The Dark Knight: Two-Face's fate (Spoilers)

[Immortal]

We know that in The Dark Knight Harvey Dent metaphorically dies and Two-Face is born. In the end Two-Face falls from the building and is lying motionless on the ground. However it is never fully confirmed in the movie that Two-Face/Harvey Dent is actually dead. Emma Thomas stated that the end was intentionally ambiguous concerning Dent's fate.

So, do you think Two-Face is dead or alive?

[DC906270-BIL]

only the screenwriters can answer..

[Vidocq]

He most likely snapped his neck or something. But if he is alive, the whole epilogue is worthless.

[DonC]

No pun intended, but you might as well flip a coin to decide. You have a 50/50 shot at being right. If they want to use him again then he's alive. If they don't want to use him again then he's dead. Personally, I'd like him to be alive. But I'm not going to lose any sleep over the matter.

[AlistairCrane]

The novelization says he's dead, deader than dead.

[Seraku]

i'm in the alive camp

[ThreeDays]

I think it's obvious that the film presented him as dead, and that the director and screenwriters wanted us to perceive him as dead.

He was already grievously injured and fell a long way. Though Batman fell the same distance, a couple of boards broke his fall and he was wearing body armor. He also should have had more control of his landing than Harvey, who was shoved off.

The real kicker for me, though, is that neither Batman nor Gordon made any attempt to check on him down there or try to save him. Clearly they thought he was dead. If not, then they were letting him lay there to die. Really, I don't think they wanted him to survive at that point. He meant more to Gotham dead than alive.

Now, all that said, he was never definitively stated as being dead by anyone in the film during that scene nor was he killed in such a way that he couldn't plausibly return. I hope they don't bring him back, though, because his arc felt complete to me. It was a valuable death and a powerful ending.

[joe27]

Usually I'm not a fan of killing off villains, but I think the movie works better if he actually is dead.
Or crippled, in a coma and secretly being kept alive somewhere only Batman and Gordon know about...but why bother?

It's not like we need to see the character again anyway. He was only Two-Face for the 30 minutes of the film, but I think anything more than that (like having him as the main villain in the third film) would be too much.

Basically, it feels like the Harvey/Two-Face story has been told and now they can move on to other characters.