Now, with the release of the new trailer for the 2020 film, “Birds of Prey”, it looks to be that Harley Quinn is shedding her dependency on the Joker and coming in to her own by surrounding herself with fellow female “anti-heroes”. She then begins a healthy, platonic relationship with Poison Ivy that helps her flourish into the woman she was always supposed to be only now as Harley Quinn, but still keeping in retention of her spirit as the successful psychiatrist she was beforehand.
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Thankfully, her solo comic book series in 2013 completely shed her obsession with the Joker and presents a more mature Harley who is now living with the trauma the Joker caused her by her own self-realization that his pushing of her into the vat of acid is something that she did not want.
Her eventual realization of the abuse she endured by her lover feels less tragic simply because in the film she chose to jump in the acid, while in the comic run, this same realization hits harder because she now finally realizes her transformation into Harley Quinn is something she never wanted in the first place. While this may be accurate to her New 52 characterization, her botched origin story in the film still sets off red alarms for me as an inaccurate portrayal of the character even if her motivations following are reminiscent of her character in the comic run. In the “Suicide Squad” film, Harley Quinn is extremely dedicated to the Joker and she too betrays the Squad in the film when the Joker comes to rescue her from them. She then captures fellow Squad-member Deadshot and puts the skinned face of the Joker on him so she can “carry on a conversation’ with him. In the continuing run of the New 52 Suicide Squad run, Harley Quinn dedicates her life to protecting and loving the Joker no matter what, even up to betraying the Suicide Squad when she learns of the Joker’s death so she can retrieve the skinned face of her now dead lover. Harleen Quinzel is pushed into the vat of acid by the Joker, turning her into Harley Quinn involuntarily, quite literally stripping her of her own consent and voluntary action to become something she never really asked for. However, in the New 52 “Suicide Squad” run, specifically issues six and seven, Dr. In the film, Harleen Quinzel voluntary jumps into a vat of acid that turns her into Harley Quinn on her own accord simply because her love and obsession for the Joker trounced her own vision of self-worth simply because the Joker asked her if she “would die for him.” Thankfully, this is accurate as can be, but what follows is what fails the character in a very big, very unfortunate way. Harleen Quinzel is present in a few scenes as the psychiatrist that treated the Joker before her own descent into madness and obsession that created the persona of Harley Quinn. However, what the film did deliver on was the fantastic portrayal of Harley Quinn by the ever-talented Margot Robbie.ĭespite the excellent portrayal of the character, the film skewered her origin story by changing it for the worse. Unfortunately, the film was panned by critics and was hailed as an epic disaster despite all of those promising trailers. In 2016, “Suicide Squad” exploded into theaters with the candy colored, neon-tinted Hot Topic vibes that the trailer and promotional material promised.
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