Now that she's on her own and began her new solo adventures, Harley Quinn has officially become an antihero. She now tries to do the right thing and to be a better person, often with the help of the other antiheroes or villains who stick by her.
But it's not always easy to do the right thing, especially as she lives in the town with the highest crime rate in the nation and after her difficult, traumatic past. Her character continuously goes, indeed, through excessive mood swings that alternate between destruction and tenderness. This instability is one of her most defining traits and it gets perfectly adapted in her current animated series; read below to see the best scenes that depict this unbalance.
10 Hero: Saving Gotham's Local University
In the second episode of the second season, "Riddle U", Harley is busy carrying on her risky plan of getting rid of all of Gotham's criminals and supervillains, who were splitting up the city's territories during No Man's Land. She manages to capture the Riddler with Ivy and Barbara Gordon's help, accordingly setting free the college students imprisoned in Nygma's university. She does the right thing in the right way, moreover, she and Ivy also contribute to Batgirl's birth, as their team-up inspired her.
9 True Villain: Chose To Jump In The Ace Chemicals' Vat
Harley's brain freezes after a harsh identity crisis in the fifth episode of the first season, "Being Harley Quinn." To help her out of that state, Dr. Psycho leads the crew into Harley's mind and, after exploring some of her most painful experiences (among which her abusive relationship with the Joker), they get to the memory where she's supposed to jump into Ace Chemicals' vat. When the time comes, she willingly jumps in the vat despite the assumption that Joker had forced her by pushing her in it; it shows that she had chosen to be a criminal and didn't need Joker to force her to become one. This version's also faithful to classic Harley Quinn's origin story, where she chooses to help Joker escape from Arkham Asylum.
8 Hero: Helping Kite Man Find A Ring For Ivy
In the third episode of the second season, "Catwoman," Harley, Ivy, Cat, and Kite Man aim to steal a flamethrower to use it as a weapon against Mr. Freeze. The group splits up in the process, as Kite Man's real goal is to find the perfect ring to propose to his beloved girlfriend, Ivy.
Initially, Quinn is still jealous and unapproving, but she eventually warms up as he proves to be sincerely in love with her. The jester realizes that she'd be selfish if she didn't let Ivy be happy with someone else. For once, she stops being selfish and puts someone else's needs before her own; choosing to be happy for Ivy is part of her improvement.
7 True Villain: Setting Queen Of Fables Free
In the seventh episode of the first season, "The Line," Harley causes a lot of trouble. In an attempt to impress the Legion Of Doom, she recruits one of the cruelest villains she had ever heard of, Queen Of Fables. She eventually learns her lesson at the end of the episode, but she still knowingly teamed up with her with no second thoughts and aware of what she was getting into, despite Ivy's warnings. The usual fake-naïve act doesn't save her face for this one, as she caused the violent death of numerous citizens because of her desperate need to get the attention of even worse villains.
6 Hero: Bringing Joker Back To Save The City
Harley puts the well-being of other people before hers once again in the 11th episode of the second season, "A Fight Worth Fighting For", she has to swallow her pride and bring the Joker back "to life" by pushing him into the chemicals' vat again, despite her hatred for him. To save the world (and Ivy), she has to collaborate with one of the people who hurt her the most and she does that with no second thoughts.
5 True Villain: Destroying Gotham With Apokolips' Army
In "Inner Parademons", the 8th episode of season 2, Harley goes completely crazy and villainous. After kissing and being rejected by Ivy, she tries to distract and cover-up for her feelings by starting a war—not such a healthy way to cope with it. Thus, once again, people have to die and half of the city has to be destroyed for Harley to change her mind and being calmed down by Ivy.
Her actions in this episode shouldn't be looked over, especially since she confronted Darkseid and caused death, violence, and destruction out of romantic feelings that she didn't fully comprehend—after all, she does have things in common with the Joker.
4 Hero: Not Giving Up Even When No One Believes In Her
Harley is almost completely alone, in the last four episodes of season 2. Chaos is taking over Gotham, the woman she loves is getting married to Kite Man, and the crew isn't as united as it used to be—especially because Dr. Pyscho betrayed her and the group. After the Parademons episode, she has to make up for her mistakes, but Dr. Psycho and his army have other plans for her. Even when alone, or in the company of her abusive ex, and no one believes in her (not even Ivy), she's fixated on doing the right thing: saving Gotham.
3 True Villain: Betraying Her Friends
The ninth episode of season 1, "A Seat At The Table", is so far one of most the accurate and special ones. Harley has finally achieved her goal of being accepted into the Legion Of Doom, which gets her closer to Joker again.
As usual, she starts getting fond of Joker and his criminal lifestyle once again; accordingly, she overlooks her friends and their accomplishments as a group. She only realized what a bad friend she was when Joker used her to escape, leaving her alone one more time.
2 Hero: Defeating Joker
The tables turn in the first season's finale, "The Final Joke", as Joker is the one to chase after Harley, this time. After conquering the city and getting the upper hand on Batman, all that he is missing is, surprisingly, his beloved Harlequin. He offers her what she always wanted, to be in a relationship and be the city's power couple. After everything he did to her, it's too late and too little, and Harley finally acknowledges that as she refuses his offer and firmly takes him down.
1 True Villain: Going On A Killing Spree Of Criminals
After that first finale, Harley became more powerful, but not essentially better. She learned new values, but her decision of going after every Gotham's criminal is based on selfishness and rivalry, rather than compassion or duty. So she goes after every villain, one by one, from the first episode of season 2 on. She causes a lot of damage and pain (like to Mr. Freeze's wife, Nora, in the episode "Thawing Hearts"), even though most of the lives she takes away are of criminals most of what she's doing is to gain more power.
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