DR. HARLEEN FRANCIS QUINZEL P.H.D

Dr. Harleen Frances Quinzel, Ph.D. is an Arkham Asylum psychologist. Harleen Quinzel becomes fascinated with the Joker while working at Arkham Asylum and volunteers to help treat him. She falls hopelessly in love with the Joker during their sessions, and she helps him escape from the asylum more than once.. When Batman returns a severely injured Joker to Arkham, she dons a jester costume to become Harley Quinn, the Joker’s sidekick. She becomes his accomplice and also his on-again off-again girlfriend. The Joker frequently insults, ignores, hurts, and even tries to kill Harley, but she always comes back to him, convinced he genuinely loves her. Harley refers to the Joker as Mistah J and Puddin’, terms of endearment that have since been used in nearly every adaptation in which the two characters appear.

All of that is pretty well known knowledge of Harley Quinn and how she came to be the popular character she is now. However through this deep dive into Harley Quinn and how he evolves you’re bound to learn a few things you didn’t know before.

When HQ (Harley Quinn) was brought into the comic books she was more violent than the quirky and funny character we all know and love. Her main focus was destruction and how to accomplish it with maximum damage. Honestly any damage would've made her happy. Once she comes to the animated series is when they adapt a more funny personal to HQ and give her a lively sense of humor and sass. Which is just one of the many evolutions our little jester will bring about

She of course is a common inmate at her old place of employment, Arkham Asylum. Upon every “visit” her and her criminal buddies always create chaos and mischief that Batman has to come clean up. Unless they Escape in which case Batman hunts them down to return them. Which is the normal of her role throughout the animated series with Batman.

Harley Quinn was first introduced in the Animated Batman Series (Batman: The Animated Series) appearing in the style of a jester, she wore a black domino mask, white facial makeup, and a one-piece black-and-red motley outfit with a cowl (very old timey outfit you would see being adorned by someone in a palace during medieval times.) . However, unlike the Joker, Harley’s skin is not permanently white in the animated series, as this is reiterated in scenes showing Harley out of costume with a normal skin complexion. Dr. Harleen Quinzel, M.D, is portrayed as having blonde hair and blue eyes. She typically wears glasses, a skirt, high-heeled shoes, and a white lab coat.

In her early comic book appearances until 2011, the character wore her original black-and-red costume from the animated series. In September 2011, The New 52 rebooted DC’s continuity. In this new timeline, Harley Quinn had a revamped look that lasted until 2016. The N52 (New 52) showed Harley Quinn with an alternating black-and-red-toned outfit with a sleeveless top, elbow pads, tight shorts, knee pads, and boots. Her hair color was altered to half-red and half-black, like the cap of her previous incarnation. Consistent with a new origin, her skin was bleached as the result of being kicked into a vat of acid by the Joker. Why not right if he was bleached forever why shouldn’t HQ be too?

Following 2016’s DC Rebirth, HQ debuted a new look in the third volume of her series, as well as the fifth volume of Suicide Squad. Her hair color is now blonde with blue tips (dip dye) on the left side and pink tips (dip dye) on the right, and she sports two new outfits. One outfit consists of tight, blue and red shorts, a ripped tee-shirt, satin jacket, fingerless gloves, fishnet stockings, studded belt, and lace-up boots, much like Margot Robbie’s depiction of the character in the 2016 Suicide Squad film. The character’s other outfit is a two-tone, black-and-red suit consisting of a full-sleeve top, tight shorts, opaque stockings, garter belt attachments, and boots. She has also been known to wear both red-and-black colored nail polishes on both her fingernails and toenails in an alternating fashion. Because when rocking something new it’s good to remember the past that brought you there and pay homage. HQ has various tattoos, including four diamonds on her upper right thigh. Within the DC Extended Universe, both Harley and the Joker have several tattoos, with Harley having them on her cheek, forearm, legs, and abdomen.

She Of course is also a part of the Gotham City Sirens which consists of herself, Poison Ivy, and Cat Woman. This is where you get a little bit of HQ’s background and how her family is. She returns to the Sirens and they console one another due to their growth. After several adventures with the Sirens, HQ betrays them and breaks into Arkham Asylum, bent on killing the Joker for his years of abuse towards her. However, HQ ultimately chooses instead to release the Joker from his cell, and together the two orchestrate a violent takeover of the facility that results in most of the guards and staff members either being killed or taken hostage by the inmates.

HQ and Joker are eventually defeated by Batman and Catwoman. HQ is last seen being wheeled away while bound in a straitjacket and muzzle. Not long after, Poison Ivy breaks into Harley’s cell and attempts to kill her for her betrayal, but instead offers to free her if she helps her kill Catwoman, who had left both of her fellow Sirens behind in Arkham. HQ agrees, and the two set out to trap Catwoman. During the fight, Catwoman says she saw good in them and only wanted to help. As Batman is about to arrest them, Catwoman helps the two of them escape. Talk about a complete cluster….

So knowing all 0f this up until this point and without even diving in further, what can we expect from HQ in Suicide Squad 2!? Apparently from what she stated at the DC Fandom event a lot of hard work and dedication was put into the movie. Including a scene that took 4 days to shoot. In the end she was told “the whole sequence apparently looks really cool, so when you see the movie, you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about.”

This is just amongst the many teasers they’re bound to release to boil our blood and make everyone rush to the theaters! I’ll be there, will you!?

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