DC Youngverse/Tropes

== Tropes for the franchise ==
* All-Star Cast: The franchise contains celebrities such as Racheal Zegler, Elizabeth Olsen, and Anna Akana, as well as well-known voice actors such as Kimberly Brooks and Clancy Brown.
*Art Shift: Several movies in the franchise use different visual styles and even different animation styles and techniques.
* Author's Saving Throw: 
** While mostly well-received, the 2019 version of DC Superhero Girls did saw some criticism for the less comptent potrayal of the male superheroes, with some even feeling it hampered its message of female empowerement. This franchise, which drew inspiration mainly from DCSHG, avoided those criticism by potraying both male and female superheroes as being equally competent, and even featuring heroes such as Brainiac-5 in standalone stories.
** Fans felt that the franchise managed to redeem villains such as Enchantress and Mr. Freeze in the eyes of moviegoers following their lackluster cinematic debuts througth more memorable potrayals that played to each character's strength.
* Adaptational Badass: In this version, Harley Quinn is shown to be somewhat more athletic than most versions, being team captain at all of her school's sports team.
* Adaptational Intelligence: While still pretty much The Ditz, Harley is smarter than most versions, mainly due to her failing in love with the Joker due to suspicions of some sort of troubled childhood based on his modus operandi, as she has a terribly big soft spot for people who got it rough, instead of believing bullcrap from him, and being able to see the monster he is far sooner than most versions.
*Adaptational Job Change: Played with. This version of Harley is too young to be a psychiatrist and psychologist, and with her parents dead, she instead works as an intern in Ace Chemicals to pay the bills. That being said, she is studying psychiatry and psychology, and she's a prodigy in that area. 
* Adaptational Nice Guy: While Harley Quinn still has a crush on the Joker, she ultimately chooses her friendship with Barbara Gordon over him, to the point of helping her defeat the Joker and becoming her crime-fighting partner afterwards.
*Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: While in recent comics Harley is seen as part of the Bat-Family, this version is implicity adopted by Bruce Wayne, who gives her a room in Wayne Manor and allows her to live with him.
*Character Development: Harley slowly recovers througth the films from the trauma brought by the Joker's manipulations in Batgirl.
*Composite Character:
** This version of Harley Quinn has her usual Ditz/Genki Girl aspects, is best friends with Batgirl like her 2019 DCSHG self (througth that Batgiel.was Barbara Gordon rather thsn Stephanie Brown), and is a more heroic person much like her New 52 and 2015 DCSHG self. That being said, she's still plagued by the same mental issues most of her other selves are. Her backstory has her dad abandoning her for some beer, just like her DCEU self. She was also adopted by Bruce Wayne as his ward, much like most Robins. And, much like Jason Todd (who is established as already dead in Batgirl), she becomes a lot more brutal with criminals. Her suit is a combo of her Batsuit from Harley Quinn: Legion of Bats! and her LEGO DC Super-Villains outfit. Furthermore, she shares her New 52 self's admiration and love for Wonder Woman.
** Poison Ivy's personality mainly draws from her Harley Quinn (2019) version, but she shares traits with her 2019 DC Superhero Girls and Arkhamverse versions during the events of Harley & Ivy, while her alignment afterwards is more in line with her 2015 DCSHG version.
* Crounching Moron, Hidden Badass: Downplayed in that, while not a moron, Harley can be very childish. Threaten her friends, througth, and better start praying cause all bets are off.
* Deconstruction: Cluemaster serves as a deconstruction of "C-list level" villains. While he is considered to be just an annoyance to people like Batman, for people who lack his experience he is as terrifying as the Joker, as they have no way to defend themselves against someone who can go toe-to-toe with a superhero. In fact, the reason Batgirl and Harley Quinn consuder him The Dreaded is because of how he abused Stepganie as a child, when she had no way to defend herself. In other words, Cluemaster exemplifies how, while not a threat to people like Batman, C-list villains can be just as terrifying in the eyes of civilians.
*Disabled in the Adaptation:
** This version of Raven explicity has dissociative identity disorder, which she never had in any other potrayal (while her alters are versions of her "Emoticlones" from Teen Titans (2003), they were potrayed as aspects of Raven's personality and not full-blown alters).
** Harley in this version wears glasses. Which Batman and Batgirl modified into another gadget.
*Does This Remind You of Anything?: Harley's post-chemicals personality is potrayed similarly to her having a learning disorder.
*Fridge Brilliance:
**In this version, Harley, in a roumdabout way, ends up sharing similarities with Batman: She (almost) loses a loved one to a criminal with a gun, just like he did; she is driven insane, akin to how Batman's own sanity has been called to question; develops a kinship with a criminal that ends with her reforming, which goes without saying; and she goes througth an arc where she (re)learns that the world is not black-and-white and criminals can be better people while droppimg her rage towards them, which was pretty much Batman's own arc in the 2022 film. Like father, !ike adoptive daughter.
**Zatanna in this version has Large Ham tendencies worthy of Megamind. As a stageshow performer, her job is to attract the audiences' attentions.
*Genre Roulette: While the DCATU films usually are rather standard superhero films, there are some that are set within other genres:
** DC Superhero Girls is an action-adventure treasure hunt film in the style of Indiana Jones.
** Harley & Ivy is a full-blown road trip buddy movie.
** Raven II is a Psychological Thriller.
*Heartwarming Moments: Harley's relationship with Batman. Remember how in, her show, Harley was the sister he never had? Well, here he is his adopted daughter. And they get along so well even with their differing personalities ots hard to remember they are not biologically related.
*Hilarious in Hindsight: In the Harley Quinn (2019) episode "Batman Begins Forever", Harley ends up taking the role of Robin in one of Batman's memories. In this franchise, she becomes a crimefighter alongsife Batman and Batgirl, essentially becoming the "Robin" of the trio until Dick Grayson's debut.
*Informed Judaism: Averted. Unlike most adaptations, Harley actually makes several nods to the fact that she is Jewish, such as using Jewish expressions, making references to the Purgatory and other elements of Judaism, and one film even takes place during Hanukkah.
* Locked Out of the Loop: Aside from Zatanna and Razer, nobody knows Raven has dissociative identity disorder. This is more understandable than other cases, as mental health is a very sensible topic and is actually suggested to talk about it only with people you trust.
*Loves My Alter Ego: Inverted, in that Pink Raven has a crush on Beast Boy, but Raven isn't interested on him. Dosen't stop her from encouraging her, througth,
*Mythology Gag: Harley's trademark favorite food is apudin, her nickname for the Joker in most continuities.
* Recurring Gag: Zatanna mistaking someone with an enemy at the start of the DC Superhero Girls films.
* Role Reprise:
** Corey Burton reprises his role from the DCAU as Brainiac.
*Stepford Smiler: Harley at first seems like a quirky and friendly vigilante, but it soon becomes clear than, as brief as her time the Joker manipulating her was, she was left with as much psychological and emotional scars as most other versions, ranging from guilt, to struggles with mental disorders.
* Unexpected Characters:
** More like unexpected team, but, since the DC Superhero Girls franchise was devised more as a toyline snd only appeared in the comics outside of tie-ins, the fact that the team from the 2019 version was the focus of the franchise's first crossover caught many by surprise.
** Let's be honest, who actually expected Brainiac-5 to lead his own film?!
== Tropes for the films ==
=== Tropes for Batgirl===
*Adaptational Badass: This version has the Joker taking the Man-Bat serum, making him a far more physically imponent fighter.
* An Aesop:
** Optimism is important and powerful.
** Don't be afraid to be who you are.
**When it comes to choose between someone you have a crush on and friends who truly love you, choose wisely.
* Applicalibity: Stephanie being told to "toughen up" and become a darker person in Gotham can be seen as a parallel to how some want superhero films to have a dark and serious tone instead of something more lighthearted and upbeat, with the film ultimately saying that, in the end, therre's nothing wrong with being funny and lighthearted. Word of God is that this was unintentional but "ultimately embraced by the time".
* Author's Saving Throw:
**While Darker and Edgier than films such as The Lego Batman Movie and Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders, the film is still noticeably Lighter and Softer than most films centered on the Batman mythos, further addressing criticisms that the Batman and Batman-related movies have been excesively dark at the cost of a sense of fun.
**Similarly, fans were pleased to see the film embrace the sci-fi aspects of the franchide, after some felt recent cinematic outings were execively realistic and neglected the more fantastical side of the character.
**Also, while critically acclaimed, some criticized Heath Ledger's Joker and certain subsequent incarnations for lacking the character's more wacky and over-the-top behavior. Said fans were pleased to see Batgirl to have a Joker that is hammy and campy while still being genuinely terrifying, with some positively comparing the Tom Hiddleston's potrayal with those of Mark Hamill, Jack Nicholson, and Cesar Romero.
**Many pointed out the Unfortunate Implications of Batman blaming Jason Todd's death on him, as it comes out as victim-blaming. This film, while never explictly saying so, strongly implies that Batman does blame himself for Jason's fate in this version.
*Awesome Moments:
**Unlike previous incarnations, when the Joker deliberately throws her off to some chemicals to enrage Batman and Batgirl, Harley does not justify it in any way. This was the moment that showed her the Joker is a sociopath, and she accepts the truth. She even gets to give a "fuck you" to the Clown Prince of Crime by still being a good person, showing that "one bad day" may drive someone insane, but dosen't necessarily turns them into someone like him.
**Then there's her fighting the Joker, which is so one-sided it finally puts onscreen something Harley fans knew all along: If there's someone the Joker is scared of, is her.
**This is even better dusplayed at the end. The Joker, inside of a tall building ajd back to his human form, tries take Batgirl hostage and run. But Harley intervenes in the nick of time and effortessly throws the Joker into the ground. Upon noticing Harley with her maze in her hands and fury in her hands, the Joker practically shits himself, knowing she's gonna kick his ass worse than Batman. As Harkry approaches him, he trues to talk his way out, but Harley ain't buying his crap twice. Helpless the Joker tries in vain to call Batman for help. Harley then gives Mr. J a taste of his Mad Love medicine by punching him with her hammer out of a window and straight to the street, where he lands straight in the trash, which, as Harley states, is where he belongs.
* Catharsis Factor: Given how horrible the Joker treats Harley in most media, seeing her actually beating the crap outta him can be very satisfying from a meta perspective. The fact that she ends up turning the tables on him in a Mad Love recreation is the cherry on top.
*Chekov's Gun: The opening scebes feature Harleen as part of the school's baseball team as pitcher. She later uses her baseball skills at the climax to throw Batgirl a Man-Bat antidite to use on the Joker.
*Darker and Edgier: The film noticeably skews the more cartoonish concepts and/or stories featured in previous Warner Animation Group films and instead focuses more on emotional stories and character development, all while focusing on issues such as self-steem and the consequences of overworking. The film's setting is also noticeable bleaker, being set in a lawless city full of corruption and crime. Additonally, the film os more viokent than previous WAG, featuring tons of onscreen Family-Unfriendly Deaths at the hands of an unsavory villain.
*Foreshadowing: Harleen often shows hints of a sillier, more childish side, hinting at her transformation into Harley Quinn at the end of the film.
*Fridge Brilliance:
** The filmmakers admitted The Joker turning his henchmen into the Man-Bat Commandos was a deliberate Ass Pull. Which is something totally in-character for The Joker! After all, he does have a reputation for doing things in a whim!
** Its already fitting that the song that plsys duribg the Joker's raid on S.T.A.R. Labs is "The Joker and the Thief". Its also fitting that the song playing right before is the song "Born to be Wild", performed by the band Steppenwolf.
**The Joker's lair includes a makeshift throne. Well, he is known as the Clown Prince of Crime.
**Joker being cynical in this version makes sense if you recall his speech from The Killing Joke about the world being a joke.
*Funny Moments: Harley and Joker's fight. The fact that these two are really nuts and wacky as hell means that seen them both fighting equals a lot of Toon Physics, funny dialogues between boths, and even a few jokes that are straight out of Looney Tunes.
*Heartwarming Moments:
** Stephanie and Harley's friendship in general is this! Even througth the two are fans of arch-enemies and Harley is in love with the Creepy Clown, the two are with each other througth thick and thin, to the point that not only Barbara admits her secret to her right after becoming Batgirl and even taking her to the Batcave while working out of trust, but Harley is very supportive of her, delivers sweet and sound advice, and is generally geniunely happy for her friend.
*** And even througth she spents part of the film torn between her friendship with Stephanie and her crush on the Joker, Harley ultimately chooses to actively help her friend by fighting the Joker.
*** The origin of Harleen Quinzel's codename "Harley Quinn" in this version? "Harley" is Stephanie's Affectionate Nickname for her. It really gives her Catchphrase "Call me Harley" a lot of emotion behind it. Its almost as if she's asking people to be her friends.
** The scene where Steph discovers Bruce gave her one of his Batmobiles. And not just any Batmobile, Its the Tim Burton version! Which they both said was their favorite!
*** And then is Steph's reaction. The same one any fan lf the Burton films would have if they were in her shoes.
*** A more subtle one: The shot revealing her new Batmobile is a direct homage to the opening shots of the Joel Schumacher films, down to Elliot Godmenthal's theme playing in the background. No Take That! No mocking. Pure awesomeness. It's a straight up homage. Considering how both of the Schumacher films are seen as the worst luve-action Batman films, and he never got a chance to redeem himself after his planned third, Darker and Edgier, film got axed, this feels like a great Throw the Dog a Bone moment towards a fellow Batman fan who never got the chance to make, in his words, "a true Batman film".
** Bruce adopting Stephanie and Harley at the end. He finally loses the loneliness he realized he had at the beginning
* Hilarious In Hindsight:
** Loki's boast in his self-titled series' fourth episode of having lost track of how many times he died becomes a lot funnier now that his actor, Tom Hiddleston, appears in this film as the voice of The Joker, who has defied seemingly-impending dooms so many times he even had an entire trope about that named after him.
** In the Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? epusode "What a Night for a Dark Knight?", the Joker disguises himself as Man-Bat to kidnap Alfred. In this film, he actually takes the serum.
*Lighter and Softer: In spite of being Darker and Edgier than previous WGA films, it is at the same time lighter in tone than most Batman films, featuring a more optimistic and upbeat vibe product of a lead character who is more joyfull and energetic than Wayne, as well as a greater amount of jokes and humour.
*Nightmare Fuel: Not because is one of the Lighter and Softer versions of the Batman mythos dosen't mean its not terrifying. Its not the 60s, you know!
** The Joker. He is as much of a Creepy Clown as he is in the comics. And Tom Hiddleston lines are both eloquent and truly wild, making up for a truly chilling performance.
*** His appearance alone is quite horrifying. Combine the eyes of his 2004 self, Heath Ledger's scars, and his Arkham body, and this could qualify as the most creepy a normal Joker has ever looked. Add to all that his Man-Bat form, and you'd be forgiving to think he became one of the Devil's beasts.
*** His introduction is nothing short of terrifying, even througth we don't see his face yet. He throws knives at a tied bank security officer like in a circus act just to scare him for his own sick amusement, all while telling him he won't kill the officer. But when Batman shows up, the Joker chooses to go for the kill, simply telling the officer he changed his mind about not doing so, followed by a shot of the knive approaching the guard, who screams for his life, right before cutting to Batman and the police hearimg the scream. The way Hiddleston so sincerely says both "I'm not gonna kill you" and "Oh, heah, then... i changed my mind" makes it even scarier, since it shows the Joker truly changed his mind on whether kill or spare the security officer.
***Also, how the Joker randomly changes targets during a fight, unless he's that close for the kill. One second he tries to shoot Batgirl or Batman, and the next he targets the first person he sees instead. And not only enemies, but he can change his mind and kill an innocent bystander for the hell of it in an instant. Indeed no one's truly safe when the Joker's around...
***...And that "no one" dosen't exclude even his lackeys. The Joker does randomly shoot the first of his allies he can kill, even througth they didn't even were near him.
***The scene in which Batgirl and the police attack what appears to be the Man-Bat. The filmmakers admittedly drew inspiration from the equally terrifying bottle factory scene in The Incredible Hulk, and it really shows. The scene becomes even more terrifying when its revealed kt wasn't Langstorm who attacked, but The Joker himself, having taken the Man-Bat serum. And unlike him, he's perfectly aware of what he's doing and enjoyed it.
*** And right before leaving, he drops a captive Langstorm to his death cackling like hell. And after his henchmen congrakute him on killing him before he coukd provide the heroes with a cure to the serum, he asks: "Wait, do you really think he would've give them a cure?". The fact that his voice tone is completly sincere manages to mame the line even more chilling.
*** His plan this time? Combine the Man-Bat serum with his Joker Poison and unleash it on Gotham City. But he firsts tests it on a civilian. And tp the results are creepy would be an understatement. The victim starts to painfully turn into a mindless monster while laughing uncontrollaby, and all that's left is a dead giant werebat with an offputting smile. And he plans to do it to all of Gotham.
