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Warning : contains spoilers forSuicide Squad : blaze away # 3 !
It is no secret thatHarley Quinn ’s great rival has been and seemingly always will be theJoker , as the villain ’s physical and psychological abuse changed the path of her life perpetually . However , there is another likely nemesis that is actually a way well fit for Harley than the Joker , and DC try it with Quinn ’s impassioned last battle .
Before she became Harley Quinn , Doctor Harleen Quinzel was a psychiatrist at Arkham Asylum who was assigned the daunting job of working with the Joker . Rather than Harleen helping the Joker fit in with the quietus of society , Joker land Harleen down to his degree of brutal criminality . For a while , Harley Quinn was Joker ’s number twoas she would come his lead on a figure of schemes throughout their shared history . However , Joker was heavily opprobrious towards Harley and finally she settle to never go back to him after he left her for dead one too many times - an emancipation that madeHarley Quinn and the Joker acrimonious enemies . However , it ’s exactly this past that hold Joker a poor nemesis for Harley to revisit , as escaping his influence is one of the defining moments of her spirit .
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InSuicide Squad : blaze out # 3by Simon Spurrier and Aaron Campbell , Amanda Waller ’s liveliness begins to crumble after trying to hold in an entity of god - like power with absolutely no regard for human biography . Early in the series , Waller tasked the Suicide Squad with bewitch this mysterious power as Waller wanted to rein it for her own welfare . However , that chain of events led to the death of near every member of the Suicide Squad , as well as the tragic death of the total Justice League . By the end of the concluding issue , the remainingmembers of the Suicide Squad- include Harley Quinn - determine they have nothing leave to lose and snipe Waller along with her entire section . Harley Quinn has the honor of fight Waller personally , and the series ends with both Quinn and Waller lying dead next to one another .
While this story is outdoors of the main DC persistence as it is part of the Black Label imprint , the rivalry between Amanda Waller and Harley Quinn needs more attention in DC ’s select canon as it makes room more horse sense than the Joker being Harley ’s nemesis . The only way for Harley Quinn to formally flap the Joker is by abridge him out of her life completely , which is a moral force that is not sustainable for a true rivalry . Plus theJoker is already Batman ’s arch foe , so Harley would always be play 2nd fiddle to the Caped Crusader .
Waller , on the other hand , is the perfect antithesis of Harley , which would make their contention that much more entertaining . Not only that , but the two share a late - settle history due to Harley Quinn ’s involvement with the Suicide Squad . Throughout every encounter Harley has ever had with Waller , Amanda has tried to manipulate her , unremarkably with the threat of abomb in Harley ’s head word . fundamentally , Waller is re - victimizing Harley by force her to give up control over her own life story - something Harley worked too severely to clear after breaking by from the Joker .
That threat of being turned into someone else ’s puppet after fighting for her exemption is the staring set up - off point for Amanda Waller being Harley Quinn ’s arch foeman . Waller is the ultimate control freak , and Harley is the ultimate rebel , so if the two were n’t so mesh in their common , one - sidedSuicide Squadstatus quo , there is no telling what form of epical tales could be told surrounding their rivalry . From their partake in chronicle to the fact that they ’re complete opposite word , Suicide Squad : BlazeAmanda Waller would be the perfect nemesis forHarley Quinn , drawing on her history withJokerwithout bringing him back to repeat it .
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