Characters / Harley Quinn (2019): Harley's Crew

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In General

"What Queen of Fables made me realize, is if I want a crew, I shouldn't be looking for scumbags who believe in me, I should be looking for scumbags no one else believes in."

— Harley

A Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Supervillains Harley recruits initially in an attempt to pull enough jobs to get herself into the Legion of Doom.

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• All of the Other Reindeer: All of them have issues with being accepted in the villain community. Harley is dismissed as the Joker's girlfriend, Doctor Psycho is a pariah for his open misogyny, Clayface annoys others with his overly dramatic ways, and King Shark is a skilled hacker, yet most people who hire him only care that he's a Shark Man. The only exception is Ivy, who voluntarily keeps herself isolated from most others.
• Amazon Brigade: By the end of Season 4, all of Harley's teammates are now women and they decide to call themselves the Gotham City Sirens.
• Anti-Hero Team: At the end of Season 4, Harley forms a new crew with Ivy, Barbara and Catwoman, calling themselves the Gotham City Sirens. All the members are more heroic than the villains, but except for Barbara, none of them has the moral code of a hero.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: The members of the team all care for each other, and most have a loved one outside the team.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Despite their willingness to commit various crimes, Queen of Fables' tendency to murder anything in her way disturbs all of them.
  • Later, all of them bar Psycho have reservations about working with Darkseid.
• A Lighter Shade of Black:
  • Aside from Doctor Psycho, they're all criminals but they are certainly the lesser of two evils when compared the likes of the Joker, the Queen of Fables, and later the Injustice League. Doctor Psycho was disgraced for his misogyny and is only with them to improve his public image. When Harley doesn't follow through with her allegiance to Darkseid, he betrays them for being too weak.
  • This is Lampshaded by Batgirl, who sees them more as Antiheroes on account of having spent pretty much the entire second season and the second half of Season 1 exclusively fighting other supervillains.
• Lovable Rogue: For the most part, they act like eccentric, but still affable criminals, especially Ivy, Clayface and King Shark, who are perfectly fine with stealing and murder, but have some lines they don't like to cross. The Naïve Newcomer superhero Batgirl actually can't think of them as bad guys even though they say otherwise.
• Never Hurt an Innocent: They're all ruthless murderers, but they don't approve of the Queen of Fables murdering an entire family of innocent people.
• Nominal Hero: As of Season 2 they're the only people in any position to deal with the Injustice League. Their motivations are still entirely self-serving and villainous, but based on how the Injustice League is running the city it's pretty clear that them winning would be the far better outcome for the people of Gotham.
• Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: A villainous version. They're made up of a clown, a misanthropic Eco-Terrorist, a misogynistic Depraved Dwarf, an aspiring actor made out of clay, a Shark Man hacker, and an elderly Jewish cyborg war criminal.
• True Companions: Disagreements aside, they will come to each other's aid whenever possible.
• Two Girls to a Team: Harley and Ivy are the only women on the initial team. However, there's more focus on them than the rest of the crew. Subverted by the end of Season 4 where all the members are now women.
• Unscrupulous Hero: When they target other villains, they are mostly doing it out of revenge than because the villain in question is a mass-murdering psychopath. Harley joins Darkseid for a while after having an affair with Poison Ivy but backs out after realising that she was insincere about the allegiance and only doing this to deny and move on from the affair.
• Villain Protagonist: The crew basically plays hopscotch between this and Anti-Hero. They're totally criminals, but rarely do anything overly and needlessly evil.
• Villainous Friendship: They enjoy doing crime together and form a true bond of friendship that is rare even among the villains of the series.
• Villainous Underdog: They are treated as C-list villains and aren't respected in the criminal underworld. The series is about the gang rising through the ranks to become truly respected villains.
• You Could Have Used Your Powers for Good!: Knowing that her father will go on an all out war with Harley's gang, Batgirl cycled her way to their base and tell them to reconsider their actions, even using this trope by saying that for all of their attempt to rule Gotham as a criminal group, they did a good job in fighting against the Injustice League members or at least keeping their presence on low profile. While King Shark and Clayface do take account of Batgirl's words, Harley being Harley, things go right as you expected.

Current Members

Harley Quinn

Harley Quinn (Dr. Harleen Quinzel)

"I have friends that love and care about me. I'm moving on with my life with the people that matter. And that ain't you, puddin'!"

Voiced by: Kaley Cuoco (English), Dorothée Pousséo (European French)

An Arkham psychologist turned supervillain after falling in love with one of her patients, The Joker. At the start of the show, she finally realizes how toxic her relationship with the Joker actually is, with him being a narcissist who cares more about getting Batman's attention than even her being alive, and attempts to set off on a new life and villainous career of her own.

