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, a disrespected housewife, and was frequently abused by his father every time the senior Dent used a peace dollar to decide whether his son 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 landed, it would always result in him getting beaten by his father nightstick. His father's status as a retired cop also prevented the proper authorities from stopping his child abuse, and Harvey even learned of the police department's disrespect of his mother when he was hiding under the stairwell of his parents' apartment and overheard a group of cops saying that she was "one of them". Though he didn't know what that meant, the boy was sure that it wasn't a nice thing to be call. Harvey always loved the way his mother combed his hair and dressed him, telling him how handsome he looked. His teachers at school agreed to that and gave him good grades. Though he didn't believe that he had only a father who often beat his family in disagreement, Harvey came to realize that as long as others believed it, he may be able to find a better life with his mother.

His wish came at age 10, when his father moved out without divorcing his wife, saying that he couldn't stand the sight of either of them, and took up residence in a rented room near the precinct where he worked. Harvey only saw him once on the street with a middle aged woman who looked a lot like his mother, but never visited nor sent cards. One night at age 16, he came home late from his after-school job at a local drugstore and found both his parents dead in the same room; his father lying on the floor with a gun against his head (which bore a bloody hole) and his mother hanging from a knotted sheet attached to the ceiling around her neck. Despite having Detective Al Grooms look into the case of their deaths, no investigations confirmed whether the Dents committed suicide or were murdered. Harvey was thus left to grow up alone in the dark apartment filled with an unidentifiable odor and the crack and groans of the old building, pitied by his classmates at school and the priests at the church that his mother sometimes attended.

Following his high school graduation, Dent spent his entire time at Gotham University and law school at State University studying with no intention of attending any proms, dances, football or basketball games. It was in the studies that he simply found his profession (and vocation) within the law, which made sense to him since it transformed the chaos of human existence into logic, fairness and reasonable rules that could be obeyed, offering stability and structure. By the time the law revealed itself to him, Dent became aware that his looks were what many thought was his greatest asset and saw it every morning while looking into a bathroom mirror. Oddly, though he didn't believe it possible, but was willing to use his face as a tool and show it to the world as a means of reaping whatever benefits the display conferred. Earning his history and pre-law majors from both colleges at age 21, Dent began his law career as the clerk for a supreme court judge and rose rapidly to popularity by playing hard by the rules, hoping to stand up Gotham for by cleaning up crime and corruption it was living upon that he came to hate. This hardship and goal placed upon him was mainly due to the fact that 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 a place in Gotham's Internal Investigations sometime later. As many of these cops gave him nasty nickname such as "Harvey Two-Face", Dent used spearheaded an initiative through his Internal Affairs office to weed out that police corruption by investigating each cop, including those who ended up working in James Gordon's Major Crimes Unit.

Attorney Career

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.