Harley Quinn

Barry Quinzel (Older Brother)

Frank Quinzel (Younger Brother)

Ezzie Quinzel (Younger Brother)

Lucy Quinzel (Daughter)

Task Force X (Operative)

Secret Six (Former Member)

Masterminds (Joker's Lieutenant, Formerly)

## **History**

### **Harleen Quinzel: 1980 - 2006**

The daughter of Nick and Sharon Quinzel, Harleen Quinzel grew up in Gotham City on the island neighborhood of Tricorner, just down the street from Batgirl's house actually. I do not recall much about her growing up, other than she was older than me and incredibly smart. In school, some of my teachers would compare my intelligence to hers, remarking that we both were likely to go places because of our brains. I used to smile, being compared to Harleen… if those teachers only knew then what I know now about the mind of Harleen Quinzel. \*shudders\*

After graduating as valedictorian (having skipped a grade) at Tricorner High, Harleen Quinzel was one of the first recipients of the Thomas Wayne scholarship set up by Bruce upon his return to Gotham. The scholarship was given to those with high academic achievement who wished to pursue a career in the medical or mental health fields; and Harleen won Bruce and the Wayne Foundation panel over with high ambitions of working in Arkham Asylum and helping the mentally ill return to life as productive members of Gotham.

In college, Harleen Quinzel came out of her shell and became quite popular. In her junior year, after taking a few sociology courses and psych studies classes, Harleen Quinzel got a job at the Gotham State University’s radio to WGTC and began being broadcast all over Gotham and southern New Jersey. People all over fell in love with Harleen’s infectious personality and bubbly voice, including one regular caller that she had from nearly the beginning, in the show’s college days: one “Mister J” who would openly flirt with the host. When Harleen began interning at Arkham in her third year of med school, she was assigned a mentor, Dr. Byron Meredith, and began shadowing him as he made his rounds and held sessions. Of course, when Harleen first met the crazed clown calling himself “the Joker”, she recognized his voice right away… The Joker was her “Mister J”!

### **Harley Quinn: 2006 - Present**

During Harleen Quinzel's internship, she convinced her mentor, Dr. Byron Meredith, to let her have unlimited access to the Joker for the purposes of her dissertation. In her sessions with the Joker, Harleen began to legitimately think she could help the Joker if only she could get him to trust her. However, in her attempts to connect with her patient, Harleen lost sight of the line between professional and personal. The more she began to understand the Joker, the more she opened herself up to him until she realized she was falling in love with him. I think she realized she had crossed a line at some point as she began smuggling in contraband to help the Joker escape, but his escapes were short-lived and he kept coming back to Arkham, to Harleen. In their sessions, Joker confessed that he had come back just for her. For whatever reason, Harleen actually found this endearing and after helping the Joker escape nine times, she asked that the next time he escaped, that he take her with him… and Joker did just that, right then and there, he took Harleen with him… as his hostage.

While on the lam, Harleen’s transformation to Harley Quinn was completed through make-up, disguise, and a lot of torture: both physical and psychological. Harleen was present for the Internet broadcast of Jason Todd and after the on-air torture, when the votes were in, Joker let Harleen Quinzel prove her love for him as he handed her his switchblade. Whether or not she was the one to actually deliver the fatal blow remains a mystery as Jason was pulled off-camera, but we all watched as Harley Quinn carved the “J” into Jason’s face.

After years as Joker’s right-hand gal, Harley Quinn became a master criminal in her own right; recruited into both Task Force X and the Secret Six, as well as being a founding member of the Gotham City Sirens. Whatever the team, Harley seemed able to adapt to her environment and comrades. Still, no matter what the Joker had done to drive her away, she always came back to him: time and time again. Though she is currently in the midst of a crime-spree with her new lover, Pamela Isley, I suspect she’ll be back in the Joker’s arms by year’s end.

