Harley Quinn

Harleen Frances Quinzel, A.K.A. Harley Quinn, is the secondary tritagonist of Mutatron: The Maestro Of Mayhem! A former Arkham Asylum psychiatrist-turned-volatile sociopath and ex-girlfriend of The Joker and former leader of his old gang, Harley serves as Mutatron's love interest and one of the people who help him in finding the person who framed him for murder, which leads her on her path to redemption and super-heroism. She is voiced by Tara Strong, who reprises the role from the Arkham games.

Character Background
Harleen Quinzel was once a doctor that interned at Arkham Asylum who always had a fascination for the criminal mind. she underwent employee orientation with Dr. Whistler and was given a permanent office located on the Medical Facility's lower floor: the Secure Access Corridor. In this institution, Harleen continued her work as a criminal psychiatrist and voluntarily assigned herself to psychologically assess and treat the Joker after previously experiencing his behavior first-hand at Blackgate. The Joker saw Harleen's interest for him, and decided to use that to his advantage. He was able to easily manipulate her by complimenting her, giving her a flower, and victimizing himself. Harleen was also oblivious to the fact that she had overestimated her abilities to treat the Joker and did not anticipate how manipulative he was, so she did not see that the Joker was in fact using her. She therefore began to strongly empathize for him, and believed Batman to be the criminal instead. As a result of the Joker's grooming of her own distorted morals, Harleen eventually fell in love with her patient, which was evident by the posters found in her office at Arkham Asylum. Following Joker's orders, Harleen smuggled bombs into the penitentiary to break into his cell and free him. Wearing her trademark jester costume, Harleen introduced her 'new' persona to the Joker and assumed her own criminal identity as 'Harley Quinn'. Quinn was a violent and unpredictable felon whose only motivation, beyond general mayhem, was achieving the Joker’s approval. Because of the Joker's cruel and mercurial nature, this in some ways made Quinn just another one of his victims - albeit a very dangerous one. But that was before she met the true love of her life: The Mighty Mutatron.

The Arkham Asylum Incident
Years ago, during the TITAN incident, Harley helped the Joker take control of Arkham Asylum in his sick plan to create an army of monsters to destroy Gotham City. Harley took Warden Sharp hostage, took possession of his decorative cane as well as wore his Warden Identification Card, and contacted Batman on the monitor. She claimed that the Joker was now in charge of the island and that she was substituting for Sharp as Warden. She also told Batman that Joker was having a homecoming party with Batman as the guest of honor. Batman gave Harley one chance to surrender, which she refused before she smashed her monitor with Sharp's cane, which cut off the feed. When Batman made his way to the elevator shaft in Secure Transit, Harley appeared, and stated that Joker didn't need to see Batman just yet. Harley proceeded to blow up the elevator cord, which caused the elevator to crash to the floor below and sent herself to the top, and nearly killed a security guard named Henry Smith had Batman not saved him. Harley then regrouped with Frank Boles, who had taken Commissioner Gordon hostage. She and Boles proceeded to secure the front entrance of the Intensive Treatment Center and fought off the guards with an army of Blackgate Prisoners. When Joker found out that Batman was tracking Boles via the alcohol in his breath, Harley was ordered to kill him. With this done, she left him behind, strapped to a gurney with a "Dead End" sign on him. Harley, with Gordon, made her way to the Batmobile first, and ordered her goons to break into it. She then proceeded to the Medical Facility, sat in the main entrance with Gordon tied to a bench by her, and relaxing during her "me time."

Batman eventually tracked Gordon to the entrance and found Harley humming to herself, but was unable to reach her due to an electric security gate blocking the entrance. Spotting Batman as he walked in, Harley told him to scram. He asked where Gordon was, to which she replied: "Wouldn't you like to know?." Gordon then shouted to Batman, and Harley told him to shut up and threw a glass mug at him. Gordon called Harley a "crazy bitch," and Joker contacted Harley via monitor. He yelled at her, and she squealed in a startled tone. Joker asked why Batman was at the Medical Facility, as it was "too early." Harley apologized, kissed Joker through the monitor, and asked him not to be angry with her. He then said: "You little minx! I could never stay mad at you!" and turned off the monitor. Harley said that Batman needed to find another way in, bade him farewell, and cartwheeled out of the room.