***In order to gain easy access to Ace Chemicals and the chemicals that turned him into who he is now, the Joker fools Harley into giving him that access by lying that he wants to find out whether he can be cured of his state. Its already creepy how his lies and manipulations feel reminiscent of the Mad Love comic, but the fact that this Harley is a teenager while Joker is at his mid-40s makes it far, far, worse.
*** Right before his final clash with Batgirl, The Joker chooses out of nowhere to turn his henchmen into the Man-Bat Commandos with the remaining of the original serum. And the scene is predictably horrifying, with tons of Body Horror to spare. Even worse is that this is followed by the Joker unleashing them on Batgirl with a delivery of the line "Fly, my pretties. Fly. Fly" that would make the Wicked Witch of the West proud.
*** Several shots make the Man-Bat Joker look like he was a feral beast seeking to kill... which isn't too off the truth.
** The film dosen't even try to sugarcoat how Gotham City is a lawless hellhole. Most of the city's design looks straight out of a zombie apocalylse movie. Also, police sirens, gun shots, and even screams can be heard in the background. Thank goodness Batgirl managed to correct that by the end of the film.
* Meaningful Echo: Upon being given the mantle of Batgirl, Stephanie exclaims "I'm Batgirl!". She later repeats these words after choosing to make the world a happier place and not lose hope, when a poor man asks her who she is.
* Mythology Gag:
** Stephanie's adress in the film is "Craig Street 1968", a nod to Yvotte Crakg, who played Barbara Gordon in the Adam West series, and Batgirl's debut in the year 1968.
**The scene where Harley sees herself in ghe mirror post-chemicals is an homage to the iconic mirror scene from Batman (1989).
**Before fighting the Joker, Harley Quinn says "Hey, Joker. You wanna get nuts? Come on! Let's get nuts!"
**A graffiti saying "S. Lee" can be spotted in a building alongside a graffiti of an African-American man, as a clear nod to Marvel Comics Stan Lee, who actually did wrote for DC, having developed a line of comics in which he re-imagined several DC heroes. Among those re-imagenings was an African-American Batman.
**Stephanie in this version is hired by Bruce as his personal assistant, which was Terry McGuinnis' cover for his activities as Batman in Batman Beyond.
**The film's climax is a mix-up of three moments from The Dark Knight: The Joker hides an expllsive device on two separate boats, combining his plots of kidnapping Harvey Dent and Rachael Dawes and of hiding a bomb in one of two ships, while he announces this while holding a camera, much like when issuing his threat to Gotham less Batman reveals himself. He also ends his message with the words "same Joker time, same Joker channel".
**The Batcave's entrance is accesed by activating a mechanism on a wall similar to the one in Beware the Batman.
**At one point in the film, Batgirl says to Bruce that he should have tried with contacting Wonder Woman if he tried go fight Kryptonians due to their weakness to magic.
**This version of Harley uses a javelin to fight as well as her maze, a nod to her being given one in The Suicide Squad.
**Stephanie's school is called "Faust's School for Gifted Young Minds", a nod to 2019 DCSHG creator Lauren Faust. Additionally, the school's baseball team is the "Gotham Hyenas", a reference to Harley's love for hyenas.
**Stephanie's room has posters with nods to Batman composers from Shirley Walker to Michael Giacchino.
**Batman once again finds himself in the opposite side of a Stealth Hi/Bye, followed by a quip on the matter.
**At one point, the film recreates the Joker's dance in the stairs from his solo film.
**Two tracks in the score are titled "Batgirl Begins" and "Batgirl Returns", both of which are titles for the 2004 and 1992 Batman shows. This also calls back to a track of The Dark Knight Rises' score being titled "Batman Returns".
**The scene near the end where Harley throws the Joker off Gotham Bay and into the ocean was meant to be a reversal of the scene in the comic Mad Love, where the Joker threw Harley off a window. Additionally, before throwing him, she calls him a "lousy scum-sucking creep", the same insult she used towards him in the Batman: The Animated Series episode "Trial". Also, the Joker pleading for Batman's help is a nod to the TAS episode "Joker's Favor".
* Oh Crap!: The Joker undergoes a massive one when he notices that Harley A.K.A. The one who had the upper hand against him as a Man-Bat, was the one who knocked him to the ground in human form. And the way he tries to avoid more problems with her is one that fans haven't seen since "Joker's Favor"!
* Stealth Hi/Bye: Played for Laughs. Shortly after Stephanie discovers Batman's identity, he vegins to talk to her on the natter, pnly for him to turn around and discover the girl is gone. He then comments "Wow. Soooooo.... That's what it feels like".
*Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: When fighting against multiple enemies, make sure to ambush one alone after checking in were the others are to prevent them from interfering in time to save the first one. The Joker learns this the hard way when he tries to take Batgirl hostage and escape, only for Harley Quinn, who happened to be close by, to save Batgirl by attacking Joker by surprise, resulting in her literally kicking the crap outta him and launching him onto the river.
*Take That!: After the Joker is done dancing on stairs, he starts dancing on the ground in a manner simikar to Emo Peter's mementically famous Spider-Man 3 dance... only that this clearly is meant to be intentionally ridiculous.
* Tearjerker:
** The opening scene is heartwrenching to its core. A shot even shows tombstones revealing that everyone Bruce was clode with, from Selina Kyle to Alfred, ended up dying eventually. The following shot is of Bruce sitting in solituded until the Batsignal appeared ála Batman Returns. However, whereas that was an awe-inspiring if solemn image of Batman waiting for duty to call, thus one is a downright depressing look of a man who's job is practically the one thing he has left.
*** Even worse, according to the tombstones, the only Robin in this continuity was Jason Todd. The events of A Death in the Family not only happened, but to Batman's first partner and brpke him to the point he didn't wanted another.
* Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: While the film is relatively lighthearted, specially for a movie based on the Batman franchise, it neverthless dosen't sugarcoat how much of a monster the Joker is, being as every bit as terrifying as always.
*Unexpected Character:
**Man-Bat surprised auduences by actually showing up here. Ehile in the actual film his alter-ego dosen't habe a big role, at least the serum does.
**On that note, nobody expected to see the more unknown Man-Bat Commandos making their theatrical debut here.
=== Tropes for Supergirl===
* Author's Saving Throw: While Superman (1978) is still held in high regard by fans, some took an issue with how Superman's origin story in that film had him essentially being brainwashed by his father into becoming a hero, while underplaying the roles of the Kents in his origins, a plot point that transcended even to more modern versions such as the DCEU. In this film, Superman explicity states that he never knew what his father sounded like, while crediting the Kents for making him who he is now.
* Awesome Moments:
**When Kara finally learns to fly. The optimism, the emotion... It manages to succeed where many Superman films failed: Recreating the magic of Christopher Reeve's first film.
**After that, is Kara donning her Rebirth, symbolizimg her actually becoming Supergirl, protector of Earth... and her little cousin's.
* Composite Character: While Supergirl's personality is mainly modeled after her DC Superhero Girls (2019), her character arc of coping with the destruction of Krypton is partially based on her Superman/Batman: Apocalypsis incarnation. She also dons her Rebirth costume.
* Heartwarming Moments:
** Superman asking to Kara about not just Krypton, but their family. He really wants to know more about them. Doubkes as a Tearjerker
** Supergirl's first flight will denotate a big spark in your heart.
* Prequel: The film is set a few months before Batgirl.
* Mythology Gag:
** John Williams' Superman theme appears througth the film.
** Supergirl's first flight was inspired by her first flight in her 1984 film.
**The film makes heavy use of rock music, alluding to Supergirl being a rocker in DCSHG.
**Superman's first scene has him doing the iconic rip-off shitt from the original movie, and the cover of Action Comics #1.
**General Zod tries to recreate Krypton while using Earth as a template, much like his DCEU incarnation.
**Superman says Zod plans to recreate Krypton on Earth "no matter how many men, women or children he needs to kill" to fulfill his goal.
**As in The Flash (2023), Kara confronts Zod on his ship and tells him that "Krypton is gone".
**Supergirl is tempted to rebuild Krypton at the cost of innocent lives, much like in Legion of Superheroes (2023).
**At the end of the film, Supergirl refers to Superman and Lois as "Lois & Clark".
*Shout-Out: The scenes near the opening where Supergirl's pod is detected near Earth are an homage to the opening scenes of The Day The Earth Stood Still.
* Tearjerker: 
** The opening scene where Kara is blasted to Earth. After seeing her enjoying being with her family, we cut to the end of Krypton, with Kara having no idea wjere her cousin or parents are. And when she finds her mother, the latter is forced to sent Kara away, specially since she refuses to leave without her. To see Kara screaming for her mother as she departs Krypton is heartbreaking. And seeing her crying in grief after Krypton explodes, assuming no one surbived and unaware Kal escaped too, right before she freezes in suspended animation, is outright gut-wrenching.
** Kara flashing back to Krypton's destruction abd tearing up. At the end of the day, Kara is just a traumatized girl who lost forever the only family and home she ever knew, and she won't get them back.
=== Tropes for Zatanna===
* Adaptational Species Change: Instead of a humanoid being, this version of the Enchantress was some sort of supernatural creature before her spirit was sealed.
* Author's Saving Throw: Many fans agree that this film's potrayal of theEnchantress is far better than that of Suicide Squad. For starters the character is given a far more entertaining personality by allowing Elizabeth Olsen to ham it all, giving a fun-to-watch yet genuinely scary performance. She is also given a far more concrete backstory and motivation: She was a tyrannical ruler worshipped by many as a goddess, until her servants eventually reveled against her, took her magic, and sealed her as a spirit, so now she tries to absorb as much magic as possible to regain her power and take over the world. It also helps that Enchantress is far more suited against the magical Zatanna than the grounded Suicide Squad.
**Also, most audiences felt that the circunstances regarding the Enchantress' escape ran on Idiot Plot due to June Moon doing everything an archeologust should not do. The film corrected this by explicity showing she was hypnotized ala Aurora in Sleeping Beauty by the Enchantress.
* Central Theme: How growing up affects our relationships.
* Does This Remind You of Anything: Much like in DC Superhero Girls (2019), Zatanna's powers emerging is meant to be an sllegory for puberty.
* Leaning on the Fourth Wall: During the post-credits scene, when Wonder Woman shows up, she says "I suppose you know who I am", to which Zatanna nods in agreement.
*Nightmare Fuel: Enchantress, a devious sorceress with a god complex who is willing to brainwash and posess anyone. And she treats killing like part of a business.
*Mythology Gag: 
** The licensce plate number on Zatanna's car is 2031911, the birth date of her co-creator Gardner Fox.
**In the comics, Zatanna became able tp control only the four elements when her powers were diminished during a Justice League run. The film has Zatanna initially being able to control only the four elements while she learns to control her powers, with the rest of her abilities being unleashed the more she learns of them.
** The circunstances that led to Julie Moon being posseseed are lifted directly from Suicide Squad (2016). The Enchantress' attack to Moone's colleagues is a nod to Black Adam's first fight against Intergang in Black Adam.
**At one point, Zatanna's father finds her crushing over a Batman poster; the DCAU version of Zatanna actually had a crush on Wayne long before he became Batman.
**Among the creatures wrecking havoc througth Jump City are the gremlins Zatanna invoked in the DC Superhero Girls episode "#IllusionsOfGrandeurs".
*Musical Nod: Wonder Woman's DCEU theme plays during her cameo in The Stinger.
*Shout-Out:
**While struggling with her emerging powers, Zatanna accidentally brings to life a broom, that begins to clean her mess.
**The scene were Moon frees the Enchantress was inspired by Aurora falling for Maleficent's curse in Sleeping Beauty.
**The sequence where Enchantress invokes dimensional monsters feels out of the Ghostbusters franchise. It even features "Flip City" from the second film.
* The Stinger: Wonder Woman ask Zatanna for help.
=== Tropes for Green Lantern===
* An Aesop:
** Trauma may not go, but don't let that stop you from living a happy life.
** You can't run fear, but you can fight it.
* Awesome Moments: The moment Jessica decides to save the Green Lanterns. You see it in her face. She us terrified if keaving, but she won't lose her friends again. She flashes back to that day wkth every step she takes outside her house. But she is fone with ketting that day control. Her. AGAIN! As she sees that moment flash innfront kf her, she recites the Green Lanterns' oath. And when she remembers the momemt her fruebds died, she SCREAMS THE END IN FURY. A light comes out, and she is in full costume, while symbollically freeing herself in her flashback. With resolve in her eyes, Jessica takes flight. And even througth she still flashes back during her flight to Oa, she dosen't stop. She keeps flying. That's when both she and the audience knew it: She is a Green Lantern.
* Big Bad: Siniestro.
* Composite Character: 
** Jessica Cruz has her 2019 DCSHG design and pacifist ways, and also has two mothers, but she retain her main self's traumatic past.
** John Stewart takes over Hal Jordan's role as Jessica's teacher.
* Darker And Edgier: The film is noticeably darker than both previous DCATU films and Green Lantern (2011), dealing with themes of trauma and mental health and having a protagonist with PTSD and Survivor's guilt.
* Dark and Troubled Past: Much like in the comics, Jessica saw her friends being gunned while on a trip.
* The Ghost: While never name-dropped, it is heavily implied that a version of Hal Jordan exists in this universe, since Siniestro comments that "Lanterns from Earth tend to be particularly dangerous", and it is stated that Siniestro was a Green Lantern until his authoritarian plans were exposed, which Hal exposed in the comics.
* Hilarious In Hindsight: Just the fact that the second theatrical film to center on (a) Green Lantern film is animated, given how the last one got backlash and became objevt of mockery due to having an animated suit.
* Nightmare Fuel:
**Jessica's backstory is plain out terifying. Imagine being on a routine walk througth the forest, having a chat with your friends... and then, you see two men being executed by gsngsters. They overhear you, and you try to escspe, and, while you escape, your friends are caught and shot in front of you. And ypu can't do anything but watch.
**The film's opening pretty much prepares audiences for its rather dark tone. It starts with a view of the Siniestro Corps attacking a planet, and the view of the battle is that of the Green Lanterns bring overpowered as if this was World War II. Then, we get our introduction to Siniestro himself, who establishes himself as a dangerous threat by murdering a Green Lantern. That's right. Murder. There's no better way to describe it. First, he leaves him heavily injured, and when he fails to interrogate the Green Lantern, he finishes him off with a powerful and painful blast. Onscreen.
**Jessica's flashbacks are very nightmare-inducing, if for how reallistic they are.
**Siniestro's very appearance is scaringly fit for someone powered by fear. Remember how Duck Dodgers said Siniestro looked like the Devil? He had no idea what he was talking about.
**Fitting for the home planet of an organization literally fueled by fear, Warworld is positively terrifying place to look at. It is pretty much a blend of the worst locations of Sci-Fi Horror films like Alien. And then there's...
**Ranx the Sentient City. Imagine every building, every vehicle, literally everything in a city not only observing you, but trying to kill you with a lot of pleasure. There's nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. It will find you, and, unless you are lucky or strong enough, will kill you.
*Mythology Gag: Jessica's mantra is the same one from Justice League vs. the Fatal Five.
* Role Reprise: From Green Lantern (2011), of all films, we have Mark Strong as Siniestro (througth Word of God was that this fact was only half the reason thanks to having some familiarity with the role, the other being his performance as Dr. Sivana in 2019's SHAZAM!).
* Shout-Out: During the climax, Stewart says "Target that explosion and fire!".
* The Stinger:
**In a mid-credits scene, Jessica receives an urgent message calling her back to Earth.
**Ranx' remains transport into an unknown planet, where he activates the Manhunters.
* Visual Effects of Awesome: Oa is nothing but gorgeous to look at.
=== Tropes for Wonder Woman: Leaving Home ===
* An Aesop: Leaving home is hard, but will allow you to grow as a person. And, even if you leave, your home will still be in your heart.
* Adaptation Distillation: In this film, Diana leaves Themyschira after a series of trials, much like her original comic book incarnation, and leaves to represent Themyschira in Man's world, much like her post-Crisis self.
* Card-Carrying Villain: Vandal Savage knows what he does is wrong, and loves it.
* Mythology Gag:
** The film is set in the 1975, the same year the Lynda Carter Wonder Woman series.
** Diana meets Steve Trevor when she arrives at a beach, instead of the other way around as usual. This inversion was first used in DC Superhero Girls.
** In this version, Themyschira is known as "Themyschira, the Paradise Island", incorporating both of its names from the comics.
** In this version, Diana leaves Themyschira after a series of trials, much like in the original comics.
**Duana recreates part of the "No Man's Land" sequence from her DCEU film during an action sequence.
** Diana's addiction to ice cream appears here in a similar manner to her 2019 DC Superhero Girls incarnation.
** When Diana tries on her first clothes ever since leaving Themyschira, she does a twirl, similar to when Lynda Carter's potrayal changed between her civilian and superhero costumes.
