Harvey Quinn: One of Power Girl's robot boobs saved your life. Well, that's a sentence I never thought I was gonna say.

In January 2022, Phillips confirmed Harley would be resuming her previous career as a psychologist. [100] Powers, abilities, and equipment [ edit ] 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. The Unreveal: In Issue #6, Tony asks Edgar what he is. Edgar tells him about his upbringing, but not about what he actually is. (He apparently has parents, so there's that.) Amanda Conner, John Timms, Mauricet, Joseph Michael Linsner, Billy Tucci, Flaviano, Neal Adams, and Simon Bisley (art) The Valentine's Day Special takes aim at pointless comic crossovers that go nowhere and Wall Street bankers.

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Psycho Ex-Girlfriend: For a time, Jimmy Olsen of all people dates Harley without realizing who she is. This does not end well for Jimmy when it doesn't work out. In Love with Your Carnage: Summer absolutely loves how brutal Harley can get in the roller derby - and out too, as seen by her reaction when Harley takes her car and runs over a rival team who had just defeated the Bruisers in her absence in #4. The others are pretty horrified, but Summer thinks it was "kinda hot". 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] Imagine the Audience Naked: In #0, Harley finds herself dreaming that she is performing in front of an audience of comic book fans. She forgets her lines and tries to remember this piece of advice, but gets confused as to whether she is supposed to imagine the audience naked or herself naked. Ultimately she imagines herself naked and starts belting out her lines, only the dream changes so she is now in church. Torpedo Tits: In Harley Quinn and Her Gang of Harleys #5, the gang wind up fighting a Power Girl robot armed with what Bolly Quinn eloquently describes as 'boob cannons'.

Issue 29 takes it up a level, with a panel focused on the butt of a Transforming Mecha in Harley's image. The Smurfette Principle: Inverted with the Gang Of Harleys (a team of Anti-Heroes that dress like Harley and have superhero names similar to her own). Only one (Harvey Quinn) is male. The series] is an interesting assignment because the main character is a) insane and b) a criminal, and both of these things are pretty essential to the character, so we don't want to get rid of either of them. [...] [We] hammered out a direction for the book which [...] will establish a motivation and agenda for Harley. Depending on the storyline, she will be on the side of the angels sometimes, and on the side of the demons and devils on others. Like most great crime characters, she's not concerned with the law. What concerns her is something totally different. What that is will be revealed as the first half dozen issues progress". 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)Harley Quinn serves as one of the main characters in Lego DC Super-Villains, voiced again by Tara Strong. [196] Her design is based on The New 52. Issue 0 has Harley and the writers breaking the fourth wall so much, it'll give Deadpool a run for his money. The end of the issue has them swear they'll stop breaking the fourth wall by issue 1. (That doesn't stop them jumping up and down on the pieces of the wall later on, though.) In issue 1, Harley rescues a neglected dog from his owner and keeps him as her own. The dog is much happier living with her. 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/Power Girl #3 has Grant Morrison pop up in the middle of a Mushroom Samba. Which is fitting, considering. 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]Disproportionate Retribution: Harley tends to go overboard when it comes to people she thinks are bad. Even merely rude people are demmed worthy of murder. Comic-Book Time: Harley was a huge fan of Wonder Woman when she was a little girl...which makes no sense given the timeline. Given this series, the discrepancy was almost certainly intentional. Loves My Alter Ego: According to the Valentine's Day Special, Harley prefers Bruce Wayne over Batman, particularly when it comes to kissing (Bruce doesn't reciprocate).

The Brave and the Bold version of Harley Quinn appears in Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold, voiced by Tara Strong. Hypocritical Humor: Harley points out the obvious case of Steven Ulysses Perhero surrounding Sy Borgman's name. Never mind that her own name is Harleen Quinzel. Girl's Night Out Episode: Several times in the beginning of the series, where a female villain eventually teams up with other female villains and they fight female heroes, particularly the "sleepover" episode. 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.The Road Trip Special is a Gotham City Sirens reunion, as Harley, Ivy and Selina team up for the titular road trip. Also, one of Harley's kid photos features her dressed as Golden Age Wonder Woman. Anthropomorphic Personification: Jonni DC, a "continuity cop" and personification of DC continuity. Straw Nihilist: Gotham breeds this - in this series there's Joker, Lewis (to an extent: this is one of the reasons why he did not feel sad about finally being killed), and Harley to an extent.