| 1 | [[WMG:[[center: ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' [[Characters/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries character index]]\ |
| 2 | [-[[Characters/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesBatmanAndBatFamily Batman and Bat Family]] ([[Characters/DCAUBatman Batman]]) | [[Characters/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesAllies Allies]] | '''Rogues Gallery Part 1''' ([[Characters/DCAUJoker The Joker]], [[Characters/DCAUHarleyQuinn Harley Quinn]], [[Characters/DCAUPoisonIvy Poison Ivy]]) | [[Characters/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesRoguesGalleryPart2 Rogues Gallery Part 2]] | [[Characters/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesRoguesGalleryPart3 Rogues Gallery Part 3]] | [[Characters/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesRoguesGalleryPart4Minions Rogues Gallery Part 4: Minions]]-]]]]] |
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| 6 | [[folder:Catwoman]] |
| 7 | !![[ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} Catwoman]] ([[Characters/CatwomanSelinaKyle Selina Kyle]]) |
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| 9 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/catwoman_btas.png]] |
| 10 | [[quoteright:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see her as a civilian]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/selina_kyle_btas.jpg[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 11 | [[quoteright:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see her human-cat-hybrid form]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_1batman_the_animated_series_s01___31mkv_snapshot_1015825.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 12 | [[quoteright:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see her redesign]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/catwoman_tnba.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 13 | [[quoteright:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see her civilian redesign]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/batman_the_animated_series_s03_02mkv_snapshot_1057918.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 14 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AdrienneBarbeau (English), Creator/VeroniqueAugereau (French) |
| 15 | ->'''Appearances:''' ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/TheNewBatmanAdventures'' | ''WebAnimation/GothamGirls'' |
| 16 | |
| 17 | -->''"I am the cat who walks by herself.''" |
| 18 | |
| 19 | She is an animal rights activist with a thing for cat burglaries on the side. Selina doesn't outright oppose Batman but the two don't see eye to eye due to her hobby. In times of mutual crisis, Catwoman has been known to assist Batman for the shared greater good. |
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| 21 | * AdaptationDyeJob: Literal example [[AllThereInTheManual according to the tie-in comics]]. In ''Batman: The Animated Series'' she's blonde instead of her usual black hair, imitating ''Film/BatmanReturns''. This Catwoman’s hair color is back to being black by the time of ''The New Batman Adventures'' and the blonde color is stated to have been bleach all along in an issue of ''[[ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures Gotham Adventures]]''. |
| 22 | * AffablyEvil: When she actually is a villain. She seems to have a soft spot for both Batman and Batgirl. |
| 23 | * AllThereInTheManual: ''Gotham Adventures #4'' explains the ArtEvolution of Catwoman and why Catwoman cut all ties to the Bat-Family between ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' and ''The New Batman Adventures'', and the ArtEvolution: [[http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/1893329.html Batman saw her disfigure]] a RichBitch cosmetic entrepreneur for using AnimalTesting. The catch is that Catwoman doesn't [[ButForMeItWasTuesday feel so bad about that until]] she realizes someone like the Batman would never forgive such an act. |
| 24 | * AmazonianBeauty: Climbing the buildings of Gotham has given her quite the toned, broad-shouldered, and gorgeous physique, which her skintight Catwoman costume quite genrously highlights. She loses this muscle tone in her redesign, though. |
| 25 | * AnimalLover: This adaptation of her makes her an animal rights activist. |
| 26 | * AntiHero: After being released on parole, she becomes what is essentially a female Batman for a little while via helping out Batman or trying to stop various criminals on her own. Unfortunately, it doesn't stick and she goes back to being a ClassyCatBurglar AntiVillain. |
| 27 | * AntiVillain: She doesn't steal from anyone that she doesn't think deserves it, and despite trending towards personal vendettas does good deeds for the homeless (as seen in a tie-in comic) and endangered wildlife. |
| 28 | * ArtEvolution: When ''Batman: The Animated Series'' was {{retool}}ed into ''The New Batman Adventures'', Catwoman's design underwent some major changes through the fact that her outfit changed from dark gray with black gloves and boots to entirely black, the mask (its eyeholes replaced by white lenses) only revealed her mouth and the area around it, and she now wears blue-ish white makeup on the exposed area of her face. |
| 29 | ** Selina Kyle's look changed as well through the fact that her hair changed from long and blonde to short and dark. This was explained in a tie-in comic, where she stopped dyeing her hair after finding out the company that made the dye she'd been using experimented on animals. |
| 30 | * TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:Her final appearance in "Cult of the Cat" ends with her succeeding in pulling off the grand heist she always dreamed of before retiring in Paris with Batman deciding to let her go.]] |
| 31 | * BoundAndGagged: She gets captured multiple times in the series and is frequently trussed up, luckily Batman manages to save her skin in the nick of time. |
| 32 | * BoyishShortHair: Gets it for her redesign's civilian identity. |
| 33 | * {{Caltrops}}: She has them in the shape of cats, naturally. She uses them in "The Cat and the Claw" to stop Red Claw's men from pursuing her through a ventilation duct. |
| 34 | * CatGirl: Taken to extremes in "Tyger Tyger", where Dr. Dorian kidnaps Selina Kyle and mutates her into an ''actual'' catwoman. |
| 35 | * ClassyCatBurglar: Emphasis on "cat". |
| 36 | * ClearMyName: In "Batgirl Returns". |
| 37 | * CompressedHair: She sports long, flowing blonde hair, all of which she somehow tucks underneath her mask. Averted with the redesign, where she is given BoyishShortHair. |
| 38 | * DamselInDistress: She gets rescued by Batman more than three times in the series. |
| 39 | * DatingCatwoman: She ''is'' the TropeNamer. |
| 40 | * DeadpanSnarker: She has her moments. |
| 41 | * DefiantCaptive: Happens in "Batgirl Returns", although both she and Batgirl are tied up and held at gunpoint by Roland Daggett and his henchmen, she mouths off to them and is able to break her bonds and fight back. |
| 42 | * DesignatedGirlFight: In "The Cat and the Claw" two-parter, it is she, not Batman, who fights [[DarkActionGirl Red Claw]] hand to hand. |
| 43 | * DesignatedVictim: Occasionally, like in "Almost Got 'Im" when Harley Quinn tries to mince her into cat food. |
| 44 | * EnemyMine: Teams up with Batman when she's in over her head. |
| 45 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: She will only steal from those she thinks deserves it. And at least in her initial appearances, her crimes had the aim of promoting animal welfare, not private gain. |
| 46 | * EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Veronica Vreeland describes her as Bruce's "Attractive date". |
| 47 | * ForcefulKiss: She gives a few of these. |
| 48 | ** In "Cat and Claw Part 1", after Batman catches her while falling off a roof she thanks him by kissing him while he is carrying her, but it [[DelayedReaction takes him awhile to even notice it]] and gently pushes her off him once they safely land. |
| 49 | ** In "Cult of the Cat", she grabs Batman and kisses him as "thanks" when he agrees to help her reform while she fakes repentance. Also counts as a ShutUpKiss since she did it while he was talking to her. |
| 50 | ** An example without Batman in "You Scratch My Back", when after she reveals to Nightwing how she was using him to find and reobtain the Cat's Eye Emerald she originally stole, she offers to split the money with him before suddenly leaping forward and forcing a kiss on him. |
| 51 | ** She finds herself on the receiving end in the "Chase Me" short. After Batman has her cornered she notices he was hurt during their chase and leans in to kiss him, only for him to push her off him. She looks down in disappointment at being rejected, only for Batman to suddenly pull her into a deep kiss himself. Despite the surprise, Catwoman immediately returns the affection. |
| 52 | * HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Often goes from Batman's enemy to his friend, then to his enemy again in record time. |
| 53 | * IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: Literally invoked by Batgirl when Catwoman is about to drop [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Roland Daggett]] into a vat of acid. Selina doesn't buy it, however. |
| 54 | -->'''Batgirl:''' No! If you let him fall, then you're no better than he is!\ |
| 55 | '''Selina:''' [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids Oh, grow up.]] ''[Smiles sweetly and lets go of Daggett]'' |
| 56 | * KissOfDistraction: She suffers from this in the animated short "Chase Me" for ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMysteryOfTheBatwoman'' after she is cornered by Batman after a chase through Gotham. He suddenly sweeps her into a passionate kiss until the police arrive. Batman takes the money she robbed back and leaves and Catwoman thinks he is letting her off until she realizes she has been handcuffed to the fence, leaving her to be arrested. |
| 57 | * LiveMinkCoat: In her first appearance, she is carrying her cat, Isis, around her neck in order to help in one of her thefts. |
| 58 | * LovableRogue: She steals with charm and wit and has clear principles about it. |
| 59 | * LoveAtFirstSight: When she first encounters Batman when he shows himself to her during one of her late night thefts, she just says "Magnificent" in complete awe of him. Everything that happens afterwards, with him proving he can keep up with her in his chase after her, holding his all against her in a fight, and saving the life of her cat Isis, only serve to enforce her feelings for him. |
| 60 | * LovesMyAlterEgo: She loves Batman, but only considers Bruce a friend. He knows both her identities and, according to the "perfect world" illusion created by the Mad Hatter, would marry her if [[DatingCatwoman Batman and Catwoman]] were out of the equation. ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' implies that they ''did'' eventually hook up later, but Bruces' obsession with his mission drove them apart anyway. |
| 61 | * MotiveDecay: In her first appearances, she robs to help her animal rights charities. In "Almost Got 'Em", she teams up with Batman to stop The Joker for seemingly no gain whatsoever other than, perhaps, just liking the idea of hanging out with Batman. In the final seasons, however, she becomes motivated by thrill-seeking, revenge, and greed and generally becomes more selfish. Incidentally, she ''also'' appears with ''Batman'' less and less, instead crossing swords with other heroes and villains, which might have something to do with it. |
| 62 | * MsFanservice: She's a very beautiful woman with a voluptuous yet toned figure who wears a very form-fitting costume and speaks in a flirtatious, sultry voice. |
| 63 | * MrsRobinson: She's this towards Nightwing in "You Scratch My Back." |
| 64 | * NobleDemon: While she becomes increasingly ruthless over time, she never loses her sense of morality entirely. As manipulative as she becomes towards the Batfamily, she staunchly refuses to kill any of them and does do her best to help them even while stringing them along for her own ends. |
| 65 | * NonHumansLackAttributes: When she's turned into a literal [[CatGirl Catwoman]] in "Tyger, Tyger", her fur conveniently gives her BarbieDollAnatomy. |
| 66 | * OutGambitted: In "You Scratch My Back", she should have known better that to try and play Nightwing, Batman's protege. He has after all been taught by the best. |
| 67 | * PayEvilUntoEvil: She was willing to painfully kill Roland Daggett as revenge for his crimes against herself and her friends. Also [[MurderByInaction didn't exactly try to help]] Red Claw when the latter was attacked by a lion. [[spoiler: Both villains survived, though no thanks to Selina.]] |
| 68 | ** The Red Claw case is mitigated by the fact that she spotted Batman nearby and knew ''he'd'' probably help her even if she didn't. However, earlier in the same episode she left one of the generic Red Claw terrorists BoundAndGagged alone with a wild lion. [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse We never saw what happened to him...]] |
| 69 | ** Also, she did "kill" Scarface, though this case is obviously a little different. |
| 70 | * PragmaticVillainy: This is how Batman knows that she's not posing as the mysterious Batwoman. Will Selina kill crooks? Yes, but she always has a reason. Would she kill recklessly? ''No''. |
| 71 | * RightHandCat: Isis, her pet cat, though unlike most examples Isis is used more to humanize Selina and bring out her sympathetic side. |
| 72 | * {{Sadist}} / CatsAreMean: She toys with her victims before striking them. At "Catwalk" she destroyed Scarface only to torment the Ventriloquist before using her WolverineClaws on him. Batman stopped her, but if you see AllThereInTheManual, you will see how cruel she can be. |
| 73 | * SexyCatPerson: Her CatFolk form in "Tyger, Tyger" keeps her feminine figure and breasts while adding a layer of golden fur. |
| 74 | %%* SheFu |
| 75 | * SnowMeansLove: In "Cat Scratch Fever", Batman meets her in the snow, and she has to ask, "Are you getting soft on criminals, or just on me?" |
| 76 | * SpyCatsuit: She wears a very [[FormFittingWardrobe form-fitting bodysuit]] that is complete with cat ears. |
| 77 | * TookALevelInJerkass: She gets steadily more manipulative and selfish as the series goes on. Her last few appearances involve trying to trick Batgirl and later Nightwing into unwittingly helping her rob other crooks of their already ill-gotten gains, she flat-out tries to ''kill'' some of the (admittedly [[AssholeVictim unpleasant]]) criminals she runs into, and she goes after innocent civilian Veronica Vreeland out of petty jealously that someone ''else'' is trying to help animal rights. She also increasingly talks condescendingly about others behind their backs and her motives become more and more about thrill seeking and greed. [[note]]It's possible that Batman failing to return her affections is what made her act out like this[[/note]] |
| 78 | * VillainExitStageLeft: At the end of "Batgirl Returns", as the police cart her off, Catwoman somehow forces them out of the squadcar and drives away herself. Robin tries to give chase, but Batgirl ''grabs him by the cape'', reasoning that they'd encounter her again sometime. |
| 79 | ** [[spoiler: Her final appearance ("Cult of Cat") has the episode ending with her landing the big score she wanted during the whole series. And this time Batman doesn't go after her.]] |
