Will the real Harley Quinn please stand up!
Harley used to be such a great character. And her relationship with the joker was so entertaining, because in a very sick and twisted way, the joker actually cared for her. Not in the conventional sense of the word, the way one would care for his mother or sibling or partner. But in a very selfish way, Joker did care for the attention Harley gave him. And that gave a different dynamic to the character. Something other than his obsession with Batman.
And now? Well now, Harley Quinn is just kinda there...
She's just a quirky hipster version of what she once was.
I tried reading her solo series one time and barely got through a full story ark. It was just too much for me. Really who reads this stuff? What is the target audience? And what's up with the talking beaver?
But anyway...
It just kinda ruined her.
Harley Quinn never really went insane. She consciously and knowingly put on the act of the "ditzy girlfriend"
Which mean she was fully aware of all the atrocities she helped joker commit, but went along with it anyway. That alone makes her ever worse than the joker himself! My point is she is not a good person. She's not a hero, not even an antihero. She's a cold blooded killer. She's as bad as they come.
The whole idea behind Harley in the first place was to give the joker a female counterpart. A another sidekick.
Why does she need to be anything more? Without the joker Harley just loses her incentive to be Harley.
And can't broken characters just be broken. She was never meant to be anyone's role model. So why change her?
I would really like to hear your guys opinions on this.