Other than perhaps he was really really mad? Looking at the extend of his injuries, the guy should have been hooked up 24 hours a day to machines trying to keep him alive, not walking around committing crimes. Its something that I took for granted in other, less realistic versions of Batman I guess.
Saying that being horribly injured makes you a supervillain is like saying the burn ward is filled with criminal masterminds. He should be doubled over in pain every second for the rest of his life. I get a sunburn and I can barely touch that part of the skin and this guy’s walking around kidnapping people
Burn scars can be horribly disfiguring and terrible to look at, discolored, and may distort features or restrict movement, but once healed past a certain point they may very well not cause pain to the person scarred. Or they might still be painful. It varies from person to person.
My take was always that Two-Face was horribly disfigured, but his scars weren’t actually painful to him.
“The doctor says you’re agonizing pain but you won’t accept medication, that you’re refusing skin grafts.” Gordon
So yeah, I guess the idea is that it’s pure rage keeping him going. Sort of like Darth Scion. That being said, remember that third degree burns are painless, it’s the first and second degree edges around those burns that hurt. So the majority of the area on his face probably isn’t going to have any feeling at all.
Nope. I’m sure she and Mon-El, Ultra Boy and a few others in the Legion have gotten their freak on. Or she took a little jaunt to Kandor for Spring Break.
I’m to lazy to look it up, but Cracked recently mentioned the eye thing and pointed out that there have been animals (they mentioned a pet cat, I believe) that live without eyelids, requiring only eyedrops twice a day and a dark room to sleep in. So, maybe not that far fetched?
Well, it IS a comic book movie. They “overdone” a lot of stuff: Bruce Wayne’s wealth, Batman’s gadgets/fighting prowess/tactics, heck, even the laws of physics get “overdone”.
[and, yes, I’ve been a Batman fan since '59, and a “Dark Knight” fan since Frank Miller --although some might say Roger Stern and Marshall Rodgers beat him to it…]
Is there something in Two-Face’s backstory that says his “exposed” eye couldn’t be a fake one? I’m more a Marvel person than a DC person so I wouldn’t really know.
It was so artificial-looking that it didn’t wig me out at all (and I’m pretty easily wigged out by things like that). No willing suspension of disbelief there.
Nothing in his backstory no. It’s certainly not implausible, but I don’t think it’s ever been addressed. Generally in comics and other media that portray Two-Face it’s understood that it’s supposed to be his real eye.
Of course if it was fake that would raise the question as to why he would do that, but not get a skin graft. Harvey knows his appearance intimidates most people and I would think if he were missing an eye he’d just emphasize it as part of his ‘dual’ nature.
In the movie, at least, there’s not that much time for it to dry. Joker busts him out of the hospital during the day, and he’s dead by that evening. Probably less than eight hours. Not long enough, I think, for drying to become a serious issue.