OverHarley Quinn ’s retiring few instalment , Ms. Quinzel ’s gotten a whole mess of things incredibly justly ( likefiguring out she ’s in love with Poison Ivy ) as well as receive even more things wrong ( like unleashing a undulation of parademons onto Gotham , plunging the already destroyed metropolis into even more bedlam ) . But becauseHarleen ’s a essentially good person , she understands how mad her action have been in the grander scheme of things .
As of now , Harley ’s come to the realization that she messed up big , and if Gotham and all its citizens are to be saved for her to terrorize another 24-hour interval , she has to be the one to unsex the mess she made . Or , at the very least , she has to be the one to eat up crow and team up with the only squad of hero capable of plow a full - on invasion from Apokoliptan noncitizen : the Justice League . The only problem is that late , every extremity save for Batman has been overleap .
That , in a way , was also Harley ’s error .
Harley and a not-so-pale man.Image: (DC Universe)
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With virtually all of her other options exhausted , “ A Fight Charles Frederick Worth Fighting For ” sees Harley do what was once unthinkable — she seeks out the Joker for a team - up for deal with the Apokolips US Army . The Justice League was n’t just escape , but rather still trammel somewhere in the pages of Queen of Fables ’ book of fairy tale , the localisation of which is only know to the Joker .
The big problem , however , is that following his confrontation with Batman in Harley Quinn ’s time of year one closing curtain , the Joker disappear … until suddenly pop up as a apparently amnesiac , but otherwise quite normal , man working as a bartender . How being inhume in a deal of debris reverses the impression of falling into a vat of baddie - making Zen is anyone ’s guess , but Harley quickly becomes confident that the Isle of Man ( who does n’t know who she is , but is familiar with her because she ’s famous ) was once her Puddin ’ .
Harley and the Joker being detained because what else is one supposed to do with them?Image: (DC Universe)
Though Harley ’s skill as a therapist could have almost certainly helped the mixologist solve through his memories organically , when he cite having pipe dream of something like a past life , she realizes that the most expedient means to get her hands on the fairytale book would just be to turn him back into his former self . It ’s something that trouble her deeply , as she for sure does n’t need the Joker back , but for the Gotham ’s rice beer , she involve him . As she labour him into a vat of acid in the very same building where he once push her , it ’s hard for her not to feel a modicum of compunction .
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When the bartender come forth from the loony toons , his hair is green , his skin is white , and that signature yack of the Joker bursts from his mouth as he revels in his rebirth . But his mind ’s also shoot down through with the memory board of what he ’s been up to for the preceding months : namely living a quaint life with his new wife Beth and her two children from a previous wedlock . Even though the Joker ’s immediate instinct when he comes face to face with Harley is to come down back on their sure-enough habit , they both know he ’s been changed in a deep way of life . Though just in case , Harley inform him that if he tries any funny business , she ’ll detonate a bomb calorimeter in his principal , and he agrees to conduct .
When the pair make their path to Beth ’s house , she of course only recognizes the man as the Joker . But that changes as he explains to her how they fall in love after she found him in the building ’s detritus and harbour him back to wellness , and how some of the children ’s fondest memories were of him reading bedtime story from the massive book Harley is reckon for . Beth ’s understandably desolate , but not by the fact that her beau was the Joker . She ’s hurt because he left her once and now seems fain to do it again , something he pretends to determine funny , though Harley can see that is n’t the case . In a paroxysm of rage , Beth cast away the book out of her sign of the zodiac at just the right angle for a flying Parademon to swoop in , grab it , and take it back to its beehive . It prompt the clowns to continue their journeying , and it ’s here that the episode really tilt into its more nuanced delineation .
Strange as Harley may retrieve the Joker ’s whole muckle , the entire experience of regaining his memories lead him with a new position on what it means to be in sexual love . The Joker explains that unlike Harley , who fell in love with him when he was already a note criminal , Beth fell for him when he was a nobody , and that authenticity of feeling became the fundamental principle of their emotional intimacy . The Joker also signal out that while he and Harley may have never had that sort of bail , he ’s well aware that she had it with Poison Ivy . The Joker ’s always been skilled at manipulating people by playing on their deepest insecurity and fears , but in that moment ( in a hive full of Parademons ) , what he ’s doing is being the same kind of therapist that Harley once was for him , and in doing so , helping her come to grips with the fact that she ’ll lose the woman she loves if she does n’t act upon up the courage to fight down for her in earnest .
Most surprisingly , though , is that when the pair do find the Holy Writ in the beehive , they realize it ’s not in reality the Queen of Fables ’ book , impel them to schlep all the room back to Beth ’s to call for for the tome again . Rather than laughing his room through his job this clock time , the Joker instead take to demo for Harley what it means to make a good religious belief effort for true dearest . He really wants Beth back , and she wants him .
As weird as it all is , it works if only for the fact that the Joker ’s always been driven more by his inmost desire . In this fount , said desire is regain the sort of felicity that kill Batman would probably never give him , and witnessing that is something that ’s going to put Harley on a way of life of firmness of purpose going forward .
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