Harley Quinn (ASC)

> Oh, Babbly-boo, I hate being apart. If I had to do it all over, I'da done more ta keep you hea. Best friends, they're worth fighting for, ya know?
>
> - Harley Quinn, Sweet Justice

**Harleen Quinzel** (also known as **Harley Quinn**) is a supporting character in the second generation of the *DC Super Hero Girls* franchise. Harleen is a student at Metropolis High School, and is also Batgirl's best friend and current sidekick. She was a recurring antagonist and a member of the Super Villain Girls for both seasons of the series, until the movie *Teen Titans Go! & DC Super Hero Girls: Mayhem in the Multiverse* where she becomes the seventh member of the Super Hero Girls.

This version of the character follows the All-Star Continuity timeline.

## Appearance

Harleen is a tall teenage girl with a thin physique. She has fair skin with a rosy tint on her cheeks, sky blue eyes, red lips, and long pure diamond blonde hair with blue highlights on the right and red highlights on the left, usually tied into pigtails.

### Seasons 1 and 2

As a civilian, Harleen originally wears a split bomber jacket that is red on the right and blue on the left, ripped split shorts with the color pattern being the same as her hair, as well as large knee-high lace up boots that is the same color pattern as her jacket.

As Harley Quinn, her face was painted as the iconic white with a black eye mask, and her outfit was her classic jester costume.

### Current

Starting in season three, Harleen as a civilian passes wear a white T-shirt, black choker, red and blue diamond-shaped hair ties, and black fingerless gloves, a red/black split short-sleeved jacket, shorts, knee-high socks and sneakers with white soles.

As Harley Quinn, her heroine outfit now consists of a red/black split sleeveless full bodysuit, white belt, red choker, large red/black bi-color bow, black gloves, white calf-length socks, and short heels in red/black. She also has shamrock and heart tattoos on her shoulders.

## Personality

As Harleen, she is a funny girl who likes doing jokes. She can be kind of insufferable, for example, when the other Super Hero Girls met her. As Harley Quinn, she also loves doing jokes, but she can show off her mischievous side. As both, she can be vengeful, like when Robin made fun of Babs. When she becomes a hero, she uses her jokes as a crime fighting tactic rather then for villainy.

## Depiction in the series

### Season 1 and 2 + Movie

Harley Quinn was originally a villain of Gotham City. When she moved to Metropolis, she joined the Super Villain Girls. When she was not being a villain, she would often hang out with her best friend, Barbara Gordon. Eventually she found out that friend was actually Batgirl (her enemy) while helping the Joker with a scheme. Later she was with all the other villains when Lex Luthor wanted to destroy Metropolis. However she didn't agree with his plan and left the villains. She would then help the Super Hero Girls fight Cythonna. After defeating the villains, Harley Quinn was made an official member of the Super Hero Girls.

### Season 3

After joining the Super Hero Girls, She was trained to be a hero. She would go on to help the Super Hero Girls defeat many villains and would occasionally team up with other heroes.

## Episode Appearance

### Season 1

* Sweet Justice (Part 3)
* Beeline
* Beasts in Show
* Gotham Con
* Frenemies
* Soul Sisters
* Scrambled Eggs
* Emperor Penguin
* Crash Course

### Season 2

* Sirens Conch (as puppets)
* The Warrior and the Jester
* Nightmare in Gotham

### Season 3

* The Seventh Member
* Super Avatars
* Mother Issues (cameo)
* The Punchline Trap
* Book Freaks
* Don’t Befriend a Snake
* Pity The April Fool
* Seven Deadly Girls
* Light Switched (cameo)
* Red Wonder Hood and Gnome
* Bald vs Brave
* Tamaranean Tussle
* Exchange Star (cameo)
* Mama Zatanna
* A Joker's Christmas
* Metropolis Got Talent
* Green for Danger
* Hunt for Green October
* Date With Disaster
* A Party With Dresses
* Beach Episode
* Harleen and the Beast
* Freezing Cold
* Queen of Bruises
* Bird in the Crew
* Primal Problem
* The Power of Enemyship
* The Iceberg Lounge
* This Means War

