“You should know better by now. Fate has chosen... and cannot be denied.”
Name: Two-Face
Age: 40
Hair: none
Eyes: blue
Height: 6'
Weight: 182 lbs.
Build: athletic
Alignment: lawful neutral
Marital Status: single
Known Relatives By Association:
Gilda Dent (ex-wife)
Christopher Dent (father)
Murray Dent (brother, deceased)
Education: Gotham University - law
Current Occupation: criminal
Former Occupation: repressed personality
Base of Operation: Gotham City
Clinical Diagnosis: bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, multiple personality disorder
Equipment: two headed silver dollar, one side of which is scarred and the other side clean, and usually carries a variety of automatic and semi-automatic handguns to aid his criminal affairs. Typically carries two weapons at a time.
Abilities/Skills: excellent sharpshooter, very skilled in Hand to Hand combat though he possesses the strength level of a man his age, size and weight who engages in intensive regular exercise.
Brief History:
Harvey Dent was born into a life of hardship. Growing up in a lower-class family, Dent was raised with an instinctive dislike and mistrust for the upper-class. His violent, cruel and mentally ill father frequently bullied and abused him as a child, with his favorite game being flipping his double-headed coin promising to spare the child a beating if the coin landed tails. These harsh surroundings resulted in Dent developing repressed mental illnesses of his own, such as bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. His hard work ethic, however, allowed him to rise to become a lawyer and, eventually, the District Attorney.
He was nicknamed "Apollo" and "White Knight" by the media, because he was charming, good-looking and seemingly untouchable. He was dedicated to his job of upholding law and order, and became one of the first supporters, allies and even friends of the Batman. Before he was promoted to District Attorney he worked with Internal Affairs to root out corrupt cops, this job earning him the new, less favorable nickname of "Two-Face". At the time during his job as D.A., the worst criminal threat in Gotham was nigh omnipotent mafia boss Carmine Falcone, "The Roman". He forged a triumvirate with Batman and Commissioner Gordon to bring the man down within the law, no matter what the cost. The alliance ended tragically, however when Sal Maroni, threw acid in his face during a trial, leaving Dent horribly scarred on the left side of his face, neck, and hand.
Dent escaped from the hospital, killing the surgeon who was only trying to help repair the damage to his body, and sought refuge in the sewers. During his "recovery" he became obsessed with duality and opposites, his accumulative traumas developing into the alternate, villainous personality Two-Face. When he emerged at last, it was not as one man but two, with their own distinct personalities though both shared a dependence of sort on the "fairness of chance" which was dictated by the flip of coin. Not just any coin would do; they used the same silver dollar Harvey's father had used hundreds of times in his childhood, Two-Face scarring one side of the coin. With Harvey's old life destroyed, they stole his old case files, and began the dismantling of the Falcone crime family according to their rules. The alliance formed with Batman and Commissioner Gordon came to an end when Harvey and Two-Face executed Carmine Falcone, permanently shifting the balance of power in Gotham's underworld from the mob to the so-called "costumed freaks".