Harvey Dent

**Harvey Dent** is a former ally, turned enemy, of the Batman.

## Biography

### Rising star in Gotham

After studiyng at Gotham University, Harvey Dent became a rising star in Gotham City, as one of the most popular district attorneys the city had ever seen. He also met and married a woman named Gilda, who secretly had a dark past, which she kept from him. His main goal was to take down the infamous mob boss Carmine Falcone, also known as the Roman, which he did by working closely together with the vigilante known as the Batman, as well as the Gcpd captain James Gordon. During this time, Harvey also convinced Batman that Gotham Penitentiary was not the right place to lock up the criminally insane supervillains he was fighting, and instead proposed to send them to the Arkham Asylum, to which the dark knight agreed. After months of working to take down Falcone, Harvey finally made progress by convincing the Roman's nephew, Johnny Viti, to act as a witness against his uncle.

### The Long Halloween begins

Unfortunately for Harvey though, an at that time unknown individual only known as the "Holiday Killer", murdered Viti on October 31st, before he could testify aginst Falcone. On the same night, Dent and his wife were at home and planned to spend the evening together, though their time was cut short by the Bat-Signal shining in the sky, which signaled Harvey to go. He then went to the Gcpd Headquarters and talked with Batman and Gordon, who informed him that his vitness had been killed. Outraged, Dent started to blame Gordon for it for not giving Viti enough protection, but after cooling down, the three of them made a pact to take down the Roman at all costs. Batman then saw someone spying on them from another roof and vanished in order to chase them. Gordon, noticing that his friend was gone, jokingly told Dent that he always did that, but soon realized that Harvey had also left, leaving him to talk to himself. Dent followed Batman, by tracking his signal, and arrived at an Falcone Imports Warehouse, which was used to store all the money Falcone couldn’t launder. He was then attacked by Catwoman, who thought him to be an intruder. Before she left, she took a matchstick out of her boot and proposed to burn it all to the ground, though this made neither Batman nor Dent feel particularly comfortable, seeing as they indeed wanted to win, but not like this. In the end, Batman took out a coin and made the proposition to flip it. He said that if it would land on heads, they would hurt Falcone as much as possible and light the warehouse up in flames. Dent liked the idea to leave it to chance and decided to do it. Unsurprisingly, seeing as it was a double sided coin, it landed on heads and in mere minutes Falcone lost a huge part of his money laundering operation.

### Hospitalized

Harvey then returned home and found Gilda alone and seemingly in a depressed state in the garden. He promised to take care of her and carried her inside. Falcone though, did not forgive so easily and ordered Mickey Chen to blow to take care of it. As the Dents walked inside, their house exploded in a fireball and they barely survived, with Harvey being injured so badly that he had to be brought to the hospital. On Thanksgiving night, he left his room in the hospital and decided to go to the Falcone Tower in order to deal with the Roman once and forall, now acting more direct and unhinged than before. Though, before he was able to do something stupid, Gordon intervened and calmed Harvey down, giving him his weapon in order to keep his family safe. On the same evening, Mickey Chen and all of his friends were found murdered by the Holiday Killer.

### Joker's attacks

Sometime later, Harvey got released from the hospital and on December 24th, was ambushed by the criminally insane Joker, who had escaped the Arkham Asylum a couple of months before. He had been waiting for him in his new house, while Gilda went christmas shopping. The two of them fought and the Joker gained the upperhand, constantly laughing and making jokes to distract Harvey. After overwhelming Harvey by kicking him between the legs, the mad clown said that he though it to be possible that Dent himself was Holiday, a deduction which his fellow inmate the Calendar Man also had. He then knocked Dent out after he provoked him by calling his joke unfunny and left, in order to follow other leads. Later, Batman found him and Harvey told him that the Joker was most likely going after Salvatore Maroni, Falcones biggest rival. After this evening, based on Calendar Man's hints, Batman started to view Dent as a possible candidate for the Holiday Killer. A week later, Harvey and Gilda were on the New Year’s Eve parade in the city, where they met Gordon and his wife Barbara. During the parade Harvey and his wife started arguing about him barely being home anymore due to his work. Gilda mentioned that Harvey was not like someone she once knew, which visibly upset Dent. They were interrupted by the Joker flying a plane, who was trying to poison half the city with his Joker Gas, though he was stopped by the Batman. Later on the same evening, Alberto Falcone, the Roman's son, was murdered by Holiday and Carmine was set under the protection of the Gcpd. Harvey, Gordon and Batman met in an alley and discussed the irony that after they had spent months trying to take him down, they were now supposed to protect Falcone.

