Dread
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I think Two-Face in The Dark Knight is best explained by an episode of the cartoon series: there was at least one episode where both Talia Al'Ghul and some random villain are falling and he saves Talia (who in this episode was on his side). So he tackled both Two-Face and James Jr. over the side in order to save James, but since he couldn't save both was forced to save James Jr. and allow Harvey to fall. Basically if it's the villain's fault that they accidentally fall in a struggle and he just can't save them, he doesn't beat himself up about it too much.
Of course, none of this explains Begins (or the tail-end of TDKR...)
The episode of "B:TAS" you're thinking of, if memory serves, is "OFF BALANCE" where Batman saves Talia from Count Vertigo's collapsing castle. There was no time to save Vertigo, whose own weapon caused the collapse anyway.
For the record, while the animated Batman naturally avoided killing - it being a network kid's show - there are at least several occasions where he makes no attempt to save the Joker from something which by all rights should be fatal. The obvious examples being "MAD LOVE" (Batman punches Joker off a moving subway car into a factory smokestack many stories down) and "WORLDS FINEST, PART 3" (where Batman and Superman specifically save Lex Luthor and Harley Quinn from an exploding war plane and leave Joker to his fate. Batman even makes a dark joke about the low odds of Joker's survival). However, in all instances the Joker survives anyway. Hell, even in "MYSTERY OF THE BATWOMAN", Batman makes no attempt to save Bane as he plummets into the flames of an exploding ship - although in that case being pummeled nearly into unconsciousness helped.