Two-Face (Nolanverse)

*-Dent's psychotic breakdown about his situation.*

***Batman**: "It wasn't."*
***Harvey Dent**: "**The Joker** chose ME!!"*
***Batman**: "Because you were the best of us, he wanted to prove that even someone as good as you could fall."*
***Harvey Dent**: "And he was right."*

*- Dent declaring and committing himself to becoming Two-Face.*

## Character Overview:

### Alias:

Mr. Dent
Dent
Two-Face
Scourge Of The Underworld
Harvey Two-Face
Gotham's White Knight
Apollo Kent
Count Enhance
Great Heroic Figure

### Occupation:

Vigilante.
Criminal.
District Attorney. (Formerly)

### Powers/Skills:

High-Intelligence
Physical Strength
Enhanced Durability
Political Knowledge
Extensive Law Methodology
Marksmanship
Manipulation
Intimidation
Charisma
Cunningness
Intimidation
Deception
Leadership
Expert Detective
Combat Efficiency
Tactics & Strategies
Vast Wealth And Resources
Torture Methodology

### Goals:

Work with Batman and Gordon to make Gotham safe by arresting the mob and dismantling their organization (Partially Succeeded)
Arrest **The Joker** and prove he is insane. (Partially Succeeded; Later Backfired)
Get revenge on everyone responsible for Rachel Dawes's death. (Succeeded)
Kill anyone who opposes him. (Mostly Succeeded)
Exact vengeance on Gordon by murdering his family.
Murder Batman.
(Both Failed)

### Hobby:

Bringing criminals to justice.
Flipping his coin to judge the fate of criminals.
Making his own luck.
Watching TV/News.
Planning.
Scheming.

### Crimes:

Murder
Conspiracy
Vigilantism
Battery
Blackmail
Kidnapping
Terrorism
Vandalism
Stalking
Trespassing
Harassment
Psychological Abuse
Attempted Child Murder

### Type of Villain:

Nihilistic Vengeful Fallen Hero

**Harvey Dent**, later known as the vigilante criminal **Two-Face**, is one of the main antagonists and deuteragonist of Christopher Nolan's *The Dark Knight* film series and is the secondary antagonist of *The Dark Knight* film.

Upon being elected as Gotham City's district attorney, the idealistic Dent dedicated himself to ridding the city of organized crime. However, he was horribly disfigured in a bombing rigged by **The Joker** that also killed his fiancée Rachel Dawes. Driven insane with grief and anger, he became a criminal vigilante and swore revenge on everyone he held responsible for Rachel's death, including his former allies Batman and Commissioner James Gordon, blindly blaming them for her demise when they couldn’t save her in time. He's arguably one of Batman's most smartest and corrupted opponents to ever face in media.

He was portrayed by Aaron Eckhart.

## Personality:

Dent was an interesting case, before his Two-Face incident, Dent was a highly intelligent and honorable politician who dedicated his life to help others by riding of the dangerous crime in Gotham City even then he was still an honorable man, though it would all come to an end when he had become what he tried to avoid the most, a criminal. Upon becoming Two-Face, Dent had become more manipulative and cruel seeing how ruthless and destructive humanity was and towards him. Later believing that everything happens for good reason and from fair, balanced chance. From this, Dent had swore revenge on those who wronged him, and the people who had caused him the most pain and grief, he was clever enough to use psychology acts to manipulate and destroy those who ever wronged him making him more a menacing threat towards many.

In immense pain, anger, hatred and grief, Dent had no later remorse for his actions and had felt it was fair and necessary to execute those before him. Because of his immense persistence to reenact revenge made him feared by many, including various mob leaders, Dent wasn't afraid to lay waste to those who opposed him and his revenge doing anything in his power to get what he wanted, even killing those who were very close to him, regardless of whether they were in his way.

## Storyline:

### Before Becoming Two-Face:

Upon being elected as Gotham City's district attorney, Harvey Dent dedicated himself to ridding the city of organized crime, being revered by the public as their "White Knight". His crusade against crime ultimately led him to crossing paths with The Joker, an anarchistic criminal mastermind who plunged Gotham into chaos. The Joker knew Batman's connection to Dent and Rachel Dawes, his fiancée, so he kidnapped them both and strapped them to two time bombs, telling Batman their locations, but only giving him enough time to save one. Batman chose to save Rachel, while the cops went to secure Dent. However, the Joker lied about the locations, both to philosophically challenge Batman and orchestrate Dent's downfall.

