#preferably off screen by falling on a rock à la Injustice Grayson

[aerascreamer]

Two-Face is a way better arch-nemesis than Joker.

What does the clown brings nowadays other than gore and violence for violence ? He doesn’t have a backstory because his character does not allow one, his ties with Bruce and Batman are nothing more than him being obsessed with the Bat and his clown villain schtick is barely relevant anymore.

(That and as long as the clown lives, Jason (and maybe Babs) are doomed to always have their story and life revolving around him instead of allowing their characters to grow and move on)

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Harvey got his life fucked by a corrupt system who crushed his dream to be a lawyer and make Gotham better. He’s a long time friend of Bruce but also one of the Batman’s longest villains, who might see the Bat as a failure for justice or an obstacle to it. He completely changed Dick’s view of vigilantism, relationship with Bruce and the meaning of Robin while the « Two » schticks is deeply linked into his dualism, fatalism and determinism.

The potential to explore him and Batman/Bruce’s relationship, how the two of them approach justice and how they lived through their trauma is so much more compelling, filled with angst and intense.

(While I’m at it, shoutout to Riddler, deserves more attention too.)

I feel like the fandom agrees that the Joker can just kick rocks. In all fanfic I read so far he:

1. Isn’t there at all. 2. Only mentioned when talking about Jason, Babs, Duke etc. 3. He’s a vegetable.

And even fanon oriented DC content agrees: Gotham Knight and WFA never saw the Joker. He’s only mentioned sporadically.

I need DC to start using Two-Face more because I need a writer who thinks exploring how Bruce and Harvey's friendship was impacted by Harvey beating Dick half to death with a baseball bat as a 10-year-old is worth doing.

We've had multiple explorations of the Bruce-Harvey friendship & how it survives Two-Face's existence, and we've had several stories address Dick's lingering trauma from Two-Face's beating, but never how BRUCE dealt with Robin: Year One re: his interactions with both of them.

I need an answer for Bruce putting a reformed Harvey in charge of Gotham during 52/One Year Later over literally anyone else when that beating had been canon since the 90s and Robin: Year One had come out less than 5 years before but I'm never going to get it because DC is too obsessed with putting out stories about the clown man to do actual character development