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HashtagSEP posted...

I don't really think I'm a comic nerd at all, I know next to nothing that isn't in the movies. I just think the Harley character is kinda thin to basically be the center of three movies. Like somebody said, she's basically a meme machine instead of having actual depth, which was great at first but it's kinda wearing thin on me now.

I get why she has broad appeal, I'm just personally kinda over it.

Post-Joker Harley has depth but there's a catch that she relies on her supporting cast to express it. Her default state is that she's overconfident and self-centered which gets her into trouble she fights her way out of, which is fun for people to write. But you have to give her a conflict in her own desires to go against that. In BoP and TSS she simply doesn't have major reasons to care about the rest of the cast for most of the movie. I do think the scene mentioned earlier where she shoots the President does showcase some of her depth around her backstory but it's the only scene like that here. But I think she is less of a centerpiece to the movie than Elba and Ratcatcher so I think that's fine.

I dont think this issue is specific to Harley in the comics, but for adaptations she is weird because the most popular version of her character is the one that has already gone through character development. As opposed to like, Batman, where the most popular version of the character is the one that has undergone zero character development so every adaptation resets him to the edgy loner because people are FOOLS who prefer that to Batdad.

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