Harley Quinn Biography
Harley Quinn is a fictional character appearing in comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by Paul Dini and Bruce Timm. Harley first appeared in Batman: The Animated Series in September 1992. She later appeared in DC Comics’ Batman comic books, with the character’s first comic book appearance in The Batman Adventures #12 of September 1993.
Harley Quinn Origin
Harley Quinn first appeared in the DC Animated Universe’s Batman: The Animated Series episode “Joker’s Favor”, in what was originally supposed to be the animated equivalent of a walk-on role. The 1994 graphic novel The Batman Adventures: Mad Love recounts the character’s origin story. Written and drawn by Dini and Timm.
Dr. Harleen Frances Quinzel is depicted as having been a psychiatrist at Gotham City’s Arkham Asylum. Gotham City Sirens #7 (Feb. 2010) shows Harley visiting her family for the holiday season, in which they are portrayed as being very dysfunctional. It is stated that the reason Harley pursued Psychiatry was to understand her own broken family.
The character’s origin story relates that Harleen Quinzel was once a psychiatrist at Arkham Asylum and was assigned to treat the Joker. She eventually falls in love with the Joker and becomes his lover and accomplice.
She follows suit in the Joker’s clown-themed, criminal antics and adopts the name Harley Quinn, a play on “Harlequin” from the character in commedia dell’arte. Speaking with a pronounced Northeastern accent, Harley refers to the Joker as Mister J and Puddin’, terms of endearment that have since been used in nearly every adaptation in which the two characters appear.
Harley Quinn Comic Book
After the success of The Animated Series, the character proved so popular that she was eventually added to the Batman comic book canon. She first appeared in the original graphic novel, Batman: Harley Quinn, as part of the “No Man’s Land” story, although she had already appeared in the Elseworlds Batman: Thrillkiller and Batman: Thrillkiller ’62 in 1997.
The comic book version of Quinn, like the comic book version of the Joker, is more dangerously violent and less humorously quirky than the animated series version.
A Harley Quinn ongoing series was published monthly by DC Comics for 38 issues from 2001 to 2003. Creators who contributed to the title included Karl Kesel, Terry Dodson, A.J. Lieberman, and Mike Huddleston. The series dealt with her going solo, eventually starting a gang and then fleeing Gotham for the city of Metropolis with her friend Poison Ivy.
Harley Quinn is an inmate at Arkham, glimpsed briefly in Detective Comics #823 (November 2006). Harley appeared in Batman #663 (April 2007). Harley resurfaces in Detective Comics #831 (June 2007), Birds of Prey #105 (June 2007) reveals Harley Quinn as the 6th member of the Secret Six. In issue #108In Countdown #43 (July 2007)
Harley Quinn Gotham Girls
Harley has made several other animated appearances. She appears as one of the four main female characters of the web cartoon Gotham Girls an American Flash animated web television series focusing on several of the female characters of Gotham City.
Created and produced jointly by Warner Bros. Animation and Noodle Soup Productions in 2002. Episodes starred Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, Batgirl, Catwoman, Renee Montoya and Zatanna in short stories of varying lengths about the daily lives of the characters from the DC Comics universe.
Harley Quinn Justice League
She also made guest appearances in other cartoons within the DC animated universe, appearing alongside the Joker in the Justice League episode “Wild Cards” and alongside Poison Ivy in the Static Shock episode “Hard as Nails”.
Harley Quinn Batman/Superman Movie
Harley Quinn appears in World’s Finest: The Batman/Superman Movie a compilation movie consisting of three-part Superman: The Animated Series episode “World’s Finest” as a rival and foil for Lex Luthor’s assistant Mercy Graves.
Each takes an immediate dislike for the other, at one point fighting brutally with each other as Lex Luthor and the Joker have a business meeting. In the film’s climax, Harley ties Graves as a human shield to a combat robot set to confront Superman and Batman, but Graves is rescued by the two heroes without suffering any harm.
The animated movie Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker takes place in the future, long after the events in Batman: The Animated Series. It includes a flashback scene in which Harley helps the Joker torture, Tim Drake.
As a result, Drake has become “Joker Jr.”, an insane miniature version of the Clown Prince of Crime; she then falls down a deep pit during a battle with Batgirl.
Harley Quinn And Joker
Quinn’s relationship with the Joker is one of the most complex and twisted love affairs in comics: as with all people, the Joker is abusive and manipulative towards Harley, but, just as often, there’s evidence of camaraderie, playfulness, and genuine affection towards her.
The Joker would only use Harley for intense sexual intercourse and her body. She’s the only person who’s managed to become intimate on such a long term basis with the Joker, who, in turn, displays occasional moments of confusion and discomfort which results in attempts to kill her. One time, when the Joker realized he had very deeply hidden feelings of love, he sent Harley off in a rocket.
Harley Quinn Arkham
It was likely that Harleen had limited contact with the Joker between her first meeting and the Arkham Origins Blackgate Incident. As a result, it was most likely that Harleen continued to study the other patients and that her relationship with the Joker was not particularly close or affectionate during that period.
At around the same time of the Arkham Origins Blackgate Incident, Arkham Asylum became renovated and was in a fit condition to function as an institution for the criminally insane. Following this incident, Joker, along with a number of other patients, were shortly transferred to Arkham Asylum where they could be studied and treated more safely and appropriately.
Harley Quinn Costume
Batman: The Animated Series appearance
Harley Quinn was first introduced in the Batman: The Animated Series appearing in the style of a jester. She wore a black domino mask, white facial makeup and a one-piece black-and-red motley outfit with a cowl.
