10 Things DC Comics Want You To Forget About Two-Face

6. He's Father To Twins

Two-Face Strikes Twice is the Batman comics take on Kramer vs Kramer. Which doesn't sound particularly exciting when you put it like that, but it is still a Batman comic, meaning there's plenty of BIFFs, POWs and WHAMs alongside the custody battles. The conflict central to the 1993 story arc was between Harvey Dent and his ex-wife Gilda, as he becomes convinced the reason their marriage failed was because he was unable to give her children. As if, y'know, the whole scarred supervillain thing wouldn't have been reason enough for the divorce courts to send their case speeding through. In a particularly galling bit of irony Gilda marries Paul Janus, whose surname recalls the Roman god who had two faces. Smooth move, Gilda. Jealous that some new guy is straying onto two pieces of his turf (his ex-wife and his gimmick), Two-Face resolves to frame Paul by kidnapping him, replacing him with a doppelganger and having said double disfigured with acid the same way he was. That way Paul wouldn't look any better than him, and Gilda would start wondering why this seems to keep happening to her. In the course of the story it transpires that the former Mrs Dent, having been reunited with Paul after Batman inevitably foiled Two-Face's terrible plan, is pregnant. When she gives birth to twins - yes, twins - Harvey once again breaks out of Arkham and this time abducts the tykes, believing them to be Janus's. Except, it turns out, they're actually his children, created using sperm he had frozen when he was DA and was constantly receiving death threats. Why Gilda decides to impregnate herself all those years later is never really explained, but Two-Face loses his will to fight and releases his twin babies. He returns to jail, Gilda returns to Paul, and none of this was ever mentioned ever again. We suppose stories of Two-Face chaperoning the kids on the weekends he gets custody wouldn't have been all that exciting...