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HARLEY QUINN

HARLEY QUINN

At first, it seems that Harley Quinn is the antithesis of an inspirational woman. However, if you dive deeper into what makes Harley Quinn Harley Quinn, you can see that every challenge that she had to overcome shaped her into the person that she is today, and every time she overcame a challenge, she became more of the person she is today. She may be very flawed, and she definitely made awful mistakes, but what’s very inspirational is that those mistakes didn’t hold her down but instead encouraged her to become a better person, at least as far as villains go. (spoilers for the TV series Harley Quinn and minor spoilers for Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn))

Harley Quinn is infamous for being the Joker’s girlfriend. Yet in the TV series Harley Quinn, the first episode starts with her breaking up with the Joker, showing that her story really starts not when she became the Joker’s girlfriend, but when she stops putting up with his abuse by breaking up with him and standing up for herself. This is so important to her story that the movie, Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), takes the same approach too. The movie starts not with Harley Quinn becoming the Joker’s girlfriend, but when she breaks up with him through, in typical Harley-Quinn fashion, blowing up a factory which had vats similar to the vat that Harley jumped in to become the Joker’s “pudding”. Another thing interesting about Harley’s character in the TV series is that she’s convinced that the Joker is the one that pushed her into a vat of chemicals that made her no longer Dr. Harleen Quinzel, the famous psychiatrist, to Harley Quinn, Joker’s girlfriend. However, when she and her friends get sucked into her mind, she realizes that it was never the Joker that made her jump; instead, she jumped willfully. What’s amazing about this scene is that Harley always blamed the Joker for how she turned out, but it was actually her fault. She owned up to her mistake. Though she can never be how she used to be, a respectable psychiatrist, she doesn’t let her mistake define her since she breaks up with the Joker, nor does she actually want to be a psychiatrist again. She is her own woman, a combination of her mistakes and her ambition.