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Harley Quinn
The classic and modern iterations of Harley Quinn. Art by Terry Dodson.
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	Batman: The Animated Series «Joker’s Favor» (September 11, 1992)
First comic appearance	The Batman Adventures #12 (September 1993)
Created by	Paul Dini Bruce Timm
In-story information
Alter ego	Harleen Frances Quinzel[1][2]
Species	Human
Place of origin	Brooklyn / Gotham City
Team affiliations	Suicide Squad Gotham City Sirens Quinntets Gang of Harleys Secret Six Justice League of Anarchy Batman Family[3]
Partnerships	Joker Poison Ivy Bud and Lou
Notable aliases	Holly Chance[4] Dr. Jessica Seaborn[5]
Abilities	Trained psychiatrist Expert hand-to-hand combatant and gymnast Enhanced strength, durability, stamina, reflexes, and agility Immunity to various toxins Uses weaponized props

Harley Quinn is a character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Quinn was created by Paul Dini and Bruce Timm as a comic relief henchwoman for the supervillain Joker in Batman: The Animated Series, and debuted in its 22nd episode, «Joker’s Favor», on September 11, 1992. While intended to appear in one episode, Quinn became a recurring character within the DC Animated Universe as the Joker’s sidekick and love interest, and was adapted into DC Comics’ Batman comic book canon seven years later, beginning with the one-shot Batman: Harley Quinn #1 (October 1999). Quinn’s origin story features her as a former psychiatrist at Gotham City’s Arkham Asylum named Dr. Harleen Quinzel who fell in love with the Joker, her patient, eventually becoming his accomplice and lover. The character’s alias is a play on the stock character Harlequin from the 16th-century theater commedia dell’arte.

Following her introduction to the DC Universe in 1999, Harley Quinn was depicted as a frequent accomplice and lover of the Joker as well as the best friend of fellow supervillain Poison Ivy. Later stories depicted Quinn as a supervillain who has left her abusive relationship with the Joker behind, beginning with the publication of her first ongoing series written by Karl Kesel in 2000. After years of scarce appearances in comics, Quinn returned in a leading role in 2009 with the Gotham City Sirens series, as part of an unstable alliance with Poison Ivy and Catwoman. In 2011, DC’s line-wide reboot The New 52 reintroduced Quinn in the relaunched Suicide Squad title, which changed the character’s personality, design, and origin, replacing her original jester costume with a revealing ensemble and depicting her to be darker than her earlier counterpart. The character took a lighthearted and humorous direction with her second ongoing series in 2013, written by Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti, which features the character moving to her hometown of Brooklyn and starting her own life in Coney Island. The character has since been depicted as an antihero independent of the Joker and a recurring core member of the Suicide Squad, with Poison Ivy becoming her primary romantic interest.^[6] In 2021, DC’s line-wide Infinite Frontier relaunch brought Quinn back to Gotham City and reestablished her as a superhero seeking redemption for her past actions.

Harley Quinn’s abilities include expert gymnastic skills, proficiency in weapons and hand-to-hand combat, complete unpredictability, immunity to toxins, and enhanced strength, agility, and durability. Quinn often wields clown-themed gag weapons, with an oversized mallet being her signature weapon. The character has a pair of pet hyenas, Bud and Lou, which sometimes serve as her attack dogs. As a trained psychiatrist with a genius-level intellect, she is adept at deception and psychological manipulation.

Harley Quinn has become one of DC Comics’ most popular and profitable characters, and has been featured in many of DC’s comic books and adapted in various other media and merchandise. DC Comics Publisher Jim Lee considers Harley Quinn the fourth pillar of DC Comics’ publishing line, behind Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman.

Originally voiced by Arleen Sorkin in the DC Animated Universe, she has since appeared in many other DC projects voiced by actresses such as Tara Strong, Hynden Walch, Laura Bailey, Jenny Slate, Melissa Rauch, Laura Post, and Kaley Cuoco; the latter provided the character’s voice in the 2019 animated series Harley Quinn. Mia Sara portrayed the character in the 2002 television series Birds of Prey. Harley Quinn makes her live-action cinematic debut in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) film Suicide Squad (2016), where she is portrayed by Margot Robbie. Robbie reprises her role in Birds of Prey (2020) and The Suicide Squad (2021), with elements of her portrayal’s design consequentially incorporated into comics, while Lady Gaga will portray the character in Joker: Folie à Deux (2024).

History[edit]

Creation and development[edit]

Harley Quinn was created by Paul Dini and Bruce Timm for the 1992 Batman: The Animated Series episode entitled «Joker’s Favor» while Dini was writing the episode.^[7] Initially written as an animated equivalent of a walk-on role, Harley Quinn was intended to appear in just one episode.^[8][9] As Dini was putting together the story for the episode, he wanted to introduce a foil for the supervillain Joker; Dini recalled, «The way I created her was I was writing a story called “Joker’s Favor” and it was my first Joker story and I wanted to make it good and I wanted to make the Joker everything he is in the better comics books, which is funny and scary and egotistical and I thought maybe a foil would bring out some of those personality traits.»^[10][11] He then thought of giving Joker a female henchperson, inspired by the molls of the 1960s live-action Batman series,^[9][12][13] and then decided she would be a «funny counterpart to the Joker to maybe work up a little Punch and Judy attitude between them»;^[10] Dini stated, «[…] she could crack a joke and the henchmen would laugh, and the Joker would kind of glare at her.»^[14] In 1991, after seeing his college friend Arleen Sorkin play a roller-skating jester from a dream sequence in the soap opera Days of Our Lives, Dini decided to have Sorkin voice her.^[10][13] Dini then partly based Harley Quinn on Sorkin, with Dini incorporating aspects of Sorkin, such as her «very snappy, wisecracking, bubbly blonde» personality into the character as well as her mannerisms.^[14][11][10] In recording Harley Quinn’s voice, Sorkin spoke in her normal Brooklyn accent while putting in a «little Yiddish sound», since Dini made the character Jewish, another aspect of the character borrowed from Sorkin.^{[13][15][16][17]}

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Paul Dini’s original design for Harley Quinn, a «crazy blond character in a miniskirt» based on actress Barbara Eden and «1940s screwballs» such as Betty Hutton, Gloria Grahame, and Claudette Colbert.[14][18]
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The dream sequence from the show Days of Our Lives in which Arleen Sorkin plays a jester, which served as inspiration for the character’s creation. Dini came across the scene while watching a VHS tape of Sorkin’s «favorite Days moments», given to Dini by Sorkin.[10][13]

Dini had several names in mind while naming the character, such as Columbine, and eventually settled on the name «Harley Quinn».^[19] Dini chose the name for the character to be in line with other Batman characters’s names being puns, and also because he thought «Harley was a fun name for a girl.»^[20][14] The name Harley Quinn is a play on Harlequin, a stock character from the sixteenth-century Italian physical comedy theater commedia dell’arte.^[9][21]

In designing the character, Timm did a «simplified supervillain version» of traditional Harlequin gear; from the commedia dell’arte original, he took the jester hat, ruffled collar, diamond pattern, and domino mask and put them on a red-and-black bodysuit, on which the diamonds were strategically placed for easier animation.^[9][16] Timm took Harley Quinn’s red and black motif from the Golden Age comic book character Daredevil.^[9] Dini had previously made a rough design for the character, which Timm improved on.^[13]

Expanded role[edit]

After seeing Harley Quinn in the rough cut of «Joker’s Favor», the producers of Batman: The Animated Series, which include Dini and Timm, were impressed with the result, with Dini wanting to bring the character back for more episodes.^[22][9] Timm and another producer, Alan Burnett, were initially reluctant of this, and thought that giving Joker a girlfriend «played more towards his comedic side» and would «humanize him too much», which contrasted their vision for Joker as a character who is «as serious a threat as possible to Batman».^[22][9] Nevertheless, months after «Joker’s Favor», Harley made a second appearance on the show in the episode «The Laughing Fish» and became the Joker’s love interest.^[9] Harley Quinn gained popularity with fans of The Animated Series, with the character being featured more on the show and eventually starring in her own episodes, such as 1993’s «Harley and Ivy», which introduced a friendship between Harley Quinn and fellow supervillain Poison Ivy, and 1994’s «Harlequinade» and «Harley’s Holiday», which explored Harley Quinn’s life without the Joker.^[23][24][25] Harley Quinn then became a recurring character in the DC Animated Universe, appearing in The Animated Series sequel The New Batman Adventures, and in non-Batman animation such as Superman: The Animated Series, Static Shock, and Justice League. On February 7, 1994, she made her first appearance in a video game in The Adventures of Batman and Robin, an action platformer based on Batman: The Animated Series.^[26][27]

Transition to comic books[edit]

Because of her popularity, Harley Quinn was adapted into DC’s comic books.^[33] In September 1993, a year following Harley Quinn’s first appearance in Batman: The Animated Series, the character made her comic book debut in the twelfth issue of The Batman Adventures, a series set in the universe of The Animated Series, and became a regular character.^[6][7] In 1997, she appeared in the story Batman: Thrillkiller, released under Elseworlds, a DC Comics imprint that published out-of-continuity alternate reality stories, as Hayley Fitzpatrick.^[6] In 1999, she became a canonical character with the release of Batman: Harley Quinn #1.^[6]

Origin story[edit]

In February 1994, the one-shot The Batman Adventures: Mad Love recounting Harley’s origin was released. Written by Dini and drawn by Timm, the story marks their first comic book collaboration.^[22] Mad Love introduces Harley Quinn as a former psychiatrist named Harleen Quinzel who fell in love with the Joker during her internship at Gotham City’s Arkham Asylum and details her transformation into the Joker’s villainous accomplice Harley Quinn, as well as the Joker’s lack of respect for Harley.^{[22][24][34][35]} Widely considered the definitive Harley Quinn story,^[36][37][38] Mad Love added dimensions to the character, with Dini introducing Harley Quinn’s motivations as well as establishing her as a tragic figure and sympathetic villain.^{[39][40][41][42][43]} The story received wide praise and won the Eisner and Harvey awards for Best Single Issue in the same year and was later adapted into an episode of the same name in The New Batman Adventures in 1999.^[44][45][25]

Name origin[edit]

Harley Quinn’s actual name is established in Mad Love as Harleen Frances Quinzel. «Harleen Frances» was borrowed by Dini from Sorkin’s first and middle name, Arleen Frances. «Quinzel» was taken from a former teacher of Dini’s from Emerson College named Quenzel.^[14]

Introduction to mainstream DC continuity[edit]

Harley Quinn was adapted into the mainstream DC Universe with the 1999 one-shot graphic novel Batman: Harley Quinn, written by Dini and illustrated by Yvel Guichet.^[46], which put her origin in the middle of the «No Man’s Land» story line.^[47] Dini changed Harley and the Joker’s relationship to be darker to match the Joker’s character in the comics; in the story, the Joker attempts to kill Harley at the first opportunity. Dini also gave Harley new abilities, such as immunity to toxins and enhanced strength and agility, which she received after having been injected a special formula by Poison Ivy. These changes were made to match the needs of the DC Universe; on her new abilities, Dini said: «I figured if she’d be going head-to-head with Batman and the other DC heroes, Harley would need some kind of physical edge.»^[22][46]

First ongoing series[edit]

While pursuing new assignments at DC Comics’ offices in New York City, Karl Kesel was approached by former DC editor Matt Idelson to create a pitch for Harley Quinn’s first ongoing series, which Karl accepted, being a fan of the character after having read Dini’s Mad Love.^[22] Kesel chose Terry Dodson as the artist for the series, whose art Kesel thought complemented the character’s cartoonish roots and worldview.^[22][49] Kesel called Dodson and asked him if he was interested on working on the comic, to which Dodson agreed, and the two worked for a month on their proposal for the series, which was to make a comic about «love gone horribly, terribly wrong».^[49][22] The proposal was accepted by DC Comics, and the pair began work on the series, with Kesel and Dodson both being involved in the storytelling, and Dodson bringing in his wife, Rachel Dodson, to ink.^[22] Kesel’s run on the series began being published in December 2000, and was about Harley Quinn leaving the Joker and becoming a solo criminal, alongside a supporting cast of henchmen named the Quinntets.^[22] Because of underwhelming sales, his 25-issue run ended in December 2002, and DC decided to change the creative team; the series was given to writer A.J. Lieberman and artists Mike Huddleston and Troy Nixey by Idelson, and took on a grittier and darker direction, contrasting Kesel’s run.^[50] The decision renewed interest in the character, but the sales remained lackluster and the series was cancelled in 2003.^[50][13]

Gotham City Sirens[edit]

After years of scarce appearances in comics, Harley Quinn resurfaced in a leading role in July 2009 with Gotham City Sirens, a team-up title created by Dini.^[51][6][13] The series brought together Batman’s most popular female villains, Harley Quinn, Catwoman, and Poison Ivy, in an unstable alliance.^[52][53][54] The series also expanded on Harley Quinn’s background and early life; in Gotham City Sirens #7, Dini established the character’s hometown being Brooklyn, and also introduced her dysfunctional family, with her swindling father being described as the main reason for her pursuing psychiatry.^[55][56][57]

The first several issues of Gotham City Sirens were written by Dini and illustrated by Guillem March. Other creatives who worked for the series include writers Tony Bedard and Peter Calloway, and artists David López, Andres Guinaldo, Peter Nguyen, Jeremy Haun, and Ramon Bachs.^[53] The series was cancelled in August 2011 for The New 52, DC Comics’ relaunch of their entire comic line.^[54]

The New 52[edit]

Suicide Squad[edit]

As part of the New 52 reboot in September 2011, Harley Quinn was reintroduced by Adam Glass as a prominent member of the supervillain team Task Force X in the relaunched Suicide Squad series.^[24][59] The character was heavily redesigned to fit the tone of the book; her color motif was changed to red and blue, her jester costume was replaced with a revealing ensemble consisting of a corset and hot pants, her skin was bleached white, and her previously blonde hair was altered to half-blue and half-red.^{[60][13][59][61]} Her personality had also been depicted to be more violent and psychopathic than her former iteration.^[13][33][59]

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The controversial cover artwork for Suicide Squad (vol. 4) #1, which introduced Harley Quinn’s revealing look for the relaunched title.[13] Art by Ryan Benjamin.

In the series, Glass separated Harley Quinn from the Joker and explored her «becom[ing] her own person», with the Suicide Squad becoming a family to her;^[62][63] Glass stated, «Harley’s always wanted to belong to something. And if not Joker, then the team – and she’s finding herself in all this. She’s finding her place in the world, that she’s not just a sidekick.»^[63]

Suicide Squad was cancelled in April 2014 to coincide with the conclusion of the «Forever Evil» storyline.^[64]

New origin[edit]

In the seventh issue of Suicide Squad, Glass revised Harley Quinn’s origin story, making it reflect the Joker’s origins. In the story, the Joker takes Harleen Quinzel to the chemical plant where he originated and pushes her into a vat of chemicals against her will, which bleaches her skin and drives her insane, resulting in her transformation to Harley Quinn, similar to the Joker’s transformation in his origins.^[65] This origin was received negatively by fans of the character, who felt that its removal of Harley Quinn’s choice to become the Joker’s accomplice herself, as depicted in her previous origin stories, took out an essential part of her character.^[65]

Second ongoing series[edit]

Harley Quinn’s second ongoing series, written by husband and wife Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Conner, with the interior art illustrated by Chad Hardin and John Timms, explored Harley Quinn leaving Gotham City and starting her own life in her hometown of Brooklyn, depicting her as a landlord in Coney Island, where she shares an apartment building with a supporting cast of «sideshow freaks».^{[66][13][67][68][69]} Considered to be the most defining writers to work on the character since Dini and Timm, Palmiotti and Conner reinvented Harley Quinn as an antihero who has left her controlling relationship with the Joker behind.^[24][70][71]

In contrast to Harley Quinn’s depiction in Glass’ Suicide Squad, Palmiotti and Conner wrote Harley Quinn with a lighthearted, cartoonish, and humorous tone. Her costume has also been changed with a roller derby-inspired costume designed by Conner, which incorporates Conner’s favorite aspects of Harley Quinn’s early costume and her costume in Glass’ Suicide Squad.^[68][72][66] The series also brought back Harley Quinn’s red and black motif.^[61]

The series began being published in November 2013, starting with Harley Quinn #0, which brought together seventeen comic book artists, including Harley Quinn co-creator Bruce Timm, to illustrate a fourth wall-breaking story about Harley thinking of the artists that could illustrate her in her own comic book series.^[73][74] The rest of the series details Harley Quinn’s adventures in Coney Island with her supporting cast.^[75] In Harley Quinn #25, Palmiotti and Conner reunited Harley Quinn with the Joker; the story depicts Harley Quinn returning to Gotham City to confront the Joker and end their relationship.^[76][77]

With Harley Quinn’s longtime friend Poison Ivy being a recurring character in the series, Palmiotti and Conner built on their relationship and hinted at romantic feelings between the two characters; Poison Ivy is shown kissing Harley Quinn multiple times throughout the series, and a sexual relationship between them was alluded to in the 25th issue.^[75][71] When asked regarding their relationship in a Twitter Q&A, Palmiotti and Conner replied, «Yes, they are girlfriends without the jealousy of monogamy.»^[35]

The New 52 Harley Quinn series received positive reception, and was also one of DC Comics’ top selling series, inspiring multiple spin-offs.^[75][72] The series was ended for the DC Rebirth relaunch of DC’s titles.^[78]

Controversies[edit]

The cover of the first issue of the New 52‘s Suicide Squad title drew controversy for its oversexualized depiction of Harley Quinn.^[13] This also caused some fans of the character to send Glass hatemail and personal threats.^[62]

In September 2013, DC Comics announced an art contest entitled «Break into comics with Harley Quinn!», in which contestants were to draw Harley in four different suicide scenarios. This contest drew controversy not only because it was announced close to National Suicide Prevention Week, but because some artists did not like the sexualized portrayal of Harley Quinn in the fourth scenario, in which the character attempts suicide while naked in her bathtub. The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, American Psychiatric Association, and National Alliance on Mental Illness all responded to the controversy in an emailed group statement to the Huffington Post, stating, «We are disappointed that DC Comics has decided to host a contest looking for artists to develop ways to depict suicide attempts by one of its main villains – Harley Quinn». After seeing the reactions to the contest, DC Comics apologized, saying they should have made it clear it was a dream sequence that was not supposed to be taken seriously. In the final version, the bathtub scene was cut and replaced with Harley Quinn sitting on a rocket while flying in space.^[79][80][81]

DC Rebirth[edit]

In June 2016, the DC Rebirth event relaunched DC Comics’ entire line of comic book titles. Both Harley Quinn as well as Suicide Squad were rebooted, with the latter starting with the one-shot issue Suicide Squad: Rebirth #1 (October 2016). Harley Quinn’s DC Rebirth design included pink and blue dyed hair tips and a jacket inspired by Margot Robbie’s portrayal of the character in the 2016 film Suicide Squad, a change established in the last issues of her New 52 series.^[82][83]

Harley Quinn returns as a regular character in the relaunched Suicide Squad series, written by Rob Williams. The series was cancelled in January 2019.^[84]

Harley Quinn’s relaunched ongoing series is a direct continuation of the former, with Conner and Palmiotti still writing for the character, and Hardin and Timms illustrating the interior art.^[85] After having written 64 issues of Harley Quinn’s ongoing series, Conner and Palmiotti’s five-year run ended with the 34th issue of the series in December 2017, with writer Frank Tieri and artist Inaki Miranda taking over the title.^[86][87][88] Tieri’s run on the series ended with the series’ 42nd issue, followed by a two-issue storyline written by Christopher Sebela and illustrated by Mirka Andolfo.^[89] By issue #45 in July 2018, Sam Humphries was the new writer for the series, with John Timms returning to provide art.^[88][89] The series ended in August 2020.^[90]

Harley Loves Joker[edit]

In 2017, Harley Quinn co-creator Paul Dini wrote a backup feature for Harley Quinn’s Rebirth monthly series entitled Harley Loves Joker, co-written by Palmiotti and illustrated by Bret Blevins, which ran for 9 issues.^[91] The story brought back Harley Quinn’s classic characterization and focuses on her past with the Joker. Unlike her characterization in Batman: The Animated Series, Dini and Palmiotti wrote Harley Quinn in the story as less of a «doormat», with Harley Quinn and Joker being on equal footing in their relationship.^[92] The story concluded with the two-part limited series of the same name, which also expanded on Harley Quinn’s past as a former intern in animal research at S.T.A.R. Labs, where she met her pet hyenas Bud and Lou.^[93] In the second part of the story, Dini and Palmiotti explained Harley Quinn’s change in costume, establishing the character’s modern design as a reflection of her having left her relationship with the Joker.^[94][95]

Infinite Frontier[edit]

For the 2021 Infinite Frontier relaunch, Harley Quinn is moved back to Gotham City as a superheroine, where she frequently interacts with and aids the Batman family, and she is given a new design by Riley Rossmo.^[96] Harley Quinn’s fourth ongoing series, written by Stephanie Phillips and illustrated by Rossmo, depicts her «actively looking to make up for her past sins», alongside a former Joker henchman named Kevin.^[97][96] Harley Quinn also has a prominent role in the «Fear State» crossover event.^[98]

Skills, abilities, and equipment[edit]

Harley Quinn has no superpowers, and relies on her unpredictability, gymnastics skills, and weapons and hand-to-hand proficiency.^[99] She is a peak athlete, having won a gymnastics scholarship at Gotham City’s Gotham State University.^{[99][100][22]} Following her transition to main DC canon in 1999, Harley Quinn was established as having immunity to toxins and enhanced strength, agility, durability, and reflexes, which she received after having been injected a serum concocted by Poison Ivy.^[99] «Vengeance Unlimited, Part Five» (Harley Quinn vol. 1 #30) revealed that it also gave her the ability to breathe underwater.^[101]

Harley Quinn is skilled in using various weapons, often employing weaponized clown-themed gag items, including pop guns, rubber chickens, and a gun that shoots a boxing glove, as well as oversized pistols and mallets, the latter being her signature weapon.^{[102][103][104]} Other weapons she uses include: unconventional weapons, such as a baseball bat; explosive weapons such as bazookas, customized bombs, and dynamites;^[105] firearms, such as pistols, assault rifles, and machine guns;^[105] Harley Quinn also has a pair of pet hyenas, Bud and Lou, which she can order to attack her opponents.^[99]

Despite being mentally unstable and sometimes distracted, Harley is highly intelligent. Her intellect extends to her psychological, tactical and deception abilities, but she does not stand out for particular strategic or scientific skills and often remains subordinate to the Joker, who between the two is the genius and the inventor. Harleen Quinzel earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology and as a former Arkham psychiatrist, was highly qualified in psychoanalysis, criminology, and forensic psychiatry. While not on par with Joker, she is still an expert tactician, deceiver and escapologist, and still shows traces of her psychological experience. Harley Quinn is the only person besides the Joker to concoct Joker Venom, the Joker’s signature weapon, and is shown to have reverse-engineered its formula and developed an antitoxin.^[106][107] She also has an indomitable pathological will.

Just like Poison Ivy, sometimes and not as much, Harley uses her feminine charm to attract men but only to be able to manipulate them. Unlike the Joker, she is able to simulate sanity, thus being able to pretend to be a «normal» person. In this way, she disguised herself as a security guard, a lawyer and even Poison Ivy and Batgirl.

Romantic interests[edit]

Harley Quinn has had several love interests, the most notable being the Joker and Poison Ivy. Other love interests include Mason Macabre, a character created by Conner and Palmiotti.^[108] Plastic Man was initially intended to be a love interest for Harley Quinn by Kesel, but was not approved by DC.^[109]

The Joker[edit]

The Joker is Harley Quinn’s former lover. Harley’s solo comics often explores her former association with the Joker through «flashbacks of their past exploits, present-day conflicts», or through Harley as she «laments his absence».^[110] Harley often refers to him as «Mistah J» and «Puddin'».^[111]

Their relationship is known for its abusive and codependent nature, first established in Harley’s first origin story Mad Love.^[22] The Joker habitually abuses Harley, and despite the abuse, Harley Quinn returns to him.^[112] In the 1999 one-shot comic Batman: Harley Quinn, the Joker decides to kill Harley, after admitting that he does care for her, that their relationship is romantic, and that these feelings prevent him from fulfilling his purpose.^[113] Dini describes their relationship as abusive,^[114] and empathizes with Harley’s feelings of abandonment, with Dini basing most of Harley’s dialogue on his past experiences.^[115]

The Joker’s controlling and codependent relationship with Harley Quinn has been analyzed as a means of the Joker reinforcing his own belief in his power in a world where he may be killed or neutralized by another villain or Batman.^[116] Joker mirrors his identity through Harley in her appearance, and even though he may ignore or act indifferent towards her, he continues to try to subject her to his control.^[116] When Harley successfully defeats Batman in Mad Love (1994), the Joker, emasculated by his own failure, severely injures her out of fear of what the other villains will think of him; however, while Harley recovers, the Joker sends her flowers, which she accepts, reasserting his control over her.^[117]

Poison Ivy[edit]

Poison Ivy is Harley Quinn’s current love interest and best friend, and Harley often refers to her as «Red».^[118] Ivy was first introduced as a new friend to Harley by Dini in the 1993 Batman: The Animated Series episode «Harley and Ivy».^[119] The episode came from Dini wanting to make Harley a stronger character and write a story where she leaves the Joker; Dini decided to pair her up with Ivy because she was «the strongest contrast to Harley».^[119] The two later became close friends within the DC Animated Universe. Dini has stated that he could see a romantic relationship between the two happening the more he worked with the two characters, but the impossibility of properly portraying their relationship in a kids cartoon at the time prevented it from happening.^[41]

Prior to the New 52 reboot, Ivy is shown as having teamed up on occasion with Harley with Harley being her best friend and recurring ally. Unlike most villain team-ups, their partnership is based on genuine friendship and mutual respect. Ivy sincerely wants to save Harley from her unhealthy abusive relationship with the Joker. Accordingly, Poison Ivy despises the Joker, and the two exchange vicious banter at every opportunity. In the final storyline of the Gotham City Sirens series, Harley suggests that Ivy may be in love with her, an accusation that stuns her.^[120] The following issue has Poison Ivy acknowledge that she may indeed love Harley, but the details of her love are never specified, and the series ended with the New 52 reboot before their relationship could be addressed.^[121]

Conner and Palmiotti hinted at a romantic relationship in the New 52 Harley Quinn series,^[75][71] and later confirmed that Harley and Ivy are in a non-monogamous relationship.^[122][35] 2017’s Harley Quinn #25 marked their first canonical kiss.^[123]

Character biography[edit]

DC Animated Universe[edit]

Harley Quinn first appeared in Batman: The Animated Series (1992–1995), voiced by Arleen Sorkin, who subsequently reprised her role in other DC Animated Universe series, including Superman: The Animated Series (1996–2000), The New Batman Adventures (1997–1999), Static Shock (2000–2004), and Justice League (2001–2004), as well as the film Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000). Following Sorkin’s retirement in 2012, the character was voiced by Melissa Rauch in Batman and Harley Quinn (2017) and an uncredited Tara Strong in Justice League vs. the Fatal Five (2019).

Originally a career-oriented psychologist, Dr. Harleen Quinzel’s life took a radical turn when she chose to take an internship at Arkham Asylum for a semester of college. Convinced by the Joker himself to do it, Harleen interviewed him and learned he was abused as a child by his alcoholic father (later learning this backstory to have been one of several different stories he had told to others, some with different details each time), and after more interviews, determined Batman was the primary source of the Joker’s anger and was to blame for his actions, but that she also had fallen in love with him. Harleen helped the Joker escape and, renaming herself Harley Quinn, became his sidekick in hopes that she could win his love, going on a crime spree across the United States of America.^[124]

After assisting Joker in attempting to assassinate Commissioner James Gordon by planting a bomb at a dinner in his honour, she was subdued by Batman, and subsequently an accomplice in virtually all of Joker’s criminal schemes.^[125] On occasion, she would be kicked out of Joker’s gang when unintentionally upstaging or annoying the Joker, on one of these occasions teaming up with Poison Ivy, with the two becoming close friends and a successful crime duo independently.^[126] While imprisoned on her own in Arkham Asylum, Batman offered her a pardon in exchange for helping him track down the Joker after he had stolen a nuclear bomb.^[127] The day she is declared rehabilitated and paroled, Harley’s hyperactivity and unfamiliarity with the «real» world leads to her accidentally kidnap someone and be returned to Arkham yet again.^[128]

In the 31-episode Gotham Girls webtoon, Harley joins forces with Poison Ivy and Catwoman in a co-starring role.