| 80 | * VillainousValor: She takes pride in hardly ever getting scared - and, being a CombatPragmatist, can physically get the best of men twice her size when she really wants to. |
| 81 | * ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: She is this to Batman in "Almost Got 'Im" and saves him from the Joker. |
| 82 | * WallCrawl: Catwoman does it by digging in with the WolverineClaws in her suit. |
| 83 | * WeCanRuleTogether: To Batgirl in "Batgirl Returns". Batgirl's response is not exactly unexpected. There's hints of this in her famous dynamic with Batman. |
| 84 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: Her burglary is half pleasure, half raising money to save endangered cats. |
| 85 | * WildCard: She could be on any end of the moral spectrum in any given episode. |
| 86 | * WillTheyOrWontThey: With Batman. [[spoiler:They don't.]] [[note]]''Batman Beyond'' implies that they ''did'', but that it didn't last.[[/note]] |
| 87 | * WolverineClaws: Catwoman has sharp steel claws incorporated into her costume's gloves, which she sometimes uses for close-quarters fighting (At ''"Catwalk"'', she used them to torment the Ventriloquist) as well as for climbing. |
| 88 | * WomanScorned: After she is saved by Batman she plants a deep kiss on him. He responds by gently pushing her away and trying to unamsk her. When Catwoman tries to convince him there is something between them, Batman says she's right, and it's the law. She turns away sadly at this, and when Batman tries to comfort her she grabs him and throws him off the roof in anger. She leaves him dangling, but despite this outburst of anger she still remains in love with him. |
| 89 | -->'''Catwoman:''' ''Never'' trifle with the affections of a woman! Until next time. |
| 90 | [[/folder]] |
| 91 | |
| 92 | [[folder:Harley Quinn]] |
| 93 | !![[Characters/HarleyQuinnTheCharacter Harley Quinn]] (Dr. Harleen Quinzel) |
| 94 | |
| 95 | [[Characters/DCAUHarleyQuinn See here for more into about her]]. |
| 96 | [[/folder]] |
| 97 | |
| 98 | [[folder:Joker]] |
| 99 | !![[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]] |
| 100 | |
| 101 | [[Characters/DCAUJoker See here for more info about him]]. |
| 102 | [[/folder]] |
| 103 | |
| 104 | [[folder:Penguin]] |
| 105 | !![[Characters/BatmanThePenguin The Penguin]] (Oswald Cobblepot) |
| 106 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/penguin_btas.png]] |
| 107 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"Fellow miscreants, we've been had!"'']] |
| 108 | [[quoteright:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see his redesign]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/penguin_tas.png ''"Living well is the best revenge."''[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 109 | ->'''Voiced in English by:''' Music/PaulWilliams (''Batman: The Animated Series'', ''The New Batman Adventures'', and ''Superman: The Animated Series''), Creator/DavidOgdenStiers (''Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman'')\ |
| 110 | '''Voiced in French by:''' Creator/PhilippePeythieu\ |
| 111 | '''Appearances''': ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/TheNewBatmanAdventures'' | ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMysteryOfTheBatwoman'' |
| 112 | ->''"Sorry about the intrusion, sir, but at least you were ransacked by a man of impeccable taste."'' |
| 113 | |
| 114 | A short, chubby, well-dressed man, who fancies himself a classic GentlemanThief, but his manners leave much to be desired. Has a penchant for using birds to aid in his crimes. |
| 115 | ---- |
| 116 | * AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: In "Birds of a Feather" and "The Mechanic", he had a hideout in one. |
| 117 | * {{Acrofatic}}: He's pretty quick for someone so round. |
| 118 | * AccidentalMisnaming: When he's Mayor of Gotham City in the 2003 ''Batman Adventures'' comic, he has a habit of addressing people by bird-related words that are close to the person's actual name (like calling a Mr. Talbot "Mr. Talon"). |
| 119 | * AddedAlliterativeAppeal: As part of his WickedCultured nature, he likes to make his words sound as poetic as possible, which means this trope. Examples include "What brings such a dainty dove to this dismal den?" and calling his fellow supervillains "mundane miscreants" with "middling machinations." |
| 120 | * AffablyEvil: He's nothing less than polite and amicable, doing his best to come across as a cultured gentleman. He'll think nothing of killing anyone in his way - including [[WouldHurtAChild children]] - but he'll never be rude about it and he can be sincerely kind at times. |
| 121 | * AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Penguin finds himself to be both too sophisticated to fit in with his fellow criminals and too uncouth to be accepted by the upper class he idolizes. |
| 122 | * AnimalLover: For as bad as Penguin is, he always treats his pet birds well even if he does train them to attack his enemies. Him doting on his latest attack bird is a common sight. |
| 123 | * AntiquatedLinguistics: To cultivate a gentlemanly image, he speaks with this sort of flowery language to sell how cultured he is. |
| 124 | * ApologeticAttacker: While preparing to have Roxie Rocket killed, he apologizes to her, telling her that while he regrets it he can't have her recklessness exposing his operation. |
| 125 | * ArtEvolution: The Penguin received a drastic redesign when ''Batman: TAS'' was revamped into ''TNBA'' through the fact that his appearance was altered to be more human resembling his classic comic book appearance. He was also given normal human hands, rather than flippers. |
| 126 | * AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: His name fits well with his pudgy, short body, slippered hands, and sense of dress. |
| 127 | * BadBoss: He's prone to insulting his underlings, and he murders Arnold Rundle in "The Mechanic" after he [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived his usefulness]]. He also ordered Roxie Rocket killed so she wouldn't expose his operation, though he admittedly apologizes to her prior. |
| 128 | * BadassNormal: Some of the other supervillains in the show have genuine superpowers, while others derive some of their skill from their insanity. Penguin, though, is perfectly sane and lacks any special talent, but he makes up for it with a genius intellect, knack for inventing things, and some impressive hand-to-hand combat abilities. |
| 129 | * BeingGoodSucks: He genuinely tries to reform in "Birds of a Feather", but after all it gets him is a life of loneliness and being humiliated by Veronica Vreeland and her friend Pierce, he returns back to his criminal ways. |
| 130 | * BigBad: In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMysteryOfTheBatwoman''. |
| 131 | * TheBeastmaster: Of sorts. Oswald has an affinity for birds and, as depicted in "Almost Got 'Im", he's managed to train a variety of fowl to be uncharacteristically aggressive. |
| 132 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: Though he is usually eclipsed by other villains like the Joker or Ra's Al Ghul in the threat stakes, Penguin is actually a surprisingly successful villain all things considered. For one, he has managed to destroy both the Batmobile ''and'' the Batwing, and he once (accidentally) left Bruce Wayne blind for days, meaning he has effectively ''crippled'' Batman. In later seasons, he further managed to avoid being sent back to jail by becoming a VillainWithGoodPublicity, via establishing a shady nightclub where he manages his criminal enterprises with enough finesse to not be caught... for a good while, anyway. |
| 133 | * BodyguardBabes: Jay, Lark, and Raven. |
| 134 | * CharacterDevelopment: He goes from a typical rogue with delusional aspirations of joining the upper class to a member of said upper class and the only member of the rogues gallery to make the transition to more traditional organized crime. He even manages to become a VillainWithGoodPublicity. |
| 135 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: He was originally a WickedPretentious, [[TheGrotesque grotesque]] LargeHam with [[JabbaTableManners animalistic behavior]]. After his revamp in ''The New Batman Adventures'', he became [[WickedCultured a more classy]] VillainWithGoodPublicity. |
| 136 | * ChronicVillainy: Chose to abandon crime one day when he was released from Stonegate, deciding that he never wanted to return to jail again, but when he learned that the woman he began to fall in love with was only spending time with him to mock his uncultured ways he relapsed into villainy. However, unlike the other villains, he does manage to stay out of jail in ''The New Batman Adventures.'' He didn't really reform and uses his nightclub as a front for shady deals, but he does a much better job of ensuring his legal safety. Batman is well-aware that Penguin hasn't changed, but keeps him around because he is just as often a [[TheRat good source of information]] about other, more dangerous criminals. |
| 137 | * CompositeCharacter: His mannerisms and character for the most part were based on his comic version while his first design was a carbon copy of [[Creator/DannyDevito Danny Devito's]] portrayal in ''Film/BatmanReturns''. |
| 138 | * CulturedBadass: While somewhat WickedPretentious, Oswald genuinely appreciates the finer things in life and the high arts such as paintings and opera. He's also a very cunning opponent and surprisingly capable in a fight. |
| 139 | * DeadpanSnarker: He is TheSnarkKnight when he deals with the lower classes (prison guards, bus drivers, Batman). When he at last deals with the upper classes, he becomes a StepfordSnarker. |
| 140 | * DependingOnTheWriter: Whether he's genuinely AffablyEvil or FauxAffablyEvil tends to waffle depending on the episode. |
| 141 | * DirtyOldMan: Has dipped his flippers into this from time to time. |
| 142 | ** He addresses Poison Ivy as a "dainty dove" in "Almost Got 'Im." |
| 143 | ** Becomes very smitten with Veronica Vreeland, before things sour. |
| 144 | ** Openly flirted with Roxy Rocket, which she playfully rebuffed. |
| 145 | ** That's not even getting into whatever might be going on with his [[BodyguardBabes three aides.]] |
| 146 | * DisabledInTheAdaptation: Much like the ''Film/BatmanReturns'' version, he's shown with fused fingers in ''Batman: TAS''. While the transition to ''The New Batman Adventures'' would see him with normal hands, it's unknown if this was merely an artistic choice or if the Penguin got a corrective operation to fix his hands. |
| 147 | * DoomyDoomsOfDoom: Once tried calling a trap he'd set for Batman in a zoo as his "aviary of doom". The other villains he tells the story to are bemused, at best. |
| 148 | -->'''The Penguin''': ''(narrating)'' Welcome, my ebon-winged adversary. You have taken the bait, just as I knew you would. Now, prepare to meet your end within my Aviary of Doom!\ |
| 149 | '''Poison Ivy''': ''(interrupting the story)'' Aviary of ''what''?...\ |
| 150 | '''The Joker''': Sheesh, Pengers. How corny can you get?\ |
| 151 | '''The Penguin''': Fah! Just because you mundane miscreants have no drama in your souls!... Anyway, there he was in my Av... * Sigh* ... My "big birdhouse"... |
| 152 | * EntertaininglyWrong: While the rogues discuss their theories about Batman, Penguin comes within striking distance of the truth. He correctly deduces that Batman is motivated by some sort of crime-related trauma at a young age, and offhandedly guesses it involved a mugger... though he believes that the mugger shot half of his face off, hence the mask. |
| 153 | * EtTuBrute: A rather depressing example. In the episode "Birds of a Feather", he is released from prison and declares that he's reformed and will become a model member of high society. A group of snobbish aristocrats decide to bring him into their social circle so that they can laugh at his social ineptitude and appearance. He generally doesn't care how life had gotten him down through the rest of the episode, but when he overhears the woman whom he had fallen in love with talking about this plot, he loses it. The real slap in the face is that he had genuinely reformed until this happened. |
| 154 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: |
| 155 | ** He's aghast when Batman accuses him of having kidnapped Two-Face during his surgery in "Second Chance". Penguin says that he'd never kidnap an enemy on their sickbed and if he were to go after them [[VillainousValor he'd go after them head-on.]] |
| 156 | ** He's horrified when Joker reveals he plans to grind Catwoman into mulch in "Almost Got 'Im". |
| 157 | * EvilIsNotAToy: In "Birds of a Feather", Veronica Vreeland brings him into her social circle as a publicity stunt. He eventually finds out he's being used, and in his true flamboyantly villainous fashion, kidnaps and tries to kill her. |
| 158 | * FalselyReformedVillain: Actually worked better for him when he was faking it. |
| 159 | * TheFamilyForTheWholeFamily: In his first appearance, he and his henchmen are continuously foiled by the local children who have [[BatmanInMyBasement Batman in their basement]]. This is one of the reasons that the production team does not think very highly of this episode, since they were hoping the series would avoid kid heroes and bumbling villains. |
| 160 | * FatBastard: It's always been a staple of the Penguin to be overweight and unpleasant. |
| 161 | * FauxAffablyEvil: He verges into this on occasion, particularly in "I've Got Batman in My Basement" and "The Mechanic" which have him at his most ruthless and murderous. |
| 162 | * FeatheredFiend: Has a collection of deadly birds ranging from poison-billed hummingbirds to trained attack-cassowaries. |
| 163 | * FriendlyEnemy: "Birds of a Feather" has him walk up to the owner of a bank he robbed and advise him to improve his security since he had a rather easy time doing so. |
| 164 | * GadgeteerGenius: It's implied that he designs and builds all of his trick umbrellas himself. Their functions range from gas-shooters to machine guns to miniature helicopters able to support his weight enough to fly, so he's clearly a master of mechanical engineering. |
| 165 | * GentlemanSnarker: Most of his snarking come with a veil of sophistication. |
| 166 | * GentlemanThief: He invokes this trope, without success due to being WickedPretentious and much more ruthless than the average example. |
| 167 | * GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Always has a cigarette holder in his mouth. |
| 168 | * TheGrotesque: Similar to the Burton films, the Penguin is ''almost'' this trope played straight. He's nowhere near as evil as, say, The Joker, but then again he's not even all that ugly. It's implied that deep down he really wants to go straight, [[ChronicVillainy but he just likes stealing priceless artifacts too much]] -- and he just can't keep from lashing out at people who make fun of him when he ''does'' try to reform. |
| 169 | * HasAType: Beautiful, young redheads. |
| 170 | * HatesTheirParent: In the 29th issue of ''Gotham Adventures'', Robin remarks to him that he'd give up his own mother. The Penguin replies "I wasn't going to jail for that [[WitchWithACapitalB witch]]". |
| 171 | * HiddenDepths: |
| 172 | ** As Veronica Vreeland discovered, if you can stand his SadClown jokes, his JabbaTableManners and his SmallNameBigEgo attitude, Oswald can be quite TheCharmer in a LargeHam way. |