* Prequel: This film is set far early in the DCATU timeline. In fact, dialogue seems to suggest it could be set before Superman and Batman started their careers.
* Role Reprise: Cree Summer reprises her role as Queen Hipolyta from DC Superhero Girls (2019).
* Rogues Gallery Transplant: Ferris Boyle debuted as an antagonist to Batman and Mr. Freeze in Batman: The Animated Series. Here, he is Wonder Woman's first villain.
* Tearjerker: When facing Vandal Savage for the first time, Diana wants him to say who is forcing him to do hus hrinous acts, only for him to say its all on himself. Refusimg to believe this, Diana keeos asking, and it soon becpmes clear her questions are more like pleas. She can't bear the thougth of somebody being evil for the hell of it.
=== Tropes for Bumblebee ===
* Adaptational Job Overhaul: Downplayed. Karen in this version has a part-time job at S.T.A.R. Labs, which is where she began developing her suit. In the comics, she had a full-time job.
* An Aesop:
** Don't let anybody tell you how strong you are. You hold a guagantic strength unside. You just need to find it and believe in yourself.
** Your body's size dosen't make you awesome. Your heart's does.
* Awesome Moments: Bumblebee fighting Giganta in the climax. She not only has to save the city, she has to face her bully. WHOSE SINCE COULD GIVE MONSTERVERSE!KONG A RUN FOR HIS MONEY. And not only that, SHE WINS.
* Big Bad: Giganta.
* David vs. Goliath: Small and timid Bumblebee vs. Big and violent Giganta. Taken Up to Eleven at the climax where Giganta becomes as tall as Godzilla.
* Disney Villain Death: Downplayed. Bumblebee tricks Giganta into knocking herself out, causing her to fall into the ocean.
* Does This Remind You of Anything: A black girl is harrassed by a white girl. This speaks for itself.
*Foreshadowing: Dr. Faulkner mentiins wirking on a generators of solar radiation. Comic fand will remember such experiment turned her into Rampage.
* Mythology Gag:
** The scene where Giganta further grows in size is similar to when Starro broke free in The Suicide Squad (2021).
** Bumblebee defeats Giganta in a similar way to when they first fought in DC Superhero Girls. In fact, most of their characterizations borrow heavily from the show.
** Bumblebee's early designs for her suit include her Teen Titans (2003) design.
**The analysis system in Bumblebee's helmet is similar to Barry Allen's forense analysis on The Flash (2014).
**The film sees Bumblebee taking a job at S.T.A.R. Labs, much like when she retured from superheroics after marrying Mal Duncan. Similarly, Kitty Faulkner worked at S.T.A.R. Labs after getting control of her Rampage form.
* Nightmare Fuel:
** Giganta's rampage at the climax. Ever wondered how it would a Kaiju movie be if the monster had human intelligence and caused a rampage? Here's your answer, and is not a pretty one.
*** Also, when she begins growing even more, the entire S.T.A.R. Labs facility falls apart. We see many people almost being crushed by the rubber.
*** Fridge Horror: How many people actually died thanks to Giganta's rampage.
** On a more subdued level, Doris' bullying of Karen, due to how accurate it potrays bullying.
*** Her entrance is surprisingly creepy. Everything feels like a John Hughes film, until Doris shows up. All joy stops, and no sound is heard except for eerie music that makes the entire scenario all the more unsettling. Seriously, props to the filmmakers for making a bully's entrance feel like something out of Silent Hill!.
** Doris' first transformation into Giganta is rather scary, and feels like something that would be more at home in a supernatural horror movie.
** When her first rampage reaches Karen's house, Giganta causes an explosion with two cars she walks througth. The appearance makes her seem like a demon from Hell.
* Shout-Out:
** Giganta's costume througth most of the film is a reference to Jennifer Walters' 2016 Hulk outfit.
** When Karen first sees Doris as Giganta, she first notices water vibrating, similar to Jurassic Park (1995).
**The shot of Goganta rampaging near the climax is an homage to the Stay Puft Marshmellow Man from Ghostbusters (1984).
* Tearjerker: The film dosen't skip over how Karen has been affected by bullying. She dispkays a sadly low self-steem and is even implied she considered suicide. Which is a sad Truth In Television.
* Took a Level in Badass: Karen's arc througth the film has her evolving from a timid young girl into a brave superhero willing to face literal giants.
=== Tropes for DC Superhero Girls===
*Awesome Moments:
**Unlike Superman, who is given a faint excuse to stay out of the plot, Batman is actively involved via investigating the new Savage Industries facility in Stryker's Island, while the Superhero Girls try to find the Mother Boxes. The fact that they found a way for the Dark Knight to have a crucial role in the film while havimg a limited screentime via making use of his detective skills sounds noteworthy.
**Defying most expectations, Harley's livestreams actually prove crucial at some points, with Harley asking for viewers for help with some clues and actually getting it.
*Brick Joke: After Harley swears "Estamos jodidas" in a life-or-deatg situation, she asks anyone to not to tell Batman or ekse she'll ground her. After the world is saved, Batman grounds her for swearing. When asked how ge knew, he dosen't answer, and the girks deny telling him.
*Central Theme: Friendship. The girls slowly become Fire-Forged Friends as they bond over the course of the story and learn to work together as a team, leading to their victory, while Lex slowly isolates himself, leading to his defeat.
*Chekov's Gun: The chainsaw Harley carried with her througth the movie ends up becoming crucial duromg the second act to oass througth a puzzle in a temple. She also gets to use it in a climax.
*Egypt is Still Ancient: Averted. While the Superhero Girls do travel to Egypt to find a clue to the Book of Destiny, it is explicitty stated that the place where it is hidden is far away from any city. While they do go to El Cairo first, it is only to get supplies and form a plan, while the city itself is potrayed accuretly to real life.
*Fridge Brilliance:
**The can Harley accidentally destroys while trying to attack a robot is full of toys of Luke Skywalker, who's played by Mark Hamill. Then you remember what DC character Hamill is known to be the voice of, and you realize why Harley was the one to shoot.
**Harley is the most cartoonish member of the Superhero Girls. Of course she is! She is the only one who debuted in a cartoon!
*Funny Moments:
**Harley treating the entire mission like a school trip. She even packed some lunch in a lunchbox for her to eat during the mission, like a child at school. And her lunch? Pudin.
**After trying to bond wuth Supergirl, Harkey childlishly tells her that the fact that she still hasn't gotten over Krypton's destrucyion dosen't nean she should be a jerk... while giving a very detailed description of Kara's mental state. Everyone but Batgirl is stunned at such accurate description coming from her.
**At one point, Luthor's men beat Harley for information. She insread enjoys the beating as if she's in the circus. Watching this, Diana commends Harley for pretending to enjoy her torture to avoid talking. Batgirl merely says "Yeah. Pretending".
**Harley panicking over their impending doom is pretty hilarious:
***First, she laments over how she never got to watch the final season of Gargoyles. Wonder Woman then says she dodged a bullet there.
***When it seems the girls will die, Harley says "Estamos jodidas", which is Spanish for "We're fucked".
***And when they survive, Harley asks the Superhero Girls to never tell Batman she cursed or sye'll get grounded... which becomes a Brick Joke at the end, when Batman grounds Harley for cursing even througth no one told him.
**The team bame Harley suggestd id "Super Heroines Incredibly Together". And her second chouce us "Ferociouslu United Crimefighting Krew".
*Heartwarming Moments: When Supergirl meets Batman at the Batcave, she says that Superman told her that "if [she sees] Batman, to ask him one thing: Come to Metropolis one of these days. [Superman] misses [him]", meaning that the two used to be the World's Finest like in the comics before his vigilante life took a toll on him, a wonderful contrast to their relationship in recent stories like Injustice and Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice.
*Mythology Gag:
** To the 2019 show:
*** Supergirl tells the girls to "split [themselves]", to which Green Lantern corrects her. This is the exact same gag as the 2019 series' episode "#MeettheCheetah", only with Wonder Woman making the spelling mistake.
*** Supergirl is introduced when she catches Batgirl as she falls, in a nod to the pilot episode "#SweetJustice".
*** The film's tagline is "Look Out World", a lyric from the 2019 series' theme song.
*** During an action sequence, Harley shout "Hehehe, can't beat me!", a nod tl a DCSHG short where a Joker punching bag had this as a phrase.
*** The cells Luthor looks the girls in are similar to the ones from the episode "#AlleyCat".
*** Luthor exposes his villany to the world via a televised message under the assumption his moment if triumph is near and is arrested shortly after. This also happened in the film DC Superhero Girls & Teen Titans Go!: Mayhem in the Multiverse.
*** During the climax, Green Lantern creates a shield similar to the one from the intro.
*** The climax has the Superhero Girls (plus Batman here) fighting agsinst a robot piloted by a Luthor, similar to "#SweetJustice – Part 4". Except that was Lena, not Lex.
*** After Harley notices lava rising as part of a trap, she asks Green Lantern "what is [her] opinion on barbeques". In the 2019 series, Jessica is a vegetarian.
*** Bumblebee knocks out Luthor woth the same move she used to stop Catwoman in "#Beeline".
*** The film ends with the Superhero Girls celebrating their victory at Sweet Justice, a recurring location of the series.
*** The credits have the Superhero Girls recreate their transformation poses from the show.
*** At the end of the film, Harley draws over Lex' face, with one of her drawing says "I drool", referencing two jokes from the episode "#SoulSisters (Part One)".
** To the 2015 series:
*** Harley and Supergirl's relationship resembles that of Harley and Raven in the Legend of Atlantis movie.
*** During the climax, Harley throws glitter balloons similar to the ones she threw in Wonder Woman's room in the episode "Roomies". She also taunts Luthor by saying "I think you're so serious I bet you can't even tell a single joke", which is near word-for-word something she said to Lady Shiva in an episode of the 2015 series.
*** Harley's livestreams are called "Harley's Quintessentials", the same name as her blog from the episode "Quintessential Harley".
*** At one point in the film, Batgirl wears a jetpack similar to the one worn by the show's potrayal of the Barbara Gordon iteration.
*** After finding a clue on Khandaq, Batgirl tells the other Superhero Girls to "get [their] capes on".
*** Wonder Woman uses hoving implanted devices by Bumblebee on her sword to fight Luthor on the climax, much like Katanna did while fighting King Shark.
*** Luthor shoots at Supergirl with a Kryptonite gun while she's alone, much like Captain Cold in "Fortress of Solidarity – Part 1".
*** Harley uses the same car as her 2015 DCSHG counterpart.
*** The four-"digit" password for Harley's secret garage is "HAHA", which was the password for her mini-bike in LEGO DC Superhero Girls: Brain Drain.
*** Bumblebee accidentally electrocutes Batgirl upon meetimg her, calling back to Harley purposefully doing that to Wonder Woman in "Welcome to Superhero High".
*** The fight between the Suoerhero Girls and an armoted Luthor resembkes the fight against Giganta from the episode "Truth of the Lasso – Part 3".
**Througth the film, Harley livestreams the team's adventures, nodding to her first scene in Lego DC Super-Villains, and, as in the game, they prove crucial to the plot later on. She also says Batman coded it so criminals couldn't see it, the opposite of what the Riddler did with his videos in The Batman (2022).
**When Zatanna impulsively attacks Harley Quinn, she points out she looks like she could be the Joker's girlfriend.
**As Luthor explains his plans to Mercy, he briefly walks over a miniature projection of Washington D.C., which homages an episode from Superfriends where members of the Legion of Doom (aside from Lex) enlarged themselves.
**One of Wonder Woman's poses resembles one of her DCEU poses.
**While spying on the LexCorp building at Stryker's Island, Batman climbs the building much like he and Robin did in the 1966 show.
**Lex injecting Kryptonite-fueled nanobots to Supergirl is reminiscent of Slade using nanobots on the Teen Titans in the 2003 series' episide "Apprentice".
**Harley activates her roller-skates the same way Batman and Robin activate their ice skates in Batman & Robin.
**Supergirl early in the film asks Harley if she can act like a normal person, like Poison Ivy in Gotham Girls.
**As a Freeze-Frame Bonus, one of the files in the Bat-computer is named "Terry M."
**Harley's phone shows she has messages from two girls named "Mia" and"Sia", a reference to the actress Mia Sia, who played Harley in the 2002 Birds of Prey series.
**While taunting Luthor, Harley asks him "why so serious?".
**A graffiti in Gotham City says "Adam W.", a nod to former Batman actor Adam West. Additionally, a car in Gotham's traffic features the licensce plate "AW-1908", a reference to West's birthday.
**While mostly heroic, this version of Harley does commit a crime. Ilegally smuggling food, that is.
*Noodle Incident: According to Harley, the Batfamily once fough against Carmaine Falcone. She mentions knocking his car over with Batmobile, but not too much is heard.
*Nightmare Fuel: Lex' introduction sees him interrogating a witness on what does he know on the Book of Destiny, and later leabes him at the "care" of his robots. All we hear is a scream and all we see is Lex on the other side of the door.
*Recpnstruction: The whole "traps" gimmick from treasure hunt movies is argued by Batgirl to be actually very sensible. After all, "what kind of idiot would leave magical powerful artifacts up for grabs!".
*Shout-Out:
**At the climax, Wonder Woman takes a similar pose to Mulan's when fighting Shan-Yu.
**The way Bumblebee picks up one of the Mother Boxes in a temple is a nod to Indiana Jones taking the idol in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
**After defeating Lex Luthor, Batgirl asks him "You want another reunion with our fight club?".
**Harley Quinn at one point refers to Supergirl as "Brightburn".
**Upon seeing Lex' machinations with the Mother Boxes, Harley shouts "Blatherin' blaterskite", Gizmoduck's catchphrase in DuckTales.
**After outsmarting the villains, Harley says "No contaban con mi astucia", the catchphrase of Mexican superhero El Chapulin Colorado.
**The dud bomb Harley uses to distract Luthor's guards says "hi there".
**One of the shots during Batman and Luthor's fight resembles the initial shot of the fight between Marc Spector and Arthur Harrow in the season finale of Moon Knight.
**During the final battle, Harley uses her hammer alongside Wonder Woman's shield, alluding to the climax of Avengers: Endgame.
**After admitting her bisexuality and seeing Diana's puzzlement at keeping it a secret, Harley asks if she comes from Themyschyra or the Boiling Isles.
**In the first temple, the girls find traps that activate unless they step on blocks of one color to pass.
***And when Harley offers herself to go, Batgirl refuses by saying Harley has done crazy things that almost killed her five times already. Harley swear it was four, before Batgirl clarifies the current situation is the fifth time. The whole conversation is an homage to one between Reed Richards and Ben Grimm in Fantastic Four (2005).
**After catching Wonder Woman's sword, Harlry exclaims "I have the-" befpre falling over its weight,
**Harley is introduced listening to "The Rubberband Man".
**Near the climax, Harley calls tge Book of Destiny a "novelized Reality Stone".
*Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Supergirl asks Harley Quinn if she can "act like a normal person". Unlike Gotham Girls, where she pretty much brushed it off, Harley is geniunely hurt by this. Turns out, asking a person with mental difficulties to "act like a normal lereon" is not a good idea.
*Tearjerker: As she confesses to Wonder Woman, Harley has been feeling guilty for tje entire Ace Chemicals incident, particularly Batgirl being partially crippled. Seeing her friend suffer from her injury pains her, and feels she must do something to make things right.
* Take That!: At one point, Harley accidentally destroys a trash can full of Luke Skywalker figures.
*Too Kinky to Torture: Harley at one point is not only tortured for informstion, but enjoting the torture. Well, this is Harley Quinn.
*The Stinger: In a post-credits scene, it is revealed that Lex's kryptonite was exposed to energy from the Mother Box, causing it to mutate into a Kryptomite that begins eating everything in its path towards Metropolis.
=== Tropes for Batgirl II ===
* An Aesop: Sometimes, your ideals will be met with opposal, but don't let that stop you.
* Canon Inmigrant: Oswald's bodyguards, the Kabuki Twins, actually come from The Batman (2004).
* Faux Affably Evil; The Penguin might be a suave and charming indivifual, but get on his bad side and pray for your life.
*Harsher In Hindsight: Harley at one point says she doubts negotiating with the Penguin is a good idea. Harley & Ivy would later reveal she became very dustrystful wnd boderline brutal towards criminals thanks to her traumatic experience at ACE Chemicals.
*He Really Can Act: Robert Downey Jr. isn't particularly known for playing villains, but he's so damn good as the suave but threatening Penguin you might forget he shares a voice with Iron Man.
* Hilarious in Hindsight: With both Michael Keaton and Christian Bale having gone from playing Batman to playing MCU villains, having Marvel's poster rich boy superhero voice a Batman villain feels like returning the favor.
