8 Worst Things Two-Face Has Ever Done

Harvey Dent was Batman's greatest friend. But Two-Face is only one of his greatest villains.

by Ewan Paterson
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Two-Face is one of Batman's greatest adversaries, and given the macabre nature of the character's comics, it was always going to be the case that the villain will have gotten up to some horrendous acts over the years.

Harvey Dent and his other personality (dubbed Big Bad Harv') have gotten up to a whole lot since first appearing in Detective Comics #66, but the tragic thing is not all of it is bad. Dent became Gotham's youngest District Attorney at the age of 26 and took on the city's criminal underworld with Batman and Commissioner Gordon by his side, only to get scarred in court cross-examining a witness.

The tragedy would unleash Dent's dormant other half and set him on a path to becoming one of the Dark Knight's most formidable adversaries, but Two-Face was also one of DC's most sympathetic characters. He was abused growing up, suppressed a dormant personality and lost everything because of it. As a result, Harvey becomes one of Bruce Wayne's deadliest enemies, one with nothing to lose and a black and white morality that doesn't care about reason, empathy, or negotiation.

The only thing that can save Dent's victims is a coin toss, and unsurprisingly, when the coin lands on its scarred side, terrible things have occurred...

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WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well. In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.