He found his muse in Sorkin, a dear college friend whose “screwball persona would be a good contrast to the Joker’s dangerous insanity,” he told Vulture. Paul Dini had the blueprints for the Joker’s henchwoman and needed inspiration to bring the manic pixie nightmare to life. Voiced by Jewish-American comedian Arleen Sorkin for 20 years, Harley was supposed to be a one-off character, but quickly became an unlikely fan favorite as the Joker’s court-jester girlfriend and sidekick. Harleen Frances Quinzell of deep Brooklyn first entered the scene a little over 25 years ago in Batman: The Animated Series. Let’s take a look at Harley Quinn in canon, and why the Jewish erasure of this queer, morally questionable, vivacious, and beloved by millions character pisses me the freak off. So far, the two seasons have proved to be nothing but bad for the Jews.īut I’m getting ahead of myself.
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Villainy aside, I expected DC’s raunchy animated series to make explicit that the bisexual, feminist, ball-busting icon is a proud Jew. But not only did it take 10 episodes for the mostly Jewish writers’ room to hint at Harley’s Jewishness, there are anti-Semitic tropes abound throughout the show. Following the erasure of Harley’s religious and cultural roots in the movies Suicide Squad and Birds of Prey, the new Harley Quinn animated series botched a golden opportunity for representation in pop culture.
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