- "The only way to get by in this place is to get ourselves some respect. Fear. That's how we get respect. Show them all how we do things. We should be fair, though. This is a place of justice, after all. Screw justice! Kill her, and they'll all fear us!"
- —Two-Face, deciding whether or not to execute Catwoman[src]
- "Fate is all that stands our way and if the coin says that your time is up… then you'll die!"
- —Two-Face threatens Batman
- "I wanted to help people, but Gotham wouldn't let me. Good men don't last long here, Bruce, not when everybody knows who they are."
- —Two-Face in captivity
Harvey Dent is Gotham's former District Attorney and one of Batman's strongest allies in Gotham City until Dr. Jonathan Crane accidentally injured and hideously scarred him during the pre-trial hearing of Irving "Matches" Malone. The wounds fractured Dent's psyche and he was reborn as Two-Face: a schizoid criminal mastermind obsessed with duality. Two-Face would go on to form his own crew and became one of Gotham’s most feared crime bosses and a part of Batman’s rogues gallery. Using his former good-luck charm, a "two-headed" trick silver dollar that was damaged on one side from the attack, Dent had seized on it as a reflection of his half-scarred visage.
Two-Face flipped the coin to decide the fates of his victims. Despite Batman's efforts to reform his former ally, Dent was consumed by his fixation on chance, and his crimes were designed to prove out his diametric philosophy. His crimes usually revolved around the number two; for example, he would rob the Second National Bank on February 22nd.
Incident Reports[]
Early Life[]
Harvey Dent was raised in a violent household. His father, Christopher was an abusive alcoholic who repeatedly beat the boy, his mother, and his younger sister Alexandra. His mother and sister later left, leaving Harvey with his father. Harvey would later comment that it “was always five o’clock [there]”. Harvey’s father often used a double-headed coin to give the child a "chance" to escape a beating. As a result of his father's abusive nature, Harvey spent some time in Leslie Thompkins' home for youths. Dent spent much of his early life suffering from various mental issues, notably bipolar disorder and paranoia.
He had also been childhood friends with Bruce Wayne after being introduced to him by Leslie following the death of his parents, and over time the two would see each other as Brothers. Bruce became a much needed emotional support for Harvey due to his father; promising to look out for each other. On one occasion as a child, Harvey had taken Bruce with him to his house to tell his father that he was leaving for good. His father responded by flipping a coin to determine what he would do - landing on tails, he went to beat Harvey, harming Bruce's eye when he tried defending Harvey and then locked the two in a closet. Later on, he freed them from the closet having no recollection of how they got in there and acting kinder than he had been previously, implying Dent's father had dissociative identity disorder.
During their childhood, Harvey wanted nothing more than to find Joe Chill, the man who had murdered Bruce's parents, even going as far as promising Bruce he would do this in order to give him closure over the deaths of Thomas and Martha; making this his own personal mission after becoming D.A.
Harvey got into law school through Bruce - one day Bruce offered him a scholarship. Harvey at first was anxious to accept but then chose to take it. Before Bruce would leave Gotham after helping Harvey get into law school, he would celebrate Harvey being a candidate for D.A. when it was announced on the news, Dent's father showing initial annoyance about not being told this by his son before going into a belittling rant on how Harvey was just as mentally unwell as he was because Harvey was a Dent, Harvey's father believing every Dent had something wrong with them mentally, and continued to target his son by saying if he was chosen for D.A. then all of Gotham would know it. Harvey would respond to this by retaliating and physically attacking his father, Bruce holding him back after the attack.
Sometime before the events on Christmas Eve, Harvey was elected DA, and had since been married to Gilda Gold, whom he genuinely loved. As part of a conspiracy with Roman Sionis, Arnold Flass arranged for a man named Dumpler to kidnap Harvey's sister Alexandra and kill her in an explosion. The attempt was eventually foiled by Batman. As a result, the Mayoral election was delayed whilst Harvey Dent conducted a full investigation into the incident.
Arkham Origins Incident[]
In the GCPD Building, there is a newspaper stating that Harvey Dent had been elected D.A.
In his Headquarters, Enigma had been investigating Batman's true identity and had listed Harvey (as well as Bruce Wayne) as potential suspects.
Following the incident on Pioneer’s Bridge, Garfield Lynns would be one of the first convictions by Harvey, the end result being that Lynns was sentenced to nine consecutive life sentences.
Cold Cold Heart Incident[]
With the fall of Black Mask and his control over the police force, it made things easier for Harvey to clean up the city and earn more allies in the police force, supported even further when James Gordon became the front runner for the title of Commissioner.
Between Arkham Origins and Arkham Shadow Incident[]
Harvey Dent before becoming Two-Face
After the Christmas Eve Incident, Harvey would go on to be one of Gotham's most respectable D.As. and became a powerful ally of Batman and Commissioner Gordon. He was seen as a hero by the people of Gotham and referred to as "The White Knight". At some point in his career, Harvey would become responsible for convicting notorious Gotham Mafia Don Carmine Falcone, thanks to states evidence turned in by Falcone's rival Oswald Cobblepot.
Despite his reputation as a heroic D.A; Harvey had psychological issues even before his scarring. Hugo Strange described those issues as "headaches his wife found unpredictable, and scary sometimes", something that Jonathan Crane would also comment on in a taped interview with him during the time. The first signs of Gotham's D.A having psychological issues were first seen in public, when Harvey physically assaulted an abusive father named Anthony Rizzoli in a trial upon learning of his severe physical abuse towards his six-year-old son. The media popularly supported his attack on him, referring to him as the “two-fisted D.A”, while Harvey himself, embarrassed by his outburst, would apologize for his attack, although he was issued a $500 dollar fine for Contempt of Court. His mental decline had also been putting a strain on his relationship with Gilda, who started to become scared of him at times.
Unknown to Harvey however was that, much like his father, he too would begin showing signs of having dissociative identity disorder, as a separate personality would soon emerge from within Dent. This second, more violent personality would start assuming control at random points and eventually created the identity of the Rat King, and create a cult that would cause chaos in Gotham as part of a lead up to an event known as the "Day of Wrath", Harvey himself would have no memory of anything he did while his second personality was in control, and would work with Commissioner Gordon to track down and discover the identity of the Rat King, and stop him and his cult before they can cause any more damage.
Arkham Shadow Incident[]
Harvey, along with Commissioner Gordon, would inform Batman on the existence of the Rat King and the Day of Wrath before leaving the two to attend a fundraiser for Leslie Thompkins, however he was assaulted by the Rats while at the fundraiser and was saved by Batman from being burned alive by one of the cult members called Shrike. He also helped Gordon place Christopher Nakano as an undercover cop in Blackgate to find the Rat King, slowly tracking down his identity, unaware he himself was the Rat King. On one of the rare occasions Dent came to Blackgate to visit Leslie Thompkins he arrived just as she was treating the new prisoner Irving Malone, who had broken a rib and had his left hand stabbed with a knife following a fight with the undercover Nakano after he had outed Malone eavesdropping on Blackgate warden Lyle Bolton and Carmine Falcone to keep up his ruse. Two days before the Day of Wrath would begin, Dent would finally discover the location and identity of Thomas and Martha Wayne's killer, and would have Joe taken from Blackgate, with no one but Dent himself knowing who the man was.
On the Day of Wrath, when Harvey and Gordon realized Nakano had mysteriously vanished, both he and Gordon questioned Malone as his fight with the cop on his first day in Blackgate made him a prime suspect, Gordon eventually coming to the conclusion that Malone had killed Nakano and was potentially the Rat King himself, Harvey and Gordon ended up dragging Malone to court to be tried. Before leaving for the pre-trial, Dent would try calling Bruce to let him know what was going on but had no luck getting through to him, both him and Gordon unaware that Malone was actually Batman (as well as Bruce) in disguise attempting to find the Rat King.