On the Joker's orders, Harley proceeded to take Gordon to the Experimentation Chamber, where Bane was being held. Harley was ordered to guard Gordon, and kill him if any of the men patrolling the room spotted Batman. To buy time to set this up, Scarecrow was released to distract Batman. Harley taunted Gordon, telling him that once he and Batman were dead, the Joker would marry her. However, things didn't go as planned; Batman evaded being seen and knocked out Harley by crashing through the ceiling. As Batman managed to save Dr. Young from Zsasz, Harley was sent to deal with them; she remained unaware that the Joker had booby-trapped the safe with the Asylum's codes. By the time she arrived, Young was dead from the blast and Batman was out-cold. As Batman woke, Harley joked that Young deserved her death as Joker hated "squealers."

Harley removed the tape on Sharp's mouth, allowing him to insult her. She smacked him with his own cane in return, breaking the jewel off of it. Amused, she tells Batman that "that old looney thinks he runs this place," taking Sharp away for more torture.

Harley left four goons to take Batman to 'the party', but he defeated them and used the Warden's DNA traces from his severed cane tip to follow her. Harley then made her way to the Penitentiary with the Warden, and forced him to read a variety of threatening statements written by Joker over Arkham Asylum's intercom system and tortured him when he hesitated and insulted her.

Harley lead Batman on a goose chase in the Penitentiary. In the Decontamination Room, Harley had two guards strung up and ready to be gassed with Smilex. However, Batman freed them both and got them out of the room before the gas could go off. Eventually, she manged to trick Batman into the Security Control Room, where she had locked up Sharp.Left alone, Harley woke while Batman was busy fighting off a Titan- powered Bane. She promptly escaped back outside. Harley recorded a message for one of the Joker's fake patient sessions with Batman at the Visitor Center, taunting and insulting the Dark Knight. Following her orders, Harley returned to where she had left Sharp, for more of the Joker's insanity.

Batman saw Harley on a nearby monitor, passing by Poison Ivy's cell. Despite not being on the 'Party List', Ivy convinced Harley to let her free since they were friends. As Ivy happily strode away and blew Harley a kiss, Harley sighed and said: "She's a good kid."

Batman followed Harley and surpassed a variety of her traps until there were a few goons left standing. Harley even electrified the pacification system on the asylum floor to the maximum power to stop his advance, and electrocuted a security guard as a demonstration. Batman eventually got past this obstacle and fought his way through the remaining Blackgate Prisoners and escaped Arkham Lunatics before the fifteen remaining thugs attacked Batman in Extreme Incarceration.

After they were defeated, Joker decided that Harley had failed him, and removed her from the 'party list', much to her annoyance. Out of anger, Harley exited the room and used her acrobatic skills to attack Batman, but was simply thrown aside. Batman then took Harley's 'party list' and Harley tried to punch him. But Batman flipped Harley over, scanned her hand, and acquired her fingerprints. Batman then proceeded to lock up Harley in an adjacent cell, and she accidentally revealed the Joker's location at the Botanical Gardens and claimed that he would rescue her. Batman left Harley crying alone in her cell, getting nothing but insults. Harley was then escorted back to her usual cell by the surviving Arkham staff upon the Joker's defeat and recapture.

Harley In Charge
Months after the TITAN incident, Harley helped Joker escape the Asylum and flee to Arkham City, where they took control of the Steel Mill and got involved in a war with Penguin and his men, and also waited for Batman to come. Harley first appeared at the Church and Medical Center, with four of Joker's Henchmen and took the medical staff hostage. As Batman entered, she back flipped towards him. However, Batman's reply was to contemptuously throw her aside as before. The thugs told Batman to let her go or they would kill the hostages, which forced Batman to relent. Harley agreed, told Batman about Joker's condition, and told her henchmen to keep him busy. Mocking Batman, she walked toward the door, looked back at Batman, blew him a kiss, and drove back to the Steel Mill.

When Batman entered the Loading Bay at the Steel Mill, Harley tossed down Dr. Stacy Baker, a young doctor who failed to help Joker and called in the one-armed thug, Mr. Hammer as entertainment for the clowns. As Batman rushed to save the doctor, at the last second as Dr. Baker was going to get crushed by Mr. Hammer, Harley told him to stop, and said that Joker wanted her to suffer a bit more while she ordered the thugs to go capture Mr. Freeze, who apparently had a Cure for the Joker's Titan Disease. Dr. Baker was dragged out and Batman made his way out.

