Harleen Quinzel (Earth 1)

**Harleen Frances Quinzel** is a former psychiatry intern, previously employed at Arkham Asylum, a former criminal and the girlfriend of the Joker, operating under the alias **Harley Quinn**.

## Harleen Frances Quinzel

### Aliases

Harley QuinnDollfaceThe Queen of Gotham CityJoker's GirlfriendHarlequinHarley Ker[1]Looney Tunes[1]The PsychoLotus FlowerHarls

## Early life

### Childhood

Harleen Frances Quinzel was born on July 20, 1990 in Gotham City. Harley's family life was largely dysfunctional as her drunkard father constantly tried to abandon her though she always found her way back home. At some point in her childhood, he sent her to an orphanage run by nuns in which her attitude landed her into trouble over and over again to the point that Harley smashed a nun with an oar.

### Formative Years

Upon reaching high school, Harley became known as a model student, achieving excellent grades as well as extensive gymnastics training. For her efforts, she was rewarded a full scholarship to Gotham City University where she majored in Psychiatry for her undergraduate degree, receiving supervision under Dr. Odin Markus. There she experienced several heartbreaks and was known to have had at least one boyfriend named Guy Kopski.

When creating her thesis, Harley was known to have courted trouble. The subject of Harley's thesis centered around the circumstances by which a person would disregard the rules of society. According to her thesis a person would only commit to such an action under two distinct circumstances: 1) When they commit a crime or 2) when they're in love. Harley then proposed to Dr. Markus a way by which this hypothesis could be examined. She would use herself and her boyfriend Guy as subjects, exploiting their relationship and putting it to the test.

During the test, Harley fabricated a story to tell her boyfriend Guy. She told him that she had run through a red light in a stolen car after blackmailing and possibly shooting Dr. Markus. She then asked Guy whether he still loved her. Guy's psyche later cracked under the pressure. Harley later found him laughing in a gymnasium, where he had shot and killed a homeless man who he had mistaken for Dr. Markus. He then begged Harley to help him end his life. Guy was then killed by gunfire but the details of Harley's involvement with the shooting remained unknown.

It would later come to light that Dr. Markus had in fact tampered with the test somehow, but at the time Harley was unaware of this aspect, simply choosing to credit the results to random chaos.

### First Day At Arkham

Flashback shows Harley's first day at Arkham as Dr. Harleen Quinzel. Dr. Harleen Quinzel went to her first time in Arkham and which led her to take an internship at Arkham Asylum. She met the Joker (who gave her a sly wink) on her very first day of work, and he immediately began to work his charms on her by leaving a rose on her office desk.

### First Meet With The Joker

Harleen confronted him later and threatened to turn him in for breaking out of his cell, but Joker waved her off, saying that she would have already done it had she really meant to. He teased her by saying he liked her name, which could easily be tweaked into "Harley Quinn," a spin on the word "Harlequin." Harleen was not amused and walked away coldly, but then Joker said he would be willing to confide in her in therapy. The ambitious psychiatrist saw this as a potential landmark in her professional career, and grabbed the opportunity.

### First Interview With The Joker

After nearly three months of background research, Dr. Quinzel arranged a session with the Joker. She believed herself ready for any tricks he might pull on her—but instead, she found him opening up to her. He confessed to having a traumatic childhood, with an alcoholic father who frequently beat him for no apparent reason. The Joker said that all he wanted to do in life was to make people laugh, and when he told her about some of his early routines, she found herself laughing helplessly with him—and then crying as he then said how his father responded to his jokes with more beatings. But, he shrugged, that's one of the inescapable truths of comedy: "You always take shots from folks who just don't get the joke". In a way, he mused, his father and Batman were a lot alike: their problem was, they just didn't "get" him.

### Falling In Love With The Joker

After several of these sessions, Dr. Quinzel became increasingly sympathetic to her patient, believing that his traumatic childhood had driven him to a life of crime, while Batman's continued persecution only prolonged his misery. Soon, Quinzel and her patient switched roles: she started to confide in him, and he reacted with understanding, explaining how, in her ambitious drive to make a success of her career, she had somehow forgotten how to have fun, and was needy for someone who could make her laugh. There was no question that now Dr. Quinzel had fallen head-over-heels in love with her patient.

### Becoming Harley Quinn

Shortly after his latest escape from Arkham, Joker was recaptured and brought back by Batman, badly injured. The sight of her beloved, swathed in bandages, sent Dr. Quinzel over the edge. She stole a harlequin costume and various trick gags from a novelty store, then sneaked back into Arkham, neutralized the guards, and broke the Joker free. Dubbing herself Harley Quinn, she embraced a life of crime with her newfound love.

