Some have said that corrupting a life is worse than simply ending it. Harleen Quinzel entered was a young woman with a genius level I.Q. who entered college on a gymnastics scholarship. After graduating and becoming a psychiatrist, she went to Arkham Asylum and began having private sessions and interviews with the Joker, claiming she intended to publish a book on the subject of serial killers and mass murderers. To gain the Joker’s trust, she consented that he could call her “Harley Quinn” rather than Dr. Quinzel, as reference to the term “harlequin.” But as time went on, the Clown Prince of Killers pushed and manipulated the psychiatrist further and further, convincing her that she loved him.
Over the years, Dr. Quinzel helped the Joker escape Arkham Asylum many times until she was discovered and became a patient herself, her license revoked. Some time later, she was able to escape and decided that now she would publicly join her beloved “Mr. J” as a costumed aide. After her first adventure as Harley Quinn, the Joker left her for dead and she only survived thanks to treatment from the toxic criminal Poison Ivy. Ivy’s chemicals had a curious effect on Harley, enhancing her strength and agility greatly, enough so that she was now able to provide quite a fight for heroes such as Batman. Seeing the advantage of having such muscle around, the Joker apologized for his actions and recruited Harley to his side.
Despite her strong feelings for Gotham’s most notorious murderer, Harley has attempted to live a life that does not involve him, spending more time with folks such as Poison Ivy and Catwoman. And in DC’s newly relaunched Suicide Squad title, coming soon, she’ll evidently find a new role in the near future.
Originally introduced in Batman: The Animated Series, Harley has graced not only comics and cartoons but also video games. Let’s take a gander at all her different interpretations, eh? As usual, we’ll be sticking mainly with mainstream reality (and the aforementioned other media), so there won’t be any pics here of how Harley may have looked in a parallel universe or Elseworlds story.
ANIMATED VILLAIN
Created by Paul Dini and Bruce Timm, Harley Quinn debuted on BATMAN: The Animated Series in September, 1992. She was initially intended to just make one wacky appearance, but she hit such a chord with audiences that she became a recurring character, winning everyone over with her mixture of violent aggression and school girl sweetness. In 1999, she finally was introduced into the mainstream comic book continuity of DC Comics in the one shot Batman: Harley Quinn.
This is a great costume. It says “harlequin” immediately but doesn’t look like something completely derivative of the Joker’s purple, green and orange wardrobe. Color scheme and diamond pattern brings playing cards to mind, which again provides a connection to the Joker but doesn’t just opt his style. So she has the look of someone who fits into his paradigm, but she’s not simply “The Joker’s Girlfriend.” She stands on her own.
The outfit is close-fitting enough that you can believe Harley’s gymnastics would not be hampered, but the hat and gloves still give a hint of playfulness. Which is good, because Harley is a very optimistic crazy person. This outfit is also a very good example of how a woman in comics can be sexy without having half of her costume mysteriously missing. Only her face isn’t covered by fabric but we can still see she’s got a great, athletic body and she can still flirt with the best of them when she so chooses.
A great design that really first the character. It’s no wonder this costume has stayed on Harley consistently throughout the past decade of her comic book appearances.
Now, occasionally, Harley has gone for a more casual look. I’m okay with this because while it evokes her costume, it’s not meant as a replacement outfit. It just shows that Harley likes to stick with a certain style even when she’s not strictly on the job.
LATER TELEVISION
On the later cartoon series simply entitled The Batman, Harley basically kept the same look and was simply drawn in a different style. It still works and gives you an immediate idea of what kind of lady this is.
However, in her one live-action incarnation, the costume did not show up. In the short-lived TV series Birds of Prey, Dr. Harleen Quinzel never truly became a costumed super-villain but she did sport outfits that recalled the silliness and color scheme of her comic book counterpart.
More recently in the cartoon BATMAN: The Brave and the Bold, Harley wound up getting this monochromatic look during an adventure where the Joker gained god-like power. Doesn’t really work as a new standard, but it wasn’t meant to be one either. If you watch the episode, trust me, this design makes sense for the context.
THE VIDEO GAMES
Harley’s popularity with even those who don’t normally read comics books has ensured that she shows up in other media. This is the look she sported for the wildly popular video game BATMAN: Arkham Asylum.
I immediately don’t like this. Sexy? Sure, I can see how it could fit into that. But this is my problem and you can call it silly if you want to: this is a nurse’s outfit and Harley is a doctor.
Also, this outfit comes off as a little lazy to me. Like it takes a lot of thought to realize that people find nurse outfits sexy? Really, there’s barely anything that says “Harley” or “harlequin” in this design. It’s not terrible, it’s just not that interesting either.
Now this design from the new video game BATMAN: Arkham City… Hmmm. This is something else. If Harley Quinn were to appear in Chris Nolan’s Batman films, this is how I imagine she might look. You’ve got the basic elements there, but with an urban take to it. This is an “outfit” rather than a straight-up “costume.” It’s still stylized, still has a hint of that playful craziness, but you also get a sense of intimidation.
This isn’t the design I’d settle for. There are changes I would make, tweaks like a black T-shirt under the corset maybe (if she’s going to still be an acrobat, she doesn’t want to accidentally fall out of her top). But even with those changes, I totally understand where this design is coming from and I can still appreciate it. This lady definitely looks like a fighter who’s taken down her share of guys in her time. Very, very interesting take.
The main things that don’t work for me are the hair and the make-up. I’d like an actual domino mask on Harley, just to add a slightly stronger flavor of costume to the look. And I think it would have been better if the entire pony tails were colored.
DCnU RELAUNCH
I can’t even talk about this. It’s just lazy and ridiculous. If you want my full reaction, check out an earlier article where I spoke about it. I’m not against change or evolution in a character, but this doesn’t fit Harley’s personality at all nor does it serve how she physically interacts with the world (i.e. as a gymnast). I really hope this look doesn’t last, it strips away everything creative and fun about the character and replaces it with something that is so generic and, again, lazy. If you feel differently, fine, you’re entitled to your opinion. This is just my two cents.
And that wraps it up, folks. Before we go, a couple of CONVENTION ALERTS. You can find me this weekend speaking on many panels at the Shore Leave Convention outside of Baltimore, MD. And I will be wandering around San Diego Comic-Con as well, so if you see me, feel free to say hi. Until next time, this is Alan Kistler, Agent of S.T.Y.L.E., signing off!
Alan Kistler is an actor and freelance writer living in New York who has been recognized by Warner Bros. Films and major media/news outlets as a comic book historian. He writes the comic book history/fashion column Agent of S.T.Y.L.E. and is also a creator/host of the web-show and podcast “Crazy Sexy Geeks.” He knows entirely too much about the history of superhero comics, Star Trek, Doctor Who, time travel, and vampires that don’t sparkle. You can find him on Twitter: @SizzlerKistler
July 8th, 2011 at 4:40 pm
I see the “relaunch” resign, and I throw up in my mouth a little…
July 8th, 2011 at 4:44 pm
Another fine piece. I especially agree about the Crisi- I mean DCNu style. Looks like a Bloodrayne design reject.
July 8th, 2011 at 5:08 pm
You know, it’s true that Harley looks horrible in the new Suicide Squad, but why doesn’t anyone mention how silly King Shark’s facelift is?
July 8th, 2011 at 5:21 pm
DCnU Harley looks horrible. It barely even resembles the character.
July 8th, 2011 at 5:24 pm
Because no one cares about king shark
July 8th, 2011 at 5:45 pm
At the risk of getting reason all over your nerd rage, did anyone stop to consider that the reason the new design is so different is because the new Harley is different?
July 8th, 2011 at 5:54 pm
So, you’re saying that a different person under there would make a crappy costume good? How does that reasoning work?
July 8th, 2011 at 6:07 pm
because probably no one would have bought the book for king shark, whereas harley carried her own series for 3 years (the first year was excellent) and still has fans that follow her around.
July 8th, 2011 at 6:50 pm
The costume aside-wtf is with her hair? I thought it was a short cut at 1st but then i saw the ponytails….
July 8th, 2011 at 6:59 pm
I understand why some people hate the DCnU costume but,the old one wouldn’t fit with the “Suicide Squad” I have grown to accept it and see the good in it, it shows us a new side of Harley Quinn that was needed to be seen, characters need to grow, and the costume will always be remebered, but needed tto be changed.
July 8th, 2011 at 7:07 pm
You don’t have to just be a “change hater” to find the designs ugly or ill-conceived.
It’s one thing to accept that change needs to happen, quite another to swallow the notion that some of these works of eye-aching fugliness are the shape that that change needs to take.
July 8th, 2011 at 7:37 pm
“Change needs to happen.”
Why?
Oh, because you say so?
Change for change’s sake is just plain garbage. Again, the character is “Harley Quinn” — harlequin — not “Vicious Horny GaGa Bitch.”
Sorry, kiddies. But change, if it doesn’t happen naturally, organically, is just “gimmick.” Shock value for suckers. That’s right — you be suckers, if you go for this.
Nobody knows what Suicide Squad is. No one will even remember that Harley Quinn was in it.
So, there’s your change…Pointless. Useless. Ugly. Thoughtless. Due to be forgotten in 15…14…13…12…11. Eh, why bother counting?
That’s not Harley Quinn, and “new” isn’t spelled “n” – “u.” Then again, Dick Grayson isn’t Batman, but you suckers all went for that, too.
I don’t care what you think. So, go ahead and whine about how “nobody’s even read it yet” and I’m an old man. Then, go and try to convince somebody DCnU is anything more than another passing fad.
Good luck.
We aren’t all suckers.
July 8th, 2011 at 7:50 pm
Since when did Suicide Squad have matching outfits? or more skin = character growth?
It is disrespectful and half-assed to see the character portrayed like this; suggesting that now Harley is a violent prostitute/stripper, and not a fighting M.D. who happens to be a talented gymnast.
I remember when Harley debuted on television. She was naturally intelligent (no science experiment gone wrong), sexy without showing all of her skin (a rarity for female characters – superheroes or civilians), a capable fighter, and even though she loved the Joker, if he screwed her over, she stood up for herself. If you’re male, perhaps these distinctions were not important/noticeable to you;but, as a female, I loved it. I lover her. It was not only her costume that identified her as an “individual”, but she was actually written that way!
Whether or not this costume indicates that her character traits, or backstory, will change, to see her portrayed in this manner – just another objectified superheroine, is disheartening.
Hopefully, this costume is temporary.
July 8th, 2011 at 8:12 pm
While I’m at it — even though this is somewhat off-topic — can we stop insisting that books like A DEATH IN THE FAMILY, KILLING JOKE, and, even, MAD LOVE, are “in-continuity” in the DCnU. How? Just because the sales-people say so?
Nope. A DEATH IN THE FAMILY was mooted the moment they decided to resurrect Jason Todd with the flimsiest, and stupidest, of comic book dumb-f@ckery. All of Batman’s post-YEAR ONE history was mooted when a human being became a time-traveling, alien-killing, laser-ray wielding whatever-you-call-it.
KILLING JOKE? She’s walking. I don’t care what “thought balloon” appears in issue #1 of Gail Simone’s new series, once they stop mentioning it, Barbara Gordon’s “history” as Oracle ceases to exist, especially for all the much-coveted, all-important, (non-existent) new readers. This isn’t “change.” This is “change-back.”
MAD LOVE? Don’t even get me started. The only Batman-related book of the last twenty years that was really, really, truly, excellent will forever remain really, really, truly excellent. But, it has NOTHING to do with whatever nonsense they are trying to pass off as “Harley Quinn” now.
July 8th, 2011 at 9:22 pm
i do dislike the DCnU costume for her snce it doesnt seem to fit the character that much.
July 8th, 2011 at 9:33 pm
“Oh, because you say so?”
Well, no, actually I don’t say so, at all, which should be obvious if you read what I actually wrote.
Mike, I’d thank you not to twist my words by pulling them out-of-context from the sentence they appeared in. I was trying to distinguish dislike for the new look costumes and character designs from the accusations of just being against any change in a knee-jerk way.
For the record, the new DCU looks awful to me in almost every other way as well as the new designs, but I was trying to address another point.
I did not endorse the notion that “change needs to happen” for its own sake, I said that (hypothetically) accepting that notion was one thing, and that accepting these hideous costumes was quite another.
But no, you tear four words out of a sentence (apparently while ignoring what I was actually saying) and have a snit fit in in my general direction as though I’m some kind of DCnU cheerleader.
Please take out your issues on someone who is at least an actual DCnU advocate.
July 8th, 2011 at 11:45 pm
Guys and girls, please play nice. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, no need to turn this into a flame war. People are always going to disagree on when something is a natural evolution of a character or when something has been changed into something negative for poor reasons.
July 8th, 2011 at 11:59 pm
Just to be honest, I think everyone is entitled to their opinion, most here hate the costume because “it doesn’t fit the character” y’all push away the story and whole “DCnU” because of costume changes, y’all haven’t even read the books and y’all already hate them (Don’t judge a book by it’s cover) the costume is doing it’s job, it’s telling you change will happen, and to be realistic there isnt much you can do to stop it, the whole “New 52″ is supposed to be about change so you either change with it or forget about it.
July 9th, 2011 at 12:21 am
(Sigh)
Talk about ignoring what a person actually said…
July 9th, 2011 at 12:35 am
O.k. So you hate the costume just because it doesn’t appeal to you?
July 9th, 2011 at 12:37 am
You are one person just cause you dislike something does not make it change.
July 9th, 2011 at 12:57 am
I dislike the batman costume and pretty much everything about the Joker, in the Nolen films but me complaining about something I don’t have the power to fix won’t solve problems.
July 9th, 2011 at 1:35 am
@Rafael flores: Actually mate, they are clearly ragging on the costumes, not on the product line. An as we’ve seen the costumes, we have every right to say they look like shit… Because they do.
No one outside of Mike, who we are ignoring because he’s a ranting looney tune, is saying anything about the line, except; “good lord those costumes look shit.”
Also “y’all” is not a word in the english language, so how about you replace it with one that is.
July 9th, 2011 at 2:19 am
Sorry I’m from Texas were we all say y’all it may not be in your dictionary partner but down here it’s just my culture. like how us down here don’t say “mate” we just say y’all. We eat at Whataburger call soda pop “coke”, and during the summer it’s over 100 degrees out (sorry for going on to long) and though “y’all” have the right to call the costumes shit, it really is just a change and we all must learn to get over this.
July 9th, 2011 at 3:02 am
Wait, king shark being a hammer head and deadshot being a robot doesn’t faze any of you?……no just worried about Harley.
July 9th, 2011 at 3:33 am
Saying right now based on something that was just written, threats of violence against other commenters will not be tolerated. We’re talking about a comic book character and her costume, relax. If you feel like trolling others, take it somewhere else.
July 9th, 2011 at 3:34 am
And DAVID G: This article is on Harley, not on King Shark or Dead Shot or on the DC Relaunch in general.
July 9th, 2011 at 5:06 am
Her first costume was beautiful, streamlined, possibly iconic. Harley was a character that worked so well that you wondered if she debuted in some forgotten comic. She was an instant classic. The recent designs seem so … 90′s Image by comparison.
July 9th, 2011 at 6:53 am
damn.. that arkham asylum outfit is hella sexy
July 9th, 2011 at 8:46 am
Hahahahahaha whataburger is disgusting just like the new harley costume, no wonder “y’all” got innouts popping up hahahahaha
July 9th, 2011 at 10:05 am
Also, it just occurs to me what the game versions of the Harley costume look like.
They look like a Juggalo chick trying to dress as a Goth girl for Halloween.
July 9th, 2011 at 10:08 am
So I guess I’m the only one that has no problem with her new costume.
July 9th, 2011 at 10:11 am
just from the image that DC has shown kind of reminds me of a the good, the bad, and the ugly kind of vibe, where Harley would be the good, Dead Shot would be the Bad, and King Shark would be the ugly. As if this is some kind of wild west type book set in modern times. And looking at Harley’s out fit really sets that off.
The out fit with the belt with the bullets and the over sized belt buckle, with the two gun holsters hang from her hips. The shorts and top are something you imagine a harlet from a saloon, and the cape she has on would almost be like something that youd see Clint Eastwood would wear in one of his westerns, but Harley just made it shorter.
