Harley Quinn The Animated Series tome 1 : The Eat. Bang ! Kill. Tour

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Naturally, since this is DC and has both Batman and Catwoman appear. Selina breaks up with him, but she still wants to support him. Even the Girls Want Her: Not only does the "distracted boyfriend" meme show up when Harley and Ivy get dolled up to go to dinner, a female patron looks equally interested. Age Lift: Several of the characters are said or implied to be somewhat older than in the comics, where their age is intentionally left vague. The season 1 finale explicitly states Joker is 38, and in season 3 it's said Bruce Wayne's parents were murdered "30 years ago", meaning that he's in his late thirties too. And in "Riddle U", when Harley and Ivy disguise themselves as college girls, they dress up in turn-of-the-millennium style (the joke being they think the fashion of their own college years still looks youthful), which would suggest they're roughly the same age as Batman and Joker. This continues in season 2, episode 2, when Harley declares that she and Ivy get HPV vaccinations since they're going to infiltrate a university, and Ivy reminds her that they're both too old for those. note Science Marches On, as the recommended age range for the HPV vaccine was increased in 2020. As noted previous, Harley would already know that and so was being sarcastic. Nonstandard Character Design: Robin’s big eyes and Shonen Hair are much more Animesque than the rest of the characters’ designs. Likely a nod to his Teen Titans incarnation.

The series had its first holiday special (parody), " A Very Problematic Valentine's Day Special", released on February 9, 2023. He Who Fights Monsters: Batman criticizes Gordon's actions to bring in Harley and Ivy as being so destructive and terrifying to the normal people of Gotham that it makes him no better than they are.

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Joker's ultimate punishment for Harley is to make her normal again and not actually harm her at all. She considers this such a horrifying idea that she immediately offers to wholeheartedly work for him again and begs him not to go through with it. DC released Harley Quinn: The Animated Series: The Eat. Bang! Kill. Tour, a six-issue spinoff comic book that's set between season 2 and 3. Further spinoff comics have followed.

There is a stigma on female supervillains in this show, according to Poison Ivy and the Queen of Fables, though they could be exaggerating since they're psychotic sociopaths and misogynist . However, an undeniable fact is that the Legion of Doom has only one female member (Cheetah) whom they don't care enough to even remember her name and are a bunch of misogynistic and manipulative males. On 19th January 2022, GLAAD Media announced that Harley Quinn: The Animated Series - The Eat. Bang! Kill. Tour was a nominated for Outstanding Comic Book at the Annual GLAAD Media Awards which awards media with positive LGBTQ representation. [17] Trivia [ ] Cool and Unusual Punishment: In the first season finale, the Joker tortured Dr. Psycho by forcing him to... watch scenes of feminist rallies. I Need a Freaking Drink: After saying that she's always been a rotten, psychotic person even as a little kid, Harley says she suddenly understands why her mother recycled so many wine bottles. When Poison Ivy's pheromones make Batman and Wonder Woman sexually attracted to each other, Batman's hallucination shows Wonder Woman in a pink filter (with a Sexophone riff and slight Hair Flip included).In "A Very Problematic Valentine's Day Special", Clayface gets cut in half. His bottom half develops his own personality and essentially becomes a talking butt. Anti-Villain: While not as sympathetic as normal, Harley still counts. There's even a rather sweet moment in "The Line" where Ivy tells Harley she may be a bad guy, but she's a good person (i.e she's a supervillain, but isn't really evil). Harley and Ivy look out at the smoking ruins of Gotham and call it beautiful like the end of Season 1. Likes Older Women: Harley brings up in "Gotham's Hottest Hotties" that Captain Boomerang goes to the senior center because he loves "mature women", implying that he's a gerontophile. Country Matters: Dr. Psycho calls Wonder Woman the C-word during a fight (notably, it's the only obscenity in the show to be censored) and Poison Ivy remarks that Dr. Psycho has just made himself a pariah among the villain community. It's so bad that even the Earth briefly stops spinning.

Immune to Mind Control: Mephitic tests which superheroes and supervillains are immune to his stench based mind control. Trash of the Titans: As Ivy says, Harley's room is "definitely on brand" by being a disaster zone with clothes, roller skates and bags of cash just sprawled everywhere, The trailer begins with Harley tapping on the screen, complete with the traditional "glass" sound effect.Wingding Eyes: An incredible proportion of the panels where Harley looks at Ivy have her beaming with heart eyes. Beware the Nice Ones: The show's version of Bane is quite affable and tries his best to be funny and friendly. Despite this, he is much stronger than his comicbook counterpart, overpowering Batman's Power Armor and breaking his legs. After a good night, they get frisky on the hood of their car, while a hooded figure walks away: a trap has been set... Kaley Cuoco Shows Off Harley Quinn 'Eat. Bang! Kill.' Tie-In Comic Samantha King, Screen Rant (August 6, 2021).

Everyone Is Related: Turns out JT and Reign, two civilians who helped out Harlivy during their road trip are the kids of gossip queen Tawny. My God, What Have I Done?: After Harley confronts Ivy over how she's treated her over the course of the trip, Ivy realizes that she can't keep pushing her emotions down and is appalled by how she's treated Harley.The Calendar Man has the appearance of his modern incarnation established in The Long Halloween while also wearing the costume of his original Silver Age incarnation.