| 173 | ** He tends to be one of the more insightful rogues, [[DamnedByFaintPraise not that it's a high bar]]. Whereas most of the other rogues stay stagnant and never change their methods, Penguin is much more reflective. "Birds of a Feather" has him realize BeingEvilSucks and decide to reform, and by ''The New Batman Adventures'' he realizes that being a VillainWithGoodPublicity is more profitable. He also comes the closest out of the rogues to figure out Batman's identity and motivation in "Almost Got 'Im". |
| 174 | * HighClassGlass: Kept from the comics (despite being absent from the movie). |
| 175 | * HonorAmongThieves: Best shown in "Second Chance". He'll kill his fellow crooks if they anger him, but he'll always do it face-to-face rather than relying on sneak attacks. |
| 176 | * HumbleGoal: "Birds of a Feather" reveals that deep down, for all his posturing, what Oswald really wants is a genuine friendship and connection with someone. |
| 177 | * IJustWantToHaveFriends: As mentioned above, and most blatantly seen in ''Birds of a Feather'', In that episode he was hoping that any of Gotham's supervillains would welcome his release from prison, and the entire episode revolves around a budding friendship and entry into Gotham's elite. Even outside of that, prior to ''The New Adventures'', Penguin at the very least respected other villains even if he was feuding with them, even going so far as to serve as mediator between Two-Face and the Joker in ''The Strange Secret of Bruce Wayne''. |
| 178 | * IRejectYourReality: A rather tragic case. Penguin deludes himself about his place in the world constantly, convincing himself he's much more well-liked and sophisticated than he actually is. He's even convinced himself he's a member of Gotham's upper-class despite the fact they view him as a curiosity at best. He does seem aware of the reality of the situation, but still clings to his delusions. |
| 179 | * ImpoverishedPatrician: Implied. He claims to to have been a member of the upper class at some point in "Birds of a Feather", although it's possible it's another example of Oswald deluding himself. |
| 180 | * ImprobableWeaponUser: Umbrellas. Some of them even have live rounds. |
| 181 | * InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Oswald has a massive inferiority complex, but he covers it up by playing the part of a GentlemanThief and with his WickedCultured affectations. |
| 182 | * InformationBroker: By ''The New Adventures'', Penguin's running the Iceberg Lounge, a fancy nightclub, as a semi-legitimate enterprise. Batman begrudgingly allows him to continue operating because of this trope: Cobblepot has access to a vast network of underworld contacts and connections, so he's quite knowledgeable about upcoing schemes and is willing to share that information with the Caped Crusader for the right price. |
| 183 | * JabbaTableManners: As seen in "Birds of a Feather", he eats very messily and uses hands rather than utensils. |
| 184 | * JustGotOutOfJail: He did try to live a honest life and among Gotham's elites (which he thought possible thanks to Veronica Vreeland). While she cleared a misunderstanding when Batman wrongly thought the Penguin was one of the muggers robbing her, it was eventually revealed to him she just wanted someone to be made a fool of at a party. He was so revolted he returned to a life of crime. |
| 185 | * KarmaHoudini: Most of his appearances in ''The New Batman Adventures'' have him getting away with his crimes and successfully keeping the image of being a law-abiding socialite. He is severely injured in "Judgement Day", but even then he's able to recover and has his underworld dealings stay secret from the public. |
| 186 | * KickTheDog: He takes a lot of joy in threatening Earl's daughter in "The Mechanic", and in the same episode murders Arnold Rundle the second he [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlives his usefulness]]. |
| 187 | * LargeHam: He's very dramatic soul prone to AntiquatedLinguistics and grandiose proclamations. It's implied to be an affectation to make himself look more cultured and sophisticated than he really is. It's lampshaded in "Almost Got 'Im", where his fellow villains tease him for naming a DeathTrap his "aviary of doom". |
| 188 | --> '''Penguin:''' Just because you mundane miscreants have no drama in your souls...! |
| 189 | |
| 190 | * ManOfWealthAndTaste: Always wears a formal tuxedo, stylistically similar to actual penguins (who look like they're wearing one). |
| 191 | * MuggingTheMonster: In "Birds of a Feather", a reformed Penguin is out on a lunch date with socialite [[RichBitch Veronica Vreeland]] when a group of muggers (completely unaware of who he is) decide to rob them. Cobblepot may be a short, middle-aged fat guy, but he also frequently crosses [[ItMakesSenseInContext parasols]] with ''Batman''. Even without any [[AbnormalAmmo trick umbrellas]] at his disposal, he easily schools them and likely would have driven them off completely without Batman's intervention. |
| 192 | * MysteriousPast: Thanks to never having a proper introductory episode like most of the other rogues, Penguin's origin is never elaborated on. There are hints he could have his ''Film/BatmanReturns'' origin, but nothing concrete is ever stated. |
| 193 | * NobleDemon: DependingOnTheWriter, he'll be one. He's a ruthless criminal, but he values bravery and HonorAmongThieves very highly and he makes it a point to only go after his adversaries [[VillainousValor face-to-face]]. Some episodes have him as much more openly malevolent, such as "The Mechanic" and "I've Got Batman in My Basement". |
| 194 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: He's often depicted as a rather comical figure, and his introductory episode "I've Got Batman in My Basement" portrays him as a bumbling joke. Later episodes make it clear he's actually ''very'' dangerous; he comes very close to killing Batman several times and he murders a man onscreen in "The Mechanic". |
| 195 | * OnlySaneMan: This is carried over from the comics. He's one of the few Batman villains who goes to jail rather than Arkham. He also sometimes grows annoyed with the other rogues' "eccentricities" when forced to work with them. |
| 196 | * OriginsEpisode: {{Averted}} and given the series, the aversion is notable. Almost every other recurring villain gets a backstory in the show and in most cases this leads to their first clash with Batman. Penguin however is one of the very few villains- along with the Joker- who has already clashed with Batman by the time of his first appearance, and the only recurring nemesis [[note]]Discounting mundane gangsters or corrupt business types[[/note]] who isn't given a background of what he was like before he became a supervillain. |
| 197 | * OrphanedPunchline: He has one in "Birds of a Feather": "--and I said, 'But, warden--those aren't ''my'' pants!" |
| 198 | * PaidHarem: Jay, Raven, and Lark. Considering his previous attempt at dating with [[RichBitch Veronica Vreeland]] backfired, he may prefer it this way. |
| 199 | * ParasolOfPain: His parasols can have anything from toxic gas to actual bullets. |
| 200 | ** ParasolParachute: One of its uses. |
| 201 | * TheRat: The only reason why Batman lets him operate his nightclub. |
| 202 | * RedemptionFailure: This happens to him in "Birds of a Feather". He tries to reform, but after finding out Veronica Vreeland was manipulating him and using him as a joke he snaps and returns to form. |
| 203 | * ReformedButRejected: This also happens to him in "Birds of a Feather". He genuinely wants to reform and become a good person, but no one - not even Batman - genuinely believes he's changed. |
| 204 | * RememberTheNewGuy: Much like the Joker, the Penguin is also the only other super villain that Batman faced prior to the series with "I've Got Batman in My Basement", much like "Christmas with the Joker" for the Joker, presented as just Bruce's latest fight with Oswald. |
| 205 | * SadClown: His delusions of being a GentlemanThief and his SmallNameBigEgo are his way to cope with his crushing loneliness. He is insecure at heart and keeps on running his mouth to fool himself into thinking he's confident or to get people to like him and tends to make jokes at inappropriate times to cope. |
| 206 | * SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: To make himself sound more sophisticated then he actually is. Comes back to bite him in a tie-in comic, where he doesn't know what a word means and makes something up to avoid looking stupid. |
| 207 | * SignatureHeadgear: His ever present top hat. |
| 208 | * SinisterSchnoz: His nose has the appearance of a penguin beak. |
| 209 | * TheSnarkKnight: He deals with aggression primarily through sarcasm. |
| 210 | * SmallNameBigEgo: Despite overwhelming evidence on the contrary, the Penguin really believes he is well liked by the rich Gotham elite ("Birds of a Feather") and fancies himself as a ladies' man (he hits on Roxie Rocket on "The Ultimate Thrill"). Those things didn't end well for him. |
| 211 | * SmugSnake: He's a pretty arrogant bastard. |
| 212 | * SocietyIsToBlame: In "Birds of a Feather", he looks to go straight once he's gotten out of prison, but when resident RichBitch Veronica Vreeland and her snobby friends decide to make him the butt of an exceptionally cruel joke, he reverts to his criminal ways to exact revenge. In the end, he muses, "I guess it's true; society is to blame. ''High'' society." At least Vreeland had the decency to feel bad about her role in it by the end though. |
| 213 | * StoutStrength: Downplayed. Penguin is short and pudgy, and thus relies on weaponry rather than fisticuffs, but he's still strong enough to break a license plate in two with his bare hands. |
| 214 | * TerribleTrio: He was part of one with Jay and Raven before leading two sets: one of males then one of females. |
| 215 | ** He also formed one with Two-Face and Joker when Hugo Strange invited them all to his auction for Batman's identity. |
| 216 | * ThenLetMeBeEvil: He could put up with Batman [[ReformedButRejected not believing he really reformed]], but Veronica Vreeland shouldn't have used him for a pig at a pig party. |
| 217 | * TragicHero: In "Birds of a Feather", at least. He wants to reform and join Gotham's elite, but he's viewed with scorn and derision and eventually returns to form when Veronica betrays him. |
| 218 | * VillainBallMagnet: He is this in "Birds of a Feather". |
| 219 | * VillainousCrush: We've seen him openly crush on Veronica Vreeland and Roxy Rocket. He was ready to genuinely reform in the former case, though. |
| 220 | * VillainousValor: In "Birds of a Feather" at least, he is a courageous fighter, [[MuggingTheMonster beating back a gang of bullies who are trying to mug him using only his umbrella]]. In "Second Chance", when Batman is accusing him of having Two-Face kidnapped, the Penguin declares that he were ever going to mess with another villain, he'd do it the honorable way: face to face. |
| 221 | * VillainousBreakdown: PlayedForLaughs in "The Mechanic". After being sent to Stonegate Prison [[CardboardPrison once again]] and [[PrisonersWork making license plates]] as prison labor, he picks up a plate that reads "[[VanityLicencePlate 1BAT4U]]". Penguin promptly loses it and [[AGlassInTheHand breaks it in two]]. |
| 222 | * WhosLaughingNow: To Veronica Vreeland and her UpperClassTwit friend Pierce in "Birds of a Feather". |
| 223 | * WickedCultured: As always, he most certainly qualifies for this trope more than most of Batman's rogues, which irks him to no end. |
| 224 | --> "Bah! Just because you mundane miscreants have no drama in your souls!" |
| 225 | * WickedPretentious: Penguin appears charming and sophisticated compared to the rest of Gotham's criminal element but to the city's actual social elite, he's anything but. Veronica Vreeland is unable to spend time with him without cringing at his bad manners, with her friend, Pierce Chapman, laughing at him from afar. At a party Vreeland invited Oswald to as part of a prank, Penguin repeatedly makes jokes at the other guests' expense, thinking he's witty and clever whereas everyone else is appalled by his lack of tact. Once Cobblepot finds out he's been played for a fool, thanks to eavesdropping on Pierce once again mocking his manners, fashion sense and appearance, he instantly attacks them and kidnaps Veronica out of sheer rage and humiliation, and goes back to being a kingpin. In the ''New Adventures of Batman'', Coppblepot [[CharacterizationMarchesOn grows out of this]], becoming a genuinely refined socialite. |
| 226 | --> '''Pierce Chapman:''' He's beautiful! Can you imagine tomorrow's papers? There's not enough ink to print all this faux pas! |
| 227 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: After Arnold Rundle helps him locate where the Batmobile is repaired, Penguin thanks him by writing him a $400,000 check - and then sending him on a boat ride to a whirlpool that drowns him. |
| 228 | * YouHaveFailedMe: He orders Roxie Rocket killed because her recklessness and active attempts to get Batman to go after her are threatening to expose his operation. |
| 229 | [[/folder]] |
| 230 | |
| 231 | [[folder:Poison Ivy]] |
| 232 | !![[Characters/BatmanPoisonIvy Poison Ivy]] (Pamela Isley) |
| 233 | [[Characters/DCAUPoisonIvy See here for more into about her]]. |
| 234 | [[/folder]] |
| 235 | |
| 236 | [[folder:Ra's al Ghul]] |
| 237 | !![[Characters/BatmanRasAlGhul Ra's al Ghul]] |
| 238 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/e2073369012a4b5484b4df456b955acf.png]] |
| 239 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DavidWarner |
| 240 | ->'''Appearances:''' ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' |
| 241 | |
| 242 | -->"''Well done, detective. You are worthy of your reputation."'' |
| 243 | |
| 244 | A centuries-old man who is the head of a vast network of henchmen and wealth. His schemes, some way or another, seek to save the environment from mankind or further his life so he can continue his efforts with the former. The Joker may be Batman's ArchEnemy, but due to his power, agenda, and clever mind, Batman considers Ra's a dangerous foe. |
| 245 | ---- |
| 246 | * AdaptationalJerkass: He maintains some small, sympathetic qualities, including eventually coming back for his son Duvall and has his respect for Batman as a WorthyOpponent. However, his more sympathetic comic backstory where he was seriously wronged by a Sultan and his evil son is not adapted and he ends his tenure in the ''DCAU'' crossing a line that Bruce considered unforgivable. Compared to his comic book counterpart who in modern times showed more introspection and self-reflection to eventually turn himself in to atone for his crimes, Ra's al Ghul in the ''DCAU'' comes off as being a villain whose good manners towards Batman are more of a veneer and a smokescreen than anything else.[[note]]Granted, his comics counterpart's level of sympathy ''is'' subject to serious amounts of DependingOnTheWriter. Creator/GregRucka's take, for instance, directly participated in UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust.[[/note]] |
| 247 | * AffablyEvil: Ra's may be a genocidal KnightTemplar, but he's always polite, refined, and respectful even to his enemies. As his past encounter with Jonah Hex showed, his good manners aren't only reserved for Batman. |
| 248 | * AnimalWrongsGroup: He intends to return Earth to a more stable ecosystem so nature can persevere, but his plans often involve lots of destruction and massive human casualties. |
| 249 | * ArtEvolution: {{Averted}}. After the revamp of ''Batman: TAS'' into ''The New Batman Adventures'', Ra's did not receive any drastic change in his appearance or a color alteration. However, his only appearance during this time in the ''DCAU'' was in the ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "The Demon Reborn". |
