Despite the fact that she has a brain bomb in her head that allows Amanda Waller to dictate her every action, and that she's supposed to be either in Belle Reeve or on Suicide Squad missions.
I cannot understand, from an in-universe point of view, DC's treatment of Harley and how the other heroes react to her.
There was a Batgirl story where Harley had a "day off." She uses it to expose an evil techbro - and everyone around him - to a lethal, contagious bioweapon. Batgirl and some of her girlfriends hunt down the antidote. They have a great time, and say "let's do it again next year." (I think it was a Christmas issue.) Batgirl lets Harley wander off, suggesting that she'll check later to make sure Harley gets back to Waller and Belle Reeve.
Batgirl, brilliant detective, never checked to see if Harley was actually granted a "day off." A day off which makes no sense, since Harley might use it to try to kill one or more people - and did try! Batgirl never checked to see if the bioweapon was real, either - if it was, then that's some pretty serious charges of attempted mass murder and terrorism right there. And what if Harley never does go back to Waller? What if she found a way to circumvent the brain bomb and escape in the first place (which makes more sense than a "day off")? What's Batgirl going to do then? She let Harley leave.
Harley has a narrative distortion field that makes all the heroes who encounter her act entirely out of character. They act like she's charming and cute and a little mischievous, rather than someone with a long-established history of being a sociopathic murderer. If Two-Face had really large breats and showed a lot of skin, he'd be so much better off!
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I hope so. The last time he worked on it though (to my knowledge, I don't know if he did much with it after the lead up to IC?) with these general incarnations of the characters, he whiffed.
"They can be a great people Kal-El, they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you. My only son." - Jor-El
This is true, it was just the method of doing it that bothered me. I would have liked it if it were a situation where you could see all sides of the disagreement, but in the end all it turned out being in my mind was Diana being singled out by a douchebag Batman and a staggeringly unappreciative Superman. It was awful characterization. But I guess who knows if we'll ever know who crafted that reason.
Either way I just hope whatever is bothering Wonder Woman here is something that can be tackled by both friends with respect and understanding, even if they inherently disagree about what Superman did or whatever.
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"They can be a great people Kal-El, they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you. My only son." - Jor-El
Has no one mentioned Mongul's "Earth will be my toilet" line, LOL why does Bendis write like this