Misha Collins is set to play Harvey Dent, the villain better known as Two-Face, in the upcoming Gotham Knights series on The CW. Two-Face is one of the greatest villains in Batman history, with numerous appearances in nearly every iteration of the franchise in animation, live-action, and comic books. Some of the most powerful versions of Two-Face could inspire the version Collins will play on TV.
Two-Face has dozens of versions throughout DC Comics' history including Harvey Kent, who is actually the first version of Two-Face. Some are extremely powerful, possessing cosmic power including that of Superman. Some of them may appear elsewhere in live-action as the concept of multiverse continues to expand in the DCEU movies and streaming series.
Jessica Dent is an interesting version of Two-Face from Batman: Earth One. This version is Harvey Dent's twin sister. She has no superpowers but unlike her brother, she has multiple personalities all with different capacities for violence.
Jessica becomes Two-Face after she's injured in the same tragic act that kills Harvey. She's also close with Bruce Wayne, and more dangerous in some ways because she is an even more sympathetic figure to Batman than her brother ever has been.
A quirk of Two-Face's comic book history most fans may not be aware of is that the original hardly appeared at all in the Golden and Silver Age of Comics. When he did, he was often an imposter, including Paul Sloane, perhaps the most significant one.
Sloane was a normal human man like Harvey Dent who was disfigured in an accident. He brought a theatrical quality to his role as a villain, a product of his being an actor, and menaced Batman and Robin in the 50s and 60s.
Harvey Kent is in many ways the first version of Two-Face in DC Comics. He has all the same cruel sense of chance and deranged capacity for violence as Harvey Dent because they're the same person. Kent was the name of the character in his first appearance in Detective Comics #66.
Harvey Kent became Harvey Dent quickly but Harvey Kent would continue his crime spree in the alternate world of Earth-2, the location of the majority of Golden Age characters from DC Comics history in various iterations of the company's continuity.
Two-Face is a major member of Batman's iconic rogues gallery, but thanks to a cosmically powerful Joker in this storyline, Two-Face is turned into a literal doll. The Emperor Joker made Two-Face into a doll of Harley Quinn who spouted catchphrases.
This plush version of Two-Face ostensibly had the same intelligence and power as the regular version, but given his condition, his opportunities to carry out his usual brand of menace were limited. After the Joker lost his power, Harvey was turned back into his usual self.
The Two-Face of the White Knight universe is ostensibly the same in power and potential as the normal one, but he is as much without limits as he is without agency. Thanks to a cruel trick, he's under the control of the Joker.
Two-Face becomes a tool of Joker's cruelty and evil genius thanks to an invention by the Mad Hatter that controls elements of Clayface that Harvey Dent unwittingly ingested. This makes Two-Face as evil and unhinged as the Joker, even in this upside-down world.
The rivalry between Batman and Two-Face takes many twists and turns in the comics and in The Dark Knight Returns, it reaches what appears to be its end. In a dark future, Two-Face becomes even more monstrous, completely consumed by his dark side.
Two-Face is normally guided by chance and a lingering sense of right and wrong, no matter how twisted it is. This version has lost all perspective and control and seeks to completely destroy Gotham, even though outwardly he appears to have been cured through surgery.
A version of Harvey Dent became Binary Star, an evil villain corrupted by Sinestro against his will in a world where Batman became Green Lantern. Binary Star wore gauntlets that emitted dangerous radiation that was lethal to most people.
Binary Star didn't have a Power Ring and wasn't as powerful as Sinestro or even Batman, but he was shown to be much more durable and adept at fighting than his usual self in Batman: In Darkest Knight, an Elseworlds story from 1994.
One of the most powerful versions of Two-Face in DC Comics is a cyborg from an alternate timeline who's fused with Metallo, one of Superman's most powerful villains. Half his body is highly advanced Kryptonian cybernetics.
He also emits highly toxic and deadly Kryptonian radiation that is lethal to Superman and dangerous to most people. This version of Two-Face hails from The World Of The Knight Universe and first appeared in Batman/Superman Annual #1 from 2021.
One of the most powerful versions of Two-Face and one of the most disturbing possesses the power of the Old Ones including the ability to open portals to the mystical realm inhabited by beings like Chthulu from the mythology of H.P. Lovecraft.
The Doom That Came To Gotham is one of many stories inspired by the works of Lovecraft, an Elseworlds story that sees Ra's al Ghul use Two-Face as a living conduit to the ancient Old Ones and their extraordinary and unnatural power.
Even more powerful than a Kryptonian cyborg, Two-Face is one who is actually Superman. This version of Harvey Dent possesses all the powers and abilities of Superman, including superhuman strength, durability, and the power to fly.
This version of Two-Face hails from Earth-9 and may even be the most powerful version of Superman. He can see the future and also has both telepathy and telekinesis, powers that Kal-El has never really exhibited in various versions of main DC Comics.
