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* AdaptationalWimp: Harley is usually supposed to be immune to tranquilizers, thanks to Ivy. Penguin takes her down with one dart. Either that immunity is not in this series, or a {{Foreshadowing}} that someone (meaning Scarecrow, due to what he does in later episodes) is working on making tranqs that work on Harley and then Ivy.
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* ChekhovsGun: Ivy carries a small vial of her pheromones just in case, and describes the effects it does. So today it gets swiped, used, and Ivy has to fix the mess.
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* ImpossibleMission: Harley gets the idea to rob the Gotham Mint to prove herself to the Legion of Doom. Ivy points out the Mint is so confident in their security that they actually rent out their atrium to the Legion. Harley does it anyway, but screws up and accidentally breaks up into a fake vault set up for the Bar Mitzvah.

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* ImpossibleMission: Harley gets the idea to rob the Gotham Mint to prove herself to the Legion of Doom. Ivy points out the Mint is so confident in their security that they actually rent out their atrium to the Legion. Harley does it anyway, but screws up and accidentally breaks up into a fake vault set up for the Bar Mitzvah.
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CurbStompBattle: Bane unsurprisingly completely manhandles Kite Man.

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* MythologyGag: Bane attends Trivia Night at a bar. He’s asked which football team has won the most games at the Gotham Stadium, which he guesses incorrectly (The answer is the Steelers). He says he’s going to blow up the stadium. In ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', Bane does indeed blow up Gotham Stadium during a Gotham Knights game. The Gotham Knights are played by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the film

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* MythologyGag: Bane attends Trivia Night at a bar. He’s asked which football team has won the most games at the Gotham Stadium, which he guesses incorrectly (The (the correct answer is the Steelers). He says he’s going to blow up the stadium. In ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', Bane does indeed blow up Gotham Stadium during a Gotham Knights Rogues game. The Gotham Knights Rogues are played by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the filmfilm.
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* MythologyGag: Bane attends Trivia Night at a bar. He’s asked which football team has won the most games at the Gotham Stadium, which he guesses incorrectly (The answer is the Steelers). He says he’s going to blow up the stadium. In ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', Bane does indeed blow up Gotham Stadium during a Gotham Knights game. The Gotham Knights are played by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the film
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** Subverted later. Kite Man gave the pheromones to kids as a prank, unaware of the "kills them by turning them into plants" part. As such, there really is a difference.
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* BreakThemByTalking: When Penguin gives his nephew the chance to kill Harley for wrecking the Bar Mitzvah event he set up, Harley, trained and competent psychiatrist that she is, attacks his teenage insecurities to make him realize that he isn't emotionally mature or hardened enough to go through with killing somebody. The boy ends up breaking down in tears and exclaiming that he just wanted an action figure set.

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* BreakThemByTalking: When Penguin gives his nephew the chance to kill Harley for wrecking the Bar Mitzvah event he set up, Harley, trained and competent psychiatrist that she is, attacks his teenage insecurities to make him realize that he isn't emotionally mature or hardened enough to go through with killing somebody. The boy ends up breaking down in tears and exclaiming that he just wanted an action figure set. Afterwards, Harley stops a fight that had her ''severely'' outmatched by pointing out to Bane, Scarecrow, Two-Face and Penguin that Joker is abusive towards them.
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* BreakThemByTalking: When Penguin gives his nephew the chance to kill Harley for wrecking the Bar Mitzvah event he set up, Harley attacks his teenage insecurities to make him realize that he isn't emotionally mature or hardened enough to go through with killing somebody. The boy ends up breaking down in tears and exclaiming that he just wanted an action figure set.

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* BreakThemByTalking: When Penguin gives his nephew the chance to kill Harley for wrecking the Bar Mitzvah event he set up, Harley Harley, trained and competent psychiatrist that she is, attacks his teenage insecurities to make him realize that he isn't emotionally mature or hardened enough to go through with killing somebody. The boy ends up breaking down in tears and exclaiming that he just wanted an action figure set.
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* CounterfeitCash: Harley breaks into the vault, only to find fake cash with Joshua's face.
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* FlightOfRomance: Kite Man intends this when he takes Ivy to her apartment on his kite. Though she still thinks he's a loser, she admits the flight was nice.
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** Scarecrow and Two-Face agree with Bane when he says the things Joker says about him are hurtful.
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* RealityEnsues: While Harley does manage to free herself of her chains, by flipping forward and having the chair she's bound to smash into the floor, it proves more painful and disorienting than expected.

