Learn more about the history of Joker and Harley Quinn’s relationship

Next Thursday, the 3rd, the film “Joker: Delírio a Dois”, a sequel to the award-winning feature film “Joker”, from 2019, starring Joaquin Phoenixand which will present the beginning of the relationship between the Clown Prince of Crime and his beloved Harley Quinn, played by Lady Gaga.

Although the new film is responsible for introducing the couple’s relationship into the franchise directed by Todd Phillipsthe case between Joker and Harley Quinn has been known in comics for years, being known for being extremely toxic and complicated.

If you still don’t know the duo’s trajectory, don’t worry, RECREIO introduces you.

The beginning

Harley Quinn was introduced in the comics in 1993, in issue number 12 of “The Batman Adventures”. With the name of Harleen Quinzel, the character appears as a newly hired psychologist at Arkham Asylum, who develops a special interest in Joker (or Joker, as he is known internationally), who was hospitalized there.

The woman ends up falling deeply in love with him after the man tells her about his unusual childhood, full of violence and abuse, causing her to come up with a plan to get him out of there, starting her career in crime alongside her lover.

With her new life, she abandons the name Harleen and becomes known only as Harley Quinn, or Harley Quinn, as she is known in Brazil, Joker’s right-hand man and his great love — at least in her head.

This is because, despite being completely in love with the Clown of Crime, the feeling was not exactly reciprocal and, many times, the villain put her in extremely dangerous situations just because he could no longer stand his partner.

In “Batman: Harley Quinn” (1999), for example, Joker decides to trap Harley Quinn in a missile and send her into space never to see her again, because, according to him, she would have made him remember what it was like to be a couple and care about someone, something that would be hindering him in his plans to conquer Gotham. Therefore, the only way to solve the problem would be to kill the partner.

Even with the frequent violence, Harley did not question the attitudes for a long time, as they believed they were just “jokes from a misunderstood genius”, as described on the official DC Comics website.

Harley Quinn was even jealous of Joker’s great archenemy: Batman. In the comic “Harley Quinn”, the character even admits to Batman himself that she is jealous of him because her lover cares more about him than about her, causing her to sometimes believe that the antagonist liked the hero more than he did. her.

Eventually, especially after Harley meets Poison Ivy, Harley Quinn manages to start moving away from Joker and following her own path, becoming part of groups such as the Gotham City Sirens and the Suicide Squad.