In DC Universe's new cartoon 'Harley Quinn,' the title character dumps Joker and strikes out on her own. The series creators discuss their fresh take with Alan Sepinwall
In this version, written by Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker, Harley finally recognizes that her relationship with Joker is entirely one-sided and damaging to her. With the encouragement of best friend Poison Ivy , she dumps Joker and sets out to prove her own supervillain bona fides, both to heroes like Batman and Superman and more established bad guys like Lex Luthor , Scarecrow , and Bane .
“At one point in the show,” says Schumacker, “someone says that if you’re a male supervillain and you rob a bank, you’re a criminal mastermind. If you’re a woman, and do the same thing, you’re a crazy bitch.” That Halpern and Schumacker can use Joker, Batman, Superman, et. al. is a big shift from their previous DC project,, there was so much concern about stepping on the toes ofand its spin-offs, and/or the DC films, that the writers were extremely limited in what characters they could and couldn’t reference, even obliquely. “We couldn’t show Batman’s hand!” Halpern recalls.
“We have a thing in the second episode where Harley ends up at Penguin’s nephew’s bar mitzvah,” says Halpern. “There’s a whole plot point that hinges on her talking about finger-banging, and every time, they would very nicely give the note, ‘We’re notabout the finger-banging part.’ We would promise, ‘It’s character-based, and it’ll play. This isn’t a suicide mission. We don’t want people to hate it.
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