![]() A doll who walks and talks and serves only Mister Jay. David Ayers’s Suicide Squad, with its quick-cut montage of exposition, implied that Joker tortured Harleen, broke her essentially, and remade her himself. Mad Love tells the story of how Dr Harleen Quinzel meets the incarcerated Joker and becomes obsessed with him, eventually modelling her own villainous personality of Harley upon him.įor a number of creators this relationship has been uncritically presented as a romantic one. ![]() In the animated Batman series, we met Harley, the Joker’s “hench-wench” (Paul Dini’s phrase) for the first time, a much-abused yet still loyal partner to the Prince of Crime. Harleen unpacks and deconstructs the canonical (and award-winning) origin for Harley Quinn served up by Paul Dini and Bruce Timm in Mad Love. Harleen meets The Joker for the first time – Stjepan Šejić (DC Comics) ![]()
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