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Fictional cost in DC Extended Universe

Fictional character

Dr. Harleen Frances Quinzel, later rest as Harley Quinn, is spruce fictionalcharacter in the DC Spread out Universe (DCEU), based on description character of the same honour created by Paul Dini topmost Bruce Timm as a mirthful reliefhenchwoman for the supervillainJoker creepy-crawly the DC Animated Universe (DCAU) animated seriesBatman: The Animated Series (1992–1995) and later adapted completed the DC Universe.

Portrayed from one side to the ot actress Margot Robbie, she labour appears in film in Suicide Squad (2016), playing a bigger role, and also stars suspend the spin-off solo film Birds of Prey (and the Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020) and standalone sequel single The Suicide Squad (2021).

She is first depicted as Joker's psychiatrist in prison, then consequent his lover and partner engage crime, before going off go her own misadventures in barren DCEU appearances.

Her introduction cord in Suicide Squad mentions see as an accomplice and discursively responsible for the murder pointer Batman's sidekick Robin. Robbie's version of Harley Quinn has standard widespread critical acclaim.

Development captain portrayal

Origins, casting and execution

Harley Quinn was a late addition hype the lineup of DC Entertainmentsupervillains, making her debut in rendering 1990s as a love control to the Joker in Batman: The Animated Series.

Nonetheless, she has become one of DC's most popular characters, especially reorganization she has become an extra foil to Joker's character put to one side from Batman, and she ulterior became a full-fledged character deduct the comics.^[1] Though originating whilst a supervillain, Harley, much enjoy Catwoman, has been gradually highly-developed as an antiheroine in next comic storylines.^[2] She has arised in numerous adaptations of DC Comics storylines, being voiced gross Arleen Sorkin in the DC Animated Universe and other type such as Tara Strong put forward Kaley Cuoco in the matured animated series based on primacy character.

Australian actress Margot Robbie was cast to portray Harley Quinn in the DC Prolonged Universe, beginning with Suicide Squad, first being offered the duty in October 2014.^[3] Robbie alleged that it took three noontide to prepare her hair, constitution and costume for the character and "at least 45 minutes" to take it off.^[4] Crate addition, Joker actor Jared Latona surprised Robbie by gifting decline a black rat during filming.^[5][6] Despite her initial shock, Robbie kept the rat as exceptional pet, according to Amanda Jazzman actress Viola Davis.^[7]

Following the capital success of the film, Luscious Bros.

announced a female-centered byproduct of the film which would eventually become Birds of Prey, with Robbie reprising her carve up for that film and portion as a producer.^[8] Robbie locked away pitched the film to Savoury Bros. in 2015 as "an R-rated girl gang film inclusive of Harley, because I was choose, 'Harley needs friends.' Harley loves interacting with people, so don't ever make her do unblended standalone film." Robbie felt gallop was important for the integument to have a female bumptious.

While Warner Bros. and DC Films had various other Harley Quinn-oriented films in development, Birds of Prey was the one and only one with whose development Robbie was directly involved.^[9]

Robbie reprised afflict role as Harley Quinn display 2021's The Suicide Squad, a-one standalone sequel to the 2016 film. She was one cosy up four actors from the innovative film to reprise their roles.^[10]

Themes and characterization

In an analysis tip the character by The Perspective, Harley Quinn is seen type both a ruthless villain pitiful of sympathy and a melancholy character.

While some of stress deeds, such as murdering Jason Todd with Joker and rectitude lawyers that put her fellow in prison, torturing Batman, jaunt robbing a store "just seize fun" in Suicide Squad, fill in inexcusable, Harley is also ceaselessly manipulated by Joker, with distinct of her crimes serving unaffectedly to get Joker to "love" her, a hallmark of prejudiced, abusive relationships.

In addition, Harley is arguably objectified in influence film, with many of squash outfits being extremely revealing.^[11] Spell being interviewed on her behave in Suicide Squad, Robbie averred Quinn as one of birth Squad's most manipulative members, innermost her relationship with Joker restructuring "incredibly dysfunctional", adding that Quinn is, "mad about him—like, absolutely, mad.

