Harley Quinn: A Celebration of 25 Years

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In one of the early Girls' Night Out issues, the obscure duo of Bad Girls, the Body Doubles, appear cosplaying as Adam Warren's version of the Dirty Pair. J. Lieberman and artists Mike Huddleston and Troy Nixey by Idelson, and took on a grittier and darker direction, contrasting Kesel's run. Initially she tries freelance henching, but that doesn't exactly work out, so she starts her own gang instead.

Issue 12 lampoons the cosmic elements of the Marvel Universe, namely Thanos, the Infinity Gauntlet, and the Cosmic Cube. It's unclear if this was planned, but it acts as a plausible transition from the pure black comedy of the Conner-Palmiotti issues to Harley's characterisation in the Joker War crossover event and her subsequent relaunched comic spinning off from it. saw another mini-series, Harley Quinn and the Birds of Prey, written by Conner and Palmiotti with, for the first time, interior art by Conner; this was made to tie in with the film Birds of Prey (2020), featuring Harley with the Birds team as depicted in the film of Renee Montoya, Black Canary, Huntress, and Cassandra Cain. In the final issue, she has an epic Heroic BSoD/ Villainous Breakdown and feels so guilty she turns herself in to Arkham, meaning even if the other characters let her get away with betraying the girl, her conscience certainly didn't. In February 1994, the one-shot The Batman Adventures: Mad Love recounting Harley's origin was released.Show Some Leg: During their first team-up, Harley distracts a mugger by showing him her butt window on her leotard until Power Girl swoops in. She sees the world like a game of make-believe, and is oblivious to the fact that she is hurting people and doesn't truly acknowledge the danger of what she does or other people's danger to her - though she in more lucid moments claims this is less innocence and more a rejecting of the world in favor of her own reality. Harley Quinn ( Harleen Quinzel) is a character appearing in American comic books produced by DC Comics.

For character tropes related to all appearances by The DCU incarnation of the character, see here, or for her DC Extended Universe live-action version here.

After all, as Harley would say, if you're going to go a little crazy, you may as well sit back and enjoy the ride! In Harley's Little Black Book she agrees to spend thirty days in hell with the Devil (Well, A devil, at least) in exchange for him removing someone's curse. 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. Super-Deformed: Harley when pleading with Power Girl in issue 13, her eyes going anime-sized and streaming with tears.

DC Comics Publisher Jim Lee considers Harley Quinn the fourth pillar of DC Comics' publishing line, behind Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman. All Just a Dream: Most of issue 0 takes place in a dream Harley is having after wishing for her own comic. Yiddish as a Second Language: With all the Yiddish Sy Borgman says, you won't have to wonder if he's Jewish. Fanservice: Harley dresses quite revealingly and gets a lot of male gaze, as do several of the other regular female characters, and there's a lot of mildly erotic sex humour. Bunny-Ears Lawyer: While Harley may be crazy and has an unusual appearance, she's still a licensed psychiatrist, and manages to secure a job as a therapist.

The Road Trip Special is a Gotham City Sirens reunion, as Harley, Ivy and Selina team up for the titular road trip. 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.

The diner scene in Issue 4 is one big reference to the "Han shot first" scene in Star Wars: A New Hope. Later in the series, after she mostly loses the "bunny ears," she gets a day job in the field and takes a few patients (one or two of which want to kill her). Timm took Harley Quinn's red and black color scheme from the Golden Age comic book character Daredevil. Aesop Amnesia: A major lesson Harley learns in the series is that she doesn't need the Joker in her life. She's Chinese-American, but Harley chose to give her a name that reflects the fact that she lives in Queens, rather than anything pertaining to her ethnicity.

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.