| 250 | * BadassCape: He has an imposing, regal-looking cape. |
| 251 | * BadassInANiceSuit: He's almost always impeccably well-dressed and he's no slouch in a fight despite his physical weaknesses. |
| 252 | * BeardOfEvil: He sports a beard and while he does have his fair share of redeeming qualities, Ra's is still ruthless and genocidal. |
| 253 | * BenevolentBoss: Makes clear to Arkady Duvall that as important as it is to complete their armored airship, success shouldn't come at the expense of good treatment of their workforce. |
| 254 | * BodySurf: [[spoiler:''Batman Beyond'' reveals that after the Pit was no longer able to heal him, he took Talia's body for his own.]] |
| 255 | * BoringButPractical: He admits to Batman he figured out his identity not because Talia unmasked him, but because he had figured out Batman would need to be a literal billionaire to afford his many gadgets and checked to see which one fit the right build to be the vigilante (though he does confess that Talia's description of Bruce's face helped him narrow the search). |
| 256 | * BrokenPedestal: Downplayed. Batman never ''looked up'' to Ra's, seeing him as pretentious and haughty even before he found about his genocidal plans, but he did come to respect him as a WorthyOpponent and [[spoiler: allowed him to reunite with his long-lost son]]. He's absolutely shattered and angry at the man Ra's becomes by the time of ''Batman Beyond''. |
| 257 | -->'''Bruce Wayne''': Whatever was in there died years ago. |
| 258 | * CameBackWrong: The Lazarus Pit revives the dying, but at the cost of temporarily being driven violently insane. The ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "The Demon Reborn" also demonstrates that each usage has diminishing returns. |
| 259 | * TheChessmaster: His first meeting and apparent teamup with Batman was just an elaborate way of testing him. |
| 260 | * CulturedBadass: He's always classy no matter the circumstances. |
| 261 | * DisturbingStatistic: He doesn't even blink as he drops one of these on Batman: |
| 262 | -->'''Batman:''' But that will cost countless lives!\ |
| 263 | '''Ra's al Ghul:''' Actually, Detective, we ''have'' counted: [[LudicrousPrecision Two billion, fifty-six million, nine hundred and eighty-six thousand! ]] |
| 264 | * EcoTerrorist: He's an even greater one than Poison Ivy. Whereas her plots are never larger than offing a few billionaires or affecting a regional area, his plans involve the mass genocide of almost half the human race to save the Earth from pollution. |
| 265 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: |
| 266 | ** He's disgusted by the cruelty that [[spoiler:his son]] Arkady Duvall shows towards underlings. |
| 267 | ** According to Talia, Ra's expelled Count Vertigo from the Society of Shadows after realizing how cruel and corrupt he was. |
| 268 | * EvilBrit: Even though English is almost certainly not his first language, he has a British accent. Presumably justified, since he most likely learned his upper-class-coded Queen's English well before American accents were prominent in the world. |
| 269 | * EvilOldFolks: He's centuries old and quite ruthless, with most of his plans involving massive amounts of casualties for the sake of his environmentalist goals. |
| 270 | * EvilerThanThou: Batman describes him as being more dangerous than Lex Luthor and the Joker put together to Superman. |
| 271 | * FaceDeathWithDignity: At the end of "The Demon's Head, Pt 2", Ra's recognizes he's been beaten and lets himself plummet into the Lazarus Pit with the intention of dying. He manages to survive, but he still fully intended on dying. |
| 272 | --> '''Ra's:''' Perhaps it is time I become one with the planet I so love! |
| 273 | * FriendlyEnemy: |
| 274 | ** One-sided. He genuinely likes Bruce and wants him as his heir. Batman disagrees, and as a result, Ra's ''will'' use deadly force on him if necessary. |
| 275 | ** The respect seems to be somewhat mutual as evidenced in "Showdown". It turns out the old man Ra's "kidnapped" [[spoiler: is his son.]] Batman allows them to leave without a fight. |
| 276 | * GaiasVengeance: He believes himself to be its harbinger, with his plans revolving around either killing off enough of mankind to prevent further ecological destruction or extending his life further so he can continue to make said plans. |
| 277 | * GracefulLoser: At the climax of "The Demon's Head, Pt. 2", Ra's accepts that his plans have been ruined, congratulates Batman on his victory, and chooses to let himself fall into the Lazarus Pit to his apparent death [[GoOutWithASmile all the while grinning]] - thought he does survive. |
| 278 | * GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler: It is eventually revealed in ''Batman Beyond'' that Ra's took over his daughter's body after his finally decayed beyond all use.]] |
| 279 | * HeirClubForMen: He's very interested in making Batman his successor, but he never once considers letting Talia take the role with the implication being it's because she is a woman. He does have standards, having dismissed Arkady for the role due to his needless brutality. |
| 280 | * HighClassGlass: He wore one in 1883, although he's abandoned it by the present day. |
| 281 | * ImmortalsFearDeath: Ra's fears dying before his plans are completed, though Batman accuses him of using it as an excuse to cover for his fear of death in ''Batman Beyond''. |
| 282 | * {{Immortality}}: He can live forever with the aid of the Lazarus pits... |
| 283 | * ImmortalityImmorality:...But each time he goes in it drives him just a little bit crazier and more extreme. |
| 284 | * ImmortalitySeeker: Ra's is terrified of death, and many of his plans revolt around continuing his immortality as the Pits prove increasingly ineffective. [[spoiler:By ''Batman Beyond'', his fear of death has pushed him to become much more monstrous and evil.]] |
| 285 | * KickTheDog: In ''Batman Beyond'', [[spoiler:he sacrificed his own daughter by taking over her body]]. He justified it by claiming that he was still needed until his work was completed, but Batman charged that he was simply afraid of death and willing to cling to life at any price. |
| 286 | * KnightTemplar: He seeks to save the world by killing most of the human population. |
| 287 | * MeaningfulName: His name is arabic for "The Demon's Head." |
| 288 | * MisanthropeSupreme: He has nothing but contempt for most of mankind, with the exception of his allies and [[WorthyOpponent Batman]]. |
| 289 | * MysteriousWatcher: His first appearance at the end of "Off Balance" has him analyzing Batman's actions from in his lair while communicating with Talia from a telecom. |
| 290 | * NobleDemon: Ra's is a genocidal KnightTemplar, but he's a deeply honorable man who believes in respecting his adversaries and treating his underlings with respect and decency. |
| 291 | * OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:By the time of ''Beyond'', he's placed his mind in Talia's body, destroying her old personality]]. |
| 292 | * OminousOperaCape: He sports a high-collar BadassCape, fitting with his ancient and sophisticated nature. |
| 293 | * Really700YearsOld: Ra's looks like a middle-aged man, but he's really centuries old from his use of the Lazarus Pit and he's an accomplished fencer to boot. |
| 294 | * ShirtlessScene: Ra's always takes off his shirt before bathing in the pits, and he chooses to engage Batman in a sword fight at the climax of "The Demon's Head" two-parter completely shirtless. |
| 295 | * ShowingOffTheNewBody: [[spoiler: In Talia's body he changed her outfit and clearly flaunts her body around Terry and Bruce.]] |
| 296 | * SinisterScimitar: He wields one against Batman during their SwordFight at the climax of "The Demon's Head, Pt. 2". |
| 297 | * SinisterSurveillance: In his first appearance, he is introduced as a DiabolicalMastermind supervising his operations on a gargantuan screen at his mountain base. |
| 298 | * TheSociopath: Terry calls him one in ''Batman Beyond'', and in that story, he acts like one. Grandiosity aside, in previous appearances he was more of a NobleDemon, though with a touch of KnightTemplar. |
| 299 | * StoryboardingTheApocalypse: When he lays out his plan to destroy humanity, it is accompanied by a series of detailed stills showing the world being saturated by the Lazarus Pits, in chaos, and finally at "a blessed peace." |
| 300 | * SuddenSequelHeelSyndrome: Downplayed, since he was always a villain, but he is ''much worse'' in the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' sequel series than in his original appearances. |
| 301 | * SwordFight: In the middle of a desert. |
| 302 | * UnexplainedAccent: Ra's has an Arabic name, but speaks with a RP British accent all the same. |
| 303 | * UnexplainedRecovery: It's stated that a Lazarus Pit will kill any healthy person it comes into contact with, but despite being at full strength when he falls into it at the climax of "The Demon's Head, Pt. 2" Ra's still survives. |
| 304 | * UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: And fully aware of it, too. He himself projects 2,056,986,000 casualties as a result of his plan in "The Demon's Quest"--and considers it worth it, if it will bring world peace and an ecologically sustainable future. |
| 305 | * VillainRespect: He has a deep respect for Batman, always referring to him as "detective" and viewing him as a WorthyOpponent. |
| 306 | * VillainousValor: Despite being insufferably pompous, self-righteous, megalomaniacal, and a genocidal lunatic, he is a brave man, exposing himself to danger even though most of the time he is a frail old man; he refuses to see himself as a victim, and [[DontYouDarePityMe won't tolerate anyone else thinking that, either]]. When rejuvenated by a chemical pool called the Lazarus Pit, he becomes strong and athletic and is willing to fight anyone. When he challenges Batman to a sword fight in "The Demon's Quest (Part II)" he demands: "Are you man enough to face your better?" -- and is immensely pleased that Batman is just that. |
| 307 | * WeCanRuleTogether: He offers Batman a position as TheDragon, several times. |
| 308 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: He views his actions as a necessary evil to help repair the damage to the planet that mankind has caused. |
| 309 | * WorthyOpponent: He views Batman as this, as with most versions. |
| 310 | [[/folder]] |
| 311 | |
| 312 | [[folder:Talia al Ghul]] |
| 313 | !![[Characters/BatmanTaliaAlGhul Talia al Ghul]] |
| 314 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/talia_al_ghul_dcau_4.png]] |
| 315 | [[quoteright:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see her redesign]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/d9y1ltn_c794b42f_e041_4386_9eb2_b5f4d6bcb124.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 316 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HelenSlater (''Batman: The Animated Series''), Creator/OliviaHussey (''Superman: The Animated Series'' and ''Batman Beyond'') |
| 317 | ->'''Appearances:''' ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' |
| 318 | |
| 319 | -->''"You must understand, beloved. I share my father's vision and seek the same ends but I do not choose his means to those ends.''" |
| 320 | |
| 321 | Talia al Ghul is the daughter of Ra's al Ghul. She doesn't always see eye to eye with him. |
| 322 | ---- |
| 323 | * AffablyEvil: She's a polite, genuinely warm woman who sincerely cares about Bruce, but is unfortunately loyal to her genocidal megalomaniac of a father despite her misgivings. |
| 324 | * AntiVillain: Talia sincerely cares about Bruce and has misgivings about Ra's' methods, but unfortunately her loyalty to her father almost always wins out, |
| 325 | * ArtEvolution: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. When ''Batman: TAS'' was revamped into ''The New Batman Adventures'', Talia did not receive a drastic redesign in her physical appearance, simply being reanimated to match the new style and her purple catsuit was changed to black. (although her only appearance during this time in the ''DCAU'' was in the ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "The Demon Reborn".) |
| 326 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: In her first appearance from "Off Balance", her relationship with Batman is not that dissimilar to the one he shared with Catwoman, being very civil and impressed with him despite being willing to betray him. In her second appearance onward, she never refers to him as Batman, only "Beloved", and she's much sweeter to him and only ever turns on him if it involves her father. |
| 327 | * ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: She truly cares about both Ra's and Bruce, which leads to her ping-ponging between them due to her ConflictingLoyalty. |
| 328 | * CleavageWindow: She has one in the outfit she wore in "The Demon's Quest". |
| 329 | * ConflictingLoyalty: She's torn between her desire to stay loyal to her father or be with her lover Batman. |
| 330 | * DaddysGirl: Despite everything, she's ultimately dedicated to her father Ra's in spite of his shoddy treatment of her. [[spoiler:She even gives her life so that he can survive by stealing her body.]] |
| 331 | * DaddysLittleVillain: She's the loyal right-hand woman of her genocidal KnightTemplar of a father. |
| 332 | * DarkActionGirl: She's the loyal right-hand woman of her father and an extremely competent fighter, although she's still one of the more sympathetic rogues. |
| 333 | * DatingCatwoman: She ends up being one of Batman's primary love interests. |
| 334 | * DeathOfPersonality: [[spoiler: Courtesy of her father's GrandTheftMe, Talia's mind is long dead by her appearance in WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond.]] |
| 335 | * DecoyDamsel: In "Demon Reborn" she disguises herself as Lois Lane and puts herself in danger, [[BatmanGambit knowing that Superman will find out and come to save her]] so she can lure him into a trap and capture hm. She also [[FoeRomanceSubtext has a bit of fun messing with Superman]] once she reveals herself to him as he is carrying her in his arms. |
| 336 | -->'''Superman:''' I've got you Lois.\ |
| 337 | '''Talia:''' (''moving her hair out of her face'') The name's Talia.\ |
| 338 | '''Superman:''' (''recognizing her from the train robbery'') [[YouExclamation You!]]\ |
| 339 | '''Talia:''' (''as she cuddles up to Superman seductively'') Sorry for the theatrics, but I needed to get your attention. |
| 340 | * DroppedABridgeOnHer: [[spoiler: She got hit pretty bad between ''Superman: TAS'' and ''Batman Beyond''. She lost her body to her father and what's left got destroyed, ensuring she's not coming back like her father.]] |
| 341 | * EnemyMine: She teamed twice with Batman, only to choose her father over him at the end. |
| 342 | * EnigmaticMinion: You can never tell if she's on Batman's side or her father's. |
| 343 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: When she discovers that her father's scheme will result in over two billion casualties, she's just as shocked as Batman. |
| 344 | * EvilAllAlong: Her first appearance presents her as a straightforward ally of Batman trying to stop Vertigo, only for her to reveal herself as one of the true leaders of the Society of Shadows and hoping to steal the sonic cannon he'd stolen for her own ends. |
| 345 | * FemmeFatale: Batman knows getting involved with her is a bad idea every time it happens, but he can't help himself. |
