Two-Face - New Normal in the Narrows - R.A. Wonsowski

Panel 1- Two THUGS are executing a third in a back alley in the Narrows of Gotham City, automatic pistols flashing. One is holding a wrapped key of heroin, the other is fingering a pilfered gangster roll of cash.

THUG 1: HA! Stone cold, and easy paper!

THUG 2: Been hella cakewalk since the Bat got shivved.

Panel 2- The pistols are shot out of the hands of the two THUGS, who grimace in shock and pain.

OFF-PANEL: Idiots.

Panel 3- Said THUGS are both kneecapped.

OFF-PANEL: The Bat won't be killed. He won't die.

Panel 4- reverse angle from over the THUGS' shoulders. A familiar silhouette is walking toward them, flipping a coin.

TWO-FACE: And we know he'd never leave this town to scum like you.

Panel 5- Same as above, but TWO-FACE  now stands in the light at the mouth if the alley. He is holding a smoking 6-shot snub nosed revolver, still flipping his coin.

TWO-FACE: So until his inevitable return, we're acting as his unofficial proxy.

TWO-FACE: Uptown is Cobblepot's, the Riddler's got downtown. The Narrows belongs to me.

Panel 6- Close-up on TWO-FACE, holding his coin up to his face, scarred side out.

TWO-FACE: Still got two shots. Who wants to call it?

Two-Face – Batman ’66: Improbable Odds – MK Stangeland Jr.

(6 Panels)

(Two-Face has captured BATMAN and ROBIN and put them in an elaborate deathtrap.)

Panel 1: TWO-FACE is flipping his coin to determine their fate.

TWO-FACE: Heads…

Panel 2: TWO-FACE flips the coin again.

TWO-FACE: Heads?

Panel 3: TWO-FACE continues to flip the coin.

TEXT BOX: And so it continues!

TWO-FACE (1): Heads? Heads? Heads? Heads? Heads?!

TWO-FACE (2) No one can possibly be that lucky!

Panel 4: BATMAN socks TWO-FACE across the jaw in classic form with a right hook.

BATMAN: Right you are!

SFX: whammo!

Panel 5: BATMAN and ROBIN stand over the knocked-silly TWO-FACE.

ROBIN (1): Holy Vegas, Batman!

ROBIN (2): What are the odds a coin comes up heads that many times?

BATMAN: Odds had nothing to do with it, Robin.

Panel 6: BATMAN holds up TWO-FACES’ coin for ROBIN to see.

BATMAN (1): For all his talk about random chance, I recognized that Two-Face is not above changing the parameters till he gets a desired outcome.

BATMAN (2): That’s why I switched his normal coin out with a special Bat-Weighted-Coin to turn chance in our favor!

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Two-Face - Resolution - Grant McLaughlin

1 - Night time in the middle of winter.  We're outside the Dent family home.  The front door is open and light pours out into the darkness.

CAPTION (GILDA): Why are you here?

2 - Two-Face sits in a big ol' wingtip chair in the family room, slouched forward, hands on his head / in his hair.  His coin is visible in one of his hands.  He's mostly in darkness - perhaps his bad side is in shadow.  Gilda stands behind him, hands on the back of the chair.

TWO-FACE: ...

3 - Gild has come around and kneels / crouches in front of Two-Face, taking his hands in her own.  Her expression is unreadable, lost to the dark.  Two-Face looks pained.

GILDA: The Harvey Dent I knew was driven.  When he set his sights on something, he would move heaven and earth to make it a reality, consequences be damned.

4 - She grabs the coin from him.  He is surprised.

GILDA: And you?

5 - Gilda is standing above Two-Face, lecturing at him.  His body language is scared and uncertain, still mostly covered in darkness.  The same is true of Gilda, but her posture and positioning is menacing.  This is a power dynamic that Two-Face is not used to / expecting.

GILDA: You don't have any idea what you're doing without looking at this godforsaken coin.

6 - Gilda walks towards the still open door and hucks the coin outside.

GILDA: Since you're so scared of taking your own decisions, I'll make this one easy for you.

7 - We're outside.  Close-up of the coin.  It's in the same darkness that's been permeating the page, but you can see the bad side is faceup in the snow (although falling flakes are beginning to cover it up).

CAPTION (GILDA): Get out.

Two-Face - The First Domino - J.D. Coughlan

2x3 page

Panel 1: A man (Harmon) tied to a chair in a dark room. He is in his mid-60s, heavyset, and dishevelled. He has just regained consciousness, squinting in the dim light.

TWO-FACE (OP): William Harmon. Former Gotham City judge.

HARMON: Who... Who is that?

Panel 2: Over Harmon's shoulder. Two-Face stands in the shadow, his "bad side" covered in darkness, and plays absent-minded with his coin. A small table stands next to him with a bottle on it.

TWO-FACE: Every decision we make has consequences, Mr. Harmon.

TWO-FACE: Even a fifty-fifty choice can have infinite possible outcomes.

Panel 3: Close up on Harmon. He is sweating and panicked, but trying to stay calm.

TWO-FACE (OP): But we all have to live with the outcome we choose.

TWO-FACE (OP): That outcome can lead to consequences we could never even fathom.

Panel 4: Close on Two-Face. He leans out of the dark, revealing his full face with a menacing expression.

TWO-FACE: Thirty years ago, you had a fifty-fifty choice. You chose "not guilty."

Panel 5: Mid-shot of Harmon, now terrified and struggling against his bonds. In the foreground, Two-Face's hand reaches for the bottle on the table, which we see has a "HAZARDOUS CHEMICAL" warning label on it.

TWO-FACE (OP): And a teenager named Salvatore Maroni walked free from auto-theft charges. His first offence.

TWO-FACE (OP): I had to live with that decision.

Panel 6: Close on Two-Face. He holds the bottle, which we see also says "ACID" on it, up to his face, as if reading the label.

TWO-FACE: But don't worry. You won't have to live with it much longer.

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Why Two-Face?

Two-Face is Batman's greatest failure, but he was also the hero Bruce Wayne never could be: the kind who doesn't wear a mask. Perhaps he would still have met a grisly fate even if Batman had not roped him into his own one-man war on crime, but the Dark Knight, always on the lookout for more emotional burdens, blames himself for the downfall and disfigurement of former District Attorney Harvey Dent.

By Tim Sale

Two-Face represents the fact that there are two facets to all people; the good and the bad. That we are equal parts both, and that our actions are determined on nothing more than a mental coin toss. To that end, he frequently puts people in postions where they have a difficult 50/50 decision to make, usually a lose/lose no matter what, because that's how the former law-maker now views justice. He is one man broken in half.

So whether you choose to go with the duality-obsessed crime boss or the bipolar psychopath, there's sure to be plenty of moral dilemmas to play with. And, if you can't decide, just flip a coin.