Dr. Harleen Quinzel, better known as Harley Quinn, is a major antagonist in the DC Animated Universe.
She is the sidekick and self-proclaimed girlfriend of the Joker and is often abused by the latter. Despite being a villain most of the time, Harley has occasionally teamed up with the heroes.
She was voiced by the late Arleen Sorkin.
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What Makes Her Admirable?[]
- Despite mostly being a villain, Harley is nothing but polite to just about everyone she meets, even Batman.
- During the episode Harlequinade:
- Harley teams up with Batman to stop Joker from nuking Gotham. Even though her alliance with Batman is flimsy at best due to Batman not trusting her, ultimately Harley plays a major role in saving the day.
- She untied Batman and Robin after realizing that the nuke would kill her friends and pet hyenas, proving this act wasn't self-serving.
- After Batman and Robin disarm the bomb, The Joker shoots at it with the intent to set it off. Harley personally stops him by knocking him out, saving all of Gotham and its millions of inhabitants in the process. With fewer resources than Batman or Mr. Freeze.
- In Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, Harley is last seen scolding her granddaughters, the Dee Dee twins, for following in her footsteps. Showing that she regrets her life of crime and wanted her granddaughters to be better than her.
What Makes Her Inconsistent?[]
- Despite lacking corrupting factors as of her last appearance (chronologically), Harley has spent a lot of her screentime as a villain, working for the Joker in most of her appearances and doing a good amount of heinousness baseline-passing acts.
- This includes Harley helping Joker kidnap and torture Tim Drake for three weeks straight. While Harley does redeem herself by the time of Batman Beyond and regrets her former life as a criminal, it's still far too immoral to overlook. Additionally, although she eventually repented and atoned for her crimes, it was not confirmed that she had truly regretted her actions.
- She sexually assaulted Nightwing, and despite him apparently enjoying the experience is still way too big of a prevention for any character to be even close to NPG.
- She has tried numerous times to kill Batman for The Joker she even came close more than once to nearly killing him, Batman himself admits that Harley has gotten the closest to killing him, This also makes her too lethal to be NPG
- She has a rivalry with Batgirl during the New Batman Adventures and tries to kill her numerous times, She also is never seen feeling remorse for this
- She has a toxic relationship with The Joker and while its mainly The Joker that assaults Harley, She herself has seen strangling him twice after learning he betrayed her, although given everything the Joker has done to her its very understandable to say the least
- She has several moments of being a Jerk especially to Batman and Batgirl, She was also a Jerk to Harvey Bullock alot of the time, Even by the Time of Batman Beyond she was still seen being a Jerk to her grandaughters which proves she never fully subverted this.
- As stated earlier she helped The Joker torture Tim Drake to insanity for 3 weeks and even when Batgirl and Batman confront her and The Joker over this she does not show a single amount of remorse she even brags to Batgirl about torturing him which disgusts the later so much that she almost gave up trying to redeem her
External Links[]
- Harley Quinn on the Villains Wiki
- Harley Quinn on the Villainous Benchmark Wiki
- Harley Quinn on the Batman Wiki
- Harley Quinn on the DC Database Wiki
- Harley Quinn on the DC Animated Universe Wiki
- Harley Quinn on the DC Movies Wiki
- Harley Quinn on the Batman: The Animated Series Wiki
- Harley Quinn on the VS Battles Wiki
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