Inverse speaks to the new voice behind Two-Face (Diedrich Bader) and Caped Crusader head writer Ed Brubaker to unpack this dark and pulpy new take on Harvey Dent. Bruce Wayne sits opposite Harvey Dent at a luxurious, white-tablecloth restaurant. They banter like old friends, but there’s a hint of boyish rivalry just beneath the surface, and also, deeper down, something darker.
It’s a moment comic book fans are immensely familiar with: a tête-à-tête between Batman and Two-Face, but in this latest rendition, something feels different. After teasing his transformation from ambitious district attorney to schizophrenic supervillain throughout the season, Batman: Caped Crusader finally takes the plunge in its eighth episode. When Harvey refuses to cover for a Gotham City crime boss, he ends up with a face full of acid.
Bruce invites him out to dinner to cheer up his friend, but his ulterior motive is to figure out who was behind the attack. Pushed too far by Bruce’s line of questioning, Dent makes a scene as he loudly removes his bandages, revealing a take on Two-Face simultaneously more subtle and more terrifying than anything we’ve seen before. “That's one of my favorite scenes in the whole season,” Caped Crusader head writer and comic book legend Ed Brubaker tells Inverse .
“That was the most intense scene that I've ever recorded.” But for Diedrich Bader, who voices Two-Face in Amazon’s new animated show, that scene carries a very different memory, one mu.