It seems thatHarley Quinn’sorigin enshroud a secret that altogether flip out her classic story . The past catch up with Harley in a bad way when a villain tried to make her salary for a law-breaking she committed when she first met the Joker .

The story of Harley Quinn and the Joker is one any DC rooter knows by heart . When locked up in Arkham Asylum , the Joker was one day put under the care of psychiatrist Dr. Harleen Quinzel . Quinzel was sure that up - close , one - on - one dialogues with Gotham ’s most notorious criminal would make her career . But the studies becamean fixation with Joker , and before Harleen knew it , she was wholly smitten by the silverish tongue of the Clown Prince of Crime . The right doctor ditch her professional spirit and became Harley Quinn , the Joker ’s criminal partner and girlfriend , starting a young and tumultuous chapter in her life .

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But the story fans know by heart has a secret component that may change Harley for the worse . InHarley Quinn # 30by A.J. Lieberman and Mike Huddleston , Harley Quinn issue forth face - to - face with Owen Dane , a man who has been stringing Harley along in a bid for revenge . Dane kidnapsHarley Quinn and takesher to her apartment where he drugs Harley and place her in a half - fill tub . Before the drug take effect and drown her , Own reveals his reasoning for direct Harley . Apparently when she first decided to help Joker , Harley used explosive and blamed the escape attempt on an Arkham resident known as the Snowman , a bomb - fixated criminal . The incident caused Snowman to get an extra fifty years add up to his sentence , causing him to kick the bucket behind legal community in Arkham , far aside from his son .

This is a pretty intense Revelation of Saint John the Divine , true . There have beenchanges to Harley Quinn ’s originbefore , but few that have painted her as so frigid and destructive . Harley does n’t even to seem that bothered by the reveal , on the face of it joke with Dane about the event in hindsight . While the origin story of Harley is quite an unfortunate one , it seems that Harley is n’t as innocent as her background may hint .

Harley Quinn ’s origin is often regard as a tragedy that shows how someone can be score from a normal life to a darker path . While that still remains true , this glimpse into the past shows that Harley was n’t the only dupe of the story . Harley Quinn might havebeen take on advantage of by Joker repeatedly , but Harley pick out advantage of an unwilling party as well . Her decisions inadvertently shattered a syndicate forever and a day , and it did n’t even occur to her until years later that her actions had upshot . Does it make Harley a bad person that she ruined someone ’s living when she joined the Joker ? It for certain make her rootage murky and stimulate her a bit more morally complex to say the least . It ’s not a great look , butHarley Quinnwouldn’t be the first person in the DC Universe to have skeletons in her past .

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