After several failed attempts at rehabilitation, Harley returns to the Joker’s side. However, after another failed attempt to kill Commissioner Gordon leads the Joker to forgetting their anniversary, Harley re-examines her life and decides that as Batman was the cause of the Joker’s obsession, she should capture and kill him herself for him to kill, doing so by falsely pretending to have found sanity and luring Batman into a trap. Recognizing Harley to have come closer to killing him than Joker has ever done, Batman tricks her into facilitating his escape by making her call the Joker and tell him what she has done, knowing that he would not allow anyone other than himself to kill Batman, pushing her aside and unknowingly knocking her out a window. Recovering in Arkham, Harley decides that the Joker will never truly love her, before returning to her devotion upon seeing that he has left her a rose in a vase from him by her bedside table, with a note hoping that she gets better soon.^[124] Harley later references having convinced the Joker to attend couple’s counseling with her.^[129]

In the film Batman and Harley Quinn, Harley (voiced by Melissa Rauch) is working as a waitress after breaking up with the Joker again. Approached by Batman and Nightwing to help stop Ivy from accidentally causing the extinction of all life on Earth, Harley agrees to help them after having sex with Nightwing, convincing them to light Jason Woodroe on fire after she talks Ivy down with tears. Sometime later, Harley hosts a reality television game show, where she makes contestants run an elaborate obstacle course to win a year of therapy from a professional, in a scathing indictment of the American insurance system.^[130][131]

In the film Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (again voiced by Sorkin), flashbacks reveal Harley’s apparent final actions after returning to the Joker again were assisting him in kidnapping Tim Drake and torturing him into insanity in order to transform him into their son «J.J», so that they can start a family together. She later fought Batgirl who angrily chastised her for even helping Joker commit a heinous act but fell deep into an abyss, leading to the latter presuming her dead, though she survived as depicted in the present, where she appears at the end of the movie, revealed to be the grandmother of the Jokerz members, the Dee Dee Twins, who address her as «Nana Harley», having reformed from her life of crime.

DC Comics Universe[edit]

Harleen Quinzel was a psychiatrist at Arkham Asylum, and after meeting the Joker, she became his frequent accomplice, took on the name Harley Quinn, and got in an abusive codependent relationship with him. She eventually splits up with him, and becomes a solo criminal, forming a criminal gang called the Quinntets. Following the Quinntet’s dissolution, Harley Quinn moves to Metropolis with her best friend Poison Ivy, where she works as a love columnist in the Daily Planet under the alias Holly Chance. She then moves back to Gotham City, where she then voluntarily incarcerates herself in Arkham.^[132] Harley Quinn then spents a year applying for parole, only to see her request systematically rejected by Bruce Wayne, the layman member of Arkham’s medical commission. She is kidnapped by Peyton Riley, the new female Ventriloquist, who offers her a job; Harley turns the job down out of respect for the memory of Arnold Wesker, the original Ventriloquist, who attempted to cheer her up during her first week in Arkham while the Joker was still on the loose. She then helps Batman and Commissioner Jim Gordon foil the impostor’s plans. Although Riley escapes, Bruce Wayne is impressed with Harley’s effort at redemption and agrees with granting her parole. ^[133] She then briefly joins the Secret Six, then decides to quit.^[134]

Final Crisis[edit]

During Countdown to Final Crisis, a reformed Harley Quinn resides in an Amazon-run women’s shelter. Having abandoned her jester costume and clown make-up, she now only wears an Amazonian stola or chiton. She befriends the former Catwoman replacement Holly Robinson and then succeeds in persuading her to join her at the shelter, where she is working as an assistant. They are both brought to Themiscyra by «Athena» (really Granny Goodness) and begin Amazon training. Holly and Harley then meet the real Athena and encounter Mary Marvel. The group reveals Granny’s deception, and Holly, Harley, and Mary follow her as she retreats to Apokolips. Mary finds the Olympian gods, whom Granny had been holding prisoner, and the group frees them. Harley is granted powers by Thalia as a reward. Upon returning to Earth, the powers vanish, and Harley and Holly return to Gotham City.

Gotham City Sirens[edit]

Harley Quinn then joins forces with Poison Ivy (Pamela Isley) and Catwoman (Selina Kyle) in the series Gotham City Sirens. In Gotham City Sirens #7, Harley Quinn visits her family in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, during the holiday season. Harley’s father is a swindler who is still in jail, and her brother, Barry, is a loser with dead-end dreams of rock stardom. Her mother, Sharon, wants her to stop the «villain and hero stuff.» The dysfunctional, «horrible» experience while visiting family causes her to return home to the Sirens’ shared Gotham City hideout where Harley, Catwoman, and Poison Ivy spend the rest of Christmas together. Following several adventures with Catwoman and Ivy, Harley betrays them and breaks into Arkham Asylum, intending to kill the Joker for his years of abuse towards her. However, Harley ultimately chooses instead to release the Joker from his cell, and together the two orchestrate a violent takeover of the facility that results in most of the guards and staff members either being killed or taken hostage by the inmates.^[135] Harley and the Joker are eventually defeated by Batman and Catwoman, and Harley is last seen being wheeled away while bound in a straitjacket and muzzle.^[136] Shortly afterward, Poison Ivy breaks into Harley’s cell and attempts to kill her for her betrayal, but instead offers to free her if she helps her kill Catwoman, who had left both of her fellow Sirens behind in Arkham. Harley agrees, and the two set out to trap Catwoman.^[137] During the ensuing fight, Catwoman says she saw good in them and only wanted to help. As Batman is about to arrest them, Catwoman helps the two of them escape.^[138]

The New 52 and DC Rebirth[edit]

Like her previous incarnations, Harleen Quinzel was still the Joker’s psychiatrist, but before she becomes Harley, the Joker pushes her into a vat of chemicals, bleaching her skin white and driving her insane. Harley Quinn is forced to join the Suicide Squad by Amanda Waller. Harley Quinn then leaves Gotham City and moves back to her hometown of Brooklyn and resides in Coney Island.

Infinite Frontier[edit]

Harley Quinn moves back to Gotham City in an attempt to reestablish herself as a hero, aiding the Batman Family and trying to make up for her past «where she often enabled the Joker».^[96]

Cultural impact[edit]

Harley Quinn has become one of DC Comics’ most popular characters.^[139] The 2016 relaunch of her comic shipped more copies than any other DC Rebirth title and was one of the best-selling comics of the year.^[140] DC Comics Publisher Jim Lee refers to Harley Quinn as the fourth pillar in their publishing line, behind Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman.^{[141][20][72]} Harley Quinn currently stars in four separate ongoing series — three eponymous titles and Suicide Squad. Only Batman and Superman have comparable numbers of monthly appearances, making Harley DC Comics’ most prominent and profitable female character.^[141] Kevin Kiniry, vice-president of DC Collectibles, says Harley Quinn is always a top-seller and she «can go toe-to-toe with Batman and the Joker as one of the most fan-requested and sought-after characters.»^[141] In 2016, Harley Quinn’s Halloween costume ranked as the most popular costume in both the United States and the United Kingdom and it remains a popular subject for cosplay.^[142][143] To celebrate the character, DC Comics declared the month of February to be Harley Quinn Month and published 22 Harley Quinn variant covers across their line of comic books.^[144] IGN’s 2009 list of the Top 100 Comic Book Villains of All Time ranked Harley Quinn as #45.^[145] She was ranked 16th in Comics Buyer’s Guide‘s 2011 «100 Sexiest Women in Comics» list.^[146] Joker voice actor Mark Hamill attributes the success of Harley Quinn to Arleen Sorkin’s performance.^[147] On Twitter, he stated: «In the script she was just an unnamed Joker «hench-wench» w/ no discernible personality. When Arleen began reading her lines in that unforgettable voice so poignant & full of heart I nearly fell off my chair! She brought SO much more than was on the page & a legend was born.»^[147]

Collected editions[edit]

This section lists the collected editions, from trade paperbacks to omnibus editions, of various comics in which Harley Quinn is mainly featured.

Ongoing series[edit]

Vol. #	Title	Material collected	Pages	Publication date	ISBN
Harley Quinn (2007–2014)
1	Preludes and Knock Knock Jokes	Harley Quinn #1–7	192	December 2007	978-1401216573
2	Night and Day	Harley Quinn #8–13 and Harley Quinn: Our Worlds at War	190	June 2013	978-1401240417
3	Welcome to Metropolis	Harley Quinn #14–25	288	March 2014	978-1401245955
4	Vengeance Unlimited	Harley Quinn #26–38	314	September 2014	978-1401250683
Deluxe Editions
1	Harley Quinn by Karl Kesel and Terry Dodson: The Deluxe Edition Book One	Harley Quinn #1–8	224	September 2017	978-1401276423
2	Harley Quinn by Karl Kesel and Terry Dodson: The Deluxe Edition Book Two	Harley Quinn #9–19	288	November 2018	978-1401285098
Harley Quinn (2014–2016)
1	Hot in the City	Harley Quinn (vol. 2) #0–8	224	October 2014	978-1401254155
2	Power Outage	Harley Quinn (vol. 2) #9–13; Harley Quinn Futures End #1; Harley Quinn Invades Comic-Con International San Diego; material from Secret Origin #4	208	April 2015	978-1401257637
3	Kiss Kiss Bang Stab	Harley Quinn (vol. 2) #14–16, Annual #1, Harley Quinn Holiday Special #1 and Harley Quinn Valentine’s Special #1	168	December 2015	978-1401262525
4	A Call to Arms	Harley Quinn (vol. 2) #17–21 and Harley Quinn Road Trip Special #1	176	June 2016	978-1401269296
5	The Joker’s Last Laugh	Harley Quinn (vol. 2) #22–25 and Harley Quinn: Be Careful What You Wish For	144	September 2016	978-1401271992
6	Black, White and Red All Over	Harley Quinn (vol. 2) #26–30	144	January 2017	978-1401272593
Harley Quinn (2016–2018)
1	Die Laughing	Harley Quinn (vol. 3) #1–7	168	March 2017	978-1401268312
2	Joker Loves Harley	Harley Quinn (vol. 3) #8–13	144	June 2017	978-1401270957
3	Red Meat	Harley Quinn (vol. 3) #14–21	168	September 2017	978-1401273699
4	Surprise, Surprise	Harley Quinn (vol. 3) #22–27 and Harley Quinn 25th Anniversary Special	168	January 2018	978-1401275266
5	Vote Harley	Harley Quinn (vol. 3) #28–34	168	May 2018	978-1401278823
6	Angry Bird	Harley Quinn (vol. 3) #35–42	192	August 2018	978-1401281526
Deluxe Editions
1	Harley Quinn: The Rebirth Deluxe Edition Book 1	Harley Quinn (vol. 3) #1–13	304	September 2017	978-1401273682
2	Harley Quinn: The Rebirth Deluxe Edition Book 2	Harley Quinn (vol. 3) #14–27 and Harley Quinn 25th Anniversary Special	384	July 2018	978-1401280659
3	Harley Quinn: The Rebirth Deluxe Edition Book 3	Harley Quinn (vol. 3) #28–42	392	January 2019	978-1401285531
Harley Quinn (2018–2020)
1	Harley vs. Apokolips	Harley Quinn (vol. 3) #43–49	168	December 2018	978-1401285074
2	Harley Destroys the Universe	Harley Quinn (vol. 3) #50–54 and 56	160	April 2019	978-1401288099
3	The Trials of Harley Quinn	Harley Quinn (vol. 3) #55 and 57–63	208	October 2019	978-1401291914
4	The Final Trial	Harley Quinn (vol. 3) #64–69 and Harley Quinn: Villain of the Year #1	208	March 2020	978-1401294557
5	Hollywood or Die	Harley Quinn (vol. 3) #70–75	176	April 2021	978-1779503091
Harley Quinn (2021–present)
1	No Good Deed	Batman: Urban Legends #1 and Harley Quinn (vol. 4) #1–6	168	December 2021	978-1779513465
2	Keepsake	Harley Quinn (vol. 4) #7–12	168	August 2022	978-1779516633

Omnibuses[edit]

Title	Material collected	Pages	Publication date	ISBN
Harley Quinn Omnibus By Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti 1	Harley Quinn (vol. 2) #0–16, Annual #1; Harley Quinn: Futures End #1; Harley Quinn Invades Comic-Con International San Diego; Harley Quinn Holiday Special #1; Harley Quinn Valentine’s Special #1; Harley Quinn and Power Girl #1–6; material from Secret Origin #4	768	September 2017	978-1401276430
Harley Quinn Omnibus By Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti 2	Harley Quinn (vol. 2) #17–30, Harley Quinn Road Trip Special #1, Harley Quinn: Be Careful What You Wish For Special Edition, Harley Quinn and Her Gang of Harleys #1–6 and Harley’s Little Black Book #1–6	864	October 2018	978-1401284565
Harley Quinn Omnibus By Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti 3	Harley Quinn (vol. 3) #1–34 and Harley Quinn 25th Anniversary Special	800	October 2019	978-1401294465
Harley Quinn & the Gotham City Sirens Omnibus	Gotham City Sirens #1–26 and Catwoman #83	648	April 2018 September 2022	978-1401278397 978-1779516763
Harley Quinn: 30 Years of the Maid of Mischief Deluxe Edition	The Batman Adventures #12, Detective Comics #831, The Batman and Robin Adventures #18, Batman: Gotham Adventures #10, Batman: Gotham Knights #14, Harley Quinn #3, Gotham City Sirens #20–21, Harley Quinn Holiday Special #1, Harley Quinn: Be Careful What You Wish For Special Edition #1, Harley Quinn 25th Anniversary Special #1, Harley Quinn: Make ’em Laugh #3, Harley Quinn Black + White + Red #14, Batman #98 and a story from Harley Quinn 30th Anniversary Special #1	336	September 2022	978-1779517180

One-shots and limited series[edit]

Title	Material collected	Writer and artist	Pages	Publication date	ISBN
Batman: Harley and Ivy	Batman: Harley and Ivy #1–3; Harley and Ivy: Love on the Lam; a story from Batman: Black & White Vol. 2	Paul Dini, Judd Winick (story) Bruce Timm, Joe Chiodo (art)	136	July 2007	978-1401213336
Batman: Mad Love and Other Stories	The Batman Adventures: Mad Love, Batman Adventures Annual #1–2, Batman Adventures Holiday Special, Adventures in the DC Universe #3 and Batman Black and White #1	Paul Dini, Bruce Timm, Glen Murakami (story) Bruce Timm, Mike Parobeck, Matt Wagner, Dan DeCarlo, Klaus Janson, and Glen Murakami (art)	208	September 2011	978-1401231156
Batman Adventures: Mad Love Deluxe Edition	The Batman Adventures: Mad Love	Paul Dini (story) Bruce Timm (art)	144	April 2015	978-1401255121
Harley and Ivy: The Deluxe Edition	Batman: Harley and Ivy #1–3, Batman Adventures Annual #1, Batman Adventures Holiday Annual #1, Batman: Gotham Knights #14 and Batman: Black and White #3	Various	176	February 2016	978-1401260804
Harley Quinn and Power Girl	Harley Quinn and Power Girl #1–6	Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti (story) Stéphane Roux (art)	144	March 2016	978-1401259747
Harley Quinn’s Gang of Harleys	Harley Quinn and Her Gang of Harleys #1–6	Frank Tieri and Jimmy Palmiotti Mauricet (art)	152	February 2017	978-1401267858
Harley’s Little Black Book	Harley’s Little Black Book #1–8	Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti (story) Amanda Conner, John Timms, Mauricet, Joseph Michael Linsner, Billy Tucci, Flaviano, Neal Adams, and Simon Bisley (art)	256	November 2018	978-1401273606
Harley Loves Joker	Harley Loves Joker #1–2 and back stories from Harley Quinn (vol. 3) #17–25	Paul Dini and Jimmy Palmiotti (story) Bret Blevins and J. Bone	128	December 2018	978-1401283490
Old Lady Harley	Old Lady Harley #1–5 and Harley Quinn vol. 3 #42	Frank Tieri (story) Inaki Miranda, Tom Derenick, and Mauricet (art)	152	July 2019	978-1401292164
Harley & Ivy Meet Betty & Veronica	Harley & Ivy Meet Betty & Veronica #1–6	Marc Andreyko and Paul Dini (story) Laura Braga (art)	160	September 2019	978-1401292751
Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy	Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy #1–6	Jody Houser (story) Adriana Melo, Wade Von Grawbadger, and Mark Morales (art)	152	May 2021	978-1779505989
Harley Quinn Black + White + Red	Harley Quinn Black + White + Red #1–17 and two new original stories[148]	Various	224	June 2021	978-1779509956
Harley Quinn: The Animated Series Vol. 1: The Eat. Bang! Kill. Tour	Harley Quinn: The Animated Series Vol. 1: The Eat. Bang! Kill. Tour #1–6	Tee Franklin (story) Max Sarin and Erich Owen (art)	144	August 2022	978-1779516640

DC Black Label[edit]

Harley Quinn stars in various series under DC Comics’ adult-oriented Black Label imprint.

Title	Material collected	Writer and artist	Pages	Publication date	ISBN
Harleen	Harleen #1–3	Stjepan Šejić (story and art)	200	February 2020	978-1779501110
Harley Quinn & the Birds of Prey: The Hunt for Harley	Harley Quinn & the Birds of Prey #1–4; a short story from Harley Quinn Black + White + Red #12	Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti (story) Amanda Conner and Chad Hardin (art)	160	March 2021	978-1779504494
Joker/Harley: Criminal Sanity	Joker/Harley: Criminal Sanity #1–8 and Joker/Harley: Criminal Sanity Secret Files (the 2022 edition adds a story from Harley Quinn 30th Anniversary Special #1)	Kami Garcia (story) Mico Suayan, Jason Badower, and Mike Mayhew (art)	304 312	September 2021 September 2022	978-1779512024 978-1779517203

Other versions[edit]

• Harley Quinn’s first major appearance outside the Batman animated world was in the Elseworlds miniseries Thrillkiller. This version of Harley is a schoolgirl named Hayley Fitzpatrick who dresses up to help a female version of the Joker called Bianca Steeplechase. After Batgirl kills Bianca, Harley is shown killing her own family, intent on revenge in the final frames of the story.^[149]
• In the Elseworlds 80-Page Giant, one of the stories is about Lex Luthor as a music producer. One of his groups is, as the press puts it, «alternative lifestyle folkies Ivy and Harley».^[150]
• On the new Earth-3, Harleen Quinzel is the Jokester’s business manager and is killed by the Owlman.^[151]
• Harley appears in Batman/The Spirit. In this crossover, Harley is one of the many villains who helps try to take down the Batman and the Spirit. She initially appears disguised as a flight attendant.
• In the 2008 graphic novel Joker, Harley Quinn appears as the Joker’s helper and aide-de-camp. She at one point acts as a stripper (though this may be a ruse) and is never shown speaking.^[152] In Batman: Damned, the loose sequel to Joker, Harley snaps after the Joker’s mysterious death following a battle with Batman and performs surgery on herself and dressing herself to make her resemble the Joker. Harley leads the Joker’s remaining henchman on a revenge mission, blowing up several buildings and taking over the GCPD building and defacing the Bat-Signal so that it resembles the Joker’s smile. Batman arrives and defeats the henchman before Harley paralyzes him with a toxin, beats him with her baseball bat, and attempts to sexually abuse him. Batman is then possessed by the Enchantress and strangles Harley against the Bat-Signal.^[153]
• In the Ame-Comi Girls universe, Harley is partnered with the Catwoman and Poison Ivy as part of a trio of villains.
• The Flashpoint version of Harley Quinn is named Yo-Yo. She was a henchwoman of the Joker, and the Batman chased her down to find the Joker’s location, as she had kidnapped Judge Dent’s children. He chased her to the ledge of the building around Crime Alley. Batman drops her off the roof, but she is luckily saved by Cyborg.^[154]
• In Batman ’66, a version of Harley Quinn designed more around the 1960s television show (she is slightly taller and her hair is short; she also wears prominent slanted glasses, a long red dress and red blouse, a large pearl necklace, and fairly prominent earrings) appears as Dr. Holly Quinn, Ph.D., a psychologist at Arkham Asylum, referred to as Arkham Institute for the Criminally Insane. She convinces the Joker to cooperate with Batman and Robin in exchange for approving his comedy night proposal.^[155] Dr. Quinn is manipulated by the Catwoman and the Joker to perfect the Joker Wave — a hysteria-inducing transmitting dish used on Gotham. Quinn is devastated by her role in the plot and to atone for her mistake, Dr. Quinn reverses the device by submitting herself to its effects — freeing the people of Gotham but sacrificing her sanity in the process. She escapes and becomes a supervillain named Harlequin, wearing a roller derby-inspired version of the classic Harley costume. She retains her considerable intelligence and psychological training, making her a difficult foe for the Dynamic Duo, but is eventually captured when Batman and Robin disguise themselves as criminals (Batman in his regular alternate guise of Matches Malone) who beat up other bad guys who were auditioning to be Holly’s henchmen.^[156]
• Harley Quinn appears in the prequel comic to the game Injustice: Gods Among Us. She helps the Joker kidnaps Lois Lane and surgically plant a trigger in her heart that will set off a nuclear bomb in Metropolis should her heart stop; when Superman accidentally kills her (thinking she is Doomsday) he becomes devastated, with the grieving Superman killing the Joker as a result. Harley struggles to come to terms with the Joker’s death but develops an attachment to the Green Arrow when he kidnaps her to protect her from Superman’s wrath but is also grief-stricken when he is killed by Superman. She later confronts the Black Canary but hesitates upon realizing she is pregnant upon vomiting mid-battle and reveals to the Black Canary she has a four-year-old daughter named Lucy who lives with her sister. Harley and the Canary befriend each other as a result and Harley starts helping Batman’s Insurgency, though most members distrust her due to her lover’s actions. In Injustice 2, she helps to fight Grodd’s Society and Brainiac alongside the Black Canary, the Green Arrow, and the other Justice League and Regime members. It is revealed in the ending she later joins the Justice League as a fully accepted member, though she occasionally has to deal with her violent impulses. It is also revealed her daughter thinks her mother is her Aunt Harley, though Harley hopes to one day tell her the truth.
• In the Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles crossover, Harley is mutated into a humanoid hyena by the Shredder. She is knocked out by Batman during the battle at Arkham Asylum, and Splinter uses her hammer to take down the rest of the inmates. After the Shredder is defeated, the mutagen in her system decays naturally, causing her and the rest of the mutated inmates to revert to normal.^[157]
• In Batman: White Knight, it is revealed that Harley Quinn was two different women all along. The first Harley Quinn, Harleen Quinzel, quit when the Joker captured and tortured Robin (Jason Todd), and she was replaced by another girl, Marian Drews, without the Joker even realizing it. Once the Joker was cured of his insanity, he proposes marriage to Harley, only for her to beat him and mock him for acting «normal». The original Harley Quinn then appears, kicks the «fake Harley» unconscious, and reveals to Jack Napier (the Joker’s true identity in this continuity) there were two Harleys all along. While Harleen loved the Joker «despite his flaws», Marian loved the Joker by «his flaws». She accepts his marriage proposal and joins him in his quest to rid Gotham City of Batman. Drews then takes the mantle of the Joker for herself «until the real Joker returns», calls herself the Neo Joker, and later romances Poison Ivy.^[158][159]
• In DC Comics Bombshells, Harley fell in with the Joker (in this version, a gangster) after leaving Charm School, but left him when he began his journey into the occult. By the time of the events of the story, Harley is drawn to England by a voice she believes is the Joker, but turns out to be the Joker’s Daughter. She rejects the Joker’s Daughter’s attempt to have the Joker resurrected in the body of Poison Ivy, instead of beginning a relationship with Ivy herself.
• In the Marvel Comics series Gwenpool Strikes Back, a variant of Gwen Poole based on Harley Quinn (from Civil War II) is introduced as a member of the GwenHive, dubbed «Harley Gwen».^[160]
• In DCeased, an alternate universe wherein a virus spreads around the world that turns people into zombie-like creatures, Harley Quinn kills a zombie Joker and convinces Ivy to let what was left of the human race take shelter in Ivy’s territory.

In other media[edit]

Television[edit]

Live action[edit]

• In 2002, a short-lived television series, Birds of Prey, an alternate continuation of Batman Returns, included Harley Quinn as a psychologist and the main antagonist, portrayed by actress Mia Sara. In this show, Harleen Quinzel uses her day job as a psychologist to achieve her hidden purpose: to take control of the city of New Gotham. She does not wear a costume, although she does wear an outfit that is reminiscent of her cartoon costume in the series finale «Devil’s Eyes».
• Harley Quinn made a cameo appearance in the Arrow season two episode «Suicide Squad», voiced again by Tara Strong, while physically portrayed by Cassidy Alexa (credited as «Deranged Squad Female»).^[161][162] The series star Stephen Amell revealed in an interview she was set to appear in the season two finale episode «Unthinkable», but was cut due to time.^[163] The show’s producer Andrew Kreisberg revealed there were plans for the character to appear, but series actress Willa Holland stated they had been axed due to the Suicide Squad film.^[164][165] Harley was mentioned by Kiki Roulette in the Batwoman episode «Broken Toys».
• A character loosely based on Harley Quinn named Ecco appears in the fourth and fifth seasons of Gotham, portrayed by Francesca Root-Dodson. Like Quinn, Ecco wears a black and red outfit, clown makeup, and roller-skates, refers to other characters as «Puddin», and is completely devoted and infatuated with Jeremiah Valeska, the show’s incarnation of the Joker; additionally, the character of Barbara Kean, portrayed by Erin Richards, was also modelled off of Quinn during their appearance in the fourth season, while Meggie Vilcina portrays a young Harleen Quinzel, whose family Bruce Wayne (David Mazouz) rescues, in the final moments of the third season finale «Heavydirtysoul», dressed in black and red. Following Ecco’s death in «The Beginning…», Jeremiah mentions that «there are always other fish in the sea.»^{[166][167][168]}

Animation[edit]

• Harley Quinn appears in The Batman, voiced by Hynden Walch. This version is a former television pop-psychiatrist who also ends up being seduced by the Joker, sharing a normal relationship.
• Harley Quinn appears in Batman: The Brave and the Bold, voiced by Meghan Strange.
• Harley Quinn makes several cameos in Teen Titans Go!.
• Harley Quinn appears in Justice League Action, voiced by Tara Strong.
• Harley Quinn appears in the 2019 animated series DC Super Hero Girls, voiced again by Tara Strong. In this version, Harleen is a fangirl of the Joker and Barbara Gordon’s best friend from Gotham City, though they are unaware of each other’s identities as Harley Quinn and Batgirl up until «Nightmare in Gotham». While initially living at Gotham, she moves to Metropolis in «#Frenemies Part 1», and becomes friends and partners with Catwoman, Poison Ivy, Giganta, Star Sapphire, and Livewire, while also becoming enemy of the DC Super Hero Girls.

Harley Quinn[edit]

• In 2017, it was reported Warner Bros. Animation had ordered 26 half-hour episodes of an adult-oriented Harley Quinn animated series for their new streaming service, DC Universe.^[169] In 2018, it was announced that Kaley Cuoco would provide Harley Quinn’s voice, and a short teaser trailer was released.^[170] The series officially began streaming in 2019.^[171] It focuses on Harley as she «attempts to make it on her own as the criminal Queenpin of Gotham City»,^[169] and step out of the Joker’s shadow with the help of Poison Ivy and her crew of supervillains.^[172][173]

Film[edit]

Live action[edit]

• Harley Quinn was initially set to appear in Batman Unchained, the fifth film planned for the original Batman film series.^[174][175] She was to be featured as the Joker’s (Jack Nicholson) daughter, who allies herself with the Scarecrow to get revenge on Batman for her father’s death.^[176] However, due to the critical and commercial failure of Batman & Robin, this film was cancelled.
• The Batman: Arkham version of Harley makes a cameo appearance in the 2018 film Ready Player One.^[177]
• On August 4, 2022, Lady Gaga was confirmed to be set to play Quinn in the 2024 film Joker: Folie à Deux.^[178][179]

DC Extended Universe[edit]

Margot Robbie portrays Dr. Harleen Quinzel / Harley Quinn in the DC Extended Universe.^[180]

• The character debuted in the 2016 film Suicide Squad. Paul Dini, the creator of Harley Quinn, said Robbie «nailed» her role.^[181]
• Harley Quinn appears in the 2020 spin-off film Birds of Prey, which Robbie also produced. On Robbie’s portrayal of the character in the movie, Dini stated, «I think they really got the essence of the character down, and they made her quite a lot of fun and appealing in so many ways. She’s not totally the animated version, and it’s not totally the Jimmy [Palmiotti] and Amanda [Conner] version, but it kind of borrows from all of them and creates its own reality and its own fun. There are so many moments in that movie that I just think are wonderful. […] When I saw her running, laughing hysterically, pushing a shopping cart full of Peeps, I said, «That’s my girl.» All those little impish things that she did in the movie – sitting down eating cereal, watching Tweety Bird cartoons, and just kind of skipping through life cheerfully oblivious of the devastation she’s caused – that’s Harley.»^[182]
• Harley Quinn appeared in the film The Suicide Squad (2021), a standalone sequel to Suicide Squad.

