Aaron Eckhart was announced to star as Harvey Dent very early on in the process. As any decent comic book geek will tell you, Dent is the once upstanding lawyer who was transformed into the scarred, villainous Two-Face. While the studio named Eckhart’s character, they refused to comment on whether or not he would become Two-Face in the movie. Fans assumed that it was inevitable, but the studio wouldn’t budge. They merely sent out more photos of the Joker to make the internet geeks cream their jeans and stop asking pesky questions about anything else. Once Heath Ledger met his untimely demise there was an understandable desire to cut down on the Joker-centric publicity. It was time to drop the Two-Face bomb.

It happened very slowly. Websites produced by Warner Brothers started uploading fake Gotham City Newspapers on the internet discussing Harvey Dent’s war on crime. While director Christopher’s Nolan’s approach to the Batman series has been to infuse it with as much realism as possible, it seemed very unlikely that Nolan would ever make a Batman movie entirely about a righteous young lawyer setting things right in the courts of a scary city. No, it had to be Two-Face set up. Then this trailer was released offering the faintest glimpses of The Dark Knight’s secondary villain: