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Gotham Cities White Knight: Harvey Dent In The Dark Knight
Harvey Dent, from The Dark Knight, was Gotham Cities white knight. He was the district attorney and made it his had the same mission as Batman: to shut down Gotham’s organized crime. Throughout the film, Harvey uses a two-faced coin in order to “make his own luck”. Near the end of the film half after laying in oil, half of Harvey’s face and one side of his coin is disfigured/burned in an explosion. Harvey Two-Face then pursues and murders those he felt responsible for Rachel’s death. The Batman’s ultimate goal in the film is to blur the line between good and bad, he wants to show that even the purest person can become evil. Harvey two-face is the perfect example of a good guy gone bad. He himself says “You thought we could be decent men, in

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