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* AllTakeAndNoGive: Any relationship with Harley Quinn. She invokes this trope being the lover of ComicBook/TheJoker and Poison Ivy's friend. Justified because those two are [[TheSociopath sociopaths]]. By the time off ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'', Harley has this type of relationship with her granddaughters.

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* AllTakeAndNoGive: Any relationship with Harley Quinn. She invokes this trope being the lover of ComicBook/TheJoker and Poison Ivy's friend. Justified because those two are [[TheSociopath sociopaths]]. By the time off of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'', Harley has this type of relationship with her granddaughters.



** In the comic book series [[spoiler: she absolutely ''refuses'' to help the Joker murder Jason Todd and has to be restrained by his mooks in order to stop her from freeing the boy.]]

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** In the comic book series [[spoiler: she [[spoiler:she absolutely ''refuses'' to help the Joker murder Jason Todd and has to be restrained by his mooks in order to stop her from freeing the boy.]]



* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: It's implied at the end of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' that she eventually went straight]]. Nodded to in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanAndHarleyQuinn'', where she has gone straight and has successfully avoided a life of crime by being a waitress at a superhero-themed diner in her own costume, with no one being any the wiser (at least until Batman and Nightwing came along).

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* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: It's [[spoiler:It's implied at the end of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' that she eventually went straight]]. Nodded to in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanAndHarleyQuinn'', where she has gone straight and has successfully avoided a life of crime by being a waitress at a superhero-themed diner in her own costume, with no one being any the wiser (at least until Batman and Nightwing came along).



* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: Off-screen, she had this after the Joker died. She gave up crime, the Harley Quinn identity, and her obsession with Mr. J after it sunk in that she aided in torturing and mindraping Robin, who was a child. Barbara says that after forty years of quiet, she doubts Harley would be involved with the Joker that attacked Bruce. She's right; Harley is horrified when Joker recruited her granddaughters instead]].

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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: Off-screen, [[spoiler:Off-screen, she had this after the Joker died. She gave up crime, the Harley Quinn identity, and her obsession with Mr. J after it sunk in that she aided in torturing and mindraping Robin, who was a child. Barbara says that after forty years of quiet, she doubts Harley would be involved with the Joker that attacked Bruce. She's right; Harley is horrified when Joker recruited her granddaughters instead]].



* WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou: In "Mad Love", [[spoiler: she is tossed out of a third-story window by the Joker, and whispers "My fault... I didn't get the joke.", quietly asserting Battered Spouse Syndrome.]]

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* WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou: In "Mad Love", [[spoiler: she [[spoiler:she is tossed out of a third-story window by the Joker, and whispers "My fault... I didn't get the joke.", quietly asserting Battered Spouse Syndrome.]]



* WouldHurtAChild: As revealed in the flashback sequence in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'', she (and The Joker) would hurt [[spoiler: Robin]]. With that said, Harley [[spoiler:retired after this night because she knew that what she did was downright terrible. Without the Joker's influence, she became TheAtoner afterward]].

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* WouldHurtAChild: As revealed in the flashback sequence in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'', she (and The Joker) would hurt [[spoiler: Robin]].[[spoiler:Robin]]. With that said, Harley [[spoiler:retired after this night because she knew that what she did was downright terrible. Without the Joker's influence, she became TheAtoner afterward]].

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* MyMasterRightOrWrong: If one counts the Joker as her master, as she is usually TheDragon


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* MyMasterRightOrWrong: If one counts the Joker as her master, as she is usually TheDragon.
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-->''"You'd think after livin' with Mistah J I'd be used to a little pain...''"

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-->''"You'd think after livin' with Mistah J J, I'd be used to a little pain...''"

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* CriticalPsychoanalysisFailure: Was a fairly straight laced psychiatrist until she tried to take on The Joker.



* CriticalPsychoanalysisFailure: Was a fairly straight laced psychiatrist until she tried to take on The Joker.



* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne
-->'''Harley Quinn:''' And here you thought I was just another bubble-headed blond bimbo! Well, the joke's on you, I'm not even a real blond!
* IgnoredEpiphany: In "Harlequinade" and "Mad Love" regarding her relationship with The Joker as toxic and cruel, only to go back to him not long after which is TruthInTelevision as many victims return to their abusers even after realizing the truth of their situation. This no longer applies [[spoiler:after the Joker died]].

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* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne
-->'''Harley Quinn:''' And here you thought I was just another bubble-headed blond bimbo! Well, the joke's on you, I'm not even a real blond!
* IgnoredEpiphany: In "Harlequinade" and "Mad Love" regarding her relationship with The Joker as toxic and cruel, only to go back to him not long after which is TruthInTelevision as many victims return to their abusers even after realizing the truth of their situation. This no longer applies [[spoiler:after the Joker died]].



* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne:
-->'''Harley Quinn:''' And here you thought I was just another bubble-headed blond bimbo! Well, the joke's on you, I'm not even a real blond!



** And at ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'',[[spoiler: we see that Nanna Harley paid the Delia and Deirdre Dennis (better known as Dee Dee) bail to keep them out of jail. Even when Harley was calling them out, she ''paid their bail'']]. In an alternate timeline, those two managed to help kill most of the Justice League ''and'' kill Terry [=McGinnis=].

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** And at ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'',[[spoiler: we ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'',[[spoiler:we see that Nanna Nana Harley paid the Delia and Deirdre Dennis Deidre Dennis' (better known as Dee Dee) bail to keep them out of jail. Even when Harley was calling them out, she ''paid their bail'']]. In an alternate timeline, those two managed to help kill most of the Justice League ''and'' kill Terry [=McGinnis=].
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* DarkActionGirl: When she's not being Joker's lackey she proves surprisingly capable as a fighter with her acrobatics and mallet, being a very effective muscle for him.

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* DarkActionGirl: When she's not being Joker's lackey For a woman as lovesick and loony as she is, Harley proves surprisingly capable as a fighter with her acrobatics and mallet, being a very effective muscle for him.
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* HypercompetentSidekick: ComicBook/TheJoker treats her like a BumblingSidekick. However, in "Harley and Ivy", it's revealed he depends on her for his daily life. In "Joker's Millions", he asks the replacement Harley for an idea, implying he does that with the real one. She’s also the one who’s come closer to killing Batman than he ever has.

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* HypercompetentSidekick: ComicBook/TheJoker [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]] treats her like a BumblingSidekick. However, in "Harley and Ivy", it's revealed he depends on her for his daily life. In "Joker's Millions", he asks the replacement Harley for an idea, implying he does that with the real one. She’s also the one who’s come closer to killing Batman than he ever has.
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* DarkActionGirl: When she's not being Joker's lackey she proves surprisingly capable.

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* DarkActionGirl: When she's not being Joker's lackey she proves surprisingly capable.capable as a fighter with her acrobatics and mallet, being a very effective muscle for him.
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* HypercompetentSidekick: ComicBook/TheJoker treats her like a BumblingSidekick. However, in "Harley and Ivy", it's revealed he depends on her for his daily life. In "Joker's Millions", he asks the replacement Harley for an idea, implying he does that with the real one.

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* HypercompetentSidekick: ComicBook/TheJoker treats her like a BumblingSidekick. However, in "Harley and Ivy", it's revealed he depends on her for his daily life. In "Joker's Millions", he asks the replacement Harley for an idea, implying he does that with the real one. She’s also the one who’s come closer to killing Batman than he ever has.
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* BreakoutVillain: Harley Quinn was intended to be a one-off character for "Joker's Favor", but she ended up so popular that not only was she added to Batman's main Rogues Gallery in both the show and the comics (including her own series), but had almost as many appearances in the ''DCAU'' as Joker himself. Harley Quinn's self-titled comic series was the highest-selling female-led book published by [=DC=] Comics. Meaning she was outselling ''Batgirl'', ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'', ''ComicBook/{{Batwoman}}'', and ''Franchise/WonderWoman''.