*Nightmare Fuel: While the talk between Batgirl & Harley and Cobblepot starts off nice, the momemt they make clear they want him to stop his busisness, he becomes cold and threatening, making clear he will use all of his resourcess to kill anybody who stands in his way. Robert Downey Jr.'s vocal performance manages to make the scene very chilling.
*Mythology Gag:
**During her first scene, Harley posts online that "as the adoptive daughter of the Batman, I can confirm that Aquaman fu-" before being interrupted by Batgirl.
**The conversation between Batgirl, Harley, and Cobblepot is similar to the one between Bruce Wayne, Harvey Dent, and Carmaine Falcone in Batman: The Telltale Series.
**Batgirl and Harley hack Oswald's phone to overhear a conversation he has, which is reminiscent of Bruce and Alfred hacking Mori's phone in Batman: The Enemy Within.
**Harley tries to use an umbrella to scare the Penguins' goons, only to learn is a harmless one. This calls back to when Penguin failed to kill Batman with one at the end of Batman Returns.
**In an inversion of Mad Love, Harley ends up hanging upside down over a tank with piranhas.
*The Reveal: It is revelaed why Batgirl has such an optimistic relationship: Her father was an abusive criminal, Cluemaster, and the only reason she kept going was because she held hope her situation would improve and that she would get away from him one day.
*Shout-Out: Harley compares her and Batgirl talking to Penguin with a negotiation between Jets and Sharks.
*The Stinger: Cluemaster walks around the climax's leftovers and discovers Stephanie Brown is Batgirl.
*Tearjerker: As in the comics, Cluemaster was Stephanie's father, and was abusive of her. And the reason she's so optimistic? Because helding hope that the chance of leaving him would appear was the only thing that kept her preventing from succumbing to despair.
=== Tropes for Supergirl II ===
* Character Development: Througth the film, Supergirl ends up creating a life of her own outside of being Supergirl.
* Mythology Gag: Lena Luthor asks Supergirl if she thougth she would seek to kill her after learning of her true identity. This is exactly what happened in Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade.
* Role Reprise: Corey Burton reprises his role as Brainiac from the DCAU.
* Shout-Out: A shot of Brainiac attacking Metropolis homages a scene from The Terminator.
* The Stinger: In a post-credits scene, a lifeless Brainiac drone reactivates on the ocean... as the Legion of Superheroes theme plays...
=== Tropes for Brainiac-5===
* An Aesop: You define who you are.
* Battle at the Center of the Mind: Brainiac-5 and Brainiac engage on one inside Brainiac 5's head at the climax.
* Friendly Fandoms: While Superman is not the lead character, the film has neverthless been appreciated by fans of both Superman's "boy scout" potrayal and the more serious potrayal in the Zack Snyder films, seeong how the film has a Darker and Edgier tone and Henry Cavill voicing Superman, while also potraying Superman as a kind and gentle figure willing to do "small things" to help those in need.
* Instant Sequel: The film starts shortly after the events of Supergirl, througth the actual plot takes place a few months after.
* Mythology Gag: Superman calls Brainiac-5 "Brainy", much like in Legion of Suoerheroes.
* Nightmare Fuel: Brainiac's posesion of Brainiac-5 feels straight out of The Exorcist.
** There's also the way he moves while using his body. Its just so... lifeless. Uncanny Valley does not begin to describe it.
** And then there's how his possesion begins. Bramiac stsrts as a whispering voice in Brainiac-5's head, which becomes louder and louder... until, one day, he briefly takes over Brainy's arm and almost shoots an innocent man.
** Also, when he posseses Braniac-5, Braniac makes clear there won't be any Villain Decay by using kryptonite to beat Superman to a pulp.
* Uncanny Valley: Deliberately invoked for Brainiac's movement while controlling Brainiac-5, which feels truly lifeless.
* What Do You Mean Its for Kids?: Oh look, an animated superhero film about a teen alien robot and Superman. Oh look, the teen basically asked Superman to help him commit an assisted suicide and suffers a horrific Demonic Possesion.
=== Tropes for Zatanna: Hell ===
* An Aesop: Our parents will not be always with us, througth their presence will always be felt. We must one day learn to be by ourselves.
* Alternate Universe: The film centers on Zatanna traveling to Hell.
* Big Bad: Azazel, who is set in escaping Hell and conquer the Multiverse.
*The Cameo: Dimension such as the Phantom Zone appear at the film's climax.
*Hand-Wave: Etrigan explains that Hell is simply one of many dimensions in the multiverse inhabitated by demons, thus explaining why beings like Trigon come from different dimensions in spite of being demons.
* Mythology Gag: A comic book storyline previously had Zatanna traveling to Hell among other superheroes.
*Nightmare Fuel: Seeing Azazel's influence leak over the Multiverse, corrupting everything on sight.
*Rogues Gallery Transplant: Azazrl is generally Lucifer's enemy, not Zatanna's.
*Shout-Out: Zatanna's reaction upon arriving to Hell is the same one as Mario when he arrived to the Mushroom Kingdom. Upon learning where she is, she ponders if she died.
=== Tropes for Bumblebee II ===
* Character Development: After spending a film as shy and timid and another one wanting to show other heroes her worth, Bumblebee displays her growth by trying to take care of her self and doing her best to see herself as a great person.
* Mythology Gag: Having Brother Blood be the main villain is a reference to Bumblebee's animated debut in Teen Titans, where she first appeared as an undercover member of his organization, the H.I.V.E.
* Realism-Induced Horror: The main reason Brother Blood can feel like such an intimidating villain is that he is a highly realistic depiction of a cult leader, being a charismatic person who exploits others' vulnerability for his own wishes.
* Shown Their Work: Many of the actions Bumblebee takes during her free time are actual things suggested hy professionals to mantain a good self-esteem.
* Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Even after the events of the first film and DC Superhero Girls, Bumblebee struggles with her self-esteem, as many who experienced low self-esteem most of their lives do.
=== Tropes for Green Lantern II ===
* Big Bad: Warden Myglom, who seeks to feed off the universe to his heart's content and has used the prision is a meal ticket.
* Depowered: The Green Lanterns lose their rings' powers thanks to Myglom weaponizing the yellow crystal's energy.
* Heartwarming Moments: Stewart is quite proud of Jessica, touched to see the once timid girl grow into a brave superhero.
* Mythology Gag:
** Jessica's arc of struggling without her Green Lantern powers was lifted from Justice League x RWBY: Superheroes and Huntsmen – Part One.
** Jessica is seen at the brginning fighting some Reachers, one of the Green Lantern Corps' longest foes.
** The story was mainly based on the episode "Razer's Edge" from The Animated Series
*Nightmare Fuel: The film's entire plot is this. Imagine being defenseles and trapped in a place pursued by a group of cannibals, with no way to contact outside help.
=== Tropes for Harley & Ivy===
*Actor Allusion: Poison Ivy is shown to be friends with a carnivore plant voiced by Brenda Song, referencing Anna Akana and Song's respective roles as Sasha and Anne in Disney's Amphibia, albeit with a far healthier relationship than Anne and Sasha's. Song's character is even named Anne, which Word of God confirmed was very deliberate. Additionally, Frank is voiced by Keith David, who also starred in Amphibia.
*Adaptational Nice Guy: Whereas Comic!Ivy pretty much forces her will in nature to make plants grow unnaturally, DCATU!Ivy does this only with plants willing to let her do it. Additionally, her motivation is changed so, in addition her lashing out against humanity due to their damage to nature, she also commits her acts of eco-terrorism to prptect the only thing that ever treated her kindly.
*An Aesop: 
** Not all criminals are remorseless. Some can be convinced to turn over a new leaf and change for the better. That being said, there are unreasonable villains. You just need to see the difference.
** Those who hurt because they were hurt must be given help.
*Age Lift: Renee Montoya is noticeably younger than most versions, with her voice actress even voicing her with a more mature version of her Luz Noceda voice. Word of God is that she was made younger to reflect her beginning to grow into a more comic-accurate personality at the end of the film.
*Awesome Art: The animation is beatifully fluid, rivaling that of Disney films from the 90s.
*Awesome Moments:
**The fact that a film focused on Harley Quinn centered on morality and provided commentary on how to deal with criminals is awesome in and of itself.
**During the dance scene at the bar, Harley starts doing the Batusi. The same one from the Adam West show. And she did it legitemately good. Not in a "she performed a funny dance well" kind of way, but in an "she's awesome dancer" kind of way.
**As Payne prepares to shoot Harley and Ivy, Batman shows up in front kf him. And, as he stands in front of the man who held one of his adoptive daughter histafe and almost killed them both, you can tell from his voice alone that Batman is understandably pissed.
***The ensuing battle is also worth nothing. Bolton almost doubles him in mass and has less inhibitions than him, yet Batman manages to stand his ground against him.
**The climax has Payne ready to throw Harley off the port into a watery grave. Suddenly, plants begin growing and hitting all of Bolton's remaining men, before closing the area, keaving the bastard with no way out. Cue Poison Ivy, her eyes enveloped in a green light as she is lfted by a giant flower. Bolton, terrified for the first time in the movie, attempts to stab Harley out of spite, only for Harley to resist and get him to drop the knive, allowing Ivy to throwing him to the water herself, albeit without killing him.
** At the end of the movie, Renee Montoya is shown to personally escort a Hannibal Lecter-style tied Payne to his own personal cell in Blackguard, all while telling him, "enjoy your home", not-so-subtly comparing him to those he was targeting.
* The Cameo: Victor Zasz, the Ventriloquist, Two-Face, Clayface, Nocturna, the Bookworm, and the Riddler can be seen at the Arkham State Hospital for the Emotionally Troubled.
*Catharsis Factor: We get one when Harley and Ivy beat up Samantha Pyne, a killer whose brutality and lack of morality more than earned her that beat up. And seeimg Renee Montoya arrest her and lock her in Arkham ála Hannibal Lecter is the cherry on top.
*Central Theme:
**How not all people who do bad things have bad intentions, and can actually be reasoned with and become good if given the chance.
**How trauma can determine the actions of some people.
**What determines whether somebody is good, evil, or neutral is not as clear as it seems. Harley starts the film thinking of all criminals as irredemable monsters, while Renee Montoya thinks being a cop automatically means she'll make the world a better place. As the film goes by, Harley learns that some criminals aren't complete monsters and can be redeemed with a bit of kindness, while Montoya learns of the deep corruption within Gotham. Meanwhile, Payne believes him being a cop and her victims breaking the law are justifications for murder, and ends up just like them.
*Cerebrus Retcon: Those gliders Harley has been using in her last two appearances? Turns out is because they help her deal with her fear of heights and PTSD after the Joker threw her to the vat at ACE Chemicals.
*Company Cross-References: Many of Harley's movements at the climax were inspired by Tex Avery and Bob Clampett's versions of Daffy Duck.
*Does This Remind You of Anything: Ivy's dynamic with Anne and Frank is very similar to that of a troubled and rebellious child and her parents.
*Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: Upon seeing Payne's plans, and still somewhat in denial of his true nature, Montoya comments someone would think he's a murderer, only to realize she's right when she notices one of her targets was the smugler who they arrested for interrogation and was found dead that morning.
*Funny Moments:
** Early in the film, Harley goes to Arkham to ask Ivy if she can help with the investigation regarding the recent murders, but gets on a heared argument that finishes with Harley telling Ivy to go away. And then Ivy reminds her they are in Arkham.
**What causes the first argument between Harley and Ivy? Ivy complaining that the Batmobile is not an electric vehicle.
** When bartenders try to kill her, what words does Harley choses as her possible last ones? Calling Brainiac a dumpster diver.
* Foreshadowing:
** Poison Ivy's introduction, while having her practicing her evil speech, potrays her as an otherwise sympathetic figure, showing her close and relatable friendship with Frank and Anne and already indicating her tragic backstory. Meanwhile, Payne's introduction plays her as a more intimidating figure, delivering a speech about criminals that sounds just like an Evil Speech. Thus foreshadows their respective Heel-Face and Face-Heel Turns.
** Harley tells Batgirl that Batman won't care she went to solve the murder case in spite of being grounded after he sees the results. By the time he returns, he really does not care, but that's because Harley was almost killed during the investigation.
*Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Ivy is convinced that she has every right to attack humanity bevause of people treated her and treat nature. However, Harley poibts out to her that she can't try to kill all of humanity because of how some treated her, and that there are other ways to protect nature. The two realize, in the end, that she is just a traumatized misanthrope who fears getting close to humans. Notably, this is delivered by Harley in a kind tone, not to call Ivy out for her actions, but to make her realize what she did was wrong and that she needs help.
*Fridge Brilliance: 
**As noted below, the film essentially follows many plot points from Harley's backstory in Mad Love, so why did Film!Harley succeded where the rest failed? Simple, she is doing it to Poison Ivy instead of the Joker, and it is well-known that Ivy truly cares for Harley to the point of doing good for her sake. This is pretty much an extension of that.
**It is fitting for Montoya first promemient animated theatrical appearance to be in this film. After all, both Harley and her relationship with Ivy originated in Batman: The Animated Series, just like she did.
**Fridge Heartwarming: Batman saving Harley from certain death at the hands of a madman becomes more meaningful when you remember how Batgirl showed Jason Todd died just like in the comics. In a way, this is his Greatest Second Chance.
***His overrall treatment of her in this film also reflects how he wants to avoid what happened to Jason. Upon noticing how brutal she is becoming at crime-fighting, instead of only reliving Harley of duty as with Jason, Batman has her attend therapy to resolve her issues. And, while firm in his decisions, Batman does try to be gentle and explain he is doing it out-of-corncern for her mental health once Harley finds out.
**In a bar. Ivy sings "Good Tonight" from The Bad Guys. While already featuring a song from that movie is already fitting for a film with a criminal who redeems herself, the lyrics are even more fitting, albeit for Harley:
***The entire first few verses consist of the performer asking to be seen as more than the "bad guy" label they are printed with: While Ivy is a bad guy, Harley's arc consists on realizing she is more than that and that, deep down, she is a "real good guy" who lashes out her anger at the world and needs help.
***The chorus also features the lines "I just want you to give me a chance" and "so leave your judgement at thr door"; Harley learns to stop judging Ivy as a bad guy and give her a chance to reform.
**At two points in the film, Harley quotes Shrek's Puss in Boots, an Affectionate Parody of Zorro. Zorro himself was an inspiration behind Harley's adoptive father, Batman, with several stories showing the Waynes having gone to watch a Zorro movie that fateful night.
**The song playing as Harley and Batgirl go to Arkham and recruit Harley, "Foulsome Prision Blues" by Johny Cash plays. Cash always felt that prisions took away humanity from criminals instead of helping them reform, and criminal reformation is a promenient theme in the film.
*Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The film's themes regarding criminal rehabilitation gave it a strong audience on Norway, where laws generally center on rehabilitating criminals instead of punishing them.
*Foil: Samantha Payne / The Veredict serves as this for both titular characters:
**For Ivy: Both are dangerous individuals who commit awful deeds for what they deem is the right cause. However, Ivy is officially a criminal wereas Payne is still within the police force (albeit by hiding his evil deeds from the public). Ivy also harbors a level of humanity she at first shows to her plants and later towards Harley, allowing her to go througth a Heel-Face Turn, while Payne has no humanity whatsoever and stays a cold-blooded killer. Furthermore, Ivy is shown to have a Freudian Excuse for her actions, which Payne lacks.
**For Harley: Both are crimefighters who (initially) see all criminals as irredeemable and clearly have some screws loose. However, Harley's problems generally cause her to become goofy and comedic, while Payne is serious and his insanity makes her far more terrifying. And, in spite of their shared views towards criminals, Harley has a sense of compassion that allows her to change her views, while Bolton is a sociopath who stays his ways. Harley also has lines she would never cross in spite of her hatred of criminals, such as resorting to murder and hurt people for minor fellonies, whereas Payne is happy to do both. In a way, Payne symbolizes what Harley could have become had she not learned from Ivy that some criminals do deserve a shot at redemption,
*Harsher in Hindsight: At first, Poison Ivy's powers being nullified with a collar seems funny. After learning it means she can't communicate with plants, the only thing that was nice to her...
*Heartwarming Moments:
**When the group needs to unlock a door, Harley deactivates the power inhibitor on Ivy so she can use her powers to unlock it, openly admitting she trusts her. And Ivy actually continues helping them after that.
**As Ivy sings to distract the bartenders, Harley briefly invitees her yo dance together. And the dance Harley does actually brings a geniune smile from Ivy.
***Also a meta-one for fans of the Adam West series. The dance Harley does to Ivy? The Batusi. And, unlike in The LEGO Batman Movie, the dance isn't utilized as a (lighthearted) mockery of the campiness of the 60s show, but as a great Narm Charm-filled dance move that furthers the bond between the lead characters in the film.
**In a testament to her Character Development, Ivy almost sacrifices her life to save Harley. Later, Harley, Batgirl, and Montoya go to save Ivy when Lyle wants to kill her. Heck, they even risk their lives for her.
