What is harvey dent in the dark knight

Two-Face : My turn. Bruce Wayne : [after running into Harvey and Rachel at a restaurant] So, let's put a couple tables together. Harvey Dent : I'm not sure they'll let us. Bruce Wayne : [gestures to the waiters to rearrange the seats] Oh, they should.

I own the place. Two-Face : [threatening Jimmy with a gun] Tell your boy it's going to be all right, Gordon. Lie, like I lied. James Gordon : It's going to be all right, son. Batman : [about Lau] If I get him to you, can you get him to talk?

Harvey Dent : I'll get him to sing. James Gordon : We're going after the mob's life savings. Things will get ugly. Harvey Dent : I knew the risks when I took this job, Lieutenant. Harvey Dent : How will you get him back any James Gordon : He does that. Detective Wuertz : [in a bar] Dent. I thought you was dead. Two-Face : Half. Two-Face : [in the back seat of his car while pointing a gun at him] Going to join your wife?

Do you love her? Salvatore Maroni : Yes. Two-Face : Did you ever wonder what it would be like to listen to her die? Salvatore Maroni : Look, take it up with the Joker. He killed your woman. He made you - like this. Two-Face : The Joker's just a mad dog. I want whoever let him off the leash. Salvatore Maroni : [sitting in the defendant's chair] I thought the D. Harvey Dent : [standing in front of the prosecution table] Tee off's one-thirty, more than enough time to put you away for life, Sally.

Harvey Dent : Lightly irradiated bills. Fancy stuff for a city cop. Have help? James Gordon : We liase with various agencies. Harvey Dent : Save it, Gordon. I want to meet him. Harvey Dent : Well, I guess no answer is a no. Rachel Dawes : Harvey Harvey Dent : It's someone else, isn't it? Harvey Dent : Just tell me it's not Wayne, the guy's a complete Rachel Dawes : What are you doing? Bruce Wayne : [as Harvey falls unconscious] They're coming for him!

Harvey Dent : Carbon fiber,. Harvey Dent : If you want to kill a public servant, Mr. Maroni, I recommend you buy American. Judge Freel : [to policemen holding the thug] Get him out of here! James Gordon : [while walking out of the courtroom with each other] It's a shame Sal's going to walk.

Harvey Dent : Yeah, well, the good thing about the mob is they keep giving you second chances. Two-Face : Did she believe you? Ramirez : Yes. Two-Face : Of course she did. Because she trusts you. Just like Rachel did. Ramirez : I didn't know what they were Two-Face : You didn't know what they were gonna do?

You're the second cop to say that to me. Ramirez : They got me early on, my mother's hospital bills, and I Two-Face : Don't! Ramirez : [crying] I'm sorry Two-Face : Live to fight another day, officer. Harvey Dent : Very well.

Take the Batman into custody. Harvey Dent : I am the Batman. Two-Face : [while being transferred in an armored car while joker shoots at him] These things are built for that right? Two-Face : [after seeing Gordon is actually alive] You do like to play things pretty close to the chest. James Gordon : [after capturing Joker] We got him Harvey. Sign In. The Dark Knight Showing all 69 items. Quietly, Dent builds the conversation to ask Dawes how she would feel about marriage.

At first, Dawes is somewhat reluctant to discuss it, but before Dent could further the conversation, Wayne grabs him from behind, incapacitates him, and locks him in a closet to protect him as the Joker storms the party. During the mayhem that ensued during The Jokers attack, Commissioner Loeb was killed after ingesting an acid thought to be his preferred alcoholic beverage.

Soon after, a memorial service is held in his honor. During which, the Joker and his goons, dressed as the firing squad, turn their guns upon the mayor and fail to kill him, striking down Gordon. While the faux firing squad attempted to escape, one of these men was captured. After escorting Dawes to safety, Dent gets into an ambulance with the suspect and seeks to question him, before realizing that his name tag lists the Joker's next intended target: Rachel Dawes.

