Two-Face (DC Animated Universe)

"Is that so? Well you heard right. In fact, I will double your take on the job. As soon as i'll let you live to join my gang. Matches Malone, huh? Never heard of ya, but there's something about you that I don't like. Nothing I can put my figure on, but I trust my hatches. Kinda like, second sights, you know! Good Heads, you live. Bad Heads, you don't. Simple, huh?"

- Two-Face flipping his coin to decide the fate of Matches Malone (Bruce Wayne in disguise)  Two-Face, AKA, Harvey Dent is the secondary antagonist in the TV Show; Batman: The Animated Series and its spinoffs. He started off as Bruce Wayne's best friend, but after being blackmailed by Rupert Thorne, and an explosion that scarred half of Harvey's body, Harvey's darker personality took over and became Two-Face. Two-Face continues to be a major threat to Commissioner Gordon and Gotham City. Two-Face is voiced by Richard Moll, who is best known for playing Bull Shannon from Night Court.

Past
Harvey Dent, suffered from deep-seated psychological trauma resulting from years of repressing anger. As a child another personality was created inside Harvey, who would come to be called Big Bad Harv. Big Bad Harv would sometimes show himself whenever Harvey were to become incredibly angry, causing him to seek therapy.

As Harvey Dent
Prior to his disfigurement, Dent was a childhood friend of Bruce Wayne and even his best friend. It is shown that Harvey is perfectly willing to prosecute during Man-Bat's rampage.

Harvey once dated Pamela Isley, who would later become Poison Ivy. However it was all a rouge seeing how Poison Ivy wanted to kill Dent for killing a rare flower. Dent collapses after a meal with his fiancée, doctors dicover that he has been poisoned. Fortunately, Batman found the culprit and the antidote before the DA'S time runs out.

Batman seemed to have lost all hope of trying to save Harvey from his personality, but he never gave up on him.

One day, Harvey helped to the arrest of mob boss Rupert Thorne and he was eventually elected district attorney. He was even going to marry his girlfriend Grace Lamont.

Rupert Thorne gets a hold of his psychiatric file and plans to black mail him unless he were to do him favors. Big Bad Harv broke out, and he had a fight with Thorne and his men. When the brawl ensued between Dent and Thorne's men, a freak explosion horribly disfigured the left side of Dent's body. The trauma was powerful enough to force his alternate personality to dominate, and left Harvey in a state where right and wrong no longer held any meaning.

As Two-Face
''THE LAW???!!! Here's the only law! The law of averages! The great equalizer!  - Two-Face about his coin. ''

After the accident, he became a twisted vigilante known as "Two-Face" and soon began his own crusade to bring Thorne down, something the law deliberately failed to do. He feels as though this is the way he was meant to be, living in a world of chaos, without the order and justice he once upheld and believed in. Dent's world revolves around chance, more specifically the flip of his coin. It is no ordinary coin as it is double sided, clean on one side, and covered by scars on the other. Every decision Two Face makes falls on the flip of his coin. It is judge, jury, and executioner. When the "Good Heads" turns up, Harvey is in control. When it's "Bad Heads", however, Two Face shines and becomes more dominant than Harvey can ever be. Yet, there always seems to be a piece of Harvey which is strong enough to linger within the mind of Two Face when he is committing his ungodly acts. However, Two Face is the dominant personality. In subsequent episodes of the show, Two-Face became the supervillain he is in the comics. Two-Face's opposing personalities are constantly at war, but as Batman learns, it is usually the bad side that wins. Two-Face moderates his inner conflict with a special coin that is scratched on one side. He uses this coin as the arbiter of his own brand of demented justice, flipping the coin to determine his decisions. Without the coin, Two-Face is lost in a world in which no clear answer exists, and Batman understood he could always use this weakness to his advantage. And despite Two-Face and Batman's constant fights with each other, Bruce Wayne never gives up on his old friend. First of all, Two-Face robbed various of Thorne's bookies with the help of twin brothers Mix and Max. He even stole Thorne's file and escaped from Batman. He later met with Grace again but he is not the same anymore, as his world involves around chance. Rupert Thorne and his gang arrived and Thorne got his file back, though he is eventually defeated. Just as Two-Face flipped his coin to decide the fate of Thorne, Batman threw a crate of silver dollars, mixing them in midair with Two-Face's coin and causing him to lose it. Unable to decide without it, Two-Face collapses into the floor, throwing a tantrum of rage as Grace comforts him. Another time, Two-Face paid Dr. Hugo Strange to reveal him Batman's secret identity, although he didn't believed him when he said that it is Bruce Wayne as he stated 'I' know Bruce Wayne. If he is Batman, I'm the king of England'! One time, Two-Face strapped Batman to a giant penny which is placed on a catapult. If it landed face down, Batman would be squashed. If it landed face up, Batman's bones would shatter. When Two-Face's coin launched, the Dark Knight cut free from the ropes in midair using Two-Face's own coin. Much to Two-Face's irritation, Batman gets to keep the giant penny as a trophy.