Later, during the trial, Jonathan Crane tried to administer the Shadow chemical to make Malone more cooperative after he had been vocal about his innocence as well as the judge noticing Malone's noticeable fatigue from his time spent in Blackgate. However, Crane was quickly held back by Dent and a police officer after noticing Malone's reaction and Crane's unstable determination to get Malone to be administered. Having been exposed to the chemical Crane was trying to administer before, and knowing the effects it would bring, Malone would smack the canister away from him. This unintentionally caused it to smash onto the left side of Harvey's face and his left arm. The chemical inside the canister became acidic when exposed to air, causing Harvey to become horrifically disfigured as a result, Harvey himself would not realize what had just happened until he saw the damage done unto him. As Harvey he began reacting in horror and pain, Crane placed the blame fully onto Malone. After Leslie Thompkins asked if Malone was ok, knowing he was Bruce Wayne in disguise, Harvey flew into a rage, being in disbelief that Thompkins would ask if Malone was alright after what had just happened to him. Dent would make his way slowly and in pain towards Malone, blaming him for intentionally throwing acid at his face and attempted to attack Malone, vowing to kill him for what he did, before he was dragged away by Gordon and a police officer as the DA screamed his threat at Malone.
Harvey would be taken urgently to a hospital to try and treat his injuries. However, Dent's horrifying disfigurement at the trial had now caused Malone to become infamous inside and outside of Blackgate; while the inmates of Blackgate would cheer for Malone when he returned to the prison for what had happened to Dent, the resulting news reports on the incident would place the blame fully on Malone. Among the reporters who are horrified and disgusted by what had happened as they delivered the breaking news of Dent's accident is Vicki Vale, who would incorrectly report on television that Malone himself had purposefully thrown acid at Dent during the trial under orders from Carmine Falcone, whom he was reputed to be associated with. And for what he had allegedly done to Dent, Bolton would attempt to execute Malone in the gas chamber right before the Rats began a mass riot in Blackgate as part of the Day of Wrath. The rats freed Malone, believing him to be the Rat King.
Unbeknownst to everyone, the damage done to Dent was more than just physical. Now with his psyche further fractured by what had happened to him, Harvey would escape the hospital, and attempt to phone Bruce to let him know he finally found the man who killed his parents, only to leave him a voice mail when he couldn't get through to Bruce. Harvey would then steal a ship from under Blackgate containing the Rats that had gone missing, and because of his now unstable mind he rigged the ship to explode upon arriving in Gotham in order to kill all the Rats onboard believing this would save Gotham from the Rats, with his ultimate goal being to kill Joe Chill for what he had done to Bruce.
During the journey when the ship began leaving Blackgate his second personality would take control to broadcast himself as the Rat King before being found by Batman, who was saddened to discover the Rat King's identity was Harvey himself. When Batman knocks on the door this causes Harvey to regain control and reveal his plan to blow up the ship to finally stop the Rat King and his cult, only to find out from Batman that he was the Rat King this entire time. He was initially disbelieving and ultimately dismayed to learn he had unknowingly been lead on a wild goose chase by his second personality, who would take control again and quickly knock Batman out, telling him tonight Batman doesn't get to be the hero who saves Gotham. Batman would soon disarm the bomb but was unable to stop the ship from crashing into the Gotham harbor and damaging a part of the GCPD as it crashed.
Batman stops Harvey from jumping to his death.
Batman gave chase to Dent through the wreckage of the ship to the partly destroyed GCPD, and eventually found Dent with Joe Chill, having finally listened to Dent's voice mail and realizing the Joe he had befriended at Blackgate and kidnapped by Dent was the same man who had murdered his parents. As Dent prepared to kill Joe in order to avenge the Waynes, screaming at Joe that Bruce was only a ten year old boy when he chose to kill the Waynes, he would then scream at Batman that he doesn't understand how Bruce Wayne would feel after being told by Batman that Bruce wouldn't want Harvey to kill Joe Chill. To convince Harvey, Batman unmasked himself and revealed he was Bruce to calm him down, a ploy that worked as Dent was reduced to tears seeing his old friend didn't actually want Chill dead despite what he had done, all while Chill was able to escape unharmed, but not before apologizing for what he did. Harvey's other personality would take control again and, after flipping his father's coin to determine his next move, attempted to jump to his death, though Bruce manages to save him regardless even after jumping off the building with Bruce holding onto him.
To retain Harvey's reputation it would be reported that Dent himself had stopped the Rat King and his Day of Wrath from occurring with the aid of Batman, who would also release a statement confirming the Rat King and his cult's activities had been stopped despite the rumors that Malone, who the public believed was now on the run, was actually the Rat King.
Two days later, Bruce would return to Blackgate where he would visit Harvey, who was receiving medical treatment from Leslie Thompkins. When asked by Bruce how Dent was doing Thompkins would tell Bruce that Harvey, along with being confused and scared, was also losing his memories of their encounter with each passing day, giving Bruce back his anonymity as Batman once more. Thompkins would warn Bruce however, that technically Harvey wasn't alone in her office at the moment. Dent soon woke up when Bruce came in to see him, asking who he was now in a daze. At first Bruce believed Harvey was talking about the two of them, saying they were brothers right before his second personality would take over and claim Dent was actually asking about himself and his alternate personality. The second personality goes on to explain what he believed he and Dent were now; they were both good and evil, right and wrong, light, shadow and chance as he takes out his coin. Before attempting to flip his coin Harvey regained control of himself and became emotionally confused about how his coin got into his hand and what was happening to him. Rebutting his fears that he was psychotic, Dent would learn from Thompkins that he had dissociative identity disorder, and after asking if there was a cure for it would be told that there were only treatments to deal with it. Because of his second personality Harvey only now notices Bruce in the room with him, smiling as he reaches for his friend's hand. Bruce takes it in return as Harvey, hopeful, promises Bruce that what was happening wasn't the end of him, his second personality quickly taking control and claiming that instead "This is the beginning… of us".
Between Arkham Shadow and Arkham Asylum Incident[]
Unfortunately, Harvey eventually lost control to the new personality, now calling himself Two-Face and developed an obsession with duality; committing crimes and being charitable based on coin tosses. He also refused to get skin grafts to help heal the burns. Two-Face kept the damaged suit from when he was born, with the forearm of the left sleeve eventually falling or getting ripped off.
Two-Face slowly grew in influence and power, rising as one of the top supervillain crime bosses; his recruitment method was double-edged by taking anyone whom wished to work for him, allowing him to weed out the useful and useless. Anyone who lasted long enough in Two-Face's Gang to reach senior membership could always tell whether Harvey or Two-Face was in control. Though Two-Face often left loot or dumped it based on his coin tosses; making it somewhat harder to track him down after the capers.
After Arkham Asylum was reopened, Two-Face kept getting sent there to get help with managing his disorder. However, he was resistant to the attempts. At some point after this, Gilda left Gotham.
Two years before Joker's takeover of the Asylum, Two-Face attempted to burn down half of an Arkham guard's apartment building before being stopped by Batman.
Arkham Asylum Incident[]
Batman heard a police radio call that Two-Face was robbing the Second National Bank in Gotham and that he shot two police officers. Batman got into the Batwing to give chase. Two-Face's Arkham cell is seen in Controlled Access at the Penitentiary.
Between Arkham Asylum and Arkham City Incident[]
In the following months, Batman correctly guessed that Two-Face had hired the Brother-Sister team, T&T who earlier that day had attacked an armored car on its way to the bank. When Batman found Two-Face, his left leg was broken, his right arm was in a sling, his neck was in a brace and he had two prostitutes at his side.
Two-Face accepted Batman's deal for a thirty minute head start in exchange for information about T&T. He explained that following the Joker's riots, he bought several of the crates of Titan that had floated into the Gotham docks and said: "The Coin said it was a good investment".
T&T began training extensively in hand to hand combat and experimented with Titan in small doses thereby retaining control of themselves in their Titan forms. It wasn't long before they made their experiments known, slaughtered Two-Face's Gang, and nearly killed Two-Face himself. Two-Face prevented his men from killing Batman believing that T&T would.
Upon his incarceration into the new and highly secure but lawless Arkham City, Two-Face sought to establish himself in the prison and become a rising gang leader in the prison's turf wars. Two-Face immediately took over the Solomon Wayne Courthouse in Park Row as his base of operations, and locked Calendar Man in a holding cell beneath it.
To gain more power and respect in Arkham, Two-Face kidnapped the Joker and prepared a "trial" to be held against him for the existence of Arkham City.