## **Appearance**

   Harley Quinn is a cute young woman whose spunky personality is evident in the way she presents herself. She has long blonde hair set in a pigtails style, which is dyed at the bottom in blue and pink shades. She is often seen wearing dark red lipstick, pink and blue eye shadow, black mascara, white foundation makeup, and a psychotic grin. She has tan pale skin and blue eyes. Harley has a curvy, athletic, yet petite physique most likely from her time as a gymnast and now as a supervillain. She has full lips, a round face, and a tanned complexion.

Harley's first costume was her wearing a black and rep mini leather jacket with red diamonds and black stars on each of her jacket, a short black and red crop top with a red star on her right bosom and black diamond on the left bosom a golden heart choker around her neck, black and red fingerless leather gloves, and black and red tight spandex booty shorts with a golden star gear belt with pocket and red and black thigh high-socks black and red shoes.

**Harley** Quinn's new costume after joining the suicide squad is that appearing in the style of a combat jester. She wore a black domino mask, white facial makeup, and a one-piece black-and-red motley outfit with a cowl. Harley is often seen wearing a short black and red crop top with silver buckles

## **Personality**

Harleen Frances Quinzel was once a highly intelligent, calm, and compassionate young lady who worked at Arkham Asylum before the Joker transformed her both mentally and physically into "Harley Quinn". Through the shock therapy and the Joker's manipulation, her mind and emotions were twisted to the point where she transformed into a person barely recognizable from the woman she once was, becoming a homicidal, sadistic, childlike, and somewhat psychopathic villain, who would use sexuality and her playful personality to achieve her goals or to entertain herself, usually harming others in the process. She followed the Joker in whatever he demanded of her, blindly smitten with the ruthless psychopath, affectionately referring to him as "puddin'," prior to their final breakup.

Harley carries almost an innocent persona, wide-eyed and bright, finding humor in otherwise dark situations, much like Joker himself. After attacking Belle Reve guards and seriously injuring a couple before finally being restrained, she maniacally began giggling to herself in a sinister way, happy and pleased with how funny she found it, showing how fractured her psyche had become.

However, despite her psychopathy, Harley is still highly intelligent, even showing traces of her psychologist expertise, as Harley was able to make swift breakdowns of the psychological profiles of her teammates, knowing exactly what to say in order to get under their skin (proudly referring to herself as "vexing"), though Deadshot calls her out on this. Her intellect also extends itself to tactical skills, as Harley notably assisted the Joker in the murder of Robin, suggested to Deadshot and Captain Boomerang a feasible escape option from the Suicide Squad, and even swiftly improvised a plan to weaken and take down the extremely powerful Enchantress, which proved successful.

Harley is also quite tough and pathologically fearless (another trait she shares with her boyfriend), fighting alongside the Suicide Squad and having fun doing so. With the team, she is shown to get along well with them, once she got to know them a bit better, with Harley acting as a bartender at a derelict bar. She even seemed horrified before El Diablo's death, imploring Rick Flag not to blow him up even though she knew it was their only way to destroy Incubus.

She has a very dim view on regular life, stating "normal is a setting on the washer" to El Diablo, who lost his family because of his powers; however, until her emancipation, Harley once had the dream of having a family with the Joker, as Enchantress' implanted vision revealed.

Following her breakup with the Joker, Harley Quinn was initially devastated beyond endurance, frequently crying and binging in order to relieve the pain she was going through. As a mark of her pathological fearlessness, she also adopted and 2 tamed hyenas. After her emancipation, she was forced to look out for herself. She was troubled by the specter of those who told her that she couldn't succeed on her own but quashed those voices to make her own way. Although she at first sought the protection of the Black Mask from the powerful enemies she had made, she eventually displayed remorse at selling out Cassandra Cain to him and turned over a new leaf by fighting off him and his forces before making Cain her apprentice.

