52 Facts About Two-Face

Two-Face is a supervillain appearing in comic books published by DC Comics, commonly as an adversary of the superhero Batman.

Two-Face subsequently goes insane and adopts the "Two-Face" persona, becoming a criminal obsessed with the number two, the concept of duality, and the conflict between good and evil.

In later years, writers have portrayed Harvey Dent as having dissociative identity disorder, with Two-Face being an alter, which stemmed from the abuse he received from his father during his childhood.

Two-Face obsessively makes all important decisions by flipping a two-headed coin, with the other half scarred, given to him by his father.

Two-Face has no superpowers, instead relying on his proficiency in marksmanship and hand-to-hand combat, which was further improved after being trained by Deathstroke and Batman.

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In creating Two-Face, Kane was inspired by the 1931 adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson story The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, which Kane described as a "classic story of the good and evil sides of human nature", and was influenced by the 1925 silent film adaptation of Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera.

Kane and Finger conceived the idea of Two-Face flipping a coin scarred on one side to determine which side of his personality emerges: evil if the coin flip results in the scarred side, which causes him to "go on a rampage of looting and destruction, " or good if it results in the unscarred side, causing him to give his loot to charity or refrain from committing a crime.

In July 1971, during the Bronze Age of Comic Books, Two-Face was brought back by writer Dennis O'Neil and former DC editor Julius Schwartz in the story "Half an Evil" .

Two-Face's origin was later expanded in writer Jeph Loeb and artist Tim Sale's 1996 Batman limited series The Long Halloween, which incorporated aspects of "Eye of the Beholder" and explored Batman, Gordon and Dent's struggle to end Gotham's Mob during the rise of costumed supervillains.

Two-Face was then featured in the 2020 Detective Comics arc Ugly Heart, which showed Dent surviving his suicide attempt in Tomasi's previous story "The Big Burn" then starting a cult named the Church of Two, before being rid of Two-Face through brain surgery conducted by Batman.

Two-Face's debut and Golden Age origin story, 1942's "The Crimes of Two-Face", introduced him as Harvey "Apollo" Kent, a handsome law-abiding Gotham City district attorney prosecuting mob boss Sal Maroni; the issue introduced his wife, Gilda Kent, who is a sculptress.

The rest of the issue features Two-Face committing a series of crimes centered on the number 2, one of which is stopped by Batman, who pursues and corners Two-Face after he escapes.

Two-Face then appears in a number of non-Batman comics, such as The Joker, Justice League of America, and Teen Titans.

In Teen Titans, Two-Face meets Teen Titans member Duela Dent who claims to be his daughter.

Two-Face, declaring that his life is meaningless without the coin, leaps for it and falls out of the blimp.

Two-Face, having escaped the encounter, returns to the halfway house.

Post-Crisis version of Two-Face is depicted as having had an unhappy childhood; his father was a mentally ill alcoholic who beat him regularly, often deciding whether or not to brutalize his son based on a flip of his lucky coin.

Two-Face similarly serves as a 'baptism by fire' for Tim Drake, the third Robin.

Two-Face has Batman at his mercy, but Tim dons the Robin suit to save Batman.

Two-Face's empire is brought down by Bane, who destroys Two-Face's gang during his destruction of the city's Hall of Records.

Two-Face falls in love with her, though the romance is one-sided.

Two-Face's is furious, and the two fight for control of his gun until Batman intervenes, putting Two-Face back in Arkham.

Dent proves Two-Face wrong, choosing to jump off a building and commit suicide just to put a stop to his alter ego's crime spree.

Two-Face is surprised when the coin flip comes up scarred but abides by the decision and jumps.

Years later, Gilda gives birth to twins, prompting Two-Face to escape once more and take the twins hostage, as he erroneously believes them to be conceived by Janus using an experimental fertility drug.

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Two-Face manipulates the courts into setting him free, as Gotham's prosecutors would not attempt to charge him without a body.

Two-Face is reluctant to take the job, but Batman assures him that it will serve as atonement for his past crimes.

Two-Face appears in Battle for the Cowl: The Underground, which shows the effects of Batman's death on his enemies.

In Judd Winick's Long Shadow arc, Two-Face realizes that someone else has taken over as Batman.

In Streets of Gotham, Two-Face has been at odds with Gotham's latest district attorney, Kate Spencer, known as the vigilante Manhunter.

Two-Face has recently been driven out of Gotham City by Jeremiah Arkham.

Batman and Two-Face continue battling, with Batman trying to convince his foe to end his vendetta.

Two-Face then calls Batman, "Bruce", revealing that he knows Batman's secret identity.

Two-Face reveals that he struggled internally for quite some time over whether to kill his former friend, but decided not to because it would have violated his sense of justice.

Two-Face was an accomplished lawyer highly skilled in almost all matters relating to criminal law and an extensive knowledge of the criminal world.

Two-Face is a genius in criminal planning and has an exceptional character, which allows him, among other things, to stoically endure pain and recover from smudging injuries in a short time.

Two-Face is a skilled marksman, and regularly uses a variety of firearms such as pistols, shotguns, grenade launchers, Tommy guns, knives and rocket launchers during his battles with Batman.

Two-Face primarily wields dual pistols, and has become dangerously skilled with them.

Batman's alter-ego Bruce Wayne is the best friend of Harvey Dent, while before becoming Two-Face, Harvey was one of Batman's earliest allies, predating Batman's partnership with James Gordon.

Third impostor of Two-Face is petty criminal George Blake who passed himself off as a manager of an anti-crime exhibition.

Two-Face's plans were foiled by Damian Wayne, the fourth Robin and Batman's biological son.

Unlike the original Two-Face, this version of the character was born deformed with a second face rather than being scarred by acid or fire and flips two coins instead of one.

The monstrous Two-Face is left in permanent control—to the extent that one of his henchmen now refers to him only as "Face".

Two-Face then sees both sides of his face as scarred, or as he later says to Batman when he captures him, "At least both sides match".

Two-Face's carries a revolver in a holster slung on her right hip.

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Two-Face's later has a cybernetic left arm after Superwoman mutilates her and leaves her for dead.

In Gotham by Gaslight, Two-Face is a serial killer called "The Double Man", as mentioned in Countdown: Arena.

Little Jonni Infantino, the mastermind behind the breakout, threatens to hurt Grace if Two-Face doesn't provide information on one of Rupert Thorne's thugs: Weird Tony Hendra, one of Harvey Dent's last cases as District Attorney.

Two-Face is then subdued by the news station's security guards and he is last seen back in Arkham Asylum in a straitjacket when Batman and Nightwing confront Superman, Wonder Woman, Cyborg and Robin.

Two-Face is seen in their lair serving as their butler similar to Alfred Pennyworth.

Two-Face has a minor appearance in the 2017 series Batman: White Knight.

Two-Face appears in the sequel storyline Batman: Curse of the White Knight, being among the villains murdered by Azrael.