Two-Face invited the Penguin, Bane, the Ratcatcher, Poison Ivy, Sickle, Victor Zsasz, the Riddler, the Mad Hatter, the Carpenter, the Ventriloquist, Black Mask, and Deadshot to be the jury and Harley Quinn as the Joker's lawyer. Nearly every inmate in Arkham City attended the trial, which left the streets abandoned and Batman suspicious of the inactivity in the facility. After Joker was proclaimed guilty and sentenced to death, Batman arrived and the entire court erupted into chaos. Joker and Harley escaped with their gang. Batman slipped away from the fight and met with Catwoman on the rooftops of Park Row.
Eventually, Warden Hugo Strange arranged an interview with Two-Face. The villain tossed his coin and refused to talk when it landed scarred side up. Not to be thwarted, Strange ordered his guards to take the coin from Two-Face and used it to force him into talking. Later, it was revealed that he had tricked Two-Face by using multiple replica coins. Without his coin, Two-Face was unable to make decisions for himself once again. However, Strange issued an ultimatum: he would do everything in his power to restore Harvey's sanity, or let Two-Face know where Catwoman was at that very moment. Strange flipped Two-face's coin to see if he would catch it, or if Harvey Dent would let it fall. Two-Face caught the coin and Strange told him that Catwoman was on her way to steal an item from the vault in his old campaign office.
Arkham City Incident[]
Two-Face planned to publicly execute Catwoman (whom he had earlier caught when she attempted to steal a memory drive from the safe in his old campaign office that his men were tasked to guard) to gain respect among the inmates and to gather followers to aid in the war for control over the city, and planned to recruit approximately one half of the Arkham City inmates to slaughter the other half. However, the Harvey personality wanted a fair trial for her as the trial was technically in a Courthouse. Two-Face then decided whether to execute her immediately or to commence a trial before deciding to execute Catwoman (whom he had hanging over a vat of what was presumably acid), and it came good side up, which also gave Batman enough time to enter the Courtroom and attack the prisoners. Afterwards, he shot Batman after all of the prisoners were knocked out (while shouting: "objection" and "overruled"). Two-Face then flipped the coin again to see whether he should execute Catwoman. That time, it flipped bad side up, but Catwoman managed to free herself, and scratch (leaving new scars) the right side of his face. Two-Face then tried to shoot her with his second gun, but Batman revealed that he survived being shot, tied his hands and legs up, and left him hanging over the acid in her place.
Two-Face eventually managed to escape and fled after he was taken down by Batman and Catwoman. Two-Face's Gang arrived outside the Museum and shouted at Penguin that Two-Face would return and that he should either give up or die. Later, Two-Face's Henchmen killed Penguin's Henchmen and took charge of the Museum. After Batman defeated Clayface and the Joker died, Two-Face returned and took over the Museum. He remained in the Armory, and knew that Catwoman would come to take her loot back (which he had taken after he ordered his men to blow up her apartment). Catwoman arrived, beat him, and threatened to even out the other side of his face with her claws. Two-Face laughingly revealed that he had only kept half, and he sold the rest. Catwoman angrily told him: "Enough with the two's!" and knocked him out. Two-Face was not seen after that. Afterward, Two-Face wrote a message on the wall of Catwoman's Apartment that said: "Catwoman Must Die!", just before he went back into hiding.
After Arkham City Incident[]
It could be safely assumed that Two-Face was taken to temporary holding cells when the GCPD invaded the mega prison.
Before Arkham Knight Incident[]
After Protocol 10, many inmates of Arkham City sued the city for allowing Strange to order their executions and demanded compensation. Two-Face, being one of these inmates, used his compensation to start Hell's Gate Trash Collection and Legal Services, reasoning that there was no difference between the versions of "taking out the Trash". This would serve as cover for his plans; no-one would suspect garbage trucks of holding ill-gotten loot. He, Penguin, Riddler, Poison Ivy, and Harley Quinn were called to a meeting with Scarecrow, Deathstroke, and the Arkham Knight. As his coin said it was worth listening to, Two-Face agreed to the plan as it provided cover for his bank robberies; he got weapons from Penguin in exchange for a cut of the loot.
Arkham Knight Incident[]
Nine months after Arkham City, Two-Face and Batman's other enemies teamed up to destroy him on Halloween.
Two-Face robbing the bank.
Two-Face's Gang tried to rob multiple banks of the evacuated city in an attempt to wear Batman out and for his men to have enough money to retire from crime. Once Batman began interfering, he offered to double the pay for whoever brought him the Batman's corpse. In the next bank, he threatened to kill the families of his gang if his coin came up bad, or give them their compensation if the coin came up good. After Batman stopped three robberies, Two-Face appeared in person, with multiple militia soldiers, in an attempt to kill him, but they are all defeated. After that, Batman took Two-Face to the GCPD holding cells to await trial. During the trip to GCPD, Two-Face said Harvey Dent was dead, thought Harvey stated he wished he was because he had been turned into a monster; Batman somberly apologized for not being able to help.
During the course of his gang robbing the banks of Gotham, both Two-Face and Harvey Dent tried to reason with Batman through the intercom systems with each of his personalities explaining their reasons. Both personalities blamed Batman for the current situation with the Two-Face persona arguing that he came into existence only because of Batman using him as a meat shield against the mob's hatred, while Harvey Dent lamented how he became a criminal and how he believed and trusted Batman when he told him they would "clean up crime within the year" which caused his fall from grace.
From Harvey's explanation, it appeared that remnants of his desire to clean up Gotham still remained, but was in a deep depression that he was turned into a "freak" during the acid attack and that he was robbing the banks of Gotham where according to him, was how the mob laundered dirty money, hence one last attempt of his own version of justice that both his personalities could actually agree upon.
A Flip of a Coin Incident[]
Two-Face standing up from his throne.
Sometime after the Knightfall Protocol, Two-Face had a run-in with a now solo Robin. During the incident of Arkham Knight, upon hearing that Nightwing was in town, Two-Face sent numerous members of his gang to Blüdhaven to rob the banks over there and knew that its protector was out of town dealing with a bigger threat, and his gang while stopped in Gotham, was unopposed in Blüdhaven and walked away with millions. Robin returned early from his honeymoon, and moved in on the Hell's Gate Disposal Services to put an end to Two-Face's newly restarted money laundering business. Successfully shutting it down, Robin learned where Two-Face was hiding and attacked the Hell's Gate Courthouse. All the while, Harvey was constantly mocking Robin, and did not take him seriously. After taking down his gang, Two-Face acknowledged that the boy had become a man and then attacked Robin. His first shot blocked, but the second hit Robin in the foot, and floored the young hero. Two-Face had Robin at gun-point and was about to execute him and flipped his coin. When his coin was air borne, Oracle saved Robin, activated the PA system, and distracted Harvey, which granted the wounded Robin barely enough time to bring down Two-Face and catch his coin in mid-air.
Personalities[]
Harvey Dent[]
The Rat King[]
Two-Face[]
Thought to be the "White Knight" of Gotham, Harvey Dent was selfless, moral and extremely dedicated to cleaning the crime in his city. His dedication to justice and unwavering sense of right and wrong was almost unfounded in politicians and officials by Gotham City standards, most of whom were flooded with corruption. Because of this many people believed that he was the Batman during the beginning of the vigilante's career. His fall from grace after being horrendously scarred by acid during the Irving Malone trial, resulting in the loss of half his face and fracturing his psyche proved to not only be a blow for Gordon and Batman, but for the entire city.
Dent became more twisted and psychotic every year after his accident, as well less sympathetic and redeemable in the eyes of Batman, who used to be his close friend. However he did show pity on him while taking him to GCPD and Aaron Cash even states that he "felt bad about booking him" in the Evidence Lock-Up, saying he could still see the man he used to be. Dent's dependency on his two-sided coin leave him with scarce loyalties, should it come up bad for someone he would kill them without so much as a hesitation. He is capable of making decisions by himself but normally under pressure or in a forced situation. He is much more reliant on the prospects of fate and destiny than calculated decisions, perhaps a reason of him losing the Arkham City gang war; he would much prefer to follow the coin, blindly even if the decision was a poor one than genuine strategy. This unpredictability can also be considered an advantage as it leaves him hard to place while dealing with his enemies.
Dent's dissociative identity disorder causes him to appear very differently in terms of his personality. Harvey, the remains of who he used to be, is much more calm and reasonable than Two-Face, who is often aggressive or blunt. Dent is not without his inner battles, at times the Harvey and Two-Face personas conflict each other. This is shown in the courtroom where discussing the fate of Catwoman, Harvey attempted to give her a fair trial as they were in a "place of justice" whereas the Two-Face aspect argued to kill her as to gain fear and respect in Arkham City. Initially when Harvey began showing signs of and not realizing he had dissociative identity disorder, the Two-Face alter would often completely take control away from Harvey and commit crimes under the Rat King alias, leaving Harvey unaware of what he did whenever he regained control, these episodes would also leave Dent confused and scared the more aware he became of them happening. Overtime however the two alters have been seen to become more openly accepting of each other and working together, such as their acceptance of using Dent's coin to form a solution, and by the events of Arkham City Two-Face even allows Harvey to be aware of when he would be in control, allowing the two to communicate with each other. The two are still seen at odds against each other however, as according to one of Two-Face's death scenes in Knight, Harvey would feel bad about him killing Batman “but we'll bring him around”. This demonstrates how Two-Face is much more willing to kill Batman, while Harvey still somewhat hangs on to his old friendship with him.
His own self-opinion after his accident varies between games. During the Interview Tapes with Strange he is given the opportunity to either be cured or set free into Arkham City and he chooses to remain the same, either showing he is comfortable with himself or he was either pressured to make a decision. In Arkham Knight he admits to Batman while being taken to the GCPD that "[he] wished [he] was dead" revealing a self-loathing aspect of his personality.
Despite it being years, and Two-Face has mostly absolved his old personality and identity, he shows traits of the man he used to be. Dent showed incredible determination, displayed when even while his face was being scarred by acid he still attempted to fight the Falcone's. He possesses some degree of compassion, and considered giving Catwoman a fair trial at the courthouse but quickly decided against this. Because of his former job as a District Attorney he still has a sense of justice but has now become horribly warped. During Catwoman's trial he uses multiple layman' terms, that being what a judge would do. He once contemplated cutting off her hands, perhaps an ironic punishment. Similarly, he stated after the first bank robbery was foiled that the banks he was targeting were the ones the Mob had previously used to launder money, implying that at least some of his crimes were motivated by justice, albeit an extremely warped view of it.
His obsession with duality has become the insignia of his crime empire, to match his own scars he makes his men wear outfits similar to his appearance. This is also shown by the way he carries two guns, pay his men twice his salary if they killed Batman, halved Catwoman's stolen loot and manner of killing, saying proverbs related to the number two and even duplicating the meaning other abstract sayings together with his gang and cutting one of his men in two with a saw. He also refers to himself in the plural. Despite this cruelty all of his men have unwavering respect and loyalty, if not fear for Dent.
His chats with his fellow super criminal in Arkham Knight revealed he considered himself a better judge than Gotham's courts, which he considered a twisted waste of time, because "nothing burned more than injustice." He also lacked faith in God, mocking Azrael and Blackfire. If arrested after Scarecrow, he will talk to Batman solemnly, noting that "Bruce Wayne" was the true mask, while Batman was the real person; both Harvey and Two-Face understood it's not the face you're given, but the one you choose.
Physical Appearance[]
Arkham Asylum[]
Though he does not appear physically in the game Batman: Arkham Asylum, numerous references to Dent are scattered throughout the game, among those being a character bio with a sketch of him. His appearance in the sketch is rather different from future depictions, showing Two-Face with a full head of hair, half brown, half white, and wearing a white and purple suit. His burned side also had a much brighter color to it.
Arkham City[]
In Arkham City, Dent finally appears physically. He is depicted wearing a white suit, half of it burned and tattered, a black dress shirt and a white tie. He now has black hair, and his disfigured half is bald. Half of his body is covered in severe burn injuries, showing exposed muscle and bone.
Arkham Knight[]
In Arkham Knight, Two-Face appears relatively unchanged from his appearance in City. His burns appear more severe (likely due to the increased level of detail), the sleeve on the right side of his jacket has been rolled up and his tie has changed from white to blue. He has three faint scars on the right side of his face from when Catwoman scratched him.
Arkham Shadow[]
Equipment[]
Weapons[]
- two Sphinx 3000 Pistols (Arkham City)
- two SIG Sauer P220 Pistols (Arkham Knight, A Flip of a Coin)
- 1983 Milkor MGL Grenade Launcher (Arkham City)
- Remington 870 Shotgun (Arkham Knight)
Gang[]
Base of Operations[]
- Solomon Wayne Courthouse (Arkham City)
- Hell's Gate Disposal Services (Arkham Knight, A Flip of a Coin)
Psychological Profile[]
Two-Face[]
Real Name: Harvey Dent
Batman's Database Profile[]
Harvey Dent has won as Gotham's District Attorney during the elections, which he brings Gotham justice and honor. As Gotham City District Attorney, Dent's honor brings the most wanted criminals to trial as bringing them to justice, the GCPD started calling him Gotham's White Knight. That all changed while on trial Carmine Falcone threw acid in Dent's face, hideously scarring him, the wounds fractured his already psyche due to his abusive father.
And Two-Face was born, a schizoid criminal mastermind obsessed with duality. He uses his father's two headed trick silver dollar that was damaged on one side in the attack. Dent uses the coin to decide the fate of his victims.
Dr. Penelope Young[]
MEDICATION SEEMS TO BE HAVING A HIT & MISS EFFECT
Psychological Profile: A bizarre schizotypal, Dent shows intense ideation focused on the concept of dualism. This arises out of his unique facial disfigurement (half of his face has been scarred by acid) as shown by its emergence concurrent with the incident that scarred him. He has no prior history of psychopathic behavior, but since his disfigurement he has continually created situations based on positive and negative outcomes with chance as the deciding factor. He accepts no responsibility for the sociopathic, destructive outcomes that result approximately 50% of the time.
Additional Notes:
Dent's ideation around dualism extends to his clothing, his environments, and the central token of his psychological make-up, his half-scarred silver dollar. He becomes catatonic if it is removed from him.
Perhaps I should be unsurprised that only half of our treatment sessions are productive. The other half are characterized by endless, pointless word games revolving around chance and fate.
Dr. Hugo Strange[]
Harvey Dent A.K.A Two-Face
The capture of Two-Face brought an end to his reign of violence and terror on the streets of Gotham. Since his incarceration in Arkham City, he has used his persuasive influence to quickly rise to the top of the food chain.
Two-Face is obsessed with duality, and determined to recruit half the population of Arkham City in preparation for a bloody war against the other gangs within Arkham City. But his strategy starts and ends with a flip of his coin, adding an element of randomness to his every move.
Hugo Strange: Side Note
Is Two-Face useful?
Heads or tails
~ Hugo Strange
Attributes[]
- Expert marksmanship skills
- Law expert
- Criminal mastermind
- Hand to hand combat and detective ork
- Large assortment of weaponry: dual firearms, double rocket launcher, knives...
- Multiple-personality disorder
- Obsession with duality
- Relies on coin toss (fate) to make decisions, which makes him extremely dangerous, because if fate decides on death then he will act on it.
Tapes[]
Arkham Shadow[]
Interviewer: Dr. Quinzel[]
- Dr. Quinzel: OK. Notes on Otis Flannegan: Patient suffers from intense delusions and extreme guilt related to-
- Harvey: Doctor Quinzel?
- Dr. Quinzel: Mr. Dent. What brings you to Blackgate? Here to see how your “tough on crime” rhetoric affects real people?
- Harvey: I just figured I’d stop by, considering you’ve left twenty-eight messages with my office… this week.
- Dr. Quinzel: You coulda just called me back.
- Harvey: I understand you have concerns about Dr. Crane, but-
- Dr. Quinzel: Concerns?! That man's got a stack of ethical and professional violations taller than he is! He’s been making deals with my patients, testing some kind of… truth serum on them! I’m the resident psychiatrist here. These are my patients.
- Harvey: Well, then, this sounds like a matter you should forward to TYGER security.
- Dr. Quinzel: I’ve tried, but they never do anything - even when inmates go missing after his “treatments.” I know you two are friends, but someone needs to hold him accountable!
- Harvey: Oh, oh, I wouldn’t call us friends, Dr. Quinzel.
- Dr. Quinzel: You think I haven’t noticed you two, just hanging out in his office?
- Harvey: Dr. Crane testifies as a mental health expert when I bring your inmates to trial. I’m sure you’re aware of the court system tap dance we have to do-
- Dr. Quinzel: I’m aware that he shouldn’t be administering experimental drugs to my patients without departmental oversight.
