Ok! So since we are over analyzing Batman Forever, here is a theory for you & @patrickhwillems: During the mansion attack, Two-Face keeps flipping his coin until he finally gets his desired result and shoots Bruce Wayne in the head BUT graces him. Well...he missed on purpose! https://twitter.com/ZenOfDesign/status/1146636169247154177
You see Two-Face has dual personalities and his code works in a binary system. If the coin flip spares you, it spares you. This was exemplified in The Dark Knight.
When Two-Face doesn’t want to leave it to chance, he sets up false equivalences. Like this moment in The Dark Knight.
Or sets up the odds so that BOTH choices suck (with one being marginally “better”) like in Batman: The Animated Series.
So in Batman Forever, Riddler & Two-Face (with some henchmen) attack and Two-Face flips a coin to see if he kills Bruce Wayne. BUT it lands good side UP. So he actually cheats, breaks his code and keeps flipping!
So when he does get the result he wants, Harvey sabotages himself. He actually overrides the Two-Face side and makes him miss that shot. Ever briefly Harvey Dent returns. But then the Two-Face side goes to finish the job (and continue obsession with duality) and goes for a second
Riddler stops him, but only because he knows he’ll get another chance in the island hideout. That is until THAT plan is thwarted! So again, he breaks his code by saying “no curtain one or two. Just plain curtains”. But this time Batman knows he can reach Harvey.
So he appeals to Harvey’s friendship with Bruce and fairness to exploits his coin flip to defeat him. The same glimmer of humanity that spared Bruce killed Harvey. The same code. The End.
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