| “ | Harvey: The only way to get by in this place is to get ourselves some respect. Two-Face: FEAR! THAT'S HOW WE GET RESPECT. SHOW THEM ALL HOW WE DO THINGS. Harvey: We should be fair though. This is a place of justice after all. Two-Face: SCREW JUSTICE! KILL HER, AND THEY'LL ALL FEAR US! |
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| ~ Two-Face's internal dialogue before Catwoman's trial |
Harvey Dent better known as Two-Face is a major antagonist in the Batman: Arkham series.
A disgraced lawyer who snapped after getting half-disfigured in an attempt to fight crime, which caused him to become yet another of Batman's foes. He constantly uses a coin to make decisions by playing heads or tail with it.
He was voiced by Troy Baker, who also voiced the Arkham Knight in the same series, Joel Miller in The Last of Us, and Sinestro in Injustice: Gods Among Us.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Heinous?[]
In General[]
- He constantly torments his henchmen by deciding whether they should live or not by tossing his coin, and ends up killing them if the coin lands on the bad side.
- According to some thug conversations, he's implied to have cut a thug named Bailie in half with a saw because the coin landed on the bad side.
- While Joker and Penguin are worse crime bosses, Two-Face has arguably less resources since Joker has access to most of TITAN and owns the steel mill, and Penguin is a wealthy aristocrat who owns a ship, a museum, and a load of weapons. Harvey, on the other hand, is only a wealthy attorney. It's also worth mentioning that Two-Face's gang is smaller and weaker in comparison.
Arkham Shadow[]
- Initiated the riot in Gotham during the 4th of July as the Rat King.
- After being disfigured by Jonathan Crane, he escapes the hospital as the Rat King and decides to fill up the prison transport ship with explosives to blow up Gotham during the Day of Wrath.
- Worked with TYGER forces and abducted GCPD undercover Nakano after he almost finds out that Harvey is the Rat King and imprisoned him inside the prison transport ship.
- He attempts to execute Joe Chill as a form of twisted vengeance for Bruce Wayne. It takes Bruce unmasking himself to get him to stop.
Between Arkham Shadow and Arkham City[]
- After escaping from Arkham Asylum, he started making his own gang and used it to rob a bank, killing 2 police officers in the process. He's implied to have robbed many banks and killed dozens of people in the past.
- He was one of the villains that the Joker invited over to help torture the unfortunate Jason Todd in an abandoned wing of Arkham Asylum, for over a year. He helped by beating the boy with his bare fists, since the coin may have landed on the burnt side. This kind of made Two-Face play a part in Jason's descent into villainy as the Arkham Knight.
- Hired twin assassins named T&T, who got a dose of TITAN and became mutated monsters who slaughtered most of his gang.
- Took over the Solomon Wayne courtyard and wanted to use it to "judge" people with his coin and decide whether they should be executed or not by having them thrown into an acid pool.
- Locked up Calendar Man in a cell and probably planned on "judging" him as well.
- Though Calendar Man would have definitely deserved whatever Dent was going to do to him, since he's Pure Evil.
- Kidnapped Joker and sat up a trial for him, inviting most of Gotham's rogue gallery to assist it. But whatever the outcome would have been, Joker would have deserved it.
Arkham City[]
- After being transferred to Arkham City, he started a gang war between him, Joker, and Penguin, which resulted in hundreds of casualties on all sides.
- He planned on hiring half of Arkham City's criminals into his gang and have the rest slaughtered by his goons because of his obsession of splitting everything in half.
- He kidnapped Catwoman when she tried to steal from him and tried to "judge" her as well. While Harvey Dent tried to be fair and just with her, Two Face ignored him as he planned to kill Selina to make his thugs fear him.
- When Batman showed up at Catwoman's trial, he shot him in the chest and tried to kill Catwoman before she freed herself.
- He took over Penguin's museum when Penguin was defeated, slaughtering the latter's gang in the process or forcing them to join him.
- Rigged Catwoman's apartment with explosives when she returned home as an attempt to kill her.
- Tried to kill Catwoman once again with a grenade launcher when she broke into the museum, and taunted her that he gave half of her loot to his thugs.
Arkham Knight[]
- After joining Scarecrow, he and Penguin went on a rampage in Gotham, killing numerous police officers in the process.
- He tried to rob 3 banks in Gotham and perhaps even more.
- When Batman stopped 2 of his bank robberies, he showed up in the last one in hope of killing Batman himself.
- After escaping from custody during Knightfall Protocol, he sent his gang rob banks in Blüdhaven, using the Hell's Gate Disposal Facility to lander the money.
- When Robin confronted him, he incapacitated him by shooting him into the foot and tried to kill him before being distracted by Oracle, giving Robin to opportunity to take him down.
- His exhibit in the Batman museum five years later in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League proves that Dent is still remembered for his crimes.
What Makes Him Inconsistent?[]
- He is a well-intentioned anti-villain who goes against heinous people like the Joker, Carmine Falcone, and Black Mask, and wishes to restore justice in Gotham.
- He genuinely cared about Bruce to the point where they considered each other brothers. His attempt on Joe Chill's life was to avenge the former and his late parents. If he is arrested after Batman's unmasking, the Harvey Dent side will acknowledge that Batman is Bruce's true personality, showing that he still cares for and respects him.
- He's tragic, as he got half-disfigured by Johnathan Crane during a failed attempt to condemn "Irving Malone" during a trial, which drove him insane and lead him to villainy. Even beforehand, he was often abused by his father as a child, causing him to develop his split psyche overtime.
- He's honorable, as he is disgusted by how corrupt Gotham's police and lawyers are, and wishes to be as fair and equitable as possible by sharing everything in half.
- He has insecurities played for sympathy, as he always wonders if he is fair enough and believes tossing his coin is the only way to make right decisions, and sometimes wishes that he was dead instead because of his condition.
- He has moral agency issues because of how crazy he is, and is also dissociative since he constantly switches from Harvey to the more cruel Two-Face.
- He can be benevolent towards his thugs if the coin is in their favor, as he freely hires them into his gang and doesn't force them to fight to the death unlike Joker and Penguin. However, he becomes ultimately more cruel and deadly if the coin isn't in their favor.
Trivia[]
- He's the only version of Two-Face to be IH.
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 Inconsistently Heinous
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