Animation[edit]

• Harley Quinn has a cameo appearance in Justice League: The New Frontier during a speech by John F. Kennedy.
• An alternate universe version of Harley Quinn appears in Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths. In the film, she is a monkey of «The Jester» (the film version of the Joker).
• Harley Quinn is featured in Batman: Assault on Arkham, voiced by Hynden Walch.
• Harley Quinn appears in Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League: Gotham City Breakout with Tara Strong reprising her role.
• Dr. Harleen Quinzel appears in Batman vs. Two-Face, voiced by Sirena Irwin. She is the assistant to Hugo Strange, who reciprocates the Joker’s flirting. In a Blu-ray exclusive bonus scene, Quinzel, dressed as Harley Quinn, busts the Joker out of prison.
• Harley Quinn appears in DC Super Heroes vs. Eagle Talon, voiced by Kang Ji-young.^[183]
• The Brave and the Bold version of Harley Quinn appears in Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold, with Tara Strong voicing her.
• A feudal Japanese version of Harley Quinn appears in the anime film Batman Ninja, voiced by Rie Kugimiya and Tara Strong in Japanese and English respectively.^[184][185]
• Harley Quinn appears in Teen Titans Go! To the Movies. She has a cameo appearance in an altered future where the villains have taken over.
• Harley Quinn appears in Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, with Tara Strong reprising her role. Harley is first introduced as an inmate at Arkham, who mocks Shredder from inside her cell. After the Joker frees her, she is mutated into a crazy and anthropomorphic hyena and assists her lover in fighting the Bat-family and the Turtles. She is knocked out by a crazed and mutated Batman, and abandoned by the Joker as he attempts to escape. She was presumably demutated by the Gotham police.
• Dr. Harleen Quinzel makes a non-speaking cameo appearance in Batman: Death in the Family.
• Harley Quinn has a cameo appearance in Space Jam: A New Legacy on a train that LeBron James and Bugs Bunny are on while searching the DC World in the “Serververse” for the Toons.
• Harley Quinn appears in the animated film Injustice voice by Gillian Jacobs.^[186]

DC Animated Movie Universe[edit]

• The Flashpoint version of Harley Quinn named Yo-Yo appears in Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox, voiced by Hynden Walch.
• Harley Quinn appears in Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay, with Tara Strong reprising her role. Again, she is a member of the Suicide Squad and is primarily designed after her appearance in The New 52.
• Harley Quinn appears in Batman: Hush and Justice League Dark: Apokolips War, with Hynden Walch reprising her role. In Apokolips War, she is shown to have become the new leader of the Suicide Squad following Amanda Waller’s death by cancer and seeks to avenge the death of Joker, who was apparently killed by Batman, who at the time was under Darkseid’s control.

Lego Batman[edit]

• Harley Quinn appears in Lego Batman: The Movie – DC Super Heroes Unite, an adaptation of the video game of the same name, with Laura Bailey reprising her role.
• Harley Quinn appears in The Lego Batman Movie, voiced by Jenny Slate.
• Harley Quinn appears in The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, voiced by Margot Rubin.

Web series[edit]

• Harley Quinn appears in the Batman Black and White motion comics, voiced by Janyse Jaud.
• Harley Quinn (credited as Harlequin) appears in the first episode of the web series Justice League: Gods and Monsters Chronicles, in which she kidnaps and mutilates an unknown number of people and makes toys and dolls out of the bodies. She fights Batman after he frees her latest victim and ends up surrendering, only to be drained of her blood and possibly killed after Batman reveals his fangs to her. She is voiced by Tara Strong reprising her role from the Arkham franchise.
• Harley Quinn appears in the web series DC Super Hero Girls, in which she is a student at Super Hero High and the roommate of Wonder Woman. Unusually for the character, she is portrayed as a hero instead of a villain and has a mostly positive relationship with her superhero counterparts. She is once again voiced by Tara Strong.

Video games[edit]

DC Animated Universe games[edit]

• Harley cameos in The Adventures of Batman & Robin for the Super NES, and as a boss in The Adventures of Batman & Robin for the Sega Genesis.
• She appears in The Adventures of Batman & Robin for the Sega CD and Batman: Chaos in Gotham, voiced by Arleen Sorkin.
• Harley Quinn appears in Batman Vengeance, voiced by Arleen Sorkin. At the beginning of the game, she disguises herself as Mary Flynn who got her son Toby kidnapped by the Joker. The whole thing came out as a plan to kill Batman, but the plan failed and the Joker apparently died falling off the Gotham bridge. In the final phase of the game, it was revealed the Joker is alive and faked his death to make a bigger plan to destroy Gotham City, with Harley supporting him all along.
• Harley appears in the sequel Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu where she is locked in her Arkham Asylum cell, being paralyzed by Sin Tzu’s mind control.

DC Universe Online[edit]

Harley appears in the DC Universe Online video game, with Arleen Sorkin returning as her voice. Harley is the basic Legends PVP character granted to Villains without having to spend Marks of Legend. To date, this was the last time Arleen Sorkin voiced the character; as of 2016, Harley Quinn is now voiced by Jen Brown, starting with a DLC episode based on the Gotham City Sirens.

Lego series[edit]

• Harley Quinn appears in Lego Batman: The Videogame, with her sound effects provided by Grey DeLisle. She appears as an enemy of Batman, a 1st deputy of the Joker, and the second boss of Chapter 3 «The Joker’s Return».^[187][188] Harley Quinn in Lego Batman is a playable character, can be unlocked through the villain levels and carries a pistol and her giant mallet. She is one of three bosses that later appear as minibosses, the other two being Two-Face and Catwoman.
• Harley Quinn appears in Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes, voiced by Laura Bailey.^[189] She first appears as the first miniboss in «Theatrical Pursuits». In «Arkham Asylum Antics», she rides with the Riddler and Two-Face on the latter’s truck. She also appears as a boss at the Gotham Funland entrance.
• Harley Quinn appears in Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham, voiced by Tara Strong. She has two side-quests in the Hall of Doom, after which she is unlocked as a playable character.
• Harley Quinn is a playable character in Lego Dimensions, with Tara Strong reprising the role.
• Harley Quinn serves as one of the main characters in Lego DC Super-Villains, voiced again by Tara Strong.^[190] Her design is based on The New 52.

Batman: Arkham series[edit]

Harley Quinn appears in the Batman: Arkham franchise. While Arleen Sorkin reprised her role from the DC Animated Universe in the first installment, she was replaced by Tara Strong for the rest of the series.^[191][192]

• In Batman: Arkham Asylum, she takes control of the eponymous asylum to facilitate the Joker’s escape, and makes subsequent appearances throughout the game; kidnapping Warden Quincy Sharp and Commissioner Gordon, releasing Poison Ivy from her cell, and attempting to kill Batman on the Joker’s orders. After Batman defeats Harley, he locks her up in a vacant cell, where she remains for the rest of the storyline. In this game, Harley wears an original nurse-themed costume.
• In Batman: Arkham City, she continues to work with the Joker within the eponymous city-prison, making several appearances throughout the main story. Following the Joker’s death due to his Titan-inflicted disease, Harley watches in shock as Batman carries his lifeless body outside Arkham City. In this game, Harley wears a biker-girl themed costume, using a low-key version of her usual makeup, with heavy eye shadow in lieu of her domino mask.
  • Harley also appears in the Harley Quinn’s Revenge expansion pack, set after the events of the main story, wherein she seeks revenge on Batman for the Joker’s death. After taking several police officers hostage in Arkham City to lure Batman into a trap, she manages to capture him, but is ultimately defeated after Robin rescues Batman. By this point, Harley has taken full control of the Joker’s gang, and has an adopted a new look: mostly black clothes, with hair dyed black, a mourning veil, and a «J» necklace.
• Harley Quinn appears in the mobile game Batman: Arkham City Lockdown, set before the events of Arkham City, where she takes a reporter a hostage to ransom her for the Joker’s release from prison. After luring Batman into a trap, she tries to execute the bound and gagged reporter but is stopped by one of Batman’s batarangs.
• Dr. Harleen Quinzel appears in Batman: Arkham Origins, which takes place before her transformation into Harley Quinn. She interviews the Joker at Blackgate Prison and falls in love with him after he confesses his fascination with someone whom he considers special to him (with Harley believing the Joker is talking about her, when in reality he is thinking of Batman). She later appears amongst the prison’s other staff members held hostage by the Joker when he takes over the facility, but she is rescued by Batman. Quinzel is last seen escorting the Joker to his cell after he is defeated by Batman.
• Harley returns in Batman: Arkham Knight. Still in charge of the remains of the Joker’s gang and vengeful against Batman, she is recruited by the Scarecrow to assist him in his plot to kill the Dark Knight. Harley discovers Batman and Robin’s hideout at the abandoned Panessa Studios, where the two are keeping the victims of the Joker’s blood transfusion who were not affected by the cure under observation. She leads her gang to invade the hideout and release the Joker patients, but is foiled after one of them betrays her and kills the others before committing suicide. Harley is then locked up by Batman in one of the Joker victims’ cells left vacant, where she remains for the rest of the storyline. In this game, she wears a modified version of her Arkham City costume.
  • Apart from the main game, she is a playable character via downloadable content. She was included in her self-titled expansion pack, which also features four challenge maps and a story-driven mission for the character, set shortly before the events of Arkham Knight, wherein she breaks into the Blüdhaven Police Headquarters to free Poison Ivy on Scarecrow’s orders.^[193] Harley has several unique gagdets at her disposal, including her baseball bat, explosive jack-in-the-box, and laughing gas, as well as a variant of Detective Mode, called Psychosis Mode, which allows the player to see enemies and objects of interest through walls; when the player keeps Psychosis Mode active for an extended period of time, the character’s Harleen and Harley personas can be heard fighting for control of her body. Harley also appears as a boss in the Batgirl: A Matter of Family DLC mission, set before the events of Arkham Asylum, in which she dons her classic jester costume.
• Harley appears as a playable character in the mobile game Batman: Arkham Underworld. She is unlocked after the player completes a mission for her, and wields a special pistol, grenades, and a baseball bat. She can also summon her pet hyenas.
• Harley will appear as a playable character in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.^[194] In the game, she is part of the Suicide Squad assembled by Amanda Waller to eliminate Brainiac and the members of the Justice League brainwashed by him in Metropolis.

Injustice series[edit]

• Harley Quinn appears as a playable fighter in Injustice: Gods Among Us, voiced by Tara Strong.^[195] In the alternate universe depicted in the game, Quinn establishes the Joker Clan to honor the Clown Prince of Crime after he is murdered by Superman. She is part of Batman’s Insurgency and is tempted in the story to revert to her older ways when an alternate Joker arrives in her dimension until Lex Luthor manages to convince her the Joker is manipulating her for his ends. In her arcade ending, she fatally slits the Joker’s throat after a wedding gone wrong.^[196]
• Harley Quinn appears as a playable fighter in Injustice 2, with Tara Strong reprising her role.^[197][198] She is a main character in the single-player campaign, wherein she serves as one of Batman’s most trustworthy allies, and assists him and the other heroes in combating Brainiac and the Society, which includes Poison Ivy. Harley is also shown to have completely overcome her feelings for the Joker after realizing he had been controlling and abusing her for years. In her arcade ending, she is offered a position within the Justice League and admits that she still has violent impulses from time to time, but manages to keep them under control by being heroic and spending time with her daughter Lucy (who believes her to be her aunt, though Harley hopes to tell her the truth someday).

Batman: The Enemy Within[edit]

Harley Quinn appears in Batman: The Enemy Within (the sequel to Batman: The Telltale Series), voiced by Laura Post.^[199] This version of Dr. Harleen Quinzel was driven insane following her father’s long bout with mental illness and eventual suicide. Attempting to avoid her father’s fate, she joins a criminal organization called the Pact to steal a virus able to cure her hereditary condition. This depiction initially reverses the dynamic between Harley and the Joker. Quinn manipulates and abuses her former patient at Arkham Asylum, named «John Doe», who is infatuated with her. As the series progresses, John’s confidence will increase, and depending on the player’s choices, he will either aid Bruce Wayne in capturing Quinn or transform into the traditional version of the Joker. In the latter outcome, Harley will become the Joker’s girlfriend and the two use the virus to threaten Gotham City.

Other appearances[edit]

• Harley Quinn appears in Infinite Crisis as a playable character, voiced by Tara Strong.^[200]
• Harley Quinn is among the villains summoned by Brainiac to retrieve Starites in Scribblenauts Unmasked.
• Harley Quinn appears as a playable character in the mobile game, Suicide Squad: Special Ops, based on the film.
• She appears as a playable character in DC Legends and DC Unchained.
• In Mortal Kombat 11, Harley Quinn appears as a DLC costume skin for Cassie Cage.
• Harley Quinn is a usable cosmetic outfit Fortnite.
• Harley Quinn appears as a playable character in SINoALICE, voiced by Rie Kugimiya.^[201]
• Harley Quinn appears as a playable character in the mobile game, DC Battle Arena, voiced by Kira Buckland.^[202]
• Harley Quinn is a playable character in MultiVersus, voiced by Tara Strong.^[203]
• Harley Quinn appears in Gotham Knights, voiced by Kari Wahlgren.^[204]

Novels[edit]

Harley Quinn has her own novel adaptation from comics as part of the DC Comic Novels series. Mad Love was released in November 2018 and written by Pat Cardigan and original co-creator Paul Dini and published by Titan Books.

She is reinterpreted as Pauline Ketch in The Refrigerator Monologues.^[205]

See also[edit]

• Hybristophilia
• List of Batman family enemies

References[edit]

Sources[edit]

Further reading[edit]

• Langley, Travis (2012). Batman and Psychology: A Dark and Stormy Knight. New York City, New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-118-16765-6.
• Barba, Shelley E.; Perrin, Joy M. (2017). The Ascendance of Harley Quinn: Essays on DC’s Enigmatic Villain. McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-1476665238.

External links[edit]

• Harley Quinn at DC Comics’ official website
• Harley Quinn on the DC Animated Universe Wiki, an external wiki
• Harley Quinn at Curlie
• Collecting Harley Quinn
• Harley Quinn on the official Superman/Batman Adventures homepage, archived 1999-10-04

Harley Quinn
The classic and modern iterations of Harley Quinn. Art by Terry Dodson.
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	Batman: The Animated Series «Joker’s Favor» (September 11, 1992)
First comic appearance	The Batman Adventures #12 (September 1993)
Created by	Paul Dini Bruce Timm
In-story information
Alter ego	Harleen Frances Quinzel[1][2]
Species	Human
Place of origin	Brooklyn / Gotham City
Team affiliations	Suicide Squad Gotham City Sirens Quinntets Gang of Harleys Secret Six Justice League of Anarchy Batman Family[3]
Partnerships	Joker Poison Ivy Bud and Lou
Notable aliases	Holly Chance[4] Dr. Jessica Seaborn[5]
Abilities	Trained psychiatrist Expert hand-to-hand combatant and gymnast Enhanced strength, durability, stamina, reflexes, and agility Immunity to various toxins Uses weaponized props

Harley Quinn is a character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Quinn was created by Paul Dini and Bruce Timm as a comic relief henchwoman for the supervillain Joker in Batman: The Animated Series, and debuted in its 22nd episode, «Joker’s Favor», on September 11, 1992. While intended to appear in one episode, Quinn became a recurring character within the DC Animated Universe as the Joker’s sidekick and love interest, and was adapted into DC Comics’ Batman comic book canon seven years later, beginning with the one-shot Batman: Harley Quinn #1 (October 1999). Quinn’s origin story features her as a former psychiatrist at Gotham City’s Arkham Asylum named Dr. Harleen Quinzel who fell in love with the Joker, her patient, eventually becoming his accomplice and lover. The character’s alias is a play on the stock character Harlequin from the 16th-century theater commedia dell’arte.

Following her introduction to the DC Universe in 1999, Harley Quinn was depicted as a frequent accomplice and lover of the Joker as well as the best friend of fellow supervillain Poison Ivy. Later stories depicted Quinn as a supervillain who has left her abusive relationship with the Joker behind, beginning with the publication of her first ongoing series written by Karl Kesel in 2000. After years of scarce appearances in comics, Quinn returned in a leading role in 2009 with the Gotham City Sirens series, as part of an unstable alliance with Poison Ivy and Catwoman. In 2011, DC’s line-wide reboot The New 52 reintroduced Quinn in the relaunched Suicide Squad title, which changed the character’s personality, design, and origin, replacing her original jester costume with a revealing ensemble and depicting her to be darker than her earlier counterpart. The character took a lighthearted and humorous direction with her second ongoing series in 2013, written by Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti, which features the character moving to her hometown of Brooklyn and starting her own life in Coney Island. The character has since been depicted as an antihero independent of the Joker and a recurring core member of the Suicide Squad, with Poison Ivy becoming her primary romantic interest.^[6] In 2021, DC’s line-wide Infinite Frontier relaunch brought Quinn back to Gotham City and reestablished her as a superhero seeking redemption for her past actions.

Harley Quinn’s abilities include expert gymnastic skills, proficiency in weapons and hand-to-hand combat, complete unpredictability, immunity to toxins, and enhanced strength, agility, and durability. Quinn often wields clown-themed gag weapons, with an oversized mallet being her signature weapon. The character has a pair of pet hyenas, Bud and Lou, which sometimes serve as her attack dogs. As a trained psychiatrist with a genius-level intellect, she is adept at deception and psychological manipulation.

Harley Quinn has become one of DC Comics’ most popular and profitable characters, and has been featured in many of DC’s comic books and adapted in various other media and merchandise. DC Comics Publisher Jim Lee considers Harley Quinn the fourth pillar of DC Comics’ publishing line, behind Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman.

Originally voiced by Arleen Sorkin in the DC Animated Universe, she has since appeared in many other DC projects voiced by actresses such as Tara Strong, Hynden Walch, Laura Bailey, Jenny Slate, Melissa Rauch, Laura Post, and Kaley Cuoco; the latter provided the character’s voice in the 2019 animated series Harley Quinn. Mia Sara portrayed the character in the 2002 television series Birds of Prey. Harley Quinn makes her live-action cinematic debut in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) film Suicide Squad (2016), where she is portrayed by Margot Robbie. Robbie reprises her role in Birds of Prey (2020) and The Suicide Squad (2021), with elements of her portrayal’s design consequentially incorporated into comics, while Lady Gaga will portray the character in Joker: Folie à Deux (2024).

History[edit]

Creation and development[edit]

Harley Quinn was created by Paul Dini and Bruce Timm for the 1992 Batman: The Animated Series episode entitled «Joker’s Favor» while Dini was writing the episode.^[7] Initially written as an animated equivalent of a walk-on role, Harley Quinn was intended to appear in just one episode.^[8][9] As Dini was putting together the story for the episode, he wanted to introduce a foil for the supervillain Joker; Dini recalled, «The way I created her was I was writing a story called “Joker’s Favor” and it was my first Joker story and I wanted to make it good and I wanted to make the Joker everything he is in the better comics books, which is funny and scary and egotistical and I thought maybe a foil would bring out some of those personality traits.»^[10][11] He then thought of giving Joker a female henchperson, inspired by the molls of the 1960s live-action Batman series,^[9][12][13] and then decided she would be a «funny counterpart to the Joker to maybe work up a little Punch and Judy attitude between them»;^[10] Dini stated, «[…] she could crack a joke and the henchmen would laugh, and the Joker would kind of glare at her.»^[14] In 1991, after seeing his college friend Arleen Sorkin play a roller-skating jester from a dream sequence in the soap opera Days of Our Lives, Dini decided to have Sorkin voice her.^[10][13] Dini then partly based Harley Quinn on Sorkin, with Dini incorporating aspects of Sorkin, such as her «very snappy, wisecracking, bubbly blonde» personality into the character as well as her mannerisms.^[14][11][10] In recording Harley Quinn’s voice, Sorkin spoke in her normal Brooklyn accent while putting in a «little Yiddish sound», since Dini made the character Jewish, another aspect of the character borrowed from Sorkin.^{[13][15][16][17]}

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Paul Dini’s original design for Harley Quinn, a «crazy blond character in a miniskirt» based on actress Barbara Eden and «1940s screwballs» such as Betty Hutton, Gloria Grahame, and Claudette Colbert.[14][18]
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The dream sequence from the show Days of Our Lives in which Arleen Sorkin plays a jester, which served as inspiration for the character’s creation. Dini came across the scene while watching a VHS tape of Sorkin’s «favorite Days moments», given to Dini by Sorkin.[10][13]

Dini had several names in mind while naming the character, such as Columbine, and eventually settled on the name «Harley Quinn».^[19] Dini chose the name for the character to be in line with other Batman characters’s names being puns, and also because he thought «Harley was a fun name for a girl.»^[20][14] The name Harley Quinn is a play on Harlequin, a stock character from the sixteenth-century Italian physical comedy theater commedia dell’arte.^[9][21]

In designing the character, Timm did a «simplified supervillain version» of traditional Harlequin gear; from the commedia dell’arte original, he took the jester hat, ruffled collar, diamond pattern, and domino mask and put them on a red-and-black bodysuit, on which the diamonds were strategically placed for easier animation.^[9][16] Timm took Harley Quinn’s red and black motif from the Golden Age comic book character Daredevil.^[9] Dini had previously made a rough design for the character, which Timm improved on.^[13]

Expanded role[edit]

After seeing Harley Quinn in the rough cut of «Joker’s Favor», the producers of Batman: The Animated Series, which include Dini and Timm, were impressed with the result, with Dini wanting to bring the character back for more episodes.^[22][9] Timm and another producer, Alan Burnett, were initially reluctant of this, and thought that giving Joker a girlfriend «played more towards his comedic side» and would «humanize him too much», which contrasted their vision for Joker as a character who is «as serious a threat as possible to Batman».^[22][9] Nevertheless, months after «Joker’s Favor», Harley made a second appearance on the show in the episode «The Laughing Fish» and became the Joker’s love interest.^[9] Harley Quinn gained popularity with fans of The Animated Series, with the character being featured more on the show and eventually starring in her own episodes, such as 1993’s «Harley and Ivy», which introduced a friendship between Harley Quinn and fellow supervillain Poison Ivy, and 1994’s «Harlequinade» and «Harley’s Holiday», which explored Harley Quinn’s life without the Joker.^[23][24][25] Harley Quinn then became a recurring character in the DC Animated Universe, appearing in The Animated Series sequel The New Batman Adventures, and in non-Batman animation such as Superman: The Animated Series, Static Shock, and Justice League. On February 7, 1994, she made her first appearance in a video game in The Adventures of Batman and Robin, an action platformer based on Batman: The Animated Series.^[26][27]

Transition to comic books[edit]

Because of her popularity, Harley Quinn was adapted into DC’s comic books.^[33] In September 1993, a year following Harley Quinn’s first appearance in Batman: The Animated Series, the character made her comic book debut in the twelfth issue of The Batman Adventures, a series set in the universe of The Animated Series, and became a regular character.^[6][7] In 1997, she appeared in the story Batman: Thrillkiller, released under Elseworlds, a DC Comics imprint that published out-of-continuity alternate reality stories, as Hayley Fitzpatrick.^[6] In 1999, she became a canonical character with the release of Batman: Harley Quinn #1.^[6]

Origin story[edit]

In February 1994, the one-shot The Batman Adventures: Mad Love recounting Harley’s origin was released. Written by Dini and drawn by Timm, the story marks their first comic book collaboration.^[22] Mad Love introduces Harley Quinn as a former psychiatrist named Harleen Quinzel who fell in love with the Joker during her internship at Gotham City’s Arkham Asylum and details her transformation into the Joker’s villainous accomplice Harley Quinn, as well as the Joker’s lack of respect for Harley.^{[22][24][34][35]} Widely considered the definitive Harley Quinn story,^[36][37][38] Mad Love added dimensions to the character, with Dini introducing Harley Quinn’s motivations as well as establishing her as a tragic figure and sympathetic villain.^{[39][40][41][42][43]} The story received wide praise and won the Eisner and Harvey awards for Best Single Issue in the same year and was later adapted into an episode of the same name in The New Batman Adventures in 1999.^[44][45][25]

Name origin[edit]

Harley Quinn’s actual name is established in Mad Love as Harleen Frances Quinzel. «Harleen Frances» was borrowed by Dini from Sorkin’s first and middle name, Arleen Frances. «Quinzel» was taken from a former teacher of Dini’s from Emerson College named Quenzel.^[14]

Introduction to mainstream DC continuity[edit]

Harley Quinn was adapted into the mainstream DC Universe with the 1999 one-shot graphic novel Batman: Harley Quinn, written by Dini and illustrated by Yvel Guichet.^[46], which put her origin in the middle of the «No Man’s Land» story line.^[47] Dini changed Harley and the Joker’s relationship to be darker to match the Joker’s character in the comics; in the story, the Joker attempts to kill Harley at the first opportunity. Dini also gave Harley new abilities, such as immunity to toxins and enhanced strength and agility, which she received after having been injected a special formula by Poison Ivy. These changes were made to match the needs of the DC Universe; on her new abilities, Dini said: «I figured if she’d be going head-to-head with Batman and the other DC heroes, Harley would need some kind of physical edge.»^[22][46]

First ongoing series[edit]

While pursuing new assignments at DC Comics’ offices in New York City, Karl Kesel was approached by former DC editor Matt Idelson to create a pitch for Harley Quinn’s first ongoing series, which Karl accepted, being a fan of the character after having read Dini’s Mad Love.^[22] Kesel chose Terry Dodson as the artist for the series, whose art Kesel thought complemented the character’s cartoonish roots and worldview.^[22][49] Kesel called Dodson and asked him if he was interested on working on the comic, to which Dodson agreed, and the two worked for a month on their proposal for the series, which was to make a comic about «love gone horribly, terribly wrong».^[49][22] The proposal was accepted by DC Comics, and the pair began work on the series, with Kesel and Dodson both being involved in the storytelling, and Dodson bringing in his wife, Rachel Dodson, to ink.^[22] Kesel’s run on the series began being published in December 2000, and was about Harley Quinn leaving the Joker and becoming a solo criminal, alongside a supporting cast of henchmen named the Quinntets.^[22] Because of underwhelming sales, his 25-issue run ended in December 2002, and DC decided to change the creative team; the series was given to writer A.J. Lieberman and artists Mike Huddleston and Troy Nixey by Idelson, and took on a grittier and darker direction, contrasting Kesel’s run.^[50] The decision renewed interest in the character, but the sales remained lackluster and the series was cancelled in 2003.^[50][13]

Gotham City Sirens[edit]

After years of scarce appearances in comics, Harley Quinn resurfaced in a leading role in July 2009 with Gotham City Sirens, a team-up title created by Dini.^[51][6][13] The series brought together Batman’s most popular female villains, Harley Quinn, Catwoman, and Poison Ivy, in an unstable alliance.^[52][53][54] The series also expanded on Harley Quinn’s background and early life; in Gotham City Sirens #7, Dini established the character’s hometown being Brooklyn, and also introduced her dysfunctional family, with her swindling father being described as the main reason for her pursuing psychiatry.^[55][56][57]

The first several issues of Gotham City Sirens were written by Dini and illustrated by Guillem March. Other creatives who worked for the series include writers Tony Bedard and Peter Calloway, and artists David López, Andres Guinaldo, Peter Nguyen, Jeremy Haun, and Ramon Bachs.^[53] The series was cancelled in August 2011 for The New 52, DC Comics’ relaunch of their entire comic line.^[54]

The New 52[edit]

Suicide Squad[edit]

As part of the New 52 reboot in September 2011, Harley Quinn was reintroduced by Adam Glass as a prominent member of the supervillain team Task Force X in the relaunched Suicide Squad series.^[24][59] The character was heavily redesigned to fit the tone of the book; her color motif was changed to red and blue, her jester costume was replaced with a revealing ensemble consisting of a corset and hot pants, her skin was bleached white, and her previously blonde hair was altered to half-blue and half-red.^{[60][13][59][61]} Her personality had also been depicted to be more violent and psychopathic than her former iteration.^[13][33][59]

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The controversial cover artwork for Suicide Squad (vol. 4) #1, which introduced Harley Quinn’s revealing look for the relaunched title.[13] Art by Ryan Benjamin.

