Two-Face's Scarring?

[D-Mono]

I was just watching "Two-Face" Part I this morning, and noticed something curious. At the end of the episode, after the accident, it's quite obvious that the only part of Harvey's body that is scarred is one half of his face and neck - not the whole left side of his body, especially not his left hand, which was perfectly fine. Is this just a continuity screw-up, or what?
D-Mono.

[BWDK]

Yeah the animators messed up big time. In "Second Chance" you can see the his left leg is also scarred (or just blue) in "T-F P1" his left leg is still white.

Just don't think about it, and you'll be fine :p

Maybe he treated his left hand with acid or something.

[D-Mono]

Ah, the joys of fan-induced continuity-error solutions. :)
D-Mono.

[Ricochet]

Isn't it a tad unlikely his entire left half is scarred?

[The Guard]

Umm...his face and neck are the ONLY parts of him that's supposed to be scarred.

[kid_flash]

Yeah, but in the animated series they went ahead and scarred the entire left half of his body. I think it'd make perfect sense for ol' Two-Face to purposely scar the rest of the left. Painful, but it makes sense.

[The Guitar Slayer]

Logically, if we go with the acid-thrown-in-the-face scenario as in some of the Pre-Crisis comics, his face, neck, AND one hand would be scarred.

When someone is hit in the face or is poked in the eye, instinctively his/her hand on that side goes up to protect it from the second strike. If Harvey's hand went up to his face and touched it when the acid was still active, his hand would definitely end up the same way. It happened so quickly no one would be able to keep his hands down and he would be on instinct at that point. The dominant in this scenario would not have to be the one that went up to the face. Or is Harvey left handed....?

Wait a second...does Two-Face write with both hands? It'd be another two thing for him....That's another idea for a thread: Who's left-handed/ambidextrous in BTAS and TNBA? Eh, unless a mod tells me otherwise, I won't clutter the board with it.

Peace and Rock 'n' Roll
The Guitar Slayer :cool:

[Karkull]

Two-Face wasn't scarred by acid in the cartoon, he was caught in a chemical explosion. I always figured that only his face and neck were scarred in Two-Face, Part 1, but in Part 2 (which began several months later) the "mystery chemicals" spread throughout the left side of his body.

So, for those keeping score, the blast damaged his face, but the deformed blue skin was caused by chemicals. Now, why they affected only his left half? Simple: writer's license.

[D-Mono]

Ricochet -
Isn't it a tad unlikely his entire left half is scarred?
Most probably, but that's irrelevant, as it is fiction, and I'm not bothered by the actual accident - it's just that in every Two-Face appearance since the entire left side of his body has been scarred, to make an clear good/evil divide.
D-Mono.

[DR. BELCH]

--did his facial scarring drive him into disfiguring the rest of his body to match the left side of his face? Is he that nuts? Highly possible, I'd say. Harvey's past is rather bowlderized in the animated series--in the comics he was a victim of child abuse, and in one panel he sits locked in his room and claws his face--the left half--with his fingernails. So he's no stranger to self-mutilation...and the abuse caused his mind to fragment itself to cope with the rage.

I suppose the next query would be if the foundry mishap rendered him impotent (scar tissue on his John Thomas, you know)... :shudder:

[The Penguin]

I haven't seen this episode for awhile (crosses fingers, hopes for last 2 hours on Saturday) but I thought the explosion got more the left half of his body than just his head.

Think about it--Harvey was hit by an explosion, would it really get only his head?


(If you feel I'm wrong be gentle, it's been years since I've seen this.)

[Ricochet]

Quick question - what color is Harvey's scarring in current comic continuity? Early on it was gray, then purple, the BTAS made it blue, so I was wondering... :confused: :)

[Karkull]

Originally posted by Ricochet
Quick question - what color is Harvey's scarring in current comic continuity? Early on it was gray, then purple, the BTAS made it blue, so I was wondering... :confused: :)

It depends on the artist. My favorite was in Batman: The Long Halloween where it was red--it genuinely looked like scar tissue.