To Hell and back with Harley Quinn
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scans_dailyIn current issues of Secret Six, the team is in Hell. If Harley were still on the team, she wouldn't have been able to make the trip, since she's banished from that place.
How does one get evicted from Hell? Just by being Harley...
Oh, an important thing to know about Harley in her more psychotic days... She really didn't know she was killing people, due to seeing things in Harley Vision, which was a homage to her animated roots...
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During one of her adventures, Harley got killed. She found herself in Hell. Specifically, she found herself in a building surrounded by henchmen she'd killed (including her favorite, Lewis), with a SWAT team outside.
And it's not just any SWAT team.
Back during No Man's Land, Pettit led the SWAT team. He'd always butted heads with Jim Gordon, not thinking Jim was tough enough on crime. Over the course of the storyline, Pettit snapped, going directly against Gordon and everyone loyal to him, including sending his team in an all out assualt on the Watchtower to get Gordon's daughter. Some of his troops thought a full assualt was a bit excessive. After all, how much trouble could taking a woman in a wheelchair be?
Well, that depends on the woman in the wheelchair, in this case, but that's another story...
At the end of No Man's Land, Pettit and his squad took on a couple of people who weren't as gentle as Babs and friends. So, now Harley's having to deal with everybody she's sent to Hell.
"...just look around!"
She stays defiant, though, saying she's endured worse, like Arkham and the Joker. She's alone in the darkness for years, then finds herself back where she started with her henchmen and the SWAT team. For them, it''s only been a few seconds. They're trapped in a loop, and have been repeating this shootout with Pettit's men.
Harley decides to break the loop, and try a different tactic. That just ends up getting her henchmen killed (with her again accidentlly killing Lewis) and her captured and taken Downtown (where a man named Chill is protesting his innocence, denying killing that doctor and his wife). She's locked in Solitary, which is, of course, that darkness she was in, before.
Then, she's back with the gang, again. She tells them they're busting out...
...and Etrigan realizes things are getting out of hand. But first, a flashback...
They'll need major firepower, so Harley busts some metahumans out of their cells. Highwater pursues, and asks about Drumm during their confrontations. They reach the River Styx. Charon refuses to give passage, so Harley knocks him into the river and takes over the boat. But, between Highwater and Cerberus, they go down.
Lewis takes the bullet intended for Harley. As he's dying, he tells her not to give up hope.
She's taken to Pettit, who tries everything he knows to break her. Nothing's working.
Etrigan: That's just the point, there's no love in Hell!
Pain and base torture are what we do well!
Your focus is set, forever to be
affairs of the heart, that's what I now see!
But emotions like those, they'll never do!
Not here in Hell, so I'm banishing you!
So, Harley returned to the land of the living.
Scans from Harley Quinn #20-22, seven from each.
How does one get evicted from Hell? Just by being Harley...
Oh, an important thing to know about Harley in her more psychotic days... She really didn't know she was killing people, due to seeing things in Harley Vision, which was a homage to her animated roots...
http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/2
During one of her adventures, Harley got killed. She found herself in Hell. Specifically, she found herself in a building surrounded by henchmen she'd killed (including her favorite, Lewis), with a SWAT team outside.
And it's not just any SWAT team.
Back during No Man's Land, Pettit led the SWAT team. He'd always butted heads with Jim Gordon, not thinking Jim was tough enough on crime. Over the course of the storyline, Pettit snapped, going directly against Gordon and everyone loyal to him, including sending his team in an all out assualt on the Watchtower to get Gordon's daughter. Some of his troops thought a full assualt was a bit excessive. After all, how much trouble could taking a woman in a wheelchair be?
Well, that depends on the woman in the wheelchair, in this case, but that's another story...
At the end of No Man's Land, Pettit and his squad took on a couple of people who weren't as gentle as Babs and friends. So, now Harley's having to deal with everybody she's sent to Hell.
"...just look around!"
She stays defiant, though, saying she's endured worse, like Arkham and the Joker. She's alone in the darkness for years, then finds herself back where she started with her henchmen and the SWAT team. For them, it''s only been a few seconds. They're trapped in a loop, and have been repeating this shootout with Pettit's men.
Harley decides to break the loop, and try a different tactic. That just ends up getting her henchmen killed (with her again accidentlly killing Lewis) and her captured and taken Downtown (where a man named Chill is protesting his innocence, denying killing that doctor and his wife). She's locked in Solitary, which is, of course, that darkness she was in, before.
Then, she's back with the gang, again. She tells them they're busting out...
...and Etrigan realizes things are getting out of hand. But first, a flashback...
They'll need major firepower, so Harley busts some metahumans out of their cells. Highwater pursues, and asks about Drumm during their confrontations. They reach the River Styx. Charon refuses to give passage, so Harley knocks him into the river and takes over the boat. But, between Highwater and Cerberus, they go down.