In the series, Glass separated Harley Quinn from the Joker and explored her «becom[ing] her own person», with the Suicide Squad becoming a family to her;^[62][63] Glass stated, «Harley’s always wanted to belong to something. And if not Joker, then the team – and she’s finding herself in all this. She’s finding her place in the world, that she’s not just a sidekick.»^[63]

Suicide Squad was cancelled in April 2014 to coincide with the conclusion of the «Forever Evil» storyline.^[64]

New origin[edit]

In the seventh issue of Suicide Squad, Glass revised Harley Quinn’s origin story, making it reflect the Joker’s origins. In the story, the Joker takes Harleen Quinzel to the chemical plant where he originated and pushes her into a vat of chemicals against her will, which bleaches her skin and drives her insane, resulting in her transformation to Harley Quinn, similar to the Joker’s transformation in his origins.^[65] This origin was received negatively by fans of the character, who felt that its removal of Harley Quinn’s choice to become the Joker’s accomplice herself, as depicted in her previous origin stories, took out an essential part of her character.^[65]

Second ongoing series[edit]

Harley Quinn’s second ongoing series, written by husband and wife Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Conner, with the interior art illustrated by Chad Hardin and John Timms, explored Harley Quinn leaving Gotham City and starting her own life in her hometown of Brooklyn, depicting her as a landlord in Coney Island, where she shares an apartment building with a supporting cast of «sideshow freaks».^{[66][13][67][68][69]} Considered to be the most defining writers to work on the character since Dini and Timm, Palmiotti and Conner reinvented Harley Quinn as an antihero who has left her controlling relationship with the Joker behind.^[24][70][71]

In contrast to Harley Quinn’s depiction in Glass’ Suicide Squad, Palmiotti and Conner wrote Harley Quinn with a lighthearted, cartoonish, and humorous tone. Her costume has also been changed with a roller derby-inspired costume designed by Conner, which incorporates Conner’s favorite aspects of Harley Quinn’s early costume and her costume in Glass’ Suicide Squad.^[68][72][66] The series also brought back Harley Quinn’s red and black motif.^[61]

The series began being published in November 2013, starting with Harley Quinn #0, which brought together seventeen comic book artists, including Harley Quinn co-creator Bruce Timm, to illustrate a fourth wall-breaking story about Harley thinking of the artists that could illustrate her in her own comic book series.^[73][74] The rest of the series details Harley Quinn’s adventures in Coney Island with her supporting cast.^[75] In Harley Quinn #25, Palmiotti and Conner reunited Harley Quinn with the Joker; the story depicts Harley Quinn returning to Gotham City to confront the Joker and end their relationship.^[76][77]

With Harley Quinn’s longtime friend Poison Ivy being a recurring character in the series, Palmiotti and Conner built on their relationship and hinted at romantic feelings between the two characters; Poison Ivy is shown kissing Harley Quinn multiple times throughout the series, and a sexual relationship between them was alluded to in the 25th issue.^[75][71] When asked regarding their relationship in a Twitter Q&A, Palmiotti and Conner replied, «Yes, they are girlfriends without the jealousy of monogamy.»^[35]

The New 52 Harley Quinn series received positive reception, and was also one of DC Comics’ top selling series, inspiring multiple spin-offs.^[75][72] The series was ended for the DC Rebirth relaunch of DC’s titles.^[78]

Controversies[edit]

The cover of the first issue of the New 52‘s Suicide Squad title drew controversy for its oversexualized depiction of Harley Quinn.^[13] This also caused some fans of the character to send Glass hatemail and personal threats.^[62]

In September 2013, DC Comics announced an art contest entitled «Break into comics with Harley Quinn!», in which contestants were to draw Harley in four different suicide scenarios. This contest drew controversy not only because it was announced close to National Suicide Prevention Week, but because some artists did not like the sexualized portrayal of Harley Quinn in the fourth scenario, in which the character attempts suicide while naked in her bathtub. The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, American Psychiatric Association, and National Alliance on Mental Illness all responded to the controversy in an emailed group statement to the Huffington Post, stating, «We are disappointed that DC Comics has decided to host a contest looking for artists to develop ways to depict suicide attempts by one of its main villains – Harley Quinn». After seeing the reactions to the contest, DC Comics apologized, saying they should have made it clear it was a dream sequence that was not supposed to be taken seriously. In the final version, the bathtub scene was cut and replaced with Harley Quinn sitting on a rocket while flying in space.^[79][80][81]

DC Rebirth[edit]

In June 2016, the DC Rebirth event relaunched DC Comics’ entire line of comic book titles. Both Harley Quinn as well as Suicide Squad were rebooted, with the latter starting with the one-shot issue Suicide Squad: Rebirth #1 (October 2016). Harley Quinn’s DC Rebirth design included pink and blue dyed hair tips and a jacket inspired by Margot Robbie’s portrayal of the character in the 2016 film Suicide Squad, a change established in the last issues of her New 52 series.^[82][83]

Harley Quinn returns as a regular character in the relaunched Suicide Squad series, written by Rob Williams. The series was cancelled in January 2019.^[84]

Harley Quinn’s relaunched ongoing series is a direct continuation of the former, with Conner and Palmiotti still writing for the character, and Hardin and Timms illustrating the interior art.^[85] After having written 64 issues of Harley Quinn’s ongoing series, Conner and Palmiotti’s five-year run ended with the 34th issue of the series in December 2017, with writer Frank Tieri and artist Inaki Miranda taking over the title.^[86][87][88] Tieri’s run on the series ended with the series’ 42nd issue, followed by a two-issue storyline written by Christopher Sebela and illustrated by Mirka Andolfo.^[89] By issue #45 in July 2018, Sam Humphries was the new writer for the series, with John Timms returning to provide art.^[88][89] The series ended in August 2020.^[90]

Harley Loves Joker[edit]

In 2017, Harley Quinn co-creator Paul Dini wrote a backup feature for Harley Quinn’s Rebirth monthly series entitled Harley Loves Joker, co-written by Palmiotti and illustrated by Bret Blevins, which ran for 9 issues.^[91] The story brought back Harley Quinn’s classic characterization and focuses on her past with the Joker. Unlike her characterization in Batman: The Animated Series, Dini and Palmiotti wrote Harley Quinn in the story as less of a «doormat», with Harley Quinn and Joker being on equal footing in their relationship.^[92] The story concluded with the two-part limited series of the same name, which also expanded on Harley Quinn’s past as a former intern in animal research at S.T.A.R. Labs, where she met her pet hyenas Bud and Lou.^[93] In the second part of the story, Dini and Palmiotti explained Harley Quinn’s change in costume, establishing the character’s modern design as a reflection of her having left her relationship with the Joker.^[94][95]

Infinite Frontier[edit]

For the 2021 Infinite Frontier relaunch, Harley Quinn is moved back to Gotham City as a superheroine, where she frequently interacts with and aids the Batman family, and she is given a new design by Riley Rossmo.^[96] Harley Quinn’s fourth ongoing series, written by Stephanie Phillips and illustrated by Rossmo, depicts her «actively looking to make up for her past sins», alongside a former Joker henchman named Kevin.^[97][96] Harley Quinn also has a prominent role in the «Fear State» crossover event.^[98]

Skills, abilities, and equipment[edit]

Harley Quinn has no superpowers, and relies on her unpredictability, gymnastics skills, and weapons and hand-to-hand proficiency.^[99] She is a peak athlete, having won a gymnastics scholarship at Gotham City’s Gotham State University.^{[99][100][22]} Following her transition to main DC canon in 1999, Harley Quinn was established as having immunity to toxins and enhanced strength, agility, durability, and reflexes, which she received after having been injected a serum concocted by Poison Ivy.^[99] «Vengeance Unlimited, Part Five» (Harley Quinn vol. 1 #30) revealed that it also gave her the ability to breathe underwater.^[101]

Harley Quinn is skilled in using various weapons, often employing weaponized clown-themed gag items, including pop guns, rubber chickens, and a gun that shoots a boxing glove, as well as oversized pistols and mallets, the latter being her signature weapon.^{[102][103][104]} Other weapons she uses include: unconventional weapons, such as a baseball bat; explosive weapons such as bazookas, customized bombs, and dynamites;^[105] firearms, such as pistols, assault rifles, and machine guns;^[105] Harley Quinn also has a pair of pet hyenas, Bud and Lou, which she can order to attack her opponents.^[99]

Despite being mentally unstable and sometimes distracted, Harley is highly intelligent. Her intellect extends to her psychological, tactical and deception abilities, but she does not stand out for particular strategic or scientific skills and often remains subordinate to the Joker, who between the two is the genius and the inventor. Harleen Quinzel earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology and as a former Arkham psychiatrist, was highly qualified in psychoanalysis, criminology, and forensic psychiatry. While not on par with Joker, she is still an expert tactician, deceiver and escapologist, and still shows traces of her psychological experience. Harley Quinn is the only person besides the Joker to concoct Joker Venom, the Joker’s signature weapon, and is shown to have reverse-engineered its formula and developed an antitoxin.^[106][107] She also has an indomitable pathological will.

Just like Poison Ivy, sometimes and not as much, Harley uses her feminine charm to attract men but only to be able to manipulate them. Unlike the Joker, she is able to simulate sanity, thus being able to pretend to be a «normal» person. In this way, she disguised herself as a security guard, a lawyer and even Poison Ivy and Batgirl.

Romantic interests[edit]

Harley Quinn has had several love interests, the most notable being the Joker and Poison Ivy. Other love interests include Mason Macabre, a character created by Conner and Palmiotti.^[108] Plastic Man was initially intended to be a love interest for Harley Quinn by Kesel, but was not approved by DC.^[109]

The Joker[edit]

The Joker is Harley Quinn’s former lover. Harley’s solo comics often explores her former association with the Joker through «flashbacks of their past exploits, present-day conflicts», or through Harley as she «laments his absence».^[110] Harley often refers to him as «Mistah J» and «Puddin'».^[111]

Their relationship is known for its abusive and codependent nature, first established in Harley’s first origin story Mad Love.^[22] The Joker habitually abuses Harley, and despite the abuse, Harley Quinn returns to him.^[112] In the 1999 one-shot comic Batman: Harley Quinn, the Joker decides to kill Harley, after admitting that he does care for her, that their relationship is romantic, and that these feelings prevent him from fulfilling his purpose.^[113] Dini describes their relationship as abusive,^[114] and empathizes with Harley’s feelings of abandonment, with Dini basing most of Harley’s dialogue on his past experiences.^[115]

The Joker’s controlling and codependent relationship with Harley Quinn has been analyzed as a means of the Joker reinforcing his own belief in his power in a world where he may be killed or neutralized by another villain or Batman.^[116] Joker mirrors his identity through Harley in her appearance, and even though he may ignore or act indifferent towards her, he continues to try to subject her to his control.^[116] When Harley successfully defeats Batman in Mad Love (1994), the Joker, emasculated by his own failure, severely injures her out of fear of what the other villains will think of him; however, while Harley recovers, the Joker sends her flowers, which she accepts, reasserting his control over her.^[117]

Poison Ivy[edit]

Poison Ivy is Harley Quinn’s current love interest and best friend, and Harley often refers to her as «Red».^[118] Ivy was first introduced as a new friend to Harley by Dini in the 1993 Batman: The Animated Series episode «Harley and Ivy».^[119] The episode came from Dini wanting to make Harley a stronger character and write a story where she leaves the Joker; Dini decided to pair her up with Ivy because she was «the strongest contrast to Harley».^[119] The two later became close friends within the DC Animated Universe. Dini has stated that he could see a romantic relationship between the two happening the more he worked with the two characters, but the impossibility of properly portraying their relationship in a kids cartoon at the time prevented it from happening.^[41]

Prior to the New 52 reboot, Ivy is shown as having teamed up on occasion with Harley with Harley being her best friend and recurring ally. Unlike most villain team-ups, their partnership is based on genuine friendship and mutual respect. Ivy sincerely wants to save Harley from her unhealthy abusive relationship with the Joker. Accordingly, Poison Ivy despises the Joker, and the two exchange vicious banter at every opportunity. In the final storyline of the Gotham City Sirens series, Harley suggests that Ivy may be in love with her, an accusation that stuns her.^[120] The following issue has Poison Ivy acknowledge that she may indeed love Harley, but the details of her love are never specified, and the series ended with the New 52 reboot before their relationship could be addressed.^[121]

Conner and Palmiotti hinted at a romantic relationship in the New 52 Harley Quinn series,^[75][71] and later confirmed that Harley and Ivy are in a non-monogamous relationship.^[122][35] 2017’s Harley Quinn #25 marked their first canonical kiss.^[123]

Character biography[edit]

DC Animated Universe[edit]

Harley Quinn first appeared in Batman: The Animated Series (1992–1995), voiced by Arleen Sorkin, who subsequently reprised her role in other DC Animated Universe series, including Superman: The Animated Series (1996–2000), The New Batman Adventures (1997–1999), Static Shock (2000–2004), and Justice League (2001–2004), as well as the film Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000). Following Sorkin’s retirement in 2012, the character was voiced by Melissa Rauch in Batman and Harley Quinn (2017) and an uncredited Tara Strong in Justice League vs. the Fatal Five (2019).

Originally a career-oriented psychologist, Dr. Harleen Quinzel’s life took a radical turn when she chose to take an internship at Arkham Asylum for a semester of college. Convinced by the Joker himself to do it, Harleen interviewed him and learned he was abused as a child by his alcoholic father (later learning this backstory to have been one of several different stories he had told to others, some with different details each time), and after more interviews, determined Batman was the primary source of the Joker’s anger and was to blame for his actions, but that she also had fallen in love with him. Harleen helped the Joker escape and, renaming herself Harley Quinn, became his sidekick in hopes that she could win his love, going on a crime spree across the United States of America.^[124]

After assisting Joker in attempting to assassinate Commissioner James Gordon by planting a bomb at a dinner in his honour, she was subdued by Batman, and subsequently an accomplice in virtually all of Joker’s criminal schemes.^[125] On occasion, she would be kicked out of Joker’s gang when unintentionally upstaging or annoying the Joker, on one of these occasions teaming up with Poison Ivy, with the two becoming close friends and a successful crime duo independently.^[126] While imprisoned on her own in Arkham Asylum, Batman offered her a pardon in exchange for helping him track down the Joker after he had stolen a nuclear bomb.^[127] The day she is declared rehabilitated and paroled, Harley’s hyperactivity and unfamiliarity with the «real» world leads to her accidentally kidnap someone and be returned to Arkham yet again.^[128]

In the 31-episode Gotham Girls webtoon, Harley joins forces with Poison Ivy and Catwoman in a co-starring role.

After several failed attempts at rehabilitation, Harley returns to the Joker’s side. However, after another failed attempt to kill Commissioner Gordon leads the Joker to forgetting their anniversary, Harley re-examines her life and decides that as Batman was the cause of the Joker’s obsession, she should capture and kill him herself for him to kill, doing so by falsely pretending to have found sanity and luring Batman into a trap. Recognizing Harley to have come closer to killing him than Joker has ever done, Batman tricks her into facilitating his escape by making her call the Joker and tell him what she has done, knowing that he would not allow anyone other than himself to kill Batman, pushing her aside and unknowingly knocking her out a window. Recovering in Arkham, Harley decides that the Joker will never truly love her, before returning to her devotion upon seeing that he has left her a rose in a vase from him by her bedside table, with a note hoping that she gets better soon.^[124] Harley later references having convinced the Joker to attend couple’s counseling with her.^[129]

In the film Batman and Harley Quinn, Harley (voiced by Melissa Rauch) is working as a waitress after breaking up with the Joker again. Approached by Batman and Nightwing to help stop Ivy from accidentally causing the extinction of all life on Earth, Harley agrees to help them after having sex with Nightwing, convincing them to light Jason Woodroe on fire after she talks Ivy down with tears. Sometime later, Harley hosts a reality television game show, where she makes contestants run an elaborate obstacle course to win a year of therapy from a professional, in a scathing indictment of the American insurance system.^[130][131]

In the film Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (again voiced by Sorkin), flashbacks reveal Harley’s apparent final actions after returning to the Joker again were assisting him in kidnapping Tim Drake and torturing him into insanity in order to transform him into their son «J.J», so that they can start a family together. She later fought Batgirl who angrily chastised her for even helping Joker commit a heinous act but fell deep into an abyss, leading to the latter presuming her dead, though she survived as depicted in the present, where she appears at the end of the movie, revealed to be the grandmother of the Jokerz members, the Dee Dee Twins, who address her as «Nana Harley», having reformed from her life of crime.

DC Comics Universe[edit]

Harleen Quinzel was a psychiatrist at Arkham Asylum, and after meeting the Joker, she became his frequent accomplice, took on the name Harley Quinn, and got in an abusive codependent relationship with him. She eventually splits up with him, and becomes a solo criminal, forming a criminal gang called the Quinntets. Following the Quinntet’s dissolution, Harley Quinn moves to Metropolis with her best friend Poison Ivy, where she works as a love columnist in the Daily Planet under the alias Holly Chance. She then moves back to Gotham City, where she then voluntarily incarcerates herself in Arkham.^[132] Harley Quinn then spents a year applying for parole, only to see her request systematically rejected by Bruce Wayne, the layman member of Arkham’s medical commission. She is kidnapped by Peyton Riley, the new female Ventriloquist, who offers her a job; Harley turns the job down out of respect for the memory of Arnold Wesker, the original Ventriloquist, who attempted to cheer her up during her first week in Arkham while the Joker was still on the loose. She then helps Batman and Commissioner Jim Gordon foil the impostor’s plans. Although Riley escapes, Bruce Wayne is impressed with Harley’s effort at redemption and agrees with granting her parole. ^[133] She then briefly joins the Secret Six, then decides to quit.^[134]

Final Crisis[edit]

During Countdown to Final Crisis, a reformed Harley Quinn resides in an Amazon-run women’s shelter. Having abandoned her jester costume and clown make-up, she now only wears an Amazonian stola or chiton. She befriends the former Catwoman replacement Holly Robinson and then succeeds in persuading her to join her at the shelter, where she is working as an assistant. They are both brought to Themiscyra by «Athena» (really Granny Goodness) and begin Amazon training. Holly and Harley then meet the real Athena and encounter Mary Marvel. The group reveals Granny’s deception, and Holly, Harley, and Mary follow her as she retreats to Apokolips. Mary finds the Olympian gods, whom Granny had been holding prisoner, and the group frees them. Harley is granted powers by Thalia as a reward. Upon returning to Earth, the powers vanish, and Harley and Holly return to Gotham City.

Gotham City Sirens[edit]

Harley Quinn then joins forces with Poison Ivy (Pamela Isley) and Catwoman (Selina Kyle) in the series Gotham City Sirens. In Gotham City Sirens #7, Harley Quinn visits her family in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, during the holiday season. Harley’s father is a swindler who is still in jail, and her brother, Barry, is a loser with dead-end dreams of rock stardom. Her mother, Sharon, wants her to stop the «villain and hero stuff.» The dysfunctional, «horrible» experience while visiting family causes her to return home to the Sirens’ shared Gotham City hideout where Harley, Catwoman, and Poison Ivy spend the rest of Christmas together. Following several adventures with Catwoman and Ivy, Harley betrays them and breaks into Arkham Asylum, intending to kill the Joker for his years of abuse towards her. However, Harley ultimately chooses instead to release the Joker from his cell, and together the two orchestrate a violent takeover of the facility that results in most of the guards and staff members either being killed or taken hostage by the inmates.^[135] Harley and the Joker are eventually defeated by Batman and Catwoman, and Harley is last seen being wheeled away while bound in a straitjacket and muzzle.^[136] Shortly afterward, Poison Ivy breaks into Harley’s cell and attempts to kill her for her betrayal, but instead offers to free her if she helps her kill Catwoman, who had left both of her fellow Sirens behind in Arkham. Harley agrees, and the two set out to trap Catwoman.^[137] During the ensuing fight, Catwoman says she saw good in them and only wanted to help. As Batman is about to arrest them, Catwoman helps the two of them escape.^[138]

The New 52 and DC Rebirth[edit]

Like her previous incarnations, Harleen Quinzel was still the Joker’s psychiatrist, but before she becomes Harley, the Joker pushes her into a vat of chemicals, bleaching her skin white and driving her insane. Harley Quinn is forced to join the Suicide Squad by Amanda Waller. Harley Quinn then leaves Gotham City and moves back to her hometown of Brooklyn and resides in Coney Island.

Infinite Frontier[edit]

Harley Quinn moves back to Gotham City in an attempt to reestablish herself as a hero, aiding the Batman Family and trying to make up for her past «where she often enabled the Joker».^[96]

Cultural impact[edit]

Harley Quinn has become one of DC Comics’ most popular characters.^[139] The 2016 relaunch of her comic shipped more copies than any other DC Rebirth title and was one of the best-selling comics of the year.^[140] DC Comics Publisher Jim Lee refers to Harley Quinn as the fourth pillar in their publishing line, behind Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman.^{[141][20][72]} Harley Quinn currently stars in four separate ongoing series — three eponymous titles and Suicide Squad. Only Batman and Superman have comparable numbers of monthly appearances, making Harley DC Comics’ most prominent and profitable female character.^[141] Kevin Kiniry, vice-president of DC Collectibles, says Harley Quinn is always a top-seller and she «can go toe-to-toe with Batman and the Joker as one of the most fan-requested and sought-after characters.»^[141] In 2016, Harley Quinn’s Halloween costume ranked as the most popular costume in both the United States and the United Kingdom and it remains a popular subject for cosplay.^[142][143] To celebrate the character, DC Comics declared the month of February to be Harley Quinn Month and published 22 Harley Quinn variant covers across their line of comic books.^[144] IGN’s 2009 list of the Top 100 Comic Book Villains of All Time ranked Harley Quinn as #45.^[145] She was ranked 16th in Comics Buyer’s Guide‘s 2011 «100 Sexiest Women in Comics» list.^[146] Joker voice actor Mark Hamill attributes the success of Harley Quinn to Arleen Sorkin’s performance.^[147] On Twitter, he stated: «In the script she was just an unnamed Joker «hench-wench» w/ no discernible personality. When Arleen began reading her lines in that unforgettable voice so poignant & full of heart I nearly fell off my chair! She brought SO much more than was on the page & a legend was born.»^[147]

Collected editions[edit]

This section lists the collected editions, from trade paperbacks to omnibus editions, of various comics in which Harley Quinn is mainly featured.

Ongoing series[edit]

Vol. #	Title	Material collected	Pages	Publication date	ISBN
Harley Quinn (2007–2014)
1	Preludes and Knock Knock Jokes	Harley Quinn #1–7	192	December 2007	978-1401216573
2	Night and Day	Harley Quinn #8–13 and Harley Quinn: Our Worlds at War	190	June 2013	978-1401240417
3	Welcome to Metropolis	Harley Quinn #14–25	288	March 2014	978-1401245955
4	Vengeance Unlimited	Harley Quinn #26–38	314	September 2014	978-1401250683
Deluxe Editions
1	Harley Quinn by Karl Kesel and Terry Dodson: The Deluxe Edition Book One	Harley Quinn #1–8	224	September 2017	978-1401276423
2	Harley Quinn by Karl Kesel and Terry Dodson: The Deluxe Edition Book Two	Harley Quinn #9–19	288	November 2018	978-1401285098
Harley Quinn (2014–2016)
1	Hot in the City	Harley Quinn (vol. 2) #0–8	224	October 2014	978-1401254155
2	Power Outage	Harley Quinn (vol. 2) #9–13; Harley Quinn Futures End #1; Harley Quinn Invades Comic-Con International San Diego; material from Secret Origin #4	208	April 2015	978-1401257637
3	Kiss Kiss Bang Stab	Harley Quinn (vol. 2) #14–16, Annual #1, Harley Quinn Holiday Special #1 and Harley Quinn Valentine’s Special #1	168	December 2015	978-1401262525
4	A Call to Arms	Harley Quinn (vol. 2) #17–21 and Harley Quinn Road Trip Special #1	176	June 2016	978-1401269296
5	The Joker’s Last Laugh	Harley Quinn (vol. 2) #22–25 and Harley Quinn: Be Careful What You Wish For	144	September 2016	978-1401271992
6	Black, White and Red All Over	Harley Quinn (vol. 2) #26–30	144	January 2017	978-1401272593
Harley Quinn (2016–2018)
1	Die Laughing	Harley Quinn (vol. 3) #1–7	168	March 2017	978-1401268312
2	Joker Loves Harley	Harley Quinn (vol. 3) #8–13	144	June 2017	978-1401270957
3	Red Meat	Harley Quinn (vol. 3) #14–21	168	September 2017	978-1401273699
4	Surprise, Surprise	Harley Quinn (vol. 3) #22–27 and Harley Quinn 25th Anniversary Special	168	January 2018	978-1401275266
5	Vote Harley	Harley Quinn (vol. 3) #28–34	168	May 2018	978-1401278823
6	Angry Bird	Harley Quinn (vol. 3) #35–42	192	August 2018	978-1401281526
Deluxe Editions
1	Harley Quinn: The Rebirth Deluxe Edition Book 1	Harley Quinn (vol. 3) #1–13	304	September 2017	978-1401273682
2	Harley Quinn: The Rebirth Deluxe Edition Book 2	Harley Quinn (vol. 3) #14–27 and Harley Quinn 25th Anniversary Special	384	July 2018	978-1401280659
3	Harley Quinn: The Rebirth Deluxe Edition Book 3	Harley Quinn (vol. 3) #28–42	392	January 2019	978-1401285531
Harley Quinn (2018–2020)
1	Harley vs. Apokolips	Harley Quinn (vol. 3) #43–49	168	December 2018	978-1401285074
2	Harley Destroys the Universe	Harley Quinn (vol. 3) #50–54 and 56	160	April 2019	978-1401288099
3	The Trials of Harley Quinn	Harley Quinn (vol. 3) #55 and 57–63	208	October 2019	978-1401291914
4	The Final Trial	Harley Quinn (vol. 3) #64–69 and Harley Quinn: Villain of the Year #1	208	March 2020	978-1401294557
5	Hollywood or Die	Harley Quinn (vol. 3) #70–75	176	April 2021	978-1779503091
Harley Quinn (2021–present)
1	No Good Deed	Batman: Urban Legends #1 and Harley Quinn (vol. 4) #1–6	168	December 2021	978-1779513465
2	Keepsake	Harley Quinn (vol. 4) #7–12	168	August 2022	978-1779516633

Omnibuses[edit]

Title	Material collected	Pages	Publication date	ISBN
Harley Quinn Omnibus By Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti 1	Harley Quinn (vol. 2) #0–16, Annual #1; Harley Quinn: Futures End #1; Harley Quinn Invades Comic-Con International San Diego; Harley Quinn Holiday Special #1; Harley Quinn Valentine’s Special #1; Harley Quinn and Power Girl #1–6; material from Secret Origin #4	768	September 2017	978-1401276430
Harley Quinn Omnibus By Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti 2	Harley Quinn (vol. 2) #17–30, Harley Quinn Road Trip Special #1, Harley Quinn: Be Careful What You Wish For Special Edition, Harley Quinn and Her Gang of Harleys #1–6 and Harley’s Little Black Book #1–6	864	October 2018	978-1401284565
Harley Quinn Omnibus By Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti 3	Harley Quinn (vol. 3) #1–34 and Harley Quinn 25th Anniversary Special	800	October 2019	978-1401294465
Harley Quinn & the Gotham City Sirens Omnibus	Gotham City Sirens #1–26 and Catwoman #83	648	April 2018 September 2022	978-1401278397 978-1779516763
Harley Quinn: 30 Years of the Maid of Mischief Deluxe Edition	The Batman Adventures #12, Detective Comics #831, The Batman and Robin Adventures #18, Batman: Gotham Adventures #10, Batman: Gotham Knights #14, Harley Quinn #3, Gotham City Sirens #20–21, Harley Quinn Holiday Special #1, Harley Quinn: Be Careful What You Wish For Special Edition #1, Harley Quinn 25th Anniversary Special #1, Harley Quinn: Make ’em Laugh #3, Harley Quinn Black + White + Red #14, Batman #98 and a story from Harley Quinn 30th Anniversary Special #1	336	September 2022	978-1779517180

One-shots and limited series[edit]

Title	Material collected	Writer and artist	Pages	Publication date	ISBN
Batman: Harley and Ivy	Batman: Harley and Ivy #1–3; Harley and Ivy: Love on the Lam; a story from Batman: Black & White Vol. 2	Paul Dini, Judd Winick (story) Bruce Timm, Joe Chiodo (art)	136	July 2007	978-1401213336
Batman: Mad Love and Other Stories	The Batman Adventures: Mad Love, Batman Adventures Annual #1–2, Batman Adventures Holiday Special, Adventures in the DC Universe #3 and Batman Black and White #1	Paul Dini, Bruce Timm, Glen Murakami (story) Bruce Timm, Mike Parobeck, Matt Wagner, Dan DeCarlo, Klaus Janson, and Glen Murakami (art)	208	September 2011	978-1401231156
Batman Adventures: Mad Love Deluxe Edition	The Batman Adventures: Mad Love	Paul Dini (story) Bruce Timm (art)	144	April 2015	978-1401255121
Harley and Ivy: The Deluxe Edition	Batman: Harley and Ivy #1–3, Batman Adventures Annual #1, Batman Adventures Holiday Annual #1, Batman: Gotham Knights #14 and Batman: Black and White #3	Various	176	February 2016	978-1401260804
Harley Quinn and Power Girl	Harley Quinn and Power Girl #1–6	Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti (story) Stéphane Roux (art)	144	March 2016	978-1401259747
Harley Quinn’s Gang of Harleys	Harley Quinn and Her Gang of Harleys #1–6	Frank Tieri and Jimmy Palmiotti Mauricet (art)	152	February 2017	978-1401267858
Harley’s Little Black Book	Harley’s Little Black Book #1–8	Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti (story) Amanda Conner, John Timms, Mauricet, Joseph Michael Linsner, Billy Tucci, Flaviano, Neal Adams, and Simon Bisley (art)	256	November 2018	978-1401273606
Harley Loves Joker	Harley Loves Joker #1–2 and back stories from Harley Quinn (vol. 3) #17–25	Paul Dini and Jimmy Palmiotti (story) Bret Blevins and J. Bone	128	December 2018	978-1401283490
Old Lady Harley	Old Lady Harley #1–5 and Harley Quinn vol. 3 #42	Frank Tieri (story) Inaki Miranda, Tom Derenick, and Mauricet (art)	152	July 2019	978-1401292164
Harley & Ivy Meet Betty & Veronica	Harley & Ivy Meet Betty & Veronica #1–6	Marc Andreyko and Paul Dini (story) Laura Braga (art)	160	September 2019	978-1401292751
Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy	Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy #1–6	Jody Houser (story) Adriana Melo, Wade Von Grawbadger, and Mark Morales (art)	152	May 2021	978-1779505989
Harley Quinn Black + White + Red	Harley Quinn Black + White + Red #1–17 and two new original stories[148]	Various	224	June 2021	978-1779509956
Harley Quinn: The Animated Series Vol. 1: The Eat. Bang! Kill. Tour	Harley Quinn: The Animated Series Vol. 1: The Eat. Bang! Kill. Tour #1–6	Tee Franklin (story) Max Sarin and Erich Owen (art)	144	August 2022	978-1779516640

DC Black Label[edit]

Harley Quinn stars in various series under DC Comics’ adult-oriented Black Label imprint.