At the same time they have kept the two tone colors of red and black, and the ruffles around the neck and once again going back to the cape again gives the idea of something form the time period of the harlequin. So there is a sense of duality to the costume.
But if you want to go into the idea of Harley’s personality, i think the look works if you think of Harley being crazy and this is her sick idea of some kind of western look.
Also of note the tales of the Harlequin showed the being wondering around with packs of demons looking for evil souls and sending them back to hell. Sounds kind of like a suicide squad to me.
July 9th, 2011 at 10:32 am
As one poster stated- Harley’s original costume was iconic. I agree.
The news ones will always be a poor variation of the original.
The female poster hit it on the nail- Harley was a Medical Doctor (Psychiatrist), and a gymnast. Has DC forgot what made her character great?
Also going back to her costume, why bother changing it? You give the gorgeous strong leggy wonder woman pants, and ‘conservatize’ the sexy unique net stockings of Black Canary, but make the arguably most intelligent female villain (with a the best costume design IMO) in DC Universe into a lingerie wearing gun totting whore? Shame on you DC. Jim Lee I use to love you in the 90′s…now you’re just out of touch with the people (IMO).
July 9th, 2011 at 10:49 am
I’m on Team Get Over It, but seriously people, chill, if she’s your favorite character and your devastated by the change I really am sorry, I know their are a couple of changes I’m upset about, but instead of being down already, maybe we should give it a try,
who knows this could be one hell of a book.
July 9th, 2011 at 11:13 am
I love the Arkha Asylum nurse outfit myslef. As for the relaunch costume, I feel its gone too far to the “lets try and be sexy” side but costumes are easy to change…
July 9th, 2011 at 11:13 am
You really seem to have a tin ear for gauging people’s reactions, David.
“Your (sic) devastated”? Who are you even talking to?
July 9th, 2011 at 11:44 am
There’s nothing I can say here that hasn’t already been said, so I’ll just agree. Harley’s new costume is awful and makes no sense for her character. Murder-Death-Kill.
July 9th, 2011 at 11:48 am
Dude calm down, Some people are obviously upset about the new costume, just because your not devastated by it doesnt mean anyone isn’t. I wasn’t talking to you or anyone personally, just to the people who see this costume design as something that is ruining their favorite character.
July 9th, 2011 at 12:22 pm
One more thing: I think that Harley should be more cute than sexy. Cute but deadly. lol
July 9th, 2011 at 1:05 pm
“Dude calm down”
There’s that tin ear I was talking about…
July 9th, 2011 at 2:54 pm
“This outfit is also a very good example of how a woman in comics can be sex without having half of her costume mysteriously missing.”
This seems a little disingenuous with the Gotham City Sirens #1 cover which, if flesh coloured, would appear to be a naked woman with her ample backside on display. I’m not sure that it’s a problem, but that seems like a glaring oversight for this bold claim.
July 9th, 2011 at 3:03 pm
I see the Suicide Squad update and think “Rob Zombie slasher film psycho bitch” and get excited at the possibilities.
July 9th, 2011 at 3:49 pm
Nah, a Rob Zombie slasher film tends to have more visual nods to garage-rock album art of the 60s and the grindhouse movies of the 70s, not so much nostalgia for fugly Image school comic art of the 90s.
July 9th, 2011 at 4:14 pm
I just meant that the psychos actually look psycho. She looks psycho. Also not able to draw any parallels between this look and the Image style of the 90s. Some other stuff out of the relaunch, no doubt, but not this.
July 9th, 2011 at 5:01 pm
NICK: Um, what female poster? I posted this piece.
July 9th, 2011 at 5:58 pm
Well. . . I like the relaunch hair. I don’t hate the outfit in general, okay – I don’t hate the hot pants, although I cringe at the potential wedging of. . .yeah. Anyway, I think the issue with the DCnU outfit is it is JUST NOT IN CHARACTER. Harley Quinn has always struck me as the happiest person in Gotham. She may be a (maybe) schizotypal badass in love with a psychotic mastermind, but taking her, or the costume into uber-gritty aesthetics just doesn’t sit well. The nurse outfit is, as you pointed out, Alan – diminishing. The Arkham City outfit is my favorite practical look, though. It’s mostly functional, doesn’t reduce the character to T & A, and suits the in-universe aesthetic without taking away from the character.
