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  2. Two-Face - Wikipedia

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    Two-Face in Detective Comics #66. Art by Bob Kane. Two-Face was created by Batman co-creator Bob Kane, [1] and debuted in Detective Comics #66 ("The Crimes of Two-Face"), written by Batman's other co-creator Bill Finger, in August 1942 as a new Batman villain originally named Harvey "Apollo" Kent, a handsome, law-abiding former Gotham City district attorney close to the Batman.

  3. Two-Face in other media - Wikipedia

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    In a later story, Two-Face takes a game show hostage to seek revenge on one of the contestants and Dent's father Lester, a gambling addict who brutalized him and Dent's mother whenever he lost. According to artist Ty Templeton , series writer Dan Slott had many ideas for Two-Face's stories for the series, but it was canceled before they could ...

  4. Origin story - Wikipedia

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    In fiction, an origin story is an account or backstory revealing how a character or group of people become a protagonist or antagonist. In American comic books , it also refers to how characters gained their superpowers and/or the circumstances under which they became superheroes or supervillains .

  5. Alter ego - Wikipedia

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    A distinct meaning of alter ego is found in the literary analysis used when referring to fictional literature and other narrative forms, describing a key character in a story who is perceived to be intentionally representative of the work's author (or creator), by oblique similarities, in terms of psychology, behavior speech, or thoughts, often ...

  6. Storytelling - Wikipedia

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    When and where oral tradition was superseded by print media, the literary idea of the author as originator of a story's authoritative version changed people's perception of stories themselves. In centuries following, stories tended to be seen as the work of individuals rather than a collective effort.

  7. Janus - Wikipedia

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    The two-faced Roman god come to life," after learning of Trevelyan's betrayal. The University of Maryland's undergraduate history journal, created in 2000, is named Janus. [274] Cats with the congenital disorder diprosopus, which causes the face to be partly or completely duplicated on the head, are known as Janus cats. [275]

  8. This Is the Surprising Literary Origin of the Knock-Knock Joke

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    Chances are, one of the first jokes you ever learned started with the world's most famous opening setup: "Knock Knock." And while knock-knock jokes have engrained themselves in the American ...

  9. Escapist fiction - Wikipedia

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    Some literary critics and academics have classified escapist fiction and genres of science-fiction, thriller, mystery, romance and fantasy, as sub-literary and unworthy of being regarded as true literature. [6] Early critics complained that escapist fiction as a literary genre misleads readers in terms of the harsh truths of reality.