Two-Face

Two-Face is a DC Comics supervillain, an enemy of Batman. Created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane, he first appeared in Detective Comics #66 (1941). He was inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson's novella, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

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Two-Face was once Harvey Dent, the District Attorney of Gotham City, and a close personal ally of Batman. However, after a criminal threw acid in his face, severely disfiguring one half but leaving the other unharmed, he became the insane crime boss Two-Face. Originally, he was one of many gimmicked comic book villains: he plotted crimes around the number two, such as robbing Gotham Second National Bank at 2:00 on February 2. In more recent years, more serious-minded writers have portrayed his obsession with duality and his criminal behaviour as the result of multiple personality disorder.

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Although too gruesome for the 1960s television show (Clint Eastwood was proposed to play him at one time, as a former news-anchor who became disfigured when a television exploded in his face) that popularized Batman and much of his rogues gallery, Two-Face has been a prominent Batman foe and was played by Tommy Lee Jones in the 1995 film Batman Forever.

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In the comics, Two-Face often formed temporary alliances with Gotham City's other criminals, in particular The Joker and The Penguin.

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