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He Who Fights Monsters: Batman criticizes Gordon's actions to bring in Harley and Ivy as being so destructive and terrifying to the normal people of Gotham that it makes him no better than they are. Card-Carrying Villain: All of the supervillains, from the main cast to the Legion of Doom, actively embrace their status as the bad guys and make it part of their public image. R-Rated Opening: The opening scene of the first episode showcases the Joker and Harley graphically and bloodily beating and murdering a boat full of wealthy people, dropping plenty of swears every few seconds. Immediate Sequel: The comic's opening is on the rooftop with Harley now with the Batfam who are swinging down on their lines with Harley left to curse at them and having to take the stairs down.
James Gunn voices himself in season 3, he also previously wrote and directed The Suicide Squad which featured both Harley Quinn and King Shark. In Season 3, she appeared at the scene of Joker's "robbery" at Gotham City Bank as a reporter for "GNN" when he made his surprising announcement that he was running for mayor. Sometime later she appeared at the premiere of A Hard Wayne's Gonna Fall at the Monarch Theater. Wingding Eyes: An incredible proportion of the panels where Harley looks at Ivy have her beaming with heart eyes. Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Harley and her coterie of supervillains really do care about each other (with Harley and Ivy having an on and off relationship), which goes a long way towards making them more likable despite being villains, as most of their enemies are just one dimensional bad guys with no humanizing traits.
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Contraception Deception: Harley talks about her girlhood crush on Frankie Muniz and admitted to Ivy that she had planned to lie about being on the pill so that she would have his kid. Ivy is understandably disturbed by that. Ruder and Cruder: This series uses a lot more profanity, violence, and mature themes than any other DC Animated Universe series or film. While most of the profanity is bleeped on television airings, some of the harsher swears are just barely censored.
Even the Girls Want Her: Not only does the "distracted boyfriend" meme show up when Harley and Ivy get dolled up to go to dinner, a female patron looks equally interested. While Batman is portrayed as The Comically Serious in this show, he's still The Dreaded among Gotham's supervillains for a reason; anytime Batman fights in this show, it's a one-sided beatdown in his favor. Harley gets trounced by Batman on live television, and Ivy is only able to briefly even the odds. Evil Power Vacuum: Season 2's main conflict is that the remaining villains took over Gotham after Joker's defeat. In Season 2, Commissioner Gordon in his crazed state demanded a codpiece that fires missiles. Bruce's reply was that it doesn't exist. Later on, when Batman fought Bane, his armored batsuit actually had a codpiece that fires missiles.Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic: Frequently averted, especially with Poison Ivy. Characters often stumble, stammer and interrupt themselves. He's brought up again in season 3, with Gordon considering his continued existence as proof that God doesn't exist. Batman, Wonder Woman, and Superman get hit with Poison Ivy's love pheromones (which could also turn them into trees) in "Lovers' Quarrel" as a setup for hilarity, along with the situation of how to give those three the antidote. But by the next episode, "The Runaway Bridesmaid", it went nowhere and seemed swept aside without payoff or mention. Frank the plant claims that the neighbor kid Ivy hired to keep her plants watered quit after a week, barfing up the kid's corpse a second afterwards. Country Matters: Dr. Psycho calls Wonder Woman the C-word during a fight (notably, it's the only obscenity in the show to be censored) and Poison Ivy remarks that Dr. Psycho has just made himself a pariah among the villain community. It's so bad that even the Earth briefly stops spinning.
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