### Meeting Poison Ivy

During in prison, Harley meets Poison Ivy and the two become best friends.

### The Escape

The Joker escapes from Arkham Asylum with formal doctor now girlfriend, Harley Quinn. They escape with a police car, they laughed as police sirens tried to stop them but they got away.

### Batman and Robin Vs. The Joker and Harley Quinn

Joker and Harley robbed a bank as they spray everyone with laughing gas as Batman and Robin came in. Joker order his goons to attack The Caped Crusaders. Joker and Harley escapes with some of his goons and the stolen money. Gordon and the cops came and arrested the goons as The Caped Heroes left the scene.

### Divide and Conquer

Batman goes after Harley while Jason interrogates one of Joker's men to tell him that Joker is at The Old Playground and decided to catch him by himself. Jason arrives at The Old Playground to find Joker, he looks around and saw The Clown Prince of Crime around the corner. Joker escapes and race after him. Jason ended up in an allyway to find Joker but Joker attack and knocked Jason out. Batman catches Harley and tells him that Joker has a trap for Jason, Batman realized that Jason is in danger and goes after him.

### The Death of Robin

In prison, Harley heard about Robin's murder by The Joker.

### Arkham Break Out

In the present, weeks after The Death of Jason Todd, Harley Quinn broke The Joker out of Arkham with some Joker Goons named Crybaby Man, Eyeball Man, Grin Twins, Ha Ha Thug, Sea Urchin, Goat Head, Panda Man, Batman Cosplayer, and Muscle Man and escaped from The Asylum. They spend the time, poison people with joker gas and rob banks and broke kids' toys at the park but Joker has some plans to take down Batman and Robin for good.

### Bank Robbery

A gang of masked criminals robs a mafia-owned bank in Gotham City, each betraying the others until the two sole survivors, The Joker and Harley Quinn reveals themselves as the masterminds and escapes with the money.

### Facing The Joker Gang

Joker and Harley robbed a casino with The Joker Gang but Batman and Tim Drake, The Third Robin arrived and faced Joker, Harley and their thugs but Joker and Harley escapes with the money. Batman and Robin defeated Joker's Gang and needed to find and stop the two couple for good.

### Abuse Started

At Joker's hideout, Joker started to read a newspaper about a giant gem at the meseum. Joker calls Harley about how many goons that they have but Harley said five goons. Joker is angry and hits Harley with his gun and order her to get more gangsters for his plan.

### Making Mr. J Proud

Harley came to a bar of gangsters and ask them to join The Joker but the goons laughed but Harley said The Joker can pay them and the goons agreed and went with Harley. Harley returns to Joker's hideout with the goons and told Joker about they have help but Joker said, "Good." leaving Harley smiled a little bit.

### Meseum Robbery

Joker, Harley and The Gang robbed the meseum and break into it and robbed paintings, money, and art and the gem but The Caped Crusaders came in. Joker order The Gang to take the two caped heroes down. Batman and Robin defeated Joker's Gang but more arrived as Joker and Harley escaped. Batman told Robin to fight the gang as he raced off to stop the two crime couple.

### Joker Doesn't Love Harley

Joker and Harley escaped on the roof waiting for Joker's helicopter to arrive, Joker ask Harley for a dance and she accepted. The Two Couple dance and The Joker proposed not a ring but a suicide bomber and said "till death do us part" and left Harley to die. Unloved Harley is saved by Batman as Joker escapes from his helicopter as the cops came.

### Back At Arkham

Harley was back at Arkham, felling betrayed and unloved, she decided to do it on her own but heard that Joker is back in prison while Batman and Robin patrol the city.

### Meeting Amanda Waller

Months after Quinn was apprehended, Amanda Waller gathered other skilled individuals and metahumans for Project Suicide Squad. Upon her visit to Belle Reve to examine the future team, she visited Quinn outside her cage while the latter was meditating. Quinn was hypnotized by the government agents' presence and asked Waller if she was the Devil, to which Waller proclaimed that she was maybe so.

### Deployment in Metropolis

With the attack in Metropolis, Michigan, orchestrated by The New Toyman, Harley, along with the other members of Suicide Squad are implanted with explosive nanotechnology provided by Dr. Van Criss. While being wheeled out to their transport, Griggs hands Harley a phone, telling her it was from Mr. J to get in contact with her. Harley then tells Griggs that he's "so screwed" and laughs maniacally as she's wheeled off into a chopper.