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• Accidental Murder: In Season 4, Harley kills Nightwing by strangling him with the friendship bracelet she made for him, but it was actually an accident because Harley was sleepwalking at the time and didn't even remember that she killed him until she saw her own memories with Psycho's powers.
• Act of True Love: In "There's No Place to Go But Down," Harley wants to take all the blame for taking down half of the Injustice League so Ivy doesn't go to prison with her. Later, Harley is ready to jump to her own death so Ivy can escape from their pit prison and have a happy married life with Kite Man. All this culminates in Harley and Ivy realizing they are in love and kiss in the heat of the moment.
• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: This version of Harley Quinn follows her partnership with Poison Ivy, as Harley wants to overshadow the Joker for once while still coming to terms with the abusive reality of their relationship. In season 2, Harley has to learn to trust men and understand what a healthy relationship looks like. She does this because the Joker's abuse tainted her view of relationships and left her with doubts about what an ideal relationship is. ^note Her rocky relationship with her own father also didn't help her view on men.
• Adaptational Backstory Change: The first incarnation of Harley that's shown to be clearly disturbed long before turning to a life of crime. Other adaptations showed that Harley wasn't exactly the most moral person, but she was relatively sane before meeting Joker.
• Adaptational Badass: Previous versions of Harley Quinn were incredibly competent but still relied on being partnered with other characters or thugs to stand a real chance in a fight. This version manages to take on the Joker's entire gang by herself and come out on top with only a few minor injuries. It's downplayed later on however as she struggles more with the actual supervillains and superheroes, who naturally have more abilities that could pose a threat to her. Still, Harley ends up pulling off quite a few victories here that she never would have in pretty much all of her other incarnations.
• Adaptational Intelligence: In a subtle way concerning her past as a psychiatrist. Most versions of her origin story have her as naive and easily-manipulated New Meat in Arkham, and one who was implied to have slept her way to her doctorate. Here, she actually was very competent at her job prior to meeting the Joker, able to make breakthroughs with patients written off as a lost cause by others such as Poison Ivy. She's also pretty accurate, albeit in a roundabout way, about Ivy and Kite Man's relationship.
• Adaptational Nice Girl: While she isn't a full fledged hero like she is in a few other adaptations of the character, she's still more morally sound than a lot of her tradition portrayals. This Harley has standards, cares for her friends, and will even team up with Batman at times.
• Adaptational Skimpiness: Harley has yet another run-in with this trope, wearing an outfit similar to her New 52 and Rebirth versions. It's even contrasted with her Animated Series outfit, which she wears at the beginning of the series.
• Adaptational Villainy: As far as we know, most versions of Harley were fairly normal women prior to meeting the Joker. A trip into Harley's mindscape in "Being Harley Quinn" reveals that she's had Ax-Crazy tendencies since she was a kid. It's even implied she killed an Alpha Bitch for spreading a rumor that she lost her virginity to a horse.
• Adapted Out: This continuity's version of her family omits her niece Jenny and her nephew Nicky due to her brother Barry dying before he could have children, with her other brothers Frankie and Ezzie being left out as well.
• Aesop Amnesia: Deconstructed. For all of Season 1, Ivy repeatedly tries to drill it into Harley's head that the Joker is bad news, and that she should dump him and stay gone. Harley appears to accept it at first, but when she briefly appears to relapse, Ivy gives Harley a "The Reason You Suck" Speech about how Harley never seems to learn that Ivy thinks that Harley truly deserves better than Joker. The fact that Harley keeps going back to Joker pushes her crew away from her, to the point that the lesson finally manages to stick only after Harley realizes that she's in love with Ivy.
• Affectionate Nickname: Ivy calls her "Harls".
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: Deconstructed. She's initially attracted to the Joker because of his dangerous and unique aesthetic, but she eventually finds out that his violent and uncaring nature extends to her as well. The first episode has her realize that Joker loves Batman, not her, which helps her finally snap out of it.
• Always Second Best: While with the Joker, Harley believed he always loved her until she realised that his one and only was always his archnemesis, Batman. The realisation that she was the Joker's second best gave her the desire to overshadow him for once in the criminal underworld.
• Anti-Hero: Harley started with ambitions to be a top-tier villain, then tried switching to become a full time hero, but came up short both times. So by the end of season 4, she settles into doing things her own way, being both and neither.
• Ascended Fangirl: Even before joining the Joker as his top enforcer, Harley was so fascinated by him that she wrote a thesis on the evil clown.
• Ax-Crazy: As one might expect from the Joker's former top enforcer, she's short-tempered, unstable, and gleefully, eye-wateringly violent. As if to accentuate how violently insane she is, her happiest memory is apparently chopping one of her dolls' heads off with a cleaver when she was six.
• Badass in Distress:
  • The first episode of Season 2 has Harley being rescued by her crew after she was encased in ice by the Injustice League.
  • In The Eat, Bang, Kill Tour comics, Harley is captured by the poisonous villain Mephitic to lure out Poison Ivy.
• Badass Normal: She doesn't have any superpowers beyond being an extremely talented gymnast, but she's the most technically proficient fighter and battlefield tactician of her crew by a long way, and extremely willing to fight dirty.
• Batter Up!: Her weapon is a painted wooden baseball bat. It's devastating against ordinary humans, but having it shatter against enemies with Super-Toughness is her equivalent of The Worf Barrage.
• Battle Couple: She and Ivy become a couple in the Season 2 finale. The Eat, Bang, Kill Tour comics show them repeatedly fighting together and saving each other while they're on their "honeymoon".
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Several times she gets into fights, and gets hit hard enough to get a bloody nose, but is perfectly fine a few seconds later.
• Benevolent Boss: In contrast with the Joker, Harley treats her villain teammates with care and respect instead of disposable Mooks.
• Best Friend: She was Ivy's First Friend and remains her closest friend.
• Betty and Veronica: In Season 2, Ivy is torn between her feelings for her friend Harley and her fiancé Kite Man. Harley is the Veronica because she's a reckless, wild and murderous villainess who just got out of an abusive relationship with a psychotic clown. This is why Ivy rejects Harley's advances; she loves being friends with Harley, but Harley's too wild and short-sighted for a long term relationship. By the end of season 2, Harley makes an effort to clean up her messes, to be a better person and as a result she wins Ivy's heart.
• Big Bad Wannabe: Her goal is to take over the Joker's place as the top supervillain of Gotham. Since the show she stars in is mainly a Black Comedy, she only succeeds at being a regular criminal at best or a nuisance at worst. Her attempts at antagonizing big-league superheroes like Superman and Batman end with Harley either being ignored or getting the shit beaten out of her. Attempts to join the Legion of Doom also blow in her face when the Joker pulls rank and humiliates Harley to the other supervillains, and even after becoming an agent of Darkseid she concludes she doesn't have the heart for proper villainy, ultimately deciding to join the Batfamily.
• Big Sister Instinct: Surprisingly, Harley quickly becomes protective of Bruce's younger self in his mind. She protects the boy from the mugger that haunts his memory and makes a serious attempt to help him work through his trauma.
• The Brute: She used to be this for the Joker, acting as his primary muscle when he can't swamp his enemies in goons. Once she turns on him, his mooks don't stand a chance.
• Bullying a Dragon: She mentions an Alpha Bitch humiliated Harley by spreading rumors that said Harley lost her virginity to a horse. It's not specified how Harley retaliated, but she does mention the cops interrogated her for hours about what happened to the student.
• Butt-Monkey: She is used as a punching bag by Gotham's other villains, especially the Joker.
• Byronic Hero: A troubled, brooding, selfish outcast whose passions and strive towards a goal cause trouble for Gotham City and the rest of the world. She wants to be respected as a villain, to be in control of her own life, and to cause Apocalypse Anarchy. Harley is passionate, determined, and driven towards this goal, but it leads to all kinds of trouble for both her and her crew. On top of that, she can't go all the way with the worst aspects of supervillainy, leading to a self-defeating mindset.
• The Cameo: Her voice is briefly heard in Titans (2018).
• Card-Carrying Villain: Downplayed. She desires to become one of the most feared villains of all, but doesn't actually have it in her to follow through with the big league supervillainy that entails, and often finds herself sickened by the actions of said villains.
• Carry a Big Stick: She initially wields a giant hammer, but it gets destroyed in battle after she dumps the Joker for good. She swaps it out for a wooden baseball bat, which she eventually paints to match her outfit.
• Celeb Crush: She had a big crush on Frankie Muniz as a kid, having dreamed of kidnapping him and tricking him into getting her pregnant.
• Chaotic Stupid: A Deconstruction at the beginning of Season 2. Having taken down the Joker and Gotham being left in ruins, Harley has the perfect chance to rise up as the top villain and completely take control of the city. Instead, she chooses to indulge in the Apocalypse Anarchy and outright refuses to bring back organized crime because she loathes any form of order. The result is that the Injustice League traps her in ice when she refuses to share rulership over Gotham with them and Harley ends up regretting not taking the city for herself sooner.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: She's not in the same league as the true DC Lightning Bruisers like Superman, Aquaman, and Wonder Woman. But by ordinary human standards, Harley is still incredibly fast, strong, and tough. She can dodge gunfire, break bones in a single hit, take an impressive beating, and even fall off the side of a mountain, and walk away with only minor injuries. While she did fall into the same vat of chemicals as the Joker, the show generally treats both their transformations as largely cosmetic, and points to her career as a competitive gymnast as the reason for her combat prowess.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Harley has always been a crazy nutjob who's too unpredictable to be messed with. After a Mook explodes right in front of her, Harley talks nonchalantly with Ivy about how best to dump the Joker, ignoring the blood and guts everywhere.
• The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes: She was a trained psychologist and expertly diagnosed many of the Arkham inmates' mental problems, but it takes her a good long while to acknowledge and confront the serious mental problems she herself has.
• Color Motif: Carrying over from her trademark jester costume and a playing card motif, her outfit is all in red and black.
• Costume Evolution: She starts out in her classic jester costume, but severs ties with the Joker and swaps it out for her Stripperiffic New 52 getup.
• Creepy Child: In her happiest childhood memories, Young Harleen's idea of playing house with her dolls involves mommy (who she gives her mother's name, Sharon) accusing daddy of coming home smelling of "alcohol and whore" and then chopping his head off with a cleaver.
• Cuckoosnarker: She's a nutjob, but she gets a few snarky quips here and there. She saves the most of her snark for Batman and the Joker, implying that the former "fucks bats" and personally insulting the latter's manhood.
• Dark Action Girl: She's the most battle-oriented and physically strong villainess in the series. And damn that she's brutal to those who take her on.
• Dating Catwoman: Season 3 ends with Ivy becoming the new leader of the Legion of Doom while Harley joins the Bat Family to try being a hero. Surprisingly, Harley and Ivy stay in a loving and mutually supportive relationship despite now being in opposite alignments.
• The Defroster: When she first met Ivy, the latter was full of anger and bitterness. Harleen was the only one who showed her compassion and gave her a plant so she could escape from Arkham. This helped Ivy open up to Harley and they became best friends during Harleen's therapy sessions.
• Ditzy Genius: She is an expert psychologist and competent battle tactician, but her interactions with the Joker show that she's fairly easy to manipulate.
• Does Not Like Men: Zig Zagging, while Harley is comfortable with employing men and working with them, her prejudice acts up when she sees men in relationships. Growing up, her father was emotionally neglectful as he forced her to sacrifice her dreams as an acrobat because he bet against her and was under threat from the mob. Her relationship with the Joker didn't help either because he was abusive and manipulative, causing Harley to distrust men under the belief that they share his abusive ways. Harley doubted the relationship between Kite Man and Poison Ivy because she believed she could do better but was eventually won over by his awkward, yet persistant charm. When she finds out Mr. Freeze had his terminally ill wife cryogenically frozen, she immediately assumed she was actually a hostage and that Mr. Freeze saw her only as property. When Freeze calms down and reassures Harley that he's willing to do anything to save Nora, Harley understands that her prejudice isn't healthy and starts taking steps to improve herself.
• Drives Like Crazy: Her driving when stealing the Batmobile is wild. It helps that the Batmobile is an arsenal full of weapons.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: Despite the fact that she freed the Justice League from their imprisonment and was the one who actually stopped Dr. Psycho and his parademon army, she is not shown any appreciation by the city of Gotham. The Justice League are awarded for saving the day, when it was actually Harley. Likewise, Wonder Woman shows no gratitude toward her for saving Themyscira. This changes at the end of season three when the citizens of Gotham thanks her for saving them from the plant Zombie Apocalypse caused by Bruce Wayne and exploited by Poison Ivy.
• Dumb Blonde: Averted. She had this reputation as the Joker's sidekick, but it's wrong. She graduated her high school as valedictorian and was, by all accounts, a perfectly capable clinical psychologist. Her problem is not that she's dumb, but that she hasn't had much reason to value or use her own intelligence in a long time, and is still a little rusty at it. That, and for all of her intelligence, Harley is still insane.
• Dying Declaration of Love: Subverted. Harley tells Ivy she loves her when she lets go of her to fall into a pit of flames so Ivy alone can escape. Fortunately, Ivy saves her.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • She objects to Sy Borgman's suggestion of committing war crimes.
  • She's genuinely unnerved and opposed to the Queen of Fables' brutal and horrifying methods, which involve And I Must Scream tortures and wanton murder for its own sake.
  • She apologies for accidentally giving a man cancer from a cancer ray.
  • When she infiltrates Bruce Wayne's mind to find where he'd taken Frank, the level of psychological trauma she finds there upsets her so much that she starts trying to help him get through it.
  • She's horrified to find out that she was the one who murdered Nightwing while she was sleepwalking, even though Nightwing wasn't very nice to her.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: The Domestic Abuse she suffered at the hands of the Joker, and likely her parents' extremely neglectful and dysfunctional relationship, has left Harley struggling to even comprehend what a healthy romantic relationship looks like. She's prone to Psychological Projection come Season 2 when she sees couples together. She questions the quality of Ivy and Kite Man's relationship, and when she finds out about Nora, she immediately assumes Mister Freeze froze her to keep her for himself.
• Evil Is Petty: Her initial motive is trying to work her way to become Gotham's top villain so she can rub her success in the Joker's face.
• Evil Versus Evil: While she wants to be the baddest villain in Gotham, Harley fights and takes down other villains most of the time, such as Joker, Queen of Fables, and the Injustice League. This causes Batgirl to think Harley is an Anti-Hero, which Harley vehemently denies. At first, anyways. Harley does get a little more heroic as time goes on, but she's still a bad person.
• Evil Virtues: Loyalty and Determination. Harley may be a villain but she is a loyal friend. And she never quits.
• Excessive Evil Eyeshadow: After her costume switch in the first episode, Harley starts wearing prominent pink and light blue eyeshadow, which matches the colors on her twin pigtails.
• Family of Choice: After she finds out her parents are scumbags who would gladly kill her for her bounty, Harley declares they aren't her family. Instead, she decides the only family she has in the world is her crew, and tries everything she can to make amends with them.
• Fatal Flaw:
  • Wrath. Her breakup with the Joker left Harley with the desire to best him and prove herself as her own person. She also shows him Cruel Mercy by leaving him alive; this is ostensibly so he can watch her succeed, but it just leads to more trouble with the Joker alive. Prior to her character development, Harley disregarded her personal relationships due to being more focused on overshadowing Joker.
  • Naivete. In Season 2, she has trouble understanding romance because Ivy's and Mr Freeze's romantic relationships were nowhere near as abusive as her relationship with the Joker. Harley thawed out Nora because she believed she was being held hostage and she tries breaking up Kite Man and Ivy because she didn't trust his intentions with her and believed she could do better.
• First Friend: With Ivy, on top of being Best Friends. Harley is the first human being Ivy ever opened up to and wanted to trust after a lifetime of being rejected by humanity.
• First Girl Wins: No matter how much Ivy honestly liked Kite Man, Harley came into Ivy's life first and they had a much stronger bond way before Kite Man began dating Ivy. In the end, Kite Man himself realizes Ivy really wants to be with Harley despite her denials and calls off their wedding, leading to Ivy running off with Harley.
• Florence Nightingale Effect:
  • As standard for the character, Harley first met the Joker when he was assigned as her patient in Arkham Asylum. He told her sob stories to buy her sympathy and make her think only she could help and love him, which let him take advantage of Harley's own wish of being needed by someone.
  • Retroactively, she also has this with Poison Ivy. In this version, Ivy was Dr. Harleen's patient when she still worked at Arkham Asylum and she was the one who helped Ivy work through her misanthropy. Years later, Harley realizes she has fallen in love with Ivy.
• Forceful Kiss: To convince herself that her kiss with Ivy meant nothing like Ivy says, she starts kissing her crew and Batgirl at random, to their discomfort.
• Freudian Excuse Denial: At first, it's made look like Harleen was a perfectly sane and respectable person until the Joker's manipulation and abuse transformed her into a psychotic and murderous villainess. However, "Being Harley Quinn" has her go on a Journey to the Center of the Mind, which reveals that Harley has had Ax-Crazy tendencies ever since she was a child, long before Joker ever got to her; her attempts at playing with dolls involved a wife murdering a husband for cheating, she stalked her Celeb Crush to the point legal actions needed to be taken, and she may have killed a girl at her camp for spreading humiliating rumors about her. The final memory reveals that Harley in fact jumped into the chemical vat of her own volition, but repressed that part since it had always been easier to give agency to the Joker and blame him for her turn to villainy. In the end, the Joker didn't corrupt her so much as reawaken what was already there and Harley acknowledges that she is responsible for her own life and had a choice every step of the way. Neither the Joker nor her "fucked up parents" made Harleen Quinzel into Harley Quinn; she made herself.
• Friendship Denial: She insists she and Batgirl are friendly enemies, not friends.At the end of Season 3, she drops the "enemy" part and becomes Batgirl's teammate.
• Girlish Pigtails: After getting a costume switch, she ties her hair up into pigtails. She also had them as a child as revealed in "Being Harley Quinn".
• Glory Seeker: After she leaves the Joker, most of Harley's actions are for the sake of seeking praise and recognition for her villainy, be it from the public, fellow supervillains, or superheroes.
• Going Commando: As evidenced by the scene where she ends up hanging by her shorts in the Batcave, Harley isn't wearing any underwear.
• Good Costume Switch: She switches her Stripperiffic villain outfit for a more modest hero outfit when she joins the Bat-Family in Season 4.
• Goofy Print Underwear: Harley is shown to wear pink panties with red hearts after her dress is damaged in a fight during The 83rd Annual Villy Awards.
• Grew a Spine: The Eat, Bang, Kill Tour comics show that Harley is placing more value on herself and is less prone to Extreme Doormat behavior than before. When Ivy gets mad at Harley for things that are really Harley's fault, Harley says she's sorry and corrects her behavior. But when Ivy gets mad at Harley for things that either aren't her fault or are nitpicking, Harley is willing to stick up for herself.
• Harmful to Minors: A flashback in "Being Harley Quinn" shows young Harleen in front of a window and watching her father's "business meeting" which involved two men brutally beating him up and taking the money from his wallet. Apparently this was just "work" for Harley's father, implying this was a regular occurrence throughout her childhood.
• Hates Their Parent: Harley absolutely loathes her deadbeat mobster of a father. Since he's the reason why she was forced to lose a gymnastics competition she wanted to win badly just so he could win a bet he made against her, it's hard to not see why she hates him so much. To top it off, just when she starts to think her father isn't so bad, he tries to kill her for money. After her mom joins in on trying to kill her, she hates both of them combined, declaring them to not be her family and leaving and declaring them Not Worth Killing.
• Heel–Face Turn: Season 3 ends with Ivy making Harley realize she's more of a hero than a villain now. Harley then gives in to her wish of helping people and joins the Bat Family.
• Heel Realization: In Season 4, Harley tries her hardest to prove that she can be a hero and a member of the Bat-Family, despite her destructive nature and her developing a dangerous case of sleepwalking due to repressing her villainous impulses. After she discovers she murdered Nightwing while sleepwalking, Harley realizes she is still a villain at her core and quits the Bat-Family.
• Hero with an F in Good: Even when working with the Bat Family, she's very overly violent and the others have trouble reeling her in. She even ends up strangling her fellow hero Nightwing while sleepwalking, which convinces her that she's not meant to be a hero after all.
• Horrible Judge of Character: This is someone who fell in love with the Joker, after all. She also assumed Mr. Freeze had imprisoned his wife, only to find out she was sick and he really was trying to save her, though that is somewhat justified given that her poor history with boyfriends and her terrible parents have made it difficult for her to comprehend what a happy couple looks like.
• Human Popsicle: In the opening of Season 2, Harley is captured by the Injustice League and spends two months encased in ice.
• I Hate Past Me: When she takes journey to Batman's mind, Harley encounters her past self in his memories. She's very annoyed to see herself as the Joker's manipulated henchwoman and even finds her old accent irritating.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: At her core, all Harley wants is someone who sees her value as a person and acknowledges her accomplishments after her own parents constantly demeaned her efforts and goals. What attracted her to the Joker was him recognizing her thesis on him and spunk during their first meeting and stayed with him for so long because he convinced her that she was loved and needed by him, when all he really wanted was to control her. Eventually, Harley realizes she wants her best friend Ivy's love and is heartbroken by Ivy rejecting her and choosing to go through with marrying Kite Man.
• I'm Not a Hero, I'm...: She declares this in the Season 4 finale:
  Superman: I always knew you were a hero.
  Harley: I'm better than a hero. I'm Harley Fucking Quinn!
• Informed Kindness: Harley is told by Ivy, her crew (and even Batgirl) that despite being a supervillain, she's a good person. Harley is certainly a better person than many of the villains she faces but her actions, and their consequences, are pretty awful. She's selfish, foolhardy, volatile and most of her decisions have directly or indirectly killed countless innocent people. Quinn even invades earth with an army of parademons, with the intent of going on a mass killing spree, just to distract from her feelings for Poison Ivy. Then again, Ivy is obviously biased because she was treated like shit by people and Harley is her Only Friend. As for the others, Batgirl is a Naïve Newcomer who has some Horrible Judge of Character, as seen when she can't find any reason to doubt Harley and Ivy will take Riddler to Arkham instead of taking him prisoner for their self-benefit. However, as stated below she does have a Hidden Heart of Gold and has slowly been taking several levels in kindness over the course of the series.
• It's All About Me: Because of her extreme immaturity, Harley has a bad habit of placing her own interests and goals before those of others, which more than once comes at the expense of her friends. Ivy at one point lampshades this by criticizing Harley for never showing interest in anything that isn't about her.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She may be a proud villain and have moments of impulsiveness and immaturity, but every now and then she does have moments that prove she can be a good person if she wasn’t a bad guy and she genuinely cares about her crew, especially Ivy. Later on, she gains a sense of compassion that drives her to try and protect innocent civilians, even though she still can't get rid of her destructive instincts and can't become a proper hero because of it.
• Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: She comes dangerously close to this in "Inner (Para) Demons" where she lets Psycho talk her into making a deal with Darkseid. Harley is willing to threw her few morals out of the window to unleash a Parademon army on Earth and kill people for no reason. It's until Ivy intervenes that Harley realizes senseless murder won't give her what she really wants: Ivy.
• Lady Swears-a-Lot: She drops a lot of F-bombs.
• Laughably Evil: Between her violent tendencies and just out-there personality, it's impossible not to get a laugh out of her.
• The Leader: A combination of Charismatic and Headstrong. In season 2 the crew basically falls apart when she's temporarily put on ice. Shark lampshades how they depended on her leadership.
• Lightning Bruiser: She's fast, acrobatic and formidable with her baseball bat.
• Like Parent, Like Spouse: Harley's father (and mother) is a misogynistic Jerkass who has always been dismissive of her dreams and has no problems trying to kill her just to get money out of it. Harley blames her unhealthy obsession with abusive and manipulative men like the Joker on her asshole of a father.
• Locked into Strangeness: Her hair and skin were bleached white by being submerged in the same chemicals that created the Joker.
• Love Epiphany: She realizes she's in love with her friend Ivy after their kiss at the end of "There's No Place to Go But Down." Ivy refuses to admit there was any meaning to their kiss and continues her engagement with Kite Man while pretending nothing happened with Harley, resulting in Harley trying to take over the world with the Parademons to vent out her romantic frustration.
• Love Hurts: Harley eventually realizes she loves Ivy romantically, but Ivy is already engaged to Kite Man and refuses to acknowledge the mutual feelings between her and Harley. This leaves Harley frustrated and sad, almost driving her to try and take over Earth with Parademons to distract herself from the pain. It's only reinforced after she finally confesses to Ivy, only for Ivy to turn her down and say that a long-lasting relationship wouldn't work out between the two of them. She tries to put on a strong front as Ivy leaves with Kite Man, only to break down into tears as soon as they're gone.
• Love Makes You Evil: While she always had a repressed dark side, it was falling in love with Joker what drove to embrace her murderous impulses and become a villainess. Later, thinking she can't get Ivy because the latter already has Kite Man, Harley makes a deal with Darkseid and uses a Parademon army to massacre the people in Gotham.
• Loving a Shadow: What attracted Harley to the Joker was envisioning him as a man traumatized by an abusive childhood and who needed her for love and comfort. It's until after her relationship with him ends that Harley learns the story Joker told her about his father beating him wasn't even his but Ivy's. Soon after that, Harley realizes Ivy is the one she truly loves.
• Ma'am Shock: She's annoyed when Robin calls her old.
• Made of Iron: She regularly takes punishment way more than her lithe figure should be able to take. In "So, You Need a Crew?", she got thrown off a train by the Joker's goons down into a chasm, at which she only expressed annoyance and walked out with nothing more than messed up hair and some minor bruises.
• Mad Love: As in most incarnations, she's madly in love with the Joker and is completely blind to the fact that he sees her as nothing but a disposable asset to be manipulated for his benefit, stubbornly insisting he does love her even though he has abandoned her to get arrested and locked up more than once. Unlike other versions, this series starts with Harley getting much needed help from Poison Ivy to finally open her eyes to the truth that the Joker cares for no one but himself and Batman, which leads to Harley breaking up with him for good.
• Makeup Is Evil: The one supervillain character in the show who wears eyeshadow and heavy red lipstick.
• Man Bites Man: When she has most of body except for her head and right hand trapped in ice, Harley uses her teeth to attack the Penguin and bite his nose off.
• Mask of Sanity: Given context provided in the episode "Being Harley Quinn", it's implied that this was part of her psychologist persona, seen in "All the Best Inmates Have Daddy Issues". She was clearly very messed up as a child and teenager, but was put together and somewhat promising as a young doctor. As a result, the Joker luring her into a life of crime ends up coming across less as him corrupting her and more like he simply reawakened what was already there.
• Matchmaker Crush: In the first half of Season 2, Harley is all for Ivy and Kite Man getting married because she thinks that'll make Ivy happy, even encouraging Ivy to accept the proposal despite Ivy not being sure she wants that herself. Midway through the season, Harley realizes she has romantic feelings for Ivy and sort of asks her to cancel the wedding with Kite Man so they can hook up. However, Ivy has already convinced herself Kite Man is her safe option for a stable married life and rejects Harley's confession. They still get together after Kite Man calls off his wedding with Ivy.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: The series begins with Harley becoming fed up with the Joker's abuse once she finally realizes that he never even loved her. She then quits being his minion so she can make her own career as a stand-alone supervillainess.
• Morality Chain: In Season 3, after Ivy becomes Drunk with Power from the Green and tries to terraform Gotham with a Zombie Apocalypse, her love for Harley keeps her from crossing the Moral Event Horizon as she undoes the Zombie Apocalypse to save Harley's life.
• Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: Played With. The series constantly mentions Harley is a legitimate doctor, but she's never shown to be especially villainous as one, unless Joker's involved.
• Ms. Fanservice: She's very beautiful and wears outfits that flatter her figure, and one episode has her accidentally expose herself. Lampshaded by Calendar Man's wife who calls Harley a "porn clown."
• My God, What Have I Done?: Harley has been growing more a conscience and is horrified when she screws up big time.
  • One was where her psychological projections and corrupted view of romance meant she nearly killed Nora Fries and forced Victor to do a Heroic Sacrifice to cure her, resulting in his death and widowing her.
  • When Dr. Psycho shows Gotham Harley and Poison Ivy sleeping together as spite for his loss, she can only look ashamed when the betrayed-looking and hurt Kite Man stares at the two.
  • With Dr. Psycho's help, she looks for her memory of the night Nightwing died and she's horrified to learn she killed Nightwing during one of her violent sleepwalking episodes.
• Nature Versus Nurture: The episode "Being Harley Quinn" delves into Harley's life before becoming the Joker's henchwoman and brings into question just how much her villainy is a result of nurture. It's all but stated that young Harleen had an unhappy childhood with an extremely dysfunctional family. However, it's heavily implied her Ax-Crazy impulses are nature. Her attempts at playing with dolls involved a wife murdering a husband for cheating, she stalked her Celeb Crush to the point legal actions needed to be taken, and she may have killed a girl at her camp for spreading humiliating rumors about her. Harley believed she became a villain only because of the Joker to the point she convinced herself he pushed her into the bath of chemicals when she had jumped willingly, but towards the end of the episode, she fully realizes that she always had a choice. At most, one could interpret that the Joker only brought out her dark side to its fullest.
• Never Hurt an Innocent: By Season 3, Harley has developed enough empathy to protest against endangering innocent lives. She ends up trying to stop Ivy from terraforming Gotham because Bruce's intervention caused Ivy to try and turn all the citizens into her plant zombies.
• Never My Fault: It takes a lot for Harley to accept how her flaws and mistakes cause troubles for her and her personal relationships. All her crew leaves her because she ignored them and failed to keep her promises to help them in favor of letting herself fall into the Joker's game of abuse. Afterwards, Harley complains about them abandoning her without acknowledging how her choice to hang out with the Joker instead of her friends got her into that mess. One of the biggest parts of her Character Development is learning to own up to her actions and take responsibility to become a better person who can have a healthy relationship with Ivy.
• No-Respect Guy: She's an Olympic level acrobat with a degree in psychology and years of experience in combat. Despite this, most people consider her a joke, and refuse to consider her anything other than the Joker's girlfriend or a generic thug.
• Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Played with. Unlike previous animated incarnations, this version of Harley Quinn typically speaks with a flat Midwest affect, but begins consciously affecting her old Brooklyn accent when she visits her parents in Bensonhurst, suggesting she changed it after moving to Gotham.
• Official Couple: She and Ivy officially get together at the end of Season 2.
• One-Woman Army: In the first episode, Harley goes against the Joker's gang and — despite being hopelessly outnumbered and outgunned — kicks their asses and walks away unscathed.
• Outlaw Couple: After the Season 2 finale, Harley and Ivy go on a "honeymoon" while they're being chased by Commissioner Gordon.
• Perky Female Minion: She initially served the role of the Joker's adoring moll and henchwoman. After discovering that the Joker never really cared about her at all and was just using her as a means to an end, she sets out to defy this role and become an independent villainess in her own right.
• Pointy-Haired Boss: Her desire to fast-track herself to recognition and overall immaturity mean that her crew have to deal with her schemes frequently escalating.
• Pretty Freeloaders: After her ninth broken TV, you must ponder why exactly Ivy keeps Harley rent free.
• Prim and Proper Bun: She wore her hair like this in her Dr. Harleen Quinzel persona, as part of her effort at trying to appear sane and professional.
• Psychological Projection: When she sees Mister Freeze going on about how much he loves his terminally ill wife who he keeps trapped in a block of ice (to keep her from dying, mind you), Harley immediately assumes he's the same kind of abusive man like the Joker who treats his lover as property, going as far as accusing Mister Freeze of having lied about Nora being ill and keeping her trapped against her will. Once she sees Mister Freeze and his wife do truly love and care about each other, Harley understands their relationship is nothing like the one she had with the Joker.
• Psycho Psychologist: Subverted. While Harley is a former psychologist, as a villain she's not very complicated, preferring to smash first and ask questions later. When she does use her psychology skills, she ends up doing a lot more good than harm, whether it's convincing herself to dump Joker or talk down Bruce Wayne after he nearly causes a Zombie Apocalypse.
• Psychopathic Womanchild: She's incredibly immature and unrestrained, in addition to being a dangerous supervillain.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: She wears a black and red costume, (both her original costume and the New 52 costume) and is the Villain Protagonist.
• Redemption Failure: In Season 4, Harley tries to pull off a Heel–Face Turn and become a member of the Bat-Family, but it doesn't take long before she starts realizing that she sucks at being a hero. She ends up quitting the Bat-Family after she finds out she killed Nightwing while she was sleepwalking.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: She's the noisy and uncontrollable Red Oni to Poison Ivy's level-headed and sardonic Blue Oni.
• Relationship Upgrade: She hooks up with her best friend Poison Ivy at the end of season 2.
• Repressed Memories: In her Journey to the Center of the Mind, Harley's repressed memories are locked up in a replica of Arkham Asylum. There, she's repressed her memory of the Joker shoving her into a vat of chemicals that bleached her skin white. The part she repressed was that she jumped in willingly, since it had always been easier to give agency to the Joker and blame him for her turn to villainy. After confronting this, she takes responsibility for her life choices and re-defines her origin story as the day she walked out on him.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: Harley was initially against the relationship between Kite Man and Poison Ivy because she thinks Poison Ivy settled too early and could do better. While Harley's grudge against the relationship stems from her trauma from her relationship with the Joker, and it's more directed at Kite Man than Ivy, she's right. Poison Ivy is slowly opening up to others and getting through her misanthropic outlook; she did love Kite Man, she just settled too early without knowing what she truly wanted in a relationship. Kite Man is a good guy, he just wasn't the right person for Ivy.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Her goal in Season 1 was to get revenge on the Joker for his abuse and her goal in Season 2 is to get revenge on the Injustice League for usurping her.
• Satellite Love Interest: Defied. Harley is fed up of being written off as "the Joker's girlfriend" and is aiming to become a competent, terrifying villainess in her own right.
• Screw Yourself: Harley forces a kiss on her own clone to distract her.
• Secret-Keeper: After she learns that Bruce Wayne is Batman, she promises him that she will not tell anyone about his secret, citing doctor-patient confidentiality.
• Self-Serving Memory:
  • She remembered the Joker proposed marriage to her in the middle of a romantic dance. Her psychiatrist self interrupts the memory to force Harley Quinn recall what really happened; instead of a ring, the Joker gave her a grenade and used her as living bait in one of his fights with Batman.
  • She also edited her own memory to make it seem like the Joker had pushed her into the chemicals that made her into Harley Quinn, when in fact she went in willingly.
• She-Fu: Harley utilizes a lot of acrobatic flips and tricks in her fighting. The champion gymnast aspect of her character is usually glossed over, but it is emphasized in "Bensonhurst" as her dad calls out a bunch of gymnastics moves that she uses in her fight against the mob. In flashbacks shown in "All the Best Inmates Have Daddy Issues", her skills are shown even back when Harley was still Dr. Quinzel.
• Short Range Guy, Long Range Guy: Has this dynamic with Poison Ivy, with Harley using her bat and acrobatics for close-range combat while Ivy uses her plant powers from a distance.
• Sickeningly Sweethearts: After she starts dating Poison Ivy, Harley goes absolutely over the top in showering Ivy in love, attention and gifts. Even she admits its an "almost exhausting" amount of affection.
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: While she was with the Joker, he made her wear a clown-themed, form-fitting catsuit to show her off as his property. When she severs her ties to him and starts making a name for herself in the underworld; she changes to a short black and red crop top with a black choker around her neck, black and red fingerless leather gloves, black and red tight spandex booty shorts and black and red sneakers. This outfit reflects her sexual liberation from the Joker since she's no longer his property, it's designed in-universe as an affront to her original costume since the original costume covered her entire body and presented her as an object for the joker, and it shows off her eagerness to fight.
• Silly Rabbit, Romance Is for Kids!: "Thawing Hearts" reveals that Harley has developed a rather cynical view on true love due to her abusive relationship with the Joker. She initially can't believe Mister Freeze's devotion to his terminally ill wife is genuine, writing him off as yet another controlling man who ruined his woman's life. It's at the end of the episode that Mister Freeze's sacrifice for his wife makes Harley understand what she had with Joker wasn't true love.
  Harley: True love made me sacrifice my career as a psychologist, permanently change the way I look and almost got me killed, like, so many times. LOVE. IS. BULLSHIT.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: A same-sex example. Once Harley finally gets over her abusive ex-boyfriend Joker, she realizes she's really in love with Ivy, her best friend who truly cares about her and has always been there for her through good and bad times. When confessing to Ivy yet again, Harley tells her she fell in love with her because they always have fun together and Ivy shows her the best version of herself that she can be.
• Sir Swearsalot: This show sure makes good use of its adult rating - Among her crew members, Harley tend to be most crude and vulgar.
• Sleepwalking: Harley develops a serious — and possibly dangerous — problem of this in Season 4. She even strangled Nightwing and wasn't aware of it until Psycho showed the memory to her.
• Smart People Wear Glasses: She had glasses as Dr. Harleen Quinzel, her genius psychiatrist identity.
• Smarter Than You Look: She spent years as a Perky Female Minion who was easily manipulated and fooled by the Joker, but Harley was a genius psychiatrist and proves to be quite clever after she finally dumps him.
• Stalker with a Crush: She was sent to juvenile hall for stalking and threatening to kidnap her Celeb Crush Frankie Muniz. There were also violations of a restraining order involved.
• Stripperiffic: Her bikini-like new outfit is effective for Fanservice, but realistically wouldn't be good for physical combat.
• Superior Successor: Harley manages to be this for her parents as she inherited her bad traits from them, but managed to overcome them. She inherited her violent and criminal tendencies from her father, but Harley is stronger, smarter, more honorable, a better criminal, and has been capable of kicking his ass even before she became a super villain. She inherited her bad taste in men from her mother, but Harley was smart enough to cut ties with the Joker for being an abusive partner while her mother is hopelessly devoted to a gambling husband who's willing to endanger their family for money.
• Swiss-Army Tears: In the Season 1 finale, Harley thinks the tears she shed on Ivy's grave made her come back to life. Ivy reminds Harley they aren't in a Disney movie, but admits that the tears probably did help.
• Taking the Bullet: In the climax of Season 3, she shields Bane from one of Ivy's plant zombies and almost gets turned into a tree as a result.
• Talking to Themself: She occasionally has conversations with her psychiatrist past self. Curiously, Dr. Harleen Quinzel is completely aware that Harley Quinn is stuck in a codependent abusive relationship with a psychopath who doesn't love her and tries to get her hopelessly blind villainess self to see this. Dr. Harleen Quinzel finally gets through to Harley Quinn when the Joker lets her fall into what they think is acid. She does however give bad advice to her villainous self as seen with her suggestion to seek out her Abusive Parents, although Harleen had no way of knowing her parents would try to kill her.
• Terms of Endangerment: In the Season One finale, Harley calls the Joker by his pet name "Puddin'" mockingly before Ivy drops him into a vat of acid.
• The Thing That Would Not Leave: Her and her crew's constant destruction of Ivy's apartment eventually gets her evicted in Episode 4.
• Token Evil Teammate: Harley joins the Bat Family in Season 4, but her Ax-Crazy tendencies from her days as a villain are still very present. Her teammates disapprove of her killing villains and dating Ivy, who is the new leader of the Legion of Doom.
• Tomato in the Mirror: In Season 4, she helps Barbara investigate who murdered Nightwing. Then Harley is told by her own clone that she killed Nightwing. Harley confirms it when she asks Psycho to look into her memories and watches her sleepwalking self strangle Nightwing.
• Took a Level in Kindness: While still a villain, the first season has Harley gradually realize how selfish a boss and a friend she had been, and resolving to change. This continues into the second season by prioritizing Ivy's happiness with Kite-Man despite her concerns of their relationship's long-term stability and putting her own romantic feelings for Ivy on the back burner for her friend's sake. Harley also comes to value her crew as a Family of Choice, even if she tries not to say it out loud in front of them. This is taken further in the third season when she travels into Bruce Wayne's mind, discovered he's really Batman, and genuinely tries to help him with his mental problems.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Going by the episode "Being Harley Quinn", this version of Harley had... issues since childhood. One flashback shows her playing with dolls as husband and wife, having the wife accuse the husband doll of cheating, and then cutting the husband's head off with a meat cleaver, all implicitly before her teenage years.
• Underestimating Badassery: She gets the idea to rob Aquaman. Despite the show treating him as more of a joke, he is shown to nonetheless be an extremely powerful hero who is out of Harley's league. Prior to that, she tried to pick a fight with Superman, who just ignored her.
• Unresolved Sexual Tension: Harley and Ivy spend half of Season 2 conflicted by their feelings for each other. Harley realizes she wants Ivy, but Ivy is already engaged to Kite Man and doesn't trust Harley won't break her heart if they start a relationship. After Ivy's wedding to Kite Man is ruined and Harley once again shows her she's working on being a better person, they get together.
• Unscrupulous Hero: She evolves into this by the end of Season 4. She has accepted her destructive and violent tendencies as a part of her, but she still genuinely wants to help people and won't hurt innocent people or leave heroes to die.
• Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: The main character of the show who is not just a supervillain, but also one who is incredibly reckless and refuses to listen to her friend's advice, though the unsympathetic part gets subverted as the series goes on, what with the Joker revealing how low he's willing to sink just to get back at Harley for wounding his pride and her own parents trying to kill her to collect her bounty. While a lot of her misery is her own fault, her actual misery progressively stops being Played for Laughs.
• Use Your Head: In the first episode, Harley fights the Arkham guards while in a straitjacket. During the fight, she headbutts one of the guards in the face, drawing lots of blood, after which she does the same, three times in a row, to a female guard, knocking her out cold.
• Victoria's Secret Compartment: She's able to carry around and never lose her smartphone by tucking it into her top
• Villainous Harlequin: More on the anti-heroic side of this trope.
• Villainous Lineage: Her father is a mobster and her mother is completely supportive of it. It's debatable if Harley's turn to villainy and terrible taste in men was a result of this or them just being terrible parents, however. And that's not going into the Troubling Unchildlike Behavior she exhibited on her own.
• Villain Protagonist: Breaking away from the Joker is presented as a woman standing up for herself and taking control of her own life back. However, Harley's ultimate goal is to be a super-villain, upstage the Legion of Doom, and generally cause the downfall of Gotham City, along with the rest of the world. Harley has a lot of personal victories throughout the show, but she's still a bad person. By the end of Season 3, Harley accepts she isn't suited for villainy anymore and joins the Bat Family to give being a hero a try...only for Season 4 to show she is a Hero with an F in Good, and her trying to be a hero screwed her up so badly that her repressed evil instincts forced her to kill Nightwing while she was sleepwalking.
• Wardrobe Malfunction: There's a scene where she winds up hanging by the seat of her pants from a stalactite, exposing her backside for all to see.
• "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: A carnival game inside Harley's mind mentions "winning Daddy's love" (it's rigged).
• What Does She See in Him?: She doesn't get why Ivy would even look at a goof like Kite Man and openly tells her she could do better than him. By the end of "Trapped," she warms up to him after seeing how far he was willing to go for Ivy and really looks happy when he proposes to her.
• When She Smiles: Or, rather, when she smiles a specific type of smile, the one where she notices she has had approval. Whenever people clap at her in the Legion of Doom, her smile gets a lot prettier and more genuine.
• Woman Scorned: At first, she puts up with a LOT of physical and emotional abuse from the Joker, even forgiving him for leaving her to rot in Arkham for a year. Then, Ivy and Riddler trick the Joker into explicitly revealing that he never really cared about Harley at all, and Harley takes this about as well as any sane person would.
• Would Hurt a Child: Usually averted, but she nearly plays it straight with Robin. After the Joker sends a condescending message to Harley about her "rivalry" with Robin, Harley decides that she's going to kill Robin to make it stop. Ivy believes she is capable of doing it, but that doing so will only validate everyone's belief that Robin is her nemesis, while the rest of her crew thinks that she would just be crossing the line.
• Wrong Genre Savvy:
  • She starts the series thinking she and the Joker are a passionate Outlaw Couple taking the world by storm. Every other character has a hell of a time trying to convince her otherwise until the end of the first episode.
  • Also, thanks to her relationship with the Joker, she initially thinks that the reason Mister Freeze is keeping Nora frozen is that he can have her all to himself and that he's lying about her condition. This ends up causing trouble for everyone involved when Harley decides to thaw her out, only to find out that not only was the disease real, but that Nora and Freeze actually do love each other.
• Yearning for a Nemesis: The episode "Finding Mr. Right" is about Harley desperately wanting a nemesis so people will take her seriously as a villain.