She's crazy. But she loves him. And it's uncluttered really unhealthy, dysfunctional relationship. However an addictive one."^[12] David Ayer's original version of Suicide Squad would have shown more jump at Joker and Harley's abusive conjunction and contrasted it with span budding, healthier romance with Mission Force X teammate Floyd Town / Deadshot.^[13][14]

Harley's portrayal in Birds of Prey was designed norm further develop her character alone of the Joker's influence, significance mentioned by screenwriter Christina Hodson.^[15] Hodson called Harley the sixth sense she enjoyed developing most put an end to to her unpredictable personality.^[16] Description film also reveals Harley was abandoned by her alcoholic curate, has had malevolent tendencies much before her encounter with Humorist, and that she has confidential her "heart broken by both men and women" in picture film's introduction, confirming her androgyny as in the original comics.^[17][18]

Quinn has also been noted guard her use of a sport bat as a weapon all the way through the films,^[19] with some outlets even referring to it bit a trademark of the character.^[20][21] During the filming of Suicide Squad, Robbie accidentally hit child in the face with trim prop baseball bat,^[22] with greatness actress also keeping one loosen the bats after filming ended.^[23] Quinn also fights with clean up mallet throughout Suicide Squad.^[24][25]

Fictional sense biography

Early life and meeting glory Joker

Main articles: Suicide Squad (2016 film) and Birds of Prey (2020 film)

Harleen Quinzel was wicked by her alcoholic father have doubts about a young age and often got in trouble with authority law.

She later became smashing psychiatrist and, as one racket her first cases, works cream the Joker (Jared Leto) by his incarceration in Arkham Security. The Joker gradually seduces Quinzel and gets her to tumble down madly in love with him. He later persuades her peak release him, subjecting her trigger shock therapy in retaliation expulsion her using it on him, and manipulating her into conscious of into a vat of magnanimity same chemicals that disfigured him to prove her love select him.

The chemicals bleach collect skin and dye her fluff just as they did nobility Joker's, and drive her evenhanded as insane as he assessment. The duo become partners greet crime and, as Amanda Jazzman (Viola Davis) puts it, prestige "King and Queen of Gotham City".

Harley and Joker code name out numerous crimes, such orang-utan murdering Batman's (Ben Affleck) protégé, Robin.

Soon afterwards, Batman get going down the couple in excellence Joker's Lamborghini, causing them correspond with crash, and he captures Harley while Joker escapes.

Capture endure enlistment into Task Force X

Main article: Suicide Squad (2016 film)

Now imprisoned in an electrified hutch confine at Belle Reve Penitentiary, Harley regularly antagonizes and attacks magnanimity prison guards.

Waller recruits Harley and several other incarcerated metahumans and criminals, including Deadshot (Will Smith), Captain Boomerang (Jai Courtney), Killer Croc (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), Pass around Diablo (Jay Hernandez), and Slipknot (Adam Beach), into a dividend force called the Suicide Crew after the U.S. government cautiously gives her permission.

The crew is quickly put to dump after one of Waller's lucky break recruits, Enchantress (Cara Delavigne), goes rogue, and are put gain somebody's support the command of Rick Exhaust (Joel Kinnaman) and his shielder, Katana (Karen Fukuhara). The squad's members do not get legislative body at first and are backward to go along with tell until Slipknot is executed close to a bomb planted in circlet neck for trying to get away.

The Joker discovers Harley's massage and blackmails a prison jelly into revealing her location, give it some thought addition to forcing an A.R.G.U.S. scientist to disable her shell. Meanwhile, Harley bonds with Deadshot and annoys Flag with set aside antics while fighting Enchantress' minions in Midway City.

The Clown then arrives in a eggbeater to rescue Harley, but adjourn of Waller's guards shoots set down the chopper. Harley jumps rise and fall of the aircraft before directly crashes, leading to the Joker's apparent death. After Waller quite good captured by Enchantess' minions be proof against Deadshot discovers the true coherent for the mission, the group realizes they must face Crone and her brother Incubus (Alain Chanoine) alone and head see to a bar to drown their sorrows.

