Flip a coin - heads, you listen to us analyze Two-Face. Tails, you listen to us analyze Harvey Dent. Either way, you're getting a realistic discussion of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

SHOW NOTES:

• Intro
• • Mentioned in Podcast Magazine - "Under the Radar" section
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• Background (4:45)

• Two-Face (Harvey Dent) created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane in Detective Comics #66 (August 1942)
• In his first appearance, he's Harvey Kent, later renamed to avoid confusion with Superman
• He's an attorney who gets acid thrown in his face during cross examination, and chooses to embrace the duality of his appearance - uses a coin flip to determine his actions
• "Cured" due to plastic surgery

• Crisis reinvented his past - grew up with abusive father, who would flip a coin to determine whether to beat him

• • Diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, but he worked through them to become DA in Gotham - worked as an ally of Batman and Gordon, until he was attacked with acid by Sal Maroni
  • No Man's Land - Two-Face controls a portion of Gotham, but during the "trial" of Commissioner Gordon, he calls upon Harvey Dent to serve as his defense attorney, forcing Dent to "cross-examine" Two-Face, and he acquits Gordon
  • Healed by Dr. Thomas Elliot, aka Hush, who attempted to blackmail Dent to help him against Batman, but Dent is "cured" of his bipolar - until murders pop up with Two-Face's MO, implicating Dent, and the Two-Face persona resurfaces, causing him to re-scar himself
  • New 52 - now his origin is that of a defense attorney whose clients try to kill Commissioner Gordon - he then becomes DA and prosecutes them - one of them disfigures him with acid - later battles Batman and reveals he knows his identity, before attempting suicide
  • Rebirth - The attempt effectively destroyed the Dent persona, but convinced Batman "Harvey" was still in there, if only Batman would help him with the cure - Batman sedated Dent and forced the dual identities to remain
• Issues (08:22)
  • Bipolar - THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS
  • Schizophrenia - THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS (15:32)
  • Abusive childhood - OK, that's fairly accurate (21:38)
• Break (28:25)
  • Plugs for Occultae Veritatis, We're All Mad Here, and Meredith Finch
• Treatment (30:12)
  • In-universe - Treatment for recidivist activity stemming from trauma
  • Out of universe - Work on assisting with decision fatigue, and use "coin flip" for small decisions while leaving thought and time for big ones (34:58)
• Skit (44:30)
• Ending (52:17)
  • Recommended reading: The Long Halloween by Jeph Loeb & Tim Sale
  • Next episodes: Tim Drake, Luke Cage, Clones
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References:

• Nadia van Dyne episode - Anthony (12:53)
• Deadpool episode - Doc (18:15)
• Joker episode - Doc (18:17)

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