Harley's potato clone

• Black-and-White Insanity: She believes herself to be ultimate justice and all criminals to be evil, including a ketamine therapist and a nun who she arrested for minor transgressions. Barbara is able to tell her apart from the real Harley because the latter doesn't believe the world is black and white.
• By-the-Book Cop: She's extremely by-the-book in her heroism and enforces the law with an iron fist.
• Clones Are People, Too: Harley's potato clone is treated as her own person up until it proves more beneficial for her to take the blame for Nightwing's death. Then she becomes an Expendable Clone.
• Fall Guy: After killing her, Harley blames her potato clone for Nightwing's murder so she doesn't have to admit that she killed Nightwing while sleepwalking.
• Knight Templar: Harley's potato clone is a lot more hardcore on capturing criminals, bringing them to justice, etc. even if it is for something as minor as putting recycling in the wrong bin.
• Lost Food Grievance: She smashes a man's face into a pole because he made her drop her ice cream.
• Uneven Hybrid: Harley's potato clone is 95% potato, 5% human. The potato portion appears to be all internal, except for the occasional branch popping out. The human portion appears to be all surface-level stuff, like skin and hair. This gives a Human Outside, Alien Inside vibe, except it is entirely based on material from Earth.

Poison Ivy

Poison Ivy (Dr. Pamela Isley)

"You don't have to rinse out your cans and bottles before putting them in the recycling bin, okay? That's just a myth and it wastes water."

"Harley, I love you in... *sigh*... in a very odd, hard-to-articulate way. And if you just stopped sabotaging yourself... the world would be yours."

Voiced by: Lake Bell

Harley's Best Friend, an Eco-Terrorist with a plant physiology that grants her a Healing Factor, drug and poison immunity, and the ability to mutate and control other plants.

