batman Forever's director Joel Schumacher had to pay a fee to Williams so he could use Tommy Lee Jones as the villain in that movie.
  • Although too gruesome for the 1960s television show (Clint Eastwood was proposed to play him at one time, as a former news-anchor who became disfigured when a television exploded in his face) that popularized Batman and much of his rogues gallery. As a result, the producers created a substitute villain who proved so popular that he eventually became part of the Batman canon: Mr. Freeze.
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