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"The kings don't run this court anymore. The jester does."
- Harley Quinn


Harley Quinn

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Dr. Harleen Quinzel also known as Harley Quinn is a costumed vigilante operating in Gotham City.

Biography[]

Early Life[]

Season 1[]

Characteristics[]

Personality[]

As Dr. Harleen Quinzel, she is depicted as nice and very empathetic with her patients, and expresses a bubbly, talkative personality. Her ego as Harley Quinn, however, is shown as cold and ruthless, believing her patients need more extreme (often violent) methods to “help” their psychoses. This even included encouraging Batman’s vigilante behavior, who she believes suffers from post-traumatic stress due to events in childhood. Despite this, she hasn’t shown true villainy as much as sadism in her methods of “helping” those afflicted with mental illness. She has shown some sense of morality, irregular helped as it is—for example, she helped Barbara escape from an explosion and was willing (though reluctantly) to save Batman.

Appearance[]

Normally, Harleen is a curvy, slightly overweight woman of Japanese descent with black hair tied into a bun and black hair behind large, round glasses. She wears a dark magenta coat over a whitish-pink shirt, a black skirt, black heels, and gold earrings.

As Harley Quinn, she wears a skintight latex jester costume colored yellow and a dark green with ruffles on her neck and wrists. Instead of using makeup she wears a mask to hide her face. The mask has ordinary jester makeup with cap ‘n bells and also gives her white eyes.

Powers and Abilities[]

She is a normal human with high degree of intelligence in psychology and mental health with great ways of manipulating the mentally ill.

Equipment[]

Mallet

jester costume

Relationships[]

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Trivia[]

Harley Quinn (BTAS)

Harley Quinn in Batman: The Animated Series.

  • This version of Harley Quinn is a reimagining of the 1990s character (also co-created by Bruce Timm) who originated in the critically acclaimed Batman: The Animated Series.[1]
  • In The Night of the Hunters Harley mentions that her professor in college was Dr. Crane. In the comic Dr. Jonathan Crane is a psychologist and Batman supervillain called The Scarecrow.
  • According to Jamie Chung, this version of Harley Quinn was partially inspired by a dominatrix.[2]
  • Harleen Quinzel is a dark counterpart to Bruce Wayne himself.
    • She is a darker version of Batman; a seemingly normal person by day, but by night, a vigilante who dispenses her own form of justice against the corrupt and wicked. In contrast to him, however, her methods include torture, brainwashing, and possibly outright murder as opposed to simply beating them down and leaving them for the police. She even acknowledges that she is Batman's "type" when face-to-face with him.

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