Two-Face

Two-Face
Father	Harry Dent
Mother	Lucy Gold-Dent
Alias	The Bright Knight Two Face
Profession	District Attorney
Significant other(s)	Rachel Dawes
Death cause	Fall caused by Batman
Appearances	The Dark Knight
Played by	Aaron Eckhart

Harvey Dent was a District Attorney of Gotham City hailed as the city's "Bright Knight", whose battle to bring justice to the criminal underworld left him with mental illnesses he inherited from his ex-police officer father, scarring him into Two-Face, a disfigured murderer with a split personality bent on injustice.

History

Early Life

Harvey Dent was born in Gotham City to Harry Dent, a GCPD police officer employed as a member of Gotham's finest, and Lucy Gold-Dent, and was frequently abused by his father, who used a coin to decide whether Harvey will go without a night of beating. Unbeknownst to Harvey at the time, the coin was double-headed, meaning that no matter which side it lands, it always results in him getting beaten by his father. His father's status as a retired cop also prevented the proper authorities from stopping his child abuse. Harvey eventually became an orphan after his parents were killed in a car accident. The abuse from his father, as well as the police's failure to stop it, drove him to despise corrupt cops, leading to him to pursue the job of Gotham's district attorney when he was older.

Attorney Career

Originally working in Internal Investigations, Dent picked up the name "Harvey Two-Face" for being duplicitous when investigating people. He investigated many people who ended up working in James Gordon's Major Crimes Unit.

When he began running for the position of DA, Dent knew he would have to take on the mob. He was the verge of getting Wilmer Rossi to testify against mob boss Sal Maroni, but in court Rossi had a change of heart and tried to shoot Dent. The gun jammed, and Harvey subdued Rossi and had him taken away while Maroni went free.

Dent then decided to go after the mob's money, with the help of James Gordon and Batman. They lead raids on the mob's bank vaults, but found all the money had been moved by Mr Lau to Hong Kong. Batman kidnapped Lau and brought him back to Gotham. Dent and his girlfriend Rachel Dawes got Lau to indict all his fellow criminals in a RICO case, and Dent locked up half of the mob in a single day.

However, an anarchist psychopath called the Joker, who was hired by the mob to push Batman out of the way of their scheme to get back their funds, made a public demand that Batman unmask himself or people would die. Judge Janet Surrillo and Gillian Loeb were killed, and a fundraser that Bruce Wayne was holding for Dent was invaded by the clown himself. Batman took Dent to the safety of a panic room and dealt with the situation, although the Joker got away.

Next the Joker named Mayor Anthony Garcia and Dent as targets, and during Loeb's funeral an attempt was made on Garcia's life. In the chaos, Dent grabbed Thomas Schiff who was working for the Joker and drove him to a secluded location. He used his lucky coin to decide whether Schiff lived or died, but Batman stopped him and told him his reputation was too important to be torturing people like that. Batman agreed to turn himself in.

Dent held a press conference and tried to convince people to hold out hope. When he was shouted down, he told people that he was the Batman and had himself arrested. As he was transported to jail, the Joker tried to kill him on the way. However Batman saved him, and James Gordon, who was thought dead, emerged from hiding to arrest the Joker. Dent was put into a car by Anna Ramirez, but he was kidnapped and taken to a warehouse filled with oil drums. He had a radio to communicate with Rachel Dawes, who was in the same situation, and he had to listen as Batman rescued him but Rachel was blown up. Dent was burnt on half of his body from the explosion.

Criminal Career

In Gotham General Hospital, Dent refused skin grafts despite the immense pain. Gordon visited him, but Dent wouldn't listen and said he wouldn't hide who he was. He was then visited by the Joker, who gave him a gun and told him to introduce anarchy to Gotham. Dent got out of the hospital and found Wuertz and at his brother Louis' bar. Dent shot him, then found Sal Maroni. Maroni gave him Ramirez's name, and Dent shot his driver and crashed his car. Dent then found Ramirez, but spared her life on the flip of his coin. Finally, he kidnapped Gordon's wife and child and took them to the warehouse that Rachel died in.

Gordon and Batman showed up, trying to get Dent to drop the gun. He wouldn't listen, flipping a coin for each of their lives. He shot Batman, but spared his own life. He then pointed the gun at Gordon's son, and just before he pulled the trigger Batman flew at him and knocked him to the ground. Dent died from the fall, but Batman took the blame for his murders and he was hailed as a hero.