Two-Face (Batman: The Animated Series)
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Two-Face is a two-part episode of the first season of Batman: The Animated Series
. Academy Award-winner Al Pacino
turned down an offer to voice Two-Face
, and Richard Moll
took up the role.
Dent arrives at the location only to find that the police are being shot at with no way of firing back. Luckily, Batman arrives and scares the thugs out of the building. It is revealed that Dent had created a sting to take down one of Rupert Thorns top warehouses and find a way to get the men to testify against their boss as a motion for his re-election as Gotham's District Attorney. When one of the thugs kicks mud onto Dent's suit and taunts him, he snaps. Rushing over to him, Dent grabs the thug and wrestles him to the ground before Commissioner Gordon snaps him out of it. Dent brushes it off as the thug pressed a button but Gordon is still concerned. Rupert sees the stint on the news and tells Candace to find some dirt on the D.A.
Durning an electoral fundraiser, held by best friend Bruce Wayne, Dent learns that the judge acquitted Thorne's men due to bribes paid by their boss. Dent loses it again, throwing the campaign manager to the refreshment stand and nearly hitting Bruce when Grace, Harvey's fiance, calms him down. Bruce pushes Dent to tell him what's going on when Grace finally tells him that he's seeing a therapist about his episodes. Unfortunately, Candace overhears the conversation as well.
During his latest session, it is discovered that Dent's other side is growing stronger due to the stress in his life. At first Harvey refuses to get further help, stating that it would ruin his chances of getting re-elected, but agrees to cut down on campaigning and make more appointments.
On the night of the election, Bruce congratulates Harvey's most likely re-election and his ability to maintain control. Dent adds that he may announce a wedding date to Grace, which makes her happy, but is interrupted with a phone call. Rupert requests that Harvey see him about a situation which could ruin his career—alone. Bruce senses something and follows suit as Batman, losing the car but not before placing a tracking device on the rear bumper.
Rupert reads to everyone a page from Dent's past (he hit a bully in self-defense and felt guilty when he went to the hospital for appendicitis that Harvey vowed to never show he was angry again, resulting in Big Bad Harv.) and threatened to reveal it to the world if he did not ease up on his syndicate. Unfortunately for Thorne, Dent reverted into Big Bad Harv during the confrontation and attacks the mob boss. Batman arrives to help fend off Thorne's guards while Dent goes after the folder with his history. One of Thorne's thugs fires at Dent, but Batman knocks him down, causing him to misfire at the control panel. One of the cables knocked loose lands in the chemicals below, causing them to explode and disfigure the left side of Dent's body.
Dent is hospitalized, scheduled for surgery and, worst of all, loses his reclaimed title as D.A. Dent finally sees his newly disfigured face then runs out of the room and into Grace, who has dropped by for a visit. Upon seeing his face, Grace faints from shock. Dent bids Grace farewell and escapes the hospital.
s — and Harvey Dent, now wearing a suit that's half white, half black, and calling himself Two-Face — rob the place. The twins take money from the cashiers, but when one of the twins is about to steal a ring, Two-Face flips his coin again. The coin's good side comes up, so he decides to leave without the ring. Nevertheless, he destroys the bookie joint and warns everyone he wants to give a message to Thorne: he's going down.
Thorne puts a two-million dollar contract on Two-Face's head, "a million dollars a face." That night, Bruce Wayne has a nightmare of his friend and his metamorphosis into Two-Face, and how he was powerless to prevent it - and Dent demands to know why, if he was his friend, he did not save him. Bruce's parents then appear, asking him why he did not save them. Wayne awakes in a cold sweat, and vows to save Dent.
Later, two police officers visit Grace, and leave her a beeper with instructions to activate it just as Dent contacts or meets her. As the policemen leave, it is shown one of them is actually Candace, who says she's sure Two-Face will return to Grace sooner or later. In Two-Face's hideout, Two-Face starts sharing out the profits from the robbery, but grows somber when he finds a photo of Grace. One of the twins suggests that Two-Face visit her; Two-Face responds to this by flipping his coin, which lands in bad heads. He then says he is through with humiliating Thorne - and that he's ready to do to him exactly what he did to him.
In the Batcave
, Batman deduces that all the places Two-Face has robbed, aside from making a mention to the number two in some way, are also connected as Thorne's illegitimate businesses. He also deducts that Two-Face no longer wants to embarrass Thorne, but rather destroy him, and guesses his next target. At the office of Thorne's attorney, a man with the surname Doubleday, Two-Face finds a record implicating Thorne in several crimes. Batman tries to stop them by pleading with Two-Face to surrender, but the former D.A. knocks Batman unconscious and escapes.