### Further investigations

Over the next few months though, Batman would be prevented from acting as Gotham's protector by a person working for Falcone while Gordon and Dent were forced to face the next Holiday killings alone. After Batman was able to assist them again, Harvey and Jim went to Bruce Wayne, which they didn’t know was secretly Batman, and questioned him about his sudden disappearance from the yacht on which Alberto Falcone was killed. Dent, probably stressed out by the pressure on him, accused Wayne's father of having helped the Roman in his rise to power, but Wayne stayed calm and did not loose his temper him. He calmly told them the entire story of how his father had once saved the Roman’s life. His butler, Alfred Pennyworth, then gave them a list of bought witnesses to exonerate him, after which his his butler asked them kindly to leave and not to make mister Wayne suffer under his father's sins. Later, while in his office, Dent would be visited by Maroni, whose father had become the latest victim of Holiday recently, and said that before he died, his father had advised him to make peace, with what he presumed was the law. He surrendered himself to the law and proposed a deal to Harvey, in which he and his men would be released from all charges but he would sell Carmine Falcone out to the police, telling them everything he knew about his illegal activities. In truth though, Maroni only wanted to get close to Dent, whom he suspected to be Holiday, and take his revenge for his father’s death on him. Nevertheless, Harvey agreed and took out his double sided coin in order to "decide" whether to accept or not.

### Dive into Insanity

On July fourth Dent, his wife and Jim and Barbara Gordon all took part in a festival held on pier, in order to celebrate Independence Day. Falcone too arrived and greeted them, though he only referred to the Dents as "Dent" and said that he meant his wife. Later in the same night, Harvey and Gilda were attacked by a hitman, but were protected by Catwoman, who was now working actively against Falcone. Though she managed to save his life, she was knocked unconscious from behind and the hitman fought with Dent until Harvey passed out from exhaustion. After regaining his consciousness, he heard a strange and aggressive voice for the first time, a voice which would soon take a lot more active role in his life. As he woke up, he noticed the hitman, now deceased and seemingly killed and presented with the same pattern as the other Holiday victims, lying next to him. This made him question if in truth he was the killer, though before anyone could see him, he fled the scene. Sometime later, he would interrogate Maroni in front of a court, in order to present the judge with enough evidence to apprehend Falcone. Unfortunately though, Maroni did not plan to betray Carmine, as much as he would have liked it. He publicly accused Harvey of being the Holiday Killer, before throwing a bottle of acid into his face. While Maroni was taken away, Gordon, Batman and the rest of the present people saw the consequences of this accident. Harvey's complete left side of his face was burt away and scarred. He was then taken to the Gotham Hospital again, this time under strict police surveillance. After this, the media, the Falcone Family as well as Batman and Gordon all had Dent as the primary suspect in the Holiday case.

### Becoming Two-Face

As he was lying in his hospital bed, the voice from earlier spoke to him and declared him "dead" and from that moment on, seemed to have overtaken his body, as a second personality. He then got a call from Falcone, proposing a meeting at the docks. This new personality of his accepted and sneaked out of the hospital once more, in order to attend the meeting. As he arrived, he had to realize that Carmine was not present at all. The two thugs who had brought him to said location handed him a phone, through which Falcone explained to him that he wanted revenge on him for the murder of his son, implying that he thought Dent to be Holiday. After he hung up, Dent acted as if Falcone had asked him to give the phone to one of his goons and therefore was able to trick them into grabbing it, before he was able to overwhelm and kill the two henchmen, though during the fight, he fell down into the Gotham river and from there, went to hide in the sewers. There, he would met the mysterious Zombie only known as Solomon Grundy, who repeatedly said the first phrase of the rhyme on which his name is based: "Born on a Monday." Dent spoke to him and while he only repeated this one sentence, Grundy seemed to try to communicate with him. Or he merely did what he always did, without even understanding Harvey's problems. Either way, after their conversation, Dent saw his accident as his "rebirth", such as Grundy's Monday. He tore the bandages off his face and exposed the now scarred half of his face to the outside. Now calling himself Two-Face, he and Grundy, who now was something resembling his right hand man, attacked the prison transport, where Salvatore Maroni was being used as bait in order to capture Dent. As Two-Face came out of the shadows and showed Maroni the result of his own work, Jim, still hurt from the car crash, amied a gun at him and ordered him to surrender, telling him that they had found the Holiday weapons in his basement. While being confused by this at first, Harvey quickly realized what this meant and did as he was asked to do. But before he was able to lay down his weapons. the real Holiday Killer shot Maroni in the head from the alley they were in and escaped. Batman, who had incapacitated Grundy in the meantime, tried to follow Holiday, but was incapacitated by Two-Face, who then escaped together with Grundy.