July 9th, 2011 at 7:47 pm
“No one outside of Mike, who we are ignoring because he’s a ranting looney tune, is saying anything about the line, except; “good lord those costumes look shit,” says the guy who clearly isn’t ignoring anything because he just commented on it.
Talk to me in a year, Smart Guy, when DC’s Big, Dramatic Change to entice new readers hasn’t enticed a single one and all the same thirty year-olds reading comics are still clamoring for somebody to notice them. I don’t think the reason kids aren’t get into comics has anything to do with Harley Quinn’s “daisy dukes” or the length of Superman’s collar. Let alone Batman’s knee-pads.
July 10th, 2011 at 3:08 am
The unfortunate thing here is this title is not a straight-up superhero title; it’s presumably more of an action/espionage read. Therefore, it could theoretically appeal to a lot of those new readers DC is banking on, especially women. So, they take a strong, likable female character and put her front and center, but then they do the one thing that turns off many women to comic books in the first place–they turn her into cheesecake. Maybe the costume will look different when rendered by the interior artist, but that won’t matter if people can’t get beyond the cover.
July 10th, 2011 at 10:50 am
Regarding the DCnU and all the various costume changes: I am a person who tends to buy things that are aesthetically pleasing. So far, the entire line-up is mostly not pleasing to my eye. It all looks rather terrible, not unlike a rehash of the worst the 90s had to offer. Comics are a visual medium and visually, this looks awful. It’s one thing to say ‘don’t judge a book by it’s cover’ but with comics, that’s essentially what they’re all about. Covers are there to grab your attention and entice you to buy/read. These designs and these covers are, for the most part, simply awful. Justice League looks like WildC.A.T.S, Harley looks like Ke$ha in a Halloween costume and Superman looks idiotic in armor. Just my take on things. Let the arguments continue, but remember that you can’t change people’s opinions by yelling at them.
July 10th, 2011 at 11:45 am
Yes no one has the right to write-off the story or context of these comics………yet. But someone on here stated a good point. Comics are a visual medium, there aren’t comic books on tape (books on tape, yes a dated reference but most of us remember them). So going with that alone yes most of the new DC costumes are terrible. Superman needs armor?!?! Batman maybe, but the man of steel? I cringe to think what Steel himself will look like, perhaps he’ll be naked since that would make the least amount of sense.
But I digress. Harley can get a new costume, she can evolve, but it has to be for a reason and the design should always match the character. Yes there is suspension of disbelief because people can’t do the things superheroes can, but it helps ground the characters when their outfits makes sense for them, i.e. A gymnast with a PHD who was brought into the costumed world by the joker would NOT dress that way. But I’ll give DC a honest chance because I would prefer to be dead wrong and have some of this new stuff work out.
July 10th, 2011 at 2:11 pm
Original costume : Classic.
New costume: Crap.
July 10th, 2011 at 4:49 pm
This might be a completely different Harley her origin might totally new, they said that this would be happening.
July 10th, 2011 at 8:21 pm
Harley, a useless one-note character that never goes away. I guess it pays to leech on the Joker’s fame to be popular.
And I’m not trolling, I really hate her. But I also hate Damian Wayne, so I wouldn’t be surprised if all of you think I am a troll.
Relax, I do like Cass.
July 10th, 2011 at 9:13 pm
Excellent points about why the new costume doesn’t quite work for the pre-established character of Harley Quinn. Disliking the latest costumes shouldn’t simply dismissed as fearing change (e.g. I like the new Wonder Woman costume without the jacket) but just bad style for a specific individual. Costumes should quickly convey the idea of the character: their temperament, their powers, their personality, their sense of their own body, and, of course, taste.
However, for good or ill, with the soft reboot of DC, the Suicide Squad costume of Harley Quinn might be an excellent representative of the contemporary take of the character.
