The new season of Harley Quinn is out, so we’ve been looking at Harley all week. That means looking at her show, the bad Suicide Squad movie, the good Suicide Squad movie and Birds of Prey, and of course at the comics and how her role there changed over the years. We’ve also been looking at other Batman villains and at some Harley-adjacent stuff, like her horrifying real-life equivalents from history and under the sea.
Here's a look back at the facts we learned this week. The links all lead to full articles with much more info, so click every one that interests you, or you’ll have to clean up after the hyenas.
It’s an animated series set in Cheers-type pub where supervillains hang out, an idea previously tried out by the channel How It Should Have Ended.
Some fans theorized the studio peeled some of it away using CGI, but no—they’d lengthened it for the trailer using CGI, for modesty’s sake.
DC announced they were girlfriends on Twitter. Before that, in comics, all attraction between them was only subtext.
She wore a jester costume in a joke fantasy sequence that played on The Princess Bride, and The Animated Series used this as inspiration for Harley Quinn.
Yes, it’s really been done, making an expendable unit out of criminals ... except when Germany did it, the unit ended up committing a bunch of war crimes even worse than what the regular Nazis did.
The tinkering they did to her design there led to her new look when DC rebooted their characters.
Some people got so angry over her 2011 redesign, they filmed themselves threatening the writer, then sent the videos to him.
The harlequin shrimp dines exclusively on starfish. It keeps its prey alive by force-feeding it, as it slowly eats it alive limb-by-limb.