Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Could Be a Sequel for Arkhamverse's Harley Quinn
Rocksteady may have selected Harley Quinn, Deadshot, Captain Boomerang, and King Shark as its Task Force X inSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice League for multiple reasons. But as part of the Arkhamverse, its decision to feature Harley and Deadshot, in particular, comes with some unavoidable narrative baggage that Rocksteady will have to address. For example, Floyd Lawton bears a starkly different appearance from how fans may remember him looking in Batman: Arkham City, which Rocksteady addressed once in a tweet.
However, there is much more narrative weight to Harley’s inclusion in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. Fans who have played through Rocksteady’s Batman: Arkham franchise will already know a lot about the Arkhamverse’s Harley and her history in Gotham. Harley’s insight on past events may pertain to unique Easter eggs about the Arkhamverse that fans know and love, and her perspective will be interesting depending on how far ahead in the canon Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is after the definitive conclusion of Batman: Arkham Knight.
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The Arkhamverse is composed of different media and games, but as for its principle tetralogy from Rocksteady and WB Games Montreal, Harley is a recurring character who makes an important narrative impact. In Batman: Arkham Asylum, Harley is treated poorly by both Joker and Batman, with Batman even going as far as to say that Harley “never was very bright.” This is a strange sentiment seeing as how Harley is an educated psychiatrist, but Rocksteady had seemingly written Harley to be more scatterbrained and rambunctious. Harley is never a serious threat to Batman, and he takes to her antics incredibly lightly, which
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