Title	Material collected	Writer and artist	Pages	Publication date	ISBN
Harleen	Harleen #1–3	Stjepan Šejić (story and art)	200	February 2020	978-1779501110
Harley Quinn & the Birds of Prey: The Hunt for Harley	Harley Quinn & the Birds of Prey #1–4; a short story from Harley Quinn Black + White + Red #12	Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti (story) Amanda Conner and Chad Hardin (art)	160	March 2021	978-1779504494
Joker/Harley: Criminal Sanity	Joker/Harley: Criminal Sanity #1–8 and Joker/Harley: Criminal Sanity Secret Files (the 2022 edition adds a story from Harley Quinn 30th Anniversary Special #1)	Kami Garcia (story) Mico Suayan, Jason Badower, and Mike Mayhew (art)	304 312	September 2021 September 2022	978-1779512024 978-1779517203

Other versions[edit]

• Harley Quinn’s first major appearance outside the Batman animated world was in the Elseworlds miniseries Thrillkiller. This version of Harley is a schoolgirl named Hayley Fitzpatrick who dresses up to help a female version of the Joker called Bianca Steeplechase. After Batgirl kills Bianca, Harley is shown killing her own family, intent on revenge in the final frames of the story.^[149]
• In the Elseworlds 80-Page Giant, one of the stories is about Lex Luthor as a music producer. One of his groups is, as the press puts it, «alternative lifestyle folkies Ivy and Harley».^[150]
• On the new Earth-3, Harleen Quinzel is the Jokester’s business manager and is killed by the Owlman.^[151]
• Harley appears in Batman/The Spirit. In this crossover, Harley is one of the many villains who helps try to take down the Batman and the Spirit. She initially appears disguised as a flight attendant.
• In the 2008 graphic novel Joker, Harley Quinn appears as the Joker’s helper and aide-de-camp. She at one point acts as a stripper (though this may be a ruse) and is never shown speaking.^[152] In Batman: Damned, the loose sequel to Joker, Harley snaps after the Joker’s mysterious death following a battle with Batman and performs surgery on herself and dressing herself to make her resemble the Joker. Harley leads the Joker’s remaining henchman on a revenge mission, blowing up several buildings and taking over the GCPD building and defacing the Bat-Signal so that it resembles the Joker’s smile. Batman arrives and defeats the henchman before Harley paralyzes him with a toxin, beats him with her baseball bat, and attempts to sexually abuse him. Batman is then possessed by the Enchantress and strangles Harley against the Bat-Signal.^[153]
• In the Ame-Comi Girls universe, Harley is partnered with the Catwoman and Poison Ivy as part of a trio of villains.
• The Flashpoint version of Harley Quinn is named Yo-Yo. She was a henchwoman of the Joker, and the Batman chased her down to find the Joker’s location, as she had kidnapped Judge Dent’s children. He chased her to the ledge of the building around Crime Alley. Batman drops her off the roof, but she is luckily saved by Cyborg.^[154]
• In Batman ’66, a version of Harley Quinn designed more around the 1960s television show (she is slightly taller and her hair is short; she also wears prominent slanted glasses, a long red dress and red blouse, a large pearl necklace, and fairly prominent earrings) appears as Dr. Holly Quinn, Ph.D., a psychologist at Arkham Asylum, referred to as Arkham Institute for the Criminally Insane. She convinces the Joker to cooperate with Batman and Robin in exchange for approving his comedy night proposal.^[155] Dr. Quinn is manipulated by the Catwoman and the Joker to perfect the Joker Wave — a hysteria-inducing transmitting dish used on Gotham. Quinn is devastated by her role in the plot and to atone for her mistake, Dr. Quinn reverses the device by submitting herself to its effects — freeing the people of Gotham but sacrificing her sanity in the process. She escapes and becomes a supervillain named Harlequin, wearing a roller derby-inspired version of the classic Harley costume. She retains her considerable intelligence and psychological training, making her a difficult foe for the Dynamic Duo, but is eventually captured when Batman and Robin disguise themselves as criminals (Batman in his regular alternate guise of Matches Malone) who beat up other bad guys who were auditioning to be Holly’s henchmen.^[156]
• Harley Quinn appears in the prequel comic to the game Injustice: Gods Among Us. She helps the Joker kidnaps Lois Lane and surgically plant a trigger in her heart that will set off a nuclear bomb in Metropolis should her heart stop; when Superman accidentally kills her (thinking she is Doomsday) he becomes devastated, with the grieving Superman killing the Joker as a result. Harley struggles to come to terms with the Joker’s death but develops an attachment to the Green Arrow when he kidnaps her to protect her from Superman’s wrath but is also grief-stricken when he is killed by Superman. She later confronts the Black Canary but hesitates upon realizing she is pregnant upon vomiting mid-battle and reveals to the Black Canary she has a four-year-old daughter named Lucy who lives with her sister. Harley and the Canary befriend each other as a result and Harley starts helping Batman’s Insurgency, though most members distrust her due to her lover’s actions. In Injustice 2, she helps to fight Grodd’s Society and Brainiac alongside the Black Canary, the Green Arrow, and the other Justice League and Regime members. It is revealed in the ending she later joins the Justice League as a fully accepted member, though she occasionally has to deal with her violent impulses. It is also revealed her daughter thinks her mother is her Aunt Harley, though Harley hopes to one day tell her the truth.
• In the Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles crossover, Harley is mutated into a humanoid hyena by the Shredder. She is knocked out by Batman during the battle at Arkham Asylum, and Splinter uses her hammer to take down the rest of the inmates. After the Shredder is defeated, the mutagen in her system decays naturally, causing her and the rest of the mutated inmates to revert to normal.^[157]
• In Batman: White Knight, it is revealed that Harley Quinn was two different women all along. The first Harley Quinn, Harleen Quinzel, quit when the Joker captured and tortured Robin (Jason Todd), and she was replaced by another girl, Marian Drews, without the Joker even realizing it. Once the Joker was cured of his insanity, he proposes marriage to Harley, only for her to beat him and mock him for acting «normal». The original Harley Quinn then appears, kicks the «fake Harley» unconscious, and reveals to Jack Napier (the Joker’s true identity in this continuity) there were two Harleys all along. While Harleen loved the Joker «despite his flaws», Marian loved the Joker by «his flaws». She accepts his marriage proposal and joins him in his quest to rid Gotham City of Batman. Drews then takes the mantle of the Joker for herself «until the real Joker returns», calls herself the Neo Joker, and later romances Poison Ivy.^[158][159]
• In DC Comics Bombshells, Harley fell in with the Joker (in this version, a gangster) after leaving Charm School, but left him when he began his journey into the occult. By the time of the events of the story, Harley is drawn to England by a voice she believes is the Joker, but turns out to be the Joker’s Daughter. She rejects the Joker’s Daughter’s attempt to have the Joker resurrected in the body of Poison Ivy, instead of beginning a relationship with Ivy herself.
• In the Marvel Comics series Gwenpool Strikes Back, a variant of Gwen Poole based on Harley Quinn (from Civil War II) is introduced as a member of the GwenHive, dubbed «Harley Gwen».^[160]
• In DCeased, an alternate universe wherein a virus spreads around the world that turns people into zombie-like creatures, Harley Quinn kills a zombie Joker and convinces Ivy to let what was left of the human race take shelter in Ivy’s territory.

In other media[edit]

Television[edit]

Live action[edit]

• In 2002, a short-lived television series, Birds of Prey, an alternate continuation of Batman Returns, included Harley Quinn as a psychologist and the main antagonist, portrayed by actress Mia Sara. In this show, Harleen Quinzel uses her day job as a psychologist to achieve her hidden purpose: to take control of the city of New Gotham. She does not wear a costume, although she does wear an outfit that is reminiscent of her cartoon costume in the series finale «Devil’s Eyes».
• Harley Quinn made a cameo appearance in the Arrow season two episode «Suicide Squad», voiced again by Tara Strong, while physically portrayed by Cassidy Alexa (credited as «Deranged Squad Female»).^[161][162] The series star Stephen Amell revealed in an interview she was set to appear in the season two finale episode «Unthinkable», but was cut due to time.^[163] The show’s producer Andrew Kreisberg revealed there were plans for the character to appear, but series actress Willa Holland stated they had been axed due to the Suicide Squad film.^[164][165] Harley was mentioned by Kiki Roulette in the Batwoman episode «Broken Toys».
• A character loosely based on Harley Quinn named Ecco appears in the fourth and fifth seasons of Gotham, portrayed by Francesca Root-Dodson. Like Quinn, Ecco wears a black and red outfit, clown makeup, and roller-skates, refers to other characters as «Puddin», and is completely devoted and infatuated with Jeremiah Valeska, the show’s incarnation of the Joker; additionally, the character of Barbara Kean, portrayed by Erin Richards, was also modelled off of Quinn during their appearance in the fourth season, while Meggie Vilcina portrays a young Harleen Quinzel, whose family Bruce Wayne (David Mazouz) rescues, in the final moments of the third season finale «Heavydirtysoul», dressed in black and red. Following Ecco’s death in «The Beginning…», Jeremiah mentions that «there are always other fish in the sea.»^{[166][167][168]}

Animation[edit]

• Harley Quinn appears in The Batman, voiced by Hynden Walch. This version is a former television pop-psychiatrist who also ends up being seduced by the Joker, sharing a normal relationship.
• Harley Quinn appears in Batman: The Brave and the Bold, voiced by Meghan Strange.
• Harley Quinn makes several cameos in Teen Titans Go!.
• Harley Quinn appears in Justice League Action, voiced by Tara Strong.
• Harley Quinn appears in the 2019 animated series DC Super Hero Girls, voiced again by Tara Strong. In this version, Harleen is a fangirl of the Joker and Barbara Gordon’s best friend from Gotham City, though they are unaware of each other’s identities as Harley Quinn and Batgirl up until «Nightmare in Gotham». While initially living at Gotham, she moves to Metropolis in «#Frenemies Part 1», and becomes friends and partners with Catwoman, Poison Ivy, Giganta, Star Sapphire, and Livewire, while also becoming enemy of the DC Super Hero Girls.

Harley Quinn[edit]

• In 2017, it was reported Warner Bros. Animation had ordered 26 half-hour episodes of an adult-oriented Harley Quinn animated series for their new streaming service, DC Universe.^[169] In 2018, it was announced that Kaley Cuoco would provide Harley Quinn’s voice, and a short teaser trailer was released.^[170] The series officially began streaming in 2019.^[171] It focuses on Harley as she «attempts to make it on her own as the criminal Queenpin of Gotham City»,^[169] and step out of the Joker’s shadow with the help of Poison Ivy and her crew of supervillains.^[172][173]

Film[edit]

Live action[edit]

• Harley Quinn was initially set to appear in Batman Unchained, the fifth film planned for the original Batman film series.^[174][175] She was to be featured as the Joker’s (Jack Nicholson) daughter, who allies herself with the Scarecrow to get revenge on Batman for her father’s death.^[176] However, due to the critical and commercial failure of Batman & Robin, this film was cancelled.
• The Batman: Arkham version of Harley makes a cameo appearance in the 2018 film Ready Player One.^[177]
• On August 4, 2022, Lady Gaga was confirmed to be set to play Quinn in the 2024 film Joker: Folie à Deux.^[178][179]

DC Extended Universe[edit]

Margot Robbie portrays Dr. Harleen Quinzel / Harley Quinn in the DC Extended Universe.^[180]

• The character debuted in the 2016 film Suicide Squad. Paul Dini, the creator of Harley Quinn, said Robbie «nailed» her role.^[181]
• Harley Quinn appears in the 2020 spin-off film Birds of Prey, which Robbie also produced. On Robbie’s portrayal of the character in the movie, Dini stated, «I think they really got the essence of the character down, and they made her quite a lot of fun and appealing in so many ways. She’s not totally the animated version, and it’s not totally the Jimmy [Palmiotti] and Amanda [Conner] version, but it kind of borrows from all of them and creates its own reality and its own fun. There are so many moments in that movie that I just think are wonderful. […] When I saw her running, laughing hysterically, pushing a shopping cart full of Peeps, I said, «That’s my girl.» All those little impish things that she did in the movie – sitting down eating cereal, watching Tweety Bird cartoons, and just kind of skipping through life cheerfully oblivious of the devastation she’s caused – that’s Harley.»^[182]
• Harley Quinn appeared in the film The Suicide Squad (2021), a standalone sequel to Suicide Squad.

Animation[edit]

• Harley Quinn has a cameo appearance in Justice League: The New Frontier during a speech by John F. Kennedy.
• An alternate universe version of Harley Quinn appears in Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths. In the film, she is a monkey of «The Jester» (the film version of the Joker).
• Harley Quinn is featured in Batman: Assault on Arkham, voiced by Hynden Walch.
• Harley Quinn appears in Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League: Gotham City Breakout with Tara Strong reprising her role.
• Dr. Harleen Quinzel appears in Batman vs. Two-Face, voiced by Sirena Irwin. She is the assistant to Hugo Strange, who reciprocates the Joker’s flirting. In a Blu-ray exclusive bonus scene, Quinzel, dressed as Harley Quinn, busts the Joker out of prison.
• Harley Quinn appears in DC Super Heroes vs. Eagle Talon, voiced by Kang Ji-young.^[183]
• The Brave and the Bold version of Harley Quinn appears in Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold, with Tara Strong voicing her.
• A feudal Japanese version of Harley Quinn appears in the anime film Batman Ninja, voiced by Rie Kugimiya and Tara Strong in Japanese and English respectively.^[184][185]
• Harley Quinn appears in Teen Titans Go! To the Movies. She has a cameo appearance in an altered future where the villains have taken over.
• Harley Quinn appears in Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, with Tara Strong reprising her role. Harley is first introduced as an inmate at Arkham, who mocks Shredder from inside her cell. After the Joker frees her, she is mutated into a crazy and anthropomorphic hyena and assists her lover in fighting the Bat-family and the Turtles. She is knocked out by a crazed and mutated Batman, and abandoned by the Joker as he attempts to escape. She was presumably demutated by the Gotham police.
• Dr. Harleen Quinzel makes a non-speaking cameo appearance in Batman: Death in the Family.
• Harley Quinn has a cameo appearance in Space Jam: A New Legacy on a train that LeBron James and Bugs Bunny are on while searching the DC World in the “Serververse” for the Toons.
• Harley Quinn appears in the animated film Injustice voice by Gillian Jacobs.^[186]

DC Animated Movie Universe[edit]

• The Flashpoint version of Harley Quinn named Yo-Yo appears in Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox, voiced by Hynden Walch.
• Harley Quinn appears in Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay, with Tara Strong reprising her role. Again, she is a member of the Suicide Squad and is primarily designed after her appearance in The New 52.
• Harley Quinn appears in Batman: Hush and Justice League Dark: Apokolips War, with Hynden Walch reprising her role. In Apokolips War, she is shown to have become the new leader of the Suicide Squad following Amanda Waller’s death by cancer and seeks to avenge the death of Joker, who was apparently killed by Batman, who at the time was under Darkseid’s control.

Lego Batman[edit]

• Harley Quinn appears in Lego Batman: The Movie – DC Super Heroes Unite, an adaptation of the video game of the same name, with Laura Bailey reprising her role.
• Harley Quinn appears in The Lego Batman Movie, voiced by Jenny Slate.
• Harley Quinn appears in The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, voiced by Margot Rubin.

Web series[edit]

• Harley Quinn appears in the Batman Black and White motion comics, voiced by Janyse Jaud.
• Harley Quinn (credited as Harlequin) appears in the first episode of the web series Justice League: Gods and Monsters Chronicles, in which she kidnaps and mutilates an unknown number of people and makes toys and dolls out of the bodies. She fights Batman after he frees her latest victim and ends up surrendering, only to be drained of her blood and possibly killed after Batman reveals his fangs to her. She is voiced by Tara Strong reprising her role from the Arkham franchise.
• Harley Quinn appears in the web series DC Super Hero Girls, in which she is a student at Super Hero High and the roommate of Wonder Woman. Unusually for the character, she is portrayed as a hero instead of a villain and has a mostly positive relationship with her superhero counterparts. She is once again voiced by Tara Strong.

Video games[edit]

DC Animated Universe games[edit]

• Harley cameos in The Adventures of Batman & Robin for the Super NES, and as a boss in The Adventures of Batman & Robin for the Sega Genesis.
• She appears in The Adventures of Batman & Robin for the Sega CD and Batman: Chaos in Gotham, voiced by Arleen Sorkin.
• Harley Quinn appears in Batman Vengeance, voiced by Arleen Sorkin. At the beginning of the game, she disguises herself as Mary Flynn who got her son Toby kidnapped by the Joker. The whole thing came out as a plan to kill Batman, but the plan failed and the Joker apparently died falling off the Gotham bridge. In the final phase of the game, it was revealed the Joker is alive and faked his death to make a bigger plan to destroy Gotham City, with Harley supporting him all along.
• Harley appears in the sequel Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu where she is locked in her Arkham Asylum cell, being paralyzed by Sin Tzu’s mind control.

DC Universe Online[edit]

Harley appears in the DC Universe Online video game, with Arleen Sorkin returning as her voice. Harley is the basic Legends PVP character granted to Villains without having to spend Marks of Legend. To date, this was the last time Arleen Sorkin voiced the character; as of 2016, Harley Quinn is now voiced by Jen Brown, starting with a DLC episode based on the Gotham City Sirens.

Lego series[edit]

• Harley Quinn appears in Lego Batman: The Videogame, with her sound effects provided by Grey DeLisle. She appears as an enemy of Batman, a 1st deputy of the Joker, and the second boss of Chapter 3 «The Joker’s Return».^[187][188] Harley Quinn in Lego Batman is a playable character, can be unlocked through the villain levels and carries a pistol and her giant mallet. She is one of three bosses that later appear as minibosses, the other two being Two-Face and Catwoman.
• Harley Quinn appears in Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes, voiced by Laura Bailey.^[189] She first appears as the first miniboss in «Theatrical Pursuits». In «Arkham Asylum Antics», she rides with the Riddler and Two-Face on the latter’s truck. She also appears as a boss at the Gotham Funland entrance.
• Harley Quinn appears in Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham, voiced by Tara Strong. She has two side-quests in the Hall of Doom, after which she is unlocked as a playable character.
• Harley Quinn is a playable character in Lego Dimensions, with Tara Strong reprising the role.
• Harley Quinn serves as one of the main characters in Lego DC Super-Villains, voiced again by Tara Strong.^[190] Her design is based on The New 52.

Batman: Arkham series[edit]

Harley Quinn appears in the Batman: Arkham franchise. While Arleen Sorkin reprised her role from the DC Animated Universe in the first installment, she was replaced by Tara Strong for the rest of the series.^[191][192]

• In Batman: Arkham Asylum, she takes control of the eponymous asylum to facilitate the Joker’s escape, and makes subsequent appearances throughout the game; kidnapping Warden Quincy Sharp and Commissioner Gordon, releasing Poison Ivy from her cell, and attempting to kill Batman on the Joker’s orders. After Batman defeats Harley, he locks her up in a vacant cell, where she remains for the rest of the storyline. In this game, Harley wears an original nurse-themed costume.
• In Batman: Arkham City, she continues to work with the Joker within the eponymous city-prison, making several appearances throughout the main story. Following the Joker’s death due to his Titan-inflicted disease, Harley watches in shock as Batman carries his lifeless body outside Arkham City. In this game, Harley wears a biker-girl themed costume, using a low-key version of her usual makeup, with heavy eye shadow in lieu of her domino mask.
  • Harley also appears in the Harley Quinn’s Revenge expansion pack, set after the events of the main story, wherein she seeks revenge on Batman for the Joker’s death. After taking several police officers hostage in Arkham City to lure Batman into a trap, she manages to capture him, but is ultimately defeated after Robin rescues Batman. By this point, Harley has taken full control of the Joker’s gang, and has an adopted a new look: mostly black clothes, with hair dyed black, a mourning veil, and a «J» necklace.
• Harley Quinn appears in the mobile game Batman: Arkham City Lockdown, set before the events of Arkham City, where she takes a reporter a hostage to ransom her for the Joker’s release from prison. After luring Batman into a trap, she tries to execute the bound and gagged reporter but is stopped by one of Batman’s batarangs.
• Dr. Harleen Quinzel appears in Batman: Arkham Origins, which takes place before her transformation into Harley Quinn. She interviews the Joker at Blackgate Prison and falls in love with him after he confesses his fascination with someone whom he considers special to him (with Harley believing the Joker is talking about her, when in reality he is thinking of Batman). She later appears amongst the prison’s other staff members held hostage by the Joker when he takes over the facility, but she is rescued by Batman. Quinzel is last seen escorting the Joker to his cell after he is defeated by Batman.
• Harley returns in Batman: Arkham Knight. Still in charge of the remains of the Joker’s gang and vengeful against Batman, she is recruited by the Scarecrow to assist him in his plot to kill the Dark Knight. Harley discovers Batman and Robin’s hideout at the abandoned Panessa Studios, where the two are keeping the victims of the Joker’s blood transfusion who were not affected by the cure under observation. She leads her gang to invade the hideout and release the Joker patients, but is foiled after one of them betrays her and kills the others before committing suicide. Harley is then locked up by Batman in one of the Joker victims’ cells left vacant, where she remains for the rest of the storyline. In this game, she wears a modified version of her Arkham City costume.
  • Apart from the main game, she is a playable character via downloadable content. She was included in her self-titled expansion pack, which also features four challenge maps and a story-driven mission for the character, set shortly before the events of Arkham Knight, wherein she breaks into the Blüdhaven Police Headquarters to free Poison Ivy on Scarecrow’s orders.^[193] Harley has several unique gagdets at her disposal, including her baseball bat, explosive jack-in-the-box, and laughing gas, as well as a variant of Detective Mode, called Psychosis Mode, which allows the player to see enemies and objects of interest through walls; when the player keeps Psychosis Mode active for an extended period of time, the character’s Harleen and Harley personas can be heard fighting for control of her body. Harley also appears as a boss in the Batgirl: A Matter of Family DLC mission, set before the events of Arkham Asylum, in which she dons her classic jester costume.
• Harley appears as a playable character in the mobile game Batman: Arkham Underworld. She is unlocked after the player completes a mission for her, and wields a special pistol, grenades, and a baseball bat. She can also summon her pet hyenas.
• Harley will appear as a playable character in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.^[194] In the game, she is part of the Suicide Squad assembled by Amanda Waller to eliminate Brainiac and the members of the Justice League brainwashed by him in Metropolis.

Injustice series[edit]

• Harley Quinn appears as a playable fighter in Injustice: Gods Among Us, voiced by Tara Strong.^[195] In the alternate universe depicted in the game, Quinn establishes the Joker Clan to honor the Clown Prince of Crime after he is murdered by Superman. She is part of Batman’s Insurgency and is tempted in the story to revert to her older ways when an alternate Joker arrives in her dimension until Lex Luthor manages to convince her the Joker is manipulating her for his ends. In her arcade ending, she fatally slits the Joker’s throat after a wedding gone wrong.^[196]
• Harley Quinn appears as a playable fighter in Injustice 2, with Tara Strong reprising her role.^[197][198] She is a main character in the single-player campaign, wherein she serves as one of Batman’s most trustworthy allies, and assists him and the other heroes in combating Brainiac and the Society, which includes Poison Ivy. Harley is also shown to have completely overcome her feelings for the Joker after realizing he had been controlling and abusing her for years. In her arcade ending, she is offered a position within the Justice League and admits that she still has violent impulses from time to time, but manages to keep them under control by being heroic and spending time with her daughter Lucy (who believes her to be her aunt, though Harley hopes to tell her the truth someday).

Batman: The Enemy Within[edit]

Harley Quinn appears in Batman: The Enemy Within (the sequel to Batman: The Telltale Series), voiced by Laura Post.^[199] This version of Dr. Harleen Quinzel was driven insane following her father’s long bout with mental illness and eventual suicide. Attempting to avoid her father’s fate, she joins a criminal organization called the Pact to steal a virus able to cure her hereditary condition. This depiction initially reverses the dynamic between Harley and the Joker. Quinn manipulates and abuses her former patient at Arkham Asylum, named «John Doe», who is infatuated with her. As the series progresses, John’s confidence will increase, and depending on the player’s choices, he will either aid Bruce Wayne in capturing Quinn or transform into the traditional version of the Joker. In the latter outcome, Harley will become the Joker’s girlfriend and the two use the virus to threaten Gotham City.

