Anonymous asked
so you don't like harley quinn at all?
I wouldn’t say I don’t like her, I feel that what I almost borderline hate about her is mostly the fandom take on her and how DC try selling her as this female deadpool spunky girl and pushing her sins under the rug so they can pretend she was always meant to be an antihero or at worse a tame misguided villain
like many people, my introduction to batman was the batman tas version, so basically the BEST VERSION to start anything, and as we all know, Harley was created inside that show and I know I know, in the comics world, you basically gotta cherry pick the canons and stuff you like because the questionable quality of it as a whole, but like I said, BTAS is the best for good reasons, one is how they remade and explored many of the rogues gallery in both good and negative ways without hiding that they were currently bad because many were chosing to be it, sure many were pushed to evilness but then they embraced it and made it a life style and that was the problem
when I think of harley, I of course think of her original version, because is the most well established version one can get from her, the show show us that at while she was seduced into crime by joker and was a victim of abuse by him as well, it also show us that this was not a case of “oh i was cheated into being a criminal” but more of a “the potential I have here!!!” honestly, I can’t understand how anybody can see this harley and think she is just a victim of the situation than someone who just discovered their genius on a new skill; it show us that like many villains, Harley had the potential to redeem herself, but she had to choose to do it and stick to it, which she almost did once, but then kidnapped someone and went back to her bad habits
I feel is very awful trying to make her along side with ivy as this girl power icon that defend women, kids, puppies and only is aggressive and violent with people who “deserve it” (mostly men), when we saw the canon first harley being cruel with women and kids just the same as with men and having fun at it
she liked being cruel and evil, she enjoyed being a complete bastard even if not sadistic, and I can respect that!! acting like if she is an antihero angel that is only mentally ill for fun or “not my fault” reasons but not for the ugly bad ones is pretty damn bad character portrait and writing, and don’t hodl any real value on my view, let her be the abuse survivor, but also abuse inflicter bastard villainess she was born to be!! DON’T DENY HER!!!!
