Harley Quinn

After Dark Knight came out, I figured there'd be alot of stylized Harley Quinns popping up all over the place in effort to make her look more suitable to Christopher Nolan's concept of Gotham. Well... I'm sad to say that I'm a little disappointed. What everyone seems to think is that cyberpunk equals psychopath. While some of these designs are really kind of cool, it's just not how I think Harley Quinn should be treated. She's a psychologist, people, not some tweenager who suddenly decides to go from average pedestrian to Hot Topic robbing fangirl from hell. She's smart, she's professional, she got her PhD at a really young age... and really? If she's going to crack and become a gun toting character, I don't think she's going down the route of Insane Clown Posse. I tried doing something akin to the cyberpunk look before this, but it didn't look right. Then I realized... what do successful professionals DO when they have a psychotic breakdown? They become Patrick Bateman from American Psycho. You couldn't tell by looking at him that he liked to chase girls down naked with chainsaws. Or Hannibal Lecter, who would guess he was a cannibal? Even the Joker in DK isn't all THAT obnoxiously characteristic. If he didn't wear makeup, he'd look just like a mob stooge, and Harley Quinn would follow in his footsteps. So... here is my rendition of the clown princess, complete with scars. I figure Mr J would mark his territory in like fashion. Take a lesson from true psychopaths, my darlings, the majority aren't cyberpunks.

Harley Quinn is copyrighted to DC, this design based on Christopher Nolan's 'The Dark Knight'.