| 346 | * FoeRomanceSubtext: Although she serves as one of Batman's primary love interests, she also flirted with Superman a bit during their brief encounters. She blows him a goodbye kiss before making her escape in their first encounter [[WeWillMeetAgain while telling him they will meet again]], and later dresses up as Lois Lane, his love interest, and [[DecoyDamsel puts herself in danger so he will save her]]. After Superman catches her in a BridalCarry and is flying her to safety, she reveals her true identify to him and cuddles with him as he carries her, leaning her head against his briefly, and gently whispering her apologies to him for the theatrics and that she needed his attention while giving him a seductive look. |
| 347 | * GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: When Ra's al Ghul is in AxCrazy mode after using the Lazarus Pit to revive himself, she slaps him to snap him back to his senses. |
| 348 | * GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler: Her body is eventually taken over by her father by the time of ''Batman Beyond'', erasing her mind and effectively killing her]]. |
| 349 | * InconsistentColoring: Her eyes were blue in "Off Balance", but were changed to green for her remaining ''BTAS'' appearances. In ''Superman: The Animated Series'' and ''Batman Beyond'', she has black eyes. |
| 350 | * MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: Her father is Ra's al Ghul, after all. |
| 351 | * MsFanservice: Like with Batman's other femme fatales, she's a very well-endowed woman with [[HartmanHips shapely hips]], [[BuxomBeautyStandard large breasts]], and wears a SpyCatsuit with a CleavageWindow. This is especially obvious in "The Demon's Quest", where she dressed like a BedlahBabe. |
| 352 | * NobleDemon: Much like Ra's, Talia is well-intentioned in her goals, is repulsed by some of her father's more unethical methods, and is undyingly loyal to those she cares about. Unfortunately, she proves time and again to be more loyal to Ra's than she is Bruce. |
| 353 | * OneTrueLove: Possibly to Bruce. When Terry suggests she was ''the'' woman Bruce truly loved, Bruce simply pushes him away, but makes no attempt to actively deny the claim[[note]]In the comics, Bruce's main love interest has been Catwoman since the early 2000s and thus she is considered his OneTrueLove, though general agreement is that Talia is his second great love and the only woman he's truly loved besides Selina[[/note]]. |
| 354 | * SpyCatsuit: As with most versions, Talia tends to wear a form-fitting catsuit. |
| 355 | * SultryBangs: Talia's long brown hair covers her eye. She's a FemmeFatale DaddysLittleVillain who seduces and then betrays Bruce. |
| 356 | * TakeThatKiss: During her first encounter with Superman she gives him a SadisticChoice to either stop her and let the train they are on crash or stop the train and let her escape, with him choosing the latter. As she makes her escape, she flies her vehicle right next to Superman as he is struggling to hold back the train and taunts him "Till we meet again!" before blowing him a goodbye kiss before escaping. |
| 357 | [[/folder]] |
| 358 | |
| 359 | [[folder:Two-Face]] |
| 360 | !![[Characters/BatmanTwoFace Two-Face]] (Harvey Dent) |
| 361 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/two_face_btas.png]] |
| 362 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"THE LAW?! Here's the only law! The law of averages! The great equalizer!"'']] [[quoteright:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see his redesign]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/two_face_dcau.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 363 | [[quoteright:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see him his third personality WARNING: MASSIVE SPOILERS]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_judge_btas.png ''"[[IAmTheNoun I am the law.]] And I find you guilty!"''[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 364 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RichardMoll |
| 365 | ->'''Appearances:''' ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/TheNewBatmanAdventures'' | ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' | ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueVsTheFatalFive'' |
| 366 | -->''"Chance is everything. Whether you're born or not, whether you live or die, whether you're good or bad. It's all arbitrary."'' |
| 367 | |
| 368 | The district attorney of Gotham City with a dark side he's repressed for years. Once a powerful ally of Batman's war on crime, an explosion at a chemical plant caused by Rupert Thorne destroyed the left side of his face with hideous scarring as well as pulled his dark side (called "Big Bad Harv") into the forefront of his mind. He always makes decisions based on chance, flipping a two-headed coin (where one side is scratched up) before acting. |
| 369 | ---- |
| 370 | * AboveGoodAndEvil: Two-Face views everything in life as being based purely on chance, and bases his morality off of such by making his decisions with his coin. He views conventional morality and everything else in life as simply arbitrary. |
| 371 | --> '''Two-Face:''' This is my world now, Grace. A dichotomy of order and chaos, just like [[JekyllAndHyde me]].\ |
| 372 | '''Grace:''' Harvey, what's happened to your mind? Your feelings? You used to listen to your feelings.\ |
| 373 | '''Two-Face:''' ''[flips his coin]'' ''This'' is what I listen to now: chance, Grace. Chance is everything. Whether you're born or not. Whether you live or die. Whether you're good or bad. It's all arbitrary. |
| 374 | * AbusiveParents: The 2nd issue of ''[[ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures Batman: Gotham Adventures]]'' has him try to get back at his abusive father Lester when the latter is about to win a fortune on a game show. Harvey bitterly recalls how his dad had a habit of gambling away the family's money and took his anger out on Harvey and Mrs. Dent whenever he lost. |
| 375 | * AdaptationalBackstoryChange: Harvey doesn't get scarred with acid here; instead, he loses half his face in a chemical plant explosion. |
| 376 | * AdaptationalSympathy: The series goes the extra mile to showcase the tragedy that made Harvey into Two-Face, hammering the struggles he faced with his SplitPersonality being made manifest, while also placing emphasis on his relationship with Grace and his friendship with Bruce in the two episodes that saw him transformed into his villainous alter-ego. |
| 377 | * AllCrimesAreEqual: [[spoiler:The Judge views all crimes as deserving of death, whether it be armed robbery to corruption to even interfering in his attempted vigilante executions.]] |
| 378 | * AllThereInTheManual: ''Gotham Adventures'' explains his fatalistic outlook to a greater degree than the series. Harvey's abusive father taught him that luck was the only thing that mattered, and to prove this would flip a coin to decide whether or not to beat Harvey, which had a profound impact on his outlook on the world. |
| 379 | * AlliterativeName: Not his actual name, but the media gives him the nickname "Handsome Harvey". He also gains another one after Big Bad Harv publicly assaults one of Thorne's goons, "Hothead Harvey", much to his consternation. |
| 380 | * AngryEyebrows: During his origin story, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtUBwucBCfQ they present]] Harvey Dent getting pushed to the brink by Thorne... and then entering a TranquilFury as his SplitPersonality, Big Bad Harv, comes out to play. |
| 381 | * AmbiguouslyBrown: This version of Two-Face looks to be a lighter-skinned black man, with fuller lips while not as dark-skinned as other characters like Lucius Fox. Apparently, he was supposed to be Italian-American (specifically, Sicilian, which explains the darker skin) and appears to be based on actor Humphrey Bogart. This may also be due to two factors- the initial treatment of the show was following closely on the Tim Burton films, where Billy Dee Williams played Harvey Dent. Al Pacino was also the initial casting choice for Harvey Dent in the series before being replaced by Richard Moll. |
| 382 | * AmoralAttorney: Averted. Harvey was an incredibly honest and forthright district attorney; it was only after he had been drummed out of the position - in addition to several other traumas - that he became evil. It's played straight in "Trial", where he serves as the prosecutor for Batman's [[KangarooCourt trial]]. |
| 383 | * AndImTheQueenOfSheba: He's incredulous when Hugo Strange rightly accuses Batman of being Bruce Wayne and defends him from the accusation. |
| 384 | --> '''Two-Face:''' That's absurd! I know Bruce Wayne! If he's Batman, I'm the king of England! |
| 385 | * AntiVillain: He's one of the more sympathetic of the rogues gallery. He suffers from severe mental illness and Harvey Dent is still somewhere inside him, and even Two-Face is capable of doing the right thing if only because of his coin. |
| 386 | * ArcHero: After being a supporting character in prior episodes, the "Two-Face" two-parter has him as the main protagonist and centers on his transformation into Two-Face. |
| 387 | * ArchEnemy: |
| 388 | ** Harvey is kidnapped by his in "Second Chance," shortly before he was due to undergo an operation to restore his face and, hopefully, his sanity. The culprit? [[spoiler: [[EnemyWithin Two-Face]], enraged at Harvey's attempt to destroy him.]] |
| 389 | ** Rupert Thorne also counts as one. Even before Harvey became Two-Face, the two had a rather personal rivalry. Harvey despised Thorne for his corruption and being responsible for most of Gotham's organized crime, and Thore ruining his life and turning him into Two-Face gave Dent an even bigger vendetta against him. |
| 390 | ** He also has just as much a claim to being this to Batman as the Joker. Where the Joker's obsession with Batman is mostly one-sided, he takes Two-Face's fall from grace the most personally out of all his enemies and tries repeatedly to help him. Meanwhile, Two-Face despises Batman for wanting to give Harvey control of the body again. |
| 391 | * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: After he finishes his story in "Almost Got 'Im", he's more annoyed by the police letting Batman keep the giant coin he tried to kill him with than the fact Batman escaped. |
| 392 | * ArtEvolution: His left hand is undamaged in [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE10TwoFacePart1 his first post-acid appearance]] and scarred in all subsequent appearances, but otherwise {{subverted}}, as Two-Face was one of the few characters to go relatively unchanged when ''Batman: The Animated Series'' was revamped as ''The New Batman Adventures''. His new look was crisper and more in-line with the rest of the ''DC Animated Universe'' (having been given more squared-off shoulders and sharper lines on his suit), but other than that, he remained virtually the same. |
| 393 | * AxCrazy: He becomes this when enraged or when in danger of losing his coin thanks to his HairTriggerTemper. And even with the coin he falls into this, as he can go from doing something heroic to committing murder without batting an eye. |
| 394 | * BadBoss: He treats his henchmen rather poorly, frequently insulting them and even hitting them when they anger him. He's also rather non-plussed when two of his henchmen are killed by his misfiring DeathTrap in "Almost Got 'Im". |
| 395 | * BadassNormal: He is one of the few supercriminals in Gotham who doesn't have any powers or even use sophisticated weaponry. He's even able to injure Batman with a particularly nasty punch. |
| 396 | * TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:Two-Face succeeds in masterminding Thorne's downfall in "Shadow of the Bat", which was one of his main motivations from even before his FaceHeelTurn.]] |
| 397 | * BandagedFace: Right after his accident, his face was entirely covered in bandages. |
| 398 | * BeautyToBeast: Prior to his accident, he was quite handsome and attractive to the point the media nicknamed him "Handsome Harvey". The explosion horrifically burned half his body, leaving half his face disfigured and covered in lumps. |
| 399 | * BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: Harvey Dent was a noble man who crusaded against Gotham's gangs to make the city a safer place. As Two-Face, he's become one of the same gangsters he fought against in the first place. It's strikingly demonstrated in "Shadow of the Bat, Pt. 2", where he snarlingly calls Gil Mason "pretty boy" - the same insult Frankie had hurled at him all the way back in "Two-Face, Pt. 1". |
| 400 | * BeneathTheMask: Harvey's first appearances depict him as a charming and friendly ReasonableAuthorityFigure, but his origin story reveals he struggles with dissociative identity disorder and deep-rooted self-loathing. It all boils over when he's disfigured, leading to Big Bad Harv - a personality entirely composed of Harvey's anger and self-hatred - taking over. |
| 401 | * BerserkButton: |
| 402 | ** Two-Face ''hates'' being called Harvey, with the usual response being ThatManIsDead. He even throttles Mason for calling him that. |
| 403 | ** Being laughed at or mocked sets him off as well. Throughout "Two-Face, Pt. 1", Big Bad Harv is brought to the surface when Harvey is laughed at, and even afterwards he takes very poorly to jokes being made at his expense. |
| 404 | ** He hates being betrayed, or as he puts it, [[PungeonMaster two-timed]]. The only time he ever gets angry at Grace (albeit mildly) is when he thinks she's sold him out to Rupert Thorne, and even his henchmen know that double-crossing him is a terrible idea. |
| 405 | * {{BFS}}: He wields a massive one [[spoiler:- or rather, his ''third'' SplitPersonality The Judge does.]] |
| 406 | * BigNever: When he's hanging for his life off the edge of a skyscraper with the only thing standing between him and death is his own refusal to let go of his coin to grab Batman's other hand, Harvey's personality surfaces enough to let it go and reach for safety...and then Two-Face comes ''roaring'' back to the surface shouting "Never!" and punches Batman, almost tumbling to his doom were it not for Batman recovering and him and Robin swooping down after him. |
| 407 | * BlackAndWhiteInsanity: Implied. Some of Two-Face's comments imply he views good and bad as innate and determined by chance. It's why he relies on the coin, since in his mind half of him is good and half is bad, then why shouldn't what kind of decision he makes be based on random chance? |
| 408 | * BlueAndOrangeMorality: Two-Face still has Harvey's passion for the law, but it's become twisted into revolving entirely around random chance. He believes that everything is determined by simple luck, and bases his decisions around his coin because he's genuinely convinced even a person's morality is determined by chance. He'll also actively ignore his best interest if the coin dictates otherwise; when offered a 100K bribe, Two-Face turns it down on the grounds the coin already told him to kill the briber. |
| 409 | * BodyHorror: Half his body has been horrifically burned by the explosion. Among other things, his skin has turned pale blue, his body and face is covered in misshapen lumps, and his lips and some of his eyelid have been burned off. It's noted that he could have it fixed with plastic surgery, but Two-Face fears the operation would destroy him and leave Harvey the sole personality. |
| 410 | * BrokenAce: Before he becomes Two-Face. A handsome, successful district attorney engaged to a beautiful fiancé. But he also suffers from dissociative identity disorder which he tries desperately to keep under wraps. |