- Harvey: And one of those was at my request. I couldn’t risk the defendant in that case having a psychotic break during cross-examin-
- Harvey: Look. I’m sorry you’re having issues with a coworker, but helping you make friends at work comes second to saving this city, don’t you think? So enough with the frivolous complaints, please. Have a good day Dr. Quinzel.
Interviewer: Dr. Crane[]
- Harvey: Nice office, Doc. Puts mine to shame.
- Dr. Crane: Unlike City Hall, TYGER makes the working conditions of its senior staff a priority. How can I help you, Mr. Dent?
- Harvey: Harvey is just fine. I’m looking for a go-to medical expert for trial. Competency evals, mental fitness testimonies, that sorta thing. Any interest?
- Dr. Crane: Of course. I would be honored.
- Harvey: Well, that’s good to hear. Y’know your predecessor, Strange, always seemed like he’d rather be anywhere else.
- Dr. Crane: Well, I’m at home here in Blackgate. It provides an opportunity to test out some exciting new therapies. You promised to “crush crime within a year.” I aim to do the same with recidivism.
- Harvey: Hmm. Must be some therapy.
- Dr. Crane: Indeed. Have you ever sought treatment, Mr. Dent?
- Harvey: Harvey. And no, not since I was a kid. Went through a rough patch but… since then, smooth sailing.
- —
- Dr. Crane: That was certainly a novel approach to cross-examination.
- Harvey: I know, Doc, I just… I-I lost it. You shoulda seen the police photos. This bastard didn’t just beat his kid, he starved him! Kept him locked in a closet for six months. Eight years old, fighting with this- with the rats over scraps of food. When the cops finally freed him, his kidneys had failed and his heart was scarred by infection.
- Dr. Crane: My goodness. Harrowing stuff.
- Harvey: And his dad has the nerve to take the stand and tell the court his kid deserved it? Piece of shit’s lucky I only took a couple of swings at him. Besides, I might’ve just torched my whole career.
- Dr. Crane: Oh, I doubt that. You’re a hero in the papers. “Two-Fisted DA Decks Deadbeat Dad.” The public’s behind you on this.
- Harvey: My own dad’s to blame for my short fuse. But I can’t lose my temper like that again.
- Dr. Crane: Your father? I’d like to hear more about him.
- —
- Harvey: You really think this stuff will help?
- Dr. Crane: Early trials are quite promising. Now, hold this, hold it- there you go. And take three deep breaths. Good.
- Harvey: —
- Dr. Crane: I want you to consider that your recent outbursts may be stress-induced. Building a case against Carmine Falcone clearly had you burning the candle at both ends.
- Harvey: Well, tell that to the press. All I hear about is his “the Batman brought down the Roman Empire.” We worked together, y’know. Me, him, Gordon too. Ah, I’m starting to lose my cool again.
- Dr. Crane: No, no-no no-no, that’s good. Good. We’ve already touched on how much you’ve been repressing. The more you try and contain your shadow, the more that aspect of your psyche stagnates and festers. We need to bring it to light.
- Harvey: Drag it out of the darkness? That’s what I’ve been trying to do with this whole city. Too many trials. Too many appeals. Better let fate judge. Fifty-fifty, like flippin’ a coin. Better odds than my old man gave me.
- —
- Harvey: No it’s, um, getting worse. The headaches mostly.
- Dr. Crane: That’s only a function of your conscious mind giving way to your Shadow-self. As it rises to the surface, your awareness becomes fuzzy in a neurological sense as you grapple with the-
- Harvey: That’s not it. It’s never been this bad. Gilda is scared. A-and I am too.
- Dr. Crane: You fear becoming your father. You fear you’ll assume his worst traits as you get older. Please: sit. Have a sip of water. Good, good, good, good. Listen things always feel more intense just before the real healing begins. You are making remarkable progress.
- Harvey: We.
- Dr. Crane: Hm?
- Harvey: “We” are making remarkable progress.
- Dr. Crane: Of course, Mr. Dent. This is good for the both of us.
- —
- Harvey: Doctor, I wanna stop the treatments.
- Dr. Crane: But why?
- Harvey: Why? What the hell happened to your lab rat this morning?
- Dr. Crane: It’s the unfortunate reality of medical testing that, on occasion, we have to put an animal through some measure of discomfort in order to-
- Harvey: The shit you got me breathing burned its fur off! Melted its skin.
- Dr. Crane: Mr. Dent. The individual chemicals in this solution are heavily corrosive but, when properly diluted they are inert and stable.
- Harvey: Inert and stable? I-I-I… I don’t know-
- Dr. Crane: Harvey. Harvey, I’ve been reviewing our recorded sessions and I’m confident you’re on the cusp of a major breakthrough. Trust the process. If not for yourself, then do it for Gilda. Doesn’t she deserve a healthier, happier husband?
- Harvey: Crane. If my symptoms don’t resolve soon, I am out.
- Dr. Crane: Understood. You’re making the right choice. I’ll prepare the dose.
Arkham City[]
Tape 1[]
- Strange: Sit down Mr. Dent. It is Mr. Dent I am talking to, right?
- Two-Face: Use our real name.
- Strange: Two-Face? If you wish. Please. Sit.
- Two-Face: What is it, Strange? Not happy just arresting us? Throwing us in this place.
- Strange: I wish to understand you. I have read the reports, seen the footage and now I want to hear your side of the story.
- Two-Face: Heh… We'll see
- Strange: I assume you need to toss your coin in order to decide to answer my questions.
- Two-Face: You ready to find out? (tosses coin in the air, then catches it)
- Strange: Well?
- Two-Face: Came up bad. Sorry.
- Strange: Not a problem. Guard. Take Mr. Dent's coin off of him. (struggling is heard)
- Two-Face: NO! NO!
- Strange: Good. Now let us hear what fate has in store for you.
Tape 2[]
- Two-Face: I'll kill you for this.
- Strange: Really? Look at your coin. It wants you to tell me about that day in the courtroom.
- Two-Face: It was painful.
- Strange: Elaborate.
- Two-Face: I was naive. I thought I could make a difference. Falcone was going to go down for what he had done.
- Strange: But he had other plans.
- Two-Face: Look at my face!
- Strange: I am. A combination of first, second and third degree burning, hmmm, the scar tissue is quite fascinating.
- Two-Face: You think?
- Strange: And that is all it took to make you the way you are?
- Two-Face: Give me my coin.
- Strange: Not yet.
Tape 3[]
- Two-Face: What is it Strange? Are you enjoying this?
- Strange: Not in the slightest. Let's go back further, you were a rising star, a beacon of light for this city. A white knight riding in to save it with the Dark Knight not far behind.
- Two-Face: You can leave him out of this. He is wrong. They all are. No one understands the beauty of fate's hand. I am grateful to Falcone. He gave me a clarity; a purity that few will know. Everything boils down to a simple choice, this way or that way, good… or bad.
- Strange: Do you really believe that?
- Two-Face: How could I not?
- Strange: Interesting. So all you need is this coin and everything is simple?
- Two-Face: Give me it!
- Strange: Or what about this coin? (throws coin on the table) Or this? (and another) Or these? (and a handful of coins)
- Two-Face: What are you doing?
- Strange: Proving a point. Fate didn't make you answer my question, I did. I replaced your coin with my own. See? You answered me because I wanted you to.
Tape 4[]
- Strange: How is he today?
- TYGER Guard: Prisoner has been quiet. Since getting those coins, he has spent most of his time examining them.
- Strange: Good. Hello, Harvey. Are you ready to talk?
- Two-Face: Leave us. We don't want to talk. Not to you.
- Strange: Please. Take a seat. I have one last thing to discuss and then I will give you something in return.
- Two-Face: I don't know. I can't decide. It's too confusing.
- Strange: Of course it is. I want to talk about Mr. Wayne.
- Two-Face: Why!?
- Strange: Indulge me.
- Two-Face: We don't like the guy.
- Strange: Hardly surprising. Did you ever consider that you were alike? A traumatic event created you, an equally traumatic event altered him.
- Two-Face: He's nothing like us. There's no… no risk, no danger. It's all just money and girls. We should kill him.
- Strange: Maybe you should.
Tape 5[]
- Strange: Listen to me Harvey. I am going to give you a simple choice. This is your coin.
- Two-Face: Is it? Why should I trust you?
