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Gymnastics

Silhouette of gymnast leaping through the air
Both Biles and Harley are really good at gymnastics. Obviously, Biles is a world-famous gymnast who won a gold medal in the Olympics and won several US national and worldwide championships. In the TV series Harley Quinn, Harley actually came very close to winning gymnastics championships in her youth. However, her stepdad bet that she would lose the championship and he needed the money since he owed some dangerous people money. So Harley had to lose on purpose to save her stepdad. Now she uses her gymnastics skills as a means of fighting.

Difficult Early Life

Harley had an awful childhood. Her mom was an alcoholic and her stepfather constantly owed people money. In fact, in the TV series Harley Quinn, when Harley went home to visit her mom, she found out her mom remarried her stepfather who went to jail and both of them tried to kill Harley near the end of the episode because her stepfather owed people money. But Harley graduated and became a psychiatrist. Similarly, Biles’s mother has a problem with substance abuse so Biles and her sister, Adria, were in the foster care system until their grandparents adopted them.

Self-advocacy

In today's world, there are many different causes that people care about- climate change, racial discrimination, education, and much more. But one thing that's easy to overlook is when you have to advocate for yourself. Harley and Biles did just that. Harley did it by owning her past mistakes but refusing to not let them define her. She breaks up with her abusive boyfriend and works on becoming a better person, eventually even falling in love with her best friend, Poison Ivy. Biles stood up for her mental health and sat out of last year’s Olympics when she got the twisties. She also stood up for herself in 2018 through the #MeToo movement when she said on Twitter that “she was one of the many young women who had been molested by former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar”, according to biography.com.

Becoming the best

Both women also have a drive to succeed. In the TV series Harley Quinn, Harley isn’t always sure of what she wants, but when she thinks she wants something, she gets it. For example, in the first season, she wants to get into the Legion of Doom. She created a team, which wasn’t easy to do, and commits many crimes that the news doesn’t take seriously because she’s a woman. Eventually, she makes it to the Legion of Doom but realizes that she doesn’t really want to be part of it; she just wants chaos. She continues to create chaos throughout the series by unleashing a woman who unleashed evil fairytale characters into Gotham city and also unleashing parademons onto the city. Biles, meanwhile, has won countless gymnastics awards and competitions nationally and internationally because of her drive to succeed. She definitely has a more clear focus of what she wants than Harley, but both women regardless have done so much to become who they want to be.