Why Nobody Admits The Dark Knight's Two-Face Didn't Work
With Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight raising the bar for all superhero films, few want to admit that its Two-Face simply didn't work. Nolan's grounded take on Batman's universe remains widely beloved by DC fans, and The Dark Knight is universally considered the best of the trilogy. However, alongside Christian Bale's Batman and Heath Ledger's Joker, another comic book character was introduced: Aaron Eckhart's Harvey Dent, better known as Two-Face.
A slight revision to Two-Face's origin story sees Dent's transformation into the villain come as a result of getting tangled in the Joker's plans for Batman and Gotham. In Nolan's film, Dent is Gotham's beloved District Attorney, and he can be seen pursuing justice at great personal risk throughout The Dark Knight. However, once the character has been transformed into Two-Face, he's essentially wasted by the film, being killed off in its final scene.
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While Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy achieved lasting success, its handling of Two-Face's character was disappointing. Having such a substantial Batman villain introduced and killed all in the space of one film was a waste; particularly as other villains, like Cillian Murphy's Scarecrow, who appeared in every Dark Knight movie, were given more open endings. Two-Face is perhaps the weakest aspect of The Dark Knight, but the following issues are ignored by most of the trilogy's viewers.
As established by the first act of The Dark Knight, Harvey Dent has been fervently pursuing Gotham's criminal underworld. The relationship between Dent, Gordon, and Batman is central to the film's plot, and The Dark Knight's ending explains that Dent was the best of them all. It's
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