Harley Quinn: A Celebration of 25 Years

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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. [149] In Batman: Damned, the 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. [150] Girlish Pigtails: When out of costume she usually has her hair in pigtails. Fitting considering how childish she is. Jerk with a Heart of Gold: For an Ax-Crazy Blood Knight, Harley has a surprisingly good heart. In addition to being an extreme Animal Lover, she seems to be given to whims of kindness in general, even (occasionally) to superheroes and other people who are techincally her enemies. This version of her also has a civilian identity where she is still a psychiatrist, and she really does seem to care about her patients. a b Holub, Christian (September 5, 2017). "Paul Dini Reflects On 25 Years Of Harley Quinn". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved March 3, 2021. Hurricane of Euphemisms: In Harley's fight with Captain Strong, he gives a Hurricane of Euphemisms for defecation, she responds with one for vomiting.

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". [67] [12] [68] [69] [70] 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. [23] [71] [72] Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: Her constant, unyielding focus on love and joy caused her to get banished from hell. In January 2022, Phillips confirmed Harley would be resuming her previous career as a psychologist. [100] Powers, abilities, and equipment [ edit ] Harley Quinn has no superpowers, and relies on her unpredictability, gymnastics skills, and weapons and hand-to-hand proficiency. [101] She is a peak athlete, having won a gymnastics scholarship at Gotham City's Gotham State University. [101] [102] [21] Following her transition to the 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 with a serum concocted by Poison Ivy. [101] "Vengeance Unlimited, Part Five" ( Harley Quinn vol. 1 #30) revealed that it also gave her the ability to breathe underwater. [103]Note that the title character predates this series. She had debuted in Batman: The Animated Series in 1992. Her first comic book appearance was in The Batman Adventures #12 (September, 1993). Her introduction to the mainstream DC universe took place in the one-shot Batman: Harley Quinn (October, 1999). Episode Zero: The Beginning: The series starts off on issue #0 with Harley choosing which artist to draw her comic. It also has her getting some property in Coney Island where the series will take place. Author Avatar: In issue 0, the comic's writers, Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Conner, appear to Harley as disembodied voices. Jimmy's speech balloon is blue and Amanda's is green. They appear in person in Darwyn Cooke's segment.

At the end of the annual, Harley reveals that she stole some of the hallucinogenic gas to share with Ivy. Ivy freaks out, saying that it's powerful enough to cause all of Brooklyn to hallucinate, to which Harley replies that nobody would notice. 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. [185] [186] Trumplica: Richard Brand, ruthless real estate tycoon and the father of Harley Sinn, is blatantly inspired by, and physically resembles, Donald Trump. There's also the time when she gives a woman who was robbed some money after the robbers got away. And another where she shares her pizza with a homeless man and gives him a hug.

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Cool Old Guy: Sy Borgman, retired bioaugmented secret agent who can still inflict damage from his invalid scooter and ends up as a sort of surrogate uncle to Harley. Terrible Interviewees Montage: Harley's auditions for her gang in #16. Played with, as the craziest interviewee turns out not to be a throwaway character, becoming Harley Sinn, the main villain of the Gang of Harleys miniseries. 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. [118] 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. [118] 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. [119] Poison Ivy [ edit ] Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy in "New Roots" from Batman: Urban Legends #1, art by Laura Braga. Harley Quinn appears as a playable character in the mobile game, Suicide Squad: Special Ops, based on the film. The first series lasted for 38 issues, from December 2000 to January 2004, plus a special tying in with the Our Worlds at War event, with the complete run collected in graphic novels. Initially it was written by Karl Kesel, with A. J. Lieberman taking over for the last year or so.