| 411 | * ChekhovsGunman: Harvey Dent appears twice as a heroic character before becoming Two Face, and in his first appearance he is even shown flipping a coin. |
| 412 | * TheChessmaster: Two-Face is surprisingly good at running long, complicated plans and obscuring that he's the one behind it. The only clue to it being him is the fact that it's ''always'' a two-part plan due to his [[NumberObsession obsession with the number two]]. He's even able to throw off Batman for a while in "Second Chance" and "Shadow of the Bat, Pt. 2". |
| 413 | * ChronicVillainy: Makes several attempts at reforming. Sadly, it takes more than just plastic surgery to cure ''his'' problems, especially when his evil personality sees such reformation as effectively dying. |
| 414 | * ColorMotifs: Black and white, to symbolize how he's split between (and obsessed by the divide of) good and evil. he's also associated with red, the color littering most of his lairs and being used as MoodLighting whenever Two-Face takes over, symbolizing Big Bad Harv's nature as the embodiment of Harvey's rage. |
| 415 | * CombatPragmatist: Two-Face isn't above taking cheap shots or using {{Improvised Weapon}}s to win a fight. He'll generally take full advantage of his surroundings to beat his opponent and he's notably been able to severely injure Batman on two separate occasions because of it, even nearly killing him the second time. |
| 416 | * CompanionCube: Two-Face genuinely views his coin as sentient to a degree and believes it gives him actual advice. During his VillainousBreakdown in "Second Chance", he outright states he doesn't know what to do without the coin "telling" him. |
| 417 | * ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike: He's not particularly enthused when Batman infiltrates his lair to save him from the Judge, not least because it involves arresting him before the murderous vigilante can get to him. He is admittedly thankful when Batman rescues him when the Judge ''does'' attack, but still knocks him out to escape. |
| 418 | --> '''Batman:''' Easy, Harvey. It's the good cop. I figured I'd better get to you before the Judge did.\ |
| 419 | '''Two-Face:''' Don't do me any favors. |
| 420 | * ConsultingMisterPuppet: Downplayed and PlayedForDrama. It isn't as obvious as it is with the Ventriloquist and Scarface, but Two-Face seems to view his coin as being somehow able to give him advice. He repeatedly proves unable to function without it telling him what to do, and he values it just as much - if not over - his own life. |
| 421 | * CrazyJealousGuy: In the comic spin-off issue "Two Timer", the Joker plants the idea that his ex-fiance Grace might be cheating on him with Bruce, with the Joker even having Harley take a picture of Bruce and Grace hanging out together and release it to the press. This sends Two-Face over the edge and he breaks out of Arkham, takes Grace and Dick Grayson hostage, and tries to kill Bruce out of spite. This act causes Grace to finally see that Harvey is BeyondRedemption. |
| 422 | * CrazyPrepared: He reveals in "Shadow of the Bat" he rigged his subway with explosives just in case, which he uses in an attempt to kill Batman. |
| 423 | * CreateYourOwnHero: Two-Face's actions wind up leading to the creation of Batgirl and the second Robin. In the former's case, his attempt to frame Gordon caused Barbara to don the costume, and in the latter's Two-Face's pursuit of Tim's father and attempt to murder Tim led to him becoming Robin. |
| 424 | * CreateYourOwnVillain: Thorne's attempt to blackmail Harvey with his mental illness leads to him becoming Two-Face and subsequently waging an extra-legal war on Thorne's organization. Cyanide even lampshades it. |
| 425 | --> '''Frankie:''' I thought we got rid of this guy.\ |
| 426 | '''Candice:''' Are you kidding? We created him. |
| 427 | * CrusadingLawyer: During his time as D.A., Harvey fought against the crime and corruption in Gotham and particularly Rupert Thorne in order to make the city a better place. |
| 428 | * DarkIsEvil: Two-Face dresses in primarily black and white clothing, with the black representing his evil side. |
| 429 | * DeathOfPersonality: Harvey Dent is totally submerged by the Two-Face personality after his disfigurement. Although Two-Face adopts some of Harvey's traits and Harvey does emerge every once in a while, Two-Face is almost always calling the shots and Harvey is only able to appear for brief periods of time. |
| 430 | * DiabolicalMastermind: He's one of the most strategic members of the rogues gallery and has a penchant for running long, elaborate plans that hide his involvement. He's able to successfully fool Batman twice, and in the"Shadow of the Bat" two-parter he nearly takes over both the GCPD and Gotham's underworld through a lengthy gambit. |
| 431 | * DiceRollDeath: This is part of his M.O. Two-Face lets his coin determine everything, including whether or not to murder people, so surviving an encounter with him often depends on simple luck. |
| 432 | * DiseaseBleach: After being disfigured in an explosion, the hair on the right side of his head - the half of his body that was disfigured - turned white. |
| 433 | * DistressedDude: "Pretty Poison" and "Two-Face, Pt. 1" revolve around Batman trying to save Harvey from Poison Ivy and Rupert Thorne respectively. The first time he succeeds, the second time... [[ForegoneConclusion not so]] [[DownerEnding much.]] |
| 434 | * DoNotAdjustYourSet: He doesn't actually make a broadcast, but he references this in a quip while robbing one of Thorne's gambling dens after shooting several TV sets. |
| 435 | --> ''"Don't bother adjusting the picture. For the next five minutes, '''I'm''' in control!"'' |
| 436 | * DoNotCallMePaul: After his transformation, Harvey Dent is very clear that he is now Two-Face, even to his fiancé. |
| 437 | * DontLookAtMe: He tries to hide his disfigurement when Grace comes to see him and gets mad when she removes the cloth covering half his face. |
| 438 | * DubNameChange: In the Venezuelan dub, he is called between ''Doble-Cara'' and ''Dos Caras'' (The first being a literal translation, the second his official name in most spanish translations) [[InconsistentDub depending of the episode.]] |
| 439 | * EnemyMine: While both Two-Face and Harvey are generally at odds, both of them equally hate Poison Ivy for nearly killing them in "Pretty Poison". The tie-in comics also has both personalities be in complete agreement about going after his abusive father. |
| 440 | * EnemyWithin: Big Bad Harv started as this before being given control over the body, only appearing when Harvey was sufficiently angered. [[spoiler:The Judge also serves as one to Two-Face, taking over his body to attack other criminals and even trying to kill Two-Face himself at one point.]] |
| 441 | * EntertaininglyWrong: When the rogues discuss their theories on Batman, Two-Face claims that Batman is actually a CollectiveIdentity of police officers who pose as one man to keep Batman ShroudedInMyth. Penguin accuses him of letting his NumberObsession run away with him rather than it being anything plausible. |
| 442 | * EtTuBrute: He feels betrayed when Grace accidentally leads Thorne to him, and the fact that she had thought she was leading the police to him doesn't help. He still loses it when Thorne threatens to kill her and nearly guns him down on the spot before Batman stops him. |
| 443 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: |
| 444 | ** He's horrified in "Almost Got 'Im" when Joker reveals he intends to grind Catwoman into mulch to get back at Batman. |
| 445 | ** He's unimpressed when he sees Penguin openly cheat Killer Croc out of his fair pay in "Judgement Day" and not even bother to hide it from Croc. |
| 446 | --> '''Two-Face:''' And I thought I was two-faced. |
| 447 | ** He will always follow what the coin says, even if he doesn't personally like the outcome. It means he can help Batman as often as he'll battle him, though due to RuleOfDrama it generally comes up on the bad side. |
| 448 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: |
| 449 | ** Despite Two-Face once shouting that "Harvey's friends are no friends of mine!" he does care about his/their fiancé Grace. |
| 450 | ** It's less clear with Bruce since they don't get many scenes together after Harvey's transformation (and Big Bad Harv did threaten to bodily harm Bruce during one of his rages before then), but noticeably in "Second Chance" he muses in his more lucid moments fondly about their past friendship and during their actual encounter at the end he seems genuinely touched on some level Bruce still hasn't given up on him. |
| 451 | ** In the second issue of ''Gotham Adventures'', Two-Face notes that the reason he wants revenge on his abusive father isn't because of his constant torment of his family, but because he [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas broke Harvey's mother's heart by abandoning them]]. |
| 452 | * EvilFormerFriend: To Bruce Wayne socially, and, as District Attorney, to Batman as well. He's also one to Gordon, as the two seemed to be in good terms prior to Harvey's scarring. However, Two-Face shows no hesitation about going after Batman or Gordon, though he genuinely likes Bruce. |
| 453 | * EvilSoundsDeep: His evil personality is accented with a very gravelly, deep voice. Noticeably, the moments where Harvey takes control are usually marked by the roughness going away and his voice lightening. |
| 454 | * EvilSoundsRaspy: The Big Bad Harv personality speaks with a harsh, raspy voice in contrast to Harvey's smooth baritone. This becomes his normal voice after he becomes Two=Face, due to Harv now being the dominant personality. |
| 455 | * ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter: When Batman in his Matches Malone disguise approaches Two-Face for a job, he's almost instinctively able to tell there's something ''off'' about "Malone". |
| 456 | --> '''Two-Face:''' Matches Malone, huh? Never heard of ya. But there's something about you I don't like. [[GutFeeling Nothin' I can put my finger on, but I trust my hunches.]] Kinda like second sight, you know? |
| 457 | * EyeScream: The explosion that disfigured him burned away most of the skin covering his right eye, and "Second Chance" shows that it can't close properly anymore (although this is DependingOnTheArtist). |
| 458 | * FaceHeelTurn: While not an ally of Batman, Harvey is a good man who crusades against crime and is Bruce's best friend. After his scarring, however, he becomes one of Gotham's worst criminals himself and one of Batman's greatest enemies. |
| 459 | * FaceRevealingTurn: When Grace visits him in the hospital after his accident. |
| 460 | * FacialHorror: He lost half his face to an explosion, and it's left gruesomely disfigured in the aftermath. It could be fixed easily with plastic surgery, but Two-Face balks at the possibility since he views reformation as meaning that he will be destroyed in favor of Harvey. |
| 461 | * FairPlayVillain: He believes his coin-toss is the fairest form of justice there is, and he'll flip to decide everything. However, it's generally a toss-up as to how "fair" he'll be any given day and he'll occasionally look for [[LoopholeAbuse loopholes]] in his own logic for an excuse to carry out his schemes. |
| 462 | * FallenHero: He used to be a morally upright and hard hitting District Attorney until his scarring occurred. Now he's one of Gotham's most notorious gangsters. |
| 463 | * FashionableAsymmetry: He wears a suit split down the middle between black and white. His original lair also sported a room with the same coloration; he views both as representing the "dichotomy of order and chaos" within him. |
| 464 | * FatalFlaw: |
| 465 | ** His reliance on the coin. Even setting aside the way it causes him to go into a breakdown, his reliance on it also leads to his downfall. He obviously wanted to reunite with Grace during his six month crime spree, but wouldn't because the coin said no. If he had just done that reunion before Candace had the idea of giving Grace the tracking device, who knows how things would have ended? It's certainly less likely that Grace would have unwittingly led Thorne to Two-Face, at least. |
| 466 | ** Harvey's refusal to deal with his mental illness and his fear of its exposure plays a large part in causing him to become Two-Face. While he understandably feels that the public learning would ruin his career, the fact he dealt with it all his life by repressing his SplitPersonality and his refusal to be interred at a psych ward only results in his dissociative identity disorder getting worse. And when Thorne blackmails him about it, he chooses to meet with him rather than inform anyone due to his sense of shame over it. |
| 467 | * TheFatalist: He believes that the only real governing force in the world is random chance, and he relies entirely on his coin because he genuinely believes it's the only fair thing in the world. |
| 468 | * FauxAffablyEvil: Whenever he bothers with niceties, Two-Face acts rather calm and even-handed all the while still threatening people with murder. |
| 469 | * TheFettered: A twisted example. Two-Face is devoted to his [[BlueAndOrangeMorality bizarre moral code based off of chance]], even when breaking from it could save his life. He's perfectly willing to commit murder just as much as he is saving Batman's life simply because he's that convinced of letting his coin govern his decisions. |
| 470 | * FightingFromTheInside: There are brief moments where Harvey is able to take control of the body, most notably in "Second Chance", but Two-Face always reasserts control. |
| 471 | * ForegoneConclusion: It's clear to anyone familiar with the comics that Harvey being Bruce's best friend and an ally of Batman won't last, and that eventually he'll become the villainous Two-Face. And indeed, that's just what happens. |
| 472 | * FourthDateMarriage: Harvey popped the question to Poison Ivy within a week of dating her. Bruce warns him about doing it so soon, and sure enough it was all just a ruse for Ivy to poison him. |
| 473 | * FreudianExcuse: Harvey has repressed his anger all his life due to having believed he had hospitalized a childhood bully after punching him, as well as having been abused by his father. His SuppressedRage eventually formed a SplitPersonality, Big Bad Harv, who unfortunately wound up taking over permanently when Harvey was disfigured. |
| 474 | * FreudianTrio: [[spoiler:In "Judgement Day", Two-Face gains ''a third personality'', making him a one-man Freudian Trio. Harvey Dent is the good-natured Ego, "Big Bad Harv" is the villainous and short-tempered id, and the Judge is the well-intentioned but ruthless superego.]] |
| 475 | * FriendlyEnemy: PlayedWith. Two-Face hates Batman, but he genuinely views Bruce as a friend and appreciates that he's never given up on him, even if he views reformation as essentially being death. |
| 476 | * GeniusBruiser: He was a highly skilled attorney prior to becoming a super-villain, and he's able to fight Batman on an even field. |
| 477 | * GenreSavvy: He's as prone to BondVillainStupidity just as much as the other rogues, but Two-Face knows how Batman will inevitably escape whatever DeathTrap he's put in and always tries to take precautions. He'll almost always take away Batman's utility belt, and in "Trial" he admits he told the other rogues they should just shoot Batman on the spot instead of putting him in a KangarooCourt he'll certainly escape from. |
| 478 | * GoodOldFisticuffs: Unlike most of Batman's rogues gallery, Two-Face doesn't rely on elaborate traps or superpowers to keep his opponents at bay, but on his fists. He's not particularly well-trained, he's just strong enough to viciously beat his enemies to a pulp. |