Other appearances[edit]

• Harley Quinn appears in Infinite Crisis as a playable character, voiced by Tara Strong.^[200]
• Harley Quinn is among the villains summoned by Brainiac to retrieve Starites in Scribblenauts Unmasked.
• Harley Quinn appears as a playable character in the mobile game, Suicide Squad: Special Ops, based on the film.
• She appears as a playable character in DC Legends and DC Unchained.
• In Mortal Kombat 11, Harley Quinn appears as a DLC costume skin for Cassie Cage.
• Harley Quinn is a usable cosmetic outfit Fortnite.
• Harley Quinn appears as a playable character in SINoALICE, voiced by Rie Kugimiya.^[201]
• Harley Quinn appears as a playable character in the mobile game, DC Battle Arena, voiced by Kira Buckland.^[202]
• Harley Quinn is a playable character in MultiVersus, voiced by Tara Strong.^[203]
• Harley Quinn appears in Gotham Knights, voiced by Kari Wahlgren.^[204]

Novels[edit]

Harley Quinn has her own novel adaptation from comics as part of the DC Comic Novels series. Mad Love was released in November 2018 and written by Pat Cardigan and original co-creator Paul Dini and published by Titan Books.

She is reinterpreted as Pauline Ketch in The Refrigerator Monologues.^[205]

See also[edit]

• Hybristophilia
• List of Batman family enemies

References[edit]

Sources[edit]

Further reading[edit]

• Langley, Travis (2012). Batman and Psychology: A Dark and Stormy Knight. New York City, New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-118-16765-6.
• Barba, Shelley E.; Perrin, Joy M. (2017). The Ascendance of Harley Quinn: Essays on DC’s Enigmatic Villain. McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-1476665238.

External links[edit]

• Harley Quinn at DC Comics’ official website
• Harley Quinn on the DC Animated Universe Wiki, an external wiki
• Harley Quinn at Curlie
• Collecting Harley Quinn
• Harley Quinn on the official Superman/Batman Adventures homepage, archived 1999-10-04

Требуется редактирование

Доктор Харлин Квинзел, в первую очередь известная как Харли Квинн, является главной героиней мультсериала «Харли Квинн».

Она является лидером и основателем Команды Харли и бывшим членом Легиона Смерти. Она бывшая подружка Джокера и в настоящее время встречается с Ядовитым Плющом.

Внешность

Общее

Харли Квинн — худенькая девушка с бледной белой кожей и голубыми глазами. У нее длинные светлые волосы, обычно заплетенные в хвостики, которые в свою очередь окрашены в голубые и розовые оттенки. Она иногда носит волосы вниз, например, во время вечеринки в Легионе Смерти. Она пользуется темно-красной помадой, розовыми и голубыми тенями для век и черной тушью.

До своего превращения в Харли Квинн она была с нормальным цветом кожи, а волосы были собраны в пучок. В то время она носила менее яркий макияж.

Гардероб

Харли чаще всего носит короткий чёрно-красный топ с чёрным колье на шее, черные и красные кожаные перчатки без пальцев, черные и красные обтягивающие шорты из спандекса и черно-красные кроссовки. Иногда её можно увидеть в черно-красной куртке поверх одежды.

До расставания с Джокером Харли носила свой классический костюм шута из мультсериала «Бэтмен». Со студенческих лет и до своего превращения она тоже носила очки.

Характер

Харли была неуправляемой и жестокой с самого детства. Эти черты характера укоренилась и углубилась, когда она встретила Джокера, сформировав нездоровую привязанность к нему. Однако она в конце концов осознала, что он на самом деле не любит её, а просто жестоко играет в отношения и предаёт в любой ситуации, забывая о ней до следующей встречи. Поэтому она бросила Джокера и решила стать независимой злодейкой, чтобы доказать всем, что она не хуже других. Из-за этого идеей фикс Харли становится членство в Легионе Смерти. Она находит команду и делает всё возможное, чтобы достичь цели. Эту цель она поставила превыше друзей, а достигнув её, забыла про них, когда им нужна была помощь. Вместо этого она снова встретилась с Джокером и была очарована его речами, как в былые времена. Однако он снова предал Харли, а её друзья отвернулись от неё. Эти события побудили Харли окончательно разорвать все эмоциональные связи с Джокером и возродить свою дружбу с командой.

В серии «Быть Харли Квинн» выясняется, что влияние Джокера на Харли было настолько велико, что он укоренился даже в ее подсознании. Из-за этого все ее попытки доказать свою независимость происходили от подсознательного желания доказать ему, что он её недооценивает. Вероятно, именно поэтому она так легко дала ему второй шанс, став членом Легиона Смерти.

Одержимость Харли Джокером резко и навсегда исчезла после того, как он убил её лучшую подругу, Айви, прямо у нее на глазах. Но несмотря на это, она не забывала о нём никогда. Например в серии «У всех хороших заключённых есть проблема с отцом» она сразу узнала бармена-Джокера, который после попадания в кислоту стал нормальным человеком. После того, как она снова толкнула его в кислоту, чтобы восстановить его память и злую личность, они уже вели себя скорее как ссорящиеся братья и сестры, а не бывшие романтические партнёры. Он больше не интересовал Харли — более того, на этот момент она уже была влюблена в Айви.

На протяжении всего первого сезона Харли пытается вырвать себе место под солнцем и доказать всем, что она не хуже других. Во втором же сезоне основное внимание уделяется её исканиям и цели в жизни. Харли импульсивна, из-за чего большинство ее решений основывались на мнении других людей. Со временем она начала понимать, что это ей не нравится. В результате она отказалась от предложения Дарксайда править Землей и окончательно поняла, что её истинный смысл жизни — это любовь к Айви.

Харли очень хаотична. Она постоянно создаёт беспорядок и кучу проблем, которые традиционно приходится разгребать всей её команде. После того, как Айви однажды отказывает ей в помощи, Харли начинает понимать, что ей нужно учиться решать проблемы самостоятельно. Это видно в сериях «Прочный орешек» и «Схватка, достойная сражения», где она не хочет впутывать Айви в свои проблемы и просит её хоть раз в жизни не рисковать собой.

Биография

До событий сериала

Детство и юность

Харлин Квинзел выросла в неблагополучной семье: ее мать Шэрон Квинзел — алкоголичка, а ее отец Ник Квинзел — преступник и любитель азартных игр, который часто попадал в неприятности с мафией. Кроме них дома жили бабушка и дедушка, которые с годами разошлись, в конце концов, возненавидев друг друга. Ещё у Харли был младший брат Барри, который трагически скончался в подростковом возрасте. Сама Харлин была нормальной, хотя и психически неуравновешенной. Ее психические отклонения впервые проявились в виде одержимости актером Фрэнки Мунис, которого она хотела похитить и родить от него ребенка, солгав о том, что находится на противозачаточных средствах. В конце концов, его семья наложила на нее запретительный судебный приказ, который она проигнорировала, поэтому ее отправили в колонию для несовершеннолетних.

В подростковом возрасте Харли отправилась в лагерь, где девушка по имени Джессика Сарнер пустила слух по всему лагерю о том, что Харли лишилась девственности с конём. Неизвестно, что случилось с Джессикой Сарнер после этого, но можно предположить, что Харли убила её, так как вскоре ее несколько часов допрашивала полиция. Когда она окончила среднюю школу, она была лучшей ученицей с наивысшим баллом, за что получила право произнести речь на линейке. Однако она сорвала церемонию, критикуя администрацию школы при помощи ненормативной лексики и неприличных жестов.

Затем Харли поступила в колледж, чтобы стать психиатром. Параллельно она занималась гимнастикой, а её мечтой была победа в олимпийском чемпионате. Ей почти удалось это сделать, но отец настоял на том, чтобы она специально упала — он поставил огромные деньги на её проигрыш, чтобы погасить долги. Харлин в конце концов сделала это, но тут же жестоко напала на своего отца и избила его на глазах у всех. Навыки акробатики, которые она приобрела как гимнастка, пригодились ей позже в преступной жизни.

От Аркхэма и до начала сериала

После окончания университета Харли стала психиатром и была принята на работу в лечебницу Аркхэма, чтобы исследовать разум Джокера. Она думала, что ее наняли потому, что она написала диссертацию о патологии Джокера. Но позже выяснилось, что ее привезли только потому, что Джокер убил всех других психиатров в Готэме — все решили, что девушку он не тронет.

Первой задачей Харли было заставить Джокера раскрыть местонахождение бомбы. По дороге в камеру она стала свидетелем попытки побега Айви и увидела, как охранники подожгли ее и дали мощное успокоительное. В ужасе она прошла мимо камеры Айви и извинилась за жестокость охраны, но та плюнула и велела Харли убираться прочь.

Затем Харли пошла к Джокеру, который сказал, что знает, кто она. Более того, он даже прочитал ее диссертацию о себе. Для того, чтобы заполучить доверие Джокера, Харлин пошла против протокола и вошла в его камеру. Там он попытался очаровать ее, одновременно угрожая. Несмотря на то, что Харли удалось победить Джокера (как-никак, она была олимпийской чемпионкой по акробатике), она произвела на него хорошее впечатление, а затем была отругана Джеймсом Гордоном и Харви Дентом за то, что подвергла себя опасности. После того, как Бэтмен не смог заставить Джокера заговорить, ей была дана вторая попытка. После разговора с Айви, которая нечаянно сказала, что детство Джокера было ужасным, Харли использовала этот факт как рычаг воздействия на разум Джокера, заставив его рассказать о своей семейной истории. Получив от Джокера искренние эмоции, Харли смогла убедить его раскрыть местоположение бомбы. Затем Харли снова пришла к камере Айви и подарила ей цветок в знак благодарности. Та была растрогана.

Однако признание Джокера оказалось ловушкой: ему нужно было избавиться от охраны, отправив героев в неправильное место. К слову, насчёт местоположения бомбы он не соврал, однако название места было двусмысленным («Маленькая Италия»). В итоге вместо скульптуры взорвался повар лечебницы, а Джокер схватил Харли в качестве живого щита и сбежал через пролом в стене. Джокер рассчитывал, что в него не станут стрелять из жалости к медсестре. Однако Харви Дент, не сомневаясь, нажал на курок. Лишь вмешательство Айви спасло и Джокера, и Харли. Она отклонила пулю, а затем связала Джокера лозами. Харли спросила, почему Айви спасла ее, и та призналась, что до этого никто не дарил ей подарков, не говоря уже о цветах. Она помогла Харли встать и сдалась охранникам Аркхэма. Позже Айви попросила Харли стать ее новым терапевтом, на что та с радостью согласилась. После этого Дент попытался сгладить ситуацию, пообещав Харли повышение, однако она гневно плюнула Денту в лицо, сказав «иди к чёрту, двуликий». Позже это слово стало его злодейским прозвищем.

Поскольку Харли продолжала работать в Аркхэме, ее дружба с Айви расцвела — в конечном итоге Харли стала единственным человеком, который смог понять и принять Айви с ее проблемами. Но в один прекрасный день Джокер снова сбежал из Аркхэма и убедил Харли прыгнуть в чан с кислотой, чтобы изменить личность и стать его злодейской приспешницей.

1 сезон

«Пока смерть не разлучит нас»

Харли Квинн попыталась ограбить группу богатых яхтсменов, но они совершенно не боятся её, пока за дело не берётся Джокер. Вместе они отбиваются от яхтсменов. Во время драки Харли спорит с Джокером, прося принять ее в Легион Смерти и позволить ей стать его полноправным партнером, а не сообщником. Джокер уклоняется и спорит до тех пор, пока не появляется Бэтмен. Джокер тут же убегает на подводную лодку и бросает Харли, чтобы отвлечь Бэтмена. Джокер заверяет ее, что «до завтрашнего утра» выведет ее из лечебницы. Харли вскоре проигрывает Бэтмену и он отправляет её в камеру.

Находясь под стражей, Харли отказывается рассказать Бэтмену что-либо о «клоуне-психопате, который обращается с тобой, как с мусором». Харли говорит о том, что у них настоящая любовь, и что Джокер сделал ей предложение и подарил кольцо с бриллиантом. В ответ Комиссар Гордон приговаривает ее к пожизненному заключению, над которым Харли смеётся, полагая, что она не проведет в тюрьме ни одной ночи. Шесть месяцев спустя она все еще находится в тюрьме, и Айви всё чаще настаивает на том, что Джокер забыл про Харли и не придёт за ней. Спустя ещё три месяца Харли оправдывала Джокера тем, что он подарил ей свободу и сделал её собой, за что она ему навсегда благодарна.

Ещё через три месяца все сокамерники в один голос кричали, что Джокер не придет, но Харли даже не хотела этого слышать. Она даже не хотела сбегать, когда Айви спланировала побег — она надеялась, что её спасёт именно Джокер. В итоге Айви насильно вытащила Харли из тюрьмы, а Харли попыталась немедленно вернуться к Джокеру. Айви настояла на том, чтобы Харли поговорила со своей галлюцинацией, задав ему вопрос: что следует делать с пациенткой, которая «зациклена на убийце-психопате и не хочет бросать его, как бы ужасно он с ней ни обращался». Харли немедленно диагностировала пациентку как страдающую «классической жестокой созависимостью», прежде чем поняла, что ставит диагноз самой себе и что ей нужно прекратить свои отношения с Джокером.

Когда Харли объявляет Джокеру о том, что они расстаются, он оправдывает себя тем, что оставил её в тюрьме для её же безопасности, и что он бы сам бросил её, «если наша любовь не настолько сильна, даже угроза смерти не может разлучить нас». Харли тут же забывает обиды и возвращается к Джокеру, что крайне не нравится Айви. Она вместе с Загадочником разрабатывает план, как поссорить Харли с Джокером. Загадочник обещает загадать такую загадку, от которой все телезрители взорвутся. Джокер отправляет Харли убить загадочника, это же пытается сделать Бэтмен. В итоге они оба попадают в плен. Затем Загадочник предъявляет Джокеру ультиматум: он должен выбрать, кто из пленников умрёт, а кто упадёт в чан с кислотой. К шоку Харли, Джокер решил освободить Бэтмена, чтобы лишить Загадочника удовольствия убить его, а Харли обрекает на смерть.

Харли падает в кислоту, и её галлюцинация-психиатр помогает Харли прозреть насчет Джокера. Она осознала, что постоянно додумывала несуществующие события, чтобы убедить себя, что Джокер её любит. Например, никакого кольца и предложения не было — это была чека от гранаты, которую Джокер дал ей в руки, чтобы Бэтмен забыл о погоне и спас Харли, дав Джокеру время для побега. А фраза «пока смерть не разлучит нас» действительно означала его надежду на то, что Харли в конечном итоге умрет. Внезапно Харли приходит мысль о том, что Джокер на самом деле всё это время любил Бэтмена. В этот момент Айви и вытаскивает Харли из бассейна «кислоты», на деле — жёлтой цветочной жидкости. Айви и Загадочник подробно описали всё произошедшее и цель их плана. Харли всё прекрасно поняла и решила, что её терпению пришёл конец.

Харли решает окончательно порвать с Джокером и начать совершать собственные преступления, такие как похищение мэра и угрозы убить его, если только он не назовет в ее честь шоссе. Она выбрасывает свой старый костюм шута, придуманный Джокером, создаёт свой новый образ и отправляется на разборки в логово Джокера. На этот раз она не принимает никаких изменений и не слушает его оправдания. Понимая, что все кончено, Джокер приказывает своим головорезам убить Харли. Начинается битва, в ходе которой Харли побеждает всех приспешников Джокера и уничтожает его логово. Самого же Джокера, лежащего среди обломков, она не убивает, желая «увидеть выражение твоего лица, когда я стану править этим городом».

«Высокая планка»

Харли смотрит телепередачу, когда Джокер захватывает здание, откуда ведётся репортаж, привязывает бомбу к груди ведущего и объявляет, что это он бросил Харли, а не она его. Также он сообщает, что он будет уважать ее желание «дрейфовать во тьме полной анонимности». Когда Джокер активирует бомбу, Харли в ярости разбивает битой телевизор. Айви пытается убедить ее, что ей должно быть все равно, что о ней подумают Джокер или Легион Смерти, с чем Харли соглашается, заявляя, что «лично покажет им, как мало меня волнует», и решает сорвать вечеринку Джокера и его коллег из Легиона Смерти в монетном дворе Готэма.

Прибыв в монетный двор, Харли была потрясена — на деле «вечеринка» оказалась просто бар-мицвой (еврейский термин, означающий «религиозное совершеннолетие») Джошуа, племянника Пингвина. Узнав это, Харли всё же решает остаться, чтобы произвести впечатление на Бэйна, Пугало и Двуликого, которые тоже присутствовали на мероприятии. Поначалу она, немного подшучивая, неплохо ладит с ними и пытается сделать их своими приспешниками, однако вскоре приезжает сам Джокер и прогоняет её. Разгневанная Харли решает ограбить монетный двор, чтобы произвести впечатление на Легион Смерти.

Проигнорировав совет Айви, Харли отправляется на разбой. При помощи поцелуя она выводит из строя камеру видеонаблюдения и успешно убивает нескольких охранников монетного двора. К сожалению, оказалось, что охранники на самом деле являлись импровизационной труппой, а все деньги там были фальшивыми. По плану Пингвина, Джошуа должен был «пробиться» через охрану, чтобы войти в хранилище, полное «джошуа-баксов», и этим доказать, что он уже взрослый. Однако занавес откидывается, и вместо охраны все видят кучу трупов и окровавленную Харли над ними. Пингвин и мама Джошуа в ярости, а Джокер истерически хохочет, наблюдая, как Пингвин усыпляет Харли и связывает ее.

Пингвин отдаёт свой огнестрельный зонт Джошуа, чтобы тот застрелил Харли, но когда Джошуа спрашивает, есть ли у неё последнее слово, Харли легко подрывает уверенность 13-летнего мальчика, спросив, не боится ли он промахнуться и опозориться. Увидев, что мальчика легко довести до истерики, она тут же бросает замечание по поводу того, что у него дрожит рука. Затем она вслух предполагает, что он никогда раньше не пил пиво и даже не был с девушкой. Охваченный стыдом, Джошуа пытается оправдаться, чем вызывает неодобрение толпы, окончательно стыдится, роняет оружие и бежит к маме. Пингвин сам пытается застрелить Харли, но тут на помощь приходят Айви и Воздушый Змей, а Харли ломает оковы и срывается со стула, готовясь к бою. Джокер предлагает ей остаться в живых, если она признает, что без него она ничто. Но Харли отказывается, и начинается битва.

Айви удерживает Двуликого, пока Харли атакует Пугало, а Воздушный Змей неохотно идёт против Бэйна (и тут же оказывается побеждён). Харли и Айви недолго удерживают свои позиции, пока их не оттесняют в угол Пингвин, Двуликий и Пугало. Джокер требует, чтобы Бэйн «перестал валять дурака» с Воздушным Змеем — Бейн не ввязывался в битву, а продолжал бить и так уже побеждённого Змея — и назвал Бэйна «тупым, причудливым монстром». Харли пользуется возможностью посеять сомнение в рядах приспешников, спрашивая, почему они подчиняются приказам злодея без суперсил, который просто запугивает их до подчинения. Джокер лишается поддержки и пытается убить Харли сам, но Айви быстро окружает его растениями. Однако Джокеру звонит подрядчик, поэтому он отвечает на звонок и уходит «по делам». Так Харли впервые доказала Легиону Смерти, что она — самостоятельная злодейка, которая способна на многое.

«Значит, тебе нужна команда?»

Харли пытается украсть русскую ядерную бомбу, но все её старания оказываются напрасны — когда она открывает хранилище, бомбу забирает Джокер и его головорезы. Это наводит Харли на мысль, что ей нужна команда. Айви не согласна и приводит в пример Доктора Психо, который один на один сражается с Чудо-женщиной по телевизору. Внезапно всё идёт не по плану — в ходе боя Доктор Психо называет противницу «тупой п.». Его тут же прогоняют отовсюду за «женоненавистничество». Харли победно доказывает Айви, что если бы у Психо была команда, она бы предупредила его и предложила синонимы для оскорблений.

В поисках подчинённых Харли приходит в фирму поиска таковых, однако, поняв, что она больше не с Джокером, ей вежливо дают понять, чтобы она ушла и больше не возвращалась. Тогда Харли обращается за помощью к незнакомцам в баре, но с ней никто не хочет работать — кто-то даже прыгнул «адский портал», чтобы не работать на нее. Ещё больше она расстраивается, когда в бар заходит Воздушный Змей и забирает всех на ограбление.

Вскоре Харли и Айви отправляются на семинар рекламного спикера Макси Зевса по набору команды, где он советует просто никогда не сдаваться, даже если фирма поиска или незнакомцы в захудалом баре отвергнут их. Харли комментирует, что всё это она уже делала. Так как ответа на вопросы она не получила, она после семинара решает поговорить с Макси лично и получить от него новые советы. Однако вместо советов он предлагает ей секс, говоря, что ни один «плохой парень» никогда не будет работать на женщину, а следовательно, ей бесполезно искать команду. Харли сердится и уходит, сказав, что ей и не нужны «плохие парни». Затем Харли разыскивает Айви и просит её стать своим приспешником, но Айви отказывает ей, говоря, что существует «стеклянный потолок» для женщин-суперзлодеев. За подробными разъяснениями она отправляет Харли к Королеве сказок. Та в своё время была сильнейшей колдуньей, которая наколдовала целую армию и захватила Готэм в 80-х годах, побудив Лигу справедливости расправиться с ней лично. В итоге, вместо Аркхэма она была заключена вовнутрь книги — наказание куда более страшное, чем Аркхэм, куда заточали мужчин-злодеев.

После посещения королевы сказок, которая и рассказала Харли свою историю, Харли возвращается в квартиру Айви. Она немного успокоилась и задалась вопросом: не имела ли в виду Айви, что у неё, как и у королевы сказок, в итоге ничего не получится? Айви заверяет ее, что все наоборот, а Харли просто должна знать о предстоящих трудностях.

Встреча с королевой сказок дала Харли идею — искать забитых и неуважаемых злодеев, которым уже нечего терять. Она решает начать с Доктора Психо. Она приходит в бар и пытается поговорить с ним. Сначала он отказывается, говоря, что его ещё не изгнали из Легиона Смерти. Но тут по телевизору показывают новости, где ведущая говорит о том, что Доктор Психо изгнан даже оттуда — на этот раз за то, что в прямом эфире назвал свою жену «тупой п.». Услышав новость, Доктор Психо согласился стать приспешником Харли. Внезапно бармен — Глиноликий — тоже захотел присоединиться к команде Харли, и она с радостью приняла их обоих.

Первым групповым преступлением Харли и её команды стала месть Макси Зевсу. Харли посылает Глиноликого для отвлечения Макси, в то время как она и доктор Психо пробираются в его особняк, чтобы украсть золотые медали. Глиноликий принимает облик внебрачного сына Макси и тоже входит в дом. Макси чует неладное и начинает придумывать «сыну» наследственные черты. В это время Харли и Психо успешно крадут медали и проходят в зал, где видят горбатого и косоглазого «сына», над которым издевается Макси.

Когда Зевс разоблачает Глиноликого, Харли раскрывает ему свой план и требует, чтобы Макси объявил всему миру, что «команда Харли не знает преград». Затем она приказывает Доктору Психо избить Зевса несколькими телекинетически поднятыми статуями, а после этого сама избивает его своей битой. На следующий день, когда репортеры находят Зевса избитым и ограбленным, он устало говорит то, что требовала Харли. В этот же день Харли продаёт украденные медали Макси, чтобы купить ядерную бомбу. Ей она запугивает мэра Готэма, а он исполняет её требование и называет Шоссе Харли Квин в её честь.

«В поисках Мистера Правильного»

Харли Квинн возвращается в квартиру Айви с тюками денег после успешного ограбления банка, но сердится, когда видит, что никто по телевизору не освещает их ограбление. Так был уничтожен девятый телевизор в квартире Айви. Айви в свою очередь говорит, что отсутствие дурной славы — это хорошо, но Харли игнорирует её слова и думает о том, как бы увеличить свою аудиторию на сайте «findanemesis.com». Глиноликий завербовал хакера Короля Акулу, чтобы накрутить аудиторию. После успешной накрутки сразу находятся злодеи, но Харли считает их недостойными. Она хочет сразиться с Бэтменом.

Чтобы спровоцировать Бэтмена, Харли крадет Бэтмобиль. К несчастью для Харли, вместо Бэтмена прибывает мальчик Робин, и Харли отказывается бороться с ним, бросая Бэтмобиль. Внезапно появляется ведущая — оказалось, что их тайно снимали на камеру для прямого эфира передачи о преступлениях. Робин решает не упускать шанс обидеть Харли и говорит, что она упросила его стать её заклятым врагом. Мало того, что это было сказано во весь эфир, так ещё Лоис Лейн подхватила эту историю и написала статью, сказав, что Харли отбросила «женское движение злодеев на десятилетия назад». Харли решает взять Лоис в плен, чтобы вынудить её отказаться от статьи. К тому же Супермен должен был попытаться спасти свою подругу и сделать Харли своим заклятым врагом. Однако Лоис Лейн совершенно не испугалась Харли, а вместо того, чтобы её спасать, Супермен притащил с собой Робина. Сражение с ним Харли снова сочла позором, а потому просто отступила.

Вскоре у Харли созревает план, как заставить Робина отказаться от своего вранья. Она берёт его в плен, привязывает к потолку и приказывает Королю Акуле плавать под Робином, чтобы напугать его. Тогда Робин храбро отвечает, что никогда не откажется от своей лжи. Харли же объявляет, что это на самом деле не плен — по её расчёту, их снова тайно снимают на камеру для прямого эфира передачи о преступлениях. Так все телезрители поняли, что Робин соврал. Внезапно у Робина начинает идти кровь из нос. Пара капель падает в воду, и Король Акула впадает в бешенство. Харли спасает Робина (к восторгу ведущей, которая тут же начинает говорить про любовь). Но тут на помощь Робину прилетает Бэтмен, который набрасывается на Харли Квинн, говоря, что ее отправят в лечебницу Аркхэма за то, что она подвергла опасности Робина.

Шоу всё ещё продолжается, пока Харли и Бэтмен дерутся. Харли чуть не попадает в плен, но ей на помощь приходит Айви. Вместе они сражаются с Бэтменом, пока не появляется Джокер. Харли в ярости атакует его, так как, по её мнению, он хочет отнять у неё заклятого врага. Начинается трехсторонняя битва, пока Джокер не замечает Робина, все еще связанного с самого начала шоу. Он похищает его и убегает, вынуждая Бэтмена преследовать его, чем косвенно спасает Харли.

После шоу Айви успокаивает Харли, говоря, что в конце концов она найдёт заклятого врага, но это произойдёт само собой. Она также приняла Короля Акулу в команду Харли — его ум, ярость и умение работать с техникой всех впечатлили.

«Быть Харли Квинн»

Когда Сай Боргман решает выселить Айви со съёмной квартиры, они с Харли начинают поиск своего нового злодейского пристанища. Однако Харли отметает логово за логовом. Агент пытается донести Харли, что она сначала должна понять, чего она хочет, но она кричит на него и впадает в ступор, не шевелясь и не моргая. Доктор Психо называет это «заморозкой мозга четвёртого уровня». Он телепатически втягивает всю команду в сознание Харли, чтобы выявить и решить проблему. Так они попадают в музей воспоминаний Харли, изучая её прошлое.

После знакомства с репродукцией Харли в её же сознании, доктор Психо предостерег всех от прикосновений, чтобы разум Харли не попытался их изгнать. Однако, когда Харли видит сломанное воспоминание о Джокере, где он толкает ее в чан с кислотой, она пытается взаимодействовать с ним. Это вызывает «блокировку мозга» и мешает Доктору Психо «перезагрузить» мозг Харли. Разум вводит автоматическую защиту и направляет маленькие, бессмертные и кровожадные детские копии Харли, чтобы убить незваных гостей. В это время Сай Боргман прибыл в свою съёмную квартиру и видит кучу тел вокруг тела Харли. Он решает сжечь тела, считая их всем, что осталось от «очередной группы самоубийц».

