Abishai100
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I've always been a fan of Batman (DC Comics) and his ongoing strange 'crime-meditation contest' with the very elusive Harley Quinn, a criminally-insane 'mayhem-artist' of great aesthetic imagination (and mischief).
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HARLEY QUINN: Did you think Arkham Asylum could hold me?
BATMAN: This is the third time your broke out of Arkham...
HARLEY QUINN: I used to be a psychiatrist.
BATMAN: That's no license for what you do now!
Batman had this small conversation with the eccentric and evil Harley Quinn on the rooftop of Wayne Tower right after Harley Quinn broke out of Arkham Asylum, the center for the
incarceration/treatment of the criminally-insane in Gotham City. Harley used to be the respected psychiatrist Dr. Harleen Quinzel before the maniacal Joker 'seduced' her into becoming the 'mayhem artist' known as Harley Quinn. The Joker had been Batman's main nemesis, even though Gotham was 'flooded' with crazies/terrorists such as Poison Ivy (an eco-terrorist), Scarecrow (a fear-toxin wielding psychopath), and Two-Face (a rogue/fanatical vigilante). However, Harley Quinn challenged Batman's sense of ethics and values, since she was so darn 'poignant' about the anarchy of the modern city.
Harley Quinn was guilty of kidnapping the Gotham mayor's daughter (so Joker could hold her for ransom), planting smoke-bombs in the Gotham library, and yanking the brakes out of Gotham Police Department cop-cars, resulting in multiple (if non-fatal) car crashes. Arkham considered Harley Quinn one of its more 'symbolic' patients/in-mates, but the fact that she kept breaking out and resuming her criminal activities with the Joker made her a target for the crime-fighting Batman (who was actually/secretly the Gotham socialite/businessman Bruce Wayne, CEO of Wayne Industries). Batman was sometimes confused about what to do about the enigmatic and elusive Harley Quinn who was as attractive as she was insidious.
Batman tracked Harley Quinn this time from the rooftop of Wayne Tower (the main office-skyscraper of Wayne Industries located in the heart of Gotham's business district) into the more seedy parts of the city where Harley was developing a new 'factory' for the manufacturing of chemical-weapons being hand-made by the orphaned/homeless children of Gotham that Joker had corralled into the factory-building. When Batman broke into the secret factory, which appeared to be just the abandoned apartment-building once known as Gotham Rent, he saw numerous children making miniature smoke-bombs that could fit easily into the underside of cars. Batman also noticed Harley overseeing the children making the weapons.
HARLEY QUINN: I can't believe you followed me in here!
BATMAN: I tracked you as you hang-glided off Wayne Tower.
HARLEY QUINN: Well, welcome to Mr. Joker's 'factory.'
BATMAN: I'm taking you back to Arkham, Harley Quinn.
As Batman chased Harley around the factory floor while the stunned children watched, Harley slipped into a hole in the floor which led to a pipe-tunnel slide that led out to the back exit of the factory-building. She then ran down the alley behind the building as fast as she could, but Batman was right behind her. While Harley Quinn was faster on foot (running) than the larger Batman, Batman was able to keep pace just enough to keep her in view. Batman knew he couldn't keep chasing her on foot, so he decided to use his rope-gun to lasso her legs and trip her up before tackling her to the ground. Harley then swung herself around to pin Batman under her, but Batman had cuffed her foot to his arm.
HARLEY QUINN: You and I are an odd pair...
BATMAN: Yes, I fight crime while you invent it!
HARLEY QUINN: Now you have my foot cuffed to your arm.
BATMAN: I'm more resourceful than you anticipated...
HARLEY QUINN: Maybe so, but you're no match for the Joker!
BATMAN: Perhaps you and I have more in common than you think.
HARLEY QUINN: How's that?
BATMAN: Well, for one thing, we're both costumed freaks.
HARLEY QUINN: You dress like a man-bat, and I dress like a clown!
BATMAN: There're parallels...we both admire urban labyrinths.
HARLEY QUINN: That's true; but you're more of an 'idealist.'
BATMAN: I care about Gotham hygiene...that's all.
HARLEY QUINN: If I remained a psychiatrist, we'd be dating!
BATMAN: What if I told you I was actually Bruce Wayne?
HARLEY QUINN: The prominent socialite-businessman?
When Harley Quinn surmised that the argumentative Batman was being facetious and complex with her, she decided that his nifty suggestion (that if he were the Gotham socialite/businessman Bruce Wayne, they might've courted a 'relationship' had Harley remained the respected psychiatrist Dr. Quinzel) alluded to the real fact that Batman was good and Harley was pure evil. Harley realized that Batman only thought of her as a patient and Arkham in-mate and not as an 'intellectual rival' or gender-discussion 'provocateur.' Otherwise, Harley might've seriously considered courting someone like Batman who was obviously a Gotham man of 'great inventiveness.'
