History Recap / BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE10TwoFacePart1

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: While we see Batman enter the building that the thugs are based in at the start of the episode, the majority of the fight isn't shown (minus a thug or two flying out the window). Whatever Batman did in there scared the criminals so badly that the few who weren't thrown out the window ran out of the building in terror. Then Batman [[StealthHiBye disappeared]] with no one but Commissioner Gordon seeing him.

* CreateYourOwnVillain: Done accidentally when Batman tries to save Harvey from being shot by one of Thorne's henchmen, accidentally redirecting the bullets into a high-voltage box. The frayed wires fall into a nearby vat of chemicals and cause them to explode the left half of Harvey's body.

* MoodLighting: The background turns red to reflect Harvey Dent’s pure anger at Frankie, the criminal who disses him.

** To be fair, an unknown amount of time has elapsed InUniverse. Potentially months went by after Isley's vampish assassination attempt before Dent met and courted Grace.

* TheShadowKnows: When Harvey gets in the elevator to go meet Thorne, Bruce watches from the window. As he stands watching, shadows fall over his face, making a pattern similar to a certain cowl...

* {{Symbolism}}: At the party Bruce throws for Harvey's campaign, there's an ice statue of Lady Justice. The statue is starting to melt, showing how Harvey's career (as well as faith) in Gotham's legal system is starting to fade.

--> '''Harvey''': Hey, Jim. How's it going?/
--> '''Gunfire starts raining down as everyone ducks for cover.'''/
--> '''Commissioner Gordon''': Could be better./

* VillainBall: Rupert Thorne's plan upon finding out Harvey Dent, a rich, influential man who is well-respected and has rich, influential friends, has an evil split personality that only surfaces when he is angry ... [[DidntThinkThisThrough is to lock himself and Dent in a room,]] ''and taunt him with blackmail''. ZigZagged somewhat; he has thugs there just in case Harvey tries something. Though Batman shows up.

* OffModel: Our first look at Two-Face includes a white eyebrow, which became black for the rest of the show. Also, his hand wasn't scarred.

** Frankie mentions that Dent's a maniac and should be the one going to jail [[{{Hypocrite}} even though he taunted him in front of reporters and the Gotham PD]], which is exactly what happens to Two-Face at the end of the next episode.

* HypocriteHasAPoint: Even though he taunted Harvey and kicked mud into his clothes, which prompted the latter's beatdown on him, he is correct that he should be going to jail.

* AlliterativeName: "Handsome Harvey" earns himself the new moniker "Hothead Harvey" after Big Bad Harv momentarily surfaces and tries to punch out a member of Thorne's gang in front of a group of police and reporters with cameras.

* BatmanGambit: Thorne initially assumes that Harvey assaulted one of his thugs on live television as one of these. It's not until he gets his hands on Harvey's psychiatric file that he realizes it was just Big Bad Harv reacting to a minor slight.

* MoodLighting: The background turns red to reflect Harvey Dent’s pure anger at the criminal who disses him.

** To be fair an unknown amount of time has elapsed InUniverse. Potentially months went by after Isley's vampish assassination attempt before Dent met and courted Grace.

* RantInducingSlight: Harvey nearly attacks Bruce who was trying to calm him down after losing his temper over the judge throwing out his case against Thorne.

* {{Fainting}}: Grace faints when she sees Two-Face's face for the first time.

* OhCrap: Thorne when Big Bad Harv takes control over Harvey Dent:
--> '''Harvey:''' There's just one problem.
--> '''Rupert Thorne''': What's that?
--> '''Big Bad Harv''': You're talking to the wrong Harvey.

'''Harvey:''' There's just one problem.
'''Thorne:''' What's that?

* MythologyGag: Harvey's plastic surgery scene plays out very similarly to [[Film/Batman1989 Jack Napier's]][[note]]with a difference lying in how both react[[/note]].

* MythologyGag: Harvey's plastic surgery scene plays out very similarly to [[Film/Batman1989 Jack Napier's.]]

'''Harvey:''' There's just one problem. ''[[WhamLine You're talking to the wrong Harvey.]]''