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* RealityEnsues: While Harley does manage to free herself of her chains, by flipping forward and having the chair she's bound to smash into the floor, it proves more painful and disorienting than she expected.
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* RealityEnsues: While Harley does manage to free herself of her chains, by flipping forward and having the chair she's bound to smash into the floor, it proves more painful and disorienting than expected.
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* VillainsOutShopping: Bane, Scarecrow, and Two-Face aren't doing anything villainous, they're just attending Penguin's nephew's Bar Mitzvah.

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* VillainsOutShopping: Bane, Scarecrow, and Two-Face aren't doing anything villainous, they're just attending Penguin's nephew's Bar Mitzvah.Mitzvah.
* WhenSheSmiles: Ivy gives a small but genuinely touched smile when Kite Man [[ShipTease compliments her eyes and smile]].
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-->'''Frank and Harley:''' So, a love potion.

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-->'''Frank and Harley:''' So, Right, a love potion.



** Joker hijacks Howie Mandel's show to quash any rumors about her breaking up with him, then blows Howie up. It's likely Joker knows Harley is fond of the show and picked it specifically to get back at her.

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** Joker hijacks Howie Mandel's show to quash any rumors about her Harley breaking up with him, which Howie had brought up on his last show, then blows Howie up. It's likely Joker knows Harley is fond of the show and picked it specifically to get back at her.

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* SomethingWeForgot: In the opening, Joker slaps a bomb on Howie Mandel while mocking Harley on live TV, causing her to smash the TV in response to the latter. After she resolves to crash the Legion of Doom party to show him up, her phone beeps and she realizes that Howie blew up while they weren't paying attention.

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* SomethingWeForgot: SomethingWeForgot:
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In the opening, Joker slaps a bomb on Howie Mandel while mocking Harley on live TV, causing her to smash the TV in response to the latter. After she resolves to crash the Legion of Doom party to show him up, her phone beeps and she realizes that Howie blew up while they weren't paying attention.attention.
** After the party, Frank points out that the infected kids are still in the other room, and are starting to root to the floor.

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* EvilIsPetty: Bane is said to have blown up Gotham Stadium. A CutawayGag shows he did this because he got the team wrong on a trivia question.

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* EvilIsPetty: EvilIsPetty:
** Joker hijacks Howie Mandel's show to quash any rumors about her breaking up with him, then blows Howie up. It's likely Joker knows Harley is fond of the show and picked it specifically to get back at her.
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Bane is said to have blown up Gotham Stadium. A CutawayGag shows he did this because he got the team wrong on a trivia question.
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* IntimateHealing: Ivy's antidote requires her to ingest it then kiss the victim, which means she has to kiss a bunch of underage nerds. She stresses that it's just a delivery system and they'll still be sexless nerds after she's done.

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* IntimateHealing: Ivy's antidote requires her to ingest it then kiss have her saliva interact with that of the victim, which in LaymansTerms means she has to kiss a bunch of underage nerds. She stresses that it's just a delivery system and they'll still be sexless nerds after she's done.
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* OhCrap: Harley once she realizes she really hasn't broken into a vault, but ruined Penguin's surprise for Joshua.
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* BreakThemByTalking: When Penguin gives his nephew the chance to kill Harley for wrecking the Bar Mitzvah event he set up, Harley attacks his teenage insecurities to make him realize that he isn't emotionally mature or hardened enough to go through with killing somebody. The boy ends up breaking down in tears and exclaiming that he just wanted an action figure set.


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* ImprobableAimingSkills: Using his umbrella gun, Penguin shoots a bullet right down the barrel of a gun Harley is wielding.
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* InstantlyProvenWrong: When the Penguin joins in on the brawl between Harley and Ivy against Two-Face and Scarecrow, Ivy decides that they need to escape. Harley wants to continue the fight and thinks that Kite Man could help them out...only to see Bane beat Kite Man up.


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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Harley, Ivy, and Kite Man are forced into a fight against Two-Face, Scarecrow, and Bane near the end of the party. Harley and Ivy are quick to pick Two-Face and Scarecrow respectively, thus forcing Kite Man to fight Bane. Later, Harley thinks that Kite Man could help them win...only to see a grinning Kite Man in a headlock and having his teeth punched out by Bane. All of the fighters sans Joker literally take a second to witness the one-sided beatdown.

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Harley, Ivy, and Frank love Howie Mandel and are horrified the Joker blew him up.
** Ivy was horrified that Kite Man gave her love potion to Joshua's nerd friends and went out of her way to give them the antidote.

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: EvenEvilHasStandards:
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Harley, Ivy, and Frank love Howie Mandel and are horrified the Joker blew him up.
** Ivy was is horrified that Kite Man gave her love potion to Joshua's nerd friends and went out of her way to give them the antidote.antidote.
** Bane calls out Joker for disrespecting the Bar Mitzvah, an important milestone for Penguin's nephew.