**A small one, but Harley offhandelly mentions she has driven the Batmobiles, implying that Bruce trusts her enough to actually let her drive even his.
**During the climax, we get a brief moment where Batman reunites with Harley and gives her a big hug. After so many modern versions generally failling as a father figure (some even being Abusive Parents), to see one that is a caring and unconditionally loving father is a welcome change of pace.
***An even better moment is when Payne almost kills Harley... only for Batman to show up and fight him to save her, warning him to "never harm [his] kids".
**When talking to Ivy about the mental issues she developed since the Ace Chemicals incident, Harley acknowledges they caused her problems with social interactions and during work, yet, as she states, "they still are a part of [her]". Its touching to see Harley embracing herself Warts and All. If there's something she didn't lost that day, its self-love.
**At the end of the film, Batman tells Harley how proud he is of her for saving Ivy amd helping her find redemption. She in turn hugs him, and Batgirl soon joins her.
**Upon meeting Frank and Anne, Harley, having already heard from them, calls them Ivy's parents,
**The credits play the song "Mr. Blue Sky", a song about light showing up after darkness in reflection of how the darkness on the titular duo's life is gone and a new light took its place, and Harley & Ivy's actresses singing a duet version of "Got to Get You Into My Life".
* Heartwarming in Hindsight: Thanks to the Friendly Fandom and camaderie between the creators of Amphibia and The Owl House, seeing leads from both series starring in the same film and Sarah-Nicole Robles' characger even trying to save the life of Anna Akana's character will probably be something fans of both series will treasure.
*Hidden Depths: Poison Ivy turns out being one hell of a singer. She also knows a bit of italian, as she identifies a mispronunciation on Harley's part.
* Hilarious in Hindsight:
** Poison Ivy's film debut in Batman & Robin had a subplot where Robin falls in love with Ivy and tries to reform her, only for Ivy to use his feelings to manipulate him. Come this film, her second promenient role in theatrical film, and Harley Quinn mamages to genuinely and succesfully reform Ivy literally without even trying.
** Akana's character in Amphibia, Sasha, had as friend and companion Captain Grime, a character voiced by Troy Baker, who has voiced Batman in multiple direct-to-video projects. This makes the fact that she voices a character who is mostly known as a Batman villain kind of ironic.
*** Speaking of Amphibia, an episode had Grime complaining about Sprig planting poison ivy in his bed, which is kind of profetic to how Akana would end up voicing the Poison Ivy.
*Ho Yay: The film might as well be called romcom cop. Harley and Ivy spent part of the movie bickering Like an Old Married Couple, when the become closer to each other they get really close to the point of Ivy almost getting herself killed to save Harley. And when Harley visits Ivy, their lines almost feel like flirting. Oh, and this is a film starring DC's most iconic same-sex couple. After the film's own sequel ended with the two becoming girlfriends, director Cathy Yan confirmed the Ho Yay moments here were deliberate.
*Hypocrite: Payne hates criminals and wabts the law ti be respected by murdering even fir the slihgtliest crimes. When Montoya points out that doing so is illegal even for a cop, Bolton says "So what? I'll get the job done".
*It's Been an Honor: As she prepares to sacrifice herself to save Harley, Batgirl, Montoya, and Batman, Ivy tells to her new friend "It's been cool to kick ass with you".
* I Want You to Meet An Old Friend of Mine: The film reunites Anna Akana, Brenda Song, and Keith David, after working together in Disney's Amphibia.
*Knight of Cerebus: Samantha Payne's presence is enough to turn the film from a buddy cop comedy to something lore akin to The Batman (2022).
*Narm Charm:
**The fact that, in order to rid Gotham of crime, Payne aims to kill even bootleg sellers sounds rather ridiculous and funny. But, since the scene is meant to show how deep he fell into a Knight Templar All Crimes Are Equal mentality, it instead is very scary, as the fact that he wants to kill people for even such minor crimes really helps to sell the idea.
**Harley falling to use her last tranquilizent gun due to being a "Bang!" Flag Gun sounds like a good joke. That happening when she's trying to stop a madman from killing her and her friends, througth? It isn't. 
*Nightmare Fuel: How much horror can a buddy movie starring a clown-like superhero have? As it turns out, A LOT.
**The film's opening gives is a fair share of NF product of a literal nightmare. We start off with a nice, saccarine dream of Harleen and Barbara hanging with each other and gaving fun. But this goes from sweet to sour when Harley takes someone to a walk, only for that spmeone to turn out to be the Joker in Man-Bat form, revealed via a werewolf-style transformation. The scene then transitions into the incident at Ace Chemicals, Lovecraftian-style. Heck, the Joker himself looks far more demonic than even then. And when he throws Harley to the chemicals, we get a look at how it was for Harleen to become Harley Quinn, and it was horrible. No wonder she's so traumatized, if that's her full perception of those events.
**Samantha Payne / The Veredict starts off as a Jerkass but seemingly better than her original version... but she slowly reveals himself to be a Holier Than Thou Knight Templar who tries to kill not only Ivy, who at this point has redeemed herself, but also Harley and Batgirl for helping her, convinced that criminals can't change. She spents most of the film's third act trying to shoot all three of them. In the end, she was just as horrible, if not more, than her original self.
***The entire scene where Renee Montoya, Batgirl, and Harley finds out about Payne's plans to kill all sorts of criminals in Gotham. Not only could easily be mistaken for a horror film's scene, but it shows Payne's Knight Templar tendencies made him took All Crimes Are Equal to horrifying levels, deeming pickpockets and even bootleg sellers as deserving of death. Meaning that those who commited even the smallest crimes within that city are on his hit list. The fact that everything in her room is directly based on those of real-life Serial Killers does. Not. Help.
***And then is when she shows up. Our heroes have no option but hide, and Payne realizes something is up, so she starts searching for intruders. The entire scene, from the context, to the shots, to the music, feels straight out of an Alfred Hitchhock film. And when he finds Batgirl, he tries to shoot her straight. She dosen't care she is Batman's ward. Is at this moment, when audiences wiol ask "Wait, this is supposed to be a buddy comedy. Why is it suddenly acting like a slasher horror film?!".
** The climax starts off with some good scares. First, we have the Veredict emerging from the shadows in a moment lifted straight from a horror movie. While what follows is awesome and funny, seeing Payne's determination to hunt down and murder a group of teenagers is nonethe,ess chilling.
***One of the shots during his attempt to shoot Ivy to death is chillingly reminiscent of Jack Nicholson's Joker when he killed Batman's parents.
***Then there's the moment when, hadn't Harley showed up, she threw Ivy from a building, to her near-death.
***The entire ordeal is arguably worse for Ivy. Her life, as far as she knew, was going to end the same way it started: at the hands of a psychotic and dangerously unstable person. That thougth alone is enough to give people nightmares.
***Samantha's overrall behavior in the climax. Between his relenthless pursuit and the sheer strength he has, she almost looks like a beast out of hell rather tgan a supervillaim
**The film gives us our first look at this franchise's version of Arkham. And hell what an impression. From the horror movie house-esque appearance to how utterly unhinged some of the inmates sound, many of them being some of Batman's deadliest foes, it sure will leave kids awake at night.
**The entire movie can be horrifying for parents when looked at the perspective of Frank and Anne. Imagine adopting an abused child, only for that child to grow into a criminal teenager who had repeated crosses with the law. And when she gets a chance to change with community service, you find out she was almost killed and a maniac is out to get her. Adult Fear indeed.
*** There's also the perspective of Batman, superhero stuff aside. He leaves home due to his job for a few days, and when he returns, his adoptive daughters are not home. And suddenly, one returns almost dead, and he discovers that his adoptive daughters are being targeted by a murderer with the will, skill, and resources to kill anyone who messes with him, children included. And then he discovers the killer kidnapped his missing adoptive daughter and threatens to kill her unless his remaining daughter and her friends surrender themselves.
* Mythology Gag:
**During her opening narration, Harley denies having become a villain.
** To Batman: The Animated Series:
*** The film shares titles with the episode in which the titular duo met.
*** Aside from her usual nickname of "Red", Harley also calls Ivy "Poison Oaky" (first as a mean-spirited nickname and later as an affective nickname), which is how she accidentally called her during their first meeting in the episode "Harley & Ivy".
*** The brutality Harley displays is eerily similar to how Batman behaved by the time Dick Grayson left the Batfamily in "Old Wounds".
*** The costume Harley wears while entering a bar is the same one she wore whike picking up Charlie Collins in the episode "Joker's Favor", where she debuted.
*** When Ivy rants about how society treats plants, Harley mockingly says "Yeah, yeah, yeah. Society is to blame", which is reminiscnet of a line she said in "Harley's Holiday".
*** Ivy uses a wrist crossbow to shoot a line and rescue Batgirl near the climax.
*** To the episode Harlequinade:
**** Harley starts the battle at the park by balancing on a chandelere before cutting it off and making it fall on Bolton's officers, homaging how she defeated some crooks in the episode "Harlequinade".
**** Much like in the climax of that episode, Harley attempts to shoot a madman with a gun (tranquilizent in this case) that turns out to be a "Bang!" Flag Gun.
*** Samantha holds Batgirl hostage at Paradise Meadows, Ivy's hideout in "Harley & Ivy". He also identifies the area as being bear "Sorkin District", a nod to Arleen Sorkin, Harley's original voice actress.
*** Harley sarcastically asks Ivy if she would like to be knocked unconcious via being hit by a truck or by strangling. This is a nod to a scene between Ivy and Two-Face in the episode "Almost Got 'Im".
*** Batman does his iconic pose from the show's intro as he observes Bolton's henchmen entering the amusement park Harley and her allies are hiding in.
*** Posters for films titled after episodes of the series, such as "Scratch Cat Fever" and "Dreams In Darkness", can be seen in the background.
*** Harley ambushes Bolton by hiding and jumping from a fake cake. Harley was originally written solely so she could jump out of a cake in the episode "Joker's Favor", througth the Joker was ultimately the one to do it in the final episode.
**To Harley Quinn (2019):
***The ringtone in Harley's phone is the instrumental credits theme for the series.
***Ivy again strengthens her connection to "The Green" by focusing on someone she cares for; in the series, it was Frank, while in the film, is Harley.
***Upon learning Batgirl plans to recruit Posion Ivy for help, Harley sarcastically asks if she's later planning to team up with Clayface, King Shark, or Doctor Psycho. All of whom were members of her and Ivy's crew in the series.
***Harley talks to an hallucination of herself in her reflection, like in she did during season 1 of the show.
***The design for Ivy's apartment is strikingly similar to her apartment in the TV show.
***During the chase at the climax, a sign can be seen for "HQ Highway". As in, "Harley Quinn Highway".
***Shortly before the final battle, Ivy responds to a Pre-Ass Kicking One Liner question Harley does with "hell, yeah!", Kite-Man's catchphtase. In the TV show, Ivy used to date Kite-Man.
** To Batman (1966):
*** Harley's alarm says "Bat-time", a nod to the phrase that the Adam West series often finished which.
*** Harley is shown to have in her room a William Shakespeare bust with a button revealing a pole that leads to the Batcave, much like Adam West's Batman. She is also shown to have a hidden revolving door in her bedroom, much like Yvonne Craig's Batgirl.
*** While dancing on a bar, Harley does the Batusi from the 1966 Batman series.
*** During the credits, a photo shows Harley and Ivy using a vine to climb a building, similar to how Batman and Robin used to do it in the Adam West series.
**To Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn):
***One of Harley's outfits resembles her costume from Birds of Prey.
***Harley has a dart game with a drawing of the Joker on it, just like in Birds of Prey.
***Among the things on Harley's bucket list in the credits are "Finding things that are lost", "being a dog walker", and "being a life coach", which are some of things she listed in her buisness card in Birds of Prey.
**To Harley Quinn (2021):
***The Veredict's first appearance is lifted near straight from her debut in Harley Quinn Vol. 4 #13.
***Harley mentions buying a personalized yacht, which she did in the comics.
***Harley and Ivy's final fight with The Veredict takes place in a greenhouse, which serves as a nod to Harley's first fight with The Veredict in the comics.
** Ivy's appearance in Arkham is remarkably similar to her looks at the end of Batman & Robin.
**The bartenders and cashier at Sweet Justice are named Karl, Terry, and Rachael, after the artists who created Harley's first solo comic book series.
**At the climax, Harley and Ivy don their outfits from DC Super Hero Girls (2015).
**During the opening, Harley does her take on the iconic Batman pose from The Dark Knight Returns.
**In the climax, Harley saves an unconscious Ivy from The Veredict in a similar manner to when she saved Batman from Punchline in the comics, only that without appearing to die first.
**Harley managing to convince Ivy to oull a Heel-Face Turn by showing empathy towards her summarizes the events of Batman#41-43.
**Payne arranges an undercover GCPD helicopter to bomb her house and has some police officers on his payroll to attack the girls in the building. This is intended to be an homage to Comissioner Loeb's attempt to kill Batman in Batman: Year One.
**During her performance of "Good Tonight" from The Bad Guys, Ivy flips a coin during the line "I just want you to give me a chance", a nod to Two-Face's reliance on the flip of a coin and gimmicks regarding chance and luck.
**Part of Samantha's dialogue was lifted from the Earth-99 Batman from the Arrowverse's Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover. He also at one point quotes the Joker's line "you can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs" from Tim Burton's Batman.
**Arkham's name in this setting combines its names in Joker (2019)/The Batman (2022) and in Zack Snyder's Justice League.
**Harley claiming there are no "former criminals" and that those are "criminals who aren't criminalizing" calls back to a comment Damian Wayne made to Batman in the animated film Batman: Hush.
* Realism-Induced Horror: Samantha Payne is a walking example. She's a police unafraid of using brutal force on anyone to get what he wants and has no qualms on killing criminals even after they surrended themselves or commited even the smallest crimes. In other words, he's just like many cops out there, unethical and too blindsided by his hatred of crime that, in the end, they're no different from the crooks they hunt down.
* Rule of Symbolism: The scene where Payne throws Ivy to the Gotmam River is similar to whwn the Joker threw Harley to that chemical vat. Essentially, Harleen's hatred for all criminals dies the same way it began.
* Tearjerker:
**Ivy's backstory. As a child, she was an abused and exploited by her father, the only human being she actually knew, and when an experiment caused her to develop her green skin and powers (and mutated Frank and Anne), he ditched her in the middle of nowhere.
**The film reveals why Harley has been using gliders to fall from buildings: The incident at ACE Chemicaks left her with severe trauma and a fear of heights, as she flashes back to the moment the Joker threw her tp the chemichals everytime she is on the edge, and the gliders alivinate her fear.
**When Batman tells Harley she's off the team, albeit temporarely, is a surprisingly sad moment, particularly on second-viewing. Harley at first defends her actions against criminals lateky, which, after learning her backstory, can come across as her feeling a parent figure is abandoning her again. And when Batman makes clear he does not approve her actions, it dawns on her that she just dissappointed the only actual father she ever had and her best friend. She looks so... heartbroken at this you can't help but feel sad for her.
***This is also sad from Batman's perspective. A few years ago he lost Jason Todd partially when he went a bit off the rails and failed to help him. Now, he's worried that will happen again.
***Wnd when Harley rembkes about their argument, she soumds geniuenely confused as to why Batmsn disapproves of her actions. She knows well she dissappointed him, and it clearly hurts her, but she fails to comprehend why.
**Shortly after revealing her backstory, Ivy asks why Harley is the way she is. After Harley reveals what the Joker did, Ivy asks her how she can deal with the chemicals' psychological side-effects, as well as the psychological issues it only aggravated. Harley then responds, with a tone of melancholy in her voice, "Well, some stuff you... just learn to live above, througth it still pops up. And the rest? That's what you gotta learn to live with". This will ring true to anybody who has dealt with a mental illness.
**And shortly after, when Harley tells to Ivy how not all humans are bad, she reveals her father abandoned too, for a couple of beers. And, unlike Birds of Prey, this still clearly hurts her. Througth this turns into a happy tearjrrker when she reveals how meeting Batgirl made her life better with her help.
**Montoya's arc can be quite heartbreaking. Seeing her transition from a young and idealistic girl with faith on the police system to a more comic-accurate personality is just... so sad to see. The moment where she discovers Payne's crimes, when she sees with her own two eyes police officers enganging in the same type of criminal activities they sought to stop, is particularly devastating, her facial expressions making clear the faith she once had in the system is shattering, and how that hurts her.
**As the area in which they fought The Veredict collapses, Ivy stays behimd to make sure the group escapes, with no gurantee she'll survive. Harley is left heartbroken at the idea of losing Ivy, and begs her to come with them just so she gets to live too.
