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Good old Bruce. He's never given up on me. Always been my best friend. I remember when we used to close the town at the Half Moon Club. The most fun we ever had. Heard they were tearing the old place down. I guess nothing good lasts forever.
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~ The Harvey Dent persona, Second Chance.
Harvey Dent is a character from the DC Animated Universe. He is the former head of the District Attorney's office at Gotham City and Bruce Wayne's best friend. However, a tragic series of events led him to become Two-Face and a major threat for Batman to fight.
Harvey was voiced by the late Richard Moll.
History[]
Harvey Dent suffered from deep-seated psychological trauma resulting from years of repressing anger, which led to him having an advanced bipolar disorder, causing him to revert to a more aggressive personality called "Big Bad Harv". This persona would manifest in hightly stressful situations, but thankfully these incidents were seldom. Harvey became Bruce Wayne's longtime best friend, and would become Gotham's District Attorney.
Harvey once dated Pamela Isely, and even wanted to marry her. However, it turned out that Pamela actually desired to kill Harvey after his construction of Stonegate Penitentiary nearly caused a rare species of flower to go extinct. One week into their relationship, Pamela poisoned Harvey using a toxin derived from the same flowers, causing him to be hospitalized. Batman managed to defeat Isely, who now called herself Poison Ivy, and create an antidote before the poison could take full effect. His next relationship with Grace Lamont was much happier.
Although he was able to repress his other personality for many years, Dent's re-election campaign proved so stressful that the violent episodes became more frequent and any little thing could set them off, to the point where his psychiatrist recommended committal to a psychiatric ward for a few days in order to prevent a traumatic psychotic break. As such an action would have been political suicide, Dent instead compromised, agreeing to a reduced campaign effort and increased medical treatments.
When mob boss Rupert Thorne had learned of this situation, he stole Dent's medical files, planning to use these files as blackmail by threatening to give the files to the press unless he complies with Thorne's agenda, thus destroying Dent's career. Harvey went to retrieve the files, but "Big Bad Harv" surfaced after incessant provocation from Thorne and his men. Dent started assaulting Thorne's goons, then chased after Thorne in an attempt to retrieve his file. One of Thorne's thugs tried to shoot Dent with a Tommy gun, but Batman knocked off his aim, causing the gunfire to hit some live wires, which in turn caused an explosion that caught Dent in the blast, sending him into shock and scarring the left side of his body. The physical and mental trauma forced his darker personality to dominate him, becoming known as Two-Face.
Trivia[]
This incarnation of Harvey Dent was one of the first versions of him where he and Bruce Wayne are close friends prior to his accident.
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