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• Accidental Adultery: In "There's No Place To Go But Down", Ivy unintentionally cheated on Kite Man after she and Harley kissed. Much more seriously, they actually have sex whilst intoxicated in "Bachelorette".
• Acquired Situational Narcissism: Lex gives Ivy a PR team to supposedly help with her image. They make her feel like the most important person in the world (when in actuality, she is doing everything except her job) and it gets to her head in unbelievable fashion. She ignores Harley, ignores the villains she's supposed to mentor and leaves her actual work of being the CEO of the Legion of Doom on the backburner, while becoming obsessed with her new celebrity status. Thankfully, she comes back to her senses after she starts disagreeing with her PR team's choices and asks the Natural Disasters to help her get rid of them.
• Adaptational Badass: While Poison Ivy is badass on some level in most adaptations already, in this show both her powers and intelligence are a step up, and her power is also emphasized by her being the strongest member of Harley's crew. Ivy is able to take on heroes like Aquaman and Superman without breaking a sweat, her healing factor is enough to save her from what should be fatal wounds, and her reputation is high enough that Lex Luthor has been trying to convince her to join the Legion of Doom for years. And she's not vulnerable to salt water the way she is in the comics.
• Adaptational Modesty: Usually known for skimpy outfits, Ivy in this series contrasts Harley's style with a practical and modest, but far from unattractive wardrobe. She also swaps her usual breathy, seductive tones for a flatter, more cynical, Deadpan Snarker tone. The seductress aspect of her character is heavily downplayed in favor of her Eco-Terrorist side. Season 3 does show her wearing revealing clothes more similar to her popular portrayal.
• Adaptational Nice Girl: Ivy is a far more pleasant character than in the comics, being depicted as Harley's even-tempered and supportive best friend who happens to be an Eco-Terrorist. Her misanthropy is toned down greatly, and in her own words, she still hates other people but she can tolerate being around them. This is lampshaded by Ivy addressing that Harley's diagnosis of her — a misanthrope with abandonment issues who bonds with plants to avoid bonding with humans — was one she took to heart, and she's making the effort to be a more functional person.
• Adaptation Name Change: In the comics her middle name is "Lillian", but here it's "Gertrude".
• Affectionate Nickname: Harley calls her "Ive". This has at least once led to a mistake involving the contraction of "I have".
• Alien Blood: Her blood is green. Also, her tears seem to be black.
• Aloof Ally: Ivy may constantly proclaim that she wants to work alone and not join Harley's crew, but she's been by the girl's side since the beginning, and she ends up becoming a reserve member, helping them out on occasion when they really need it.
• Alto Villainess: She has a very deep, sultry and low voice of the sort usually associated with the Femme Fatale versions of her character. It's more downplayed here as this Poison Ivy considers herself an Ecoterrorist rather than a villainess and turns into more of an Anti-Hero by Season 4.
• Amazing Technicolor Population: She has light green skin, as is fitting for a woman who is more plant than animal.
• Apologetic Attacker: In "Devil's Snare", she apologizes as she tears mutated trees apart.
• Arc Villain: Serves as the secondary antagonist of Season 3, which centers around her plan to terraform Gotham. However, since she and Harley are Villain Protagonists, this doesn't lead to her becoming an outright antagonist until the penultimate episode, wherein Harley balks at the massive loss of life her plan would cause and works with the Batfamily to stop her.
• Back from the Dead: In "The Final Joke" Ivy's Healing Factor, with maybe a bit of The Power of Friendship from Harley, revives her after being speared through the heart in the previous episode.
• Battle Couple: She and Harley become a couple in the Season 2 finale. The Eat, Bang, Kill Tour comics show them repeatedly fighting together and saving each other while they're on their "honeymoon".
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Ivy and Harley's friendship here is based on how Harley was able to give her genuine help for her psychological issues when Ivy had pretty much been written off as a lost cause by everyone else. Harley was also the first person who ever gave her a gift, which motivated Ivy to open up to her.
• Best Friend: She's Harley's most loyal, caring and helpful friend. Though they do eventually get a Relationship Upgrade.
• Better with Non-Human Company: With the notable exceptions of Harley Quinn and Kite Man, Ivy vastly prefers to associate with plants than with other human beings.
• Big Bad Ensemble: Season 3 centers around her goals of terraforming Gotham, but since she's the Deuteragonist this means she isn't treated as an antagonist until the final two episodes. As such, Bruce becomes the stand-in threat for most of the season despite his less intentionally malevolent motives, as Harley and Ivy investigate his kidnapping of Frank and the subsequent Zombie Apocalypse he causes.
• Broken Bird: She's jaded and cynical, being convinced that almost the entire human race is trash after a very lonely childhood where she was abused and neglected by her parents. Harley and a few more are the only people she brings herself to care about, but she still has a secret fear of being betrayed. The Eat, Bang, Kill Tour comics focus on this aspect of her character more, along with how she keeps pushing away Harley for fear of letting her down, which creates a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy on Ivy's part, especially after giving Harley the Silent Treatment.
• Brutal Honesty: In Season 4, to screw with her PR team, Ivy agrees to host a child beauty pageant for girls who want to become like her, only to mercilessly destroy the girls' dreams by telling them that they can't ever hope to become like her when she got her powers from a Freak Lab Accident that she survived by a miracle and none of these girls will ever become special when they're forgettable at best.
• Calling the Old Man Out: In The Eat, Bang, Kill Tour comics, Ivy has her own Journey to the Center of the Mind to confront the memory of her abusive father. Ivy killing the memory of her father to protect her younger self is a symbol of her first step in her journey of self-love and acceptance.
• The Caretaker: To her loony best friend Harley. Poison Ivy is the reason why Harley could finally realize that the Joker doesn't love her and get out of that abusive relationship for good. After that, Poison Ivy continues to watch out for Harley and save her from the messes she keeps getting into.
• Caring Gardener: Her apartment is full of plants that she calls her "babies". When she's locked up in Arkham and later briefly trapped inside Harley's mind, Ivy's main concern is that there's no one to take care of her plants in her place.
• Childhood Friends: Season 2 reveals, besides Harley, the only other friend Ivy has is Jennifer, who she's known since kindergarten.
• Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: She never stopped trying to talk sense into Harley about her being a victim of Domestic Abuse by the Joker and arranges a whole set up with the Riddler just so she can get into Harley's head that Joker doesn't love her. Afterwards, Ivy tries talking Harley out of her stupid attempts at becoming a better villainess. Not that Harley listens to her, which Harley herself even lampshades by saying she enjoys not-listening to Ivy's advice more than anyone else's. When Ivy has to rescue Harley from being beaten by Batman after a prank involving a giant shark nearly gets Robin killed, Ivy complains that her entire existence appears to revolve around cleaning up her loony best friend's messes.
• Color Motif: Keeping with her plant image, everything she wears (including her underwear) is green, except for her shoes and shirt. Green accessories she has include a bikini, a sun hat, a trenchcoat, sunglasses, and a beanie.
• Combat Stilettos: She wears little black high-heeled pumps as part of her main outfit.
• The Conscience: She's like the voice of reason Harley utterly lacks. Whenever Harley does something too risky or amoral, Ivy is the one who tries and talks some sense into her. The effect varies depending on how much Harley is willing to listen to Ivy.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: As part of the Big Bad Ensemble for season 3, she's a woman who has always been supportive of Harley instead of a Straw Misogynist, like Bruce has genuine good intentions though was much more aware of what she was doing and until one episode after her defeat had no affiliation with the Legion of Doom.
• Cool Big Sis: She's way more rational than Harley and watches out for her like if she was her troublemaker little sister.
• Covert Pervert: Quickly asked Giganta's boyfriend to call her when she sees him perform cunnilingus on ice-cream.
• Cynicism Catalyst: Ivy lost her faith in humanity the first time her father hit her.
• Damsel out of Distress: In "Harley Quinn Highway", she manages to kill a number of guards holding her despite being in a place with no plants at all, though her escape attempt still fails.
• Dating Catwoman: At the end of Season 3, Ivy becomes the leader of the new Legion of Doom, but realizes Harley no longer enjoys being a villain. Not wanting to force Harley into a criminal lifestyle like the Joker did, Ivy pushes Harley to give being a hero a try and assures her they won't break up just because they'll be in opposite alignments.
• Deadpan Snarker: You can count the number of times she doesn't speak in an incredibly dry tone on one hand.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: Prior to meeting Harleen/Harley, Ivy was cold, bitter and angry because of her hatred towards humanity. Harleen showing her kindness and becoming her First Friend helped her open up and greatly improved her emotional state.
• Deuteragonist: From the first episode, Ivy is set up as the other protagonist of the show next to Harley, being Harley's Best Friend and Foil who is the main reason Harley gains the determination to get out of her abusive relationship with the Joker. When Ivy isn't helping out Harley, she's usually the center of the episode's subplot. Becoming Harley's girlfriend solidifies her role as the other protagonist.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: At the end of "Devil's Snare", Ivy is stabbed through the chest by the Joker and bleeds to death in Harley's arms. Thankfully, it turns out not to be permanent.
• Disney Death: She's fatally impaled in "Devil's Snare", but it's revealed an episode later that her Healing Factor is so strong that even having her heart destroyed is a temporary setback.
• The Dragon: Even though she keeps insisting she's not joining Harley's crew, she's Harley's most loyal ally and confidant who keeps giving advice and helping out her Best Friend. She also tries to be Harley's voice of reason, but it almost never works.
• Drunk with Power: In Season 3's climax, being empowered by her connection to the Green leads her to take control over the Zombie Apocalypse that Bruce caused by accident and go ahead with her plan to terraform Gotham by turning all humans into plant zombies. She only stops when Harley almost gets turned into a tree and she must revert everything back to normal to save Harley.
• Eco-Terrorist: Unlike other criminals, Poison Ivy doesn't care about stealing or spreading chaos. She only wants to protect the natural environment, even if that means destroying polluting factories and killing people with their own chemicals. Ivy repeatedly complains about how people treat her like a supervillain because of this. In Season 3, Harley inspires Ivy to go all out and terraform Gotham into a prehistoric jungle.
• Embarrassing Middle Name: When Kite Man proposes to her, he reveals that her middle name is Gertrude, to her clear discomfort.
• Et Tu, Brute?: As revealed in Harley Quinn Highway, her greatest fear is actually Harley, specifically the fear of putting trust in someone only to be betrayed. She ends up taking it incredibly personally when Harley seemingly breaks her promise to help her destroy Plantwide Pavers in favor of being with the Joker.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • She's annoyed when she finds out Frank ate a kid she hired to watch her plants while she was gone, albeit because his parents would be looking for him. When she finds out Frank ate the kid's parents as well, she's still not pleased.
  • In the second episode, when Kite Man uses her lethal pheromones on the kids at Penguin's party, she's pissed at him and forces him to help her get an antidote for them. She's also genuinely upset when the Joker kills Howie Mandel.
  • When she meets Kite Man's Abusive Parents whilst dating him, she is visibly discomforted by just how badly they treat him, ultimately calling them out on his behalf. Of course, since she herself had Abusive Parents, this makes perfect sense.
  • Inner (Para) Demons subverts this. Although she ultimately convinces Harley not to go through with taking Darkseid's offer of his Para-Demons she's not actually concerned with the genocide they cause. She simply states Harley is doing it for no purpose.
• Everyone Has Standards Ivy cares heavily about the environment, but even she thinks that paper straws are stupid.
• Evil Costume Switch: Season 3 has Ivy don a sexy Leotard of Power when she decides to terraform Gotham by taking advantage of the plant Zombie Apocalypse Bruce accidentally caused. She keeps the costume afterwards and Lex Luthor makes her the new leader of the Legion of Doom.
• Evil Redhead: She has red hair and while she's nice to Harley, Ivy is still a misanthropic Eco-Terrorist who openly doesn't give a fuck about any human being but Harley.
• Fanservice Pack: In Season 3, she changes her modest outfit for a revealing Leotard of Power when she's terraforming Gotham.
• Fatal Flaw: Her inability to be honest with herself drives much of the plot of Season 2's latter half. As she puts it, she hurt a lot of people delaying the inevitable.
• Flowers of Nature: When accessing the plant power of the Green, Ivy's hair gets decorated with flowers and leaves.
• Foil: Her entire situation throughout Season 1 is contrasted with Harley. Harley wants to build a team, but Ivy funny enough treats them more like a family, whereas Harley treats them like a means to an end. Harley is highly ambitious, but lacks all forms of self-awareness, which leads to disaster. Ivy has no real ambition other than helping her best friend and she fully knows what she's about. Harley is obsessed with an utter nutjob who wants nothing to do with her and treats her like shit. Ivy dates a guy who is extremely goofy, but ultimately turns out to be great (and healthy) relationship-material.
• Forgiven, but Not Forgotten: Kite Man manages to forgive Ivy for having an affair with Harley while they were engaged, but he has not forgotten it.
• Freudian Excuse: Poison Ivy didn't always hate humanity. Her parents' abuse and neglect along with a life with no friends until Harley came along made her into the misanthropic Eco-Terrorist she's today.
• Friend Versus Lover: A really complicated example in that the Joker is technically Harley's ex, but Ivy's main issue with Harley is that she constantly allows herself to be goaded by him despite him not being worth it, rather than really appreciating the friendship she has with Ivy.
  • Season 2 flips this around, with Ivy having choosing between her lover (Kite Man) and her best friend (Harley). The season ends with Harley becoming Ivy's lover after Kite Man breaks off their engagement and Ivy realizes that she only went along with the wedding for negative reasons.
• Friendless Background: One of her most traumatic childhood memories is a birthday party with no friends to celebrate it. Harley is the first human being Ivy ever felt truly connected with. It's telling that the only friend of pre-Poison-Ivy Pamela Isley's who joins her bachelorette trip is Jennifer... from kindergarten.
• Giant Woman: She uses a plant-growing chemical to become over fifty feet tall in the finale of Season 1. Too bad for her that Giant Equals Invincible is not a thing, as Joker spears Ivy straight through the heart after she becomes a much bigger target. Lucky for Ivy that her Healing Factor allowed her to survive that, albeit barely.
• Give Geeks a Chance: She becomes attracted to Kite Man, a goofy supervillain loser regarded as a joke by everyone. Ivy is embarrassed to be seen in public with him, but she ultimately admits she does want to date him.
• Green Thumb: If there is any plant life in her presence, she can control it and turn it into huge minions.
• Guilty Pleasure: Despite being an environmentalist/eco-terrorist, she confirms under the influence of Wonder Woman's lasso of truth that she's also a fan of NASCAR.
• Hates Their Parent: One of her deepest fears is her cold-hearted and unloving father. She later admits her father beating her was the reason why she became a misanthrope. As Harley says, both of them have daddy issues.
• Healing Factor: Her plant physiology allows her to heal from all manner of wounds and pathogens even having her heart destroyed only puts her out of commission temporarily.
• Hellbent For Leather: Wears a short dark green leather jacket. She also notes in "Devil's Snare" it's her favorite top.
• Hidden Depths: You'd be surprised to know that Ivy is a NASCAR fan.
• Hijacked by Ganon: Ivy's ambitions of terraforming Gotham in Season 3 are quickly sidelined when Frank is kidnapped by Bruce, but when he accidentally causes a Zombie Apocalypse in the penultimate episode she wastes no time taking control of it for herself to become the final threat.
• Hypocrite: Her villainy is rooted in environmentalism, and she advises people not to waste water in Finding Mr. Right. But Wonder Woman's Lasso reveals that she takes long showers and doesn't like paper straws (though these could be justified by her plant-based physiology for the former and paper being made of trees in the latter.)
• I Don't Want to Ruin Our Friendship: Harley is Ivy's best friend and the most important person in her life, but unlike with Kite Man, Ivy can't trust Harley won't do something that could break her heart or ruin their relationship. After Harley went back to the Joker and let Ivy down so many times, Ivy can barely allow herself to keep Harley as a friend, so becoming lovers with her is too much of a risk for Ivy to take with all the emotional baggage she already has. After Kite Man spells it out for Ivy that her heart really belongs to Harley in "The Runaway Bridesmaid" and breaks off their engagement, she allows herself to reciprocate Harley's feelings.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: The Joker harpoons her in "Devil's Snare".
• Incidental Villain: She has little interest in being an out-and-out supervillain, and instead maintains a mostly normal life with an apartment and real life problems and concerns, only very occasionally going on sprees of eco-terrorism against targets she thinks deserve breaking her normal routine.
• Insistent Terminology: She refuses to be called a villain and claims she is an eco-terrorist, consistently saying that she doesn't think it is villainous for someone to work hard in protecting nature.
• In Love with Love: Her relationship with Kite Man has shades of this. Ivy believes she loves him back and agrees to marry him even though she's not entirely sure she's ready for that sort of commitment because he's one of the most decent and caring people she knows. However, she seems more attracted to the idea of getting married and staying in a "safe" relationship rather than necessarily to Kite Man himself. Her hesitation becomes obvious to where Kite-Man picks up on it and after the wedding is ruined, he reaches his own breaking point and ends the relationship for both their own good.
• Irony: Poison Ivy's misanthropy was born out of being hurt by the people supposedly closest to her, even Harley pushes it because of her former loyal to the Joker. And yet, her own emotional problems lead her to hurt the two people closest in her current life: Harley and Kite-Man.
• I Work Alone: Ivy insists this constantly refusing offers from the Legion of Doom and denying that she's part of Harley's crew. That said, she'll still join Harley's heists if asked.
• Just Friends: Harley and Ivy have been best friends for years, but it's not until after they share a passionate kiss during their escape from Bane's pit that they realize their feelings for each other are romantic. This only makes things awkward between them because Ivy refuses to acknowledge she's in love with Harley and Harley is forced to suppress her feelings for Ivy to not get in the way of Ivy's engagement to Kite Man. After they wind up having sex following a rager in "Bachelorette", Harley finally confesses to Ivy, only for Ivy to turn her down in favor of going through with marrying Kite Man, believing her and Harley are incapable of having a lasting romantic relationship. However, in "The Runaway Bridesmaid", Kite Man realizes that Ivy truly has stronger feelings for Harley than she has for him and breaks off their engagement, leading Ivy to allow herself to reciprocate Harley's feelings.
• Kick the Dog: Killing Becca, Condiment King's fiancee; unlike Condiment King himself, she never did anything to Ivy or Kite Man, and comes off as needlessly cruel compared to many of her other acts of villainy.
• Leitmotif: Ivy is usually accompanied by mystical melody when she uses her powers.
• Leotard of Power: When she's channelizing the power of the Green, Ivy's clothes change into a green leotard.
• Less Embarrassing Term: She dislikes being called a supervillain, preferring "ecoterrorist."
• Lonely Rich Kid: Her parents were wealthy, but they never gave her any love or attention. She also never made human friends, so her only companion was a ficus plant until her father cruelly threw it away.
• Messianic Archetype: After being resurrected in "The Final Joke", she rises into the air with her arms out, her body forming a cross shape.
• Messy Hair: In the flashback of "All the Best Inmates Have Daddy Issues", it looks like Ivy didn't bother to comb her hair to show how much of a disaster she was until she and Harley became friends.
• Misanthrope Supreme: Was formerly this before her therapy sessions with Harley. She doesn't quite like people in the present, but she can hold conversations with them without wanting to vomit, as she puts it.
• Missing Mom: The tie-in comics reveal that Ivy's mother disappeared due to Ivy's father being unfaithful and abusive while she was a child. It's not made clear whether she voluntarily left, was thrown out by Ivy's father, or he murdered her.
• Mistaken for Pregnant: In Episode 4, Harley returns to Poison Ivy's apartment seeing a banner that says "It's a boy!" and baby stuff all over the place, causing her to think she's pregnant and having a baby shower. She rubs Ivy's belly and congratulates her, but Ivy tells her she's not pregnant and doesn't know why the stuff is there. It turns out to be a prank set up by the Joker mocking Harley for having Robin, a preteen boy, as an arch nemesis.
• Morality Chain: Ivy's influence keeps Harley from going off the deep end. When she and Harley are avoiding each other after their awkward kiss, Psycho talks Harley into pledging herself to Darkseid for a Parademon army. Harley gets cold feet and backs out of it as soon as Ivy shows up and questions whether she really wants to go through with it.
• Mundane Utility: Controlling plant life is very useful not just for fighting, but also for cleaning her apartment.
• My God, What Have I Done?:
  • Played for Laughs in "Devil's Snare". Ivy is forced to fight mutated trees in order to protect the crew. When she splits one of the trees in half and sees its age, she's horrified at realizing she just killed a kid.
  • A bit more serious, but she's quite ashamed of how she hurt Kite-Man in her infidelity with him and she's reduced to tears when he ends the relationship.
• Mythology Gag:
  • Ivy's attire (green skin, foliage pants) resembles her portrayal in the Batman: Arkham Series.
  • Ivy considers Harley's wish to surpass her ex-lover to be relatable. One of her origin stories has her in a toxic relationship with Jason Woodrue the Floronic Man, similar to Harley and the Joker.
• Nature Lover: She cares more for the environment and natural life than most of humanity.
• Never Be Hurt Again: Her fear of Harley hurting her again is why she is against the idea of them being in a relationship, despite her also having repressed feelings for her.
• Noble Top Enforcer: Ivy isn't into real villainy and only helps Harley in her schemes out of loyalty. She also steps in when Harley or someone in her team is at risk of going truly evil.
• No Sense of Personal Space: She routinely gets right into Harley's personal space, which is especially notable since she's otherwise as standoffish as you'd expect from a clinical misanthrope with attachment issues. It's both a sign of how much she cares about her best friend, and a sign of just how much effort it takes to get Harley Quinn to listen to you more than half the time.
• No Social Skills: This incarnation of Ivy is terrible at talking to or tolerating other people, in contrast to the seductress she is often portrayed as.
• No Sympathy: She enters Bruce Wayne's mind and witnesses how deeply traumatized his inner self still is because of his parents' murder. Ivy doesn't even feel sorry for him because he kidnapped Frank and only wants him to reveal where he is.
• Not So Above It All: Despite being the voice of reason in Harley's crew, Ivy has shown that she's not above indulging in some silly antics herself.
• Only Sane Woman: She may have been an inmate at Arkham Asylum, but living with Harley and working with the likes of Kite Man, Penguin, Bane, and Clayface makes her look positively rational.
• Official Couple: With Harley at the end of Season 2.
• Outlaw Couple: After the Season 2 finale, Ivy goes with Harley on a "honeymoon" while they're being chased by Commissioner Gordon.
• Platonic Declaration of Love: In Season 1, Ivy says, "I love you," to her Best Friend Harley when reaffirming she wants to help her, making Harley feel touched to have a friend who honestly cares for her so much. In Season 2, however, Harley and Ivy realize their feelings for each other aren't platonic friendship and they end up becoming a couple.
• Poor Communication Kills: Because of her social insecurities and inexperience with stable relationships, Ivy unwittingly causes a long chain of miseries in the second half of Season 2 where she tries to rush into a wedding with Kite Man for the sake of finding security and trust, despite not truly being in love with him but rather wants to be with Harley. Her constant denial to be honest with herself and others drags out the issues it creates, leading to the wedding being ruined in a Ballroom Blitz of supervillains versus Gordon's police raid, a fed-up Kite Man coldly calling off the wedding, and Ivy in tears with her and Harley trying to escape the GCPD.
• Powers Do the Fighting: As Frank bluntly lampshades, Ivy uses her plants to do almost everything for her, including fighting her battles. Eventually averted, as she's shown to be able to fight (dirty), and use a handgun like a pro.
• Pragmatic Villainy: She hired a kid to water her plants in her apartment while she was gone, except Frank ate him. She points out that his parents might be looking for him (to which Frank reveals he also ate them).
• Primal Scene: When Ivy was a child, she accidentally caught her father having sex with a maid. However, what traumatized her the most was her father beating her senseless over it and then killing her first plant as additional salt to the wounds.
• Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic: Frequently averted in general, but Ivy in particular tends to avert this - Ivy often stumbles over her words, stammers and repeats herself.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: She's the level-headed and sardonic Blue Oni to Harley Quinn's noisy and uncontrollable Red Oni.
• Redhead in Green: As standard for Poison Ivy, her hair is red and her outfits are green.
• Sarcastic Devotee: Ivy is Harley's most jaded and critical friend, but also the most loyal and protective one without any doubt.
• Seeing Through Another's Eyes: By accessing the Green, Ivy can see through plants, including Frank which is essential to find out who kidnapped him in Season 3.
• Short Range Guy, Long Range Guy: Has this dynamic with Harley Quinn, with Harley using her bat and acrobatics for close-range combat while Ivy uses her plant powers from a distance.
• Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: To make her stand out as one of the main characters, Ivy has red hair and green eyes.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Ivy herself admits Kite Man isn't the type of guy she would usually date, but for some reason she can't help but to give him a chance. This must have something to do with the fact that despite being a sorry joke of a supervillain and a perverted goof, Kite Man is a very decent guy when you look past that. Ivy admires his laid-back and confident personality, considering him a way better man than any other male supervillain she knows. However, Harley thinks Ivy should look at other options instead of settling down for the first man who is nice to her. Though she does come around. This is played a bit by the end since Ivy ends up with Harley, but only after Harley makes the effort to become a better person, putting Ivy's wants before hers along with working to be more reliable. Namely that while she and Kite-Man are both pretty decent people, the pre-established emotional investment Ivy has with Harley as friends ends up helping to make the relationship more appealing.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: She's cool, composed, and sarcastic as hell, but her best friend Harley and her boyfriend Kite Man bring out an incredibly sweet side in her.
• Sultry Bangs: When she goes into her Green-powered Super Mode, Ivy's hair covers the left side of her face and her clothes change into a leotard to go in line with her sexier look from the comics.
• Surrounded by Idiots: You can tell Ivy really wants to use her plants to strangle the life out of the psychotic morons she works with.
• Talking Is a Free Action: Stops in the middle of a brawl to remind a TV audience that washing their recycling before putting it in the bin is unnecessary and wastes water.
• Tears of Remorse: After her disastrous failed wedding with Kite Man, Ivy breaks down crying as it finally sinks in that she broke Kite Man's heart and got a lot of supervillains arrested because she couldn't hide her love for Harley. Being with Harley makes her happy, but she still struggles for a while with feelings of guilt and remorse over the consequences of her choice.
• Token Evil Teammate: By the end of Season 3, Poison Ivy is the only member of the crew that's still interested in being a supervillain. Harley and Dr. Psycho have both pulled a Heel–Face Turn, Sy Borgman has been mostly Demoted to Extra, and neither King Shark nor Clayface contested Batgirl's assertion that they're actually anti-heroes.
• Token Good Teammate: The crew are all supervillains, but she's a Well-Intentioned Extremist Eco-Terrorist with a reasonably functional ideology behind her actions and a strong sense of social justice (again, by supervillain standards). When someone needs to be the resident conscience, it's usually her.
• Trademark Favorite Food: She makes frequent note of her favorite restaurant, Mama Macaroni's.
• Undying Loyalty: Ivy is on Harley's side no matter what and has her friend's best interests in mind. She doesn't want to participate in Harley's schemes, but will always be there to bail her out when things go south.
• Uptight Loves Wild: Deconstructed. The serious, cynical and sarcastic Ivy harbors repressed feelings for Harley, who is crazy, impulsive and uncontrollable. However, Ivy rejects Harley's love precisely because Harley is too unpredictable for Ivy to believe a relationship between them can last or Harley won't hurt her again. Ivy decides it's safer to marry Kite Man because he's steady. Despite this however, Kite Man comes to the realization during their wedding that, despite this, Ivy does truly love Harley more than him and breaks things off with her. Ivy comes to the realization that, regardless of her impulsive personality, Harley still was willing to change for her sake and allows herself to finally reciprocate.
• The Vamp: While traditionally this, her dealings with Kite Man and a bunch of kids indicate that she is trying to avert this trope and make it on her own as a capable villainess.
• Vine Tentacles: She can control plants and use their vines as limbs.
• Weaksauce Weakness: Being part plant, she's weakened by lack of sunlight. This is bad for her when Lex uses his new Doomsday Device to block the sun.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: She identifies as an eco-terrorist who makes it very clear that she doesn't create chaos and mayhem For the Evulz, but rather for the noble cause of saving the planet.
• What the Hell, Hero?: At the end of "A Seat at the Table", she finally runs out of patience at Harley's disconsideration of her friendship when she finds out Harley lied to her and stood her up to let herself be seduced and dumped by the Joker again. Ivy is especially angry because that was like Harley wasting all of Ivy's efforts of getting Harley out of that vicious cycle of abuse.
• Wicked Cultured: Ivy's preferred alcohol is red wine, she reads books when relaxing, likes museums, and (during Season 1) took pride in having designer furniture (which, to her annoyance, Harley kept smashing).
• Worf Had the Flu: Ivy would normally have no problem overpowering Lex Luthor with her plant powers, but she's unable to do so in the back half of season 4 because his plan to get rid of Superman by blocking out the sun has also left her unable to photosynthesize. She resorts to boardroom politicking to oust him instead.
• You Are a Credit to Your Race: While she's a self-admitted misanthrope, she honestly believes her best friend Harley is "the only human being who is worth a shit". She later extends this to Kite Man, finding his confidence attractive enough to give dating him a shot.