* Shout-Out: 
**The opening narration is based on the opening of Sonic the Hedgehog (2020).
**During the opening, Harley recreates the dance from Risky Business.
**At one point, Harley receives a phone call and, upon answering, says "hey, arnold".
**The scene where Harley and Batgirl go to Ivy's cell in Arkham is an homage to The Silence of the Lambs.
**Harley's statement that "we all have a life full of shit! But that's no excuse to go aroubd and kill everybody you meet!" has echoes of Rocket's rant against Drax.
**Ivy sacrificing herself to let the others escape from Bolton homahe Kyle's sacrifice in The Terminator. Bolton himself also recreates the iconic "walking on fire" scene during the climax.
**Two to The Matrix.
*** During an argument in which Ivy threatens her, Harley responds with "You don't wanna mess with me. I know Kung Fu", a similar line to one uttered by Keanu Reeves' character in the original film
*** During the final battle, Harley uses her javelin as a pole to defeat some cops ála Neo in Matrix Recharged.
** The scene where Batgirl enters the bay to save Harley and Poison Ivy is an homage to the motorcycle scene from Akira
**Upon finding a clue, Harley shouts "Bless me bagpipes!".
**While walking througth Gotham after Batman leaves for a few days, Harley wears the same clothes as Pinkie Pie in the My Little Pony: Equestria Girls franchise.
**Among the targets on Payne's board is a guy named Peter Griffin.
**As Ivy prepares to sacrifice herself, she and Harley briefly put their habds together on a window.
*Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Arkham is revealed to have started as the Cardboard Prision it is in the comics, before developing better security with financial help from Wayne Enterprises. As would any place in real life with constant escapes.
*Spiritual Antitesis: The film centers on Harley trying to convince a member of Batman's rogue gallery to abandon their evil ways, eventually coming to sympwthize with them for their backstory and Harley ends up personally liking them. This is pretty much what happened to her in her backstory as depicted in the comic Mad Love. However, whereas the Joker manipulated her into liking him by coming up with a bullshit backstory and ends up making her his henchwoman, Ivy is truly sincere in her words, the two form a mutual friendship, and she pulls a Heel-Face Turn.
*Tempting Fate: After arresting Ivy at the start, Harley tells her "Goodbye forever!". How wrong she was.
*The Stinger: Poison Ivy unknowingly gives some hallucinogen pollen to the Scarecrow.
*Vidual Pun: While rescuing Batgirl, Ivy shoots a line with a green arrow.
*Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: The film is a lightherated-if-emotional buddy movie centered on Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy. But Samantha Payne aka The Veredict is a truly threatening antagonist, being nothing but a sadistic and brutal Knight Templar cop who is more than happy to beat into a pulp and even outright kill anybody who even talked to a criminal and darkens the film's tone with his presence.
*Villain Has a Point: Deconstructed. Througth her interactions with the kind and optimistic Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy realizes that being right about nature needing protection does not give her any right to take human lives.
=== Tropes for Wonder Woman: Prey ===
* Author's Saving Throw: Many fans complained how Cheetah was reduced to being The Dragon in Wonder Woman 1984. This film averted this by having Cheetah as a solo villain.
*Ax-Crazy: Dosen't get any worse than attempting to murder somebody wuth an ancient Cheetah curse out of spite for being better than her at work.
* An Aesop: Life is sometimes unfair, bit we can't let those moments take over us.
* Big Bad: Prisilla Rich / Cheetah
* Composite Character: While this version of Cheetah is Pricilla Rich, she obtains powers througth a curse she unleashes that turns her into a humanoid cheetah, much like the DC Superhero Girls version of Barbara Ann Minerva.
* Green-Eyed Monster: Rich becomes full of envy after Diana upstages her while working as curator, to the point of turning herself into the Cheetah in revenge.
*Heartwarming Moments: It is revealed that, sometime after the wvents of the first film, Diana and Steve had a daughter named after Diana's mother, Hippolyta. And they get along so well your heart will melt.
* Knight of Cerebus: While Savage was a despicable human being, he was a rather standard villain. Cheetah, on the other hand, makes it personal, targeting Diana's loved ones and planning to kill her out of spite.
* Mythology Gag: At one point, Cheetah asks Wonder Woman "Do you bleed?", vefkre attacking her.
* Nightmare Fuel: Cheetah. After Diana upstages her at work, she lets herself be cursed into becoming a monster, with the intention of turning Diana's life into a living hell before attempting to kill her. Not only that, but her behavior implies she's planning on eating her afterwards, made even worse by the fsct that she's completly conscious and in control of her actions.
** There's also how alarmingly quick she retorts to murder Diana. After a day or 2, she is quick to choose a cyrse as payback. With hiw the following scene of Cheetah entering Diana's house plays, you'd be forgiven for thinking the film will include a subplot of Rich struggling with the curse. And then she sings a sadistic lullaby while trying to kill Diana in her sleep. If that wasn't enough, during her first fight with Diana, Rich reveals that she always knew whst the curse actually does, making us clear that this Cheetah knows exactly what she's doing and she will love it.
** The scene itself where Cheetah almost kills Diana in her sleep. It plays like the first scene from Monsters, Inc. Except that this time is not an scarer-in-training doing a scare test on a robotic child, but a geniuenely threatening monster trying to kill a real adult.
** There's also the fact that Wonder Woman, one of the greatest heroes in the DC Universe, almost dies in her sleep. While first-time viewers might at first be a little relieved by the apparent Dramatic Irony of Diana being tougher than a normal human being, it is later shown that Cheetah can harm her. Meaning that, had Diana not waken up, she would be dead then and there.
** Arguably the scariest thing is that Cheetah went to kill Diana before she knew she was Wonder Woman. Which means that Rich, as far as she knew, was going to unleash the fury of a deadly curse on an innocent person. And she didn't cared. She was already one hell of a Green-Eyed Monster if there ever was one before becoming Cheetah.
**It gets worse when she does begin to act like a Cheetah, and is arguably one of the scariest cursed-werecreatures-beginning-to-act-like-animals cases in modern cinema. Unlike most movies, its not a case of The Mind is a Plaything of the Body. No. Its clearly a product of Rich descending into madness.
**Most versions of Cheetah tend to use geniune Cheetah noises for her growls. This version instead combines them with vocal effects provided by her voice actress. The result is something that can only be called inhumane.
*Shout-Out: At one point, Cheetah recreares the iconic roar scene from Jurassic Park.
*Unexpected Character: Fans were shocked that Diana and Steve's daughter, Hippolyta, would aooear in the film.
=== Tropes for DC Superhero Girls: Fear State===
* An Aesop: 
** You can't get rid of fear, but you can resist it.
** To cope with your fears, you must first open up to your friends.
* Central Theme: How to cope with fear.
*Darker and Edgier: Whereas the film was a lighthearted story about teamwork, this film focuses on overcoming fear, has psychological horror-esque imagery, and includes a villain who carries literal Nightmare Fuel to use as his weapon of choice.
*Heartwarming Moments:
**Througth the film, it is shown that all the Superhero Girls, annoyed as they are of her antics, geniunely care for Harley as much as Batgirl does and do see her as a teammate and a friend. A far cry from her status as an outcast alongside Barbara back in Batgirl. Conversely, Harley also shows that she truly cares for the girls.
**It is shown that not only has Poison Ivy remained good friends with Harley, but she even formed a friendship with Batgirl, and the three are now their own best friend squadron.
**Similarly, upon hearing how Ivy reformed and became a good person, as well as her backstory, the rest of the team slowly but surely welcomes her with open arms. Bumblebee in particular bonds with her over their love for science and secret insecurity issues.
* Mythology Gag:
** The subtitle is a nod to the Batman: Fear State story arc.
** The scene where the Joker is revealed to have escaped Arkham is similar to Lex Luthor's escape in Zack Snyder's Justice League.
** At the end of the film, during Halloween, Harley dresses as zombie.
* Nightmare Fuel:
**Wonder Woman's hallucination is particularly scary. It starts off with her seemingky meeting Batgirl... who suddenky, quickly, begins to age until her skin turns to dust and falls as a lifeless. And then she finds the skeletons of all of her friends in a similar state, in what appears to be a post-apocaliptic scenario. It really highlights how horrible an inmortal life can be.
** The post-credits scene also has a big scare of its own: The Joker escaped from Arkham. Unnoticed.
* Tearjerker: 
**Supergirl's fear is losing the Superhero Girls, who are the few friends she had ever since arriving to Earth.
**Similarly, Diana fears that, no matter what, she will outlive everyone she loves. Most of the time, we're told how being inmortal can suck so much. This fiom actually shows it. And it truly makes you understand that was no bluff.
=== Tropes for Raven===
* Abusive Parent: Trigon is of the emotional kind.
*Adaptation Distillation: The film combines the New Teen Titans issues #5 to #6 with the "Terror of Trigon" storyline and the 2008 Titans comics.
* Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: Zatanna had little to do with Raven's origins as a hero, yet here she is a privotal part and a close friend of hers. Ironically, her only role in her origin was to refuse to help her.
* The Eeyore: Raven, of course.
*Friendly Fandoms: With fans of Zack Snyder, thanks to its dark tone and nods to the Snyderverse.
*Heartwarming Moments:
** Unlike the comics, Raven manages to properly explain herself to Zatanna. And she not only listens, but fully emphatizes with her and agrees to hrlp her npt just to save the world, but because she sees how miserable Raven is with Trigon.
** The ending. Raven, the lonely abused child, finally has a stable relationship with her mother, someone to call a friend, and is overrall liked amongst the people of Jump City. After seeing how miserable she was the whole movie, seeing her loved and happy is truly beautiful.
*** Underscoting the end is the Kevin Bacon and Old 97's version of "Here It Is Christime", which features the lyrics "We all want someone who will love us and hold us". And, yes, this all takes place at Christmas. What a better Christmas gift for an abused child than to finally have love?
*** The film's final shot: Raven sitting to have a Christmas dinner as the camera pans to show her mother and Zatana, all sharing dinner. The lonely girl from the beginning, now having a simple Christnas dinner with the people she loves.
*Mythology Gag:
** Zatanna's first scene has her watching "Hi Hi Pufi AmiYumi" on her phone. The show's lead band performed the opening song for Teen Titans (2003).
**The opening has Raven sufering a nightmare afterwhich she wakes up in her room and is comforted by her mother. This was lifted straight from Titans (2018).
**The scene where Raven fully submits to Trigon is inspired by when Superman bows to Lex Luthor in Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice.
**The idea of Trigon haunting Raven througth her life is reminiscent if the graphic novel Teen Titans: Raven.
**Two to Zack Snyder's Justice League:
*** Trigon's entrance to Earth is an homage to Darkseid's entrance during the "History Lesson" sequence.
*** Raven prevents her father from killing Zatanna in a similar way to how Superman prevents Steppenwolf from killing Cyborg at the film's climax.
**Trigon's first words upon arrivimg to Earth, as well as fragments of Raven's "The Reason You Suck" Speech, are taken straight ouf of the three-part season 4 finale of Teen Titans.
**Raven uses fairytales as a form of escaping, which is intended to be an homage to the Teen Titans episode "Spellbound".
**Raven's dreams of Trigon conquering Earth resemble the "Knightmare" sequences from Batman v. Superman and Zack Snyder's Justice League.
**Raven mentions she always wanted to be a dancer; this was first stated in an episode of Teen Titans GO!
**The end credits are modeled after the opening sequence from Teen Titans.
*Narm Charm: The film's ending and credits are very cheery and corny for a horror film (the end credits song is a cover of a Muppet song of all times). But seeing Raven happy (or as happy as she can be) and living a positive life after the hell she lived for years more than makes it worth it.
* Nightmare Fuel:
** Trigon is fearsome to watch. And not only in his devil-looking appearance. His ruthless behavior and power will haunt your dreams.
*** And for those who suffered abuse, Trigon's treatment of Raven makes him infinitely more terrifying.
*** Abd unlike a normal abuser, Trigon literally haunts Raven wherever she is. Not only are many of these sequences truly terrifying, but it means that, no matter where Raven goes, she can't escape his abuser.
***And when Raven finally has enough of his shit and stabds up to him, he straight up tries to kill his daughter.
**That moment in the Religion class about the apocalypse where Raven realizes how similar to her dreams the apocalyose was. Os when it dawns on Raven those weren't dreans but visions... and when the audience realize our heroes won't be facing any interdimensional demon but Satan himself.
**Trigon's entrance to Earth is nothing short of horrifying. First, many demons from his realm emerge from the portal, mindless beings hellbent on destruction. Then, they stop, and bow towards whoever is coming. That's Trigon, enormous in size. He then punches the ground with his fist, releasing a blast that turns almost everybody in its range into stone and begins terraforming Earth into his world. That's when you knew. The Devil arrived to Earth. And its coming for you. For all of us.
** Trigon's realm most definetly qualifies. Seriously, its in essence the Lovecraftian version of Hell.
*Reimagening the Artifact: This version of Raven has little interest in superheroics, so she lacks her iconic cloak througth most of the film. However, she is seen wearing hoodies as a nod to her cloak, and she gets to done it fully after standing up to Trigon and unleashing her full power at the climax.
* Sequel Hook: In a post-credits scene, Raven suddenly begins to eat some chips, before getting frustated and behaving normally once again while wondering why she has chips. Now, with Raven taking a familiar behavior while eating chips, fans might realize a version of her Emoticlones might be coming...
*Self-Plagiarism: The shot of Raven invoking her "soul-self" while battling Trigon is very reminiscent of the owl projection Eda made in her duel with Lilith in The Owl House episode "Agony of a Witch"; director Bosook Cuborn was a director for the series ever since season 2.
*Shout-Out: When Raven finally fights against Trigon, she, in response to her father demanding for an explication, responds by saying "Something i've should have done a long time ago. Standing up to you!".
* The Stinger: A post-credits scene that suggests Raven's Emoticlones from Teen Titans might show up in a sequel.
* Tearjerker:
**In this version, the reason Raven is such an emotionally depressed girl is the emotional abuse she had to endure from her father.
**The film's opening shows how awful Raven's life truly is. She has a strained relationship with her mother, her father is a literal abusive monster, and has no friends. This because she refuses to open up, because she feels it will be useless to do so, and that she won't resist Trigon for long. She literally gave up on friendship and love.
***If that wasn't enough, the opening festures the song "Sucker's Prayer", whose chorus features the lyrics "I wanna love somebody but I don't know how. I've been so long lonely and it's getting me down. I wanna throw my body in the river and drown". In-universe, this is what Raven listens to.
**After being haunted once again by Trigon, Raven gazes at her window with a sorrowful and worried look. No doubt she fears what will happen if her father succeeds.
*Took a Level in Badass: In the end, Raven finds the strength to stand up to Trigon.
* Wham Line: In The Stinger, after Raven begins to uncharacteristically eat some chips only to hit herself, she asks: "When did took these chips?".
=== Tropes for Batgirl III ===
* Abusive Father: As in the comics, Cluemaster is this towards Stephanie.
* Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: There are no indications of Cluemasrer even meeting Lex Luthor. The Stinger has Luthor offering him a post in the Legion of Doom in exchange on info about Batgirl.
* Big Bad: Cluemaster.
* The Cameo: Poison Ivy, Frank, and Anne appear at the start of the film in a birthday party for Frank that Harley attends.
* Continuity Nod: The Stinger mebtiins how Lex Luthor had to be transferred to Blackgate followimg the dusaster in Metropolis, as seen in Fear State.
* The Dreaded: Cluemaster is this to both Batgirl and Harley, who even have a code in case he ever appears.
* Mythology Gag:
** The chase sequence at the start of the film is an homage to The Flash (2023).
** Cluemaster refers to Stephanie being Batgirl as "a very big spoiler", alluding to one of Stephanie's codenames from the comics.
** Much like the 2009 Batgirl comics, Stepganke reunites with Cluemaster after assuming him to be dead, and is attacked by the former with hallucigonic flowers.
* Oh Crap!: Stelhanie has this big time when she discovers Cluemaster has returned.
* Pragmatic Adaptation: To prevent the character from coming iff as a Riddler copy, Cluemaster in the film cinstructs hus crimes as a way that serves as a clue to his real plan rather than just leave one.
* Sequel Hook: Cluemaster vows revenge at the end of the film, something Lex Luthor is interested by.
* Secret Keeper: Harley was the only one who knew Cluemaster was Stephanie's father before the film's events.
* Shout-Out: 
** Harley wears a shirt with the line "be gay, do witchcraft", a famous The Owl House meme, during Ivy's party.
** As in Spider-Man: Homecoming, The Stinger has the main villain brimg approached in prision by another to form a team after learning they know the lead hero's identity. Sadly, unlike Vulture, Cluemaster accepts.
* The Stinger: Lex Luthor approaches Cluemaster in jail and proposes him to join his new Legion of Doom.
=== Tropes for Harley & Ivy's Holiday===
* Big Bad: The Joker, for the first time since Batgirl.
*Big Damn Kiss: Ivy gives Harley one as a way to admit her feelings for her.