Frustrated, Dent climbs into the cab of the ambulance and drives off to an undisclosed location. After a phone call warning Rachel to get to safety, away from the MCU, he then goes on to interrogate the captured thug. Using a hand gun and the flip of his coin, Dent threatens to kill the man unless he tells him everything he knows about the Joker. After the second toss, the coin is caught by Batman, who had just returned from interrogating Sal Maroni.

Batman explains that the henchman's name is Thomas Schiff , a paranoid schizophrenic who could not tell Dent what he desired. Batman then goes on to explain that if anyone saw what Dent was doing, the prosecution against the mafia would be destroyed, and the only way to stop the Joker is for Batman to turn himself in. As Batman turns to leave, Dent screams his disapproval.

The next day, Dent goes before a crowd of police, media and observers to explain that Batman has offered to turn himself in and give into the Joker's demands. But before accepting this, he makes a desperate plea to the people not to give into the whims of a terrorist. Despite his assertions, the people demand that the Batman surrender. Before Bruce Wayne could step forward to confess his identity, Harvey demands that the police arrest him as Batman.

In lock up, Dent is cheered for by the GCPD as he marches towards the escort van to take him to county. Despite Rachel's pleas, Dent explains that in doing this, Batman will have a chance to capture the Joker, and promises Rachel that he will go through with this with a flip of his coin, leaving it with her.

While locked within the van, Dent is unable to affect the battle that ensues mid-transit. It's only after Gordon reveals himself as alive and well, and that the Joker has been captured, that Dent is set free. Immediately, Dent goes on television to explain his gamble to capture the Joker, until at last he is escorted back to a car to be driven home.

Unfortunately, the car is driven by Michael Wuertz , a corrupt cop on the payroll of Maroni. After being captured by Wuertz, Dent awakens in a warehouse stacked with drums of fuel.

On the opposite end of a rigged landline phone, Rachel Dawes screams, having also been captured by Maroni's men. Dent reassures Rachel as he begins to struggle while tied to his chair. Rachel explains that the timer set before them is set to detonate by the warehouse Dent was in as well as her own whereabouts, and that she was told it was their friends who would have to choose which one of the two would survive.

Unfortunately, Dent's efforts to free himself not only throw him to the floor but also knock one of the barrels of gasoline to the ground with him. The gasoline leaks from the top, spreading across the floor and covering the left side of Dent's face.

While Dent struggles to stand, Rachel confesses to loving Dent and agrees to his earlier marriage proposal. It was immediately after this that Batman finally bursts in, having been tricked by the Joker.

Harvey breaks down in anguish, sobbing and screaming for Rachel, knowing that if he is saved, Rachel will die. With no time left, Batman immediately dashed forward and dragged the struggling Dent away. The two make it clear of the building just as the timer reaches zero and the building explodes. The gasoline soaked half of Dent catches on fire and the man drops to the floor, writhing and screaming as flames consume half of his face. Dent is rushed to Gotham General Hospital, where half his face is bandaged.

When he awakens, he finds his father's lucky coin, left there from an earlier visit by Batman while he was still unconscious. Remembering Rachel was the last to have it, he turns the coin over, discovering that one half is greatly burnt. A torrent of emotions envelops him, as Dent bawls and screams in grief. The next day, Jim Gordon visits Dent. Gordon reveals that Dent is refusing medication and skin grafts. Dent changes the subject, asking Gordon again what the nickname was members of the MCU called him.

With reluctance, Gordon calls him "Two-Face. His left side is horrifically burnt, leaving muscles and an eye exposed. But even as Gordon apologizes and turns to leave, Dent swears to him that he is not truly sorry, "Not yet. During the crisis that his threats against the city cause, the Joker disguises himself and infiltrates Gotham General to speak to Dent. Apologizing for the death of Rachel Dawes, the Joker manages to deflect the blame from himself onto Gordon, Batman, Maroni and the corrupt officers.