| 479 | * GoodScarsEvilScars: While [[EnemyWithin Big Bad Harv]] was already gaining strength, Harvey only turned to crime after having half his face horrifically disfigured. The camera also tends to focus on Harvey's unscarred half to indicate that he's the one speaking, and his deformed side to indicate that Harv is talking instead. |
| 480 | * GrayscaleOfEvil: His suit was designed to be half-white, half-black. |
| 481 | * GrossUpCloseUp: A rare, [[PlayedForDrama non-comedic]] fashion[[note]] considering its use in ''Batman: TAS'' [[/note]] when he is unmasked after his surgery |
| 482 | * GunsAkimbo: He needs two of everything, including guns. |
| 483 | * GutFeeling: When Batman - in his "Matches Malone" disguise - attempts to join Two-Face's gang as [[TheMole a mole]], Two-Face is instinctively able to tell he's untrustworthy by gut feeling alone. |
| 484 | * HairTriggerTemper: This is what he had before actually becoming Two-Face. His anger is a separate personality that can take even the slightest trigger to incite (such as getting mud kicked onto his jacket by a thug, which almost saw the DA candidate punch someone on live television). |
| 485 | * HeWhoFightsMonsters: His efforts to take down Rupert Thorne lead to him becoming Two-Face, a gangster essentially no different from Thorne who eventually becomes one of Gotham's most powerful mobsters. |
| 486 | * HeadsTailsEdge: "Second Chance" has Batman switch Two-Face's coin with one that always lands on edge. The main result is not so much an inability to make a decision as the fact that the coin rolls away, and he [[FreakOut freaks right out]] and has to chase after it. |
| 487 | * HeelFaceDoorSlam: In "Second Chance," Harvey has undergone a great deal of therapy and is preparing to get surgery to begin repairing his damaged face when mysterious masked gangsters burst into the operating room and kidnap him. Batman ultimately confronts the culprit, calling him Harvey's worst enemy, someone who hates him and would do anything to destroy him. |
| 488 | --> '''Two-Face''': ''stepping out of the shadows'' And why not?! ''He'' was trying to destroy ''me''! |
| 489 | * HelloAttorney: Harvey was very handsome prior to his accident, with Frankie even derisively calling him "pretty boy" and the media nicknaming him "Handsome Harvey". |
| 490 | * HelplessGoodSide: Harvey after being disfigured was almost totally subsumed by the Big Bad Harv personality, who now has near-total control of the body. Harvey does occasionally resurface, but by and large Harv is the one calling the shots. |
| 491 | * HiddenDepths: While Two-Face ''hates'' his Harvey personality, it's implied he looks back fondly on Harvey's personal life fondly. He still loves Grace and he looks at his friendship with Bruce fondly; while he doesn't want to reform, he still appreciates that Bruce hasn't given up on him. |
| 492 | * HisOwnWorstEnemy: As lampshaded in "Second Chance", where he agrees when Batman calls Two-Face Harvey Dent's worst enemy. If he can't make a decision without his coin, he's practically helpless. |
| 493 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Two-Face's suppression of Harvey ultimately leads to the creation of a third personality, the Judge, a KnightTemplar who eventually traps Two-Face inside a mental trial and leaving him only able to murmur the word "guilty".]] |
| 494 | * HydePlaysJekyll: [[spoiler:The twist of "Second Chance" reveals Two-Face had been masquerading as Harvey at the start of the episode, so he could break out of custody and prevent himself from being destroyed.]] |
| 495 | * IControlMyMinionsThrough: Material Benefits and Fear. The "Two-Face" two-parter establishes he seeks out ex-convicts with the offer of a big score, and his henchmen are terrified of betraying him because treachery is a major BerserkButton for him. |
| 496 | * {{Idiosyncrazy}}: Always commits crimes relating to the number two, like stealing two million dollars in two-dollar coins in "Almost Got 'Im". He also bases most decisions on the outcome of a flip of his coin even though it's extremely impractical, and he [[VillainousBreakdown completely loses it]] whenever someone manages to steal it from him. In a clever case of {{Foreshadowing}}, he also appears in two episodes prior to his transformation, and said transformation occurs in a two-part episode. |
| 497 | * IgnoredEpiphany: |
| 498 | ** During "Two-Face, Pt. 2", Batman and Grace are able to nearly get through to Two-Face and get him to stand down, but both times they're interrupted and the progress they made is undone. |
| 499 | ** In "Second Chance", Two-Face is left hanging over a ledge and needs Batman to pull him up, but refuses to grab his hand because he risks dropping the coin. Despite Batman revealing the coin was a fake and Two-Face dropping it and even reaching his hand up to Batman's, he's unable to bring himself to make a decision without the coin and punches Batman. |
| 500 | * InsaneEqualsViolent: Harvey is gentle and kind, but his SplitPersonality Two-Face is violent and flies off the handle at the slightest provocation. [[spoiler:The Judge, their third personality, is also rather violent and ruthless, albeit more [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-meaning]] than Two-Face.]] |
| 501 | * JekyllAndHyde: Harvey Dent and Two-Face. In "Judgement Day", [[spoiler:the third personality, called "The Judge", is established.]] |
| 502 | * {{Jerkass}}: Very much so. He's blunt, short-tempered, gruff, and easily set off into violence. While even the Joker at least puts on [[FauxAffablyEvil an act of amiability]], Two-Face can barely be bothered to do that - and the mask slips easily when he does. |
| 503 | * JerkassBall: While Two-Face generally isn't a nice guy, "Sins of the Father" has him at his absolute worst. He threatens to murder Tim Drake numerous times, and attempts to kill all of Gotham by releasing a DeadlyGas after giving them only two minutes to pay his ransom. Even in his only other appearance in ''The New Batman Adventures'' he never reaches this level of cruelty again. |
| 504 | * JudgeJuryAndExecutioner: He becomes one of these under the guise of [[spoiler:the Judge]]. He tries to execute several super-villains, [[spoiler: including himself]], as a result of [[spoiler: a third personality developing because of Harvey's former sense of justice, despising that he had become Two-Face]]. It ends with [[spoiler: Two-Face sitting in a cell, and his third voice demanding what he pleads]]. "Guilty. Guilty. Guilty". |
| 505 | * KickTheDog: He interrogates and beats a captive Tim Drake - who at this point was still an ordinary if crafty kid - in "Sins of the Father", and orders him killed when his coin lands on its bad side. |
| 506 | * KickTheMoralityPet: In the comic spin-off "Two Timer", after Joker plants the idea that Bruce and Grace might be having an affair, Two-Face takes the latter hostage while trying to kill the former. This act causes Grace to realize that Harvey might be well BeyondRedemption. |
| 507 | * KnightTemplar: [[spoiler:The Judge personality wants to help clean up crime in Gotham much like Batman, but he's perfectly willing to kill to get the job done.]] |
| 508 | * LargeAndInCharge: Harvey is a pretty big guy (as tall as Bruce and just as built) before his SplitPersonality starts to take over... which comes in handy when Big Bad Harv (and later Two-Face) wants to get his hands dirty. He's strong enough to heave obese mob boss Rupert Thorne over his head and fling him across the room! |
| 509 | * LipLosses: Half his lips were burned off in the explosion that scarred him. |
| 510 | * LightIsGood[=/=]LightIsNotGood: ZigZagged between the two. He dresses in primarily black and white clothing and he's a vicious gangster, but the white is supposed to represent Two-Face's good half. |
| 511 | * LikesClarkKentHatesSuperman: Prior to his accident, Harvey saw Bruce Wayne as his best friend but was somewhat ambivalent towards Batman until he saved his life in "Pretty Poison". Two-Face on the other hand hates Batman and wants him dead, but does seem touched by Bruce refusing to give up on him. |
| 512 | * LockedIntoStrangeness: The hair on the "bad" half of his face is snow-white as a result of his accident. |
| 513 | * MadnessMantra: At the end of "Judgment Day", [[spoiler:after the Judge takes over and subjects Two-Face to a mental trial, he's left only able to say his plea: guilty.]] |
| 514 | -->'''Two-Face:''' Guilty...guilty...guilty... |
| 515 | * ManOfWealthAndTaste: He wears a symbolically split two-tone suit. |
| 516 | * MadeOfIron: He survives being crushed by a giant metal coin in "Shadow of the Bat, Pt 2." without a scratch, and similarly is unharmed by being [[spoiler:dropped off a large metal statue at the climax of "Judgement Day".]] |
| 517 | * ManySpiritsInsideOfOne: [[spoiler:During the final episode of ''The New Batman Adventures'', he developed a third persona: the Judge, a ruthless vigilante who was punishing criminals. Both the Harvey Dent and Two-Face personas were unaware of the Judge's existence. It also seems the Judge didn't know he shared a body with them, since he was ruining Two-Face's plans and tried to kill him.]] |
| 518 | * TheMentallyDisturbed: Unlike many of Batman's rogues, Two-Face is severely mentally ill, on top of having split personalities, he's so dependent on a coin to make decisions for him it takes over any other priority, he nearly ''dies'' chasing the coin as it goes to the edge of a building. |
| 519 | * MoralMyopia: Big Bad Harv views Harvey taking over as essentially death for him, but has no qualms about doing the same to Harvey due to viewing him as [[VirtueIsWeakness weak]]. |
| 520 | * MoralityChain: His fiancee, Grace, tries to be this, but Harvey eventually strays too far down the path of darkness. |
| 521 | * MoralityPet: Two-Face is generally cold, short-tempered, and ruthless, but he shows a lot of uncharacteristic kindness and tenderness towards Grace and Bruce. For all his hatred of Harvey, he still views them in high regard for never giving up on him. |
| 522 | * MyGreatestFailure: Harvey's downfall is this for Batman, who still has hope that he can save his old friend. |
| 523 | * MysteriousPast: Aside from the childhood bully affair which was the starting point of Harvey's split personality, the show never divulges anything else about his pre-series life. ''Gotham Adventures'' reveals he had an abusive father who would flip a coin before beating him, which explains his fatalistic outlook after his accident. |
| 524 | * NiceGuy: Harvey himself is a genuinely nice guy; polite, friendly, and soft-spoken. It's deconstructed to a degree, as part of it is caused by the fact he's spent his entire life repressing his anger until it boiled into a SplitPersonality. |
| 525 | * NoNonsenseNemesis: Downplayed. Two-Face is just as prone to BondVillainStupidity as his fellow rogues, but he tends to be more pragmatic and take more precautions. He's notably one of the few to be able to injure Batman without using any sort of enhancements just by being smart enough to attack while he's distracted, he's quick to take Batman's utility belt away, and in "Trial" he admits he would've shot him on the spot if he hadn't lost the coin toss. |
| 526 | * NobleDemon: On his good days, Two-Face, while a ruthless criminal, still has scruples and a code of honor. It all generally depends on what the coin tells him to do, so it's generally a toss-up ''how'' noble he'll be sat any particular moment. |
| 527 | * NotSoAboveItAll: While Harvey's good side is exactly that, "Almost Got 'Im" reveals that ''both'' sides of him fantasize about revenge on Ivy for almost killing him in "Pretty Poison". |
| 528 | * NumerologicalMotif: He has a predilection for all things binary. (Translation: He likes things in twos.) |
| 529 | * NumberObsession: He's obsessed with the number two and duality itself, [[{{Idiosyncrazy}} with all of his crimes involving it one way or the other.]] |
| 530 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In the spin-off ''Gotham Adventures'' comic, one storyline saw Two-Face going after his abusive father when the man was about to win 2.2 million dollars on a television game show; when one of his gang asked if he wanted to flip his coin before the heist, Two-Face stated that he wasn't because ''every'' part of him wanted to do this. Even when Batman [[spoiler:stops Two-Face killing his father, Two-Face's plan accounted for the possibility of the coin-toss going the other way by setting it up so that his father's winnings would be destroyed, ensuring that his father would either be dead or lose the money]]. |
| 531 | * PetTheDog: In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueVsTheFatalFive'', he befriends Thomas Kallor aka. Star Boy during Kallor's stint in Arkham. Two-Face acts as something of a mentor/protector to Thomas. |
| 532 | * PopCulturedBadass: He's able to take on Batman in a hand-to-hand fight and be evenly matched with him. He also makes a reference to ''Series/TheOuterLimits'' during a robbery by quoting the series's opening narration. |
| 533 | --> '''Two-Face:''' Don't bother to adjust the picture! For the next five minutes, ''I'm'' in control! |
| 534 | * PowerBornOfMadness: He seems to have this. In the episodes when he snaps and transitions to "Big Bad Harv," he is strong enough to lift Rupert Thorne (an obese crime boss) clean off the ground and hurl him into three other thugs. He does something similar in the next episode as Two-Face with yet another thug. Considering this interpretation of Two-Face seems mostly based on being consumed by rage, maybe it is more [[UnstoppableRage "Power Born of Being Really Mad."]] |
| 535 | * ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: He's the main protagonist of the "Two-Face" two-parter, which chronicles how he goes from a well-respected lawman and local hero into a vengeful, ruthless gangster. |
| 536 | * PungeonMaster: Downplayed, especially in comparison to some of his campier incarnations. Still, Two-Face frequently makes puns based around the number two and often reminds his allies never to "two-time" him. |
| 537 | * RageBreakingPoint: Throughout "Two-Face, Pt. 1", Harvey struggles with keeping [[EnemyWithin Big Bad Harv]] repressed and has brief periods where Harv will take over. It's when Thorne tries to blackmail him and smugly mocks him alongside his men that Harvey snaps and lets Harv take over. |
| 538 | --> '''Harvey:''' There's just one problem.\ |
| 539 | '''Thorne:''' Oh, yeah? What's that?\ |
| 540 | '''Harvey:''' ''[[SplitPersonalityTakeOver You're talking to the wrong Harvey.]]'' |
| 541 | * RageAgainstTheReflection: Upon awakening after getting caught in an explosion, Harvey Dent demands a mirror. When he sees the grotesque scarring of half his face, he screams with horror and anger, and his transformation into the villain Two-Face becomes complete (except for the occasional HopeSpot that keeps Batman tormented that his old friend might be saved). |
| 542 | * RayOfHopeEnding: Even though [[spoiler:the Judge takes over his body, making him try to kill Two-Face, there is hope that the Judge will lead Harvey back to sanity. After all, a villain is less likely to escape from Arkham if he thinks he belongs there. ''Justice League Vs The Fatal Five'' even shows him having mellowed out, though still prone to bouts of anger.]] |
| 543 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: As D.A., Harvey was dedicated to serving the law and fought against corruption. |