### Transformation Of Two-Face:

When the Joker's bombs went off, Rachel was killed, and the left side of Dent's face caught fire (due to being covered in gasoline in his attempt to escape), leaving him hideously disfigured. In the hospital, a grief-stricken Dent refused all medical help, and embraced the police's disparaging nickname for him, "Harvey Two-Face". The Joker visited Dent disguised as a nurse and convinced him to take revenge on the people he held responsible for Rachel's death, including his former allies Police Commissioner Jim Gordon and the masked vigilante known as "The Batman".

Now convinced that life was nothing but chance, he made decisions based on a flip of his lucky double headed silver dollar, one side of which had been burned in the explosion. Two-Face learned that one of the cops in Gordon's unit, Wuertz, was corrupt and had given him over to the mob. He found Wuertz in a bar and spun the coin for the detective's life; when it landed scarred side up, Two-Face shot and killed him.

Two-Face then confronted Gotham's reigning mob kingpin Sal Maroni, who told him that another corrupt officer, Anna Ramirez, had kidnapped Rachel. Two-Face then deciding his fate of chance, flipped his coin which landed good heads for Maroni, but bad heads for his driver, whom Two-Face then shot and killed. With the car getting flipped over, injuring Dent and Maroni, with Maroni later dying to his injuries.

Finally, Two-Face confronted Ramirez, who begged forgiveness and said she had only done the mob's dirty work to pay her mother's hospital bills. Unmoved, Two-Face flipped the coin, which came up good heads; Two-Face spared her life, knocking her unconscious instead of shooting her. Two-Face then kidnapped Gordon's wife and children, and called Gordon to have him meet him at the building where Rachel died.

Two-Face planned to take revenge on Gordon by killing the person he loved most: his son. As Gordon pleaded for the boy's life, Batman shows up, confronts Harvey, and rightfully tells him to "judge the people truly responsible for Rachel’s demise". Two-Face decides to flip for Batman, himself, and Gordon. Two-Face shoots Batman through the stomach when the coin landed on bad heads. He then flips for himself, sparing himself when the coin came up on good heads. He then decides to judge Gordon's son and flips the coin. Before he could decide the fate of Gordon's son, Batman, who was wearing body Armor, tackles Dent off the ledge of the roof, to his death, putting an end to his murder spree.

Batman decided to take the blame for Dent's crimes in order to preserve Dent's image as a hero and give the people of Gotham something to believe in. Dent's death was used to create a new law dubbed the "Dent Act", which gave law enforcement enhanced powers to prosecute criminals. The Dent Act all but eradicated crime in Gotham City, leading to eight years of prosperity and peace. However, Gotham was soon under the threat of a revolutionary terrorist leader known as Bane and his army called the League of Shadows - whose late former leader Ra's al Ghul had sought to destroy Gotham upon believing the city to be corrupt and illegitimate beyond any restoration. When Bane found out about Dent's murderous activities, he used it to take advantage of the League of Shadows' crusade against Gotham. The fact that Gordon covered up resulted in many citizens and criminals alike inciting a riot. This event also resulted in several consequences for Gordon. His wife left him; likely because she wanted to keep their children safe and also she was angry that Gotham watched Dent as martyr when he tried to murder her and her children. Furthermore, John Blake - one of Gordon's greatest supporters- lost faith after hearing the truth.

But then Batman resurfaced and, after defeating both Ra's vengeful daughter Talia along with Bane himself went on to foil the League of Shadows' plan by apparently sacrificing his life to save Gotham City from a nuclear explosion; in reality, Bruce Wayne had actually faked his death and was presumably living under a new identity. Batman went on to become remembered as the savior of Gotham City, while the Dent act was eliminated, and Dent's legacy was tarnished due to his crimes.

## Trivia:

* Two-Face had a slogan called "I believe in Harvey Dent".
* To prepare for the role, Aaron Eckhart studied what happens psychologically with victims of serious burns.
* Aaron Eckhart said he felt that law enforcement officials like Harvey Dent "love the law, but they're constrained by the law".
* His alias "Harvey Two-Face" was never adopted by himself, it was only mentioned by Gordon. On the other hand, Aaron Eckhart always called Harvey's alter-ego "Harvey Two-Face" as he feels a bit of Harvey still remains in Two-Face.
* Dent was arguably the most personal villain for Bruce Wayne in *The Dark Knight Trilogy*. Dent represented the idealistic version of Batman, which doesn't need a cape and gadgets to cleanse the city from the criminals. Ultimately, Dent was the only villain which was killed by Batman himself.
* Aaron Eckhart believes that if had he survived the events of *The Dark Knight*, Harvey Dent would have spoken to the citizens of Gotham City about his transformation on Two-Face rather than keeping the truth like Batman and Gordon did through the Dent Act.