History Recap / DeathBattleS09E01HarleyQuinnVSJinx

* TakeThat: During Harley's rundown, Wiz delves into her background as a psychiatrist at Arkham Asylum analyzing the Joker, where she learns of his "horrific, unspeakable history" as both a homicidal clown and [[Creator/JaredLeto Jared]] [[Film/SuicideSquad Leto]]. Cue a shot of Leto screaming as the Joker.

* MoodWhiplash: From the moment Harley's prize is destroyed by a stray shot from Fishbones, the battle is a combination of fast-paced action and ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''-esque comedy. That is, until Jinx's psychosis kicks into high gear, and she wastes no time slaughtering Harley in a frightening fit of madness. Her voice even goes from cheery and mischievous like Creator/SarahWilliams to menacing and deranged ala Creator/EllaPurnell.

'''Jinx''': Hmm... nah.

* BreakingOldTrends: Neither rundown ends with the combatant in question delivering a notable quote and/or performing an impressive feat.
* BrokenWinLossStreak: This is the first matchup between a DC character and a non-Marvel character in which the DC character loses.

* TheBusCameBack: A meta example. In the post fight analysis, a card showing the fighters advantages and disadvantages shows up, something that hasn’t been seen since season 1.

* BaitAndSwitch: At the end of the fight, once Jinx has Harley cornered, it seems like she's going to pull off the same trick that Joker did and shock Jinx to death with her joybuzzer. However, Jinx doesn't take the bait and kills Harley right then and there.

* GravityIsAHarshMistress: While fighting over Jinx’s rift generator on a roller coaster, the constant warping derails the coaster and flings the two from the cart, leaving them hanging in midair for a second before falling down.
-->'''Jinx''': Well, that’s unfortunate.

->'''Wiz:''' Harley Quinn, DC's fantabulous anti-hero.\\
'''Boomstick:''' Jinx, the loose cannon of League of Legends.\\

'''''FIGHT!'''''

'''''K.O.!'''''

%%We open in a creepy abandoned fairground where Harley Quinn has won a teddy bear after successfully completing the "Test Your Strength" challenge. As she's about to leave, however, a flock of crows flies past her before they get blown up by a rocket that was fired by Jinx's Fishbones rocket launcher. As she tries shooting more crows, one of her missiles ends up hitting Harley Quinn's prize. After both girls state that they love making stuff blow up, Harley Quinn decides to kill Jinx by trying to shoot her head off with her popgun.

%%'''FIGHT!'''

%%Jinx and Harley begin shooting at each other with their weapons, with Jinx managing to kill another crow with her rocket launcher, but Harley manages to shoot a cork that rebounds off the "Test Your Strength" bell and hits Jinx in the back before exploding, sending her towards the mad psychiatrist. Harley capitalizes on this by hitting her blue-haired opponent into the ground with her big mallet. Before she can smash her again, though, Jinx uses her teleporter to warp behind her.

%%Jinx pretends that Fishbones is on Harley's side and warning her that her opponent is behind her. Harley is grateful for the warning until Jinx fires another missile at her, which she narrowly avoids before chastising Fishbones for the sudden betrayal. Harley swings her mallet at Jinx some more until it's taken away from her. She then puts on some Groucho Marx glasses and asks Jinx if she can light her cigar, which is actually a stick of dynamite.

%%Jinx obliges and fires another rocket at Harley, who uses the flame to light the dynamite in her mouth. She then takes off her joke glasses and sticks the dynamite into Jinx's mouth before kicking her away. Jinx, still holding the dynamite in her mouth, laughs and swings Harley's own mallet at her until she kicks it upwards. Annoyed, Harley Quinn uses her gun to trap Jinx in some confetti that ties her up and then regains her hammer, which she uses to knock Jinx into a merry-go-round. Jinx gets back up and, still tied up, manages to avoid Harley's hammer strikes which end up hitting the horses.

%%We then see that both girls are running anti-clockwise on the merry-go-round and getting nowhere fast. Jinx eventually bounces off one of the horses and knocks Harley backwards, then uses her Phantom Dancer to free herself from the confetti and then fires her Zappershot at Harley. Dodging the shots, Harley tries to attack Jinx with her stretching boxing glove, but Jinx avoids the glove and places the stick of dynamite that she has been holding in her mouth into the glove. Harley's boxing glove returns holding the dynamite, thus bringing it up to her face.

%%The resulting explosion destroys the merry-go-round, but Jinx escapes by riding Fishbones through the air. She lands in a rollercoaster, only to find Harley Quinn sitting next to her and holding onto her teleportation device to see if it has any games on it. Angry about her save files being tampered with, Jinx begins to fight with Harley over the device, causing it to send them to many different locations until they return to the fairground where their rollercoaster is launched up into the air. Both girls find themselves suspended in mid-air with most of their weapons flying away.

%%Both Jinx and Harley Quinn end up falling into a tent which houses the Hall of Mirrors where Jinx sees a large box that is filled with the Joker's laughing gas which instantly makes Jinx remember her past as she punches a mirror that resembles her sister, Vi. Jinx pulls out her Pow-Pow minigun and uses it to shoot the mirrors that Harley runs around to hide behind. The Joker's lover tries to attack Jinx from behind with her baseball bat, but Jinx grabs the bat and, with her Quicksilver Sash cancelling out the effects of the gas, knocks Harley backwards and unloads her minigun into her chest before kicking her out of the tent and into the hammer game.