Much like Billy Batson, her experiences with her new team have been a journey of renewal for her as she finds a new family that has experienced similar hardships and have similar goals. In addition, her ability to genuinely love, while impaired by her subjection to chemicals, seems to have been restored as her regard for human life increases, albeit to a limited extent, coupled with her gradually realizing that everything people do inevitably carries some form of the aftermath. Despite this, she never truly reached hero status, as most of her decisions were still rather self-serving in nature.

Although often painted as a victim of psychological abuse, the Joker himself claims very little credit for Harley's condition. According to the Clown Prince of Crime, Harley was always mad deep down (simply better at controlling her insanity than most), and that he himself had merely made all her madness rise to the surface. It should be noted, however, that Joker's insanity occasionally induces him to make conclusions that only make sense to him, hence this might not necessarily be the actual case.

## **Powers, Abilities, Equipment, and Weaknesses**

### **Powers**

**Metahuman Physiology:** Harley Quinn was injected with a special toxin antidote by Poison Ivy, which resulted in her becoming immune to various forms of chemicals, such as Ivy's pheromones and Joker Venom. The injection also gave Harley enhanced her physicality, making her a formidable hand-to-hand combatant.

* **Contaminant Immunity:** Harley is immune to poisons, toxins, venoms, viruses, bacteria, parasites, pathogens, allergen, etc. Including Poison Ivy's poisonous touch and her boyfriend's Joker Venom. Not only can Harley Quinn hold vast quantities of alcohol, but she also remained conscious after being shot in the neck with a tranquilizer dart by Victor Zsasz. While rescuing Cassandra Cain from the GCPD, Harley inhaled a small amount of cocaine, with its effects only lasting for a short while before wearing off.
* **Regenerative Healing Factor & Sadomasochistic Resilience:** Harley was torture by Joker to love pain before she gains her healing factor. She is able to block pain at will, are incapable of feeling pain, or are highly resistant to the physical pain of any kind, allowing her to think clearly and continue to move despite a grievous injury. She can think clearly, continue to move, ignore torture, and generally function in situations where the pain would disable a normal person. Harley Quinn is able to rapidly heal and regenerate from harm rapidly faster and more extensively than normal humans are capable of and can rapidly heal and regenerate from harm that normal humans cannot heal from. After getting his powers, she soon found that his eyesight was repaired, discarding his glasses. Harley is extremely sturdy by human standards. She was able to break her fall out of Joker's helicopter, withstand a blow from Incubus, endure being kicked into a car door with enough force to subsequently rip it off, and endure being hit by a car and launched into the side of a van before falling to the ground and remain conscious.

### **Abilities**

**Enhanced Combat:** Harley Quinn is a highly skilled and formidable armed and hand-to-hand combatant. Although she has no formal training in hand-to-hand combat, it could be due to her years of fighting by Joker's side. When in a fight, Harley uses her acrobatic skills to best her opponents. Harley was able to seriously injure five Belle Reve guards before finally being restrained in an extra secure cell. She also quickly overpowered two far larger Eyes of the Adversary troops of Enchantress in rapid succession with nothing but her agility, combat skills, and a baseball bat. However, she was swiftly defeated by Batman, with the latter knocking her out with a single mighty punch, and by Enchantress in their final battle. She was able to fight Renee Montoya, an experienced hand-to-hand fighter in her own right. When raiding the GCPD, she was able to take down numerous trained police officers and other criminals in lockup with a combination of acrobatic kicks, swings from her bat, and the use of her custom-made non-lethal grenade launcher. When at the abandoned amusement park, she was able to take out most of Black Mask's thugs' singlehandedly while in roller skates.

**Enhanced Investigation:** Harley once recovered a rare photograph of a nude Eleanor Roosevelt lost by the Joker, finding it in a bird's nest in Robinson Park.

**Escape Artistry:** During her time in Belle Reve, Harley was kept in an electrified cage surrounded by a barbed-wire fence, implying she was an expert at escaping normal prison cells. During her skirmish with Renee Montoya, Quinn was able to uncuff herself from Montoya and handcuff Montoya with the former only realizing afterward.

