Two-face / Earth-2
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Two-face (a. k. a. Harvey Dent), the DC Comics character enemy of Batman, created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger in 1942, in the period known as the golden age of comics. The version conceived back then has been recrated various times, however the original story remains part of the universe known in DC Comics as Earth-2.
His physical appearance in Earth-two is basically the same as the contemporary only with a slightly different artistic interpretation. The skin of his deformed half is green, and his suit is purple at the left and orange at the right, but his shirt is all white.
As in the current continuity, he is known for his half desfigured body and his obssesion with duality and making choces by flipping a coin. His creator, Bob Kane, revealed that he was inspired by a movie poster advertising the Spencer Tracy film Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde wich had half the face of both characters displayed as one head, as well as the 1932 version of Scarface, in which a coin was used by the character chooses to do either good or evil by flipping a coin and betting.
In this version, the obssesion with number two was only a gimmick, and after Harvey Kent, the original Two-face, gets his face restored in his third appearance, other people impersonate "Two-face". After Kent has an issue in which his butler impersonates him, Due to the popularity of Two-face as a Batman villain and the fact that creators didn't want to retcon Kent to keep him as a deformed criminal, in the early fifties Paul Sloane, another character asumes the Two-face persona during the rest of the 1950s. Impersonators also include George Blake, who had the staring on the wrong side. All of the Two-faces stopped appearing during the 1960s.
Subsequent reinterpretations of the character tend to have Harvey Kent's alter ego and name (only slightly changed to Harvey Dent) with the pesristence of Paul Sloane. The version of the newspapper strips of the 1950's, actor Harvey Apollo has clear background elements of both characters.
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[edit] Harvey Kent
Harvey Kent is the Distric Attouney of Gotham City, but after being thrown acid by a criminal and geting half his face and his left hand monstruosly deformed, he snaps and becomes Two-face, a master criminal with a gimmick of fliping a coin to decide between doing good or bad actions and commiting crimes related with the number two.
Kent didn't really likes being a criminal and in his third appearance, he accidentally shots his former fiance, Gilda, and immediately surrenders to Batman and the police. Then, a surgeon called Dr. Ekhart develops a new corrective surgery procedure that would be able to correct his skin decoloration and defrmation and Harvey undergoes it. Free of his temporal insanity the city gives him his old charge as District Attourney.
Time later he is seen married to Gilda in Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle's wedding. In which a surprised Clark Kent specifies Lois Lane there is no relation between the two Kents.
[edit] Wilkins the butler
Harvey's butler, Wilkins impersonated Two-face to commit crimes and frame Harvey Kent, but he is developed and arrested.
[edit] Paul Sloane
Actor Paul Sloane is hired to play Harvey Dent / Two-face in a biographical film and commited to the character, during the filming, he is accidentally deformed in the same way the original Two-face is. Like the first Paul snapped after the incident but his commitment to the character and the dact that he is the second Two-face, gets him to be the definitive Two-face. He is prosecuted by Harvey Kent several times.
As a character he is recurring up until the late fifties, when the popularity of Two-face in the Batman mythos vanishes for a while. However, after the multiverse is established the character makes some cameos as part of the Earth-2.
He is very similar to Harvey Kent, only his scarring is purple instead of green and his left side of the suit is green instead of purple.
[edit] George Blake
George Blake is a crminal who impersonates Two-face, only he is characterized by having the scarring on the opposite side.
[edit] Skills and abilities
[edit] Other versions
| Earth/continuity | Creators | First appearance | Appearances | Main article |
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| New Earth | Two-face | |||
| Earth-2 | Two-face / Earth-2 | |||
| Earth-1 | Two-face / Earth-1 | |||
| Earth-3 | Three Face | |||
| Earth-19 | The Double Man | |||
| Earth-1099 | Catwoman: Guardian of Gotham | Darcy Dent | ||
| Comic strips | Two-face / Harvey Apollo |