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HARLEY QUINN: Did you think Arkham Asylum could hold me?
BATMAN: This is the third time your broke out of Arkham...
HARLEY QUINN: I used to be a psychiatrist.
BATMAN: That's no license for what you do now!
Batman had this small conversation with the eccentric and evil Harley Quinn on the rooftop of Wayne Tower right after Harley Quinn broke out of Arkham Asylum, the center for the
incarceration/treatment of the criminally-insane in Gotham City. Harley used to be the respected psychiatrist Dr. Harleen Quinzel before the maniacal Joker 'seduced' her into becoming the 'mayhem artist' known as Harley Quinn. The Joker had been Batman's main nemesis, even though Gotham was 'flooded' with crazies/terrorists such as Poison Ivy (an eco-terrorist), Scarecrow (a fear-toxin wielding psychopath), and Two-Face (a rogue/fanatical vigilante). However, Harley Quinn challenged Batman's sense of ethics and values, since she was so darn 'poignant' about the anarchy of the modern city.
Harley Quinn was guilty of kidnapping the Gotham mayor's daughter (so Joker could hold her for ransom), planting smoke-bombs in the Gotham library, and yanking the brakes out of Gotham Police Department cop-cars, resulting in multiple (if non-fatal) car crashes. Arkham considered Harley Quinn one of its more 'symbolic' patients/in-mates, but the fact that she kept breaking out and resuming her criminal activities with the Joker made her a target for the crime-fighting Batman (who was actually/secretly the Gotham socialite/businessman Bruce Wayne, CEO of Wayne Industries). Batman was sometimes confused about what to do about the enigmatic and elusive Harley Quinn who was as attractive as she was insidious.
Batman tracked Harley Quinn this time from the rooftop of Wayne Tower (the main office-skyscraper of Wayne Industries located in the heart of Gotham's business district) into the more seedy parts of the city where Harley was developing a new 'factory' for the manufacturing of chemical-weapons being hand-made by the orphaned/homeless children of Gotham that Joker had corralled into the factory-building. When Batman broke into the secret factory, which appeared to be just the abandoned apartment-building once known as Gotham Rent, he saw numerous children making miniature smoke-bombs that could fit easily into the underside of cars. Batman also noticed Harley overseeing the children making the weapons.
HARLEY QUINN: I can't believe you followed me in here!
BATMAN: I tracked you as you hang-glided off Wayne Tower.
HARLEY QUINN: Well, welcome to Mr. Joker's 'factory.'
BATMAN: I'm taking you back to Arkham, Harley Quinn.
As Batman chased Harley around the factory floor while the stunned children watched, Harley slipped into a hole in the floor which led to a pipe-tunnel slide that led out to the back exit of the factory-building. She then ran down the alley behind the building as fast as she could, but Batman was right behind her. While Harley Quinn was faster on foot (running) than the larger Batman, Batman was able to keep pace just enough to keep her in view. Batman knew he couldn't keep chasing her on foot, so he decided to use his rope-gun to lasso her legs and trip her up before tackling her to the ground. Harley then swung herself around to pin Batman under her, but Batman had cuffed her foot to his arm.
HARLEY QUINN: You and I are an odd pair...
BATMAN: Yes, I fight crime while you invent it!
HARLEY QUINN: Now you have my foot cuffed to your arm.
BATMAN: I'm more resourceful than you anticipated...
HARLEY QUINN: Maybe so, but you're no match for the Joker!
BATMAN: Perhaps you and I have more in common than you think.
HARLEY QUINN: How's that?
BATMAN: Well, for one thing, we're both costumed freaks.
HARLEY QUINN: You dress like a man-bat, and I dress like a clown!
BATMAN: There're parallels...we both admire urban labyrinths.
HARLEY QUINN: That's true; but you're more of an 'idealist.'
BATMAN: I care about Gotham hygiene...that's all.
HARLEY QUINN: If I remained a psychiatrist, we'd be dating!
BATMAN: What if I told you I was actually Bruce Wayne?
HARLEY QUINN: The prominent socialite-businessman?
When Harley Quinn surmised that the argumentative Batman was being facetious and complex with her, she decided that his nifty suggestion (that if he were the Gotham socialite/businessman Bruce Wayne, they might've courted a 'relationship' had Harley remained the respected psychiatrist Dr. Quinzel) alluded to the real fact that Batman was good and Harley was pure evil. Harley realized that Batman only thought of her as a patient and Arkham in-mate and not as an 'intellectual rival' or gender-discussion 'provocateur.' Otherwise, Harley might've seriously considered courting someone like Batman who was obviously a Gotham man of 'great inventiveness.'
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