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The old animated series. That's it really, just the lingering sense of when the character was created and actually interesting.
The proverbial they seized her as a girl power trope, but when she was created she was actually a female simp.
In the old animation, it actually looked like she was more Stockholm syndrome confused as love and actually might go with Batman over the Joker eventually.
Think there was a comic based on that, White Knight?
Ehhh I dunno about that. That was the era where Catwoman was the front and center love interest, with Ivy making the podium as well.
I vaguely remember some chick reporter as a blatant allegory to Lois Lane, but given that I can't even remember her name I doubt it mattered.
Harley has numerous moments in TAS where she clearly is at least interested in Batman AND Bruce Wayne on at least a basic level.
He doesn't even entertain the idea for a second so she was never in the running, but it also made her come across more as a broken girl with that tiny remnant of a normal one still in her somewhere.
Catwoman/Batman is the main love match but the 4th contender seemed to be Harley after Barbara Gordon and Talia.
Of course this is going of the older animations/ animated films I watched, got no clue nowadays.
Nah, as Kaarous mentioned, even Ivy came up closer than Harley. Harley had some interest in Batman -- or rather, Harley seemed a bit man crazy for anyone she found interesting.
Batman showed interest first and foremost in Catwoman, then Talia, and then Ivy. He treated Barbara more like a surrogate daughter, and Harley like the crazy nympho you keep at arms length.