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WhileBatman ’s villainTwo - Facealready has an unbelievably dark origin in the mainstream DC Comics persistence , hisFlashpointversion has a much more fell origin storey . The Flashpoint Universe is a universe where Barry Allen ’s mother was never murdered , which stimulate a butterfly stroke consequence that lead to the total earthly concern being much darker . In this world , Batman is Thomas Wayne , who strike up a delegation to mutilate criminals after his Logos Bruce was murder as a child . And many interpretation of his rogues gallery are twist versions of the regular Batman ’s enemies .
In the mainstream DC Universe , Two - Face is the nefarious assumed name of Harvey Dent . Two - Face has one of the best originsin comics . Dent was once a righteous dominion attorney who was one of Batman ’s closest allies . However , in the test of the mob boss Sal Maroni , the gangster threw battery-acid on his face , hideously and painfully scar him . This caused him to turn down a way of wickedness as a villainous mobster obsessed with the bit two whose decisions are dictated by the results of a coin flip . This origin for the villain is already fabulously tragic and grotesque , but the Flashpoint Universe somehow wield to make it even more horrifying .
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In the Flashpoint Universe Two - Face is n’t Harvey Dent , but his married woman Gilda . Gilda had a mental crack-up after her daughter committed suicide after being snatch by the Joker . This led to acompulsive obsession with the Jokerand her incarceration in Arkham Asylum . To add insult to injury , while she was institutionalized , her hubby was brutally murdered . But inFlashpoint Beyond#2 , by Geoff Johns , Tim Sheridan , Jeremy Adams , Xermanico , and Mikel Janin , she last gains the typical facial scars the villain is know for . After Batman visits her and breaks the window to her cell in ira , she repeatedly be intimate her head against the shattered deoxyephedrine and slices up one-half of her face in the summons .
While being burn by acid is definitely awful , it still seems less barbarous than get half your grimace be eviscerated by wiped out crank . The fact that Gilda ’s sound are ego visit while Harvey ’s are not just adds to the horrible nature of her origin . It also shows thatGilda is far more deranged than Harvey . And beyond just the facial scars , her backstory of losing her family members is much more tragic than Harvey ’s backstory . All of these factors impart to making the Flashpoint reading of Two - Face have a much more harrowing origin than the mainstream variant of the character .
It is unclear how big of a role Gilda will have in theFlashpoint Beyondseries croak forward . variance covers for future issue do feature her prominently , so this could be a preindication that her inclusion body in the story is more than just an Easter egg . But whether she serves a larger part in the story perish forwardas theFlashpoint Beyondvariant incubate implyor not , her brutal lineage makes theFlashpointversion ofTwo - Faceeven more memorable than the original and the intuitive nature of her wounds is sure to leave a bull’s eye on readers .
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Flashpoint Beyond#3is now uncommitted from DC Comics .