Сквозь зрительный нерв застывшей в ступоре Харли её команда видит, что Сай Боргман и Голда планируют кремировать их тела, прежде чем Голда заставляет Сая закрыть глаза «трупа». Команде нужно спешить, чтобы выбраться из сознания Харли до того, как их сожгут. Доктор Психо решает отвести их к другому выходу — подсознанию Харли. Там команда обнаружила, что это место было карнавалом, наполненным клонами Джокера. Здесь их снова настигают мини-Харли, и команде приходится бежать. Не зная пути, они попадают в тупик. Тут их спасает галлюцинация Фрэнки Муниса, который показывает им выход. Фрэнки Мунис был любовной мечтой Харли в детстве — она хотела похитить его и родить от него детей. По словам Психо, появление образа Фрэнки было свидетельством того, что часть мозга Харли ещё нормально функционирует и посылает команде помощь.

Прежде чем убежать, Харли заметила остров самых страшных воспоминаний, который, как она предположила, мог быть виноват в сбое её памяти. Она решает идти одна, но в итоге все решили последовать за ней. Лишь Глиноликий не смог идти — он превратился в Фрэнки Муниса и отвлёк мини-Харли. Остальные сели на спину Короля Акулы и поплыли на остров, где, наконец, увидели недостающую часть памяти Харли. Оказалось, что на самом деле это был ее выбор — прыгнуть в кислоту и стать Харли Квинн. Раньше она думала, что Джокер толкнул ее. Осмелев, Харли идет прямо в память и превращается в Харлин Квинзел. Играя за своё прошлое, она отвергает предложение Джокера прыгнуть. Когда Джокер сердито говорит ей, что она не может изменить свое прошлое, Харли восклицает, что это не прошлое, а лишь воображение — она мысленно меняет всё вокруг. Теперь они находятся в Веселом доме Джокера в тот день, когда она рассталась с ним. Харли говорит ему, что ни он, ни кто-либо другой не создал ее — она создала себя сама.

Это восстановило равновесие в ее сознании, и все одновременно очнулись. Они уже лежали в печи, но успели выбраться. Сай Боргман был недоволен, однако Харли сменила тему — ей понравилось то место, где стоял крематорий. Это были руины торгового центра Готэма. Сай сказал, что это место принадлежит тоже ему, и он разрешит команде поселиться здесь, если они разрешат ему время от времени присутствовать на ограблениях.

«Ты чертовски хороший коп, Джим Гордон»

Харли и команда возвращаются в Торговый центр Готэма после успешной кражи мумии Тутанхамона. Однако Харли приходит в ярость, узнав, что КГБист был номинирован на вступление в Легион Смерти, в то время как её игнорируют уже два месяца подряд. В ярости Харли разбивает компьютер Короля Акулы, а когда он предлагает украсть новый, Харли решает заодно украсть невидимый мотоцикл у WayneTech. Глиноликий отвлекает охранников, Король Акула взламывает несколько дверей, Айви помогает всем подняться в башню WayneTech, а Доктор Психо хватает охранника, чтобы обойти замок сканирования сетчатки глаза.

Харли прыгает через лазерные лучи, окружающие мотоцикл, но вдруг замечает еще более защищённую область за пределами того места, где хранился мотоцикл. Несмотря на протесты Доктора Психо, она бросает мотоцикл, крадёт непонятное устройство из защищённой области и вызывает звуковой сигнал, чтобы отвлечь полицию. В процессе побега Глиноликому дверью отрубает руку. Харли убеждает Глиноликого оставить руку за дверью, чтобы не рисковать всей командой. Вернувшись домой, Харли поначалу остаётся довольна ограблением. Однако вся ее команда крайне обеспокоена, когда Критик в маске критикует Харли за ее бездарность, говоря, что она оставила в плену «члена» команды, Руку Глиноликого, которая живёт своей жизнью. К несчастью, этим воспользовался Гордон, который уже долгое время находился в подавленном состоянии из-за того, что Бэтмен стал избегать его. Он решил сделать Руку своим другом, а заодно допросить её касательно местоположения логова Харли.

Преисполненная решимости разрулить ситуацию, Харли разрабатывает план проникновения в Полицейское управление Готэма, чтобы забрать руку Глиноликого и показать ее команду достаточно собранной, чтобы ее пригласили в Легион Смерти. В то же время Айви и Доктор Психо отделяются, чтобы разобраться с клеветой Критика в маске. Им оказался сын Психо, Герман Циско, поэтому эта часть плана прошла гладко. В это время Харли пытается отвлечь внимание охраны при помощи Короля Акулы, но его тут же хватают и сажают в тюрьму. Тогда Харли отправляет Глиноликого в образе однорукого охранника, чтобы он отвлёк охрану вместо Короля Акулы, и это ему удаётся. Харли проникает в управление и добирается до крыши, где сталкивается с комиссаром Гордоном. С ним находится Рука Глиноликого, которая уже собирается выдать Гордону местонахождение логова Харли. Харли требует вернуть Руку обратно, угрожая активировать устройство, которое она украла у WayneTech. Но Гордон вместо этого пытается застрелить её. В последний момент Харли нажимает кнопку и внезапно телепортируется. До этого она думала, что устройство вызывает взрыв.

Материализовавшись в Пещере Бэтмена, Харли пытается убедить Бэтмена, что Гордон — самоубийца и нуждается в помощи друга, покинувшего его. Говоря это, Харли осознаёт, что сама она тоже забыла про своих друзей и сосредоточилась исключительно на себе. В конечном итоге она убеждает Бэтмена спасти свою дружбу с Гордоном. Вместе с ней он летит в полицейский участок и говорит руке Глиноликого вернуться к своему хозяину. Несмотря на то, что Бэтмен только что восстановил свои отношения с комиссаром, он намерен арестовать Харли и посадить её в Аркхэм, поэтому Харли снова активирует устройство и бросает в Бэтмена, телепортируя его в пещеру. Тут прибывают Доктор Психо и Айви, помогая Харли спастись. Глиноликий поглощает свою руку, а Харли извиняется перед друзьями за то, что часто забывает о них. В этот раз даже Критик в маске восторженно оценивает работу Харли, отметив только, что она снова забыла в плену «члена» команды — Короля Акулу. Харли теперь вынуждена планировать новую операцию.

«Черта»

Queen of Fables received a court order to be released from the United States Tax Code, and she advised Harley that she has to steal something the Legion of Doom wants in order to be noticed. Harley decided to steal Kord Industries’ famous Weather Machine, using S.T.A.R. Laboratories’ personal force field device to deflect the lasers Kord Industries uses to protect their Weather Machine. Harley’s plan was stalled by the need for someone who could enter a 4-inch crawlspace, and their focus was occupied when she saw on TV how Queen of Fables was freed from the tax code only to be sentenced to Arkham. Harley then freed Queen of Fables while she was being transported to the prison.

Queen of Fables agreed to help Harley steal the force field from S.T.A.R. Labs, but soon began to unnerve Harley’s Crew with her brutality. Harley insisted on continuing however, using Queen of Fable’s conjured mouse for the mission while Queen of Fables herself distracted a family who had seen them. After successfully pulling off the mission, Harley was horrified to return to a bloody massacre of the entire family reunion. Although she saw one survivor who appeared to be a little girl, she claimed not to see any survivors so that Queen of Fables would not kill another person. At Ivy’s insistence, Harley attempted to gently dismiss Queen of Fables from their group, but Queen of Fables became offended at Harley’s insistence on not crossing her «line» of killing innocents, and left in anger.

Harley managed to steal the Weather Machine without issue using the force field, and used it to blackmail the Mayor of Gotham for $1 billion, only for Queen of Fables to arrive and try to steal it from her. Harley protested that they were friends, but Queen of Fables continued to advance until Jason Praxis, the sole survivor of the massacre, arrived to destroy Queen of Fables’ storybook and launch an electrical assault on everyone present. Harley agreed to turn over Queen of Fables to him in exchange for mercy, but slipped her force field on Queen of Fables’ wrist so that Praxis’ electrical blast rebounded and struck him instead. Harley then sent Queen of Fables off, although she stayed around just long enough to brutally murder Jason Praxis before departing. With Queen of Fables gone, Harley tried to use the Weather Machine, but it self destructed after too many failed login attempts.

«L.O.D.R.S.V.P.»

Deep in the ocean, Harley and her crew have just stolen a cache of Atlantean jewels from the Atlantis Museum of Art, with Clayface pretending to be Aquaman to misdirect the guards. However, Aquaman himself apprehended them on the ocean surface, and it required Poison Ivy’s arrival and tying him up in seaweed for Harley and her crew to escape. Their exploits made the news and afterward, the Legion of Doom became interested and invited Harley for consideration into the Legion of Doom, and Harley guilt-tripped Ivy into coming along to see it. Scarecrow took them on a tour of the building and Harley and her crew were instantly smitten with the place, although Ivy disdained it.

While Harley was mingling at the party, Aquaman arrived to retrieve his jewels from Ivy and Harley. He fought off several Legion of Doom members including Black Manta, who landed on Ivy and left her helpless, until Harley distracted him and goaded him into throwing his trident at her. She then dodged, and his trident shattered the large aquarium throughout the Legion of Doom office, spilling hundreds of fish onto the ground and forcing Aquaman to save them. Everyone at the Legion of Doom then praised Harley for fighting Aquaman off, but just before the nomination began, Ivy suddenly proposed making up their own league without the Legion of Doom. Although tempted, Harley insisted on joining the Legion of Doom until Ivy admitted that they had only invited Harley to blackmail Ivy herself into joining, as Lex Luthor said.

However, to Ivy’s surprise, Lex Luthor announced Harley Quinn as the new member of the Legion of Doom despite Ivy’s rejection, leading Harley to assume that Ivy simply did not believe in her. Afterward Harley got into an intense argument with Ivy, claiming that Ivy simply did not want Harley to succeed and move on because Harley was supposedly the only friend she’d ever had. After Ivy stormed out angrily, the ground beneath Harley’s feat collapsed and dumped her into the basement of Gotham Mall, where Doctor Psycho and Sy Borgman were restraining a giant tentacle monster. As Doctor Psycho translated for the monster about how it felt abandoned by Sy Borgman, Harley began to realize that she lashed out at Ivy. After freeing the monster and going to the Legion of Doom, Harley debated reaching out to Ivy again, but decided against it. She then came face to face with the Joker himself.

«Место за столом»

Harley and her crew were inducted into the Legion of Doom and the Joker praised her entry, saying she was «killing it». Her crew insisted she not fall for his schemes, and although she reassured them, she began to warm to the Joker when he nodded approvingly at her. She then tried to repair her friendship with Poison Ivy, assuring her she would always be there for her and offering to help her destroy Lex Corp’s PlanetWide Pavers factory with her, before heading to her first Legion of Doom meeting. There, she criticized the Joker’s idea to spend $600-$800 million on a tower, despite everyone else blindly agreeing with him before hearing her notes.

Afterwards, he surprised her by praising her for challenging him to put the time in to flesh out his plan. The Joker also offered to have a «work drink» with Harley to help develop his plan more and to show Harley how to «game the system», but although Harley was opposed to the idea, her crew’s requests to be assigned away from Bane convinced her to follow up on the Joker’s offer, in order to figure out how to get them off the hook. At the Joker’s dinner, he claimed he would simply talk to Lex Luthor and resolve the situation for Harley’s crew, saying that Lex considers Harley to be an «asset» that he wants to keep happy. As Harley began to enjoy the dinner, she realized she had to go to meet Ivy but the Joker convinced her to stay so she lied about having to reschedule, and ignored her crew’s calls for help when she moved to have a dinner on a commandeered yacht. After tossing the original owners onto a life-raft, the Joker even agreed with one of Harley’s suggestions for his tower — to have it emerge out of the ground «like a jack-in-the-box». Batman himself then arrived to apprehend them, but the Joker sent him sprawling with a grenade and then prepared to escape in a helicopter.

Mirroring «Til Death Do Us Part» when the Joker abandoned Harley to be captured by Batman, the Joker instead turned the situation on its head by offering to take her with him — seemingly accepting her for the first time. Harley squealed in delight and ran into his arms as they were both lifted into the air away from Batman. Now in the helicopter, Harley mentioned that she dreamed of escaping together, and they began kissing passionately until the Batplane pulled alongside the Joker’s helicopter, at which point the Joker savagely pushed Harley out of the helicopter to her death, betraying her once again. Heartbroken as the litany of her abusive relationship flashed before her eyes, Harley curled into a fetal position as she plummeted toward the water, only for Batman to break her fall.

Batman softly admonished Harley that «some things never change, Quinn» before Harley tearfully slid off the Batplane and adroitly dove into the waters below. At shore, she eventually arrived at the hospital after learning that King Shark had his fin blown off during Bane’s mission. She tried to keep to her story about being held up by the Legion of Doom, but didn’t realize that her crew and Ivy had all seen the footage of her kissing the Joker earlier, and so they saw through her lie. She tried to convince her crew that she was only meeting with the Joker to try and get them of working for Bane, but her original lie kept them from believing her. Ivy herself abandoned Harley with the rest of her crew, and even rejected her help in destroying the PlanetWide Pavers factory, saying «I need people I can count on».

«Бенсонхёрст»

Harley stalked her ex-crew on Instagram, briefly speaking with Bane before heading to the Gotham Mall alone. She tried contacting Ivy, but when she received no response, a hallucination of Doctor Quinzel appeared before Harley and suggested she go to her mother for acceptance and love. At her mother Sharon Quinzel‘s home in Bensonhurst, Harley was taken in with open arms, and Harley apologized for not keeping in touch. However, Harley did still shrug off Sharon’s suggestion that she become a psychiatrist again, and became bothered that Sharon kept her second-place trophy from when she was a gymnast. Apparently Harley nearly won a tournament, but her father, Nick Quinzel, asked her to «take a dive» so that he could win a bet to get out of debt, and although Harley acquiesced, she became enraged and assaulted him.

Surfacing from the memory, Harley expressed how glad she was that Nick was in prison, only to find that he had been released and got back together with Sharon. At dinner Harley constantly complained about Nick, rebuffing Sharon’s suggestion that she marry a Jewish doctor, until Nick called for civility for Grandma Quinzel‘s sake. Grandma Quinzel managed to explain that she had brain cancer just before her head exploded in a shower of gore — an assassin was shooting at them. Harley closed the blinds, painted everyone in blood, and had them lay still while the assassin was forced to physically enter the house. As he inspected Harley’s «corpse», she redirected his own knife into his chest and pulled him into a chair, demanding to know who he worked for as she pushed the knife deeper. Before he could give anything away however, Nick shot him in the head, claiming that it was revenge for killing Grandma Quinzel.

In the aftermath, Nick claimed that the assassin was from the mob and trying to kill him over a loan he took from them. He and Harley then went to fight them off, with Nick giving her pointers on which gymnastic moves to do in order to defeat the mobsters, eventually defeating them all. Nick then earnestly apologized for having her lose on purpose and complimented her skills, until he was interrupted by the arrival of one last mobster with a mini gun. Nick pushed Harley out of the way and lost his last thumb to the gunfire in the process, before Harley killed him. Afterward, Harley and Nick finally appeared to make amends, believing her father to have changed.

Grandpa Quinzel arrived at the house to celebrate, claiming to have high blood pressure and wanting to drink with the time he had left, only for his chest to explode in another shatter of gore from a shotgun blast. Harley then killed yet another assassin and angrily declared that she would keep her family safe, only for another, much smaller explosion of gore to erupt from her own stomach — she was shot by her own father. He revealed that he had tipped off an assassin to kill Harley so that he could collect a finder’s fee from the $1 million bounty on her head, and simply had her wipe out the mob while he waited, but when both assassins failed he intended to kill her and collect the bounty himself. As Harley reached for a knife, her own mother took it away to prevent it from grabbing it. Sharon said that she only wanted «what every Jewish mother wants, for you to marry a doctor».

Sharon said how she tries so hard to change Harley’s life in the most passive aggressive way she could and angry the only thanks she get is “yelling and fighting. At Harley’s insistence that she was her daughter and deserved her love, Sharon said that her being their daughter made them into pariahs wherever they went due to her being a criminal. Harley then cauterized her own wound while continuing to argue, dodging bullets from Nick. Nick insisted that he was just like her, betraying her as she betrayed her crew, and although Harley said they left her and not the other way around, Sharon said it was because she was «sucking face with that goyische clown» and had bad taste in men. Harley fired back that she learned it from her, only for Nick to throw her through a closet door and attempt to strangle her, at which point Harley pulled a knife on him. Backpedaling, Nick and Sharon then begged for mercy and said that «family doesn’t kill each other», but Harley disavowed them saying they aren’t worth killing and stumbled out of the house covered in cuts, bruises, and a gut wound. She then passed out as a car rolled up, and awoke inside it with Frank the Plant at the wheel, who claimed that Ivy had been kidnapped and needed Harley’s help.

«Шоссе Харли Квинн»

Outside the PlanetWide Pavers factory, Frank convinced Harley that it was too dangerous to infiltrate without her crew. She reached out to Clayface, Doctor Psycho, and King Shark with a heartfelt speech about how she regretted her mistreatment of them, but they unanimously reject her offer to rejoin her crew until Frank tells them that Ivy had been kidnapped. Berating Harley to «put your thesis statement at the motherfuckin’ top», he convinced everyone to reform the crew — with the caveat that most members wanted nothing to do with Harley after Ivy was safe again. Sy Borgman also offered his assistance, and drove everyone to the factory in a Pretzel Wrapped Wieners truck and gained admittance under the guise of making a delivery.

Once inside, everyone donned disguises and went further into the factory, eventually hearing Ivy’s screams and zeroing in on them. Doctor Psycho says they must enter her mind to combat the fear toxin destroying her brain, so Harley knocks Ivy out, not realizing that Ivy could have been left awake for the procedure. Everyone then enters Ivy’s mind to discover it shrouded in darkness, filled with a myriad of Ivy’s greatest fears, such as a wood chipper grinding up young trees and spewing blood everywhere. After defeating the wood chipper, a hallucination of Frank materialized in front of Ivy and told her that she needed to destroy Ivy’s biggest fear in order to correct the damage done to Ivy’s mind.

Frank directed everyone to a mansion, where Harley discovered a memory of Ivy’s cruel father mocking her lack of friends. She immediately presumed him to be Ivy’s greatest fear, and tried to attack him, only for him to transform into a massive mouth that consumed Ivy and nearly ate Harley too. However, King Shark bit a chunk out of his tongue, causing him to spew them both out of the mansion in a flood of blood and pain. Harley sought to go back to find him, but Frank said he wasn’t actually Ivy’s biggest fear. At that moment, Kite Man emerged out of the darkness and fearfully tried to escape into the air, only to be caught by a fireball and disintegrated. Death himself then emerged out of the darkness and launched a fiery assault against Harley and her crew. Harley then had Clayface morph into a bat, which she used to club Death to death. However, when she pulled back Death’s hood, she discovered it was actually Harley herself who Ivy feared most. With Ivy’s biggest fear defeated, her mind abruptly corrected itself and ejected everyone.

Harley awoke surrounded by a bloody massacre, Sy Borgman having killed a slew of guards who arrived after he accidentally activated the alarm. Although Harley demanded answers about why she was Ivy’s biggest fear, Ivy insisted on going after Scarecrow and the rest of the Legion of Doom. Sy then transformed into a car and everyone drove off after Scarecrow onto the Harley Quinn Highway, a Mario Kart-esque track with loops and abrupt turns that Harley designed herself. Ivy quickly went ahead to take over one of Scarecrow’s trucks. Harley again asked Ivy about her fear again, and Ivy relented and revealed that her fear was finally placing her trust in someone only to be abandoned, as Harley did for the Joker. Before they could reconcile however, Harley’s truck slowed while on a loop and succumbed to gravity, forcing Harley to maneuver through the air to land inside of Clayface without harm. When Ivy flew off her own truck, Harley had Sy jump off the track to intercept her fall, with Harley herself pulling Ivy to safety.

After landing successfully, Harley invited Sy to join the crew even if it was just going to be him and her, and they then raced off to catch the last truck — with Scarecrow in it. As Scarecrow took the Gotham Park exit, spiraling around a giant statue of Harley herself, Harley took aim at the statue with a rocket launcher and proclaimed that it was the «old me. Time to blow her up.» Harley then fired, destroying the statue, whose head fell onto the track and blocked Scarecrow’s truck. Seemingly successful, Harley asked Ivy if they could make amends, only for Scarecrow to come to and drive his truck off the side of the track, landing in the Gotham Reservoir and infecting the entire water supply with Ivy’s pheromones. Harley and her crew watched in horror as trees throughout Gotham transformed into ravenous monsters.

«Ловушка дьявола»

Harley and Ivy tried to fight off the plant monsters to no avail, eventually getting surrounded, and only survived due to the intervention of the Justice League. Although they made short work of the nearby monsters, they presumed Harley to be at fault, and nearly banished her and her crew to the Phantom Zone. Poison Ivy managed to save them only by wrapping Wonder Woman‘s lasso around her neck to force her to tell the truth, proving to the Justice League that they were not at fault. Queen of Fables then arrived and trapped the entire Justice League inside her storybook, just as Zatanna Zatara did to Queen of Fables 30 years ago. She then tossed a beanstalk at their feet, launching them up into the sky where a giant soon tried to eat them.

Ivy sent out a distress call to Kite Man, and Harley wondered how Ivy had his number memorized. She continually questioned Ivy while battling the giant, until eventually Ivy said she was dating him. Doctor Psycho and everyone else in the crew knew about it, even Sy, but Ivy claimed that Harley never knew because she was self-centered. The giant finally captured them all then, but was stopped when Kite Man arrived and threw hot sauce in his one eye, causing him to fall over and toss them out of the clouds. As they plummeted, Kite Man caught Ivy in his arms, Harley, Doctor Psycho, and Clayface on the back of his kite, and extended a rope ladder for King Shark and Sy Borgman to grab onto. With all of the extra weight accelerating their descent, Clayface launched himself onto the ground and reformed into a ramp, breaking Doctor Psycho, Harley, Sy Borgman, and King Shark’s fall while Kite Man brought himself and Ivy gently to the ground. Their passionate kissing afterward disgusted Harley and her crew.

Harley then commandeered Commissioner Gordon‘s tank to take on the Legion of Doom, only for it to blow up before she could even fire a missile at it. The Joker’s Tower then emerged from the ground where it previously stood, and broadcasted the Joker live. He derided the Legion for allowing in «any second-rate clown with a cheap dye job», so Harley angrily proclaimed that she went to a high-end salon weekly, only for Ivy to point out that she really does just buy bottles of dye from the drug store. Harley sought to use their tank to attack the Joker’s tower, only for another tank to literally fall from the sky and crush their own tank, thrown by a plant monster. Ivy then went off to distract the plant monsters surrounding the tower, allowing Harley to approach it and come face to face with Queen of Fables.

Queen of Fables sicced the Big Bad Wolf on Harley, only for King Shark to kill and eat his innards. Harley then got inside his pelt and walked to Queen of Fables like normal, only to rip out of her disguise and bat Queen of Fables’ head literally off of her shoulders, killing her. Poison Ivy then arrived, now a giantess, but so too did another plant monster, who kidnapped Harley. Ivy ran after and killed the monster, and caught Harley as she fell. With Harley in Ivy’s hand, they finally reconciled as Harley admitted she was not good at having people that were actually good for her in her life but promised to better from now on. While laughing together, a flagpole shot from the Joker’s tower bolted through Ivy’s chest, at which point she shrunk down to human size again and died in Harley’s arms, surrounded by a bed of flowers. The Joker’s laughter rolled over the landscape, saying «oops», and in response Harley screamed in rage and loss.

«Последняя шутка»

Harley tearfully attended Ivy’s funeral, and after becoming overwhelmed with rage she tried to run straight to the Joker to kill him. Doctor Psycho stopped her however, insisting she come up with a plan first. She decides to team up with Batman, sending Clayface to Joker posing as Batman while the real Batman could sneak up on the Joker and defeat him. Although the Joker initially buys the ruse, he insists on Harley singing «happy birthday», which Clayface cannot resist singing along to. This reveals the deception, forcing Harley to shoot a rocket at the Joker’s tower. After the smoke clears, the Joker and the real Batman are right across from each other, so the Joker runs to the center of the tower and encapsulates himself in a protective dome while the room fills with gas. Batman is then knocked out and captured, and the Joker’s traps capture all of Harley’s crew except for her who uses her gymnastics to get away.

After being on the run, Harley got some red and black roses and left them on Ivy’s grave. Kite Man and Frank the Plant then showed up, having been living in a camp behind the grave, and informed Harley about her crew’s pending execution. Harley bid Ivy goodbye and shed tears which landed on her grave before leaving to save her crew, even as the flowers she left began to move of their own accord. Knowing the Joker wanted her alive, Harley strapped a bomb to herself and threatened suicide if the Joker did not release her crew. He acquiesced, agreeing to free her crew if she put on her old outfit. She did, so the Joker released her crew and then went on a small speech about how Harley was the «missing piece» to his happiness. Just as they got close together for a kiss, they both stabbed each other in the gut at the same time, and then began fighting each other. Although Harley stabbed the Joker multiple times, he easily held the upper hand. After defeating her he claimed that he was being truthful, that he did need her — because she was his only weakness, and must be removed. Harley dared him to kill her, but the Joker had other ideas.

Claiming that killing her would allow her to «live on forever, an emotional martyr in my soul», the Joker instead intended to erase her memories completely and totally, rendering her as a normal person again. The Joker held her over a vat of acid and prepared to push her in, but Harley saw vines growing around the edge of the vat, so she asked that the Joker let her jump in of her own accord. Bemused, the Joker agreed, so Harley jumped off the catwalk above the vat and fell into Ivy’s waiting vines. Ivy then rose into the air and dispatched the Joker’s goons, and at Harley’s direction, grabbed and dropped the Joker himself into the vat of acid. Harley was overjoyed, and thought her tears brought Ivy back to life, although Ivy claimed it was simply the «renewing power of nature».

With the Joker’s last act, he activated a self destruct, destroying his tower an the majority of Gotham City, sinking the rest into the waters surrounding it. This freed Batman in the process, who was able to save Harley and Ivy from a falling pipe, ending up crushed instead. Harley, Ivy, and the rest of her crew then looked out over the burning, utterly destroyed Gotham City and mused on the fact that both the Justice League and the Legion of Doom are either incapacitated or dead, including the Joker. Overwhelmed, Harley commented that it was «so beautiful» before hugging Ivy.

2 сезон

«Новый Готэм»

In the wake of Gotham City’s utter destruction, the President of the United States declared it «civitas non grata», no longer part of the country, which delighted Harley Quinn. She proceeded to go on a rampage throughout the anarchic city with her hyenas Bud and Lou, kidnapping a famous sushi chef named Takashi to cook for her crew. Ivy pulled her aside and urged her to take command of the city, but Harley refused, delighting in the lack of hierarchy in New Gotham. After Harley discarded Sy Borgman‘s comment about it being like post-war Vietnam, she was interrupted by the arrival of The Penguin‘s goons.

The two goons claimed that Gotham Mall was The Penguin’s «turf», but King Shark ate one of them and frightened the other way. Ivy used this to impress upon Harley that more and more goons would begin taking over if she didn’t do so herself. Harley tried to deny it until yet another band of goons arrived, this time from Two-Face, so Harley left to deal with the situation by inciting a good uprising, encouraging them to strike out as independents and undermine their former masters.

Anarchy restored, Harley went out to steal the last ginger in Gotham for Takashi to use in their sushi preparation, but was fought by five new upstart villains on the way and delayed. Ivy then pulled her aside to complain about the numerous small-time villains around, but Harley brushed it off, taking a letter from Lou with her invitation to the Injustice League in it. This disturbed Harley as she wanted no structures or hierarchies at all, prompting Ivy to mock her.

Harley arrived at the Injustice League’s headquarters, where The Penguin and Two-Face insisted that there must be a hierarchy. Disturbed, she protested that they had the opportunity to do something new instead of falling into their old ways, prompting Mister Freeze to show the league’s new proposed map of Gotham City to Harley, sections of the city divided up into territories. In response Harley simply smashed through the map and the table beneath it, and rejected their idea of territorial division, so Mister Freeze froze her in a block of ice.

Harley wakes up in the middle of an escape attempt, only her face free of the ice, so she screams for release. Eventually Sy Borgman uses a blow torch to let her free her swinging arm, and she begins fighting The Penguin’s goons while half encased in ice, laughing maniacally as her ice block smashes goons repeatedly. However, when Doctor Psycho throws Harley’s block into a trio of goons, she gets a bit too far ahead of her crew and The Penguin seals the door behind her, leaving her alone with him and entrapped in ice.