*Black Comedy: In the Gotham Park, some kids cause a tree to lose a branch. According to Ivy, that tree was her (adopted) cousin. And the whole things is treated as if somebody lost an arm.
* Fridge Brilliance: 
** "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" and Seal's "Kiss From a Rose" are rather fitting for the film's leads when you think about it.
*** "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" is fitting for Harley, since it could be seen as her asking for the most thrilling and exciting aspects of a romantic relationship, while the repeated use of the line "You're a star" can be seen as her telling Ivy how worthy she's in her eyes, reflecting her energetic but kind and good-hearted nature.
*** "Kiss From a Rose", while sounding fitting for Harley for its title, is arguably more fitting for Ivy, as the lyrics talk about how a lover helped their parent by making their lives brighter with their love, which is exactly what happened to Ivy: Harley's then-platonic love for her helped Ivy not only become a better person, but got her out of her self-destructive behavior and improved her personal life.
** The final scene has evrtybody celebrating Harley and Ivy's love in the jungle. Well, they had to let in Ivy's guests somehow.
*Heartwarming Moments: While sad over Ivy apparently seeing her as just a friend, Harley respects her wishes and does not tell her why she was sad.
*Hilarious In Hindsight: The Batman: The Animated Series episode "Chemistry" had Poispn Ivy creating plant persons that would marry and murder Gotham's wealthiest, including Bruce Wayne, so that she could inherent their fortunes. This version of Ivy developing her typical relationship with Harley Quinn, who is Wayne's adopted daighter, therefore making Ivy potentially and legally elegible for a inheretance of Wayne's via a will (either directly or througth Harley).
* Mythology Gag:
** At the start of the film, Joker says "There's nothimg like being home for the holidays!", his first lines in the DC Superhero Girls (2019) episode "#HalloweenInGotham".
** The film features the songs "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" and Seal's "Kiss From a Rose" from Batman Forever.
** The film's title is inspired by the The New Batman Adventures episode "Holiday Knights", whose first segment centered on Harley and Ivy
** After Harley realizes her feelings for Ivy, a montage of her daydreaming and fighting crime appeats, with "Whistle for the Choir" playing; the song previously appeared in a romantic montage between Harley and General Luna in The Suicide Squad (2021).
** At one point, Harley asks Bruce for romantic advice, only for him to argue that he's not fit for those advices, pointing put that "[his] relationships either don't work out or end when they become criminals". This is a nod to Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, where it is shown that Bruce's first girlfriend, Andrea Belmont, broke up their relstionship to become an assasain after her father was killed by the future Joker.
** Harley at one point suggests naming one of Ivy's plants DeeDee, which was the name of her granddaughters in Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker.
** Harley and Ivy's second kiss is similar to their first kiss in Harley Quinn (2019).
** As in Harley Quinn, Ivy gets killed by the Joker and ressurrected shortly after.
**At one point, Harley and Ivy dance as their superhero selves in a costume party. This is the polar opposite of Batman Returns, where Bruce and Selina danced in a costume party as their civilian selves, reflecting how, unlike The Bat and the Cat, they see their secret identities as their true selves.
*Narm Charm: Harvey trying to cover her tears by claiming she was remmebering the opening of Up sounds funny on paper, but the fact that she's saying it to cover her sadness over her crush apparently not reciprocating her feelings makes it quite sad actually. Plus, anybody who's seen that film can say its a good cover.
* Shout-Out:
**Ivy introduces Bumblebee to her dad as "a friend from work".
**The Joker paraphrases Khan's "buried alive" speech while locking Harley abd her friends away.
**Harley and Ivy's first kiss was inspired by the climax of The Croods: A New Age.
**The credits feature Harley & Ivy recreating Luz and Amity's first kiss.
* Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: When Harley asks Bruce on advice regarding romantic relationships, she argues he had a lot of relationships, to which Bruce says "More reason to not to give you advice". As it turns out, asking romantic advice to someone who couldn't commit to one is not a good idea.
=== Tropes for Ivy and Mr. Freeze===
* Anti-Villain: Mr. Freeze, as always.
* Big Bad: Max Shreck
* Fridge Brilliance: Freeze trying to kill Shreck by dropoing him off a building is somewhat poetic when you realize he attempted the same with Catwoman on his debut. Similarly, by choosing not to drop him, Freeze proves himself the morally suoerior between the two on a meta context, by refusing to do exactly what he did.
* Genre Savy: Harley knew if they put all info exposing Shreck's crimes in a drive, he could have his people chasing her and Ivy were he to survive his encounter with Freeze, so she just leaked it then and there.
* Heartwarming Moments:
** Ivy trying to warn Freeze that, if he crosses any moral line, then he would be no better than the people who put his wife's life in more peril.
** The ending. Finally, after years of failures, separations, or one of them dying, fans finally get to see what at this point seemed unlikely to happen in any canon universe: Victor Fries reuniting with his wife Nora. Freeze, Nora, and Ivy all ended bathing in Tears of Joy, alongside every fan who watched this.
* Heartwarming in Hindsight: In Harley Quinn (2019), when Harley convinces Freeze to spare her from his experiments, she suggests calling Ivy to help, causing Freeze to ask why would Ivy do it. In this film, Ivy helps him out of concern for both Nora and his soul, and is her help what ends up curing Nora.
* Hilarious in Hindsight: The last time Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy appeared in the same theatrical movie, Ivy attempted to kill Nora so she can have Freeze for herself. Here, Ivy is a lesbian in a relationship, and manages to save Nora.
* Mythology Gag: The speech Ivy gives to Freeze regarding the ways he takes to save Nora is inspired by tge one Batman gave to Robin regarding vengeance in Batman Forever.
* Nightmare Fuel: Shreck in this version is just as uncaring for life as he was in 1992, and its just as disgusting. He was more than willing to let Nora die just to get some money.
* Role Reprise:
** Alfred Molina returns from Harley Quinn (2019) as Mr. Freeze.
** Christopher Walken provides the voice of Max Shreck, returning to the role he originated in Batman Returns.
*Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: When he's arrested, Shreck attempts to bribe Commissioner Gordon into freeing him. The result is an additional prision sentence on accounts of attempting to bribe a police officer.
* Tearjerker: During her warning speech to Freeze, Ivy makes clear that she regrets every day she spent as an eco-terrorist, and will carry that guilt form who knows how long.
* Tempting Fate: After being spared by Freeze and Ivy, Shreck claims that he will be able to get away with his actions due to lack of evidence, only for Harley to come out at the last moment and reveal she already leaked the evidence online.
=== Tropes for Ravens===
* Adaptational Heroism: Red Raven was potrayed in Teen Titans as the malevelont incarnation of Raven's anger. This version is changed to a Jerk with a Hear of Gold and a Hair-Trigger Temper.
* Adaptational Job Overhaul: Downplayed. Chase Meridian is still a psychiatrist, but she now specializes in helping superheroes.
*Adaptational Nationality: In Teen Titans (2003), all Ravens apparently had the same nationality as the main Raven. In the film, Green Raven is explicitly Scottish, displaying a thick Scottish accebt courtesy of Ashley Jensen, while Pink Raven is Russian, and Red Raven is British.
* Alternate Identity Amnesia: Raven and her alters all suffer this at first.
* Bait-and-Switch: The opening briefly suggests Red Raven will be as evil as her original self when she seemingly unleashes a hell on Zatanna on purpose. However, it is quickly shown that Raven actually didn't regained control until after leaving in shame, indicating this Red Raven will be a bit nicer.
*Deconstruction: Of Raven's Stoic personality. The film shows how repressing her feelings, plus her years of abuse by Trugon, ultimately did a number on Raven's mental heslth, and her alters propose to avoid succumbing to her demonic influence by focusing their feelings instead of supressing them.
* Funny Moments: When noticing Raven's behavior, not knowing of Red Raven or that she's in control, Zatanna says that she never saw Raven so angry before, before pointing out she never saw Raven angry period.
** Similarly, when Pink Raven takes control and meets Zee, she is disturbed... due to seeing Raven's body being cheery.
** Pink Raven's response over Gentleman Ghost's attack? Claim that if he was a ghost, then aliens exist. Cue an awkward silent stare from the other alters.
* Heartwarming Moments:
** The film as a whole is a statement of Zatanna and Raven's friendship. Raven without needing any convincing tells Zatanna she has DID. And Zatanna, while sometimes shocked at seeing the other Ravens in control of her body, not only is understanding, but treats every alter as a different person in their own right and tries her best to help Raven.
** After Trigon's sons terrify Grey Raven, Zatanna comforts her like a mother would to a child and calms her down. And when Green Raven fronts, she is clearly mad at what Gentleman Ghost did to Grey.
* Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Red Raven may be grumpish in her best mood, quite feisty, and have a terrible temper, but, deep down, she's as good as the rest of the system.
* Jerkass Woobie: Red Raven may be a grumpy anti-social with anger issues that make the Hulk seem stable, but you csn't help but feel bad for her once it comes out that she loathes her very existence.
* Mythology Gag: 
** Green Raven's entrance is reminiscent of when Aquaman goes to Atlantis in both versions of Justice League. The music playing is the same song than in the 2017 version.
** During her first therapy session, Raven says "[she's] not the best people person", the same line she told to her demon side in the film Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans.
** Zatanna being disturbed of Raven's body acting cheery when Pink Raven is in control calls back to an scene in Teen Titans (2003) where Robin and Starfire are putted off when Raven begins to laugh while meditating.
** Ruthless alter Red Raven calls (marginally) meeker Raven "a delicate little rose", a reference to Rose and Thorn a DC character with dissociative identity disorder whose alters have a similar dynamic.
** During the climax, Raven paraphrases what 2015 DCHSG Supergirl told to her counterpart from that show in the episode "Nevermore – Part 4".
**The Ravens combine their attacks to defeat to defeat their half-siblings, a nod to how they fused to fight Red Raven at the end of their debut episode in Teen Titans.
**After defeating her half-siblings, one of them calls Raven "a lonely, broken child", to which she responds with: "I'm not broken. And I'm not alone". Exactly what Cyborg told to the Mother Boxes in Zack Snyder's Justice League. This also reflects how the two are known for being members of the Teen Titans.
* Reimagening the Artifact: The incarnations of Raven's emotions from Teen Titans (2003) are reimagined in this version and potrayed as Split Personalities she developed due to her abuse relationship with Trigon.
* Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Raven may have come to terms with her alters, but she is still attending therapy for her traumas. Finding estabilization within a system is only a part of the healing process for someone with DID.
* Split Personality: In this version, Raven's Emoticlones are depicted as separate personalitues she created due to Trigon's abuse, each representing either a repressed aspect of hers or something she wishes she could be at least at times.
* Tearjerker: 
** When Red Raven and Raven meet, the latter is mad at the former not for keeping her in, but for, in her eyes, letting her exist. And when she turns into a demon and attacks her, she says "If you had gotten away from our dad in time, I wouldn't exist, AND EVERYBODY WOULD BE IN A HAPPIER PLACE!!!!!!!", the broken tone of her words making clear she means it.
** In this version, each Emoticlon is an alter that represents something Raven kept hidden or wished she could be. Pink Raven, who is happy and hyperactive, falls into the latter. That's enough to tug your heartstrings.
=== Tropes for Starfire ===
* Adapted Out: The Teen Titans are understandbly absent of this version of Starfire's origin story, althrougth Dick Grayson still appears, but neither as Robin nor as Batman's ward.
* Adaptational Backstory Change: Blackfire's origin is different, having been corrupted by the idea of power as she grew instead of turning to villany due to being shunned by her family due to a childhood illness. Word of God is that they worried it could give the film albeist undertones.
* An Aesop: Blood does not equal family.
*And You Thougth It Would Fail: Througth this belief lasted shorter than usual, but fans worried that the film might suffer from covering too many plot points pr that Robin's origin story would be more of a wasted subplot once it was announced that Dick Grayson and his family would appear. This died diwn, however, when promotional matetial revealed the film would not cover Robin's origin, and the film's ending setting up his origin in a subsequent DCATU entry.
*Funny Moments: Dick's reaction to Starfire's ship crashing on the street? Dispair that his new bike was destroyed in the crash.
* Knight of Cerebus: The film may be rather dark, having a similar tone to The Lion King, but Blackfire turns the film into straight up horror the moment she shows up. Leading a coup for the mere sake of having power and teaming up with her people's enemies to have an army, Blackfire goes as far as trying to get her sister killed to ensure there's no one to oppose her, and out kf resentment for beingvselected as princess instesd of her. So, when she finds her, she makes clear she will kill her slowly and painfully. Safe to say, she is one nasty sibling.
* Heartwarming Moments: 
**Starfire and Silkie's relationship is really cute, going far beyond a pet/owner relationship into a true friendship. Not only that, but this version of Silkie pretty much fills the role of an emotional support pet, which Starfire really needs.
**A meta example: Who voices John Grayson, Dick's father? Burt Ward himself.
*Mythology Gag: 
** When Grayson tries to explain the acts in his family's circus, Starfire asks for the purpose behind the trapeze act, while making a heavy emphasis on the word "the", calling back to her habit of adding "the" to several terms in both Teen Titans and Teen Titans GO!.
**Grayson's introduction is a recreation of the cover of Detective Comics #38, his first appearance. And during the rest of the scene, the track "Waltz to the Death" from Batman (1989) plays over.
** Two to Batman Forever:
*** Grayson's first scene has him performing a trapeeze act with his family, similar to Forever.
*** After the Graysons' performance, Dick stops two kids named Jim and Tommy from fighting, a reference to Forever stars Jim Carrey and Tommy Lee Jones, and how the latter hated the fomer's type of humor.
** Dick has a robin bird named Robbie, a nod to Robin's animal equivalent in Krypto the Superdog.
** The Grayson's circus is named "Hayley's Circus", the same name as in 2004's The Batman.
* Remake Cameo: Burt Ward voices Dick Grayson's father.
*Ship Tease: Starfire and Grayson get a lot of this.
=== Tropes for Robin ===
* Actor Allusion: This isn't the first time Tom Holland plays a young comic book character who is usually idealistic but is driven to a murderous revenge after his family is killed.
* Awesome Moments: Batman and Robin fighting against Rupert Thorne's men to save Gotham's mayor. After appearing in three campy and comedic films, movie audiences finally get to see how Batman and Robin work together in a darker enviroment more in line with the Nolan trilogy. And its amazing.
** Even cooler is that the score playing is an instrumental, badass version of the Adam West theme. You read that right. The composers took the goofy, campy Batman theme, and turned it into a piece of music you would hear in the DCEU or the Reeves-verse. If that isn't anazing, then what is?
* Darker and Edgier: With the protagonist being a young kid filled with bloodlust and wishes of revenge and the film exploring the mobster side of Gotham, the film stands out as one of the darker DCATU films.
*Fridge Brilliance: The flashback where Batman kills Joe Chill shows him wearing Robert Pattinson's outfit. That film had Batman learning vengeance is bot the answer, much like whst this version learns in that moment, if in a darker way.
* Harsher in Hindsight: In Batman: The Brave and the Bold, the Dark Knight was tempted to kill Joe Chill but ultimately refused. In this film, he didn't.
*Heartwarming Moments: 
**Near the end of the film, Dick recalls how he adopted Robbie, and the entire moment is full of pure sweetness. His brother congratulates him, and his parents are proud of him.
***Also, John's final line "You did good, son. You did good" echos as the scene switches back to present day. Seeing how John is voiced by Burt Ward, it almost feels like Ward is thanking Tom Holland for helping to keep Robin, the character he brought to life in 1966, alive
**The final song in the credits is the old Adam West theme song, as a reminder of the show that put the Dynamic Duo on the map and made both Batman and Robin the iconic characters that they are.
**A small one, but Ivy accompanied Batgirl and Harley on a mission to Jump City, indicating she is now seen as part of the Bat-Family.
* Mythology Gag: 
**Robin's arc in the film is lifted straight from Batman Forever. There's even a scene where Batman talks to Robin about his experience on revenge to dissuade him from going the same path!
**During a flashback sequence, Batman wears the same outfit as his Reeverse self.
**Batgirl, Harley, and Ivy's reaction to Dick's appearance as Robin mirrors that time Harley and Ivy found out Joker became Mayor of Gotham.
* Nightmare Fuel:
**This film shows why Batman sticks to his Thou Shall Not Kill rule: He killed Joe Chill. And, unlike in Batman (1989) or Batman: The Brave and the Bold, it wasn't because he was too dangerous to let live or because he was plotting something bad. Pure revenge. He picked the muggler his first night, gave him a beat up more brutal than any other he gave, grabbed his gun and shot him. It was then he realized how empty revenge is. And, is any wonder he hates guns or killing?