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* ReadyForLovemaking: Kite Man sets himself up in Ivy's bed when they go to her apartment for the antidote, having ''massively'' misread the situation.
* ARealManIsAKiller: Penguin tries to have his nephew kill Harley as a Bar Mitzvah present, but she so thoroughly emasculates him that he can't bring himself to pull the trigger.


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* SomethingWeForgot: In the opening, Joker slaps a bomb on Howie Mandel while mocking Harley on live TV, causing her to smash the TV in response to the latter. After she resolves to crash the Legion of Doom party to show him up, her phone beeps and she realizes that Howie blew up while they weren't paying attention.

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* EvilIsPetty: Bane is said to have blown up Gotham Stadium. A CutawayGag shows he did this because he bet on the wrong team.

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Harley, Ivy, and Frank love Howie Mandel and are horrified the Joker blew him up.
** Ivy was horrified that Kite Man gave her love potion to Joshua's nerd friends and went out of her way to give them the antidote.
* EvilIsPetty: Bane is said to have blown up Gotham Stadium. A CutawayGag shows he did this because he bet on got the team wrong team.on a trivia question.

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* ImpossibleMission: Harley gets the idea to rob the Gotham Mint to prove herself to the Legion of Doom. Ivy points out the Mint is so confident in their security that they actually rent out their atrium to the Legion. Harley does it anyway, but screws up and accidentally breaks up into a fake vault set up for the bar mitzvah.
* SkewedPriorities: The Party-goers are more upset that Harley ruined the Bar Mitzvah than her crippling several improv actors.
* {{Transflormation}}: Poison Ivy's love potion slowly turns men into trees. Several nerds at the party get infected.

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* DistinctionWithoutADifference: Ivy does not carry around a love potion. It's distilled pheromones which make men fall in love with her then kills them.
-->'''Frank and Harley:''' So, a love potion.
* EvilIsPetty: Bane is said to have blown up Gotham Stadium. A CutawayGag shows he did this because he bet on the wrong team.
* GoThroughMe: Ivy does this to protect Harley from Joker. Before he can shoot her, his contractors call and he decides to take a rain check to deal with them.
* HarmlessVillain: Kite Man, whose only power is a kite on his back. He even admits a cab would be faster. The only people he manages to hurt are a little girl he keeps accidentally whacking with his kite and the kids he drugs with Ivy's pheromones as a prank, not realizing the lethal after-effects.
* IShallTauntYou: Harley taunts Penguin's nephew so he'll lose the nerve to shoot her, buying time for Ivy to return.
* ImpossibleMission: Harley gets the idea to rob the Gotham Mint to prove herself to the Legion of Doom. Ivy points out the Mint is so confident in their security that they actually rent out their atrium to the Legion. Harley does it anyway, but screws up and accidentally breaks up into a fake vault set up for the bar mitzvah.
Bar Mitzvah.
* IntimateHealing: Ivy's antidote requires her to ingest it then kiss the victim, which means she has to kiss a bunch of underage nerds. She stresses that it's just a delivery system and they'll still be sexless nerds after she's done.
* SkewedPriorities: The Party-goers party-goers are more upset that Harley ruined the Bar Mitzvah than her crippling several improv actors.
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* {{Transflormation}}: Poison Ivy's love potion slowly turns men into trees. Several nerds at the party get infected.infected thanks to Kite Man.
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* {{Transflormation}}: Poison Ivy's love potion slowly turns men into trees. Several nerds at the party get infected.
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* ImpossibleMission: Harley gets the idea to rob the Gotham Mint to prove herself to the Legion of Doom. Ivy points out the Mint is so confident in their security that they actually rent out their atrium to the Legion. Harley does it anyway, but screws up and accidentally breaks up into a fake vault set up for the bar mitzvah.

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* ImpossibleMission: Harley gets the idea to rob the Gotham Mint to prove herself to the Legion of Doom. Ivy points out the Mint is so confident in their security that they actually rent out their atrium to the Legion. Harley does it anyway, but screws up and accidentally breaks up into a fake vault set up for the bar mitzvah.mitzvah.
* SkewedPriorities: The Party-goers are more upset that Harley ruined the Bar Mitzvah than her crippling several improv actors.
* VillainsOutShopping: Bane, Scarecrow, and Two-Face aren't doing anything villainous, they're just attending Penguin's nephew's Bar Mitzvah.
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Harley attempts to show the Legion of Doom she can make it on her own.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Kite Man quickly becomes infatuated with Ivy, much to her annoyance.
* ImpossibleMission: Harley gets the idea to rob the Gotham Mint to prove herself to the Legion of Doom. Ivy points out the Mint is so confident in their security that they actually rent out their atrium to the Legion. Harley does it anyway, but screws up and accidentally breaks up into a fake vault set up for the bar mitzvah.

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