Two-Face (Tommy Lee Jones)

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Two-Face
Real name:	Harvey Dent
Aliases:	Two-Face Harvey Two-Face Face
Alignment:	Bad
Relatives/friends:	Riddler (Ally) Sugar (Lover) Spice (Lover)
Characteristics:	Gender - Male Hair - Half brown, half red Eyes - Brown
Portrayed by:	Tommy Lee Jones
Appearances:	Batman Forever

"You have broken into our hideout. You have violated the sanctity of our lair. For this we should crush your bones into powder. However, you do pose a very interesting proposition: therefore, heads, we accept, and tails, we blow your damned head off!"

―Two-Face to Riddler^[src]

"Ladies, you spoil us, we're of two minds now what to eat first."

―Two-Face to his girlfriends Sugar & Spice when they offered him his dinners, a creamy, dreamy, lemon souffle or a side dish of raw donkey meat.^[src]

Half man, Half madman, Two-Face was the alias of former Gotham City District Attorney Harvey Dent. After receiving brain damage by a mobster's acid, Dent became a homicidal maniac with a penchant for using a coin to determine his actions.

[edit] History

Dent at the trial where he would get scarred.

Harvey Dent served Gotham City as its DA. He was an ally of Commissioner James Gordon and Batman. While questioning "Boss" Moroni in court, Moroni managed to retrieve a hidden flask of acid and throw it on Dent. Batman had become aware of this plot, and ran through the courtroom to save Harvey, but he arrived too late. The acid splashed against the left side of Harvey's face, and horribly disfigured it. The acid burned far enough through his head that part of his brain was damaged, making Harvey psychotic and homicidal.

Harvey was eventually arrested and retained in Arkham Asylum. Two-Face escaped from his cell on the second anniversary of his arrest, his escape being discovered by Dr. Burton, who contacted Gotham City's Police Department.

Two-Face and his thugs robbed the Second Bank of Gotham. They had taken hostages and look like they were going to get away when Batman intervened and stopped the robbery. However, Two-Face escaped.

At his lair, which was split in half like his personality, he had two henchwomen, Sugar and Spice who worked for him. Spice favoured his 'dark', scarred side and Sugar favoured his 'good' side. Two-Face traveled to the circus looking for Batman and threatened to blow the place up. He was responsible for the origin of Robin because when The Flying Graysons tried to stop him, they were all killed by Two-Face apart from Dick, the youngest Grayson, who went on to join Batman as Robin.

Two-Face joined forces with The Riddler and the two gained knowlege through The Box and discovered Batman's true identity. Following this, they traveled to Wayne Manor and kidnapped Dr. Chase Meridian and destroyed the Batcave. Two-Face wished to kill Bruce there and then but Riddler intervened and they left.

Two-Face falling to his death.

At the Riddler and Two-Face's lair, Batman and Robin got separated. Robin had the opportunity to kill Two-Face but didn't want to be like him. Two-Face used this to capture Robin. He and the Riddler then tried to make Batman choose between Chase and Robin but he saved both. Two-Face flipped his coin to decide if he would shoot Batman, but Batman tossed a handful of identical coins into the air. Two-Face panicked and tried to find his coin, stumbled and fell into a watery bed of spikes. Harvey's coin then fell into his open palm.

A few years later, when Bane broke into Arkham Asylum's storage room to get Mr. Freeze's cryogenic suit, one of Two-Face's suits was being stored, as well as one of Riddler's.

[edit] Behind the scenes

In Batman Forever, Tommy Lee Jones took over the role for Billy Dee Williams' portrayal of DA Harvey Dent in Batman, and both their portrayals should be viewed as part of the same continuity.
Whether Two-Face/Harvey Dent was killed in Batman Forever remains ambiguous. The height of his fall, and slow sinking into the pool without rescue would seem to suggest if Harvey hadn't died from the fall or rocks, he would have drowned while in a state of shock or unconsciousness.
As it would be unlikely for the acid to scar Harvey's face so semetrically, even with blocking by a folder, Two-Face likely had reconstructive/deconstructive surgery to even his scarred side.
Acid damage would give no presidence for root folicles growing purple hair, so this was also likely an asthetic decision made by Two-Face to complete the effect of his duality. In more realistic depictions Two-Face's scarred folicles produces little or no hair, or white.
Curiously, unlike other depictions of Two-Face, the Two-Face of the Burton & Schumacher series in never revealed to take vengeance against Moroni/Maroni.
"Harvey Two-Face" plays up the "two" gimmick to the point where Two-Face even refers to himself in the plural, except for one instance when he says "I'll see you in Hell".
In the comics whatever Two-Face's coin landed on that would be final, in the movie Two-Face continued to flip the coin until obtaining his desired result. This has irked many fans of the comics.
As with Joker and Penguin previously, Two-Face is killed, as with Penguin, being the more ruthless and homicidal of the two Super-Villains featured in their respective films. Many fans have noted that they disliked Jones' manic performance and believed that Billy Dee Williams would have done a better job.

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