After Batman defeated Joker's remaining henchmen in the Loading Bay, Harley yelled down at him, angry the Dark Knight was still alive, and closed the metal doors to the Manager's Office. As Batman walked away, through the walls, Harley exclaimed: "Oh Mr. J! You look perfect! ...Oh....it's not really you, is it?" To keep the fact the Clayface was working for them, Joker silenced her, just in case someone was listening. After finding and saving Stacy, Batman broke through the doors of the Manager's Office with a crane hook by using his REC, but was stopped by Mr. Hammer as Harley angrily told Batman to leave Joker alone. After Batman beat Mr. Hammer and several other thugs, he heard Harley scream in anguish as he grappled up, and found her by an apparently dead Joker. After Batman shoved Harley aside and Scanned Joker, she asked why he was so mean, which left him open to a knock out gas attack by Joker, who told him that he "fell for the old fake Joker gag!" As Batman reeled from the gas and fell to his knees, Harley approached with a Baseball Bat, said: "Batter up!" and knocked him out after three hits.

As Batman awoke, Harley reached for his mask and hoped to know the man behind the bat, but Joker called her back. Harley complained, and Joker made it clear that: "No one's who you think they are" and she sullenly waited while he talked to Batman. While Batman and Mr. Freeze were fighting at the old GCPD Building, the cure for the Titan Disease was stolen by Harley and Batman chased after her.

However, when Batman found Harley in the Assembly Line at the Steel Mill, she was taped to a pole and gagged with duct tape with no cure in sight. When Batman pulled the tape off, Harley angrily complained, and said that she wouldn't talk, especially about Freeze's gear that Joker had stolen and stashed in the Boiler Room. Harley was later revealed to have been tied up by Talia al Ghul, who stole the cure back from her.

At the Monarch Theatre, Harley and Joker's thugs were outside waiting for Joker to become immortal, but they instead found Batman carrying Joker's body and the horrified Harley fell to her knees, mourned his "death", and planned to avenge her boyfriend and lover. What Harley didn't realize is that Joker actually faked his death and started planning a criminal comeback.

The Day Harley Went Psycho...More Than Usual.
Still believing that Joker was dead, which he wasn't, Harley became even more psychotic and fierce, and managed to strike fear and respect into the Joker's old henchmen, who had previously seen her as a useless bimbo. She was shown to be constantly mourning, donned a darker outfit, and frequently cried. Harley's bursts of anxiety lead her to kill a henchman at random and instead of becoming annoyed at the henchmen when they made a pass at her (as she had usually done prior to Joker's death), she became infuriated and murderous, and declared that they should not try to seduce "a widow."

Two weeks after the Arkham City Incident, Harley broke out of the temporary holding facility that she was in and hatched a plan to kill Batman and avenge the Joker. She reformed the Joker's old gang and despite initially meeting resistance from Joker's old crew, her new, more vicious, and more psychotic personality convinced them to join her. As part of her plan, Harley kidnapped several police officers and locked them away in the Steel Mill. Batman was sent in to save the hostages, but was captured by Harley, who locked him inside of a giant statue of the Joker inside the shrine that she had built for him.

Two days later, Robin went to the Steel Mill to look for his mentor. After finding Batman's Utility Belt in the Warehouse, Robin went to the Shipyard, where Harley was holed up. There, he found Batman in the Joker Statue and discovered that he needed Harley's access key to free him. Robin found Harley and defeated Her Thugs before he fought her. Though Harley proved to be a tricky adversary, Robin ultimately defeated her and took away her access key before he left her hanging upside down from a catwalk. After Robin saved Batman, Harley unveiled her plan: a suicidal bombing of the Shipyard that aimed to kill both Batman and Robin and "reuniting her with dear Mr. J." Harley triggered the explosives, but Batman managed to defuse them before they went off, while Robin freed the captured policemen. A furious Harley revealed her fail safe: a hidden bomb in the Joker Statue. Harley set it off to kill herself and Batman, but failed when he leapt out of a window, and carried her with him.

A tearful Harley yelled at Batman that he should have left her behind, but Batman ignored her as he realized that Robin was nowhere to be seen. Suddenly elated that she managed to kill Robin, Harley mockingly told Batman that now he knew how she felt before she tried to stab him in the heart with a concealed Knife. Harley failed, as Robin appeared and knocked her out with a Shuriken. Harley was subsequently arrested and taken back into custody.

