Harvey Dent's famous line about dying a hero or becoming a villain doesn't mean heroes morally decline. Dent was always power-seeking and ambitious. Society just reclassified him as a villain as circumstances changed, not because he transformed.
You either die a hero or see yourself live long enough to become the villain. And a lot of people misunderstand that. They think that it means you start out as a hero and then eventually descend into being, you know, a bad guy. And they look at Harvey Dent, they think that's the moral. But that's not what was— what Harvey Dent was saying. Harvey Dent had actually always been a kind of crooked, power-seeking political type. He had always been the same person fighting for the same ideals, and that he just lived long enough to see the world change around him so that people started saying that what he was Was a villain.
