Harleen Quinzel (Prime Earth)

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 * Theme                  = Batman
 * Image                  = Suicide Squad Vol 4 6 Textless.jpg
 * RealName               = Harleen Francis Quinzel
 * CurrentAlias           = Harley Quinn
 * Aliases                = Dr. Harleen Quinzel
 * Identity               = Public
 * Alignment              = Bad
 * Affiliation            = Suicide Squad
 * Relatives              =
 * Universe               = Prime Earth
 * BaseOfOperations       = Gotham City


 * Gender                 = Female
 * Height                 = 5'7"
 * Weight                 = 140 lbs.
 * Eyes                   = Blue
 * Hair                   = Blue
 * Hair2                  = Red
 * UnusualFeatures        = Pale, white skin


 * Citizenship            = American
 * MaritalStatus          = Single
 * Occupation             = Psychiatrist


 * PlaceOfBirth           = Brooklyn
 * Creators               = Paul Dini; Bruce Timm
 * First                  = Suicide Squad Vol 4 1


 * Quotation              = Nothing says "l'Chaim" like a girl dressed in a stripper clown outfit wielding a hundred-pound mallet.
 * Speaker                = Harley Quinn
 * QuoteSource            = Suicide Squad Vol 4 19


 * HistoryText            =

Origins
Harleen Quinzel was born in Brooklyn, New York, and excelled in her education in psychology, eventually earning a place as a psychiatrist at Gotham City's famed Arkham Asylum. She had a particular fascination with the Joker, whom she thought had been misdiagnosed by his previous doctors. Her confidence and savvy in the face of the Joker's madness impressed him. On their tenth session, he revealed to her that he knew about the fact that her father had been killed by a drunk driver who had had the connections required to get off without any punishment. As a gift to her, he presented her with the driver's finger as proof that the man had been brought to justice. He then promised that he could teach her how to become as powerful as he had, by failing to care about life's rules.

Unfortunately, Harleen's supervisor, Dr. Sterano, discovered her crush on the Joker after stealing her psychiatric notes with the intention of publishing them as her own. In a rage, Harleen tried to kill Sterano, but was interrupted by the guards. Rather than surrender, she killed a guard and broke the Joker out of his cell. That night, the Joker took her to the Ace Chemical Processing Plant where his persona had been born, and promised that this would be her birthday. Realizing his intention, she had struggled, but he shoved her into one of the chemical vats and watched her sink to the bottom. Afterwards, he drained it and found her inside, alive, but changed. She had lost touch with reality, which meant that she could do whatever she liked. He dubbed her Harley Quinn, and the two of them were together from that point on.

Kicked in the Teeth
Harley Quinn was arrested by Black Canary while on a murderous spree of revenge against the lawyers who put the Joker away. While on death row at Belle Reve prison for her crimes, her cell filled up with gas, and she was implanted with a micro-bomb to insure her obedience. She was made to undergo torture in order to test her loyalty, and was finally inducted into Amanda Waller's Task Force X, aka the Suicide Squad.

Waller put the team to work on tracking the metahuman terrorist organization called Basilisk, with their first mission being to contain an outbreak of a zombifying virus and collect a newborn baby from the scene who could hold the cure. While on downtime between missions, Harley seduced Deadshot, unaware that he may have been secretly infected with the virus.

Their next mission saw Captain Boomerang joining their team as leader. Offhandedly, he mentioned that the Joker had disappeared and was presumed dead. After the mission was complete, they returned to Belle Reve, where a guard accidentally deactivated Harley's micro-bomb before she was safely in her cell. Naturally, she escaped and caused a prison riot, which her teammates were given just eighteen minutes to end. After succeeding, Waller gave Deadshot the treatment he needed for the virus and promised an hour with his daughter Suchin - however, she wouldn't give him the full hour until he and the rest of the Suicide Squad found Harley Quinn, and brought her back dead or alive.

The Hunt for Harley Quinn
Harley had escaped to Gotham City to confirm the rumours about the Joker's death. She went to Arkham Asylum and enlisted the help of several escaped inmates to help thwart the Suicide Squad's attempts to find her. While there, she kidnapped Dr. Sterano and demanded to know whether it was true that the Joker had been killed. She revealed that he was supposedly skinned alive, and that his face was being kept at Gotham City Police Headquarters in evidence. Hearing this, Harley murdered Sterano, finally. In the meantime, though, the Suicide Squad had gathered the same information from one of the escaped inmates, and watched from a nearby rooftop as Harley surrendered to the police and was taken inside the station - exactly where she needed to be.

The Squad created a diversion in order to pursue her unfettered, but the distraction also allowed Harley to get to the evidence room and steal the Joker's face. On her way out, she encountered Deadshot and knocked him unconscious. He woke unmasked and tied to a chair in the dark. In her insanity, she stretched the severed face over Floyd's own, and began talking to him as if he was the Joker, demanding to know why he left her. Unsure of what to do, Floyd played along, claiming that she should prove her love by killing all of Batman's distractions; his family. In her joy, Harley was too distracted to notice Floyd pull his gun, and shoot her in the gut.

Basilisk Rising
After her brush with death, Harley's mental state deteriorated, and gave way to a form of dissociative identity wherein she claimed to be exclusively Dr. Harleen Quinzel. This annoyed Waller, who still needed Harley Quinn, and would have let Deadshot kill her otherwise. Despite the protests of her teammates, Harleen rejoined the Suicide Squad for yet another mission to catch the leader of Basilisk, known as Regulus. However, over the course of the mission, they discovered that someone on the team was a traitor. Even so Waller sent them all in search of Regulus in South America, but their plane was destroyed by a sleeper agent, and they ended up captured by a primitive native tribe intent on sacrificing them. They were saved at the last moment by Basilisk agents, at the order of Black Spider, who was the traitor all along. He had manager to implant hypnotic suggestions into the minds of every member of the squad except for Deadshot and Harley, leaving the pair of them to face their hypnotized companions. With some effort, the pair managed to snap the others out of their hypnosis, but not without taking casualties. Regulus appeared, and took Deadshot hostage, providing Harley with the dilemma of whether to risk hitting him. Before she could make a move of her own, Deadshot fired a shot through his own chest, and killed Regulus and himself.

Running With The Devil
At Deadshot's funeral, a sudden gas attack caused everyone in attendance to collapse - except Harley. This is because she is immune to Joker Venom, which was employed for just this purpose. The Joker had returned. Despite her happiness at seeing him alive, if disfigured, he brutal and vengeful, having learnt already of her dalliance with Deadshot. He had sensed a change in her, and he didn't like it. He agreed, though, to forgive her if she would do him a favour.


 * Powers                 =
 * Superhuman Agility
 * Toxin Immunity: Immunizes her to various assorted toxins and Ivy's own poisonous touch.
 * Abilities              =
 * Psychologist: Trained as in the field of psychoanalysis.
 * Olympic-level Gymnast: She is a spectacular gymnast.


 * Strength               =
 * Weaknesses             =


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 * Notes                  =
 * Trivia                 = *Harley was created specifically for Batman: The Animated Series. Due to her popularity with fans, she was eventually inducted as part of the DC Comics main universe.
 * Recommended            =
 * Batman: Harley Quinn
 * Wikipedia              = Harley Quinn
 * Links                  =
 * Harley Quinn profile at DCU Guide
 * Harley Quinn profile at Comic Book Database
 * Harley Quinn from Batman the Animated Series
 * Harley's Haven
 * Harley Quinn from Batman the Animated Series
 * Harley's Haven