Harley Quinn's Last Chance
After The Arkham City Incident, Harley joined Scarecrow's alliance in a plan to destroy Batman, which provided her the perfect opportunity to get her revenge. With the Penguin's assistance, Harley Quinn then infiltrated the Bludhaven Police Station where she fought and snuck her way down to the basement to release Poison Ivy from her cell. Harley was then ambushed by Nightwing who she then fought against. She gained the upper hand by attacking him from behind and the fight ended when Ivy's Plants grabbed Nightwing and took him away. The two then returned back to Gotham for Scarecrow's Meeting at the Arkham Mansion. Harley was approached to by Scarecrow to join his Alliance to destroy Batman and take the city for themselves. She had no interest in Scarecrow's larger plans, but joined in order to avenge the Joker's death. Grief-stricken and vengeful, Harley brutally reasserted control of Joker’s gang as it threatened to fragment after his death. Freed from Joker’s domineering personality, Harley became a dangerous, and unpredictable new force in the Gotham City Underworld.

To Harley's surprise, she was contacted one day by the elderly Henry Adams. He told her dark jokes, which made her laugh. Upon commenting that she hadn't laughed since Joker died, or at least she thought he died, Henry bizarrely stated that he missed her as well. She then learned Henry was given one of the transfusion bags of Joker's Infected Blood, and had become a new Clown Prince of Crime; however, he was able to hide the physical changes.

After Henry was captured by Batman for testing to cure three others infected with Joker's blood, he was able to get some time to himself to contact her and tell Harley where the others were being held - Panessa Studios. She planned on adopting the trio and grooming them as Jokers. To ensure that Henry was free of suspicion, Harley agreed to knock him out when he contacted Batman. Harley broke into Panessa Studios while Batman was busy tracking Scarecrow. While Harley's Thugs kept Robin busy, Henry contacted Batman; and Harley proceeded to knock him out as planned. After telling Batman about her plans, Harley changed the voice recognition software to reject Batman's orders. Harley left Albert King, Christina Bell and Johnny Charisma wander the studio; and she left some of her men to guard Bell as she was more vulnerable.

Batman and Robin worked together to defeat the three mutated Jokers, and returned them to their cells. Harley and her gang cornered Robin, and Batman snuck in under the grates, and took Harley out with a Floor Grate Takedown. After he and Robin defeated her thugs, Batman carried Harley to lock her in a containment unit. When they got back, Harley was horrified to find her proteges dead. It was at that moment, Henry revealed his connection to Harley; she was devastated to see their plan ruined. It turned out Henry was the worse of the infected, wanted to ensure only the best of them would be allowed to become the next Joker.

In a move true to the Joker's own sick getaway plans, Henry held Harley hostage at gunpoint; he demanded that Batman and Robin lock themselves in containment units. Unknown to Harley, the Joker's consciousness was proud of this host, wondering if he truly was the best of those infected to replace him. Henry then realized that Batman was infected as well, so he shot himself in the head so he could continue "purifying the gene pool," as Batman would be the best mutant Joker of the five infected. Batman then locked up Harley and left her to mourn over the loss of the potential Jokers. Harley was left in doubt that Joker could be in Batman.

Harley's Redemption
Harley was supposed to be taken to Blackgate after Scarecrow's defeat and her being forced to help the Suicide Squad kill the Justice League. However, the truck taking her there was attacked and she was abducted and imprisoned by mysterious soldiers who see her and her kind as the true problems with the world, as with the government that pardoned her so many times. She spent the last 3 weeks in a New Mexico underground bunker, being tortured, belittled and beaten to near death by the soldiers. Until one month after that, she was rescued from her captors by mysterious figures and taken back to Gotham. the GCPD found her healing up at Gotham General. Her physical scars were bandaged up, but her mental scars weren't. The trauma she suffered changed her. She has become ridden with guilt and fear and that she feels like her trauma was her own fault, since her atrocities are what led to Batman's death. She accepted the responsibility for her actions and gave up her life of crime, though she continued to mourn Joker. Harley checked out of the hospital afterwards and went back to one of her old hideouts. Upon arriving, she saw that her crew left her out of fear. Feeling alone and afraid, Harley gathered 4 buckets of ice cream and a box of tapes that showed her most precious moments during her time with Joker. But then her tune changed when she saw a tape that showed Joker brutally murdering Harley's sister, Marlene Quinzel, in retaliation for slandering him on the internet. Horrified by this loss, and angered that Joker would go so far to murder someone that still continued to love her no matter what, Harley grabbed her bat and viciously smashed the TV multiple times in a fit of rage. She calmed down, and stopped smashing the TV. Finally realizing that Joker never truly loved her, Harley set out to make amends with the people she's hurt, and make sure nobody should have to suffer again like she did.