Lewis takes the bullet intended for Harley. As he's dying, he tells her not to give up hope.
She's taken to Pettit, who tries everything he knows to break her. Nothing's working.
Etrigan: That's just the point, there's no love in Hell!
Pain and base torture are what we do well!
Your focus is set, forever to be
affairs of the heart, that's what I now see!
But emotions like those, they'll never do!
Not here in Hell, so I'm banishing you!
So, Harley returned to the land of the living.
Scans from Harley Quinn #20-22, seven from each.
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Date: 2011-04-28 01:20 pm (UTC)Pinkie Pie
Date: 2011-05-01 05:47 am (UTC)It seems our friend Pinkie doesn't take rejection well...
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Date: 2011-05-01 11:11 am (UTC)I'm not quite sure when a cartoon about brightly-coloured ponies became the highlight of my viewing week, but I regret nothing!
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Date: 2011-04-28 02:02 am (UTC)Although I still don't understand entirely what the Harley vision entails.
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Date: 2011-04-28 03:11 am (UTC)But I really dont know, so correct me if Im wrong.
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Date: 2011-04-28 03:56 am (UTC)It was how she started seeing the world once she snapped. Nothing was real, not even herself. It was all cartoon violence to her. She bashes someone's head in, they have a big knot and birds flying around.
That also gave her her Fourth Wall Breaking powers (which the Joker shares).
Harley Vision stopped, after this (except for a couple of seconds with the Joker, which quickly wore off). Whether it was from this, alone, or if being physically reconstructed by Zatanna shortly after, or some combination, we don't know.
She was much saner after that, for a while, and was thinking of slipping into her Jessica Seaborne identity, permanently. Then, Hush came along, and Loeb ignored three years worth of character development. Ignored logical plotting, too. But hey, since Jim Lee was drawing, at least she looked great.
I mean, OK... Let's see if I understand Tommy Elliot's master plan to fake his own death, here...
He, Bruce, Selina, and Leslie are at an opera. Harley attacks, and tears the necklace Tommy's mother gave him off. This prompts Bruce into a flashback, and he goes all "MY PARENTS ARE DEEEEEEAAAAAD!" He and Selina change, fight Harley, and she makes quick work of them, then makes her escape..
Tommy heroically gives chase. Bruce desperately tries to reach them while Leslie tends to Selina, knowing what's about to happen, knowing he's about to lose his childhood friend. He hears the gunshot, and finds Tommy's body (that's actually Clayface).
So... Since Hush's entire master plan was built around faking his own death, it required Harley to take down both Batman and Catwoman, quickly. Otherwise, it wouldn't have worked. Now, granted, she'd taken down Batman in the past. But, she hasn't done it every time. So, Tommy was leaving this most vital part of his master plan to chance, that this would be one of Harley's good nights.
The worst part is, there were so many other plot holes, as well. And this got Loeb acclaimed as the best writer in the business, at the time.
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Date: 2011-04-28 02:20 am (UTC)But helping him slaughter people? Yes, you'll burn for that.
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Date: 2011-04-28 10:55 am (UTC)It's the murdering with joker that going to do it for you more.
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Date: 2011-04-28 04:03 pm (UTC)I love Harley. But saying that she isn't really bad because she didn't personally murder people (or realize that she was personally murdering people), she "just" repeatedly broke an unrepentant mass-murderer out of prison and aided him, is absurd.
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Date: 2011-04-28 04:22 pm (UTC)Remember that pic of Harley laughing and holding up a sign that says "hostage" while the Joker fires a gun behind her? Harley in a nut shell.
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Date: 2011-04-28 04:59 pm (UTC)You'd think she'd have figured it out, since it's not like the Joker's victims just show up and hang out with her, after...
Well, y'know, usually...
That was another reason I hated what Daniel did to Jason in BftC. Attacking Selina wrecked something that had a lot of potential. Sure, it would have been so wrong on so many levels, but talk about hitting the Joker where it hurt...
And yet, still not as wrong as Jason and Talia. :)
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Date: 2011-04-28 08:28 pm (UTC)And agreed.
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Date: 2011-04-28 03:39 am (UTC)You think Hell could top living with HIM? Those poor Bastards never stood a chance.
Funny thing is, now in the security wing of Hell there's a wall with pictures of Harley and Lobo under a sign that reads "Do not allow on premises."
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Date: 2011-04-28 07:23 am (UTC)Though I guess that kind of did happen, what with her going around possessing folk and stuff until Zatanna reconstituted her.
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Date: 2011-05-18 02:31 pm (UTC)I loved this issue^^
Good ol' crazy fun Harley and her MINIOOOONS!!