Later, Two-Face calls Grace, and tells her to come and meet him by stepping into a limousine waiting for her outside. Grace does so, and activates the beeper on her way. At that moment, Candace tells Thorne that the beeper's been activated. The limousine stops at a derelict club called "Wild Deuce 2" where she enters a large room — half of it carefully groomed, the other half chaotic. Two-Face stands in the middle of it, half his face covered by a cloth. When Grace tries to reason with him, he tells her that he now believes that life is only a game of chance in which notions of good and evil do not apply. Grace does not believe him, and begs him to regain control of his life. She then removes the cloth covering his injuries, and says she still loves him. Moved by her declarations of love, he starts to relent.
A moment later, however, Thorne enters the club, and kills Two-Face's twin bodyguards. He then demands the stolen data, but Two-Face refuses. Thorne taunts Two-Face by revealing that Grace who led them to him, under the pretense of a police chase. By threatening Grace's life, Thorne convinces Two-Face to tell him where the file is. Revealing it to be under the club's roulette, Two-Face reluctantly gives up the file. Nevertheless, Thorne gives the order to execute both Grace and Two-Face. Batman, however, saves their lives, disables the gang and traps Thorne under a massive chandelier. Two-Face prepares to kill Thorne, but Grace begs him not to; conflicted, Two-Face flips his coin to decide. Batman, however, dumps a large crate of silver dollars nearby, leaving him unable to test chance. Panicked and confused, Two-Face collapses, sobbing.
As police lead Two-Face away to Arkham Asylum
, Commissioner Gordon wonders aloud whether there is hope for Dent. Batman replies, "wherever there is love, there's hope," and throws a coin in a nearby fountain; it turns heads up.
Batman: The Animated Series
Batman: The Animated Series is an American animated series based on the DC Comics character Batman. The series featured an ensemble cast of many voice-actors including Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Arleen Sorkin, and Loren Lester. The series won four Emmy Awards and was nominated...
. Academy Award-winner Al Pacino
Al Pacino
Alfredo James "Al" Pacino is an American film and stage actor and director. He is famous for playing mobsters, including Michael Corleone in The Godfather trilogy, Tony Montana in Scarface, Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice in Dick Tracy and Carlito Brigante in Carlito's Way, though he has also appeared...
turned down an offer to voice Two-Face
Two-Face
Two-Face is a fictional comic book supervillain who appears in comic books published by DC Comics. and is an enemy of Batman. The character first appeared in Detective Comics #66 , and was created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger....
, and Richard Moll
Richard Moll
Charles Richard Moll is an American actor and voice artist,best known for playing Bull Shannon, the bailiff on the NBC sitcom Night Court from 1983 to 1992...
took up the role.
Part 1
The episode starts with Harvey Dent running in the middle of nowhere, hearing someone close calling his name. When he stops running, he faces a silhouette of himself flipping a coin, telling him he cannot escape. Dent is woken up by his campaign manager, telling him that the recent sting is in motion.Dent arrives at the location only to find that the police are being shot at with no way of firing back. Luckily, Batman arrives and scares the thugs out of the building. It is revealed that Dent had created a sting to take down one of Rupert Thorns top warehouses and find a way to get the men to testify against their boss as a motion for his re-election as Gotham's District Attorney. When one of the thugs kicks mud onto Dent's suit and taunts him, he snaps. Rushing over to him, Dent grabs the thug and wrestles him to the ground before Commissioner Gordon snaps him out of it. Dent brushes it off as the thug pressed a button but Gordon is still concerned. Rupert sees the stint on the news and tells Candace to find some dirt on the D.A.
Durning an electoral fundraiser, held by best friend Bruce Wayne, Dent learns that the judge acquitted Thorne's men due to bribes paid by their boss. Dent loses it again, throwing the campaign manager to the refreshment stand and nearly hitting Bruce when Grace, Harvey's fiance, calms him down. Bruce pushes Dent to tell him what's going on when Grace finally tells him that he's seeing a therapist about his episodes. Unfortunately, Candace overhears the conversation as well.
During his latest session, it is discovered that Dent's other side is growing stronger due to the stress in his life. At first Harvey refuses to get further help, stating that it would ruin his chances of getting re-elected, but agrees to cut down on campaigning and make more appointments.