Unlike the Joker, Harley’s skin is not permanently white in the animated series, as this is reiterated in scenes showing Harley out of costume with a normal skin complexion. As Dr. Harleen Quinzel, MD, she is portrayed as having blonde hair and blue eyes. She typically wears glasses, a skirt, high-heeled shoes, and a white lab coat.
comic book appearances
In her early comic book appearances until 2011, the character wore her original black-and-red costume from the animated series. In September 2011, The New 52 rebooted DC’s continuity. In this new timeline, Harley Quinn had a revamped look that lasted until 2016.
The New 52 showed Harley Quinn with an alternating black-and-red-toned outfit with a sleeveless top, elbow pads, tight shorts, knee pads, and boots. Her hair color was altered to half-red and half-black, like the cap of her previous incarnation. Consistent with a new origin, her skin was bleached as the result of being kicked into a vat of acid by the Joker.
DC Rebirth
Following 2016’s DC Rebirth, Harley Quinn debuted a new look in the third volume of her eponymous series, as well as the fifth volume of Suicide Squad. Her hair color is now blonde with blue dip dye on the left side and pink dip dye on the right, and she sports two new outfits.
One outfit consists of tight, blue and red shorts, ripped tee-shirt, satin jacket, fingerless gloves, fishnet stockings, studded belt, and lace-up boots, much like Margot Robbie’s depiction of the character in the 2016 Suicide Squad film.
The character’s other outfit is a two-tone, black-and-red suit consisting of a full-sleeve top, tight shorts, opaque stockings, garter belt attachments, and boots. She has also been known to wear both red- and black-colored nail polishes on both her fingernails and toenails in an alternating fashion.
DC Extended Universe
Harley Quinn is adorned with various tattoos, including four diamonds on her upper right thigh. Within the DC Extended Universe, both Harley and the Joker have several tattoos, with Harley having them on her cheek, forearm, legs, and abdomen.
Harley Quinn Actresses
Harley Quinn has been adapted into various other forms of media. The character has appeared in both live-action and animated television series, films, and video games. The character was originally voiced by Arleen Sorkin in the DC animated universe.
Since then, she has also been voiced by Hynden Walch and Tara Strong in either DC Animated Showcases or in various video games. In the Birds of Prey television series, she was portrayed by actress Mia Sara. In the Fox series Gotham a character known as Ecco, portrayed by Francesca Root-Dodson and bearing all the characteristics of Harley Quinn, was introduced in the fourth season.
The character made her live-action feature film debut in the 2016 film Suicide Squad, portrayed by Margot Robbie.
Harley Quinn Movies And Tv Shows
Suicide Squad
Ready Player One
The Batman: Arkham version of Harley makes a cameo appearance in the 2018 film Ready Player One. This version of Quinn appears in The Distracted Globe nightclub sequence.
Birds of Prey (And The Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
Warner Bros. is currently working on a movie focused on the DC Comics all-female superhero team Birds of Prey and Robbie is set to reprise her role, as well as produce this film. The movie is set to be released in February 2020. She will also be part of the main cast in Suicide Squad 2.
Television Shows
Birds of Prey [2002]
In 2002, a short-lived live-action television series called Birds of Prey, included Harley Quinn as a psychologist and the main antagonist, portrayed by actress Mia Sara (replacing Sherilyn Fenn from an unaired pilot episode). 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”. In that episode, she uses experimental technology to transfer metahuman mind control powers to herself.
She occasionally makes reference to her “sweet Mr. J.”, laments his loss as a Gotham City crime boss and hints at a past relationship reminiscent to that of the animated series. A criminal known as the Crawler addresses her as “the Joker’s girlfriend” in the seventh episode “Split”.
Arrow
Harley Quinn makes 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”).
The series star Stephen Amell revealed in an interview that she was originally set to appear in the season two finale episode “Unthinkable”, but was cut due to time. The show’s producer Andrew Kreisberg revealed that there were plans for the character to appear, but series actress Willa Holland stated that they had been axed due to the Suicide Squad film.
Gotham
A variation of Harley Quinn named Ecco appears in the fourth and fifth seasons of Gotham, portrayed by Francesca Root-Dodson. This version is an amalgamation of Harley Quinn, Alicia Hunt, and Echo.
She shares many characteristics with Harley Quinn, wearing a similar black and red costume, using her catchphrase “Puddin”, and being completely devoted and infatuated with Jeremiah Valeska, the show’s version of the Joker.
In the series finale, Ecco ends up being killed by Jeremiah, who tells her there will never be one like her, only to alter his statement, saying that there are other “fish in the sea”, possibly implying that Ecco is the predecessor to Harley Quinn, who may one day use her as inspiration.
Harley Quinn Quotes
♦ All of that chit-chat is gonna get you hurt
Wait till they get a load of me
♦ I found The Joker’s psyche disturbing, his dementia alarming — and his charm irresistible! What can I tell ya? The guy just did it for me.
♦ Sometimes the only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy
♦ Every woman has a crazy side that only the right man can bring out.
♦ So what if I’m crazy? the best people are.
♦ I’m not sure if I attract crazy or if I make them that way.
I’m known to be quite vexing I’m just forewarning you.
We’re bad guys, it’s what we do.
♦ I’m rubber, you’re glue, whatever you say bounces off me and makes a six-inch-diameter exit wound in you.
♦ I’ll never understand why Superman wears the same outfits every day.
♦ You really put the ‘fun’ in a funeral.
♦ Didn’t you like my show? Well, try this one. It’s called ‘Animals Attack People I Hate. It’s a comedy.
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