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* BreakoutVillain: Harley Quinn was intended to be a one-off character for "Joker's Favor", but she ended up so popular that not only was she added to Batman's main Rogues Gallery in both the show and the comics (including her own series), but had almost as many appearances in the ''DCAU'' as Joker himself. Harley Quinn's self-titled comic series was the highest-selling female-led book published by [=DC=] Comics. Meaning she was outselling ''Batgirl'', ''ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}'', ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'', ''ComicBook/{{Batwoman}}'', and ''Franchise/WonderWoman''.''ComicBook/WonderWoman''.

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* DropTheHammer: Her trademark mallet.


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* GlassCannon: Whenever she gets into fights she very capable of bringing the pain to the Bat-Family through her impressive acrobatic skills and sturdy mallet, but she's just a BadassNormal without any major CharlesAtlasSuperpower, so she's just as easy to punch down as her lightly-built appearance suggests.
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* InconsistentSpelling: The DVD captions for "Mad Love" in Volume Four of ''Batman: The Animated Series'' spell her real name as "Harlene Quinzelle".

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* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne
-->'''Harley Quinn:''' And here you thought I was just another bubble-headed blond bimbo! Well, the joke's on you, I'm not even a real blond!



* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne
-->'''Harley Quinn:''' And here you thought I was just another bubble-headed blond bimbo! Well, the joke's on you, I'm not even a real blond!

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* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne
-->'''Harley Quinn:''' And here you thought I was just another bubble-headed blond bimbo! Well, the joke's on you, I'm not even a real blond!
InsaneNoMore: In "[[Recap/TheAdventuresOfBatmanAndRobinE16HarleysHoliday Harley's Holiday]]", she's declared sane and released from Arkham.



* StevenUlyssesPerhero: '''Harle'''en '''Quin'''zel.

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* StevenUlyssesPerhero: '''Harle'''en '''Quin'''zel. The Joker {{lampshade|Hanging}}s it in the episode showing her origin, and Harley dryly responds [[NeverHeardThatOneBefore that she's heard it before]].
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Word Of God is that the Dee Dee twins are not descended from the Joker.


* {{Irony}}: In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' (which doubles as a BrickJoke): [[spoiler:During a flashback, Harley and Joker reveal they kidnapped and brainwashed Tim Drake (who was Robin at the time) because they wanted a family without the "'joys' of childbirth" (as well as to screw with Batman). At the end, it's revealed that Dee Dee and Dee Dee are her granddaughters. There's an implication that she was ''already pregnant'' with Mista J's child when they kidnapped Tim.]]
** Unless [[spoiler:she got married and had a child with someone else afterwards. Even if she ''was'' pregnant in the flashback, that fall she took could very well have caused her to suffer a miscarriage... unless that drug Ivy gave her protected the fetus, too (or it inherited Harley's resilience.]]
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!!!'''Appearances:''' ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/TheNewBatmanAdventures'' | ''WebAnimation/GothamGirls'' | ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'' | ''WesternAnimation/BatmanAndHarleyQuinn''| ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueVsTheFatalFive''

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!!!'''Appearances:''' ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/TheNewBatmanAdventures'' | ''WebAnimation/GothamGirls'' | ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'' | ''WesternAnimation/BatmanAndHarleyQuinn''| ''WesternAnimation/BatmanAndHarleyQuinn'' | ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueVsTheFatalFive''
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ArleenSorkin, Creator/MelissaRauch (''WesternAnimation/BatmanAndHarleyQuinn'')
->'''Appearances:''' ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/TheNewBatmanAdventures'' | ''WebAnimation/GothamGirls'' | ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' | ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'' | ''WesternAnimation/BatmanAndHarleyQuinn''