- Strange: It was your father's correct? You know every inch of it. When you close your eyes you can feel it can't you?
- Two-Face: Give me it… Please.
- Strange: I want you to understand what I am about to tell you. You believe this coin determines the fate of your world. I however believe your condition has always been present. It was there before you were attacked and it is still there now. You probably had headaches your wife found you unpredictable, scary sometimes.
- Two-Face: Give US it!
- Strange: I am going to throw the coin up in the air. If you let it fall, I will do whatever I can to cure you. I will help you become the man you used to be.
- Two-Face: Or?
- Strange: If you grab it, I will let you loose in Arkham City and I will tell you what Catwoman is doing right this second.
- Two-Face: We can't decide.
- Strange: You have to… (tosses coin in the air, then Two-Face grabs it) At this moment, Catwoman is preparing to steal the contents of the safe in your old campaign office.
- Two-Face: The bitch! We need to stop her!
- Strange: And you may. Goodbye Mr. Dent.
Quotes[]
Arkham Shadow[]
- "Didn't realize we were getting the band back together again. Good to see you." (seeing Batman)
- "I'll help you find the person who took your parents and you can make them pay." (flashback)
- "You tried to protect me." (flashback)
- "Be safe and be good, Bruce Wayne." (flashback)
- "This is your cell… isn't it? Huh, and it's 3 AM, but… where are you? 'Matches'?" (questioning "Matches")
- "There will be a pre-trial hearing. I'll see you there…"
- "Everything all right, Doctor?" (to Jonathan Crane, during the pre-trial of "Matches")
- "'Is he OK? Is he OK?!' You acid-throwing bastard… I'll kill you! I'll kill you! I'll kill you!" (to "Matches" after his incident)
- "I can handle this." (to Batman)
- "Saving Gotham! The hell do you think I'm doing here?! The Rat King is on the ship! That bastard, he sabotaged the controls in the bridge. And he sent us on a collision course for Gotham. But that's never gonna happen. Because I am gonna blow this shop out of the water. No more Rats… No more Rat King."
- "I know what you're trying to do. But you don't get to be the hero tonight."
- "I'm fine. I'm fine. Hey, Dad." (flashback)
- "Hey, Bruce, things are uh pretty crazy right now and I don't know if I'm gonna make it through the night. But… I found him. The bastard that killed your parents! I found him, and his name is Joe Chill. He's in Blackgate this whole time on different charges. Brother, I swore to you we would make him pay… and I'm gonna take care of this!" (voicemail)
- "I made a promise… to a ten-year-old boy! He was a little kid! Whose parents were taken from him! By this… monster! Look at me. This is for Bruce Wayne." (to Joe)
- "With us. We don't get to walk away from this, Brucie. Justice… demands sacrifice. It's out of our hands. Bad news, kid." (Two-Face)
- "What are we?" (in Leslie’s office)
- "No. He means… what are we? We are good and evil. Right and wrong. Light, shadow. And chance."
- "What is this? Who put this in my hand? I'm psychotic, aren't I?"
- "Is there a cure?"
- "Bruce, when did you get here? Don't worry, brother. This isn't the end of me."
- "No. this is the beginning… of us."
Arkham City[]
- "Get your filthy paws off that now!" (puts gun to Catwoman's head)
- "The only way to get by in this place is get ourselves some respect."
- "Fear. That's how we get respect. Show them all how we do things."
- "We should be fair, though. This is a place of justice, after all."
- "Screw justice. Kill her and they'll all fear us." (Catwoman)
- "Bring out the defendant!" (Catwoman)
- "That's for stealing from us. No one steals from us!" (hits Catwoman)
- "Let's see if the coin thinks you're telling the truth." (Catwoman)
- "This court is now in session."
- "Order in the court!" (bangs gavel several times)
- "Order! Order!" (bangs gavel several times again, and then shoots his gun into the air to ensure silence)
- "That's more like it. Welcome, people of Arkham City. It's good to see so many new faces in the crowd."
- "Fresh faces for the gang."
- "Today we present each of you with an exciting new opportunity."
- "Two opportunities."
- "To join with us. To create a new force in Arkham…"
- "And take this place for ourselves!"
- "When the clown dies, we will own this town! We will RULE this town!" (Joker)
- "Or you can just leave now."
- "And we will hunt you down and kill you all!"
- "But let's not dwell on the negative."
- "Let's have some fun!"
- "Fate delivered a gift to us tonight." (Catwoman)
- "A gift that will show everybody that we mean business." (Catwoman)
- "And you, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, will be part of it."
- "Help us decide if we should kill the bitch who tried to steal from us." (Catwoman)
- "Or let her go to do it again!" (Catwoman)
- "Like hell we will."
- "There are two sides to every story. Let's hear hers before passing judgment." (Catwoman)
- "Nah! Let's just kill her and be done with it." (Catwoman)
- "So what will it be, distinguished members of the jury?"
- "Is the bitch guilty? Or should we let her go steal from someone else?" (Catwoman)
- "Silence in my court!" (Catwoman)
- "Hmph. More like, things to steal. Maybe I should just cut both your hands off…" (Catwoman)
- "Or maybe we should wait for the verdict."
- "Yeah, yeah. Whatever you say. I'm hoping for a hung jury anyway."
- "You're in Two-Face's court, where we pride ourselves on seeing both sides of a case."
- "Hurry up and make up your minds, idiots. I haven't got all freakin' night, you know."
- "My court is in session."
- "Silence in the court!"
- "Our friend Batman has arrived. Grab him and cut him in two!"
- "We're getting bored of this. Stop him already!" (Batman)
- "Hurry up and kill him, I've got a case to try!" (Batman)
- "Hold still while I pass judgment!" (Batman)
- "This is my court!"
- "Your sentence is death, Batman!"
- "Stay still, Batman!"'
- "Batman needs to be punished!"
- "This court is in session!"
- "Stay out of our way, boys." (shoots henchmen accidently)
- "Get out of my way!" (accidently shoots henchmen instead of Batman)
- "C'mon! What are you guys doing down there? Hit him!" (Batman)
- "Hurry up and kill him, I've got a case to try!" (Batman)
- "You're not welcome in my court, Batman!"
- "Order! Order! Order!"
- "The Cat is mine, Batman!" (Catwoman)
- "Kill him!" (Batman)
- "Damnit!" (misses shooting Batman)
- "Objection!" [shoots Batman]
- "Overruled!" (blows off gun after shooting Batman)
- "Heads or tails, kitty cat?" (Catwoman)
- "Not this one." (coin lands on bad/burnt side)
- "Time to die!" (Catwoman)
- "Two guns, bitch!" (Catwoman)
- "Oh, you should have finished me, Batman. We'll get out of this and we'll be back."
- "You should. Fate is all that stands in our way and if the coin says your time is up… Then you'll die." (Batman)
- "Cut me down, fight us like a man!" (Batman)
- "We'll kill you for this, Batman!"
- "If we don't get you, Joker will." (Batman)
- "She won't dare come back here." (Catwoman)
- "Oh, she'll dare. She'll come straight back here for her pretty little things, and when she does, I want you guys to blow that bitch apart!" (Catwoman)
- "Good! This is our chance for glory! Word is Joker's dead and we all saw what happened to the runt that used to run this place!" (Penguin)
- "We are the future of Arkham! We are the future of Gotham!"
- "No one will dare stand up to us."
- "Because if they do, we'll cut them in two!"
- "We both want her dead. The first one who finds her gets to be my right hand guy." (Catwoman)
- "Keep looking. She could be here already." (Catwoman)
- "She's coming. I know her too well" (Catwoman)
- "She'll be here. I know she will." (Catwoman)
- "Find the bitch. Don't let her get away again!" (Catwoman)
- "Find her! Don't let her get to us!" (Catwoman)
- "The bitch! We need to stop her!" (Catwoman)
- "Find her and skin that cat-bitch!" (Catwoman)
- "What are you waiting for? Help me!"
- "We'll kill you for this!" (Catwoman)
- "Kill her! Now!" (Catwoman)
- "No!" (after being beaten by Catwoman)
- "I only took half. The rest I gave away. I win, bitch." [Catwoman]
Arkham Knight[]
- "We thought you might show up, Batman."
- "We were counting on it!"
- "Look, Batman, I need the money. It's hard to find honest work with these disfigurements."