Explaining that he is an agent of chaos, the Joker offers his life to Dent, giving the District Attorney a hand un and forcibly holding it to his own head. It was then that the Joker explained a point which finally pushed Dent over the edge, "Oh, and you know the thing about chaos? It's fair. Dent, baffled by the Joker's actions, finally comes to a conclusion - whether or not the Joker lives would depend upon the toss of his lucky coin. Should the flipped coin land on the unblemished side, the Joker would live.

However, should it fall on the burnt half, he would die. The flip of the coin lands in the Joker's favor, however, and Dent lets the man leave. It was then that Two-Face was truly born. He fled from Gotham General Hospital off-screen just before the Joker blew it up. Motivated by his need for vengeance, He becomes the villain Two-Face begins to pursue those responsible for the death of Rachel and his disfigurement. He begins by visiting Michael Wuertz, and after a brief interrogation to find the other traitor in Gordon's unit, answers that he does not know.

Two-Face spins his coin on the table to decide the man's fate. It lands black, and Wuertz' life ends by gunshot. Two-Face then visits Maroni, having waited for him in his car. As the two sit in the back seat, Maroni is tricked into revealing that the other traitor in Gordon's unit was Anna Ramirez. Although Two-Face flips the coin for Maroni's judgement, it lands in the mob boss' favor. However, Two-Face circumvents this by also judging Maroni's driver. When it lands bad heads, Dent buckles in and shoots the chauffeur in the back of the head, resulting in a car crash that leaves Maroni's fate uncertain, but likely dead.

Then, having kidnapped Ramirez, Two-Face forces her to trick Gordon's family into leaving their dwelling and coming to the warehouse where Rachel Dawes had died. The deed done, Two-Face chastises Ramirez for her betrayals of both Gordon and Rachel, and she in turn pleads that she only did it to save her mother, who desperately needed the funds for her hospital fees.

Two-Face silences her with a vicious "Don't! Fortunately for Ramirez, it lands in her favor, and Two-Face just knocks her unconscious. In the comics, Two-Face lives for a long time as he hatches multiple plans for citywide criminal domination and makes Batman's life constantly miserable. At one point, a reformed Harvey Dent is trained by Batman to become Gotham's protector in his absence, although this noble development was short-lived. Still, he remains one of the most irredeemable villains in the Rogue's Gallery.

The entire affair is then covered up to protect Dent's legacy to give the citizens of Gotham hope for the future after the Joker nearly destroyed their city.

As the movie version of Two-Face never had an opportunity to hone his skills, he's far different in comparison to the comic book version. In the comics, Two-Face was an excellent brawler who could hold his own in a fight with the Caped Crusader.

Two-Face was also an expert marksman due to his training from the assassin-for-hire Deathstroke and even Batman himself. In The Dark Knight , Dent gets up close and personal with all of his targets, usually surprising them and sticking them up at gunpoint, before deciding their fates. Yet the film Dent never showed any fighting prowess. Audiences never got to see the character in full criminal form with the mercenary skills to back it up. In the comics, Two-Face seems to embrace his newfound duality and goes out of his way to set up a criminal empire.

He still uses his signature coin to decide whether he will actually go through with a crime, but there's no denying that his motivations are much more criminal in nature, as opposed to the vengeance that drives him in Nolan's film. In The Dark Knight film, Two-Face is a tortured soul who experienced massive psychological trauma and seeks to bring harsh justice to those he thinks are responsible. His motivation is focused, singular and purposeful: to seek revenge for Rachel's death from those he deems responsible.

He doesn't care about the rewards or glory that can come from being a Gotham criminal; all he cares about is seeking justice for his slain lover. Derek started writing about video games at age 14 and went on to write for GamePro Magazine and several other prominent outlets. He now brings his veteran pop culture XP to ScreenRant. By Derek Draven Published Jul 26,