From: abick@sebastian.carleton.ca (Alan Bick)
Subject: Re: BTAS: How DID Batman get that coin???
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 02:48:33 GMT

In <BxMMD8.18K@news.cso.uiuc.edu> pmm34393@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Dr. Vincent Vaugn ) writes:

>In article <abick.721600912@cunews> abick@sebastian.carleton.ca (Alan Bick) writes:
>>	Everyone seems to be knocking Batman for not being "resourceful"
>>enough to beat his villians. Needing Joker's weenie fork is a good
>>example, plus the fact that he didn't save himself, Catwoman did! I'll
>>admit that this shouldn't be, but there have been some IMPOSSIBLE stuff
>>going around too. The one that really sticks out in my book is...
>>
>>	THE DAMNED COIN!!!
>>
>>	How the hell did Batman get Two-Face's coin in Almost Got'm? I
>>mean he was "pinned" down (arms AND legs) to the big coin so it's not like he
>>could grab it from Two-Face? The only way I see him getting it is if
>>Two-Face flipped it up and it land RIGHT IN Batman's hand. And that is not
>>very likely.
>>	Two-Face has been flippin that coin god knows how long so I think
>>he must be good at it. Even if he isn't he should at least know when he
>>misses right? So how did it get in Batman's hand?
>>	I welcome even the most LUDICROUS of suggestions... such as Harvey
>>Dent took over Two-Face (for a second) and gave the coin to Batman. Big
>>Bad Harve then took over and realized that he didn't have his precious
>>coin.
>As far as Two-face is concerned, I was under the impression that Two-face
>is NOT Big Bad Harve, it is a merging of the 2 sides of Harvey's personality.
>If you listen to the two parts of the Two-face origin one after the other
>you notice that Two-faces's voice is different from Harvey's or Big
>Bad Harve. Since Moll does all the voices for the character, I assume the
>voice change was intentional. The fact that Harvey is now a criminal does
>not seem to fit in with his origin, which portrayed him as simply getting
>back at Thorne. Unless his crimes are still designed to affect Thorne, there
>is no reason that I see for him to be a criminal. 

I guess I should listen more closely to Two-Face's voices. (No pun
intended) My remarks concerning Harvey & Big Bad Harve was an example of a
LUDICROUS solution. I'm sure it isn't true, but it could be a possibility.


>>	Come on, I'm sure some of you out there must have similar
>>suggestions.
>>
>>Alan Bick
>>
>>One last thing, how come Two-Face's coin is scratched on the end. I don't
>>think it was originally. Even if it was, didn't Batman throw the coin into
>>a fountain? Harvey couldn't tell it apart before, how could he find it in
>>the fountain later. He didn't even know Batman threw it in the fountain!

>I didn't think that the coin that Batman threw into the fountain was the
>same coin. It was not specifically shown to be scarred on one side. Even
>if it was, then Harvey could probably have gotten another 2-headed 
>quarter from somewhere else. If he uses the same coin all the time, then
>that could be a reason why it is all beaten up. Remember, he used to date
>Poison Ivy in this episode, so it probably occurs a long while after his
>origin. I still don't see how Batman got the coin--I agree that that 
>makes no sense.
>.



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Alan Bick
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