Batgirl

Batgirl (Barbara Gordon)

Voiced by: Briana Cuoco

The daughter of Commissioner Jim Gordon who strives to become a fighter of crime.

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• Action Girl: A young woman trained to utilize martial arts and gadgetry in crimefighting.
• Adaptational Hairstyle Change: In most incarnations she tends to have long hair, but this version wears her hair much shorter.
• Adaptational Late Appearance: She first appears and becomes Batgirl after Damian Wayne is established as the current Robin, when in most continuities (including the mainline comics), she entered the picture sometime during Dick Grayson's career as the original Robin.
• Age Lift: Barbara is typically one of the oldest of the Batfamily kids, but here she is a college student who started crimefighting much later than Damian.
• Ancestral Name: Her mother is also named Barbara.
• Badass Adorable: An Adorkable college student who moonlights as a crime-fighting vigilante.
• Brainy Brunette: She has chestnut hair like her father and shows observation skills that give her potential as a detective.
• Break the Cutie: When Nightwing is suddenly killed, Barbara loses her cheerful and friendly demeanor and won't even listen to Harley. She even punches and pushes her in a fit of rage and sadness.
• Casting Gag: She is voiced by Briana Cuoco, sister of Kaley Cuoco (Harley Quinn).
• Composite Character: She's Barbara Gordon, but with Stephanie Brown's personality, and starts off fighting in a hood and ski mask against a clue-based villain. She also starts her career in No Man's Land, like Cassandra Cain.
• Conditioned to Accept Horror: She only gives a casual response to watching Harley very bloodily kill the Mad Hatter, and not even trying to stop her. Being from Gotham must do that to everyone.
• Daddy's Girl: While Batman inspired her superhero costume, the one who made her want to be a hero was her father.
• Enemy Mine: She's willing to side with Harley and Ivy even though she knows those two are criminals because she wants to get rid of the Riddler too.
• Everyone Has Standards: Played with; though Jim Gordon is her dad and inspiration, seeing his incompetence up close and personal makes her see the Joker might be a better mayor.
• Friendly Enemy: She's on friendly terms with Harley's crew, despite being on opposite sides of the law.
• Genius Cripple: She becomes this after she's shot and left paralyzed by the Joker. She's now wheelchair-bound, but can still do amazing things with a computer.
• Hero-Worshipper: Her dorm room has several posters of Batman and she designs her superhero suit after him, showing how much she admires him.
• Like Father, Like Son: Or in this case, daughter. She's just as clingy, goofy and Batman-obsessed as her dad, just in a slightly different way.
• Mission Control: After she becomes paralyzed because of the Joker, Barbara can no longer join Harley in the field, but she still can provide assistance through her computer and does some impressive hacker work to help take down enemies.
• Mythology Gag: Her Batsuit is like the "Batgirl of Burnside" outfit (but purple with yellow trim), and as Barbara she's wearing a hoodie.
• Nice Girl: She's very kind to both heroes and Harley's crew.
• Odd Friendship: Despite Harley being a villain, Barbara really wants to be her friend. By Season 3, Harley kinda gives in and accepts Barbara as her friend, although she still doesn't like her being a hero.
• Only Sane Man: She keeps trying to calm down both her father and Harley, only to convince them both to escalate.
• Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: In contrast to her stressed-out and cynical father (and the near-equally cynical but not-so stressed-out Batman), she is a cheerful and optimistic girl.
• Shipper on Deck: After the Season 2 finale, she has become a HarleyxIvy shipper and even bet on them staying a couple against her new best friend "Stephanie".
• The Smart Girl: She becomes this to the Sirens. Despite now being paralyzed, she's a computer genius who helps Harley and Ivy with her impressive hacker skills.
• Thrill Seeker: She loves the adrenaline rush from fighting crime.
• Token Good Teammate: Even if Harley and Ivy have developed some moral consciousness, they are still morally grey. Catwoman is still very much a thief out for herself. With Barbara being part of the sirens, she is the only one among them who is a full on hero.
• You Are in Command Now: In the Season 3 finale, Joker has Bruce arrested for tax evasion. Until he completes his sentence, he leaves Batgirl in charge of the Bat Family in his absence.
• Youthful Freckles: She has a cluster of freckles on each cheek, which reflects her energetic and inexperienced character.

Catwoman

Catwoman (Selina Kyle)

Voiced by: Sanaa Lathan

Cat-burglar and occasional love-interest of Batman. Appears in Season 2.

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• Adaptational Jerkass: By the time Catwoman formed a trio with Harley and Ivy in the comics, she was by far the most heroic member of the group. Here it's the opposite; she is only out for herself and thinks the other two are foolish for putting so much stock in friendship. She does however take part in Ivy's bachelorette party, during which she acts nicer. That being said, her relationship with Batman also has her being portrayed in a much less flattering light than is typical. While there's usually a legitimate spark between the two in most material, with the main factor preventing them from unambiguously hooking up being Catwoman's inability to fully let go of her thieving ways, it's revealed in Season 3 that she only stayed with Bruce for so long to mooch off of him. This trope ends up being completely zig-zagged with Selina admitting to Bruce that, despite the mooching, she ultimately can't bring herself to completely abandon Bruce after seeing just how badly he took their breakup and comforts him in her own way.
• Alto Villainess: She's a Classy Cat-Burglar with a suitably deep purry voice. Although, she views herself as an Anti-Hero instead of a villainess.
• Amicable Exes: Despite claiming that she would cut off Bruce completely after their break up, Selina admits she doesn't like seeing him unhappy either. She shows up at the premiere of the movie featuring his parents' death because she knows it's very hard on him and comforts him in her own way.
• Anti-Hero: By her own admission, she's more an antihero than a villain; while she rarely does anything particularly heroic, she's not part of the Legion of Doom and her criminal activities are largely limited to theft (and keeping a tiger as a pet).
• Bathing Beauty: When trying to take a break from dating Batman, she takes a relaxing bubble bath.
• Broken Pedestal: Ivy idolizes Catwoman as an independent and self-confident villainess. However, by the end of "Trapped" she realizes she doesn't really want to be like her after seeing how uncaring and self-centered the cat burglar really is since Ivy has grown to see the value of having true friends and love in her life. She does get better when she joins Ivy's bachelorette party.
• The Charmer: Even Ivy is taken by her charms despite her expressed distrust towards Selina.
• Classy Cat-Burglar: As staple for Catwoman, she's a sexy and aloof cat-burglar.
• Commitment Issues: Both Ivy and Batman have hooked up with Catwoman at some point, but they want something more serious out of a relationship and Catwoman hates being tied down. When Batman gets too clingy, Catwoman breaks up with him and cuts him off completely while ignoring his many gifts.
• Dating Catwoman: It's mentioned in early seasons that she has a thing going with Batman. Season 3 addresses it when Batman wants to go steady, but Catwoman gets fed up with his clinginess and breaks up with him for good.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Although Catwoman is an iconic Classy Cat-Burglar, this incarnation ironically deconstructs the trope with her personality and relationship with Batman. The traditional Catwoman is usually depicted as a high-class thief who steals for the challenge of it and usually has some kind of romantic relationship with the hero, but her portrayal in this series only has her be in a relationship with Batman purely for self-gain and also shows just how personally unpleasant a person who steals expensive items for sport would likely be.
• Everyone Has Standards: Despite being a Gold Digger towards Bruce, even she draws a line when he tries giving her two Persian cats that he named after his dead parents.
• Femme Fatale: Uses people to get what she wants.
• Friends with Benefits: She used to hook up with Ivy, but never treated it as anything but a fling and Ivy became an Extreme Doormat to her as she kept hoping Catwoman would date her for real.
• Gold Digger: She dates Bruce because he's rich and lets her hang out at his mansion as if she owned the place. Even after she breaks up with him, she still takes his expensive gifts.
• Grandfather Clause: Eartha Kitt famously played Catwoman in the 60's Batman series long before the Internet. It's likely for this that fans have been more accepting of a black Selina Kyle than the usual controversy surrounding adaptational race changes.
• I Work Alone: As she says, she isn't used to working in a team.
• Impossible Theft: She's so good at stealing that she can somehow steal Ivy's jacket while she was wearing it. In the museum, she is able to steal a ring from inside a ring box which is inside someone's pocket.
• Jerkass: She's selfish, self-absorbed, and uncaring towards people. She strings her hookups along as long as she can get something out of them and doesn't hesitate to cut them off completely once she's bored of them.
• Kick the Dog: In Season 2's "Trapped", she ditches Harley, Ivy, and Kite Man after they reach the flamethrower, and swipes the engagement ring Kite Man stole for Ivy just to rub it in.
• Kindhearted Cat Lover: The comic spin-off reveals Selina owns and spoils a literal clowder of cats, plus her apartment is covered in cat-themed knickknacks.
• Mythology Gag:
  • Like Eartha Kitt's version seen in the 60's TV series, this version of Selina is black.
  • In the finale, she's dating Tim Burton, who was responsible for giving her first big-screen appearence.
• Navel-Deep Neckline: At the Villy Awards, Catwoman wears a suit with an open coat, revealing a portion of her topless breasts.
• No Sympathy: She knows Bruce's abandonment issues are rooted in his childhood trauma with the murder of his parents, but doesn't care and only feels exasperated by his excessive clinginess. Once she gets tired of him, she breaks up with him and sends him into a depression. But she does care enough to come to the premiere of the movie based off his parents murders to support him.
• Not So Above It All: In Season 3's "It's a Swamp Thing", she returns to her apartment after living with Bruce for a while to have some "alone" time. The first thing she does is take a bubblebath while drinking a mixture of wine and beer, munch on cheese puffs, and watch a funny internet video.
• Pet the Dog: She steals the necklace of Bruce's deceased mother that was exhibited at a theater and puts it on Bruce's pocket, being aware of how much he hates that his childhood trauma has been turned into entertainment.
  • When publicly calling out how she only received a Villy award out of White Guilt, she mentions how Black Manta's status as veteran supervillain should have gotten him one by now.
• Race Lift: Like Lex Luthor and the Queen of Fables, Catwoman was made black for this series.
• Sticky Fingers: Just from her introduction sequence, she effortlessly swipes the jewellery from the patrons of the diner she was eating at, as well as Ivy's jacket.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: She is basically the Queen of Fables' replacement for Season 2, with the role of being the temporary eviler teammate, but does not commit the former's atrocities, making her a downplayed example.
• Token Evil Teammate: Of the Gotham Sirens trio. While Character Development made Harley and Ivy mellow out and show care for the importance of friendship, Catwoman is still a self-serving thief who only teamed up with them out of convenience, all of which is pretty ironic, given this dynamic is usually reversed in the comics, with Selina as a Nominal Hero and sometimes even a Token Good Teammate reigning in the more destructive Ivy and Harley.
• Unseen No More: Is mentioned by Ivy in an episode in Season 1 before actually appearing in the series.