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\n->'''Voiced !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ArleenSorkin, Creator/MelissaRauch (''WesternAnimation/BatmanAndHarleyQuinn'')
->'''Appearances:''' !!!'''Appearances:''' ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/TheNewBatmanAdventures'' | ''WebAnimation/GothamGirls'' | ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' | ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'' | ''WesternAnimation/BatmanAndHarleyQuinn''
''WesternAnimation/BatmanAndHarleyQuinn''| ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueVsTheFatalFive''
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[-[[Characters/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesBatmanAndBatFamily Batman and Bat Family]] ([[Characters/DCAUBatman Batman]]) | [[Characters/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesAllies Allies]] | [[Characters/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesRoguesGalleryPart1 Rogues Gallery Part 1]] ([[Characters/DCAUJoker The Joker]], '''Harley Quinn''') | [[Characters/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesRoguesGalleryPart2 Rogues Gallery Part 2]] | [[Characters/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesRoguesGalleryPart3 Rogues Gallery Part 3]] | [[Characters/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesRoguesGalleryPart4Minions Rogues Gallery Part 4: Minions]]-]]]]]

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[-[[Characters/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesBatmanAndBatFamily Batman and Bat Family]] ([[Characters/DCAUBatman Batman]]) | [[Characters/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesAllies Allies]] | [[Characters/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesRoguesGalleryPart1 Rogues Gallery Part 1]] ([[Characters/DCAUJoker The Joker]], '''Harley Quinn''') Quinn''', [[Characters/DCAUPoisonIvy Poison Ivy]]) | [[Characters/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesRoguesGalleryPart2 Rogues Gallery Part 2]] | [[Characters/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesRoguesGalleryPart3 Rogues Gallery Part 3]] | [[Characters/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesRoguesGalleryPart4Minions Rogues Gallery Part 4: Minions]]-]]]]]
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Bruce Timm confirmed B&HQ to be canon to the DCAU. Lord knows where exactly it fits in the timeline, though.



->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ArleenSorkin
->'''Appearances:''' ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/TheNewBatmanAdventures'' | ''WebAnimation/GothamGirls'' | ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' | ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock''

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\n[[quoteright:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see her design in ''Batman and Harley Quinn'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_1batman_&_harley_quinnmkv_snapshot_001303756.png[[/labelnote]]]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ArleenSorkin
Creator/ArleenSorkin, Creator/MelissaRauch (''WesternAnimation/BatmanAndHarleyQuinn'')
->'''Appearances:''' ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/TheNewBatmanAdventures'' | ''WebAnimation/GothamGirls'' | ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' | ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock''
''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'' | ''WesternAnimation/BatmanAndHarleyQuinn''
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!![[Characters/HarleyQuinnTheCharacter Harley Quinn]] (Harleen Quinzel, M.D.)

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!![[Characters/HarleyQuinnTheCharacter Harley Quinn]] (Harleen Quinzel, !!ComicBook/HarleyQuinn ([[Characters/HarleyQuinnTheCharacter Harleen Quinzel]], M.D.)
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* ActorAllusion: Her entire character is based on Creator/ArleenSorkin's character Calliope Jones From ''Series/DaysOfOurLives'', namely [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjrIOtMRGcU this]] DreamSequence where she plays a court jester. Paul Dini is shocked she still talks to him.

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* ActorAllusion: Her entire character is based on Creator/ArleenSorkin's character Calliope Jones From ''Series/DaysOfOurLives'', namely [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjrIOtMRGcU this]] DreamSequence where she plays a court jester. jester; and is TheDanza as Quinn's real name was later revealed as Harleen Quinzel, with her first name being just one letter away from Arleen's. Paul Dini is was shocked she Sorkin still talks spoke to him.him.
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** Unless [[spoiler:she got married and had a child with someone else afterwards. Even if she ''was'' pregnant in the flashback, that fall she took could very well have caused her to suffer a miscarriage... unless that drug Ivy gave her protected the fetus, too (or it inherited Harley's resilience.]]

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