Does Harvey Dent ever turn good?

Instead of choosing to continue what some would call a family legacy, Dent decides to join the good side. Not an easy choice, since it involves casting out his family and going against everything he's been taught. Batman is so impressed, he takes it upon himself to fund Harvey's campaign to become District Attorney.
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Is Harvey Dent a good guy in Gotham?

Personality. For the most part, Dent comes off as friendly, principled, and passionate about bringing justice to Gotham. But as his meeting with Dick Lovecraft shows, he has a much darker side within him, one that has an immutable hatred of criminals, at least the thoroughly corrupt, such as Lovecraft.
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Does Harvey Dent recover?

Over the years, various attempts have been made to repair his facial scars, but none have successfully cured his insanity long term; although he has briefly returned to his Dent persona, he has ended up simply destroying one side of his face and becoming Two-Face once again.
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Does Two-Face ever reform?

In the first issue of "Batman and Robin Adventures", a comic series based on Batman: The Animated Series, Two-Face has reformed into Harvey Dent and was starting a romance with his lawyer, Grace Lamont.
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What happens to Harvey Dent in Gotham?

In fact, not only did D'Agosto's Dent not become Two-Face, he got no resolution at all, simply disappearing from Gotham after the season 2 finale. Considering he was the only top-level Batman villain to have no presence on Gotham at any point, many viewers likely wondered why Two-Face was missing.
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Does Harvey become Two-Face if you save him?

If Batman choses to save Catwoman, Harvey is attacked with the light by Penguin. Though Batman stops the criminal from doing more harm, Harvey is left with the left side of his face burnt, permanently disfigured.
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Does Harvey become a villain?

Obviously, what Harvey does is reprehensible and unforgivable, but like so many leaders who thought they were making the world a safer, better place, his good intentions have led to him becoming a villain doing truly heinous things, even as he cries about what's “fair.”
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Can Two-Face be redeemed?

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Most stories that feature a cured Two-Face see him return to the courtroom in some capacity, so he could become Gotham's true savior once again if given the chance.
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Does Harvey Dent become a villain in The Dark Knight?

Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent/Two-Face: The Gotham district attorney who is hailed as Gotham's "White-Knight"; Dent's battle with the Joker turns Dent into a murderous, disfigured villain called "Two-Face". Producer Charles Roven described Dent as initially the "white knight of the city".
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Who does Harvey Dent turn into?

Somewhere in the multiverse, there's a version of Gotham where the Batman, Gordon and Dent partnership never shattered. But that's the thing about partnerships, they are delicate. In this universe, Harvey Dent became Two-Face, but it could have easily been Jim Gordon or Bruce Wayne.
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What kind of villain is Two-Face?

Character Bio

His profile states: District Attorney Harvey Dent was one of Batman's strongest allies in Gotham City, until a criminal threw acid in Dent's face, hideously scarring him. The wounds fractured his psyche, and he was reborn as a schizoid criminal mastermind, obsessed with duality.
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Why does Harvey Dent flip a coin?

After lawyer Harvey Dent was disfigured by the mobster throwing acid in his face, he took Maroni's lucky double-headed coin and defaced it. As Two-Face, he would flip the coin when making any significant life decisions. If the coin lands on the scarred side, Two-Face will pursue acts of evil.
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Who killed the Waynes in Gotham?

Hugo Strange killed Thomas and Martha Wayne on Gotham. And while Bruce Wayne thought that he would feel reassured by uncovering the identity of the person who ordered his parents' deaths, it actually just made him more driven to avenge his father.
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Is Harvey Dent the protagonist in The Dark Knight?

The Dark Knight's true hero is Harvey Dent, a character who technically lives up to his creed and dies before he becomes Harvey Two-Face, the film's villain.
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Why did Batman save Harvey and not Rachel?

Gordon doesn't have a Batman motorcycle, so he arrives too late to save Rachel. The Joker lied because he wanted Dent to live and lose his mind over Rachel's death, and he knew that Batman and Rachel had something going on.
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Did Batman choose to save Harvey Dent?

I thought Batman decided to save Harvey because he is Gotham's White Knight. I know he told Gordon "Rachel" he was going to save but Batman did lie at the end of the movie, by taking the rap for Dent's killings.
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Who killed Harvey Dent in Batman?

He shot Batman, but spared his own life. He then pointed the gun at Gordon's son, and just before he pulled the trigger Batman flew at him and knocked him to the ground. Dent died from the fall, but Batman took the blame for his murders and he was hailed as a hero.
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Why is Two-Face such a good villain?

Two-Face is a good example because the writers took the character to his logical extension by giving him another personality that was obsessed with justice and order to balance out Two-Face's lawlessness and chaos.
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Is Scarecrow pure evil?

The Scarecrow, along with the Joker, is one of the two villains of The Dark Knight Trilogy to be Pure Evil.
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Is The Riddler pure evil?

He, Ferris Boyle and Victor Zsasz are the only Near Pure Evils in the Arkhamverse. He is one of the three versions of the Riddler to be Near Pure Evil, along with the Reevesverse version and the Telltale version.
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Is Harvey Dent a tragic hero?

Batman choosed Harvey Dent and Rachel Died. Although Batman was chosen Harvey tov save, he was too late and Harvey's right side face burn off. After Harvey Dent recovers, he becomes Two Face, one side of his face is burnt off, his is where he becomes a tragic hero.
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Is Harvey Dent corrupt?

Dent is concerned with the cops he knows to be corrupt (Ramirez, Wuertz, etc) but never attempts to root out corruption in his own office. All of this points in one strong direction: Harvey Dent was corrupt from the beginning, and had agreements made with Maroni or others.
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What illness does Harvey Dent have?

Two-Face.

Although characters sometimes refer to Harvey Dent as having “multiple personalities,” few depictions of him fit any diagnostic criteria for multiple personality disorder, now known as dissociative identity disorder.
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