Even if my superhero fatigue is not as much of a problem in the less supernatural DC universe, I'm likely not the target audience for most comic book adaptations. I've almost never read a comic and if I ever went to Comic Con, I would act like an anthropologist who was treating the setting like a field mission.
Still, the rogue's gallery of Batman has always been delightfully campy and fun, and it has been interesting to see a variety of film makers provide their own take on this material.
Since Suicide Squad (a horrible movie for every element outside of her), it's been a pretty open secret that the most fun character in Batman lore is Harley Quinn, and the potential has always been there for a buddy comedy between her and Poison Ivy. I even remember watching the animated series of the 90s and having a particular fondness for that episode as a kid.
The show takes place in Harley Quinn's post-Joker break-up, with many of the rogues like Penguin, Bane, and Two-Face taking the clown prince's side. As a result, Quinn forms her own band of fighters (I'm hesitant to call them villains, because the good/evil, chaotic/neutral paradigm in this universe seems very odd).
They're strangely voiced by Tony Hale and Jason Alexander, so it takes one out of it to hear George Costanza and Buster Bluth as menacing thugs. They're more like the 90s X-Men who revel in cutesy puns and squabbling as they fight.
Still, the rogue's gallery of Batman has always been delightfully campy and fun, and it has been interesting to see a variety of film makers provide their own take on this material.
Since Suicide Squad (a horrible movie for every element outside of her), it's been a pretty open secret that the most fun character in Batman lore is Harley Quinn, and the potential has always been there for a buddy comedy between her and Poison Ivy. I even remember watching the animated series of the 90s and having a particular fondness for that episode as a kid.
The show takes place in Harley Quinn's post-Joker break-up, with many of the rogues like Penguin, Bane, and Two-Face taking the clown prince's side. As a result, Quinn forms her own band of fighters (I'm hesitant to call them villains, because the good/evil, chaotic/neutral paradigm in this universe seems very odd).
They're strangely voiced by Tony Hale and Jason Alexander, so it takes one out of it to hear George Costanza and Buster Bluth as menacing thugs. They're more like the 90s X-Men who revel in cutesy puns and squabbling as they fight.