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Friday 6 July 2012

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It’s hard to decide what name to call him by. There’s the name he was born with, and then the name he took for himself, after a vicious assault turned district attorney Harvey Dent into something unspeakable.

When he was still simply Harvey Dent, he was a crusading prosecutor, one of the few incorruptible men willing to fight for justice in Gotham City. He was a close friend of police detective James Gordon, and on occasion an uneasy ally of the Batman. What happened afterward varies somewhat in different movie and comic-book tales, but in the best-known version of the story, a vengeful mobster forced to turn state’s evidence hurled acid in Dent’s face during a trial. He was left permanently disfigured, in more ways than one.
Half of his face was covered in mottled, lumpy scar tissue, and all of his mind was permanently shattered. Dent became obsessed with the notion of duality, and the random twists of fate that could make the difference between good and evil, fortune and ruin, or heaven and hell. He abandoned his family and turned to crime, giving himself the name Two-Face.
Two-Face’s trademark is his two-toned suit – usually white on the unmarked side of his body and black on the scarred one. He also affects a lucky piece, a coin with one side scratched and marred. Often he chooses to decide the fate of his victims with a flip of that coin.