History Main / TwoHeadedCoin

-->''"If a coin is not standard, the prettier side is always heads."''

-->'''Setzer:'''' How low can you stoop? ...I love it!

-->''"How low can you stoop? ...I love it!"''

* An unusual use by a good guy occurred in ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'', when Archie Andrews and Moose Mason both qualified for the last spot on a school trivia team. Archie knew that Big Moose had been studying hard to compensate for his dyslexia and deserved the spot, so rather than retake the qualifying test, he proposed a coin toss to decide who would make the team - and quietly used a two-headed quarter to make sure Moose beat him.
* A {{subversion}} is part of ComicBook/TwoFace's signature style in the Franchise/{{Batman}} comics: Harvey Dent uses one of these, but then one side gets scratched up, making it back into a fair coin. Its emotional/symbolic significance to Two-Face makes it a NumberOneDime as well. (Originally it was Boss Maroni's "lucky coin", and hence was tied to his origin. In later stories, it was the coin his [[AbusiveParents abusive father]] tossed with the assurance that if it came down tails he wouldn't be beaten. Harvey only learnt it was double-headed shortly before being scarred.)
* The MAX version of the ComicBook/{{Foolkiller}} uses this to toy with "fools" he needs information from. When he's done interrogating them, he gives them false hope -- heads you die, tails you live.
* Subverted in ''ComicBook/{{Iznogoud}}'', where one story mentions ''all'' the coins are two-headed. Iznogoud forgets it, ridiculing himself.
* In a ''ComicBook/JonahHex'' comic, a Frenchman uses a two-headed coin to win a coin toss against Jonah: choosing to stay behind and make the HeroicSacrifice holding off the Indians while Jonah gets the woman they were escorting to safety.
* William Dalton suggests flipping a coin during his confrontation with ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' in the Cousins of the Daltons album (their first appearance) to determine who gets the first shot in a Russian Roulette game that will close their duel with his final bullet. Luke sees that it was a two-headed-coin that William flipped one second too late, but survives the first round and its his turn to see William tremble, [[TooDumbToLive who apparently didn't consider what would happen if he wasn't lucky enough to get him immediately.]]
* In a ''War Picture Library'' story, two US sergeants in the Philippines have a long-term rivalry. One always wins a toss with his 'lucky' coin, and when there's a chance for one of them to be evacuated after the Japanese invade, his rival insists on calling heads this time, thinking he'll get some of the other's luck. Sure enough, he's evacuated, and it's only afterwards he discovers the other sergeant always used a double-headed coin and so [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold allowed him to win]].
* In a Franchise/SpiderMan story, the super-villain Chance had been hired to steal a liver for a dying criminal that was desperately needed by a dying young boy. After Spider-man catches up with him and explains things, Chance puts it down to a coin toss, infuriating Spider-man. After Chance loses, he notes that Spider-man should have more faith and tosses him the coin so Spider-man could see the coin was a double-headed coin, ensuring Spider-man would win the life-saving organ.
* In ''ComicBook/YTheLastMan'', when they were kids, Yorick and Hero were both cast as the leads in a school production of Romeo and Juliet. To avoid having to kiss their sibling, they agreed on a coin flip to decide who would drop out of the play. Yorick was caught using a two-faced coin, and Hero just dropped out in disgust at his cheating.
* In his introduction to the first remastered ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'' trade, Creator/GarthEnnis [[BlackComedy fondly pays tribute]] to his artist Creator/SteveDillon, and how his ''[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial totally-not-two-headed-coin]]'' meant Steve wound up being the sacrifice to an [[BlackComedyRape "octo-cocked"]] demon lord.

* ''Film/TheDarkKnight'': Harvey Dent uses a two-headed coin for PerpSweating; he says every time he doesn't get a straight answer, he'll flip the coin. Heads, he asks again. Tails, he shoots him dead. He uses the coin several more times as well, and when he's asked by Rachel why he'd leave something up to chance, he says he doesn't and shows her the two-headed coin, revealing "he makes his own luck." [[spoiler:Becomes a subversion later in the movie, as the fiery explosion that ruined one side of his face also mars one side of the coin, making it the classic clean/marred Two-Face coin.]]