## Trivia

* She is the most recent member of the Super Hero Girls.
* She is the only member of the Super Hero Girls to have been a villain.
* Her new and current civilian outfit is the same as one of the additional skins from *DC Super Hero Girls: Teen Power*, and is based on her mainstream version from the comics in the *DC Rebirt* stage. While her heroine outfit is based on her current stage from *Infinite Frontier*.
* According to Lauren Faust, each of the Super Villain Girls is based on a deadly motivation in a similar vein to the seven deadly sins, with Harley Quinn's being chaos.
* Harleen's civilian appearance in the first two seasons is possibly based off Margot Robbie's portrayal in *Suicide Squad*.
* This version of Harley Quinn has two hyenas named Ethel & Lucy instead of Bud & Lou.
* Unlike some of her incarnations, this version of Harley is not romantically involved with Poison Ivy. And regarding the Joker, Harley idolizes him and even the episode "The Warrior and the Jester", it is revealed that she also has a crush on him.
* In "Gotham Con" in the scene where Harleen attempt to get rid of a Bomb and throws it in a safe (only to see it was the same safe Joker had) she breaks the fourth wall watching to the camera and saying "Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb," which is a reference to the 1966 Batman movie where Batman (played by Adam West) tries to get rid of a bomb on a pier, only to see people in the way.
* Like her G1 counterpart, this version of Harley Quinn is not a psychiatrist, even due her young age.
* She's the second member of the Super Villains Girls to redeem herself, the first is Star Sapphire.
	+ However, the difference is that Star Sapphire hasn't totally reformed, while with Harley Quinn, Batgirl had hope that she would reform, something that happened in the crossover movie.
* This is the first version of Harley that show her as the best friend of Barbara Gordon/Batgirl instead of Pamela Isley/Poison Ivy.
	+ Curiously, it seems that Babs is the only one to be not subjected to Harley's pranks.
	+ Ironically enough, they used to be archenemies just like their idols Batman and Joker despite they're besties.
* Harleen and Barbara's relationship is similar to Peter Parker/Spider-Man and Harry Osborn/Green Goblin's from Marvel Comics.
* The meeting of her and Diana in "Frenemies" mirrors how their G1 Counterparts meet each other in "Welcome to Super Hero High".
* She also serves as the evil/reverse counterpart for her G1 incarnation because while Harley Quinn (G1) grew up as a fan of superheroes, Harley Quinn (G2) developed a fondness for villains (this is likely cause because there's not a Joker incarnation in the first generation of DC Super Hero Girls).
* She is the only member of the Super Villain Girls to become friends with the Super Hero Girls, completely contrasting with the rest of the villain girls on her formerly team.
* In "Nightmare in Gotham", it's revealed that she was Barbara's only real friend before she met her friends from Metropolis.
* She is the first and only female character in the series to first appear as a citizen in one episode, and appear in her alter ego in another.
	+ She is also the third character to do so, as the first was Green Lantern (Hal Jordan), and the second was The Flash. The following have been too Aqualad, Green Arrow, Toyman and Blue Beetle.
* In "Frenemies", the Super Villain Girls formed before Harleen moved out to Metropolis. Regarding the chronological order, she was the last character of the team to appear as a villain; the first was Giganta, the second Star Sapphire, the third Livewire, the fourth Poison Ivy, and the fifth Catwoman.
* She and Batgirl are the only members of the group that doesn't have superpowers.
	+ When one thinks about it, Jessica and Karen don't have superpowers because without their Green Lantern ring and Bumblebee suit they will be powerless.
* Before joining the heroine team, she has saved the day three times.
	+ The first was at "Gotham Con", when she turned off a bomb she had set on herself.
	+ The second was in "The Warrior and the Jester", when he presented Babs with a used-in-combat Batarang in exchange for a Batman ear.
	+ And the third was in "Nightmare in Gotham", when she disarmed the detonator that would trigger a bomb, thus saving Gotham.
* She is the member of the Super Hero Girls with the fewest appearances in the first two seasons. This of course was due to the fact that she wasn't yet part of that team.
* The first time the Super Hero Girls met Harleen, they rejected her for being somewhat annoying. This would contrast in the second season and in the film, since she then gained their trust; and once they learned of her identity, when she reformed they accepted her into her team.