Former Members

Doctor Psycho

Doctor Psycho (Dr. Edgar Cizko)

"I DON'T HATE WOMEN!!!"

"That really hurt, you cunt!"

Voiced by: Tony Hale

A short, angry man with powerful telepathic and telekinetic abilities.

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• Abusive Parents: He was one to his son Herman, locking him in the basement for days, killed anyone who showed Herman any sign of liking him, refused to get him a WayneStation 4, and named him Herman. Psycho states he did this to give his son a good Freudian Excuse so that he could grow up to be a great supervillain.
• Adaptational Badass: Most variants of Doctor Psycho are merely telepaths, here he is a powerful telepath and telekinetic that can go toe to toe with Wonder Woman in a fight.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: The comic version was a flatout Serial Rapist and an open Sadist who had no redeeming features at all and would cross any lines without shame or remorse. This version, while still a misogynistic supervillain, is nowhere near as bad a person. He loves his son, showed sympathy to Sy and his sister and was genuinely touched by their story, was just as sad about Ivy's death as the others, and was genuinely horrified by the Queen of Fables' massacre of the Praxis family reunion. To put it in perspective, the comic version of Doctor Psycho once mind controlled a bunch of people into cannibalizing each other, got turned on from the experience, and then broadcast his own arousal back into the survivors' minds so they could experience it as if it were their own. That said, during the latter half of Season 2, he goes through a major case of Jumping Off the Slippery Slope, becoming far more murderous and more like his comic counterpart. By the end of Season 2, he possesses almost no redeeming qualities at all.
• Almighty Janitor: Although he was once a full supervillain and Legion of Doom member in his own right, upon Harley getting them back into the Legion of Doom he is considered a henchman - and is treated as such. Despite this, he is still a powerful telepath that can go toe-to-toe with Wonder Woman (or more specifically, he could, but he's no longer allowed to fight heroines).
• Arc Villain: Becomes the main antagonist of the second half of Season 2. After failing to convince Harley to use Darkseid's army to Take Over the World, he teams up with the Riddler to take control of the wayward Parademons left on Earth in hopes of becoming Darkseid's Dragon and carrying out his dreams of conquest.
• Arch-Enemy: He’s this to both Harley and Ivy. While the two both have their individual arch-enemies in The Joker and Lex Luthor respectively, Dr. Psycho is the one villain that the two share mutual enmity with after he betrayed them for his own selfish purposes and later exposed their affair to the whole world after losing, making them hate Psycho more than they do their usual nemesis. They even made themselves clear that they will only consider working with him if there is no other option. The rest of Harley’s old crew also shares their hatred for Psycho, to the point they don’t even acknowledge his existence when breaking Harley out of Arkham Asylum.
• Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad: It turns out he made Herman's life Hell because he thought giving his son a Freudian Excuse so he would become a horrible supervillain in his own right was proper parenting. And his "reconciliation" with Herman has them state how much they hate each other instead of love each other as they tearfully embrace.
• The Brute: The most powerful and, hilariously enough, the most diminutive guy on the crew.
• The Bus Came Back: At the end of Season 2, he's been locked in Arkham Asylum for his partnership with Darkseid and he's officially out of the crew for his betrayal. Later in Season 3, Harley and company are forced to call upon him again in when they need help infiltrating Bruce Wayne's mind.
• Characterization Marches On: For all of Season 1 and the first half of Season 2, he is portrayed as a Noble Bigot Jerk with a Heart of Gold who, despite being a misogynistic supervillain, has a moral code and many redeeming qualities, thus holding the moral ground along with the rest of the crew whenever they face other villains. Batgirl even states that she sees him and the rest of the crew more as anti heroes than full fledged villains. The second half of Season 2 strips him of all his redeeming traits apart from (presumably) his love for his son.
• Chronic Villainy: He's got a severe empathy deficiency that makes it difficult for him to tell when he's crossing the line from socially-acceptable evil to the unacceptable kind. As such, he tends to treat the crew as his prosthetic conscience. Come Season 2, he begins to feel that his time with the crew has caused him to become progressively less villainous, leading him to try to return to villainy by attempting to convince Harley to Take Over the World. He then splits from the crew after Harley gets cold feet.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: As the Final Boss of Season Two his dynamic with Harley was the opposite of her dynamic with The Joker. He was formerly part of Harley's crew as she'd been The Dragon to The Joker, both left because they felt mistreated and tried to strike out on their own by winning the approval of a high profile villain. Harley by starting her own criminal organisation and joining the Legion of Doom, Psycho by taking over the world with an army of paradeamons so he could join Darkseid's forces. The Joker was a Badass Normal who was widely respected in the villain community, while Psycho was a very powerful telepath who was nonetheless rejected by his fellow villains for his open misogyny.
• Cool and Unusual Punishment: In the Season 1 finale, the Joker brutally tortures all of Harley's crew. And what torture did he prepare for Doctor Psycho? Have him be Forced to Watch videos about feminism.
• The Corrupter: Plays this the part towards Harley at the tail end of Season 2, trying (and briefly succeeding) to talk her into pursuing higher level Take Over the World level supervillainy.
• Country Matters: During a fight, he calls Wonder Woman the C-word on national television. Then, while apologizing for the incident on a talk show, he drops the C-bomb again when Giganta calls him out for his sexist behavior. Ivy remarks that he's just become the least employable person on the planet.
• Cruella to Animals: In "Riddle U," he kills escaped zoo animals to make candles from their fat and hats from their fur.
• Deadpan Snarker: Like Poison Ivy, Psycho often makes sarcastic remarks at the stupidity he gets involved in because of his teammates.
• Demoted to Extra: He starts as a member of the main cast, but his appearances decrease after Season 2 because he isn't a member of Harley's crew anymore.
• Depraved Dwarf: A little person who's also a supervillain and misogynist.
• Double Standard: Rape, Sci-Fi: Him brainwashing Giganta into loving him and having a son with him is treated less seriously than calling Wonder Woman the C-word.
• Establishing Character Moment: In a battle with Wonder Woman, he uses a politically incorrect slur that shocks everyone, thus setting him up as a foul-tempered potty-mouth.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Played With. He cares about his son in his own way and thinks it's his responsibility as a supervillain father to raise him into an irredeemably evil person. He did this by abusing him to the extreme that could drive anyone insane.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • He's a raging misogynist, but he's a doctor. He treats his ability to fix people very seriously and is offended by Ivy's suspicion that he would do something nasty in Harley's brain.
  • He's also just as horrified as the rest of Harley's crew when the Queen of Fables reveals that when she kills people, she takes out their whole bloodline to prevent revenge killing. He even tells the Queen that despite the fact that her saying it's "Evil 101", he mentions having taught that at Boston College and it never covered anything like that."
  • He apparently refused to sell King Shark's fin to a Japanese chef... and resents Harley for not being there to tell him not to consider it.
  • He's clearly as horrified and saddened by Ivy's death as the rest of the team.
  • He, along with his podcast audience, lost respect for Joker when Batgirl reveals he lied about killing Nightwing and taking credit for it just so he can boost his villain career.
• Evil Feels Good: As a child, he got a big rush from watching a Ferris wheel collapse and kill everyone on board. It was his Start of Darkness moment.
• Evil Is Petty: Broadcasts Harley and Ivy having sex to all of Gotham for no other reason than he was pissed for losing.
• Evil Parents Want Good Kids: Averted. The last thing he wanted for his son Herman was for him to grow up into a "happy and heroic" person. Therefore, he raised him in the worst way he could.
• Freudian Excuse: Parodied. When he was a child, Psycho always wanted to ride the Ferris wheel at the county fair, but he was too short to meet the minimum height requirement; despite his mother's encouragement that he might be big enough "next year", Edgar was a dwarf, and never grew any taller no matter how hard he tried. One day, the Ferris wheel collapsed (which Psycho didn't even have anything to do with), and he felt so good watching everyone on the ride die... that he became a misogynist as well as a supervillain. Even Darkseid isn't quite able to follow the logic of that last part.
  Psycho: ...And that's when I decided to hate women.
  Darkseid: I'm not sure that tracks.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: He's the only member of Harley's crew who nobody is fond of because he's such a misogynistic asshole. By the end of Season 2 he's not anyone's friend anymore.
• Godzilla Threshold: What he's treated as in Season 3. Neither Harley nor Ivy want to see the guy again after what he did in Season 2, but they have no choice but to turn to him for help when all other attempts to interrogate Bruce Wayne have failed.
• Hated by All: The Cowled Critic describes him as "universally hated". Granted, the Cowled Critic is also his abused son, but he likely wouldn't have said it online if he expected much disagreement. By the end of Season 2, the rest of crew want nothing to do with him either, and pass him over when they come to break Harley out of Arkham.
• Has a Type: Giant women. He brainwashed Giganta into marrying him, and despite normally having a mutually-chilly relationship with Poison Ivy, when she supersizes herself in "Devil's Snare," he's instantly turned on and tries to pay her to put him in her pocket. Psycho outright admits to the crew that he has a type.
• The Heavy: Dr. Psycho takes over this role after becoming the Arc Villain for Season 2’s second half, where he guides Darkseid’s army to conquer Earth for Darkseid.
• He-Man Woman Hater: Wouldn't be Dr. Psycho if he weren't a raging misogynist. When he reappears in Season 3, this aspect is notably toned down.
• Height Angst: He's sensitive about his height.
• Hidden Depths: He has enough practical knowledge to render animal fat into candles. He can also make hats out of animal hide, suggesting he knows how to work leather.
• Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action: A Depraved Dwarf had a child with a Giant Woman. Though he admitted that the sex wasn't great.
• Hypocrite: During the latter half of Season 2, he has many instances of this:
  • Back in Season 1, he was horrified by the massacre of the Praxis family, stating "We never covered anything this fucked up!" In Season 2, he goads Harley into initiating a massacre of Gotham City with a parademon army that puts the Queen of Fables' one to shame.
  • He stated that he refused to sell King Shark's fin to a Japanese chef, showing care for him. In Season 2, he brainwashes King Shark and takes joy in making him relive his traumatic childhood memory of killing his brother.
  • He showed sympathy to Sy and his sister, yet he shows no sadness when Sy sacrifices himself.
• Hypnotize the Captive: Mind Raped Giganta to fall in love with him, though she comes out of it on national television and calls him out for it.
• Ignored Expert: Played for Laughs: He takes Harley's crew on a Journey to the Center of the Mind and — having done this many times before — repeatedly tries to warn them about the various complexities of the human psyche and how many problems the group will face if they do anything rash. Much to his annoyance, nobody listens to him.
• Informed Attribute: His misogyny is so downplayed in the show compared to how often its brought up. While he called Wonder Woman the C-word and raped Giganta, the latter of which is glossed over, he spends most of the show willingly working for Harley and Ivy, and thought he trades snark and insults with them, he also does the same with Clayface, King Shark, and Sy, and makes considerably less sexist remarks than Joker or the Injustice League do, and yet, he's the only one who gets labelled a sexist creep. His betrayal in Season 2 has him claim he hates working for women as part of the reason he quit, but what was actually shown was Harley refusing to Take Over the World and he seemed to have no problem being her dragon in this scenario. Possibly its due to drawing from his depiction in modern comics, where he's a little creep but he's not above working with women and he keeps his sexism to himself more than anything.
• It's Personal with the Dragon: Dr. Psycho may be serving Darkseid in season 2, but it is Dr. Psycho whom Harley and her crew has the most animosity with since Psycho used to be part of Harley’s crew before deciding to betray them.
• Jaywalking Will Ruin Your Life: Despite being a supervillain, he becomes hated by the public, expelled from the Legion of Doom, and labelled a misogynist because he kept using "the C-word". Complicating the claims of misogyny, his wife Giganta called him out for mind controlling her into loving him and walked out on him, on live TV.
• Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: In the latter half of Season 2, he realizes he's gone soft and loses almost all of his redeeming qualities, betrays the crew, and tries to kill Harley and lead a parademon army in massacring Gotham and conquering Earth.
• Kick the Dog:
  • He forces King Shark to share his most traumatic memory.
  • Mind-controlling Ivy and forcing her to kill her best friend and secret lover, Harley
  • In one final act of spite, he shares Harley and Ivy having and affair to Kite-man, Ivy's fiancee and all across Gotham.
• Kick the Morality Pet: In Season 1, he was willing to put aside his grudge against Harley at the time to rescue Poison Ivy from Scarecrow. In Season 2, after Psycho goes rogue, he mind controls Ivy on the spot the next time they meet, showcasing that he's completely gone off the deep end.
• Knight of Cerebus: His betrayal of Harley marks the point where everything goes sideways for her in Season 2.
• Lousy Lovers Are Losers: When Ivy meets Doctor Psycho's ex-wife Giganta, she immediately wonders how their sex worked. Apparently, really poorly, at least for Giganta. Played for Laughs since the fact that he hypnotized her into marrying him doesn't bother her that much, but the fact he couldn't please her does.
• Mad Eye: Fittingly for someone going by Doctor Psycho, his left eye is drawn bigger than his right one.
• Misplaced Retribution: Dr. Psycho tells Darkseid about the time he decided to hate women for not letting him go on the Ferris wheel despite the fact that they had nothing to do with his prevention from riding the it, which was a result of him being too short. Granted, Dr. Psycho’s hatred for women after that moment could be a result of him blaming his mother for getting his hopes up in that he would eventually be tall enough to ride the Ferris wheel, but even so, that is still a flimsy excuse for hating women, to which even Darkseid takes notice of.
• Mistaken for Gay: In "Dye Hard," Psycho tells the crew that he and Riddler like each other and are "together". Obviously, Psycho means he and Riddler are teaming up to control the Parademons and kill Harley, but Clayface takes it the wrong way.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: After he turns against Harley, Psycho's main grudge is the she never made him feel respected and appreciated when he was in her crew.
• Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: Played with. He is no mad scientist per se, but he did teach Evil 101 in an actual university, so he actually has a PhD, rather than just adopting Doctor as part of a villainous nickname.
• More Despicable Minion: Dr. Psycho manages to be this to Darkseid, of all people. While Darkseid himself is a genocidal Galactic Conqueror and the most recognized super-villain in the entire universe, there are standards that even he wouldn’t cross, such as calling someone a cunt, standards that Dr. Psycho have already crossed long ago. Darkseid is also confused on the reason why Dr. Psycho decided to hate women and seems to find Dr. Psycho a disgusting piece of work, only recruiting him because Darkseid’s first choice, Harley, decided to break her deal with Darkseid.
• The Napoleon: Very short and prone to yelling and insulting people over trivial things.
• Noble Bigot: Proud misogynist, but had no problem working with Poison Ivy and being led by Harley Quinn, and up until Season 2 was fine with being part of her crew. He drops the "noble" part in the second half of Season 2.
• Oh, Crap!: After he calls Diana the C-word on national television, he's taken aback by everyone else's reaction.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: Publicly calling Wonder Woman a cunt. Even Darkseid knows about it and considers it low of him.
• Pet the Dog: He has quite a few moments where he shows he can stop being awful when he wants to, particularly in Season 1:
  • "L.O.D.R.S.V.P." has him help Sy reconcile with his sister who was transformed into an octopus monster by using his telepathy to act as her translator. Hearing Mirielle's feelings touches him so much that he cries.
  • In "Harley Quinn Highway," he agrees to help Harley rescue Ivy without asking anything in return.
  • In "The Final Joke," he pays his respects at Ivy's funeral along the rest of the crew.
  • He's truly moved by Mister Freeze sacrificing his life to cure his wife in "Thawing Hearts".
• Politically Incorrect Villain: His Fatal Flaw. He's evil, but not marketable evil, and he's trying to correct it with limited success.
  • The Legion of Doom kicked him out because even they found Psycho's blatant misogyny to be crossing a line.
  • He also shows a hint of being racist. While we don't know what he said to set off Black Manta, he replies it was "nothing racist" when asked.
• Power Perversion Potential: He used his Psychic Powers to brainwash Giganta into loving him.
• Pragmatic Villainy: He joins Harley's crew since working in a crew with a female leader would help repair his image that he so utterly ruined.
• Psychic Powers: He can read minds, brainwash people and move objects with his mind.
• Put on a Bus: After betraying the rest of the crew at the end of season 2, Psycho is no longer a main character. The show's cover on HBO Max was replaced with a new one for season 3 that emphasizes Harley and Ivy's relationship and includes Clayface, King Shark, Bane, Batman, and Commissioner Gordon, but not Doctor Psycho. The Bus Came Back for two episodes late in season 3, where Harley and ivy break him out because they need to enter Bruce Wayne's mind.
• Reformed, but Not Tamed: In Season 3, he's making a legitimate attempt to reform into a proper psychiatrist and is taking steps to move away from his misogyny. That doesn't mean he's any less ill-tempered and brutally sarcastic, and he and Ivy soon wind up back at each other's throats.
• Reformed, but Rejected: He's mostly reformed by the time he returns in Season 3, but the crew makes clear they haven't forgiven him for betraying them in the previous season and only seek his help to enter Bruce Wayne's mind. Ivy in particular openly hates him more than ever.
• Reformed Criminal: When he reappears in Season 3, he's seemingly making a legitimate attempt to reform himself, hosting a self-help podcast from Arkham.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: In a peculiar example of this, Psycho quits Harley's crew after she backs out of the deal he brokered with Darkseid, disappointed by her reluctance to engage in that level of supervillainy.
• So Proud of You: When he sees his son is more evil than he could have ever imagined him to be, Psycho tells him how proud he is.
• The Sociopath: Downplayed. He has the least functioning moral compass of the gang, has committed rape and child abuse, was so unlikeable the Legion kicked him out, and has multiple times taken an It's All About Me approach. But multiple scenes shows he has compassion for others and functioning empathy, such as his sadness at Mr. Freeze dying to save his wife. In the latter half of Season 2, however, he loses most of his redeeming qualities and becomes more of a true sociopath. Then Season 3 has him move away from his worst characteristics. It's entirely possible that he's functioning on a Moral Sociopathy level, but the general villainy that comes with the archetype are mostly absent.
• Sore Loser: After being defeated by Harley and Ivy, he uses his powers to send the memory of their night of drunken sex to everyone in Gotham out of pure spite.
• Squishy Wizard: His Psychic Powers make him one of the most powerful members of the team, but physically, he's a diminutive dwarf who could be easily crushed by Harley's bat. He's still Made of Iron enough to take beatings that would kill a normal man.
• The Starscream: When Harley backs out of her deal with Darkseid, Dr. Psycho takes control of the parademon army himself and, after acquiring a device that enhances his psychic powers, hypnotizes King Shark and Clayface into turning on Harley as well.
• Stay in the Kitchen: While appearing with Giganta on a talk show, Dr. Psycho tries to speak on her behalf and put words in her mouth, all the while vehemently demanding that she stay silent.
• Tame His Anger: In Season 3, Psycho is seemingly working through his bad temper issues thanks to the Joker's new reform program for Arkham.
• They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: He insists on being called Doctor Psycho.
• Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Exaggerated. He's a Depraved Dwarf who was married to Giganta (because he mind-controlled her into it). He barely reaches her ankles. Since the two have a son together, Poison Ivy wonders how that works considering the extreme size difference.
• Token Evil Teammate: The crew may be supervillains, but he's consistently got the least functional moral compass (alongside Sy). Interestingly, he's both aware of this and none too happy about it (not least because being a horrible jerk to everyone has ruined his career and his life). However, he eventually can't take not doing true evil anymore and quits the team after Ivy talks some sense into Harley when the latter unleashes a Parademon army in Gotham.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: For most of the series, he's an obnoxious Napoleon who only joins Harley because the Legion of Doom kicked him out, but multiple scenes did show he had a softer side, he seemed to genuinely enjoy working with the crew, and was shocked at the gruesome brutality of Queen of Fables like everyone else. By the second half of Season 2, all of his redeeming traits are gone and his worst traits maximized, starting with taking control of a Parademon army to kill all the people in Gotham and take over the world. Two episodes later, he betrays the crew by teaming up with Riddler and trying to kill Harley.
• Tough Love: After a fashion. His son resents him for giving him such a fucked-up childhood until Psycho explains he did that because he cares so much about his son that he didn't want to see his potential as a supervillain going to waste, so he gave his son one big Freudian Excuse to set him in the path of villainy.
• Translator Buddy: He plays this role for Mirielle, Sy's sister who got turned into an octopus monster. Psycho uses his telepathic powers to let Sy know how Mirielle feels and help them reconcile.
• Transflormation: In Season 3's climax, Psycho gets turned into a tree after a plant zombie vomits on him.
• Walking Spoiler: There's a certain thing Dr. Psycho does in Season 2 that makes it difficult to discuss him afterwards. Namely, that he betrays Harley and forms a Big Bad Duumvirate with the Riddler.
• We Used to Be Friends: For all the things Dr. Psycho did to them while he was working under Darkseid, the crew have more or less dropped Psycho from the team. When King Shark, Clayface, and Frank infiltrate Arkham to help Harley escape, they don't even acknowledge him. The tie-in comics go a step further and explicitly show Harley has cut him out of her pictures of her and friends together, no longer wanting to acknowledge that they worked together.

