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    The DC Comics Universe Is Ready for a Rebound

    In <em>Birds of Prey</em>, both Harley Quinn and the studio behind her are reckoning with past mistakes.
    by David Sims Feb 06, 2020 3 minutes
    Source: Warner Bros.

    “Me and the Joker? We broke up,” Harley Quinn (played by Margot Robbie) tells the camera early on in , Cathy Yan’s new DC Comics–inspired film. This announcement of a plot point is also something of a mission statement—a declaration that Harley’s new adventure (subtitled ) will be quite different from her last. The cartoonish, Brooklyn-accented, mallet-wielding supervillain is still a cheerful agent of chaos, but she’s no longer shackled to the Batman nemesis who launched her to fame. , in short, will be.

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