- "You make a monster out of us and then you hunt us down!"
- "Another guy down… but not dead, right Batman?"
- "I used to have rules, Batman. Now I have the coin."
- "It's easier to this way. No wringing our hands, no hesitating. Just doing what fate decides."
- "It's sweet that you still try and live by the rules."
- "Well then boys, looks like that bank has a bat infestation. Since we're making such a large withdrawal, why don't we take of it for them?"
- "Lock the doors and find him. Whoever kills the bastard and brings us the body gets double their cut."
- "Batman. You got this wrong. The Bank of Gotham, it launders money for the mob - or what's left of it."
- "You remember the mob, right? The guys who burned half our face off because they COULDN'T GET TO YOU?"
- "Now sure, there's plenty of clean money mixed with the dirty. But what isn't tainted in this town?"
- "So stay away from the banks. You'll regret it if you don't."
- "OK men, every time the Bat gets one of you we're gonna toss the coin."
- "Heads: Your family get their hazard pay while you rot in jail."
- "Tails: They get punished in your place."
- "It's tails for this chump. We'll tell your wife you're sorry."
- "Tails again! That's two bullets for each kid!"
- "Tails again?! Fate's in a foul mood today!"
- "Heads. So fate shows a little mercy."
- "Tails! You can't argue with the coin."
- "Destiny was on your side, friend. It's heads."
- "Tails. If fate wants a massacre, who am I to deny it?"
- "Gentlemen, it's bonus time. You want to double your pay tonight? It's as easy as this."
- "KILL THE BATMAN!"
- "Batman. I knew you wouldn't let this slide."
- "Remember when I had the principles? Remember when I told Gordon we should arrest you? Said we shouldn't work with vigilantes?"
- "You promised me we'd crush crime in Gotham within the year."
- "WAS I EVER PART OF THE PLAN? Or was I just a distraction? A pretty-boy lawyer the mob could focus all that hate on while you tore them apart?"
- "Last chance. Get out of my way. Or I deal with you myself."
- "You should have left us alone, old friend."
- "We were gonna spare you, but, well......the coin had other ideas."
- "We don't forget what happened, Batman! You set us up! All those years ago!"
- "He's just a man! Kill him!"
- "How do you do it, Batman? Play hero when you leave guys like me behind?"
- "The coin wants him dead! It's fate, dammit! Kill him!"
- "I warned you, Batman! We said stay the hell away!"
- "You should have let us be, Batman. But here you are."
- "All of you! Out!"
- "Tails you lose, Batman."
- "And these guys will make sure."
- "Bring us his corpse!"
- "We'll kill you for what you did to us!"
- "Come out you damn coward!"
- "It was fate, Batman, to die like this."
- "I know you're there, old friend!"
- "All of your choices led to this moment, Batman."
- "Can't look at me, Batman, can't look at my face?!"
- "Stop hiding! Look me in the eye!"
- "No… No… NO!"
- "Don't call me that, he's dead!"
- "I wish I was dead… I'm a freak because of you!"
- "You're the man who put that acid-throwing bastard in the dock!" (To Batman about Carmine Falcone)
- "...You said we'd save Gotham."
- "Damn you."
- "So is it true… Bruce?"
- "Don't answer then. We know the truth."
- "You aren't Bruce Wayne. Jim Gordon and I, we didn't strike a deal with Bruce Wayne."
- "And it's sure as hell not Bruce Wayne waiting on the rooftops each night."
- "This is who you are. See we get it, "Bruce". It's not the face you're given."
- "It's the face you choose."
- "Never count me out of the game."
- "Save your breath, we'll get our chance." (To his henchmen in the GCPD Lockup)
- "Still trying to preserve the balance of justice, eh Batman? Impossible! Think of all the crimes you missed while capturing us!"
- "How many times have we done this, Batman? You put us behind bars only for us to escape. Your life is meaningless. A charade!"
- "Satisfaction is short lived. Enjoy it while you can, because the next time we meet… you die!"
- "Feeling lucky, Batman? What do you say we flip a coin, heads we walk free?"
- "They say time is the best judge, well the verdicts in and Gotham's time is up!"
- "Call yourself a friend? I don't deserve to be here. What did I ever do wrong?"
- "Sure you're on the right side of the bars, Batman? From where I'm standing you look guilty as hell."
- "After tonight you're finished., we get to start again from scratch. No cops, no law, no Batman."
- "Why bother with the mask hero? You got nothing worth hiding now."
- "I wanted to help people, but Gotham wouldn't let me. Good men don't last here, Bruce, not when everybody knows who they are."
- "Maybe you should think about changing your face. I've got a few ideas."
- "I might've known you'd get in here first, Oswald. Justice never favors the weak!" (Penguin)
- "Watch your mouth, Oswald, we're on the same side of the bars now." (Penguin)
- "You said the plan was fool proof, Oswald!" (Penguin)
- "Sick freak!" (Professor Pyg)
- "Nothing burns like injustice!" (Firefly)
- "Your riddles are a cruel waste of time, just like Gotham's courts!" (Riddler)
- "This is our city, Deacon. We're the law around here." (Deacon Blackfire)
- "Hey, Angel! Where's your God now?" (Azrael)
- "Not as good as you think you are, Deathstroke!" (Deathstroke)
- "No, no. We need to do this right. He needs to face justice." (Joker Hallucination)
- "We've got a hundred guns trained on him. He's going nowhere." (Joker Hallucination)
- "I can't let you leave here alive. Not after what you've just done." (Joker Hallucination)
A Flip of a Coin[]
- "I know you're in here kid. Still fighting the good fight, huh. I'd leave while you can."
- "Or come face me! Let's see if the Boy Wonder can without the Bat to hold his hand!"
- "You feel abandoned, I know what that's like. He let me down too."
- "I lost everything, and so will you."
- "The Batman's legacy-a little punk pretending to be a hero!"
- "It's over, Boy Wonder."
- "Watch your back, bird boy, no one else will!"
- "Just leave, Robin. War's over."
- "You couldn't save this city when Batman was alive. You got no chance now!"
- "Sorry, kid. This is a man's game."
- "Tails you die, kid."
- "You won't stop us."
- "You don't scare anyone, Robin."
- "You're not the hero, Robin. You're the sidekick."
- "So, the boy becomes a man. Too bad it's short lived."
- "It wasn't brave coming here, it was stupid." (Pointing gun at Robin)
- "You're not the Bat, never were, never will be." (Gun to Robin's head)
- "Sorry kid. You can't do this all alone." (Points gun at Robin, and then flips his coin)
Game Over Lines[]
Batman: Arkham Shadow (as the Rat King)[]
- "Another would-be Rat, crushed beneath the tank tread of Gotham’s war machine."
- "Drag his body through the streets. Gordon and Dent must know they are next."
- "For what the bat spent on his grotesque costume, a dozen rats could be housed and fed."
- "Pigs will eat their own. Strip him of his armor before his friends do."
- "Rejoice! For in death, we are all Rats."
- "Shame. Struck down before he could bear witness to our Day of Wrath."
- "The Bat falls, the Rats rise."
- "The Bat: a mere footnote in the history of the Rats. Absent from all future chapters."
- "The Bat’s wings torn off, his body cast into the gutter with the rest of us."
- "The reign of Rats begins: In fire, and blood."
Batman: Arkham Shadow (as Harvey Dent)[]
- "Jim, I just got word. It’s…it’s Batman. He’s dead." (During a phone call with James Gordon)
- "The Rat King will pay for this! Even if it means taking on every last one of those bastards myself!"
Batman: Arkham City Lockdown[]
- "Looks like your luck’s run out, Batman!"
Batman: Arkham City[]
- "And the judgment is… death!"
- "Heads or tails?"
- "Looks like your luck's run out, Batman!" (Batman)
- "Bad luck, Batman!" (Batman)
- "What's up, Batman? In two minds about saving the kitty? Let me help you out. KILL HER!" (Batman)
- "Time to die, kitty cat!" (Catwoman)
- "Sorry, kitty." (Catwoman)
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Batman: Arkham Knight[]
- "Harvey might feel bad about this Batman, but we'll bring him around."
- "You're better off dead Bat. Just look what happened to us."
- "It's fate, Batman. Don't try and fight it." (Walks away)
- (Flips coin) "Can't argue with the coin, Batman."