Clayface

Clayface (Basil Karlo)

"Brother! It is I! The Superman! From Kryptalon!"

Voiced by: Alan Tudyk, Jonah Platt (singing voice)

An actor made of clay who takes great pride in his art.

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• Accent Upon The Wrong Syllable: He often overemphasizes the last syllable of a sentEEENCE. It's generally a sign that he's descended so far into his obsession with Large Ham theatrics that he can't even hold his diction together.
• Adaptational Dumbass: Most incarnations of Clayface are intelligent enough to use their shape-shifting powers to effectively deceive people, while this Clayface is an idiot who can't even go one mission without trying to exaggerate the false identities he creates and constantly overplays the parts. He was easily tricked by Maxi Zeus into blowing his cover, and he blew the team's cover when he was impersonating Batman because he couldn't keep himself from singing.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Most versions of Clayface are murderous, unstable monsters. This one's just a friendly and endearingly inept actor who happens to mostly work for supervillains.
• Adaptational Wimp: In other media, he's a powerful enough Shapeshifter to warrant drastic measures specifically for him. Here, Doctor Psycho is able to beat him up with his bare fists and he gets his clock cleaned by Maxie Zeus, a powerless human and lesser villain. In fact, throughout the entire first season, besides his debut appearance's fist fight with Doctor Psycho, the only other (very brief) moment he was seen fighting was shapeshifting his arm into an axe to fend off the sentient tree monsters created by the Scarecrow. Although the episode "Lover's Quarrel" shows that he's capable of his more traditional feats of power when under Psycho's Mind Control, possibly indicating that his fighting prowess is hampered by his love of "acting" rather than physical weakness.
  • By Season 4, he is just as powerful as his comic counterpart, being able to take on Ivy in a fight.
• Affably Evil: Is one of the friendliest members of Harley's crew, after King Shark.
• Ambiguous Gender Identity: Gender identity is always a complex issue when talking about free-form shapeshifters (it's not, after all, something that our understanding of gender and sexuality has had to seriously address so far), but Clayface makes it especially difficult - his Shapeshifter Default Form is male and apparently quite comfortable being so, but he only ever attempts any form of romance (whether it be seducing someone for a mission or dating off the clock) when wearing a female form.
• Ambiguously Gay: When he expresses romantic or sexual interest, it's only ever in men. The 'ambiguous' part comes from the fact that while his Shapeshifter Default Form is male, he prefers to approach them as women - see Ambiguous Gender Identity above. The Valentine's day special has him admit that he identifies as sexually fluid.
• Bad "Bad Acting": Just like his depiction in The Batman, Clayface is such a bad actor that he rarely ever fools anybody even with his shapeshifting. He does seem to have improved somewhat in Season 3 as he's able to better mimic people's voices and mannerism than before but still has a tendency to let his natural speaking patterns slip in, but unlike before, he's aware of this and actively attempts to reign it in.
• Brain Bleach: He throws his eyeballs away upon seeing the carnage left by the Queen of Fables. If anything, he throws them too early, as she follows up by cleaning the crime scene in a manner too gruesome even for the audience.
• British Teeth: Has crooked yellow teeth, plus he speaks in a British accent.
• Camp Gay: So campy that he can play a dramatic college girl as easily as breathing and he's all for transforming into a woman to seduce men more than once.
• Chewing the Scenery: Alan Tudyk is clearly having a ball playing a hammy actor.
• Cloudcuckoolander: His habit of developing needlessly complex backstories for his roles is bizarre enough, but his response to Harley using Firefly's flamethrower to create a vagina-shaped entrance to Mr. Freeze's lair is to remark that it reminds him of his mother.
• Comically Missing the Point: Because of his Complexity Addiction he ends up doing this frequently. When confronted with Red Riding Hood's wolf - a wolf dressed up as an elderly lady - he turned himself into Grandpapa Wolf.
• Complexity Addiction: Due to his flair for the dramatic, every single character of his must require some kind of elaborate back-story and/or hidden darkness, or else he can't find the motivation to play them. When tasked with ad-libbing the role of a delivery guy to distract Maxie Zeus, his idea is "a delivery guy who is also Maxie's long-lost son", which winds up exposing him as a fraud.
• Demoted to Extra: He doesn't appear as often in Season 4 due to now being a celebrity, and doesn't hang out with Harley and Ivy anymore.
• The Ditz: He demonstrates an incredible level of stupidity. He thought that a tank could shoot invisible missiles, has blown his cover more than once, and it took him a moment to realize that the Big Bad Wolf that the Queen of Fables summoned was not actually a grandmother. He than tried to confuse the wolf by shapeshifting into another wolf right in front of it and pretending to be its husband. Psycho even pointed out that the wolf was actually a male one wearing a dress and not a female one, so this attempt made no sense even in context. His stupidity is even lampshaded in "Thawing Hearts", when an annoyed Dr. Psycho shouts "God your stupidity is incredible!"
• The Dog Bites Back: In "Icons Only' Clayface revels in the chance to make Harley and Ivy, who have mistreated him numerous times, squirm over not having tickets to his sold out shows. He physically threatens them both, and even though Harley apologizes, he points out that she's only saying that now after he's finally successful.
• Drama-Preserving Handicap: If he was smart enough to use his shapeshifting properly for infiltration and combat, he'd be the most dangerous and versatile member of Harley's crew by an enormous margin. He isn't, so he's just useful but unreliable.
• Dumb Is Good: He's a genuine Nice Guy who's both the least intelligent and least actively murderous member of Harley's team, to the point where he has only ever been seen using violence in defense of himself or the rest of the crew.
• Effeminate Voice: He uses a campy voice when he transforms into a woman to interpret female "roles".
• The Face: He's the uh, most, uh, 'flamboyant' person in the group. At the same time, he is fairly social and cultured, having introduced King Shark to the group.
• Forgot About His Powers: Frequently tends to forget about his many many abilities, including...
• Giftedly Bad: He's a dedicated thespian who considers himself a Master Actor, but he's nowhere near as good as he thinks he is. While he can perfectly imitate someone else's appearance, he doesn't do as well with imitating their personalities, and his over-the-top mannerisms usually give him away.
• Grew a Spine: Finally making his breakthrough unto stardom, Clayface has grown confident enough to stand up to Ivy for her mistreatment of him and makes a point to get her to acknowledge him after she deliberately ignores him. When she doesn't back down from mocking him, they fight and he's competently makes full use of his powers.
• Hidden Depths: He's not that good of an actor, but he turns out to be quite a good singer.
• Iron Butt-Monkey: Because his clay body renders him largely invulnerable to serious harm, he's been on the receiving end of amusing injuries. Maxie Zeus beats him up, he loses his arm and has to spend most of the episode trying to get it back, and Aquaman beheads him for trying to pose as Superman.
• Large Ham: As a thespian, he seems incapable of giving a subtle performance. This can actually work in his favor if he impersonates someone who's just as hammy as himself; in "L.O.D.R.SV.P." his disguise as Aquaman is entirely believable and manages to fool two Atlantean guards.
• Lost in Character: In his time on campus as Stephanie, he becomes absolutely engrossed in the gossip and drama of Greek life, despite later dismissing them as "petty trappings". It gets to the point where he can't concentrate enough to free himself from Riddler's hamster wheel.
  Stephanie: [distraught] I can't buh-lieve Chad set me up! I broke my PURITY RING for him!
  Harley: Clayface, pull it together. Turn into something skinny and slip out of your belt.
  Stephanie: Are you calling me FAT?! [wails pitifully]
  Harley: [admiring] ...Honestly, this is some of his best character work.
• Luvvie: Clayface is a classic example of a British actor who has his roots in theater..
• Master Actor: He thinks he's an amazing actor who can fool anyone with his performances. While his shapeshifting does help with that, he's usually too much of a ham to be taken seriously.
• Minion with an F in Evil: Clayface is kinda bad at villainy in this series, and is only useful as an actor/distraction, and even then it rarely works.
• Morphic Resonance: When infiltrating the Iceberg Lounge, his waiter character "Francois" has the same ghastly teeth as he does, a rare slip for a normally talented shapeshifter. It would've gained more notice if Penguin was the kind of guy to actually pay attention to the help, or if the rest of the crew weren't in even worse disguises.
• Most Definitely Not a Villain: Tends to introduce himself as "it is I, [current identity]!" and will often drop into his disguises' backstories at a drop of a hat.
• Mr. Imagination: Whenever he transforms, he makes up with an elaborated backstory and profile for the character he's playing, to the annoyance of his teammates and whoever he's distracting at the moment.
• Nice Guy: He's an annoying loudmouth, but he's polite, friendly, kind-hearted, and generally not villainous at all outside of his choice of employers. He and King Shark even agree when Batgirl states they are more anti heroes than villains.
• Noodle Incident: He apparently had a bad review of his acting in the past which was worse than literally getting his head sliced off for it.
• Odd Friendship: After the Season 2 finale, it's revealed Clayface has become best friends with Batgirl under the identity of Stephanie. Batgirl still has no idea that Stephanie is Clayface.
• Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: He tends to lose his grip on whatever fake voice he's using whenever he gets the chance to talk about his characters' backstories.
• Perfect Disguise, Terrible Acting: His shapeshifting powers allow him to perfectly mimic anyone. The problem is he can't act; all his performances are in the same over-the-top large ham, which gives him away as a fake 99% of the time. The remaining 1% is from impersonating the just-as-hammy Aquaman.
• Powerful, but Incompetent: It is shown he is capable of going toe-to-toe with members of the Justice League when going all out under Psycho's control, but he is usually too hammy to take advantage of his true strength.
• Pulling Themselves Together: He can call back any parts of him that get cut off or separated, as long as he can see them and they aren't blocked by something.
• Running Gag: Every time he transforms, he sprays clay in every direction.
• Secret Secret-Keeper: He befriends Barbara/Batgirl under the disguise of Stephanie. Barbara thinks she's hiding her hero identity from her best friend, but Clayface already knows. Barbara is the one who doesn't know her best friend is Clayface in disguise.
• Shapeshifting Sound: Often moulds his body into new configurations with an oozing sound effect; also, when he has to shapeshift into a disguise, he spins himself around like a tornado with a sloshing sound.
• Shapeshifting Seducer: He suggests a plan to seduce the mayor by transforming himself into a woman, and cases Kord Industries by transforming into a woman and seducing a member of the staff.
• Small Name, Big Ego: He thinks he's a great actor, but he's anything but.
• Technically Naked Shapeshifter: The only clothes he ever wears are part of his transformations.
• Those Two Guys: His dynamic with King Shark, which gets even more pronounced after Doctor Psycho splits from the crew. His bombastic personality is often contrasted with King Shark's more down-to-earth demeanor.
• Took a Level in Badass:
  • He's been far more helpful to the group in Season 2. It's stated that the plan to save the frozen Harley from Penguin was his idea, and when invading Riddle U, he used his disguise work to immediately take suspicion off Harley and Ivy. This extends to combat, as he's much more active in fights than he was in Season 1.
  • By season 4, he's practically on par with his comic counterpart in terms of raw combat abilities and shapeshifting, with none of the vocal giveaways he had before, as well as being capable of holding his own against Ivy in a fight.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: His newfound fame seems to have gotten to his head by Season 4. He's much more antagonistic towards Harley and Ivy (though this may be justified by their previous msitreatment), and he freely admits he has no problem if innocents are hurt during his fight with Ivy.
• Truly Single Parent: After one of his limbs cut off, it gains sentience and calls Clayface "Dad".
• Unskilled, but Strong: On multiple levels. He's not much of a fighter and not much of an actor, but he's got a superpower that's incredibly useful for both of those jobs. Everything he does ends up as a tug of war between his ineptitude and his massive natural advantages.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: He can take the form of humans of either sex and animals.
• Wicked Cultured: For a given meaning of wicked, at least. Say what you will about his abilities as an actor, he is knowledgeable about Shakespeare (what with being a thespian) and he can whip up fairly complicated stories at a moment's notice.
• Willfully Weak: He deliberately chooses to be infiltrator/spy for the Quinn Crew than use his powers to his full potential. When Doctor Psycho starts controlling his mind, Clayface is able to change size and become a force to be reckoned with.

