Harley Quinn is a character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.
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41 Facts About Harley Quinn
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Harley Quinn's abilities include expert gymnastic skills, proficiency in weapons and hand-to-hand combat, complete unpredictability, immunity to toxins, and enhanced strength, agility, and durability.
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Harley Quinn often wields clown-themed gag weapons, with an oversized mallet being her signature weapon.
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Harley Quinn has become one of DC Comics' most popular and profitable characters, and has been featured in many of DC's comic books and adapted in various other media and merchandise.
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Harley Quinn makes her live-action cinematic debut in the DC Extended Universe film Suicide Squad, where she is portrayed by Margot Robbie.
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Harley Quinn was created by Paul Dini and Bruce Timm for the 1992 Batman: The Animated Series episode entitled "Joker's Favor" while Dini was writing the episode.
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Nevertheless, months after "Joker's Favor", Harley Quinn made a second appearance on the show in the episode "The Laughing Fish" and became the Joker's love interest.
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Harley Quinn then became a recurring character in the DC Animated Universe, appearing in The Animated Series sequel The New Batman Adventures, and in non-Batman animation such as Superman: The Animated Series, Static Shock, and Justice League.
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Harley Quinn was adapted into the main DC universe with the 1999 one-shot graphic novel Batman: Harley Quinn, written by Dini and illustrated by Yvel Guichet.
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Kesel's run on the series began being published in December 2000, and was about Harley Quinn leaving the Joker and becoming a solo criminal, alongside a supporting cast of henchmen named the Quinntets.
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Harley Quinn is crazy, but there is something behind the madness.
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Harley Quinn's personality had been depicted to be more violent and psychopathic than her former iteration.
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Harley Quinn's costume has been changed with a roller derby-inspired costume designed by Conner, which incorporates Conner's favorite aspects of Harley Quinn's early costume and her costume in Glass' Suicide Squad.
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New 52 Harley Quinn series received positive reception, and was one of DC Comics' top selling series, inspiring multiple spin-offs.
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Harley Quinn's relaunched ongoing series is a direct continuation of the former, with Conner and Palmiotti still writing for the character, and Hardin and Timms illustrating the interior art.
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Harley Quinn has no superpowers, and relies on her unpredictability, gymnastics skills, and weapons and hand-to-hand proficiency.
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Harley Quinn is a peak athlete, having won a gymnastics scholarship at Gotham City's Gotham State University.
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Harley Quinn is skilled in using various weapons, often employing weaponized clown-themed gag items, including pop guns, rubber chickens, and a gun that shoots a boxing glove, as well as oversized pistols and mallets, the latter being her signature weapon.
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Harley Quinn's intellect extends to her psychological, tactical and deception abilities, but she does not stand out for particular strategic or scientific skills and often remains subordinate to the Joker, who between the two is the genius and the inventor.
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Just like Poison Ivy, sometimes and not as much, Harley Quinn uses her feminine charm to attract men but only to be able to manipulate them.
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Harley Quinn has had several love interests, the most notable being Joker and Poison Ivy.
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Harley Quinn first appeared in Batman: The Animated Series, voiced by Arleen Sorkin, who subsequently reprised her role in other DC Animated Universe series, including Superman: The Animated Series, The New Batman Adventures, Static Shock, and Justice League, as well as the film Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker.
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Harleen helped the Joker escape and, renaming herself Harley Quinn, became his sidekick in hopes that she could win his love, going on a crime spree across the United States of America.
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Recovering in Arkham, Harley Quinn decides that the Joker will never truly love her, before returning to her devotion upon seeing that he has left her a rose in a vase from him by her bedside table, with a note hoping that she gets better soon.
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Harley Quinn later fought Batgirl who angrily chastised her for even helping Joker commit a heinous act but fell deep into an abyss, leading to the latter presuming her dead, though she survived as depicted in the present, where she appears at the end of the movie, revealed to be the grandmother of the Jokerz members, the Dee Dee Twins, who address her as "Nana Harley", having reformed from her life of crime.
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Harleen Quinzel was a psychiatrist at Arkham Asylum, and after meeting the Joker, she became his frequent accomplice, takes on the name Harley Quinn, and gets in an abusive codependent relationship with him.
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Harley Quinn is kidnapped by Peyton Riley, the new female Ventriloquist, who offers her a job; Harley turns the job down out of respect for the memory of Arnold Wesker, the original Ventriloquist, who attempted to cheer her up during her first week in Arkham while the Joker was still on the loose.
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Harley Quinn then helps Batman and Commissioner Jim Gordon foil the impostor's plans.
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Harley Quinn befriends the former Catwoman replacement Holly Robinson and then succeeds in persuading her to join her at the shelter, where she is working as an assistant.
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Holly and Harley Quinn then meet the real Athena and encounter Mary Marvel.
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Harley Quinn then joins forces with Poison Ivy and Catwoman in the series Gotham City Sirens.
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Harley Quinn's father is a swindler who is still in jail, and her brother, Barry, is a loser with dead-end dreams of rock stardom.
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Harley Quinn has become one of DC Comics' most popular characters.
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Harley Quinn appears in the DC Universe Online video game, with Arleen Sorkin returning as her voice.
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Harley Quinn is the basic Legends PVP character granted to Villains without having to spend Marks of Legend.
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Harley Quinn appears in Batman: The Enemy Within, voiced by Laura Post.
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Harley Quinn manipulates and abuses her former patient at Arkham Asylum, named "John Doe", who is infatuated with her.
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Harley Quinn has her own novel adaptation from comics as part of the DC Comic Novels series.
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Harley Quinn is reinterpreted as Pauline Ketch in The Refrigerator Monologues.
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