11 Comic Book Movie Characters Who Were Killed Way Too Quickly

4. Two Face

One accusation that it's difficult to swerve of Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy is that it was too definitive, and had too many final narrative solutions. Yes, the Joker's story was left somewhat open-ended by necessity, and the trilogy ended on an open note with several questions posed, but up to that point most character arcs were definitively dealt with, as Nolan sought to avoid embracing a more episodic, comic book like approach.

With that in mind, most of the villains - Ra's Al Ghul, Falcone, Talia Al Ghul, Bane and Two-Face - were all given tight little endings, or deaths in this case, to definitively answer whether they'd ever come back. But comic book fans being what they are, even when the characters were obviously smushed by trains, or blown up, or shot and dropped off a building, questions would still rear up, and the fervour surrounding Two-Face's survival (a hopeful thing more than one based too much in fact) was such that the film-makers basically had to come out with a statement of his Death Certificate.

Still fans resisted the truth, and it was because we didn't get to see enough of Harvey Dent's dark side. Because he played a secondary antagonist he burned brightly but all too briefly, and the potential to see him lead a film as the primary villain would have been glorious.