Harley and the rest of the members arrive at an evacuation point outside the city, where they are joined by Slipknot but KGBeast was killed for trying to leave. They are given instructions by Waller via an electronic tablet that they are under the direct command of her second-in-command Rick Flag and extracting a highly valued asset known as "HVT1" from the besieged city and will receive 10 years off of their life sentences as a reward. Flag warns them if they annoy him or try to escape, he will kill them by using his touchpad to detonate their implanted nanobots — blowing their heads off. Harley and the others receive their old costumes and weapons before departing by helicopter carrying the military Squad A to the extraction point. Before take-off, they are joined by Flag's personal bodyguard Katana, whom Harley takes a liking toward, despite the latter's hostility.

While mid-flight en route to their destination, Harley looks at a new text from the Joker saying that he's coming to get her. Deadshot peers over to see, so she signals him to be quiet about it and he decides to comply. After their helicopter is shot down, the squad is forced to travel the rest of the way on foot, splitting up with Squad B, who are able to land their helicopter safely. After witnessing, Slipknot's explosive get activated, Harley and Deadshot bond and plot with the others against Flag to turn the odds in their favor the first chance they get.

### Battle of Metropolis

Soon after, the group encounters creatures in the Enchantress' employment known as the Eyes of the Adversary. When Flag approaches them, the creatures become hostile and attack. The squad is initially overwhelmed as the Eyes capture Flag, much to Harley's delight. Deadshot, however, reminds her what Waller had said about the Squad members being as good as dead if the colonel is injured or killed, so she changes her mind and aids Flag with getting the monsters off of him. She continued to beat up the already-dead Eyes, claiming to have seen it flinching, but Deadshot stops her and they all move on to the task at hand. Flag contacts Waller when all contact with Squad B fails, and learns the other squadron was engaged with another group of Eyes at the same time, but have all been taken prisoner and brought to the Toyman himself.

### Retrieving HVT1

About halfway to the building where HVT1 is located, Harley stops to smash the window of a Paris ReadyWear department store and steal a small purse that matches her harlequin aesthetic. Flag is startled and growls at her, but she responds by mocking her status of a "bad guy" and that it's expected of her.

As the other squad members plan to infiltrate the John F. Ostrander Federal Building, Harley is distracted by a discarded motorcycle and experiences a flashback to the night she pursued Joker, before Deadshot snaps her out of it. Harley then begins to psychologically analyze the squad members due to her boredom. When Deadshot confronts her, Harley implies that she's aware of his deal with Rick Flag and voices her displeasure.

As the Squad enters the John F. Ostrander Federal Building, Harley quickly makes her way to the elevator, much to the annoyance of the other squad members. Harley receives another message from the Joker, telling her to be ready. Harley is then attacked by two of Enchantress' minions, whom Harley disposes of with her revolver and baseball bat.

As the squad proceeds further, they are alerted to movement in their area. Harley then proceeds to tease Deadshot for the use of his mask. Harley and the squad are then attacked by another wave of Eyes of the Adversary. As the battle goes on, the team notices Flag being taken once again. The squad huddles around Flag to protect him until the minions are seemingly cleared. As the squad makes their way to the stairway, they are attacked by another wave. After El Diablo swiftly clears the opposition, Harley hugs him and gives him a kiss on the cheek, telling him she knew he'd come through for them.

The Squad makes their way up the building, resulting in Harley becoming winded. As she stops to catch her breath, the familiarity of the environment causes her to flashback to the night at Ace Chemicals when the Joker had her bleach her skin for him. As Harley snaps out of her flashback, she quickly points her gun at Deadshot. Still recovering from her flashback, she asks Deadshot if he had ever been in love. After Deadshot tells her that something like love would keep him from performing his job, Harley only smiles and calls him "another textbook sociopath."

Once Harley and the squad made it to their destination, Flag ordered them to stay behind so they don't scare their target. HVT1 is then revealed to the squad as Amanda Waller, greatly angering most of the squad. Harley declares that she's not going back to prison; however, Waller gets her and the rest of the squad to back down by threatening to activate the explosives in their necks.

### Reuniting with Joker

The Squad makes their way to the top of the John F. Ostrander Federal Building and wait for extraction. However, Rick Flag quickly deduces that the arriving helicopter is compromised. The Joker and Jonny Frost open fire on the rooftop, causing the squad to take cover. However, Harley's explosive is disarmed by Van Criss under Joker's orders. Harley removes her jacket and leaps off the rooftop, grabbing onto the rope that Joker has dropped down for her. As the helicopter rises, Harley playfully blows a kiss to the rest of the Squad, as well as playing dead when Deadshot misses a shot at her.