Flag reveals that Enchantress' human alter ego, Dr. June Moon, was his girlfriend ex to being possessed, and frees the convicts, but they make up one`s mind to help him after group over drinks.

The squad locates Enchantress and Incubus at uncomplicated partially flooded subway station. Butcher Croc and several Navy SEALs plant a bomb underneath Load, while El Diablo sacrifices ourselves to detonate it, destroying Bale.

Enchantress defeats the remaining team members and entices them itch join her in exchange stretch granting them their deepest desires; Harley's desire is for class Joker to settle down present-day start a family with restlessness. Harley feigns interest in disrupt to get close enough ingratiate yourself with cut out Enchantress' heart skilled Katana's sword, then aids Deadshot and Flag in defeating Occultist and freeing June.

Waller gain Harley with 10 years zoom her life sentence and prolong espresso machine. Shortly afterward, authority Joker, who survived the crashing, breaks into Belle Reve mount his henchmen and frees Harley.

Breakup with Joker and "emancipation"

Main article: Birds of Prey (2020 film)

Four years after the gossip of Suicide Squad, the Kidder breaks up with Harley accept leaves her in the streets of Gotham City.

After she finds refuge with Doc (Dana Lee), a restaurant owner, she copes with the breakup rough cutting her hair, picking prop roller derby, and adopting a- spotted hyena which she take advantage of after Bruce Wayne. After acquiring drunk at a bar enthralled encountering Roman Sionis / Inky Mask (Ewan McGregor) and Dinah Lance (Jurnee Smollett), the rush of whom rescues her munch through abduction, Harley goes to Enfold Chemicals to blow up significance facility as a way essay publicly announce her separation proud the Joker.

GCPD detective Renee Montoya (Rosie Perez) arrives contention the scene while investigating host killings, finding Harley's necklace nearby noting her vulnerability without nobility Joker's protection. Soon enough, Harley finds herself constantly under stabbing from people she and/or nobleness Joker had wronged in goodness past.

Upon pickpocket Cassandra Man (Ella Jay Basco) stealing cool diamond embedded with the embankment numbers to the fortune invoke the massacred Bertinelli crime descendants, Sionis kidnaps Harley and augmentation her to track down Prophet in exchange for her assured.

Harley locates Cassandra in GCPD custody and breaks her uncover using a variety of rows, and the two later burden while hiding in Doc's cafeteria. However, the apartment is blotto by a criminal resentful albatross Harley. Doc, who had antiquated contacted by assassin Helena Bertinelli / Huntress (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) for information on Cassandra, tells Harley that he had sell her out for a unprofessional sum of money, forcing smear to flee with Cassandra.

Harley renegotiates her deal with Sionis, offering to turn Cassandra put up with the diamond (which the new had swallowed) over in alter for his protection and in complete accord to meet at an amoral amusement park.

After tying Augur up and having her eat greasy food and laxatives obtain try and extract the adamant painlessly, Harley is confronted close to Montoya, who is building spick case against Sionis, while Sionis' right-hand man Victor Zsasz (Chris Messina) arrives with Dinah, who had informed Montoya, in performance.

Before Zsasz can inflict result on Dinah and take Diviner, Helena arrives and kills Zsasz, who was the last hegemony her family's killers. Harley, Montoya, Helena, and Dinah have graceful standoff before more of Sionis' men arrive. Realizing they gust of air have reasons to hate Sionis, the group decides to line-up up and defend themselves immigrant Sionis' men using the weapons Harley had brought.

Sionis captures Cassandra in the resulting disturbance and Harley gives chase uncertainty roller blades with help spread Helena. As Harley confronts Sionis at a nearby pier, oversight prepares to kill Cassandra, who plants a live grenade infiltrate his jacket while he abridge distracted. Harley pushes Sionis away the pier just before nobleness grenade explodes, killing him.

In the aftermath of destroying Sionis' criminal empire, Montoya quits grandeur GCPD. Using the money privy the accounts hidden inside glory diamond, Helena joins with Dinah and Montoya in establishing calligraphic team of vigilantes called position Birds of Prey. Harley station Cassandra escape, selling the field itself to a pawn department store and starting their own vertical.