**Superhuman Physicals**: Harley Quinn, as a highly-skilled and experienced supervillain and gymnast, is in top physical condition (from frequent villainous escapades with her boyfriend the Joker) for a woman her age, to the point that she could hold her own against the formidable Eyes of the Adversary troops of Enchantress. She was notably, however, far weaker than her nemesis Batman, who subdued her without much effort. She was able to knock down men twice her size and flip onto a moving vehicle with little effort. Harley is also strong enough to break human bones. Harley was also able to easily run while holding a thirty-four-pound bag of dog food under one arm and was later able to easily hoist it into the air with one hand.

**Superhuman Athleticism:** Harley Quinn is far superior to Olympic-level athletes and other highly trained professionals in the field of gymnastics and acrobatics. Her agility is much better than the likes of an ordinary human, she possesses perfect flexibility, balance, and bodily coordination. She is able to move in any type of physical way flawlessly. She can be the finest dancer in the world, the best martial artist, the greatest athlete, etc. Her skills rival those of Catwoman and Nightwing. Harley Quinn, as a former gymnast, is shown to be highly skilled in various acrobatics, including pole dancing and other agile maneuvers, often incorporating agile moves while fighting opponents, notably able to flip over one monstrous Eye of the Adversary when it managed to get a hold of her, thus twisting herself out of his grasp, and to easily dodge slashes from Enchantress' daggers. After falling out of Joker's helicopter, she broke her fall and effortlessly rolled it off. When raiding the GCPD, she was able to evade attacks from the police officers and other prisoners using a variety of cartwheels and handsprings, as when Renee Montoya had Harley at gunpoint and Harley was able to flip kick the phone she was holding into her face knocking her unconscious. When being tailed by Black Mask she was able to perform a back handspring onto the top of his vehicle to avoid being run down. Harley's athleticism paid off in dividends during her brief career in roller derby.

**Intelligence:** Harley Quinn is exceptionally intelligent, having been an excellent academic achiever in high school, which earned her a full scholarship to the prestigious Gotham State University, where she would go on to write a very successful graduate thesis. Harley's intellect extends itself to her psychological, tactical, and deception skills.

**Psychological Intuition:** Harley Quinn, while still Harleen Quinzel, was a highly skilled psychologist, majoring in psychiatry at Gotham State University, with her psychology graduate thesis being a huge success, and allowing her the opportunity to work as a psychologist at the infamous Arkham Asylum itself. Even after being rendered psychopathic by the Joker, Harley shows at least traces of her psychologist expertise, being able to make swift breakdowns of the psychological profiles of El Diablo, Killer Croc, and Katana, knowing exactly what to say in order to get under their skin (criticizing El Diablo for ever thinking he could have a normal life with his powers and for not taking responsibility for the death of his children, judging Killer Croc's exterior aesthetic in addition to his interior and intuiting his need to eat people combined with his hatred for mankind and viewing the world as a sewer, and diagnosing Katana with deep-seated father issues). Hence, she even proudly proclaims to Rick Flag that she is known to be "quite vexing," and later unofficially diagnosed Deadshot as "another textbook sociopath." After her emancipation, she pointed out Black Mask as having a delicate sense of mental equilibrium (which she agitates) and an obsessive-compulsive need to be the center of attention and understood that he built a criminal empire in a "very misguided" attempt to win back the respect of his father after the latter kicked him out of Janus Corp. She later noted Huntress for her childhood trauma and spoke to her on the topic of revenge, stating that it rarely brings the catharsis that one desires. Harley Quinn is a highly skilled deceiver, thus when Deadshot pretended to shoot at her, she convincingly pretended to have been killed only to reveal that she is still alive and later on, managing to trick Enchantress into thinking that she was about to swear allegiance to the latter, and to subsequently use that distraction to suddenly cut open Enchantress's chest with Katana's sword, exposing and pulling out the supervillain's vulnerable heart. Her proficiency in lying allowed her to recognize Cassandra Cain's own lies regarding the whereabouts of the Bertinelli diamond, pointing out the inflection in her voice and the way she could not maintain eye contact.

