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Warning : spoilers forBatman ' 89 # 6ahead !
AlthoughTwo - Facenever formally appeared in Tim Burton’sBatman(1989 ) , the comic strip set in the same universe give us a starring interpretation of this iconic baddie while secern the quality from his interpreting seen inChristopher Nolan’sDark Knighttrilogy . accommodate comic strip from films ( and vice - versa ) is tricky , where past interpretation of lineament are expected to inform their invention in unlike media to the point of result picayune room for interpretation . ButBatman ' 89manages to create a sight of Two - Face that feels reliable to the fictional character and yet alone to his particular world , and it all come down to the treatment of his iconic coin .
Based on Billy Dee William ’s portrait of Harvey Dent , this version of Two - Face manages to merge the character ’s menace with the actor ’s smooth charm . Having opposed Batman ’s spree of vigilante Justice Department , Batman ’ 89reveals how " Billy Dee Williams " became Two - Face : he gained his iconic mark while trying to deliver a young human being from a burn construction . Growing increasingly erratic and qualified on his coin to make conclusion , he goes on to pursue his own brand of cruel justice as Two - Face , using criminal means to pursue evidence about a conspiracy known as the " Lincoln Job . "
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InBatman ' 89 # 6by Sam Hamm , Joe Quinones , and Leonardo Ito , Two - Face ’s architectural plan finally comes to fruition . Having obtained cogent evidence that the Lincoln Job was a fraud perpetrate by Gotham ’s political elite , he proceeds to call a meeting with City Hall , as well as crime boss Carmine Falcone . When Falcone refuses to submit , Two - fount make up one’s mind Gotham ’s future tense with a coin flipsaying , " heads , I do something nice . shadower , I do something … perchance a little bit dotty . " The coin comes up promontory , but Two - Face shoot Falcone anyway saying he ’s " doing something dainty for the multitude of Gotham " by killing him .
In comparability , Aaron Eckhart ’s depiction of Two - Face in Christopher Nolan’sThe Dark Knight(2008 ) is much more by - the - book . Buying altogether into the capricious nature of fate and duality , Eckhart ’s Harvey Dent leaves all of his killings up to the coin : in his first visual aspect as Two - font , he calmly articulate " I do n’t know what ’s move to happen to you , either , " to his panic-struck victim while the coin spins . syndicate boss Sal Maroni is purportedly amongthe five people Two - Face kills : although he survives his coin flip when Dent hijacks his car , Dent does find some wiggle elbow room by tack for the driver . As Dent is in the car with Maroni at the sentence , he ’s commit his own life at risk in religious service to the fifty - fifty chance . However , as Dent survives the ensuing crash , it is possible that Maroni did as well ( although Maroni is no longer seen in the motion-picture show after his encounter with Dent ) . It ’s all left up to the coin .
What the Two - Face ofBatman ' 89does so well is highlight that while he may be bound to the issue of the coin flip , he ’s quite capable of finding way to render and justify the coin ’s result into whatever issue he wants . Those who think the coin gives them an advantage need totake Two - facial expression far more severely , as he controls the coin as much as it controls him . This think of that he can be a heap more calculated in his actions , all while obscure behind a veneer of topsy-turvydom and equal chance . This is the biggest divergence between Burton and Nolan ’s interpretation ofTwo - Face : one is a wild and guileful mastermind , the other a cold , unstoppable military force bound to fifty - fifty hazard , with both being two dissimilar side of the same lineament .
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Batman ' 89 # 6is now available from DC Comics .
