Made this because there isn't much Richard Moll tribute art out there.
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Another Batman: The Animated Series great gone. Two Face. Gave that character brilliant life.
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Batman: The Animated Series - Paper Cut-Out Portraits and Profiles
Two-Face
The one-time district attorney of Gotham, Harvey Dent suffered from a dissociative identity disorder wherein his angry and aggressive thoughts and feelings were all suppressed from consciousness and reemerged in a whole distinct persona. The angry and subdued sides of Harvey jockeyed against one another for control and he worked with a psychotherapist to better contend with this difficulty. When the gangster Rupert Thorne got ahold of his therapy notes and blackmailed Dent, however, he snapped. The resulting scuffle led to a terrible explosion where the entire left side of Dent’s face was horribly scarred.
The trauma resulted in the formation of a third persona within Dent, a personality that would remain largely dominant for the rest of his life. This new persona was known as 'Two-Face' and was obsessed with duality and navigating the chaos of the world by embracing the role of chance.
The silver dollar Dent had kept as a lucky charm had also been marred on one side. Two-Face took to flipping the coin so to make all major decisions. The unmarked side suggested a restrained or passive action, whereas the marred side indicated aggression and violence.
Seeking revenge on Rupert Thorne, Two-Face began his own crime-spree, hitting all of Thorne’s operations that were in some manner or fashion related to the number two. He had recruited the twin enforcers Min and Max to act as his henchmen.
Thorne used Dent’s fiancé, Grace Lamont, to track him down whereas Batman was able to decipher Two-Face’s obsession with the number two so to find him. It led to a climactic battle where Two-Face finally had Thorne at his mercy. He flipped his coin to decide whether or not to execute Thorne when Batman tossed out a large handful of similar coins, disrupting the process. Unable to make a decision purely on chance, Two-Face decompensated and fell to his knees.
Dent was remanded to the care of Arkham Asylum. Various treatments were employed that tried to bring Harvey Dent back to the surface, but none would have longterm success. Two-Face remained in control and would go on to be a major threat to Gotham and reoccurring nemesis of The Batman.
The late, great Richard Moll provided the voice for Two-Face, with this iteration of Harvey Dent first appearing in the seventeenth episode of the first season of Batman: The Animated Series, ‘Two-Face Part One.’
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September 5th, 2022 marks the 30th anniversary of Batman: The Animated Series. Here are members of the #BTAS voice cast photographed by Michael Leshnov: Kevin Conroy (the Batman), Aron Kincaid (Killer Croc), Mark Hamill (the Joker), Arleen Sorkin (Harley Quinn), Diane Pershing (Poison Ivy), Paul Williams (the Penguin), and Richard Moll (Two-Face).
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John Larroquette’s tribute to Richard Moll. ❤️
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