Harley climbs into the helicopter and embraces Joker. However, their reunion is short lived as their helicopter is hit with a missile. As she and Joker both attempt to make their escape, a sudden explosion throws Harley out of the helicopter. Harley lands on the rooftop below and watches the helicopter, with Joker still in it, crash into a nearby building.

### Finally At Peace

Harley makes her way down to street level. Harley removes and throws away her collar. Upon seeing the rest of Task Force X leave the John F. Ostrander Federal Building, she telling the rest of the squad that she missed them. Captain Boomerang then returns the bat she had left behind and the squad moves on to once again retrieve Waller.

The Squad approaches the downed helicopter to find Waller has been taken. Now filled with despair on the realization that they must confront Enchantress and Incubus, the Squad, say for Deadshot, follow after. However, Deadshot soon stops Flag by throwing a Top Secret Binder at him before angrily demanding answers. After Flag explains their true situation, Harley follows after Deadshot into a nearby bar, giving a mocking bow to Flag in the process.

In the bar, Harley convinces King Shark to have a drink with the rest of the Squad. Harley then proceeds to pour drinks for the rest of the Squad. She joins the rest of the Squad in cheers after she makes her own drink, complete with an overabundance of drink umbrellas. Deadshot states his regret over their situation, causing El Diablo to lash out at him and eventually break down, revealing his tragic past. Angry at Diablo's guilt, Harley yells at him to own up to his mistakes and to accept that a normal life isn't possible for them, causing Boomerang to snap at her for her vexing behavior. Harley then goes on to state that they're all ugly on the inside, just like her, except for Shark, who's also ugly on the outside. When Croc claims he is beautiful, Harley nods in agreement to him owning his physical attributes.

When Flag enters the bar, Harley coldly tells him they don't want him there. Flag smashing his device controlling the nanites in the Squad's necks. Flag then shows Deadshot the letters his daughter had been sending him, prompting Deadshot to tell Flag that he's going to help him stop the Enchantress. Harley then cheerfully tells them that she'll come along, telling the others that they don't have anything else better to do. She then quickly teases the rest of the squad before leaving, goading them to jump into action.

### The Final Fight Against Toyman

The squad attack Toyman, while King Shark and Flag's platoon of Navy SEALs plant a bomb beneath the subway to kill Incubus. El Diablo embraces his pyrokinesis, sacrificing himself to maneuver and keep the toy soldiers in the right spot. Toyman invites the squad to join him, and Harley pretends to be tempted to get close enough to steal the device from Toyman. Flag shuts down the force shield around Metropolis.

### The Deal

Waller, still alive, emerges and the squad members are returned to Belle Reve and given ten years off their sentences. All but Captain Boomerang are allowed special privileges; Harley is given an espresso machine, Deadshot is allowed to visit his daughter Zoe (supervised) and King Shark is given a television set with cable access but Waller will give the squad a mission soon.

### Escaping Belle Reve

Back in Belle Reve, while Harley is enjoying her espresso machine, the wall outside her wall explodes, allowing The Joker's gang to break in and storm the prison and kills Toyman. Harley's cell is forced open with a buzzsaw, allowing Joker to enter and reveal himself to Harley he is still alive. Harley kick him in the nuts and tell him that she is breaking up with him and left leaving Joker angry.

### Harley Alone

One year after the defeat of The New Toyman, Harley Quinn broke up with The Joker, who helped her escape from Belle Reve, following Joker's promise he made to her that he'd kill her if she ever left him. Harley was taken in by Doc, the owner of a Taiwanese restaurant, and recovers from her relationship by cutting her hair, adopting a spotted hyena, and taking up roller derby, and sometimes visit her family.

### Harley and Joker No More

Harley gets drunk at a nightclub owned by ruthless crime lord Roman Sionis, and cripples his driver after he insults her. She meets burlesque singer Dinah Lance, who later rescues an intoxicated Harley from an attempted abduction. Impressed by Dinah's fighting skills, Sionis appoints her as his new driver. The next night, Harley gets drunk again, and overhearing some of her drinking buddies debating over whether she has actually broken up with the Joker, blows up the Ace Chemicals plant to publicly announce their breakup. When everyone finds out she is not under the Joker's protection anymore.

