Harley Quinn

Harley Quinn

Harley Quinn is a fictional character appearing in media published by DC Entertainment. She was created by Paul Dini and Bruce Timm to serve as a new supervillainess and a romantic interest for the Joker in Batman: The Animated Series on September 11, 1992. She has since appeared in various other DC projects voiced by actresses such as Tara Strong, Hynden Walch, Laura Bailey, Jenny Slate, Laura Post, and Kaley Cuoco. Harley Quinn made her live-action cinematic debut in the DC Extended Universe film Suicide Squad.

About Harley Quinn in brief

Summary Harley QuinnHarley Quinn is a fictional character appearing in media published by DC Entertainment. She was created by Paul Dini and Bruce Timm to serve as a new supervillainess and a romantic interest for the Joker in Batman: The Animated Series on September 11, 1992. She has since appeared in various other DC projects voiced by actresses such as Tara Strong, Hynden Walch, Laura Bailey, Jenny Slate, Laura Post, and Kaley Cuoco. Harley Quinn made her live-action cinematic debut in the DC Extended Universe film Suicide Squad, portrayed by Margot Robbie. The name Harley Quinn first appears in Book II, Chapter I of James Joyce’s famous 1939 book Finnegans Wake as part of the chapter’s choreographer team Harley Quinn and Coollimbeina, a reference to the 16th-century commedia dell’arte characters Harlequin and Columbina. The 1994 graphic novel The Batman Adventures: Mad Love recounts the character’s origin story. It describes Dr. Harleen Frances Quinzel, Ph. D. as an Arkham Asylum psychologist who falls in love with the Joker and becomes his accomplice and on-again, off-again girlfriend. The story received wide praise and won the Eisner and Harvey Awards for Best Single Issue Comic of the Year in 1999. The New 52 comics, she has been depicted as an antiheroine and a recurring core member of the Suicide Squad. She also appears as one of the four main female characters of the Gotham Girls in The BatmanSuperman Movie.

She takes an immediate dislike for Lex Luthor’s assistant Mercy Graves at each point in the web-comic The Batman Superman: The Finest. She appears in the Justice League episode “Wild Cards” alongside Poison Ivy and Catwoman in the episode “The Justice League: Wild Cards” She also appeared in the animated episode “Hard Nails” alongside the Poison Ivy villain Static Shock and the Static Shock villain Nails. In the animated series, she was voiced by Arleen Sorkin and Mia Sara portrayed the character in the 2002 television series Birds of Prey. In most other media the character is still depicted as a supervillains and the Joker’s girlfriend. She is also known as the “Gotham City Sirens” and has teamed up with fellow villains Poison Ivy, Catwoman, and Batman’s former love interest, Batman’s ex-wife, Robin. The character has also made guest appearances in other animated cartoons within the DC universe, appearing alongside the Joker alongside the other villains in “The Joker’s Favor” and “Joker’s Favor”, as well as “The Batman: The Animated series” in “Batman: the Animated Series: The Joker’s Best Friend”. She has appeared in several other animated series and several other DC Comics projects, including “The Dark Knight Rises”, “The New Batman Adventures,” and “Batman & Robin: The New Batman” She has also been featured in the TV series “Batman vs. Superman: The Dark Knight”