Another time, Two-Face used behind-the-scenes manipulation to have Gil Mason [voiced by Tim Matheson] infiltrate Gotham's justice system as the Deputy Police Commissioner. Mason's high level of physical abilities caught Commisioner Gordon's trust and brought down Rupert Thorne; Mason's mysterious informant is obviously Two-Face. He has Mason arrest Gordon after framing the Commisioner into being partners with Thorne. While Barbara Gordon and Dick Grayson eventually each respectively figure out Mason's true nature, Two-Face almost executes Matches Malone [Batman]. Next, he engineers a prison break to make Gordon look guilty as well as execute the Commisioner so Mason can take over the Commisioner job permantly and help Two-Face consolidate power over Gotham's criminal acts. After Batgirl saves Gordon, Two-Face is defeated by Batman and Robin, while Batgirl captures Mason. Two-Face acted as a prosecutor when Batman's roughes gallery hold the Dark Knight prisoner in Arkham in a kangaroo court. Bruce Wayne never gave up hope that his friend could once again return to normal society, continuously paying for counseling to subdue Two-Face's personality. After some time, doctors agreed his therapy had been effective enough to stabilize Two-Face's mind, which then allowed the opportunity for surgery upon Harvey Dent's damaged side. Just when the surgery was about to begin, masked mobsters broke into the operating room. Stating only that their 'boss' wanted to handle Dent personally, two cars split from the scene. One took Two-Face to Stonegate, the Penguin's current whereabouts, while the other vehicle was registed to Rupert Thorne. Both criminals had had histories of conflict with both Two-Face and Dent, but neither claimed involvement to Batman and Robin.

In truth, Two-Face kidnaped himself to prevent his original personality from eliminating himself completely. Staging the break in, he arranged for his thugs to break him out of the operation and staged a two-pronged getaway, both to allude suspicion and to leave a trademark hint. Though Batman discovered the true kidnaper, he was unprepared for the ambush Two-Face had devised. Capturing Batman, Two-Face placed his life in the flip of the coin. During their earlier struggle, Batman switched the real coin with a trick one, designed to always land on its side. However, Two-Face could not handle the indecision, and chased his coin on to a support beam overhanging Gotham. The coin fell off in a desperate gamble, he managed to grab it but fell off in the process and was unable to pull himself back up. Batman caught hold of Two-Face at the last second, but needed Two-Face to pull himself up. The coin, however, could not decide for him; the choice was up to Two-Face alone. His original personality resurged for a moment, and he dropped the coin, but Two-Face took control once more and sabotaged the effort. He plummeted, but Batman and Robin managed to save him and themselves in time. Two-Face was once again sent to Arkham for more pshychiatric treatment. Still, Dent emerged once more thanks to his old friend for not giving up on him.

Much later, Two-Face kidnapped Tim Drake and made an attempt to kill him, before Tim was rescued by Batman. The young boy found himself inspired by Bruce's desire to stand up to people like Two-Face. In combination with his own rebellious nature, Tim would unwittingly steal the Robin costume from the Batcave, while Two-Face reacquired chemicals and held the entire city hostage, threating to create a toxic gas unless he received twenty-million dollars by 2 AM. However, the city refused to pay and after a two-minute warning, Two-Face activated the chemicals. Batman and Batgirl arrived to stop them, and shortly thereafter the new Robin. The trio stopped the machine and apprehended Two-Face once more.

As the Judge
In the final episode, Two-Face's personality fragmented a second time, creating a third personality called "The Judge", a violent court-themed vigilante that attempted to eliminate all of Gotham's denizens, even brutally attacking and defeating master criminals such as Penguin, Killer Croc, and The Riddler. Two-Face, looking to eradicate this new threat to him, had no idea that he himself was The Judge. At the end of the episode he was sent back to Arkham. However, Harvey ended up being psychology disturbed, constantly hearing the Judge's voice inside his head. After this event, he was probably sentenced to stay in Arkham for the rest of his life.

Abilities and equipment
"Don't bother to adjust the picture! For the next five minutes, I'm in control!"

- Two-Face, entering a bookie's club to rob in

Two-Face made no decision without consulting chance first. He was never without one of his special double-headed coins. The 'Good Heads' was merely a standard heads, while the 'Bad Heads' was another heads side, but with several slashes and cuts across it. This mirrored Two-Face's dual persona, an embodiment of the good and the bad. He was frequently left incapacitated if he couldn't consult his coin for a decision. Furthermore, Two-Face is obsessed with the themes of duality and opposites and incorporates them in his life and work as much as possible. For instance, his first underlings were a pair of twins and his hideout is divided in one half neat and well appointed while the other half is a messy wreck.

Aside from the coin, Two-Face frequently sported a tommy-gun, and displayed relative proficiency in its usage. He also kept two pistols on his person, which he presumably always drew together in keeping with his motif.

He also showed above-average capabilities for physical fighting, and was shown to be very strong, holding his own againist multiple foes and flipping the heavyset Rupert Thorne across a room. This was exemplified further when The Judge defeated Killer Croc with ease. However, he had not outright metanhuman powers.

Justice League
Two-Face made a cameo appearance during the Justice League episode 'A Better World' in an alternate reality. This version of Two-Face was among the many supervillains lobotomized by that reality's Superman.

Batman Beyond
Additionally, an android version of Two-Face also had a cameo in an episode of Batman Beyond.

Trivia

 * Two-Face is the only main supervillain in Batman The Animated Series to appear in more than one two-part episode. Ironically, he appears in two.
 * Two-Face was one of the few characters to not receive a revamp in The New Batman Adventures. His lines became slicker and his head became smaller, but otherwise he remained virtually the same.
 * He is arguably Batman's most irascible enemy.
 * Richard Moll also voiced Two-Face in one episode of Batman; The Brave and the Bold.
 * As the Judge, he was voiced by Malachi Throne.
 * Batman's method of defeating Two-Face in Two-Face Part II [using a case of coins] was later used in the climax of Batman Forever.
 * Al Pacino was offered the role of Two-Face but he turned it down. Al Pacino also played John Milton.