A Flip of a Coin[]
- "Sorry, kid, ya should've stuck to the little leagues."
- "Face it, Robin. You're half the man he was."
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Batman: Arkham Shadow[]
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Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League[]
Trivia[]
- Troy Baker, who voices the character in the series, has stated that when he originally played Two-Face in Batman: Arkham City, he heavily based his performance on Richard Moll's performance as Two-Face, who had voiced the character in the DCAU (DC Animated Universe).
- In Batman: Arkham Shadow, Two-Face's first appearance is incorrectly listed as "Batman and the Outsiders #9 (April, 1984)" despite the character's first actual appearance being "Detective Comics #66 (August, 1942)".
- Curiously enough, Harvey Dent's first appearance is correctly listed as "Detective Comics #66 (August, 1942)", which makes the error even odder considering that he becomes Two-Face in the same issue he first appeared in.
- "Batman and the Outsiders #9" does not feature Two-Face in any capacity, but does include the first appearance of Takeo Yamashiro, who appears in Batman: Arkham Shadow as the undercover alias of Christopher Nakano.
- Although his Arkham City bio in-game says his eyes are blue, during gameplay and in his character showcase his eyes are a dark brown. However in all his later appearances in the following games they are clearly blue.
- This version of Two-Face seemed to take aspects from various previous incarnations of the character:
- His suit (white on the good side and black on the scarred side) and voice tone as Two-Face seemed to be inspired by the DCAU's depiction of the character.
- Similar to the DCAU, Harvey was close friends with Bruce Wayne prior to his disfiguration, as revealed in Batman: Arkham Shadow. This trait was not part of the mainline comics, but was first introduced in the DCAU.
- Additionally, a tertiary personality was also likely influenced from the DCAU canon, as in The New Batman Adventures episode "Judgment Day", Two-Face would develop an aforesaid third personality known as "The Judge". Whereas similarly, in the Arkhamverse, his tertiary persona was known as "The Rat King", as shown in Batman: Arkham Shadow.
- However, instead of adopting this third persona after being scarred with acid and subsequently taking on the "Two-Face" alter-ego, Harvey would embrace it before his scarring, instead.
- Additionally, a tertiary personality was also likely influenced from the DCAU canon, as in The New Batman Adventures episode "Judgment Day", Two-Face would develop an aforesaid third personality known as "The Judge". Whereas similarly, in the Arkhamverse, his tertiary persona was known as "The Rat King", as shown in Batman: Arkham Shadow.
- His scars and half-burnt suit seemed to be inspired by the character's theatrical version in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy.
- His thugs note that whenever Two-Face calls for them, there's a 50-50 chance he'll end up killing them. However, those who manage to live and work for him long enough notice when the personalities switch.
- In the Batman: Arkham Knight DLC A Flip of a Coin, before confronting Two-Face you can find a display case with a pair of dice and a pack of tarot cards. These items are given to Two-Face by an Arkham Asylum doctor in the 1989 graphic novel Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth to assist Harvey in moving on from his binary obsession of the coin, by giving him more randomized results to assign a choice to. This method unfortunately did not have positive results, as Harvey degenerated even further into madness as a result of the doctor's well-intentioned therapy, rendering him incapable of making simple decisions such as going to the bathroom.
- In Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, in the Elseworlds universe the Joker originates from, there can be found billboards for Dent Legal and a headline saying "The Two Faces of Justice" with Two-Face posing in a chair, showing that in that universe Harvey was able to reform and regain his profession as an attorney, or perhaps that in that universe Harvey never turned to villainy after his disfiguration.
- In Batman: Arkham Knight, like most of the villains, Two-Face has a personality change. This is shown by both his personalities no longer fighting each other; instead, they switch in and out as they have finally come to an agreement.
- Two-Face's old Campaign Office in Arkham City possessed a border which wrapped around near the ceiling of the apartment, but was distinctly severed at the center point above the door. Beneath this severed point, two statues of animals could be seen fighting.
- In Batman: Arkham Asylum, Joker mentioned Two-Face at the beginning of the game after Batman had defeated his first Titan Henchman. Oracle mentioned him after Batman made the antidote to the Titan. Two-Face was mentioned again at the end through a police radio as he was robbing the Second National Bank in Gotham and shot two guards.
- When Two-Face attempted to shoot Batman in the Courthouse, if you took cover behind the railing, Two-Face would point his gun at you and wait. You could do this as long as you liked, but when you stopped crouching, he would shoot you immediately.
- This version of Two-Face appeared in Injustice: Gods Among Us in the Arkham Asylum Stage and acts as a harmful stage transition who would attack the player or their opponent if they entered that area.
- In Batman: Arkham Origins, there was a newspaper in the GCPD SWAT Interrogation Room that said that Harvey Dent was elected D.A.
- Harvey Dent was one of Enigma's suspects for Batman's secret identity when discovered in his secret room at his headquarters in Burnley.
- In Two-Face's interview tapes in Batman: Arkham City, Hugo Strange referenced Two-Face having a wife, who was frightened by the psychological problems that he was experiencing when he was Harvey Dent. In the comics and the games, Harvey Dent was married to Gilda Dent. A painting of Gilda can be found within his secret manor during the "A Flip of A Coin" incident and she is also mentioned by name by Harvey in his interview tapes in Batman: Arkham Shadow.
- In Batman: Arkham City and the CGI trailer for Arkham Knight, Two-Face's tie was white. In Batman: Arkham Knight and Batman: Arkham Shadow however, his tie was blue.
- Since concept art wasn't likely canon, it was unknown at the time how far down Two-Face was disfigured by the acid.
- Even a hallucination of Joker insensitively wondered - "Did EVERYTHING get split down the middle?".
- Batman: Arkham Shadow eventually revealed that only the left side of Dent's face and his left arm, as well as the left side of his mid-upper torso, were disfigured by the acid, leaving the rest of his body untouched.
- In his original Golden Age comics and early Modern Age appearances, Harvey Dent's decision to turn to crime was motivated entirely by feeling outcasted from humanity, and his growing obsession with duality. It wouldn't be until the 1990 story The Eye of the Beholder (which was cited as a major inspiration by the developers of Batman: Arkham Shadow) that Dent would be established to suffer from dissociative identity disorder, with his Two-Face persona being a violent alternate personality, born from a childhood "game" where his father would flip a coin to decide his beatings; to cope with the abuse, this personality was violently amoral, believing the "game" rigged from the start. Only as an adult has Dent seen the coin for himself, and found it a novelty item with identical sides - a way for the elder Dent to always justify the beatings. Vindicated by this, his alternate personality now plagues his dreams on a near-nightly basis; nevertheless, Dent insists on carrying the coin as a good-luck charm, believing himself stronger than his trauma.
- Harvey's psychological issues being the result of abuse by his alcoholic father was lightly hinted at in Batman: Arkham City when Professor Hugo Strange mentions Harvey's father during Two-Face's Interview Tapes. Strange commented that Harvey's father was the previous owner of his coin (before presumably passing away) which slightly hinted at his comic book origins. This was later confirmed in Batman: Arkham Shadow where Dent's father is shown as abusive, and that psychological issues run in the Dent family, as well as showing that his father didn't approve of him running for office as he feared the public would find out the truth.
- Aaron Cash apparently didn't like imprisoning Harvey, as he still saw a bit of the man that Harvey used to be.
- In Batman: Arkham Knight, thugs could be heard conversing that some of them had previously believed that Batman was in fact Harvey Dent, at least until the incident that created Two-Face occurred.
- In the comics, Sal Maroni was responsible for throwing acid in Harvey's face during a cross-examination while Maroni was being tried for murder. The type of acid that was thrown was sulfuric acid and it was provided to Maroni by Assistant District Attorney Vernon Fields, who was bribed by Carmine Falcone. In the Arkhamverse, it was originally hinted during Two-Face's interview tapes in Arkham City that Falcone himself was responsible for throwing acid at Harvey.
- However, this was later retconned in Batman: Arkham Shadow to have been the direct-but-unintentional action of Matches Malone (Bruce in disguise) trying to avoid being dosed by Dr. Jonathan Crane's chemical formula which, in the struggle, lead to the compound being poured on the left side of the DA's face. Seeing as Matches Malone was believed to be under the employ of Falcone, both Harvey and the public came to the conclusion that this accident was orchestrated by Falcone as payback for Harvey putting him in prison.