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Harley Quinn Is About To Be DC's Wolverine, Isn't She?

Published Thu, 07 May 2015 07:15:55 -0500

Wolverine was created as a Canadian side character for The Incredible Hulk, was grabbed for an international version of the X-Men, survived threats to be killed off in that title because the artist was Canadian, launched an ongoing series and slowly grew in prominence, as the audience began to prefer their characters on the grimdark side, to become one of Marvels most popular character, challenging Spider-Man for the top spot. And then the X-Men films launched, found a whole new audience portrayed by Hugh Jackman, two spin-off movies and replacing Kitty Pryde in the lead for X-Men: Days Of Future Past.

Now take Harley Quinn. First introduced as an animated sidekick for The Joker, she was grabbed for other books as well getting her own title, rising in sales until her new solo title outsells everything at DC Comics but the main Batman title.

She is in toys, games, back in cartoons again and there is so much cosplay of her, you might as well just have Harley Quinn cosplay events and be done with it.

And now she's appearing in the upcoming Suicide Squad movie, played by Margot Robbie.

Warner Bros have laid out their upcoming plans for DC Comics-based movies for the next few years. It does seem, based on fan response that there is a Suicide Squad Origins: Harley Quinn hole in that schedule.