* ''Series/NightCourt'': During the last act of the pilot episode, Judge Stone "[[Main/StageMagician pulls a coin]]" from behind the clerk's head, and announces it as the "Coin of Justice," which will determine punishments for various defendants already found guilty. Each time it comes up Heads. Finally, he comes to the defendant wife who shot a gun in the air out of anger, and is now being charged with attempted murder - the Judge says he'll send the wife up the river on Heads or let her go with Tails. This pressures her husband, who brought the charges, to dismiss them, because he doesn't want to lose his wife. When the husband pleads not to toss the coin, saying it only comes up Heads, Judge Stone says, "well, of course it does, it's a two-headed coin!" Revealing this has the added benefit of convincing the other court staff that the Judge had not, in fact, lost his mind.

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' featured a two-headed coin with a twist: Baloo realizes he's been duped when he notices that not only are both sides of the coin heads, ''but one of them is making a face at him.'' Baloo actually didn't have much room to complain, as he himself had used a two-''tailed'' coin earlier in the same episode.

* In an ''Aesop and Son'' segment of ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'', the son uses a two-headed nickel to win a wagon full of toys which is not the moral of "Two Heads Are Better Than One". So Aesop tells him a fable of this moral.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Waverly Hills 9021 Doh" when Homer and Marge is introduced to the city inspector to verify they actually live in Waverly Hills so they can send to school there. The inspector gives Homer a coin call. He calls heads, then tails, then on the side before the coin bounces and lands on the side.

* In one of the ''Franchise/DocSavage'' novels, Monk gets a two-tailed coin to swindle Ham because he habitually calls heads during a coin toss.

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* Music/JoDeeMessina's "Heads Carolina, Tails California," a WanderlustSong about needing to get away to anywhere but here that the destination can be decided by a coin-flip.
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* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry2'': Dante repeatedly flips one as he teases Lucia and Matier over whether he should help them or not. He hints that the quirk may come from his father. The coin later becomes a ChekhovsGun in retrospect as Dante uses it to [[spoiler:fake the Medalgia sought by Arius]].

* Appears in one episode of ''Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses''; Grandad gave Del Boy a two-headed coin, which he tries to use to win bets with Boycie. Unfortunately, because he tosses, Boycie gets to call and keeps calling heads. In the end, after Del's beaten Boycie at poker, he offers Boycie double or nothing on the coin, but because Boycie thinks [[GamblersFallacy the law of averages means he's bound to lose this time]], Del suggests that instead Rodney could call it, as Del's representative. So he spins the coin ... [[WhatAnIdiot and Rodney calls tails]].

* Used by Dante in ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry 2''. He hints that the quirk may come from his father.

** The credits reveal that, though the coin is two-headed, the heads are not the same; one side has Edgar's face, the other has Sabin's.

* Eizen in ''VideoGame/TalesOfBerseria'' carries a unique gold coin, which always lands on tails when he flips it because of his [[BornUnlucky Reaper's Curse]]. In one skit Rokurou, fed up with seeing Eizen only ever get tails, has some two-headed coins made for him to flip. On the first attempt [[ThievingMagpie a crow snatches the coin before it can hit the ground]], [[SerialEscalation the second coin is eaten by a griffin when Eizen tries to flip it]], [[RuleOfThree the final coin]] [[StuffBlowingUp explodes in midair]]... [[OffscreenCrash Somehow]].

* ''Series/GilligansIsland'': Gilligan at one point finds himself caught in a DuelToTheDeath with an island native for a marriage challenge. Skipper tries to win Gilligan the first spear toss with this, but Gilligan is unaware of the ruse and picks the wrong side.

* In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster'', [[Franchise/{{Castlevania}} Simon Belmont]] utilises a two-headed coin in order to ensure that the group takes his proposed path towards [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} Mother Brain's]] headquarters.