Sebastian Stan Just Showed Up Bald And Fans Think They’ve Cracked His ‘The Batman II’ Villain Reveal

Matt Reeves has kept the villain lineup for his Gotham sequel locked down tighter than anything else in the DC universe right now, forcing fans to piece together clues from set photos, cryptic tweets, and stray comments in interviews.

That secrecy just got a little harder to maintain, because Sebastian Stan was spotted out in public this week looking dramatically different from the actor everyone thought they knew.

New images circulating online show Stan completely bald and clean shaven, a stark departure from his usual look, and the timing has fans convinced it confirms which character he is actually playing in ‘The Batman Part II.‘ For months, the assumption was that Stan had been cast as Harvey Dent, the district attorney who eventually transforms into Two-Face, but this latest sighting has reopened a debate that started building steam earlier this year.

That debate traces back to a report from industry insider Jeff Sneider, who claimed through sources that Stan is not playing Dent at all, but rather Victor Zsasz, a psychopathic serial killer known in the comics for carving a tally mark into his own skin for every victim he claims. According to Sneider’s reporting, Brian Tyree Henry has actually been cast as Harvey Dent, flipping the assumptions that had circulated since Stan’s casting was first announced back in January.

Zsasz was created by writers Alan Grant and Norm Breyfogle and first appeared in 1992’s ‘Batman: Shadow of the Bat’ number one. The character has popped up in live action before, played briefly by Tim Booth in ‘Batman Begins’ and by Chris Messina in ‘Birds of Prey,’ along with a more prominent run from Anthony Carrigan on the television series ‘Gotham,’ but he has never anchored a major theatrical Batman film as a primary antagonist.

That distinction matters because Reeves has previously described the sequel’s central villain as someone who has never really been done in a movie before, a comment that lines up far more naturally with Zsasz than with Dent, given how many times Two-Face has already appeared on screen in films like ‘Batman Forever’ and ‘The Dark Knight.’ Zsasz is typically depicted as completely hairless and covered head to toe in scars, which is exactly the kind of transformation a shaved head sighting would support.

Stan himself has not clarified which villain he is playing, though he has dropped hints along the way that only deepened the mystery rather than resolving it. Back in May, while promoting his film ‘Fjord’ at the Cannes Film Festival, Stan told Deadline that he would be playing “many roles in this one” once production moved to London for the summer, a phrase that at the time seemed to point toward the dual identity built into Two-Face.

Stan also told the outlet he was feeling “excited” and “nervous” about the transformation, and mentioned already working with the hair and makeup teams who had devised how his disfigurement would look for the role. That comment has since been interpreted differently depending on which casting theory a fan subscribes to, since both Two-Face and Zsasz would require significant makeup work, just in very different ways.

Fans online have been split on how to read the situation, with some arguing Stan would obviously need a wig for the half-disfigured version of Two-Face rather than a fully shaved head, while others have pointed out that Stan has actually had a similarly short haircut since at least 2025, long before ‘The Batman Part II’ even began production. That detail alone means the new sighting is far from definitive proof either way, despite how quickly it spread across social media.

Warner Bros. has not issued any official comment addressing Stan’s specific role, and Reeves has kept character confirmations for the film’s new cast additions deliberately vague. What is confirmed is that Robert Pattinson returns as Bruce Wayne, alongside Colin Farrell reprising Oswald Cobb, with Scarlett Johansson and Charles Dance also joining the cast in roles tied to the same web of speculation surrounding Stan.

‘The Batman Part II’ is currently scheduled to hit theaters on October 1, 2027, giving fans plenty of time to keep dissecting every haircut, wardrobe leak, and cryptic quote between now and release. Until Reeves or Warner Bros. actually confirms the character breakdown, the mystery over whether Stan is destined to become Two-Face or Victor Zsasz shows no sign of being settled anytime soon.

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