%%As Jinx approaches her downed opponent, Harley prepares her joy buzzer and tries to convince Jinx to get in closer to try and savor her emotions before her death. Unfortunately for the psychiatrist, Jinx is not interested and instead opts to shoot her with her Super Mega Death Rocket. The missile carries Harley Quinn high into the air where it soon explodes, spelling out the message "Get Jinxed". Jinx does a peace sign at the camera as Harley's head manages to ring the "Test Your Strength" bell.

%%'''KO!'''

%%With Harley Quinn's destruction, the hosts prepare to talk about the first post-fight analysis of the season. Harley did have more experience fighting superpowered beings as well as superior training, but Jinx's physical strength and wide array of weapons and gadgets gave her the edge. While Harley Quinn was able to lift 1,200 pounds, Jinx is almost on the same level as Vi, whose gauntlets weigh 8 times Harley Quinn's tree-lifting feat. Even though Harley was more acrobatic, Jinx's Hextech and intangibility easily countered her mobility, especially as Jinx can use her teleporting tablet to warp herself and Harley just about anywhere in the universe. Also, while Harley Quinn does have a healing factor, she has never been able to regenerate entire body parts, meaning that a big enough explosion would definitely kill her, and Jinx had enough firepower to do just that. Lux's magic explosion would have required a yield of about 20 kilotons of TNT in order to destroy 13,000 tons of rock. Harley and Jinx were both intelligent women, but Jinx is less likely to trust people she has only just met, meaning that Harley's mind games would likely not have worked on her as Jinx is more likely to shoot people before trusting them. Finally, even though Harley had a wide arsenal of chemicals like the Joker Venom that would kill most opponents in minutes, Jinx has built up a bigger tolerance for poison than any normal human being due to living her life in Zaun, as well as the Quicksilver Sash that can simply end any sort of poisonous effects on her.

%%-->'''Boomstick:''' Harley clowned around only to get her bell rung by someone out of her league!\\

%%We then see that both girls are running anti-clockwise on the merry-go-round and getting nowhere fast. Jinx eventually bounces off one of the horses and knocks Harley backwards, then uses her Phantom Dancer to free herself from the confetti and then fires her Zappershot at Harley. Dodging the shots, Harley tries to attack Jinx with her stretching boxing glove, but Jinx avoids and places the stick of dynamite that she has been holding in her mouth into the glove. Harley's boxing glove returns holding the dynamite, thus bringing it up to her face.

%%Jinx and Harley begin shooting at each other with their weapons, but Harley manages to shoot a cork that rebounds off the "Test Your Strength" bell and hits Jinx in the back before exploding, sending her towards the mad psychiatrist. Harley capitalizes on this by hitting her blue-haired opponent into the ground with her big mallet. Before she can smash her again, though, Jinx uses her teleporter to warp behind her.

%%Jinx and Harley begin shooting at each other with their weapons, but Harley manages to shoot a cork that rebounds off the "Test Your Strength" bell and hits Jinx in the back before exploding. Harley capitalizes on this by hitting her blue-haired opponent into the ground with her big mallet. Before she can smash her again, though, Jinx uses her teleporter to warp behind her.

%%Both Jinx and Harley Quinn end up falling into a tent which houses the Hall of Mirrors where Jinx sees a large box that is filled with the Joker's laughing gas which instantly makes Jinx remember her past as she punches a mirror that resembles her sister, Vi. Jinx pulls out her Pow-Pow minigun and uses it to shoot the mirrors that Harley runs around to hide behind. The Joker's lover tries to attack Jinx from behind with her baseball bat, but Jinx grabs the bat and, with her Quicksilver Sash cancelling out the effects of the gas, knocks Harley backwards and unloads her minigun into Her chest before kicking her out of the tent and into the hammer game.

%%The resulting explosion destroys the merry-go-round, but Jinx escapes by riding Fishbones through the air. She lands in a rollercoaster, only to find Harley Quinn sitting next to her and holding onto her teleportation device to see if it has any games on it.

%%Both Jinx and Harley Quinn end up falling into a Hall of Mirrors where Jinx sees a large box that is filled with the Joker's laughing gas which instantly makes Jinx remember her past as she punches a mirror that resembles her sister, Vi. Jinx pulls out her Pow-Pow minigun and uses it to shoot the mirrors that Harley runs around to hide behind. The Joker's lover tries to attack Jinx from behind with her baseball bat, but Jinx grabs the bat and, with her Quicksilver Sash cancelling out the effects of the gas, knocks Harley backwards and unloads her minigun into Her chest before kicking her out of the tent and into the hammer game.

%%Jinx obliges and fires another rocket at Harley, who uses the flame to light the dynamite in her mouth. She then takes off her joke glasses and sticks the dynamite into Jinx's mouth before kicking her away. Jinx, still holding the dynamite in her mouth, laughs and swings Harley's own mallet at her until she kicks it upwards.

%%Both Jinx and Harley Quinn end up falling into a Hall of Mirrors where Jinx sees a large box that is filled with the Joker's laughing gas which instantly makes Jinx remember her past as she punches a mirror that resembles her sister, Vi. Jinx pulls out her minigun and uses it to shoot the mirrors that Harley runs around to hide behind. The Joker's lover tries to attack Jinx from behind with her baseball bat, but Jinx grabs the bat and, with her Quicksilver Sash cancelling out the effects of the gas, knocks Harley backwards and unloads her minigun into Her chest before kicking her out of the tent and into the hammer game.

%%Jinx pretends that Fishbones is on Harley's side and warning her that her opponent is behind her. Harley is grateful for the warning until Jinx fires another missile at her, which she narrowly avoids before chastising Fishbones for the sudden betrayal.

'''Wiz:''' We live an a society that adheres to strict laws and norms, but these two ladies turn that system on its head with their wild enthusiasm for destruction and chaos.