On the night of the election, Bruce congratulates Harvey's most likely re-election and his ability to maintain control. Dent adds that he may announce a wedding date to Grace, which makes her happy, but is interrupted with a phone call. Rupert requests that Harvey see him about a situation which could ruin his career—alone. Bruce senses something and follows suit as Batman, losing the car but not before placing a tracking device on the rear bumper.
Rupert reads to everyone a page from Dent's past (he hit a bully in self-defense and felt guilty when he went to the hospital for appendicitis that Harvey vowed to never show he was angry again, resulting in Big Bad Harv.) and threatened to reveal it to the world if he did not ease up on his syndicate. Unfortunately for Thorne, Dent reverted into Big Bad Harv during the confrontation and attacks the mob boss. Batman arrives to help fend off Thorne's guards while Dent goes after the folder with his history. One of Thorne's thugs fires at Dent, but Batman knocks him down, causing him to misfire at the control panel. One of the cables knocked loose lands in the chemicals below, causing them to explode and disfigure the left side of Dent's body.
Dent is hospitalized, scheduled for surgery and, worst of all, loses his reclaimed title as D.A. Dent finally sees his newly disfigured face then runs out of the room and into Grace, who has dropped by for a visit. Upon seeing his face, Grace faints from shock. Dent bids Grace farewell and escapes the hospital.
Part 2
The following episode opens six months later with a building with the numbers "222" and a limousine parking just outside a seedy-looking building. Inside, a voice speaks to a man with half his body in darkness, identifying the building as Rupert Thorne's bookie joint. The man then proceeds to flip a coin (the same coin as seen before, only with one side scratched), saying: "Good heads, we leave 'em alone; bad heads, we hit 'em hard." Moments later, a set of identical thug twins wielding tommy gunTommy Gun
Tommy Gun may refer to:*Thompson submachine gun or Tommy gun, a submachine gun*"Tommy Gun" , a song by The Clash...
s — and Harvey Dent, now wearing a suit that's half white, half black, and calling himself Two-Face — rob the place. The twins take money from the cashiers, but when one of the twins is about to steal a ring, Two-Face flips his coin again. The coin's good side comes up, so he decides to leave without the ring. Nevertheless, he destroys the bookie joint and warns everyone he wants to give a message to Thorne: he's going down.
Thorne puts a two-million dollar contract on Two-Face's head, "a million dollars a face." That night, Bruce Wayne has a nightmare of his friend and his metamorphosis into Two-Face, and how he was powerless to prevent it - and Dent demands to know why, if he was his friend, he did not save him. Bruce's parents then appear, asking him why he did not save them. Wayne awakes in a cold sweat, and vows to save Dent.
Later, two police officers visit Grace, and leave her a beeper with instructions to activate it just as Dent contacts or meets her. As the policemen leave, it is shown one of them is actually Candace, who says she's sure Two-Face will return to Grace sooner or later. In Two-Face's hideout, Two-Face starts sharing out the profits from the robbery, but grows somber when he finds a photo of Grace. One of the twins suggests that Two-Face visit her; Two-Face responds to this by flipping his coin, which lands in bad heads. He then says he is through with humiliating Thorne - and that he's ready to do to him exactly what he did to him.
In the Batcave
Batcave
The Batcave is the secret headquarters of fictional DC Comics superhero Batman, the alternate identity of playboy Bruce Wayne, consisting of a series of subterranean caves beneath his residence, Wayne Manor.-Publication history:...
, Batman deduces that all the places Two-Face has robbed, aside from making a mention to the number two in some way, are also connected as Thorne's illegitimate businesses. He also deducts that Two-Face no longer wants to embarrass Thorne, but rather destroy him, and guesses his next target. At the office of Thorne's attorney, a man with the surname Doubleday, Two-Face finds a record implicating Thorne in several crimes. Batman tries to stop them by pleading with Two-Face to surrender, but the former D.A. knocks Batman unconscious and escapes.
Later, Two-Face calls Grace, and tells her to come and meet him by stepping into a limousine waiting for her outside. Grace does so, and activates the beeper on her way. At that moment, Candace tells Thorne that the beeper's been activated. The limousine stops at a derelict club called "Wild Deuce 2" where she enters a large room — half of it carefully groomed, the other half chaotic. Two-Face stands in the middle of it, half his face covered by a cloth. When Grace tries to reason with him, he tells her that he now believes that life is only a game of chance in which notions of good and evil do not apply. Grace does not believe him, and begs him to regain control of his life. She then removes the cloth covering his injuries, and says she still loves him. Moved by her declarations of love, he starts to relent.
