14 Times Comic Book Movies Completely F*cked Iconic Villains

4. Two Face (Batman Forever)

In The Comics

In the comics, Two Face is far more fractured than being the victim of a mob acid attack that leaves him disfigured: he was already unhinged, but suppressed his mental fragility with a commitment to his work that ultimately saw him rise to the top of the law game.

Thanks to his hugely marketable gimmick - which is as memorable as the Joker's clown get-up and the Penguin - and the simple premise of deciding everything on the flip of a coin, he has long been a staple of the rogues gallery and a key part in several seminal story arcs.

On Film

Christopher Nolan's Two Face offers the best model for what the character should always be: he's complex, unhinged and the product of something particularly disturbing. Unfortunately, Schumacher's version is no more than a surface level grotesque, whose switch from DA to Gotham's Most Wanted is unearned and completely inauthentic.

Worse still is Tommy Lee Jones' performance, which basically reimagines the character as a Joker clone, rather than exploring anything like the right depths of his split personality. We get to see his famous coin, and there is a suggestion that he's trying to sell the idea of two warring personalities , but none of that goes far enough, and he feels more like a rip-off than a character in his own right.

And while it's admirable that we got a version of his original origin, there's no real sense that he's actually defined by duality.