Batman: The Long Halloween's Secret Villain Has Become the New Two-Face
Warning! Spoilers for Batman: The Long Halloween!
The epic twist from the finale of Batman: The Long Halloween is getting new life now that Two-Face is coming to the twisted world of Flashpoint Beyond. It won't be Harvey Dent as the duality-themed villain, but fans of Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale's classic story may see a connection to the new version of the Batman rogue.
The dark world of Flashpoint introduced a different version of Harvey who became a respected judge instead of Two-Face and remained married to his wife, Gilda. Together the two had a pair of twins, but after a tragedy involving the Joker, their daughter took her own life, haunted by the experience. Things have only gotten worse for the family, with Harvey murdered in a car bombing and Gilda Dent being institutionalized at Arkham Asylum over her family's many tragedies.
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And thanks to the dark timeline of Flashpoint, it looks like things are only going to get worse for Mrs. Dent. DC's solicitations for its upcoming August releases revealed a variant cover for Flashpoint Beyond #4. The cover by artist Xermánico shows Gilda Dent sitting in a prison cell with facial scars similar to that of the Prime Earth Two-Face. Bloody bandages lying to her right indicate that the wounds are still fresh. In her hands, she holds a scratched out poker chip instead of a coin, possibly because of her husband's connections with casino businessman Thomas Wayne. The cover falls in line with the issue's synopsis, which says that Harvey and Gilda's son, Dexter, aims to break his mother out of Arkham Asylum.
It's sad to see Gilda continue the downswing of tragedy that has befallen her family in the Flashpoint world.
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