Harvey Dent

## Two-Face

**Harvey** "**Harv**" **Dent**, also known as "**Two-Face**", is both a fictional character and antagonist of the *MDC's* *Captain Batman* series created by Joe Simon and Bob Kane. He is an ex-district attorney turned crime boss in Gotham City.

He was a promising, respected District Attorney for Gotham City; famed for his pleasant public face and his rigidly stern stand against corruption, until a vial of acid was thrown in his face during a court trial, and he became the deranged and unpredictable madman known as Two-Face.

His psychosis led him to believe that right and wrong don't matter, as everything is ruled by chance. To prove this, he makes decisions of good or evil based on the flip of a coin.

"*No one understands the beauty of fate's hand. I'm thankful to Falcone. He gave me a clarity; a purity few will know. Everything boils down to a simple choice. This way or that way. Good or bad.*"

—Two-Face, to Batman and Captain America.

## Appearance & Biography

*Voice Actor*: Troy Baker (English), Tomoshi Taki (Japanese), Not Known (Arabic), Not Known (Basque), Not Known (Brazilian), Not Known (Cantonese), Not Known (Catalan), Not Known (Chinese), Not Known (Croatian), Not Known (Danish), Not Known (Dutch), Not Known (Finnish), Not Known (Filipino), Not Known (French), Not Known (Galician), Not Known (German), Not Known (Greek), Not Known (Hebrew), Not Known (Hong Kong), Not Known (Hungarian), Not Known (Indonesian), Not Known (Italian), Not Known (Korean), Not Known (Mandarin), Not Known (Norwegian), Not Known (Polish), Not Known (Portuguese), Not Known (Romanian), Not Known (Russian), Not Known (Serbian), Not Known (Spanish), Not Known (Swedish), Not Known (Tagalog), Not Known (Thai), Not Known (Valencian), Not Known (Ukrainian), Not Known (Brazilian Portuguese), Not Known (Canadian French), Not Known (European Spanish), Not Known (European Portuguese), Not Known (Latin American Spanish), Not Known (Latin Spanish), Not Known (Spain-Spanish)

### Appearance

District Attorney Harvey Dent was one of Batman's strongest allies in Gotham City, until a criminal threw acid in Dent's face, hideously scarring him. The wounds fractured his psyche, and he was reborn as a schizoid criminal mastermind, obsessed with duality. His former good-luck charm, a "two-headed" trick silver dollar, was damaged on one side in the attack, and Dent has seized on it as a reflection of his half-scarred visage. He flips it to decide the fates of his victims.

Despite Batman's efforts to reform his former ally, Dent is consumed by his fixation on chance, and his crimes are designed to prove out his diamteric philosophy.

#### As Two-Face

* Hair Color: Black
* Skin Color: Not Known
* Eye Color: Blue
* Age: Not Known
* Birthday: Not Known
* Height: 5'0
* Weight: 220lbs

### Attributes:

* Hideously scarred on the left half of his face, which he plays up with clothing that’s differently styled on one side.
* Extremely skilled with his weapons of choice: twin .45 automatics.
* Psychotic obsession with duality, designing crimes around the number two.
* Defers to his half-scarred coin in choices of life or death.

## Personality

Harvey Dent was described as selfless, moral, and righteous. He was truly one of the few good men in Gotham and was devoid of corruption by the city's standards of a politician due to his unwavering sense of right and wrong and the belief that the city could become a better place. His idyllic views of justice were considered out of place in a lawless town such as Gotham, but he nonetheless inspired hope for its citizens and Batman himself that a better tomorrow was possible.

He was incredibly determined even when his face was burned by acid, he continued to attempt to fight the Falcone Crime Family, such was his tenacity. However, Harvey also hated criminals or other corrupt individuals and secretly had mental scars from his abusive childhood that scared off his wife and occasionally went too far while he dealt with criminals.

When Harvey was scarred by Carmine Falcone, which resulted in the loss of half of his face, it warped his mind completely, and caused a blow for not only his close friend, Batman, but for the city of Gotham as well. After he viewed justice as an unobtainable and naive dream from a "pretty-boy lawyer", Harv's new beliefs were that the only immutable law in the world was fate and that everything should be judged on that perspective.

He viewed the world as pure black-and-white and the only thing that mattered in an otherwise cruel and unfair world was 50/50 chance, and, because of that, he made all of his decisions based on his coin, including people's lives. Harvey was heavily reliant on his coin and the prospects of fate and destiny rather than calculated decisions. Though he was depicted as a mild strategist, Harvey would much have preferred to follow the coin, even if the decision was a poor one.

He was shown the capability to make a decision by himself but only under pressure or in a forced situation. Because of his former job as Gotham's District Attorney, Harv's views of justice were extremely twisted. Believing the unprejudiced hand of fate as the only pure causality in the world, he considered the judicial courts of Gotham as a waste of time and that the only thing that came out of them was injustice and viewed his methods as more superior and just.

His new negative ideals of justice also enforced his somewhat draconian beliefs of punishment to said injustice such as removing the hands of Catwoman during her trial when she was caught stealing from him. Matching his appearance and obsession with duality, Dent made it the motif of his criminal empire, and had his men dress to match his appearance and divide everything into halves including two guns, split Catwoman's loot, and once cut one of his own henchmen in half.

In rare instances, the Two-Face aspect and Harvey Dent personality could contradict each other. While Harvey was rather soft-spoken and how he used to sound like, Two-Face was more aggressive and raspier. He would often refer to himself in the plural. That opposition between the two personas was displayed before Catwoman's trial where Harvey considered giving her a fair one while Two-Face considered killing her to gain respect.

Two-Face's own self-opinion after his accident varied, though he refused help from Hugo to cure his scars in Arkham City: either he was pressured to make a decision, or he was comfortable the way that he was. He claimed to Batman: "I wish I was dead" while he was taken to the GCPD Lockup.

Two-Face had difficult relationships with the rest of Gotham's super-criminals, even though he himself was one. He grew a vendetta with Catwoman for stealing from him, scratching his face, and humiliating him in front of his men, and wrote "Catwoman Must Die!!" at her destroyed apartment and constantly called her "bitch". With Penguin, theirs was of an intersection dislike due to their ongoing war in Arkham City that resulted in the deaths of dozens of each sides men.

Harvey humiliated Penguin by keeping him locked him within his own Museum and mocked him over his short stature and Penguin planned to kill him and his men after Scarecrow's truce ended. Nevertheless, they were able to begrudgingly form an alliance to kill Batman and Harvey always called Penguin by his first name, which showed a taunting friendliness. All of Harvey's men seemed to have respect and loyalty for him, but due to his coin, he had very few loyalties if it came up bad for someone.

## Abilities and Powers

### Weapons

* **Chains**
* **Mister Freeze's Cold Gun** (Formerly)

## External links

* Two-Face *Wikipedia*
* Two-Face *Batman Wiki*
* Two-Face *DC Database*
* Two-Face *DC Universe Online Wiki*