Badman began as a CollegeHumor sketch series in 2013 starring comedian Pete Holmes as an incompetent version of Batman who ruins interrogations and hero work through literal thinking. Harvey Dent, the Gotham district attorney who becomes Two Face in DC Comics, is a frequent target for that misunderstanding in the sketches. Clips were later shared widely on YouTube and soundboards, where short lines became reaction sounds detached from the full sketch. This exchange survives because the Dent reference is instantly recognisable to Batman fans while still reading as a generic awkward confrontation.