**The climax has one of Thorne's men being losing his left eye to an explosion Robin caused. A post-credits scene shows us the result and, to put it simply, he makes Two-Face look like a model. If that isn't bad enough, he kills the police watching over him, and then one of the doctors sees him leaving and tells him to return, while calling him "Mr. Wilson", who then reveals he plans to kill Robin for what happened. We just witnessed the birth of Deathstroke.
*Secret Secret Keeper: Implied. During the post-credits scene, both Ivy and Batgirl note how Raven seemed to act "weird" and wondered whether she was hiding something. Harley's reaction to hearing them strongly suggests she deduced Raven has DID, but kept it hidden to respect her privacy.
*The Stinger: 
**A brief mid-credits scene has Batgirl, Ivy, and Harley returning to Gotham after a mission in Jump City and find out about the new Robin.
**A post-credits scene reveals that one of Thorne's men was none other than Slade Wilson, who lost his eye during the climax and now seeks revenge against Robin.
*Tearjerker: At one point, Robin becomes desperate at not finding Thorne snd angrily claims Batman dosen't know how it feels to want to find and kill domebody who murdered his family. Batman then takes off hus mask, the first time in the franchise he reveals his identity willingly... and has tears in his eyes. Dick himself is shocked by this revelation, silently muttering "Mr. Wayne?", his tone making clear he just realized he was wrong. And then Bruce reveals how he learned revenge won't solve anything... the day he killed Joe Chill, sonething he feels geniunely regretful for.
== Tropes for the television series and specials ==
=== Tropes for Trinity ===
* Adaptational Badass: Composite Superman goes from a weird gimmick villain to a geniune power-obssesed threat able to fight both the Man of Steel, the Dark Knight, and Wonder Woman at once.
* An Aesop: Friendships can be tarnished or damaged, but never broken.
* Character Rerailment: Batman in this version is revealed to have trusted Superman pretty much from the get-go and have been close friends with him ever since, a contrast from the more hostile relationship seen in media such as Batman v. Superman and much closer to the original World's Finest comics.
*Composite Character: No pun intended. Composite Superman combines his origins and personality of his New Earth incarnation with the malevolent personality of his original self.
*Fridge Brilliance: Unlike most versions, Batman explicitly dosen't fear that Superman or Wonder Woman, nor the rest of the League, may go rogue. Well, he is supposed to be the "world's greatest detective", and any good detective would take into account the personalities of those they are investigating to determine whether their suspicioms regarding certain behavior (or if they even behaved on a certain way) are valid or not.
* Heartwarming Moments: After seeing them being quite hostile, see Batman and Superman as former friends is quite nice, actually.
* Mythology Gag:
** In a flashback, Batman and Superman playfully discuss the iconic "More powerful than a locomotive" monologue from Adventures of Superman.
**Batman is shown to have his contingencies for if his allies are brainwashed under the codename "Protocol: Tower of Babel", alluding to a story arc where Batmsn's contingencies are discovered and used against the Justice League by their enemies. However, unlike the comic, Batman lets his allies in on the project. He also states the project is not in case they turn evil, but instead if they are brainwashed or face off against an Evil Counterlart of Wonder Woman/Superman/etc.
**Batman's analysis mode in his cowl is an obvious adaptatiom of the iconic "Detective mode" from the Arkham videogames
** The final battle between Batman, Superman, & Wonder Woman and Composite Superman resembles of the climax of Batman v. Superman.
* Superhero Movies Don't Use Codenames: Composite Superman is never referred as such in the series.
* Unexpected Character: Composite Superman was a little known gimmick villain from the Silver Age, so everyone was surprised to see him in this series.
=== Tropes for Raven and the Red Lanterns ===
* An Aesop: Anger is not bad. That depends on how you use it.
* A Day in the Limelight: Red Raven gets far more spotlight than most of her incarnations.
* Continuity Nod: In Episode 1, when Zatanna explains that Raven "can behave in a particular manner", Green Lantern asks of she means she's like Harley Quinn.
* Fridge Brilliance: Its fitting that Red Raven helps a Red Lantern.
* Heartwarming Moments: Zatanna refuses to reveal Raven has DID because she feels its not her call to do so. She cares aboutbher so much she dosen't want to disclose such a perspnal information without her consent.
* Mythology Gag:
** At one point, Jessica comments ln how the Green Lanterns have let even chipmunks and ducks into their ranks. This is a reference to both Ch'p and the Duck Dodgers crossover episode "The Green Loontern".
** During Raven and Razer's first fight against the Red Lanterns, Razer (unaware of Raven's DID) treis yto formulate a plan with Red Raven, only for Green Raven to reveal both herself and their disorder by saying "There's just one problem... you're talking to the wrong Raven", a near word-by-word quote from the Batman: The Animated Series episode "Two-Face (Part 1)".
* Shout-Out: The montage of Orange Raven's morning routine was inspired by the opening of Godzilla vs. Kong.
* Shown Their Work: The series shows the Ravens have a schedule on when an alter is in control, a real-life technique used by people with dissociative identity disorder.
* Unexpected Character: Raise your hand if you expected a series starring Raven and a Red Lantern.
=== Tropes for Family Matters ===
* Adaptational Heroism: Rather than beimg an all-out villain, Harvey Dent's Two-Face alter is a ruthless vigilante in the vein of Red Hood.
* Composite Character:
** This version of the Riddler is physically similar to his Telltale Tales version, but dusguises his vouce like Paul Dano's Riddler, is a Giggling Villain ála Frank Gorshin, and his cane resembles Jim Carrey's.
** Two-Face's moral compass in this show is closer to Red Hood than the original Two-Face.
*Continuity Nod: Mention is made of Ivy's time in Arkham.
*Fire-Forged Friends: The series centers on Robin, Batgirl, and Harley befriending one another.
* Evil is Hammy: Rob Paulsen really hams it up as the Riddler.
* Not-So-Harmless Villain: Hammy as he may he, Riddler is still a dangerous mastermind that can play everyone like a fiddle.
* Mythology Gag:
** The concept of Riddler commiting a series of crimes througth Gotham and the heroes trying to figure out his master plan harkens back to The Batman (2022).
** Several of Nygma's riddles were taken from previous media, such as Batman Forever and Gotham.
**The opening shot features the Riddler watching several TV news aboyt Gotham in its early days of spring, which is the exact same beginning as of The Enemy Within.
**One of the episodes is titled "Arkham Night", a pun on Arkham Knight. The concept of the heroes being trapped in Arkham as the villains try to kill them is also reminiscent of the Arkham Asylum videogame.
**The Bat-Family defeats Clayface by freezing him.
*Oh, Crap!: The heroes have this reaction when they realize Ruddler just fooled them inyo locking themselves in an Arkham where all ñrisioners are free.
* Role Reprise:
** Rob Paulsen reprises his role as the Riddler from Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes.
** Billy Dee Williams returns as Two-Face
*Shout-Out: Two-Face shouts, "come with us if you want to live!".
* Playing Against Type: While being a hammy character, the Riddler is still darker than most of Paulsen's roles.
=== Tropes for Beast Boy ===
* An Aesop: Killing is not an act of strength. Anyone can kill. It takes actual strength to resist killing unless you have to.
* Central Theme:
** The differences and similaritues between humans and animals
** What makes a strong men?
* Genius Ditz: Beast Boy is a lot smarter than he seems at first, specially on the philosophical aspect.
* A Real Man Is a Killer: Adonis is utterly convinced of that a strong man kills. Beast Boy ultimately refutes, arguing that if he is weak enough to quickly succumn to his killer instinct, then he is not a "strong man".
* Mythology Gag: The first shape Beast Boy takes is a tiger, the only form he took in the first season of Titans.
=== Tropes for Bat-Intervention ===
* An Aesop: Self-care is as important as helping others. Don't feel guilty for wanting some happiness, as long as is not as others' expense.
* Funny Moments: Near the beginning, Harley is secretly checking the list of people Batman trusts. She deems almost all of his suspicions unfounded. We don't see the list, but knowing this is Batman we're talking about, she's most likely right.
* Heartwarming Moments:
** The whole special can be considered one, sonce the entire plot is rooted on Harley's cornerned for her adoptive father's mental health.
** When Batman admits that the reason he dosen't try to be anything other than Batman is because he is afraid his parents would be dissapointed in him, Harley tells him something she learned from him: "A real parent wants a happy child", and tells him that if Thomas and Martha really loved him, they would be glad to let himself be happy.
** There are a few people listed as trustworthy on Batman's list: Superman, Wonder Woman, his family, and even Poison Ivy.
* Shout-Out: Harley's intervention is visually similar to Splinter's talk to Raphael in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990).
* Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: While Batman: Mask of the Phantasm already showed Batman feeling guilty for wanting to be happy as tragic and sad, the special further explores the implications such thing has on Batman's mental health, and how such behavior is ultimately self-destructive and negative.
* Tearjerker: Harley's failed attempts to help Batman admit his mindset is unhealthy and self-destructive are soul-crushing. Leave out the superhero stuff, and what we are left with is a child begging her adoptive father to drop hus self-destructive mindset.
== Tropes for shorts ==
=== Tropes for Doctor Thirteen ===
* Artistic License: The short lampshades a few of these, such as Chemichs when Batgirl points out how unfeasible is to induce Shared Mass Hallucinations.
* Deconstruction: The short utterly dhows how somebofy like Doctor Thirteen wiuld fare in a world of magic and monsters: He is treared as a loon and gets killed.
* Expy: Thirteen is one to Walter Peck from Ghostbusters (1984).
* Funny Moments: How does Harley respond after the obnoxious Doctor Thirteen enters the Batcave? By darting him!
* Hate Sink: Doctor Thirteen in this version is an obnoxious Know-Nothing-Know-It-All meant to be hated by audiences.
* I Reject Your Reality: Doctor Thirteen is utterly convinced everything regarding superheries are just hallucinations and/or hoaxes, in spite of the massive to the contrary.
* It's All About Me: Thirteen obviously does what he does because he thinks he's right.
* Mythology Gag: Thirteen at one point clsims he's the sanest man in the world, like he did in the comics.
* Too Dumb to Live: Thirteen is so confident of him being in the right that, when a crook turns into a Man-Bat, he goes in front of it to "unmask him". Guess what happens next?
=== Tropes for Karaoke Night ===
* Funny Moments: Wonder Woman singing Funkytown.
* Heartwarming Moments: The entire short consists on superheroes just having a good time together.
* Whole Plot Reference: To the audition scenes from the Sing films.
=== Tropes for Plant Lady ===
* Black Comedy: While talking with Ivy about the online hate group "LeonZe", Harley tells her that if "she wants a knife and somewhere to hide the bodies", then she can help her with both.
* Hate Sink: The "LeonZe" group, who are a gfoup of misogynistic assholes who actively mock Ivy for having a PTSD-induced panic attack.
* Heartwarming Moments: When Harley notices Ivy's PTSD episode, her first instonct is to go help her friend.
* Mythology Gag:
** The hate group's names is a reference to Leon Zeiko, who is Dr. Psycho in the comic Wonder Woman: Earth One.
** Harley jokingly suggests killing the "LeonZe" group and hiding their bodies. While not really something this Harley would do, it is definetly something the comics' Harley would.
*Shout-Out: The technique Harley teaches Ivy to slow down her breathing is to inhale while counting to four, and then exhale while counting to four. Exactly the same one featured in The Owl House episode "Labyrinth Runners".
*Shown Their Work: The potrayal Ivy's PTSD panic attack is eerily accurate. Also accurate is how Harley helps her get out of it.
*Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Even througth she started taking therapy at the end of Harley & Ivy, this short shows Ivy still has PTSD. Some traumas arehard to remove and may never leave, after all.
*Take That!: The short serves as a serious critic towards both sexist fandoms and sexism, pointing out how such behavior can negatively affect a woman's psyche, especially when they already experienced some sort of traumatoc experience.
* Tearjerker: Ivy's reaction to see spiteful and hateful comments towards her simply fir being a femaoe superhero trigger an episode of Post-Traumatic Stress Disprder, reminding her of her abusive childhood. She ends up suffering a highly realistic panic attack, and is left a sobbering mess afterwards.
* "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Ivy gives one to the "LeonZe" group, which she finishes by asking why do they think gender determines whether its good or bad that someone tries to do the right thing.
=== Tropes for Titano ===
* Mythology Gag: Titano previously engaged in a King Kong parody in Justice League Action.
* Whole Plot Homage: To King Kong.
== Tropes for comics ==
=== Tropes for Harleys ===
* Alternate Reality: DCY!Harley ends up transported into one where a more traditional version of her resides.
* Audience Surrogate: DCY!Harley is this regarding her reaction to Alt!Harley.
* Broad Stokes: The writers admitted the comic was made to be ambiguous in its canoncity to the DCY, as the main purpose was to see "this Harley's reaction to a more usual Harley".
* Dramatically Missing the Point: When DCY!Harley tells Alt!Harley her Joker is in Arkham, without showing a bit of worry for him, yet Alt!Harley assumes she came to recruit her help in breaking him out. DCY!Harley has to spell out to her that she put him there.
* Heartwarming Moments:
** Upon seeing the hell her alternative self is trapped in, DCY!Harley tries to convonce her to change her life. And its implied it did worked!
** While talking to her alternative self, Harley calls Batman "the only father [she] ever had".
* "Ray of Hope" Ending: At the end of the comic, Alt!Harley visibly refuses to answer when her Joker calls her, suggesting DCY!Harley's words did got througth her.
* Take That!: When the Superhero Girls find Harley, Supergirl states that, while looking for her, they even went to a reality where Superman is an evil dictator, which she states "didn't made a lick of sense. He'd never do that". This is a clear jab to the Injustice franchise.
* Tearjerker: DCY!Harley is left in tears after seeing a version of her who is a criminal abused by the Joker.
=== Tropes for Batgirl & Harley Quinn ===
* Adaptational Badass: The Bookworm, surprisingly enough. He goes from a gimmicky 60s villain to a terrorist capable of causing shutdowns throuugth cities.
* Canon Foreigner:
** The Bookworm and Egghead appear in this comic, after appearing in the Adam West Batman series in 1966.
** Same for Carl Grissom, who debuted in Batman (1989).
*Didn't Thougth This Througth: A two-page story sees Harley assaulted by homophobic harrasers. What made them think assaulting one of the Batman's partners was a good idea is anyone's guess.
* Evil is Petty: The Bookworm wants to destroy all sorts of modern devices on Gotham just so people read more books.
* Genre Throwback: The comics' storytelling is reminscent of the stand-alone comics of the 50s and 60s.
*Heartwarming Moments: After Batman is injured whioe fighting Killer Croc, Harley does her best to help her adoptive father to heal, even becoming his personal doctor.
* Mythology Gag:
** The Clock King's suit was taken straight from Batman: The Brave and the Bold. He also says the line "When it comes to clocks, I am king!" from Batman: The Animated Series.
** The Bookworm has an habit of randomly quoting Shakespeare, a trait shared with the 1966 Batman incarnation of The Puzzler.
**At one point, the Bookworm says the line "If knowledge is power, then a god am I" from Batman Forever.
**When Batgirl informs Harley of King Shark, she responds "Oh, let me guess! He's a shark!".
**King Shark is once again defeated with a Shark-Repellent Bat-Spray.
**A double one: When Harley's teacher discovers her identity and asks her what happened, Harley says "I had a bad day". Aside from referencing The Killing Joke, this is what Arthur Foeck told to Sophie after their relationship is revealed to be a construct of the former's mind in Joker (2019).
**Harley dons her Arkham City outfit while helping Batman recover after fightimg Killer Croc.
* Narm Charm: An issue not only essentially brings the Shark-Repellent Bat-Spray, but does so in a way that would fit even in the darker versions of Batman.
*Nightmare Fuel: The Bookworm, surprisingly enough. In this comic, he took his rejection far worse, blaming his book being barely read more on people's dependance on Internet than in the writing of his book (which, according to Harley, was even grammatically poor). His response? To cause a permanent blackout on Gotham, driving the city to anarqy for the lack of crucial technological objects such as security cameras. He also shows how dangerous he is by using his recently-acquired swordsman skills to beat both Batgirl and Harley and planning to dissect them all then and there. And he learned all that from books. Bet you never thougth that would be scary.
** His comic also shows how dangerous his gimmick of stealing plots from books can be if he picks the right one. For example: His first panel has him killing a guard in his sleep by putting posion in his ear, much like Hamlet. Just to show he is not the over-the-top villain fans from the Adam West show met.
*Reimagimg the Artifact: Instead of using actual eggs like the original version, this comic's Egghead uses egg-looking gadgets such as bombs and smoke machines.
* Unexpected Character: Of all the villains who appeared in the comic, The Bookworm is the one whose presemce shocked fans the most.
**He later got upstaged by the announcement of Egghead appearing in the comic.
* Villain Has a Point: The Bookwirm may be a few screws loose, but he is right people became more dependant on the Internet and less in books. Ironically, its when realizing this that Harley and Batgirl find out how to defeat him.