### Attack on Falcone

Two-Face then decided to go after the Roman himself, and together with Grundy, broke almost every major villain Batman had faced in is career up until now out, with the exception of Calendar Man, due to his coin landing on its "tail" side with him, which Harvey had now added by placing a giant cross on one side. With his new team, consisting of Solomon Grundy, the Joker, Poison Ivy, [[Jonathan Crane}Scarecrow]], the Mad Hatter and the Penguin, he would have enough manpower to take down the Roman. On October 31st, exactly one year after the Holiday killings, now being referred to as The Long Halloween, had started, his plan was initiated. While Ivy, Scarecrow and the Hatter distracted the police forces on the ground, Two-Face, Joker, Grundy and the Penguin were to infiltrate the Falcone tower and attack him directly. After Grundy had tanked all the gunfire directed at them and taken out everyone of Falcones henchmen, his daughter Sofia entered the room with two machine guns. Dents new partner, the Penguin acted quickly and shot a rocket misile from his umbrella at her, which hit the ground next to her and knocked her out. Carmine himself then entered the room and saw what they had done to his daughter. Frightened, he shot at them and tried to hide in his office, but Ivy and her fellow villains came from outside the window and managed to restrain him with her plants. Two-Face then came in and answered Carmine's previous posed question, what this was supposed to be, by saying "Judgement Day". With Falcone at gunpoint, Harvey explained to him that he owed all of his new insight to him, and that he had taught him that everyone was both guilty and innocent, making justice nothing more than a flip of a coin. Two-Face then took out his coin and wanted to flip it to decide whether Carmine was to live or die, but befroe he could do so, Batman and Catwoman came through the window and fought the other villains. After each and every one of them was defeated, Harvey, having Falcone at gunpoint, finally flipped the coin. It landed on tails and before any of the two vigilantes could do something, two bullets were fired through Falcone's neck. Catwoman, angry at Harvey for killing her secret father, attacked him but was soon pushed aside by Sofia Falcone, who wanted to avenge her father by Killing Two-Face. Unfortunately for her, Dent had made sure that there were only two bullets inside the gun. The realization of this gave Sofia imense panick and caused her to accidentally fall out of the building to her death. Later, on the roof of the Gcpd building, with the shining bat-signal in the sky, Batman, Harvey and Gordon met and reflected on the events of this past year. While they could not agree on him having done the right thing, Harvey stated that what he did was necessary and that he had only just started. During their talk, Jim said that Harvey had betrayed everything that he stood for, though Two-Face replied that he had not, or at least not everything. He still believed in the justice system and surrendered himself to face real justice for every Holiday murder, or that’s what he told them. Harvey was then brought to Arkham Asylum, where he supposedly got the help his friends said he needed. While alone in his cell, he silently spoke the name of the person actually behind each one from the Holiday killings, except Falcone, whom he had been covering since Marini's death; Gilda.

## Powers and Abilities

### Abilities

* **Law**
* **Basic hand to hand combatant**
* **Tactician**
* **Marksmanship**

## Equipment

* **A.22 Pistol**
* **Coin**

## Gallery

As Two-Face.As distant attorney Harvey Dent.Making a deal with Johnny Viti.Harvey with captain Gordon and Batman on the GCPD Headquarters.Harvey and Batman finding the money.Harvey flipping his coin for the first time.Harvey in the Gotham City Hospital.Harvey standing before the Falcone Tower and talking with Jim.Harvey being questioned by the Joker.Harvey and Gilda having an argument.Harvey and Jim questioning Bruce Wayne.Harvey making a deal with Sal Maroni.Harvey fighting the asassin.Harvey having acid thrown into his face.Harvey making friends with Solomon Grundy.Two-Face trying to kill Maroni as revenge for his face.Two-Face, along with Penguin and Joker.Two-Face, shortly before shooting Carmine Falcone.Two-Face in his cell at Arkham Asylum.
## Trivia

* **Harvey Dent** was created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger and first appeared in DC comics in Detective Comics #66 in August 1942. Back then, he was known as Harvey Kent, which was changed later so readers wouldn’t confuse him with Clark Kent.
* In the original The Long Halloween comic, it is unclear at what exact point Harvey started let his Two-Face personality take over. While he can only be accounted for the Falcone mirder, it is possible, albeit ambiguous, that he also started to act as a Holiday killer before his face was disfigured, as implied in one scene by his wife.