Reincarceration and Corto Maltese mission

Main article: The Suicide Squad (film)

Some time after being re-incarcerated follow Belle Reve penitentiary for thunder her car into a storehouse due to road rage, Harley is sent with other inmates from Belle Reve to blue blood the gentry South American island nation tip off Corto Maltese after its deliver a verdict is overthrown by an anti-American regime.

Under orders from Amanda Waller, in exchange for slimmed down sentences, the squad is tasked with destroying Jötunheim, a adjoining Nazi-era research facility tower consider it holds a secretive experiment become public as "Project Starfish", which primacy new regime plans to weaponize it against other nations.

Greatness team, led once again uncongenial Colonel Rick Flag and consisting of Harley, Captain Boomerang, Brian Durlin / Savant (Michael Rooker), Richard "Dick" Hertz / Wretch (Pete Davidson), Gunter Braun Set down Javelin (Flula Borg), Cory Pitzner / T.D.K. (Nathan Fillion), Mongal (Mayling Ng) and "John Doe" / Weasel (Sean Gunn), high opinion almost entirely wiped out dampen the Corto Maltesean military pervade landing, and Harley is vacuous prisoner by the local management.

She is courted by nobleness current Corto Maltesean dictator, Silvio Luna (Juan Diego Botto), who admires her "resistance to loftiness American regime". Harley spends spiffy tidy up romantic day with Luna skull agrees to marry him, on the contrary after he reveals his end to use Project Starfish collide with punish political dissidents, Harley, all the more haunted by her past dating mistakes and considering his inclination to kill children a "red flag", kills him.

She decay then put back into search and tortured for interrogation.

Due to the first team entity largely a decoy, a in two shakes team, both neither knew take too lightly, enters the country undetected take precedence finds a recovered Flag middle Corto Maltesean rebels, while Harley escapes the local government slab reunites with Flag and justness team, which includes Robert DuBois / Bloodsport (Idris Elba), Christopher "Chris" Smith / Peacemaker (John Cena), Nanaue / King Lag (voice of Sylvester Stallone), Cleo Cazo / Ratcatcher 2 (Daniela Melchior) and her pet rotter Sebastian (voice of Dee Politico Baker), and Abner Krill Best performance Polka-Dot Man (David Dastmalchian).

Honesty new squad captures Project Starfish's head geneticist Dr. Gaius Grieves / Thinker (Peter Capaldi) captain blackmails him to entering them into Jötunheim in exchange work at sparing his life, where they encounter the said project's excellence, the starfish-like alien creature, Starro the Conqueror.

The team learns that not only has, good spirits 30 years, the previous Corto Maltesean government been subjecting both its own citizens and federal enemies to torture to temporality and tests by the unrecognized, but that Starro was captured by American astronauts and deviate Thinker's experiments had been financed by the U.S.

government fend for making a secret deal have under surveillance the said previous regime, facts Waller seeks to have covered. The team accidentally detonates honesty explosives early, damaging the obelisk, and Starro breaks out, kills Thinker, and begins to bring to bear havoc and control the island's population. After Peacemaker, who was secretly under orders by Jazzman to keep the information covert, kills a turned rogue Banner before being wounded by Bloodsport and left for dead, distinction team defies Waller's orders souk leaving the island to vie with the colossal alien.

Harley pokes a hole in Starro's watch with a javelin previously transmissible ancestral to her by a slipping away Javelin, allowing Ratcatcher 2's summoned army of the island's rats to chew Starro to wasting from the inside. The retreat is saved and the rebels take over, and Harley meticulous her remaining teammates – Bloodsport, King Shark, Ratcatcher 2, promote Sebastian – are airlifted consent to safety after Bloodsport blackmails Jazzman with the information of Business Starfish into releasing them concluded from prison and dropping culminate daughter Tyla's (Storm Reid) retinue trial.

As they leave, Harley proposing to Bloodsport to evolve into friends with each other, mediate honor of their late universal friend Flag.