July 11th, 2011 at 8:14 am
Another great one, Alan! The new takes in the title already have a mark against based on the cover to #1 and I’m not sure that an Ostrander-less Suicide Squad will be any good but I’m going to give it a look. I would have liked to have seen Gail Simone get a shot at it though.
July 11th, 2011 at 3:47 pm
Eh, this whole DCNu crap is change for change sake. No reason for it. We’ll just cancel all our books whether they’re good or not and change everything so we can get publicity. If it doesn’t work they’ll revert back to old like so much Heroes Reborn. This is exactly why I’m losing interest in mainstream comics. It’s all about the short term sales spike.
July 11th, 2011 at 11:46 pm
NICK: Actually, just about all the Bat characters are being left alone, so one would assume Harley’s history would remain. You’re right though, only time will tell. My point though is that the costume IN GENERAL is lazy and uninspired, even if Harley is changed into a sex fiend.
July 12th, 2011 at 1:52 pm
We don’t know if all the bat character have not been change well atleast not the villains, not yet.
July 13th, 2011 at 7:50 am
The DCnU costume looks like it would work better for Marvel’s Typhoid Mary, IMO. Doesn’t speak “Harley Quinn” to me. And if it does accurately reflect the state of the character in the new Suicide Squad then I have to wonder if they would have been better off using a different character instead of (presumably) changing what made Harley Quinn unique.
Guess we’ll see how it all plays out in September. But her original costume is great…
July 17th, 2011 at 4:14 pm
I too really like the Arkham City costume she’s sporting, but always will have a soft spot in my heart for the classic jester outfit. ^^ The Arkham City outfit looks more intimidating, yet still has the playfulness and this sort of dangerous sex appeal. It’s really perfect for her and where she’s been as a character (as well as where I’d like her to go, getting more spine and becoming an actual threat without Ivy OR the Joker around), and I wouldn’t mind one bit if they made it a staple for her looks in the comics.
August 30th, 2011 at 9:40 pm
I say the new batman adventures harley outfit suits her the best. its original.
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December 8th, 2011 at 8:56 pm
I honestly think all the costumes are awsome Especially the Arkham City one. As i’m saying this from my Ps3, i think i’m going to get DCUO now lol.
January 20th, 2012 at 12:14 pm
I prefer the older Harley, but i do love the redesign and outfit in Arkham City, it fits her practicality. But the Suicide Squad Harley just looks like a cheap tart…. which i can shrug and put up with, its the fact that in the comics themselves, she acts like a wh0re, just cos the Jokers died. Its just not Harley.
February 8th, 2012 at 1:00 am
Honestly, I think the original Black+red w/ Diamond was the best of these all, because all of the other ones, (I hate to say this but,) she looks like a stripper. I hate how they do that, because in Arkham City: The video game, she’s pregnant, and what is her baby gonna be like around a stripper mommy? Plus, DCSS (Suicide Squad.)
ENJOY.
makes her look pretty cool, but it just doesn’t fit her. I mean, sure, if they are re-doing Harley, then fine, but if not, then it just doesn’t. OH, and, making-out with Deadshot in a bathroom…really? OK, a redo yes, but like I said not if continuing with the Joker, becuase she loved him dearly, is going to mess up the whole story with them, and most likely now she’s gonna try and kill Batman because he was the last one around “Mista J” when he died. Maybe, *Hopefully!* they bring him back to life somehow. I think there baby is gonna be Duela Joker. If not, I’m not completely sure, and can’t wait till the prequel comes out for the video games. I’ve never actually bought those games, I just want to know how the story continues with Joker+Harley.
#1 Harley Quinn fan.! <3
February 8th, 2012 at 4:13 pm
Yea, I totally agree, the slutty thing, NOT WORKING. A little tmi from you, but I agree. Good job!
February 8th, 2012 at 6:59 pm
OK, I’m just saying my opinion. Jeeze. Learn to read what you want. Even if it was TMI, you could have chose NOT to read it! Thanks for the “Good job!
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February 13th, 2012 at 10:06 pm
I think Harley was made to be a one shot character…I mean, I guess she’s OK, but honestly, I don’t like any of the Gotham Girls, because they are all slutty looking girls, and every boy draws her naked, or something like that…*Sometimes girls…* Anyway, yea.