![]() But over the course of the show’s three seasons - and with a fourth on the way - Harley slowly begins to realize that despite her constant battles with the Joker and Batman, she no longer wants to be a villain despite fears that leaving the bad guy life behind might end her relationship with her wife, Poison Ivy.Īfter “Joker” provided a new imagining of how Batman’s most famous nemesis came to be, it’s possible that Gaga will tell Harley’s origins in her own way, further exploring how the man formerly known as Arthur Fleck is inspiring thousands of Gotham City’s downtrodden residents to embrace his furious, nihilistic worldview to get revenge on the uncaring millionaires that fill the city’s halls of power. Harley has also gotten her own cult hit animated series on HBO Max, with Kaley Cuoco playing her as she starts her own supervillain team in an effort to get back at the Joker. In 2020’s “Birds of Prey” and 2021’s “The Suicide Squad,” Robbie played Harley as she found her independence free from the Joker, becoming a force of nature that walks the line between heroism and villainy.Ĭraig Zobel Joins ‘The Penguin’ Series as Director and Executive Producer for HBO Max In the decades since, Harley has grown beyond her second banana status to the Joker to become a popular Batman character in her own right. ![]() But her life changed when she was assigned to psychiatric sessions with the Joker, who manipulated her and led her to fall in love with him to the point that she helped him break out of the asylum and became his lovesick sidekick. ![]() Indeed, it is certain that Gaga’s take on Harley Quinn will be unlike any other we’ve seen before, much like how Joaquin Phoenix gave his own unique, Oscar-winning portrayal of Gotham’s Clown Prince of Crime in the first “Joker” in 2019.įirst introduced in “Batman: The Animated Series” in 1992 and played by voice actor Arleen Sorkin, Harley Quinn was originally a psychologist in Arkham Asylum under the name Dr.
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