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Harley Quinn’s evolution tracks pretty well with the leftist incursion in media.
She started off extremely hot and crazy, which made her a popular villain with core comic fans - you know, straight dudes.
She was targeted by leftists precisely because she was hot and popular. They gradually started to desexualize the character, and then they flipped her to a hero - because women can’t be true villains.
Problem is she has no actual skills, powers, or assets as a hero. As a criminal, she was crazy and eager to break the law, which is basically all you need to be a criminal. As a hero, her primary attributes mean nothing. So they had to arbitrarily pump up her skill set and capabilities. Now she’s a typical girl boss - expert martial artist, trained in all weaponry, etc.
Final step: make her a mouthpiece for leftist ideology. First as a generic feminist power fantasy, then as a recipient of leftist lectures by characters with even more important identities.
You forgot that now they push her as a lesbian power-fantasy too... everywhere.
I attempt to avoid media that contains her, but now anytime I come across clips of games/shows/media of her interacting with another female, like Wonder Woman, there's always some comment about her lesbianism now.
It goes hard with the whole "Joker mistreated you, so now you'll live a better life with another woman". So it gave the rainbow cult yet someone else to overexpose in the media.
I forget but in the injustice games, didn't she join and get trained by Batman after Joker's death? That at least makes sense then.
Yeah it's annoying she became the talking piece for the left, hell Batman Beyond did a better conclusion to her story than any modern stuff