Personality
Harley was academically intelligent and gained a strong interest in criminology as her father was a criminal. As a psychiatrist, Harley was responsible, very caring, and strongly empathized with her patients, such as leaving a note in Calendar Man's cell saying: "Happy Holidays, Julian! - HQ." Despite her academic intelligence, Harley had distorted morals and lacked a great deal of common sense as she failed to see how dangerous and harmful the Joker was. In her sessions with the Joker, Harley also failed to see sense and overestimated her abilities as he was extremely crafty, which meant that he could easily influence her to feel sympathy and affection for him. For example, Harley did not realize that she was being manipulated to feel affection for Joker during her interview sessions as she was far less experienced in comparison to other Arkham Psychiatrists. Therefore, she inevitably began to feel fixated with him and underwent a drastic change.

Once Harley accepted that she was in love with the Joker, she demonstrated extreme signs of regression (as noted by Dr. Young) such as a higher pitch in her voice, becoming less assertive and appearing less intelligent - possibly to try to appeal to him. On a daily basis, Harley was cheerful and optimistic, but also sadistic and maniacal which she may have learned from the Joker. Unlike him, however, Harley often failed to reserve herself in combat and speech which she admitted to Penguin when she rescued Poison Ivy from the police station in Bludhaven. This often resulted in secret information being stated which was beneficial to Batman or resulted in her attacking him, only to be quickly defeated. This type of behavior was often apparent during the Arkham Asylum Incident. She also showed androphobia as she used to insult and mock several men except the Joker. In the Arkham City Incident, the stress from the Joker's fake poor health appeared to have altered Harley's personality, such as showing a shorter tempter, displaying a lack of common sense, becoming more ruthless and more frustrated while trying to follow the Joker's orders and staying in charge of his henchmen. Immediately following the Joker's charaded death (in Harley Quinn's Revenge), Harley became even more ruthless and dangerous as she was not able to come to terms with her loss. Whilst still her usual self, Harley was feared among her henchmen as one even told an ally to not 'piss her off'. Harley even assumed a henchman was hitting on her, and screamed about how he could not compare to her "Mr. J", although he was just being sympathetic to her. Also, Harley's voice increasingly became angrier, maniacal and higher pitched and she was slightly suicidal, which reflected the extreme stress she went through following the Joker's death, which, unbeknownst to her, never really happened.

Up to Arkham Knight, Harley appeared to have finally accepted the Joker's "death", but she still mentioned how she missed his presence, and blamed Batman for that. Harley was shown to experience psychosis, in which she had hallucinations of her voice from when she was a doctor and hallucinations of writing on various walls. Harleen Quinzel's voice acted as the voice of reason to a demented and troubled Harley Quinn. While denying and even considering a lobotomy to get rid of the voices, these may have represented Harley's conscience urging her to stop committing crime. To deal with this psychosis, Harley could have potentially treated this herself by using her own psychiatric knowledge, but that was unlikely. During Arkham Knight, Harley also became more assertive, capable, and she regained much of her independence. As a result, she was even able to uncover Batman's computer system in Panessa Studios. This may have been because Harley was no longer influenced on the Joker's orders, and showed how the Joker had "held her back" from her potential. She still, however, showed a level of dependence on the Joker when Henry Adams behaved similarly to him. Also, several thugs called her the "Clown Princess of Crime" which suggested that Harley had replaced the Joker's clown-based crime in the Gotham City Underworld. Similar to the Joker, she also at times has a disregard for her personal safety.

In Mutatron: The Maestro Of Mayhem!, while Harley continues to retain her psychotic demeanor, she has renounced her love for The Joker, admitting that everything he's ever told her is a lie and that he never really loved her. However, she's also become very timid and stressed and has shown signs of extreme guilt, blaming herself for the events that led to her torturous near-death experience.

Attributes

 * Surprising strength and stamina with superior gymnastic skills.
 * A staff member at Arkham Asylum with a keen interest in the criminal mind.
 * Once Obsessed with the Joker, now displays ruthless hatred towards him.
 * Employs various deadly weapons, often based on Joker's party-gag items.


 * Unpredictable sociopath with a child-like sense of humor and personality.

Trivia

 * Tara Strong reprises her role as Harley in Mutatron: The Maestro Of Mayhem!, marking it the 3rd time Tara Strong has voiced a major character in a theatrical film, the 1st and 2nd being My Little Pony: The Movie and Teen Titans GO! To The Movies!