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Batman: The Animated Series – Bios – Harley Quinn


Bios – Harley Quinn
 

Voiced By: Arleen Sorkin
First Appearance: “Joker’s Favor”
Position: Joker’s Hench Wench
Bio: Harleen Quinzelle was a brilliant and successful criminal psychiatrist. After encountering the criminal mastermind, The Joker, at Arkham Asylum, Harleen develops a fascination with the madman’s maniacal psyche. She begins to treat him, only to find herself completely under The Joker’s control. Unable to break his hold on her, Harley enters a world of crime as The Joker’s criminal accomplice and lover, Harley Quinn.

Harley quickly becomes one of the Dark Knight’s deadliest enemies, as she carries out The Joker’s every evil whim. She develops a villainous friendship with Poison Ivy and the two become sisters-in-crime by virtue of their shared hatred for male domination in the criminal underworld.

Although her true personality has been subjugated by The Joker, beneath it all Harley remains a sweet lovable person. Upon her arrest, she is deemed mentally unbalanced and sent to Arkham Asylum – not as the brilliant doctor she once was, but as one of Gotham’s criminally insane on the other side of the padded cell.

Bio (Cartoon Network): Putting the “lovely” back in “lovely assistant,” Harley Quinn is the Joker’s devilish right-hand woman and partner in crime. But the comely Harley was not always a felonious lawbreaker. Before she was Harley Quinn, she was Dr. Harleen Quinzelle, a criminal psychiatrist employed by Gotham’s Arkham Asylum. Harleen only became Harley after she fell in love with one of her patients: the Joker. And the rest, as they say, is criminal history. Batman has since learned the hard way not be fooled by Harley’s clownish antics and bubbly demeanor. She is nearly as deadly as the Clown Prince of Crime himself.

For more, refer to the The New Batman Adventures bio.
For more, refer to the 
Justice League bio.
For more still, refer to the 
Batman Beyond bio.




A tribute to Arleen Sorkin, from the Max streaming service, after she passed in Aug. 2023.


     
     
     
     
     
 


Trivia #1: Arleen Sorkin not only voices Harley Quinn, but was the inspiration for her design, too. Check out the image below of Arleen Sorkin wearing a familiar-looking jester costume during one of her performances back in the 1990s.

 

Trivia #2: Check out Paul Dini’s initial design ideas for Harley Quinn during the early stages of production for Batman: The Animated Series.

 

Trivia #3: Paul Dini reflects on the creation of Harley Quinn in a forward from a special Harley Quinn 30th anniversary comic collection.

 


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1 Comment

  1. Mikelo
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    Harley might be a phycopath but she is an interesting character. My favorite.

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