Harley Quinn\u2019s new origins riff on Justice League \u2013 but she still can\u2019t escape Joker DC ComicsHarley Quinn\u2019s origin in the DC Universe is inevitably tied to The Joker. Now she\u2019s trying to remove that connection by using magic to rewrite her origin. Harley Quinn\u2019s origin has close ties to The Joker, but the characters have had little interaction over the last several years. In most of those interactions, Harley\u2019s been very clear about wanting nothing to do with Joker. The rest of the DC Universe doesn\u2019t notice this, though. Now she\u2019s tried to do something about it, but the result may not be what she hoped for. Harley\u2019s plan is to make sure no one thinks of The Joker before they think of her. That plan is pretty simple: she just has to kidnap one of the DC Universe\u2019s most powerful magic users. No matter her origin, Harley Quinn can\u2019t escape The Joker In Harley Quinn: Black + White + Redder #2, Harley kidnaps Zatanna so she can use magic to rewrite Harley\u2019s origin. Harley\u2019s plan kind of just stops there, though; all she wants is to change her origin to Batman\u2018s. What follows is a riff on the Justice League that only Harley Quinn could do. Harley changes her origin to that of Batman, but folks say The Joker created her. She changes it to Superman\u2019s origin, but everyone says she wouldn\u2019t be able to beat someone like Joker. We see the same outcome with Wonder Woman, Green Lantern (specifically Guy Gardner, which Harley notes with some disdain), and Aquaman (much to Harley\u2019s disappointment). Each of these origins highlights Harley\u2019s opinions on the Justice League, but also her place in the DC Universe. Despite completely changing her origins, she remains connected to the Joker. Everyone speaks of Harley in connection with him no matter who she becomes. Perhaps it\u2019s meant to be a sly commentary on Harley Quinn. She\u2019s been an independent character since her canon comic debut in 1999\u2019s Batman: Harley Quinn special, which opened with Poison Ivy saving Harley after Joker tried to blow her up. Since then, the two have had minimal interactions, with multiple creative teams even stating they would never reconnect the two. Despite this separation, the two characters remained connected no matter where the story is. Even in tales where they\u2019ve broken up, Harley remains best known as \u201cThe Joker\u2019s girlfriend,\u201d even though she\u2019s been more closely associated with the Suicide Squad and Bat-family for years. Black + White + Redder is an out-of-continuity tale, but it\u2019s still an interesting examination of Harley and how she views herself. In continuity, Harley is next veering more toward heroism by joining Black Canary\u2019s latest incarnation of the Birds of Prey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Harley Quinn\u2019s new origins riff on Justice League \u2013 but she still can\u2019t escape Joker DC ComicsHarley Quinn\u2019s origin in the DC Universe is inevitably tied to The Joker. Now she\u2019s trying to remove that connection by using magic to rewrite her origin. Harley Quinn\u2019s origin has close ties to The Joker, but the characters […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}