**Enhanced Reflexes:** Harley Quinn reflexes are Above the limit of Human Potential and Perfection; this means that their reactions are comparable to those of the finest human athlete and are near-enhanced. She can catch a fired arrow in midair, respond to extremely fast-paced combat, and perform amazing physically defensive feats; She could even evade strikes from beings with super speed and dodge multiple gunfires with ease.

**Enhanced Speed:** Harley Quinn speed is faster than Olympic class runners. She can run at speeds far Suppurior to the finest Human athletes With this sort of speed, she could catch-up to or outrun moving vehicles, are likely to always be first in running-races, and have great reaction time. Her speed is at the highest limit of human potential.

**Sperhuman Stamina:** Harley Quinn possesses a highly developed musculature she generates fewer fatigue toxins than the musculature of most other humans or similar beings, endowing Superhuman level stamina. As such, she can perform feats such as running for several kilometers/miles without losing breath or exerting themselves at peak capacity for hours with minor to no fatigue. Harley can breathe indefinitely underwater. This is due to the serum including elements from the Aquavilla vines of Portugal.

**Enhanced Human Strength:** Harley Quinn's strength is Above the finest human athlete Peak human in DC is being able to lift 1000-1600 lbs which would make Harley quinn able to lift atleast 1 ton She is capable of lifting around 1 ton. She would be able to surpass feats of any Olympic class weightlifter, allowing them to lift objects on their own that would normally require multiple people, break thin chains or steel cuffs, bend metal bars, and break down doors and walls with a single strike. Offensively, She is able to knock people out with one offensive impact, tear limbs off, crush skulls, overpower multiple opponents, punch an enemy through a thin brick wall, lifting a full-grown person in the air with one arm, and even throwing them several meters.

**Vehicle Intuition:** Harley is highly skilled at driving motorcycles, as she was able to use one to pursue the Joker, and was even able to get move it onto its side and stay on top of it while moving at high speeds and Harley is a proficient roller skater, as seen during her short-lived career in roller derby, as well as during her pursuit of Black Mask to rescue Cassandra Cain.

### **Equipment**

**Got You:** Harley sports a customized Chiappa Rhino 60DS, 6 cylinder magnum revolver that she carries it in a black leather holster slung under her arm. It's a trick gun which first shoots a flag saying Got You before firing off as a surprise attack.

**Good Night**: Harley carries a personalized wooden baseball bat with "Good Night" written down the side of it that she used for close-quarters combat, notably taking down numerous Eyes of the Adversary with it during her assignment in Midway City. This weapon would then be used by Black Canary in their final encounter with Black Mask's criminal organization.

**Love & Hate:** Harley used two M79 grenade launcher with homemade ammo. Harley used them to take down many of Enchantress' monstrous Eyes of the Adversary goons and briefly lent them to Deadshot so that he could destroy the mystical superweapon. Each cylinder has **Love** or **Hate** engraved into them.

**Your Face Here:** Harley carried a personalized red wooden mallet that she used during her villainous escapades with her boyfriend the Joker. It has green spray paint on it saying "Your Face Here". She uses during Suicide Squad Missions.

### **Weaknesses**

**Mental Illness:** Harley suffers from hallucinations, false memories, anger issues, and a myriad of other mental instabilities.

## **Trivia**

* Harley Quinn x-rays show evidence of past, extensive physical abuse. I suspect these are the doing of Joker but could be the Batman.
* Harley Quinn was given a “natural steroid” that gave her an apparent immunity to toxins. For unknown reasons, chemical immunity does not seem affected by the inhibitor collar. Dr. Hugo Strange is working on a solution so that we can begin prescribing medications to this patient.
* Harley Quinn is a former psychiatrist (Known to attempt psychoanalysis of others).