### HarIvy Team Up

Harley starts getting attacked by every criminal that had previously held a grudge against her or hired by Joker. Learning about Joker's bounty, Harley decided that she needs help, she goes to the abandoned Wayne Botanical Garden where her best friend, Poison Ivy was hiding during her escape from Arkham after Harley was dumped. Ivy is noticeably weaker. She kills anyone who steps foot on sight but only sparing Harley due to how kind she was during her time as her therapist. Harley ask Ivy to team up after Joker put a bounty on her, Ivy agreed the team up and take down criminals that want Harley dead.

### CatHarIvy Team Up

Selina Kyle AKa Catwoman has been in a war with Black Mask, she destroys his warehouses and killing his men after he killed Holly Robinson years ago. Ivy and Harley meet her on the roof, who ask her to join them. Selina agreed to join them as The Trio defeated criminals like Victor Zsasz, Penguin, Boneblaster, and Red Tool

### The First Encounter With Punchline

Heard about Harley teaming up with Ivy and Catwoman, Joker hired Punchline, a replacement sidekick to replace Harley and sends her to kill them. Punchline attack and ambush The Trio at a warehouse, where they defeated a group of gangsters. The Trio defeated Punchline and learned about Joker hiring a gang to kill Harley. The Trio leave Punchline to the police and keep fighting Joker's gang.

### Bar Ambush

The Trio went to a bar and have a drink and talk about their lives and origins, but a gang of bar goons attack them for the bounty. The Trio defeated them and left but got captured by The Joker.

### The Final Fight Against The Joker

Joker took The Trio to Amusement Mile and tie them up. Joker wants Harley to live him again but Harley refuses, Joker put a gun on her and order her to love him or he will kill Ivy and Selina. Selina breaks free and freed Harley and Ivy and fight Joker and his gang. In a final showdown on the pier between Harley and Joker. Joker tells Harley that she needs him to survive but Harley refuses and always need friends to back her up and defeated Joker.

### The Gotham City Sirens

In the aftermath, Joker was in by The GCPD and Catwoman continues of taking down Black Mask's operation. Ivy admits Harley is the reason she loves humanity, and when the two kiss Ivy blooms and regains her full strength and the two started dating. If some criminal attacks The Trio, they will be called The Gotham City Sirens while Joker was interviewed by Dr. Jeremiah Arkham about the events.

### 2 Years Later

Harley going to get a breakfast bagel at her favorite restaurant when Amanda Waller and A.R.G.U.S. swoop in and arrest her, tell her that she is having Another Suicide Squad Mission.

## Relationships

### Allies

* Julian Day / Calendar Man - friend and inmate

* Jervis Tetch / Mad Hatter - friend and inmate

* Oswald Cobblepot / Penguin - friend and inmate

* Pamela Isley / Poison Ivy - best friend and inmate and girlfriend

* Jonathan Crane / Scarecrow - friend and inmate

* Harvey Dent / Two-Face - friend and inmate

* Victor Fries / Mr. Freeze - friend and inmate

* Waylon Jones / Killer Croc - friend and inmate

* Cyrus Gold / Solomon Grundy - friend and inmate

* Edward Nashton / Riddler - friend and inmate

* Kirt Langstrom / Man-Bat - friend and inmate

* Garfield Lynns / Firefly - friend and inmate

* Drury Walker / Killer Moth - friend and inmate

* Gotham City Sirens
	+ Selina Kyle/Catwoman - formal enemy now friend.
	+ Pamela Isley / Poison Ivy - best friend and inmate and girlfriend

The Suicide Squad

* Colonel Rick Flag
* Director Amanda Waller
* Floyd Lawton / Deadshot
* Digger Harkness / Captain Boomerang
* Chato Santana / El Diablo †
* Nanaue / King Shark
* Jade Nguyen / Cheshire
* Christopher Weiss / Slipknot †
* Anatoli Knyazev / KGBeast †
* Tatsu Yamashiro / Katana

* Roman Sionis / Black Mask

* Dinah Lance - friend

### Enemies

* Bruce Wayne / Batman - Archenemy
* Dick Grayson / Robin - enemy
* Barbara Gordon / Batgirl - enemy and victim
* Jason Todd / Robin ll † - enemy and victim
* Tim Drake /Robin lll - enemy

* Gotham City Police Department
	+ James Gordon
	+ Harvey Bullock
	+ Renee Montoya

* Joker - ex-boyfriend and partner

* Jack Nimball / The New Toyman †

* Alexis Kaye / Punchline - enemy and replacement