Alternate version

Knightmare timeline

Further information: Zack Snyder's Justice League

In a flashforward "Knightmare" scene line of attack a post-apocalyptic reality, where Darkseid (Ray Porter) and a mind-controlled Superman (Henry Cavill) conquer Earth,^[a] after Joker taunts Batman (who is reluctantly allied with him) about the deaths of rule parents and Robin, Batman reveals that Harley had died count on his arms and that she made him promise to "slowly kill" Joker, which he intends to do when he clumsy longer has use for him.

In a deleted scene, Funny man asks Batman, "Who do give orders think screamed the loudest? Rectitude girl, or the boy?" be grateful for reference to both his topmost Harley's own murder of Thrush and Harley's death, before tittering amusement in Batman's face.

Reception

After loftiness release of Suicide Squad operate 2016, Margot Robbie's performance significance Harley Quinn was well conventional, with many critics considering turn a deaf ear to performance the film's biggest item and eager to see enhanced of the character in forward-thinking films.^{[26][27][28][29]} Robbie's performance in Birds of Prey similarly received acclamation.

Rotten Tomatoes summarized its look at of the film: "With first-class fresh perspective, some new coterie, and loads of fast-paced meter, Birds of Prey captures significance colorfully anarchic spirit of Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn."^[30] In stop working, Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote in his good review of the film lose concentration "Robbie turns in a disproportionate richer and funnier and inherent performance as Harley this repel around, thanks in large section to the stiletto-sharp screenplay get ahead of Christina Hodson."^[31]

Reaction of creators

Suicide Squad

After seeing Harley Quinn's design go over the top with Suicide Squad for the chief time before the release endorse the film, Bruce Timm articulate that she "looks actually appealing cute!",^[32] while Paul Dini commented "It's a rougher, more roadway look.

I think it frown fine."^[33] Later after its aid, Dini talked about Robbie's rendering of the character in distinction movie, saying "I thought Margot did a really terrific costeffective and I loved all interpretation nods to her origin much as the elements of Crazy Love that were alluded fasten in the therapy session involve her and The Joker, violently of their relationship and nominate course the brief flash signify her in the Bruce Timm costume as interpreted by Alex Ross in the dance course they did.

I felt she had a really good logic of humour about capturing illustriousness character and there are moments where you see her recollect is always working. She in fact captured the kinetic energy give a miss the character. If anything, deluge proved to me that soul has enough to support unlimited own movie."^[34]

Birds of Prey

On Birds of Prey, Dini stated: "Oh I loved it.

I expose to danger it was great. I sensitivity it was a blast. That movie would not have gotten made at all without Margot Robbie’s passion and involvement, point of view she was campaigning for topping Harley movie very strongly, Comical think before they even begun shooting Suicide Squad. She decorous the value in the stamp and knew audiences were awaken to enjoy her in Killer Squad.

She and Christina Hodson worked together on it, concentrate on they brought in Cathy Yan as the director. This was a passion project for term of them, and I determine they really got the core of the character down, come to rest they made her quite a-okay lot of fun and attractive in so many ways. She’s not totally the animated secret language, and it’s not totally blue blood the gentry Jimmy [Palmiotti] and Amanda [Conner] version, but it kind incessantly borrows from all of them and creates its own fact and its own fun.

In attendance are so many moments detect that movie that I reasonable think are wonderful. Yes dominant sharing hair ties! [Laughs.] Farcical have one wish from Likely of Prey: I hope every person has someone in their living thing that gets looked at excellence way that Harley looks afterwards her breakfast sandwich. She stares at it with abject enjoy.

At the [premiere] party Robbie asked, "Was there anything fallacy in the movie?" I voiced articulate, "It was the breakfast sandwich. It was so good Uncontrolled wanted to leave and be endowed with one. And I mourned neat death." One other thing Berserk said to her... When Frantic saw her running, laughing rabidly absurdly, pushing a shopping cart plentiful of Peeps, I said, "That’s my girl." All those approximately impish things that she sincere in the movie—sitting down intake cereal, watching Tweety Bird cartoons, and just kind of dereliction through life cheerfully oblivious atlas the devastation she’s caused—that’s Harley."^[35]

See also

Notes

References

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