Video: Two-Face's character cutscene from DC Universe Online

[about_faces]

Henchgirl and I watched a bunch of the cinematic portraits of characters from DC Universe Online, all of which were pretty damn terrible. The Two-Face one is no exception, where he sounds like some combination of Jackie Earle Haley's Rorschach and some kind of goblin. Be warned: the acid scarring is appropriately gruesome and horrific.

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[1mercystreet]

Great visuals, horrible voice-over. Horrible, horrible voice-over.

I've always thought that pre-scarring Harvey had one of those rich, melodious voices that makes a girl swoon just to listen to it. My personal fanon is that being brought up as originally a working class Gotham guy, he had a New Jersey accent in his youth but was told to get rid of it if he wanted to be taken seriously by the upper-class old guard of the judiciary. Two-Face, of course, rejects any notions of social class. Loathing snobbery, he still taunts Harvey for giving in to it. So in my head his voice has a fairly strong NJ accent but Harvey's doesn't.

[thehefner]

Yeah, it's like a motion comic, but better. Not HUGELY better, but still better.

Considering that I do something similar with Harvey's background, I like that take. It would certainly account for his less refined manner of speech as Two-Face. That can be tricky, and even disastrous when it's pushed too far into gangster patois. In Gotham Underground, Frank Teri pretty much wrote Two-Face as Ben Grimm!

[ext_262094]

I take it you didn't like the clip i found :(

[thehefner]

Not really, but I'm very glad that you found it and brought it to my attention! It's something I might not have found otherwise, since I won't be playing the game! :)

[lego_joker]

Heh. Harvey's voice sounds more suited for Cornelius Stirk.

[thehefner]

Oh god, you're right! Then again, I've sometimes imagined that Stirk's voice is actually quite pleasant and disarming, which could work to neat effect in animation, contrasting with the way he actually looks.

[ext_262094]

To be frank, Edwin Neal does not just voice Two-Face but also Killer Croc, Havey Bullock, and Incidentals.

[lego_joker]

By the way, I LOVE the dichotomy to Two-Face standing there with a pair of villains on one side and a pair of heroes on the other. If reminds me of a fantasy I have sometimes about a Two-Face ongoing, where the cover of the first issue would feature Harv standing there, his eyes in shadow, and Batman and Joker in the background, both hanging from nooses. And even further back is a giant pile or even MORE corpses - Jim Gordon, Robin, Penguin, Harley... a hero for every villain. A villain for every hero.

I'd draw this myself if I didn't suck so much as an artist.

[greedyslayer]

Seconded. Just the visual of Joker & Harley on one scale and Batman & Robin on the other with bombs attached to each was cool.

[ext_262094]

I notice something in the clip, Harvey called the gangster Falcone. Did he mean Carmine "The Roman" Falcone?

[thehefner]

Yes. We actually see him in Penguin's clip, which is--bizarrely--listed as being a "Bane" clip.

[ext_262094]

so in this verse it was Falcone who scarred Harvey with the acid, not Salvatore "The Boss" Maroni?

[thehefner]

That wasn't Falcone in the video above, that was Maroni.