A moment later, however, Thorne enters the club, and kills Two-Face's twin bodyguards. He then demands the stolen data, but Two-Face refuses. Thorne taunts Two-Face by revealing that Grace who led them to him, under the pretense of a police chase. By threatening Grace's life, Thorne convinces Two-Face to tell him where the file is. Revealing it to be under the club's roulette, Two-Face reluctantly gives up the file. Nevertheless, Thorne gives the order to execute both Grace and Two-Face. Batman, however, saves their lives, disables the gang and traps Thorne under a massive chandelier. Two-Face prepares to kill Thorne, but Grace begs him not to; conflicted, Two-Face flips his coin to decide. Batman, however, dumps a large crate of silver dollars nearby, leaving him unable to test chance. Panicked and confused, Two-Face collapses, sobbing.
As police lead Two-Face away to Arkham Asylum
Arkham Asylum
The Elizabeth Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane, commonly referred to simply as Arkham Asylum, is a fictional psychiatric hospital in the DC Comics Universe, usually appearing in stories featuring Batman...
, Commissioner Gordon wonders aloud whether there is hope for Dent. Batman replies, "wherever there is love, there's hope," and throws a coin in a nearby fountain; it turns heads up.
Cast
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Kevin Conroy Kevin Conroy Kevin Conroy is an American stage, screen, and voice actor, best known for his acclaimed voice role as Batman in numerous animated television series, feature films, and video games that make up the DC Animated Universe.-Early life:... |
Bruce Wayne / Batman Batman Batman is a fictional character created by the artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger. A comic book superhero, Batman first appeared in Detective Comics #27 , and since then has appeared primarily in publications by DC Comics... |
| Bob Hastings Bob Hastings Robert "Bob" Hastings is an American film, radio, and television character actor. He has also provided voices for animated cartoons.... |
Commissioner James Gordon |
| Richard Moll Richard Moll Charles Richard Moll is an American actor and voice artist,best known for playing Bull Shannon, the bailiff on the NBC sitcom Night Court from 1983 to 1992... |
Harvey Dent/Big Bad Harv/Two-Face Two-Face Two-Face is a fictional comic book supervillain who appears in comic books published by DC Comics. and is an enemy of Batman. The character first appeared in Detective Comics #66 , and was created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger.... |
| Murphy Cross | Grace Lamont Gilda Dent Gilda Dent , occasionally referred to as Grace instead of Gilda, is a fictional character who has appeared in Batman comic books since Detective Comics #66... |
| Mari Devon Mari Devon Mari Devon is an American voice actress who is also known as Jane Alan.-Anime roles:* 8 Man After - Sachiko* Babel II - Juju* Battle B-Daman - B-DaMage* The Big O - Vice-President Mari Devon (born 1960) is an American voice actress who is also known as Jane Alan.-Anime roles:* 8 Man After -... |
Summer Gleeson Summer Gleeson Summer Gleeson is a fictional character on Batman: The Animated Series, voiced by Mari Devon.- Overview :Gleeson is a reporter and talk show host for "Gotham Live", a news channel in Gotham City... |
| Bob Doqui | Doctor |
| Matt Landers | Frankie |
| Diane Michelle Diane Michelle Diane Michelle is an American voice actress, famous for voicing Daisy Duck in several modern Disney projects . Diane's voice work appears in Happy Feet and she voiced both Depa Billaba, a Republic Medic Droid, and Zam Wessel in Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds... |
Candace |
| Linda Gary Linda Gary Linda Gary was an American voice actor and voice-over artist, who has worked on multiple animated projects.-Personal life:Linda Gary Dewoskin was born in California on November 4, 1944.... |
Dr. Nora Crest |
| Marc Tubert | Carlos |
| John Vernon John Vernon John Keith Vernon was a Canadian actor. He made a career in Hollywood after achieving initial television stardom in Canada.-Early life:... |
Rupert Thorne Rupert Thorne Rupert Thorne is a fictional character, a crime boss and enemy of Batman in the DC Comics universe. Created by Steve Englehart and Walter Simonson, the character first appeared in Detective Comics #469.-Fictional character biography:... |
| Micky Dolenz Micky Dolenz George Michael "Micky" Dolenz, Jr. is an American actor, musician, television director, radio personality and theater director, best known as a member of the 1960s made-for-television band The Monkees.-Biography:... |
Min & Max |
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