| 544 | * RedIsViolent: Big Bad Harv's takeovers throughout "Two-Face, Pt. 1" are accompanied by the background turning red, symbolizing his nature as the embodiment of Harvey's repressed anger and violent tendencies. |
| 545 | * RedemptionRejection: Two-Face generally spits on any offers to stand down and get help, as he knows that doing so would result in him being either suppressed or destroyed in favor of Harvey being brought to the surface. |
| 546 | * ReluctantPsycho: Harvey genuinely wants to overcome his mental illness and reform - unfortunately, Two-Face views this as essentially death for himself and thus pulls out all the stops to make sure Harvey won't do so. |
| 547 | * RevengeBeforeReason: It's noted he could have had his face repaired soon after his disfigurement and he could easily have found work elsewhere, but Two-Face instead pursues revenge against Throne despite clearly yearning for his old life. "Second Chance" reveals he's terrified this would lead to Harvey taking over, which he views as essentially death for himself. |
| 548 | * RoleEndingMisdemeanour: [[invoked]] Albeit mainly due to the stigma towards mental illness than a personal failure. After his Dissociative Identity Disorder is publicized by Thorne and he's disfigured, Harvey's career as District Attorney is ruined and he's forced to drop out of the election. This ultimately results in him fully embracing his new life as Two-Face, with Big Bad Harv mostly calling the shots. |
| 549 | * RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Against Thorne. His main goal in "Two-Face, Pt. 2" is to punish Thorne for ruining his life, and even after that he still takes any opportunity to screw him over. [[spoiler:He even masterminds his downfall in "Shadow of the Bat".]] |
| 550 | * RulesLawyer: Uses this to his advantage in the ''Gotham Adventures'' spin-off comic series when he goes after his abusive father; when the man was about to win 2.2 million dollars, [[spoiler:Two-Face destroys the money before he can officially claim it, thus ensuring that insurance won't cover the money as it wasn't technically his father's when it was destroyed and the few remaining thousand dollars of it left have to be bagged as evidence]]. |
| 551 | * RunningBothSides: His plan in the "Shadow of the Bat" two-parter is to take over Gotham's mobs by arranging the arrests of their leaders and consolidating the remaining gangs, and then replace Commissioner Gordon with a loyal stooge so he'd have control of the police as well. |
| 552 | * SadisticChoice: His idea of "fairness" sometimes verges into this. In "Almost Got 'Im", he claims he's given Batman a fair chance after tying him to a giant coin; depending on how the coin lands, he'll either be crushed or "just" break every bone in his body. |
| 553 | * SanityHasAdvantages: It's not his fault that he ''has'' to let a coin flip make his decisions for him, so that, if you toss a ton of coins in as he flips, he can't make a choice anymore! Honest, it's not!!! Naturally, Batman exploits this in "Second Chance" where he replaces Two-Face's coin with a trick one that always lands on its side. [[spoiler: The ploy backfires on Batman when the [[ThouShaltNotKill coin keeps bouncing towards the edge of the derelict skyscraper]].]] |
| 554 | ** Additionally (as shown in the tie-in comics), his therapist gives him a weighted coin that is more likely to land on the good heads which prompts Harvey to make good choices. As a result, Harvey begins to take a lot of heroic actions, such as stopping muggers or turning in members of his old gang. But only after giving them a chance to shoot or attack him first. |
| 555 | * SanitySlippage: "Two-Face Pt. 1" focuses on Harvey's dissociative identity disorder gradually worsening and becoming increasingly out of control, until Big Bad Harv finally [[SplitPersonalityTakeOver takes over]]. |
| 556 | * ShadowArchetype: |
| 557 | ** To Batman, or rather his secret identity as Bruce Wayne. Both Bruce and Harvey are good men who hide a darker, separate persona behind their public faces. However, where Batman is a heroic, decent man, Two-Face is a villainous EnemyWithin composed of Harvey's negative emotions. And while these personas wind up consuming both of them, Batman never becomes a criminal as Two-Face does. |
| 558 | ** [[spoiler:The Judge is one in turn to the Batman identity. He has the same goals as Batman and has numerous gadgets and a menacing, darkly-clad costume as he does. The only difference is that the Judge doesn't follow Batman's ThouShaltNotKill rule.]] |
| 559 | * SkewedPriorities: PlayedForDrama. Two-Face values his coin over his own life and can't make decisions without it. He's even unwilling to save himself from certain death in "Second Chance" because it would mean dropping his coin. Not even the knowledge it was a trick coin is able to get him to stop. |
| 560 | * SoftSpokenSadist: Two-Face tends to speak in a calm, even tone even when he's preparing to do something particularly villainous. His anger also tends to manifest through TranquilFury; he'll speak calmly and politely just before throttling the target of his anger. |
| 561 | * TheScream: He does this at the end of his introductory episode as Two-Face. |
| 562 | * SecondSuperIdentity: [[spoiler: The Judge is really a new split personality of Harvey Dent, formed from his repressed passion for the law becoming its own entity to fight back against the dominant personality Two-Face.]] |
| 563 | * SharpDressedMan: He's always dressed to the nines in a sharp, [[FashionableAsymmetry asymmetrical]] three-piece suit. |
| 564 | * SlouchOfVillainy: When Harvey's psychiatrist asks to speak with Big Bad Harv, Harvey slouches in his chair and begins flipping his coin as Harv takes over. |
| 565 | * SlowlySlippingIntoEvil: The "Two-Face" two-parter chronicles how Harvey's struggles with his mental illness and Rupert Thorne's machinations turn him from a heroic and well-respected lawman into the notorious gangster Two-Face. |
| 566 | * SplitPersonality: After supposedly hospitalizing a bully when he was a child (the bully was actually in the hospital for appendicitis), Harvey began repressing his anger until it manifested as a second personality known as "Big Bad Harv". During Harvey's pursuit of Rupert Thorne, Big Bad Harv starts rearing his ugly head due to the stress of the campaign, and once he was scarred by a chemical explosion, became the dominant personality, renaming himself "Two-Face." |
| 567 | * SplitPersonalityMerge: Implied. While Harvey is referenced as still being a separate personality, Two-Face - despite mainly being controlled by Big Bad Harv - adopts some of Harvey's traits such as his love for his fiancé Grace, hatred for Rupert Thorne, and an albeit twisted faith in justice and the law - hence his signature coin. |
| 568 | * SplitPersonalityTakeover: After being disfigured, the Big Bad Harv personality takes over. Harvey does resurface at times, but by and large Harv is in control. [[spoiler:He eventually gets a ''third'' that puts the other two personalities on trial.]] AndIMustScream indeed. |
| 569 | ** By the time of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueVsTheFatalFive'', Harvey seems to be the personality in control, though he’s still an inmate at Arkham. |
| 570 | * StatingTheSimpleSolution: In "Trial", he offhandedly mentions that he suggested "a quick slug between the eyes" rather than all the theatrics. Naturally, he lost the coin toss. |
| 571 | * StrawNihilist: He views everything as being dictated by random chance and disregards conventional morality as being arbitrary in such a world. |
| 572 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: His father appears in the 2nd issue of ''Batman: Gotham Adventures'', who is shown to look like what Harvey might look like decades from now had he not been disfigured. |
| 573 | * SuperpoweredEvilSide: Downplayed. Two-Face doesn't have any actual powers, but Big Bad Harv proves noticeably stronger than Harvey when he has control of the body. Harvey rarely engages in fisticuffs, where Harv is able to throw grown men across the room with ease. |
| 574 | * SuppressedRage: Harvey suppressed all his anger after mistakenly believing he had hospitalized a school bully, which led to his anger becoming a SplitPersonality: Big Bad Harv. |
| 575 | * ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: Thorne's {{Blackmail}} leads to Harvey's disfigurement and downfall, so Two-Face's first plan is to blackmail Thorne right back. [[spoiler:Subverted when Thorne [[OutGambitted Out-Gambits]] him and humiliates him again -- Two-Face's resulting VillainousBreakdown drives him to just (nearly) kill Thorne instead.]] |
| 576 | * ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld: When he threatened to release a binary poison on Gotham, he claimed there would be two kinds of people in Gotham: The dying and the dead. |
| 577 | * ThisIsGonnaSuck: When his coin rolls onto an unstable metal beam during the climax of "Second Chance", Two-Face visibly realizes that following it is a bad idea but can't resist the compulsion to do it. |
| 578 | * ThrowTheDogABone: ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueVsTheFatalFive'' shows he's a better mental state thanks to Arkham's inmates being moved to a new, more spacious facility (with the implication it's far better staffed and more humane to its patients), so he's able to keep his rage under control. He even befriends the time-displaced Starboy. |
| 579 | * TomatoSurprise: [[spoiler:The Judge is Harvey Dent, repressed by Big Bad Harv for so long that he developed into a ''third'' personality.]] |
| 580 | * TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:As the Judge, he's able to work his way through the rogues gallery in a matter of days and manages to hospitalize most of them while taking no hits himself. He's even able to nearly kill Batman, while admittedly aided by having handcuffed him.]] |
| 581 | * TookALevelInJerkass: Two-Face is much more vicious and cruel in ''The New Batman Adventures''. While he was always fairly ruthless, in his first appearance he proves willing to threaten to murder all of Gotham with a gas attack, something that seems more out of the Joker's playbook. |
| 582 | * TookALevelInKindness: At the start of the series, Harvey views Batman as a possible criminal and very easily buys into him having committed a string of robberies in "On Leather Wings". He changes his tune after Batman saves his life from Poison Ivy, and he views him as an ally by "Two-Face, Pt. 1". Unfortunately, his scarring comes soon after. |
| 583 | * TragicHero: Harvey's shame over his mental illness and his anger, as well as his decision to repress them out of misplaced guilt, results in him being disfigured, having his career being ruined, and being take over by his evil SplitPersonality. |
| 584 | * TragicVillain / TragicMonster: A man deformed by repressed anger, stress, and the interference of Gotham's vicious criminal life, to the point of losing everything in his life except the coin. |
| 585 | * ThatManIsDead: He doesn't take well to being called Harvey, always proclaiming that he's Two-Face now. |
| 586 | * TranquilFury: Two-Face's dominant personality, Big Bad Harv, is made up entirely of Harvey Dent's SuppressedRage and thus has a HairTriggerTemper. However, he's often calm and collected whenever he's angered right before he goes berserk. |
| 587 | * TwoAliasesOneCharacter: [[spoiler: In "Judgment Day", "The Judge" is revealed to be his new third personality]]. |
| 588 | * TwoFaced: The Trope Codifier - if not namer himself. Half of his body was scarred during an explosion, including his face. |
| 589 | * TwoHeadedCoin: His signature coin is one of these, with one scratched out to serve as the "bad side". |
| 590 | * UngratefulBastard: After Batman saves his life from the Judge's trap in "Judgement Day", Two-Face knocks him out so he can escape - [[SubvertedTrope though he thanks Batman immediately after doing so.]] |
| 591 | * UnstoppableRage: Big Bad Harv, the dominant personality after his transformation into Two-Face, is entirely composed of Harvey's SuppressedRage and thus is in a constant state of anger. [[DownplayedTrope While making him angry doesn't give him increased strength]], he's still able to beat his way through hordes of enemies if he's pissed off. |
| 592 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: He spearheaded the creation of Stonegate Prison in the hope it would help clean up the crime in Gotham City. Unfortunately, the construction lead to the near-extinction of an endangered wildflower in the area that no one knew about, which leads to Poison Ivy coming after him for revenge. |
| 593 | * VillainousBreakdown: Every time Batman manages to take his coin. |
| 594 | * VillainousBSOD: In "Judgement Day", after [[spoiler:"The Judge" takes over his mind and puts Two-Face on trial. He's left only able to [[MadnessMantra plead guilty over and over again]] while rocking back and forth]]. |
| 595 | * VillainousRescue: He saves Batman from being shot by Thorne in "Two-Face, Pt. 2" by attacking the crime boss from behind. |
| 596 | * VirtueIsWeakness: Two-Face views Harvey Dent as being a "wimp", and despises him for not indulging in his worst impulses as Two-Face does. He also is implied to look down on Harvey's career as a lawman, viewing it as pointless in a word he sees as being governed by random chance. |
| 597 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: After his transformation he leads an extra-legal war on Rupert Thorne's criminal organization, robbing his operations throughout Gotham, but his ultimate plan is to expose Thorne's activities and get him arrested. In "Judgement Day", [[spoiler: he's developed a third personality, "The Judge", who is determined to punish the criminals and corrupt of Gotham City.]] |
| 598 | * WeUsedToBeFriends: |
| 599 | ** Like in other incarnations, Bruce and Harvey used to be very close. The incident that transformed Harvey into Two-Face gravely haunts Bruce, even going so far as to try and foot the bill for his therapy and reconstructive surgery in an attempt to bring him back. |
| 600 | ** He and Gordon also appeared to be close friends, but unlike with Bruce Two-Face has no lingering fondness for him and proves more than willing to try and ruin his life in the "Shadow of the Bat" two-parter. |
| 601 | * WhatHaveIBecome: He doesn't ''say'' anything, but his reaction to seeing his disfigurement for the first time is to scream with anguish. Two-Face doesn't relish in his disfigurement but refuses to allow his face to be repaired so Harvey won't permanently take over. |
| 602 | * WhiteHairBlackHeart: Half of his hair is white, anyway, and Two-Face is a ruthless gangster. [[spoiler:The Judge's costume incorporates a white wig, and he's just as ruthless as Two-Face is if [[WellIntentionedExtremist more well-intentioned]].]] |
| 603 | * WouldHurtAChild: If the coin lands on "bad heads", he's perfectly willing to. "Sins of the Father" has him beat Tim Drake for being a DefiantCaptive and he orders him killed when the coin lands on its bad side. |
| 604 | * WhyDontYouJustShootHim: In "Trial", he tells Batman he wanted to just shoot him instead of putting him through a KangarooCourt like the other rogues. Fortunately for Batman, he lost the coin toss. |
| 605 | * YellowEyesOfSneakiness: His right eye was left yellow after his disfigurement, and Two-Face is both untrustworthy and massively short-tempered to the point of violent outbursts. |
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