Gotham Knights might have the most interesting slant on Harley Quinn we've seen yet
From the outside, Blackgate Penitentiary looks like any other correctional facility you've seen before. Its trigger-happy guards patrol its perimeter, and will freely gun down trespassers on sight. Its towering masonry walls are unscalable, even for the Batgirl, and its chain-link fences are lined with barbed wire. Several blinding searchlights sweep up and down the yard that links the outside world to the front entrance, and so, in order to access the imposing prison as it appears in Gotham Knights, I guide Barbara Gordon past the barricades through an underground tunnel. And from the inside, Blackgate Penitentiary looks nothing like any other correctional facility you've seen before.
That's because Harley Quinn is in residence, which means railings adorned with makeshift toilet paper decorations, bunches of multicolored party balloons floating the height of five-story cell blocks, bonfires occupying communal areas, and brainwashed escapee prisoners answering her every whim and spray painting her name on the walls. Clearly the rules don't apply here. And, after going face-to-face with the one-time Joker protege deep within the bowels of Blackgate, the same can be said of how WB Games Montreal has chosen to interpret Harleen Frances Quinzel in Gotham Knights.
With Batman dead, The Joker gone, and the Suicide Squad off doing other things, Harley Quinn could have turned her back on crime – as much is hinted at before making this pilgrimage to Blackgate. With that, she could have disappeared. She could have sided with another of Gotham City's many unhinged antagonists, living once more in someone else's shadow. But instead, she's doubled down to become the star of this twisted show.
"That character, as a pop culture icon,
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