The Penguin taunted Harley, easily disarming her while encased in ice, and prepared to kill her. However, he got a bit too close and enabled Harley to bite his nose clean off, forcing him to flinch away. The recoil also knocked Harley’s block of ice down, shattering it and finally freeing her, but she accidentally shattered her bat when she attempted to finish The Penguin. Laughing, The Penguin taunted her as nothing more than a «defrosted gymnast» without her bat, and began launching grenades at her from his umbrella, knocking Harley aside with the blasts.

Not to be outdone however, Harley hid in the smoke that the grenades created, throwing her voice around the room to disorient The Penguin. Then, she snuck up on him and shoved the shattered end of her bat into his throat before ripping it out, killing him. She then turned to her crew and asked to get coffee, so they went to Noonan’s Bar where Harley demanded to know why the goons went back to their bosses so quickly. Ivy tries to let Harley down gently, but Clayface immediately tells her that she was in ice for two months, shocking Harley. Ivy then takes Harley to see what she’s missed, and is horrified to discover that the Injustice League has carved up the city. Lamentably, Harley finally admits that Ivy was right, and vows to take over the city for herself.

«Университет Загадочника»

Harley has no power or lighting to see her next move, so she sets her sights on Riddler University, the only place in New New Gotham with power. She plans to sneak in with Poison Ivy, posing as coeds in order to kill the Riddler. They fly with Kite Man to university while caked in makeup to hide her pale skin, to sneak in and joins a tour by Barbara Gordon using the alias «Heather Witherbee». Barbara starts questioning if they really were there from the beigining but «Stephanie» helps them blend. However, when Harley Quinn notices someone in crowd who appears to be the Riddler she runs after and attacks him. After shoving the man into a fountain, beating him, and nearly drowning him, she realizes that he’s «Jiminey Riddles», the Riddle U mascot.

In the process Harley gets wet and her cake makeup begins to slough off, revealing her identity to Barbara Gordon who is watching nearby. She gives chase, but Barbara is able to agilely escape. At night, Harley and Ivy break into Barbara’s dorm, and although Barbara quickly overpowers Harley, Ivy uses a plant to captures her. Barbara quickly explains she’s on their side and has been collecting evidence that the Riddler is kidnapping students for a long time and wants to take him down. She gives them wrist bands to get access to a suspicious frat house, which they then take and leave.

At the party, Harley gets distracted by an ice luge but is refocused by Ivy, knocking out the guard to the VIP area and breaking in. Inside they discover the Riddler’s power generator, using human hamster wheels as a power source, and they also find the Riddler himself. Harley laughs at his «riddle stick», until he blasts her unconscious with a bolt of electricity from it. She’s put on a hamster wheel, and although she tries to get Clayface to transform and escape to help them, he thinks she’s calling him fat and becomes distraught, forcing Harley to admit that it’s quite good character work. Babara then arrives and frees them, allowing them to overpower and capture the Riddler. They take him back to Gotham Mall where they force him to run on his own hamster wheel, providing them with power.

«Пойманные»

Harley Quinn is unable to make any progress getting through the thick ice to Mister Freeze‘s lair but the guards makes accidentally reveals that the only thing hot enough to get through is Firefly‘s flamethrower which is kept by Doctor Trap at Gotham Natural History Museum. On their way, she hedges that Ivy should probably get a better partner than Kite Man, but Ivy brushes it off as hypocrisy given her relationship with the Joker. Ivy complains vociferously about Harley’s plan to have Catwoman help them with the museum, until the moment Catwoman actually arrives, at which point she turns on a dime and brushes off Harley’s suggestion that Catwoman leave and sings her praises. Confused, Harley just goes ahead with the original plan.

Harley prepares to enter the museum with Ivy and Catwoman, but is stopped by Kite Man, who wants her help to get a ring from the museum for him to propose with. She goes in reluctantly, initially advicing him against but eventually Kite Man impresses Harley with how far he is willing to got for Ivy, so she decides to help him get the ring in earnest. She does succeed in getting him the ring, although he ends up swarmed by hornets in the process. They catch up with Catwoman and Ivy just as they reach the flamethrower but Catwoman steals Kite Man’s ring from him just as he proposes, with Harley responding «what a cold B». Harley gets ready to leave with the flamethrower but that activates a trap, which gets small and smaller, threatening to crush them. Harley directs her anger at Catwoman but soon realizes she can use her new flamethrower to burn her way out of the trap, smashing Doctor Trap’s face with a bat in revenge.

She returns to the Gotham Mall to find Doctor Psycho on the hamster wheel and the Riddler escaped. She’s angry until she sees the Riddler reveal himself and willingly go back to the wheel, preferring it for the guaranteed food, cardio, safety, and entertainment, vowing to escape when he’s «good and ready». She then goes to find Ivy who is sitting on a pier, killing a group of executives who dumped toxins in the harbor. Harley encourages Ivy who is frustrated about losing her past self, and admits she now approves on Kite Man before they embrace, sharing a moment at the pier.

«Тающие сердца»

Harley Quinn burned a vagina-shaped hole in the ice to Mister Freeze‘s lair. On the way, she found out that Kite Man and Ivy were engaged and was ecstatic until Doctor Psycho suggested that she must bring a date to the wedding. She argued while simultaneously combating Mister Freeze’s goons until Mister Freeze himself arrived, blasting them all with his freeze ray. She awakened in a cell as Mister Freeze explained his plan to use Harley in human trials to find a cure for his wife Nora, taking her to his operating table. Before he began, Harley convinced him to release her in exchange for Poison Ivy’s help to find a cure, which he readily agreed to, making her and her crew guests in his home.

In truth, Harley had no intention of honoring her word or acting as a good guest, and instead planned to stall for time in order to kidnap Nora as a hostage in exchange for his freeze ray, which she would use to freeze him in revenge. However, Mister Freeze took precautions when he brought his guests out for dinner, leaving them encased from the waist down in ice so that their mobility is limited. Doctor Psycho mocked her plan until Mister Freeze entered with his wife, encased in ice for her protection, but Harley immediately presumed that Mister Freeze was a misogynist who froze his wife after she tried to leave him. She declared that she is a champion of «ice-blocked women around the world» and intended to «rescue» his wife, killing him after.

At the banquet Mister Freeze prepared, Harley argued with Mister Freeze about apparently abusing his wife and the meaning of love itself, until he left to get them spinach puffs. When he did leave, she ordered Clayface to get the freeze ray, which was used to free them all. When Mister Freeze returns, Harley angrily declares that he probably froze her to prevent her from leaving him, unable to see men in any other way than she saw the Joker. She ignores his pleas and unfreezes Nora, to Mister Freeze’s absolute horror. His wife quickly succumbed to her blood disease, shocking Harley, at which point Mister Freeze threatened to kill them all in an explosion if Poison Ivy did not cure Nora. With no other options, Harley was forced to keep her word and call Ivy.

Ivy arrived irritated, although Harley assured her that she did her best to avoid dragging her into the situation. She defended herself by saying that Mister Freeze was insane and orchestrated the Injustice League hit on her, until Mister Freeze revealed that, in fact, they wanted to kill her until he singlehandedly convinced them to encase her in ice instead — and Harley repaid him by endangering his wife. Harley is further surprised by Mister Freeze when he is willing to sacrifice himself to save his wife, a selfless act of love that redefines how she thinks of love as a concept. King Shark comforts her, and she tries to console Nora, but Nora demands they all leave.

«У всех хороших заключённых есть проблема с отцом»

Harley and Ivy were both at Noonan’s Bar when they noticed the Joker, now normal, still alive and working as a bartender. Ivy wanted to kill him immediately, although Harley wanted to spare him if he truly had changed, sparking a debate about whether anyone truly could change. To support her argument that people could, Harley recounted their backstories as proof that Ivy changed back then which means people can change, but Ivy was still unconvinced, telling Harley that although she helped her back then, she did not change has. Still faced with what to do with the Joker, Harley brings in Doctor Psycho as a «tie-breaker» to discern if he truly had changed or not. Doctor Psycho confirmed that he had, vindicating Harley, so they left the bar arm in arm — only to be immediately captured by Two-Face.

«Больше некуда идти, кроме как вниз»

Harley and Ivy are taken to a kangaroo court, faced with charges for the murder of Oswald Cobblepot. Harley begs Ivy to put all the blame on her so that Ivy can go free, which Ivy seems to consider. However, when Ivy is put on the stand, she admits to everything and they both sentenced to life in prison. Sure they will end up in Arkham, Ivy assure her they can escape but they are thrown when Bane takes them to his new underground prison, The Pit. It seems inescapable until Bane reveals George Lopez will guest appear during the Pit’s talent show and Harley comes up with a plan to steal his helicopter. However, it becomes ruined when Harley’s idea to start a riot by preforming offensive stand-up as a distraction is derailed when she is detained by Bane for refusing to make her bed. Desperate, she pressured Ivy to take over that part of the plan.

In detention, Harley was guarded by Cheryl until Harley fought through her (albeit with difficulty). However, just as she broke free the chopper ascended out of The Pit, beyond reach. Ivy did eventually manage to create a riot, which Harley capitalized on because said riot created a ramp leading to the surface — although it wouldn’t get them the chopper, it might allow escape in that way. They quickly started climbing it, but was soon followed by Bane who became enraged after Harley threw a chair on him. He pumped himself full of venom, angrily pursuing them at a faster pace but at that moment, Ivy managed to get high enough to call down a plant, using it to lift her and Harley towards the surface.

Bane launched himself upward and grabbed ahold of Harley’s ankle, the weight of which started to pull them down. Harley has an epiphany and realizes that she has to release Ivy, and after a few last words, does so, sacrificing herself to allow Ivy to escape. The recoil from the vanished weight sends Ivy flying up and out of The Pit even as Bane grabs Harley’s face and they fall to their death. In the grapple, Harley manages to pull Bane’s tubes out, reverting him to normal size and sending him blabbering down ahead of her as they both plummet toward the fires below.

Seeing that Ivy escaped, Harley serenely falls toward the fiery Hell below, only for Ivy to launch back down into The Pit and grab her ankle. The recoil from jumping into The Pit then launches them both back out of it, to safety. Stunned to be alive, Harley is held joyously in Ivy’s arms as they both pant in relief at being free. In that moment, they both kissed each other briefly, if passionately, until they both withdraw in shock.

«Внутренние (пара) демоны»

Harley was jittery after this and wanted to express her feelings for Ivy, but Ivy wrote the kiss off as an «impetuous, spur of the moment thing», visibly disappointing Harley, although she claimed to agree with Ivy. To prove her random impetuousness, Harley walks around and kisses the first person she sees (who happens to be Doctor Psycho, who is disgusted). Harley bumbles around pretending to be busy and unaffected by the kiss, before nonchalantly asking Ivy if she planned on telling Kite Man.

After Ivy left, Harley began to plan her next evil scheme. Although King Shark and Clayface are hesitant, Doctor Psycho encourages her eagerly. However, they are all interrupted by the arrival of Batgirl, warning them that Commissioner Gordon is coming to eliminate her. This emboldens Harley further and convinces her that she needs an evil army to defend herself, so she puts Batgirl out. She comes back asking for ideas on how to raise an army, and although King Shark and Clayface say that she seems unlike herself, Doctor Psycho knows exactly where to go.

Doctor Psycho directed Harley to steal a Mother Box to create an inter-dimensional portal («Boom Tube») to Darkseid‘s realm of Apokolips, which she did easily, sending them on their way. On Apokolips, Darkseid immediately saw Harley’s true motivations, and although he warned her that his armies would not satisfy her, he was willing to grant them to her — provided that she could defeat Granny Goodness in battle. Granny Goodness contemptuously defeated Harley, so Doctor Psycho used his telekinesis to move Harley like a marionette, making her drop a massive boulder onto Granny Goodness’ head, cracking her skull and defeating her. She then claimed Granny Goodness’ scepter, assumed command of the Parademon army, and boom tubed back to New New Gotham.

After an exchange with Gordon, Harley sicced her army on his assembled forces, resulting in absolute pandemonium as the tanks and policemen and militia of Gotham did battle with a demonic army of Parademons. The landscape was left bloody and destroyed, Hellish, but Harley only had eyes for Gordon and his downfall. She came forward to defeat him, only for Poison Ivy to arrive and stop her. She questioned Harley, asking if this much death and destruction is what she really wanted, at which point Harley realized that Darkseid was right: this was not what she wanted, and the army utterly failed to fill the void within her.

Gazing at Ivy, Harley broke Granny Goodness’ scepter over her knee, destroying her mantle of power and releasing the Parademons from her control to run wild. She turned over the city to Gordon and quit the field, coming before Ivy, desperate to express her feelings to her. Just before she could, however, Kite Man popped up behind Ivy and sang her praises. Ivy returns the favor and gushed about how she wanted to spend the rest of her life with him, and then kissed him right in front of Harley, wrenching her heartstrings. After this, Harley could only lie that she wanted to help Ivy plan her bachelorette party.

«Девичник»

Harley has turned into a busybody, planning Ivy’s bachelorette party at Themyscira with exacting detail, although she struggles to get Nora Fries, Jennifer, and Catwoman to show any form of enthusiasm about the event. She awkwardly complimented Ivy on her impending marriage and then hugged her, hugging too long and even sniffing her hair, disconcerting Ivy. After sending Ivy off to her room, Catwoman immediately deduced that Harley and Ivy «hooked up» at some point. Harley initially denied it but after admitting to their kiss, she wanted to unload on Catwoman, but Catwoman didn’t care to support her emotionally, and quickly left Harley with her insecurities.

Later, the bridesmaids began their complaining in earnest, at which point Harley snapped and threatened them all into at least pretending to enjoy themselves, for Ivy’s sake. That night they complied with her coercion, pretending to enjoy themselves until Eris arrived at their table. At Jennifer’s questioning, Eris mentioned Hedonikka, a nearby island where men were present, which Harley immediately decided to take everyone to. There, the bridesmaids began to enjoy themselves in earnest, and Ivy herself was in fine spirits after consuming too many spirits. She complimented Harley on her efforts getting everyone to get along and told her that they were best friends, and the next thing they knew they were both waking up out of a drunken stupor in the same bed together, the next morning.

Ivy panicked and fled the room, calling it a mistake, completely ignoring Harley’s attempts to brush it over and fix the situation. Harley ran after Ivy and tried to patch things up, but Ivy was horribly conflicted and, when she couldn’t get off the island, barricaded herself in her room. Harley sought counsel from Catwoman, but she was once again of no help, so Harley herself convinced Ivy to come out for the sole purpose of salvaging the weekend. She then gathered everyone and laid out her plan to kill Eris and free Themyscira, thus saving the Island and its natural, the perfectly planned bachelorette surprise for Ivy. After Ivy happily agreed, Harley helped fight through the Amazons to get to Eris, freeing Queen Hippolyta and stopping Eris from selling the island to Lex Luthor.

Hippolyta threw a massive party in their honor as thanks, where Harley and Ivy once again got drunk and ended up having sex. Ivy sputtered incoherently once again and tried to avoid doing that ever again, but Harley became bold and asked Ivy to think of what their life together could be like as partners, traveling the world and saving all-female armies. After doing her best to persuade Ivy and telling her she loves her, Harley asked her to think about it and left. Later, when they landed back in New New Gotham, Ivy had made her decision, admitting that Harley’s impulsive nature left her fearing she would one day turn her back on her, concluding that despite trusting her with her life, she didn’t trust her with her heart and would still be marrying Kite Man. Harley watches, stricken, as Ivy flies away with Kite Man into the sky, leaving her alone and sobbing in a fetal position on the ground.

«Прочный орешек»

Depressed after the bachelorette party, Harley tried to go drinking with King Shark and Clayface, but they both had plans. Sy Borgman tried to comfort her, but she ignored his advice and decided to have sex with a stranger. She finds herself at a bar in Wayne Tower, the only safe one left, but is disgusted by the boring clientele there, and worse, finds out that the Joker is her bartender. She tries to leave, but he bogs her down in conversation until a heist crew randomly arrives and forcefully takes everyone hostage. She once again tries to escape, but ends up captured and handcuffed to the Joker. He’s fixated with her, as he had a dream after meeting her in «All the Best Inmates Have Daddy Issues«, a dream that they were both on a yacht with bankers. This alarmed Harley, so she assured him that it was just a dream as she tries yet again to escape.

After using him as a human flail to knock aside a guard (who she then kicked to death), and as they fled through a went, the Joker asked her to talk about what was bothering her. Although she initially refused, she eventually revealed that she was emotionally distraught after Ivy rejected her. They eventually stumbled upon the Riddler, who had escaped and was there to steal a helmet from Wayne Tower — although, Harley was just interested in how he ended up becoming so buff. He nearly recognized the Joker, so Harley frantically closed his mouth and denied it, fleeing the area. Shortly after, they’re confronted by two goons, so Harley destroyed their handcuffs and then blasted a goon with a cancer ray by accident. That goon ran away, so the other goon hit her with a stun grenade while she emphatically apologized.

Seeing the Joker begin to resurface after killing the last goon, Harley slapped him momentarily back to sanity, suffered through his monologue in the elevator, and then arrived on the rooftop — where Jim Gordon promptly tackled the Joker and arrested him. She denied his accusations that they were back together until her crew suddenly arrived, claiming to have received a text from her — that she never sent. Doctor Psycho then arrived and revealed his betrayal, assuming command of her old Parademon army to use against her. The Joker asked her to call Ivy for help, but Harley refused to drag Ivy into her mess.

After initially fighting off the Parademons fairly effectively with her crew, Doctor Psycho upped the ante by surrounding the tower in a mental shield and assuming control of Harley’s crew, leaving her surrounded with only Gordon and Sy Borgman to help. She was quickly defeated, but saved by a net from the Batplane and a blast from Sy. While Doctor Psycho was temporarily incapacitated, Sy Borgman realized he needed to sacrifice himself to allow Harley and company to escape, which brought Harley to tears. He left her his eye, and she fled for the Batplane.

As she lamented that she would need the entire Justice League to stop Doctor Psycho, the Joker chimed in that he remembered having a book with the entire Justice League trapped inside — although he couldn’t remember where. She brought them to the Ace Chemicals factory to jog his memory, and although she desperately tried to get him to remember, he could not, so she pushed him into the vat of acid to restore him to his former self.

«Схватка, достойная сражения»

Harley planted a bomb in the Joker’s head to ensure his cooperation, and when he emerged from the acid laughing hysterically, she began slapping him repeatedly and demanding to know where the Queen of Fables‘ book was. When he refused, blaming her for wasting months of his life as a suburban dad, she used the bomb to force him to bring her to the book which was at his girlfriend Bethany‘s house. Well there, she had to threaten him not to kill her. Bethany did eventually bring out the book after his harsh rebuke (which Harley commented on), but she threw it over their heads to a Parademon, forcing them to go after it.

In the Parademon nest, Harley needles the Joker as he ponders his relationship with Bethany, saying he had forgotten what a «piece of shit» he was at the time, and wondering where the sudden sentimentality was in their old relationship. In response, he says it’s because Bethany loved him even when he was a nobody and not famous, and that perhaps he doesn’t want to screw things up like she did with Poison Ivy. This angers her, and she angrily claims to be over it, which the Joker doesn’t believe given «the screaming about it at the mere mention of her name».

When they finally find the book, the Joker ruminates on the true love he had with Bethany, prompting Harley to remember her own times with Ivy, how their relationship fit all of the Joker’s descriptions of «true love». In response, Harley admonishes him to not give up, to try and make his love for Bethany work. They then left, but were seen by Parademons before they could completely escape. They were forced to fight them off together, and although the old duo together again was able to defeat dozens of the Parademons, they tired out and would have lost, but at at that moment Batman arrived and captured them.

Batman assumed they were back together and were behind the chaos in the city but Harley explained what was actually going on and told him their plan to free the Justice League, convincing him to summon Zatanna Zatara and to drop them off at Bethany’s house to retrieve the real book (they went after the wrong one). After the Joker made up with Bethany, they all went inside to have Zatanna free the Justice League. After they left, Harley asked if the Joker will stay as a suburban dad. He said he wouldn’t change who he was and would go back to crime as well as taking care of Bethany. He then urged her to find her own love with Ivy, but Harley insisted she’d already tried and Ivy had said no. Ivy then arrives, much to Harley’s delight, but Ivy then revealed her intent to kill her.

«Ссора влюблённых»

Harley was unnerved by Ivy’s mindless assault and was forced to flee and dodge. She repeatedly tried to convince Ivy to stop, but was nearly killed if not for Kite Man intervention, saving her from Ivy. In the air, Harley had him watch his hands as he explained that Doctor Psycho had taken mind-controlled Ivy. Harley then assured him that the wedding would still happen and that they’d defeat Doctor Psycho. At his apartment, Harley wanted to somehow destroy Psycho’s helmet, but Kite Man cautioned her that getting close would allow him to control them as well.

Harley examined Sy Borgman‘s eye, wondering how he was immune from Doctor Psycho’s telepathy, until it suddenly blinked. Harley nearly destroyed it, but Kite Man stopped her, realizing it was Morse Code. He translates the code as «plug me in», at which point several RCA connectors sprout from the eye. After connecting them, Sy Borgman came onscreen and explained that he resisted Doctor Psycho’s mind-control with an anti-mind-control device the CIA planted in his skull. While it can be recreated, the components aren’t at hand, so Harley noticed the Justice League flying by to kill Ivy. When Kite Man wondered who would ever release the Justice League from their book-prison, Harley smiled woodenly.

Becoming impatient with Kite Man, Harley demanded that he hurry or else «the person I love is gonna die». Kite Man became suspicious of this, so Harley brushed it off and not being able to wait around any longer, took one of his kites to fly and save Ivy. Kite Man warned that she’d need training to do so, but it didn’t matter — she was able to fly perfectly on the first try. She then arrived at the battle between her old crew and the Justice League, imploring Wonder Woman to be lenient because she saved Themyscira. When Wonder Woman wouldn’t listen, Harley launched herself forward and landed on her sword, driving it into her own face to cut her.

Batman then called to Harley for help, as he was trapped in Clayface’s grip. Harley was disgusted with Clayface, frustrated that he could have turned into to this all this time but did oblige Batman by distracting Clayface long enough for Batman to escape. She then distracted Superman so that she could try to reason with Ivy, but Ivy simply slapped her away with a vine. She recovered and gave chase, but had to go up a fire escape first in order to get enough altitude to use the kite.

Harley eventually caught up to Ivy and again tried to reason with her, but Ivy only kidnapped her and fled towards Wayne Tower. Once there, the Justice League finally caught up to Ivy, whereupon Harley began imploring them to avoid violence. Agreeing, Batman surgically removed Harley from Ivy’s grasp while Superman destroyed her plants and Wonder Woman captured her in her Lasso of Truth. Harley implored that they not kill Ivy, or at the very least send her with Ivy into the Phantom Zone, but this bickering gave Ivy the chance to poison the entire Justice League with her pheromones, beating them.

Harley watched in disgust as the Justice League all fell upon each other in lust, and was further unnerved when Superman propositioned her. She backed away as things began to devolve, but Ivy once again captured her, this time heading toward the Gotham Mall. Kite Man flew overhead and whistled to Harley, signaling he was there to support her. On arrival, he put one device in her ear and gave her the other for Ivy, in case his plan to use «true love» to free Ivy failed. It did fail, with Kite Man being punched unconscious, at which point Doctor Psycho revealed that he knew of Harley and Ivy’s affair.

Although she protested that they were not lovers, Harley was faced with no choice but to fight Ivy. She nearly managed to get the device in Ivy’s ear, but she drops it out of reach while Ivy managed to get Harley in a choke hold, crying to crush her windpipe. Unable to get the device, Harley had no other option other than to kiss Ivy, which successfully broke Doctor Psycho’s hold long enough for Harley to put the device in Ivy’s ear. Ivy then captured Doctor Psycho and Harley smashed his helmet, so Darkseid offered to give her the planet; however, Harley didn’t want it, so Darkseid left and vowed to raze the planet later.

Afterward, Harley begged Ivy to consider being with her, to «take a leap of faith», but before Ivy had a chance to reply Kite Man woke up and asked what was going on. Doctor Psycho then took the opportunity to exact his revenge, revealing Ivy’s infidelity with Harley not only to Kite Man, but to all of Gotham by projecting Ivy’s memories of them from Themyscira onto the sky.

«Сбежавшая подружка невесты»

Harley Quinn checked herself in to the Arkham Asylum to go through a «personal crisis», intending to break out when she’s done. The last remnants of her crew (plus Frank the Plant) came by to invite her to Ivy and Kite Man’s wedding, but she refused it. Later, Two-Face came to her, claiming to have bad news about Ivy that he’d reveal to her in exchange for freedom from Arkham. She initially rejected this too, but he guilt tripped her into accepting. While escaping together, he revealed that Commissioner Gordon planned to raid Ivy’s wedding; this time, he actually spoke the truth, and fulfilled his end of the bargain honorably, but his history of lies left a seed of doubt.

She came to the wedding in search of Gordon, but was swept up into a photo shoot with the rest of the bridesmaids. She begged their forgiveness and acceptance, taking Catwoman‘s unused dress to wear, but quickly left to continue hunting for Gordon until she accidentally ran into Kite Man, which agitated him greatly until the photographer rounded her up and escorted her away. Outside, she once again thought she saw Gordon, and hit him in a sprinting punch that knocked him out cold; however, she hit the wrong person, missing the real Gordon right beside the person she did hit.

Enraged, Ivy dragged Harley away and harangued her. Although Harley eventually managed to explain that Two-Face told her of Gordon’s plan to ruin the wedding, Ivy pointed out that Two-Face is a liar, and made Harley believe that she was deluding herself so that she could ruin the wedding, at which point Ivy asked Harley to leave. As she left she spoke briefly with Clayface before grabbing a flower and exiting. Just outside, however, she smelled the flower and realized that it was plastic — that something was wrong.

Harley tried to return during the ceremony but was blocked by Jennifer who punched her to the floor, giving her a view of a caterer — a caterer not supposed to be present at the ceremony. She attacked him and discovered a police uniform, confirming her suspicions. When police and gas began flooding the room, Harley held her breath long enough to steal a gas mask, knocked Gordon aside with a flying kick, and used his rocket launcher to blast a hole in the roof to allow the gas to flood out of the venue, restoring everyone to consciousness. The angered villains then started to attack the police officers and the venue was thrown into chaos.

Harley dragged Ivy and Kite Man out of the venue, uncuffed them, and even offered to marry them right there in the middle of a warzone. To their surprise, Kite Man rejected the idea, realizing Ivy didn’t truly love him and flew away, leaving Ivy and Harley behind. They didn’t have much time to process however, as the GCDP closed in on their location and forced them to jump into a car and flee. While Harley drove, Ivy admitted that she had been denying a lot about herself for a long time, and praised Harley for her growth. In response, Harley once again professed her love for Ivy, a love that Ivy finally returned. Overjoyed, Harley nearly crashed, and instead rammed through the venue, through Clayface, and out the other side. As they soared through the air, Harley and Ivy kissed once more, before driving off into the sunset.

Способности

• Спортсменка: Харли — гимнастка олимпийского уровня, использующая свою гимнастику и акробатику в борьбе, чтобы сохранить преимущество над своими противниками.
• Опытный боец: Харли — профессиональный боец, способный на равных сражаться с такими противниками, как Аквамен. Любимое оружие — что-нибудь тупое и увесистое (например, бита), при помощи которого она может разбить человеку голову одним ударом.
• Психиатр: Харли — бывший врач-психиатр. Она умеет хорошо понимать, что чувствуют другие люди, и давать им советы.

Экипировка

• Молот — первое оружие Харли, которым она убила нескольких человек на яхте. Он был уничтожен бандой Джокера, когда Харли Квинн захотела расстаться с ним.
• Бейсбольная бита — оружие Харли на протяжении практически всего сериала. Бита иногда ломалась, после чего Харли где-то доставала новую.

Галерея

Интересные факты

• Любимая книга Харли — роман «Сахара» Клайва Касслера.
• Джокер утверждал, что у Харли ВПЧ.
• Харли появляется как главный персонаж в каждом эпизоде, кроме Бэтмен вернулся.