King Shark

King Shark (Nanaue)

"Is that a shark joke? If so, it's very funny."

Voiced by: Ron Funches

A happy, easily excited, but very bloodthirsty shark man.

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• Actually Pretty Funny: When Harley complained that she couldn't "get a bite" on her website profile, it seems like Dude, Not Funny! is about to apply when he very seriously asks if that was supposed to be a shark joke. Then he bursts out laughing while saying it was a good one.
• Adaptational Attractiveness: He's a lot more cute and less scary-looking than his comic book counterpart.
• Adaptational Intelligence: He's an Unskilled, but Strong Boisterous Bruiser in the comics. Here, he's a competent computer hacker.
• Affably Evil: He acts more like an excitable Manchild most of the time than a monstrous shark. His voice actor flat-out describes him as a great person in everything except ethics.
• Arranged Marriage: His father, a king, forces him into a political marriage to keep two shark kingdoms from going to war. Neither he nor his wife-to-be are especially interested, but this ends up working to their advantage when they both realise they can just make it an open relationship and live their lives almost entirely separately from each other.
• Badass Boast:
  • After it's revealed that the Queen of Fable's wolf was killed:
  Clayface: How did you manage to hollow out the innards of that beast?
  King Shark: Well, a lot of people ask me who would win between a wolf and a shark. (Spits out bone) It's a shark.
• Benevolent Boss: Zig-zagged. He became boss of the prison when he was briefly incarcerated. He utilized his appearance with some added physical threats to make the other inmates comply with his demands, but also maintains that he doesn't want to harm his underlings, since he "Like[s] being cool boss".
• Berserk Button: Doesn't appreciate the term "fish" to describe new prisoners.
  King Shark: Now fellas, look, I know it's all in fun but WHAT THE FUCK DID I TELL YOU ABOUT THAT WORD?!
  Prisoner 1: Oh, yeah. Sorry King.
  Prisoner 2: Yeah, sorry about that.
  King Shark: Aw, they're learning. Baby steps, right Harley? I WILL KILL EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU WITH MY BARE HANDS IF I HAVE TO!!!
• Beware the Nice Ones: Normally, he's a nice, geeky, humanoid shark monster. Let him smell blood and you lose the 'nice' and 'geeky' parts.
• Bloodlust: He's normally meek and polite, but if he smells even a drop of blood he turns into a killing machine. Normally he uses smelling salts to avoid the issue, but they don't work so well in the water.
• Cain and Abel: He killed his brother when he accidentally cut his knee in a fight, which triggered King's bloodlust and drove him into a murderous frenzy. King is guilt-ridden for doing this and it explains his discomfort with blood. It's revealed in Season 3 that he actually had 14 brothers, 13 of whom he ate. He ends up killing his final brother in "Another Sharkley Adventure" after said brother tries to sign the kingdom over to Ocean Master.
• Character Development: In a bizarre fashion, King Shark gets increasingly more comfortable with killing people as the series goes on, to the point his murderous personality shift upon smelling blood mostly disappears.
• The Confidant: In Season 3's climax, King unexpectedly acts as Bruce's confiant and listens to his emotional baggage concerning the death of his parents. King is able to sympathize with Bruce because he has also dealt with grief after the death of his father and brothers.
• Cute and Psycho: He's an adorably nice computer geek until he smells blood or someone uses "fish" as an insult. He then turns into a murderous monster and you remember he's a dangerous villain. Even without anyone pressing his Berserk Buttons, he'll still bite the head off of anyone in his way.
• Cute Giant: He is a giant Shark Man who is ironically enough, quite cute, especially with his friendly demeanor.
• Double Meaning: King Shark says he can't handle blood at the idea of being the shark in their shark tank. It is later revealed that the smell of blood actually makes him go feral with Bloodlust and causes him to actually try to kill Robin when he nosebleeds into the tank. Doctor Psycho and Clayface admit that they both thought King Shark meant he was Afraid of Blood.
• The Engineer: Besides being a stellar hacker, he can build and modify vehicles and equipment, such as turning a regular car into a death car with a gatling gun.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • Is disturbed by Harley's declaration she's going to murder Robin, a^note granted, incredibly annoying child.
    Ivy: If you do it, you validate what everyone's saying, that Robin's your nemesis.
    Shark: Also you'd be a child killer, which some may argue is worse.
  • He drops his typical Large Ham demeanor after watching Clayface Waterfall Puke out clay that is then reabsorbed into his body.
    Shark: I do not understand how you live with yourself.
  • He also was very uncomfortable with the idea of being the Threatening Shark circling around Robin and had to be told repeatedly that they weren't asking him to eat him. Of course, getting a whiff of Robin's blood via a bleeding nose caused him to lose all restraint, but his reaction to blood was one of the reasons why he was against doing the act in the first place.
    • He also seemed reluctant to play a negative stereotype of sharks. When Clayface volunteers to be the shark and describes his interpretation, King Shark is convinced to do it himself.
  • He only eats humans as part of business but tries to avoid women and children (until his accidental blood frenzy), and swore he wouldn't kill old people (he prefers to let the American healthcare system do that).
• Evil Genius: He was brought onto Harley's crew for his technical know-how.
• Exotic Equipment: Whenever the subject of penises comes up, such as either in the form of a Groin Attack or as a form of emphasis, he makes sure to remind people he has two of them, similar to real-life sharks.
• Face of a Thug: By supervillain standards at least. He's actually a lot more happy-go-lucky and dorky than his appearance would suggest. That is, as long as he doesn't smell blood.
• Genius Bruiser: He's a computer expert and knowledgeable about the failings of the prison industrial complex. He's also the most physically powerful member of Harley's crew.
• The Heart: Ironically he's one of the nicest members of Harley's crew despite being a humanoid shark.
• I'm a Humanitarian: He eats people, both for business and for pleasure. When he sees a diver in a fishtank at the Legion of Doom headquarters, he reacts like he's just seen a free buffet.
• Large Ham: Most of his dialogue is delivered AT THE TOP OF HIS LUNGS!
• Made of Iron: Doesn't even flinch when Harley breaks a wooden bat on his face and he reacts with only a lowkey "Ow?"
• Man Bites Man: His go-to move in a fight is to take a bite out of whoever he needs gone.
• Meaningful Name: As of the end of "Another Sharkley Adventure", he's the ruler of the Shark Kingdom, making his name of "King Shark" accurate.
• My Instincts Are Showing: If he gets a whiff of blood he'll become feral and attack the source to eat them. He tries to eat Robin and Wonder Woman, and he tragically ate his own brother when he accidentally cut the latter's leg during a scrap. Season three reveals he did this to his other brothers a total of thirteen times according to his last surviving brother Prince ^note  This may be a reference to the fact that many species of shark will eat their smaller siblings (albeit while still in the womb)... before Shark is forced to kill him in self-defense.
• Nice Guy: Unlike Clayface and Psycho, he doesn't need Ivy to convince him to risk his life to help Harley in "Being Harley Quinn". He and Clayface also both agree with Batgirl when she states that she doesn't really see the crew as villains.
• Playful Hacker: A competent hacker.
• Really Royalty Reveal: "Bachelorette" reveals King Shark is the crown prince of the shark kingdom, but had run away to avoid an Arranged Marriage.
• Shark Man: He's a large shark-human hybrid with rows of sharp teeth.
• Sibling Murder: Dr. Psycho is surprised to learn that Shark killed and ate his younger brother due to his blood frenzy acting up while he was bullying his sibling. His last surviving brother Prince reveals that this happened at least thirteen times with the rest of his brothers. Shark claims they were all accidents just before he's forced to kill Prince in self-defense.
• Smart People Wear Glasses: He wears minuscule pince-nez glasses when playing the Evil Genius.
• Speaks Fluent Animal: He can talk to fish, but doesn't speak Dolphin. He knows a little Porpoise, though, but...^note he was cut off, but Porpoise likely is to Dolphin like Spanish is to French or Portuguese.
• Threatening Shark: He's a generally surprisingly friendly Shark Man, but he is still a supervillain who has eaten people.
• Those Two Guys: With Clayface, especially after Doctor Psycho defects. Clayface's constant dramatics make King Shark look even more normal in comparison. It's also revealed that the two knew each other before they became part of Harley's crew, as Clayface is the one who contacted King Shark.
• The Tooth Hurts: The Season 1 finale has the Joker rip out many of King Shark's teeth and use them to make a necklace.
  • He also ends up trying to bite into Wonder Woman's unbreakable bracelets when they fight in "Lover's Quarrel", which ends up breaking his front teeth.

Frank the Plant

Frank the Plant

Voiced by: J.B. Smoove

Ivy's giant talking venus fly trap.

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• And I Must Scream: He claims to have spent ten years in a dog park before Ivy made him anthropomorphic, implying he was conscious the entire time.
• Bizarre Alien Biology: In addition to flowering eyes growing out of stalks on either side of him, he's shown to have a tiny buttocks on the back of his "head", in spite of not having legs or the kind of digestive system that would need it.
• Canon Foreigner: One of the few characters made specifically for the show.
• Commuting on a Bus: Frank seems to vanish from the screen anytime the plot doesn't really need him, he was away from a few episodes in Season 1, and Season 2 does the same; meanwhile everyone else in Harley's crew is always seen, in all episodes.
• Everyone Has Standards: As much of a jerk he is, he's furious that the Joker killed Howie Mandel.
• Expy: To Audrey 2 of Little Shop of Horrors being a trash-talking man-eating plant with a penchant for insulting and lowering the self-esteem of those around him. He's also named after that film's director Frank Oz.
• Eyes Do Not Belong There: His eyes are on his "hands" instead of his face.
• Hypercompetent Sidekick: He's usually the one helps the crew (both in personal and supervillain problems).
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Openly obnoxious and rude, completely apathetic to Harley's problems, and has no problem letting bad things happen just to see a reaction. But ironically, he's not as bad as a lot of the show's other villains. Despite him being a grade-A jerk most of the time, he's ultimately loyal to Ivy and does understand how much Harley means to her. In "Bensonhurst", he drives to pick up Harley first to help rescue Ivy when he finds out that she's in trouble. He later joins Clayface and King Shark in helping Harley escape from Arkham, though she turns them down.
• Jerkass Has a Point:
  • When Ivy claims she works alone, Frank points out her hypocrisy given her reliance on plants, not to mention using him as a servant.
  • In response to Harley wanting to break into the facility holding Ivy, Frank states Harley will get shot and killed if she goes in alone.
• Levitating Lotus Position: In Season 3, Frank shows off his new powers by floating in a Lotus Position and crushing a can with telekinesis.
• Man-Eating Plant: He's a mutated venus flytrap and he's shown an appetite for humans. In the first episode, he ate a kid and his parents offscreen and barfs up their skeletons.
• No Sympathy: After Harley confides to him that she's realized the Joker doesn't actually love her, he responds with this:
  Frank: Oh boo-fucking-hoo! I spent ten years in a dog park. Come talk to me when a St. Bernard shits on your face!
• Only Sane Man: Plant, but it still counts. He's the closest to Earth in all main cast, including Ivy.
• Phrase Catcher: "Shut up, Frank!", which Ivy yells at him whenever he annoys her.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: Only rare sentences of his are devoid of any swearing.
• Team Pet: A pet that speaks, snarks, and swear. After Doctor Psycho quits the crew, Frank the Plant starts taking his place, attending Kite Man's bachelor party and accompanying Clayface and King Shark on their Arkham jailbreak.
• Took a Level in Badass: In Season 3 he's mutated further; his vines grow longer and thicker and he takes on a generally more humanoid shape, making him more mobile and dexterous. He reverts back to normal however at the end of "Climax at Jazzapajizza".
• Would Hurt a Child: He has no issue eating a kid. Or their parents.

Sy Borgman

Sy Borgman

"I'm back baby!"

Voiced by: Jason Alexander

Ivy's grouchy landlord who also happens to be a cyborg.

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• Adaptational Badass: He's far more skilled and versatile than his comics counterpart, being able to singlehandedly take down numerous goons and even transform into a sedan.
• Adapted Out: The series omits his grandniece Hannah Borgman, better known as Hanuquinn of the Gang of Harleys (the rest of whom are also absent).
• Alter Kocker: Much like his comics incarnation, though he avoids the Yiddish as a Second Language.
• Brain Uploading: His consciousness is stored in his mechanical eye, and can be accessed by plugging a phone jack into a TV. After his Heroic Sacrifice, he uses this to upgrade to a stand mixer so he can help Kite Man finish the mind control blocker to fight against Dr. Psycho.
• Cyborg: He's got a bionic arm and leg, though the latter is superfluous since he's in a wheelchair.
• Demoted to Extra: Season 3 sees him only show up a couple of times without relevance to the plot.
• Disposing of a Body: His main job back when he was a CIA agent was to be a "go-to cleaner" whenever a mess happened and they needed someone to get rid of the corpses.
• Evil Feels Good: Wishes to join Harley's crew and get back into villainy, since nearly burning them made him feel alive again.
• Grumpy Old Man: He's an elderly man in a perpetually foul mood.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Sy blows himself up to allow Harley, Gordon, and The Joker to escape from Dr. Psycho.
• I Know A Guy: He has connections to such villains as Black Mamba and Henry Kissinger.
• Irony: The disabled CIA spook gets his car towed for parking in a handicap spot because he doesn't want to register with the government.
• It's All My Fault: He blamed himself for his sister Mirielle being turned into an octopus monster because one of her hybrid mutation experiments Went Horribly Wrong when she was trying to create the octopus-monkey he asked her to make.
• Jewish Complaining: Constantly complains about Ivy's guests.
• Noble Demon: A Grumpy Old Man and war criminal though he may be, he's nothing but helpful to Harley's crew once he joins. He even performs a Heroic Sacrifice to help Harley, Gordon, and The Joker escape from Dr. Pscyho.
• Noodle Incident:
  • Comes across Harley's crew passed out and wearing "Suicide Squad" shirts during their Journey to the Center of the Mind and assumes they're a death cult, saying Oh, No... Not Again!, suggesting he's rented to death cults in the past.
  • Sets up a flashback in the season two opener about the end of The Vietnam War, but Harley cuts him off and forbids any flashbacks. Twice.
• Not Quite Dead: Via Brain Uploading. As it turns out, his consciousness is stored in his cybernetic eye, which allows him to be revived as a stand mixer.
• Oh, No... Not Again!: When he's showing Ivy's apartment and finds Harley's crew passed out during their Journey to the Center of the Mind, he mistakes them for cultists, suggesting he's accidentally rented to death cults in the past.
• Painful Transformation: His transformation into a sedan is shown to be very bloody and very painful. Changing back is even more painful.
• Punny Name: Sy Borgman is a man with robotic parts. He is literally a cyborg.
• Racist Grandpa: He's implied to have some very un-PC views. It's treated like Fantastic Racism when he mistakes King Shark for a pet.
• Red Scare: One of his rules is "No commies."
• Retired Badass: He's a retired CIA fixer who was legendary (not always in positive ways) for his ability to make even the biggest, messiest problems disappear.
• Retired Monster: Again, CIA fixer during the Cold War. Superman explicitly calls him a war criminal, and he's both open and quite unrepentant about the monstrous things he used to be involved in.
  • He gets Vietnam flashbacks in the first episode of Season 2, which are implied to be enjoyable to him.
• Scatterbrained Senior: He's a little out there; when King Shark calls him xenophobic, Sy apparently doesn't recognize the word and mistakes it for a reference to Xena: Warrior Princess.
• Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!: He's quite old and not terribly concerned with politeness.
• Senior Sleep-Cycle: He falls asleep randomly throughout Harley Quinn Highway.
• Shoe Phone: He has a phone built into his bionic leg. In his old age, however, he complains that the buttons are hard to read.
• Sixth Ranger: He doesn't formally join the crew until near the end of Season 1.
• Super Wheelchair: His wheelchair is equipped with all sorts of gadgets. Guns, a backhoe, a helicopter. The latter would be more impressive if it didn't have trouble lifting more than one person. And if he remembered to keep the diesel topped off.
• Support Party Member: For most of season one. After joining Harley's crew, he only goes with them on one mission (to steal a sarcophagus) and doesn't even join them in the Legion of Doom. Harley outright states at one point that he was never really part of the crew. This gets averted later on when he helps them save Ivy.
• Token Evil Teammate: As a retired war criminal and a CIA agent during the Cold War, he's been involved in more serious, professional evil than most of the gang, and he carries the attitude over. They recruit him after he almost kills them all.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: He has implants that allow him to turn into a sedan decked out with weaponry. The exact process of doing so however... isn't pretty.

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