3. After She Died She Tried To Get Psychiatric Help
Death doesn't mean anything in comic books. Batman himself has died and come back numerous times. Jean Grey of the X-Men's constant death and ressurection has almost become a running joke (and that Phoenix, as in rising from the ashes, thing is getting a bit tired). In light of all that, perhaps it's not surprising that Harley Quinn has suffered the same fate. Her story got fleshed out a lot in her first solo series, which involved her chilling with Poison Ivy in Metropolis before carking it soon after. As is the manner of superhero comics, she soon got resurrected by amorphous mysterious forces and went back to Gotham City, where she finally turned herself in. Unlike The Joker, who is widely believed to be beyond help after all, Harley started off as his psychiatrist and look where it got her that's still some rationality in Dr Quinzel's brain, and for a time she did seriously seek to reform herself, voluntarily being committed to Arkham Asylum for further treatment. Then Mr J shows up again and ruins the whole thing.
Tom Baker is the Comics Editor at WhatCulture! He's heard all the Doctor Who jokes, but not many about Randall and Hopkirk. He also blogs at http://communibearsilostate.wordpress.com/
