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silverzeo ([personal profile] silverzeo) wrote in [community profile] scans_daily2013-10-19 12:00 am

Batman Beyond 13: Harley without the Joker

This MAY not be "Best of villains" material, and it been over a month since Harl's... less than enjoyable birthday story....but I thought it was worth showing what has everyone's crazy clown lady's life in the future without her precious puddin'...

Okay, some set up. In the Batman Beyond movie, we learn how the Joker came to an end... the first time. Tim Drake indirectly kills him (depends of which version you've watched) and Harley Quin fought Batgirl over a... gorge or a ravine, which ended on a "Cliffhanger" opening, Harley falling to darkness and never seen again... till around the 3rd to last scene of the movie...



And then we see her Back in Batman Beyond #13, where Bruce's villain morgue, since super criminals lose all rights when they die to prevent vandalism and martyr them (brought to by a 'Dent Law' by a 'rehabilitated' Dent). There was a break-in, and since Bruce and Barb are the only ones who can get in without setting off the alarms, they turn to the only other person who would know about it's location...






It turns out the person who broke in was some random dude who can "download' memories and bodies of people he came into contact with, kinda like the Parasite... I didn't really understand myself, as it seemed like Ace was entering a restricted area and the a page later, the place had broke jars of brains and organs... but it was nice to see Nana Harley again, though I do question how she is with her "Harlequin" furniture that looks like it came from Animal Crossing...

And I know that it was sort of bad taste when DC had that suicide Harley Quin contest... but after reading this issue... I had this silly story idea that Joker, in Tim's body, would try to seduce Harley to help him... but she ends try to seduce him too... in  rather risque lingerie she bought back before she was 30... but also bring him some pain like that old lady trying to do to Bender in that Futurama episode where he becomes Robo Santa Claus, and ends up pushing HIM out the window like he did in "Mad Love"... just wonder if that is either a good idea or bad idea... because I'm told by alot of people my ideas don't make any sense...
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[personal profile] rdfox 2013-10-19 01:07 pm (UTC)(link)
IIRC, when someone asked Paul Dini that, he said it was some guy she met while lying low after Joker's death, waiting for her statute of limitations to run out (she never killed anyone in the DCAU, after all), and he had no connection to any of the Gotham Rogues, or, indeed, any supervillains--without Joker around to keep feeding her insanity, she became much more stable again and, while she could clearly never go back to her old profession, she was able to live a mostly-normal life.

Personally, I prefer the theory that the DeeDees are natural redheads from their other biological grandmother (hey, Ivy IS a master of genetic engineering, right?), and they bleach their hair, just like Nana Harley did...
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[personal profile] janegray 2013-10-19 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Personally, I prefer the theory that the DeeDees are natural redheads from their other biological grandmother (hey, Ivy IS a master of genetic engineering, right?), and they bleach their hair, just like Nana Harley did...

Motto.
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[personal profile] big_daddy_d 2013-10-20 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
I prefer the theory that the DeeDees are natural redheads

You know in Batman: Thrillkiller Harley was dating Roy Harper and pregnant with his child at the end. O.O