Line #158 WesternAnimation/BatmanAndHarleyQuinn


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3	A movie in the WesternAnimation/DCUniverseAnimatedOriginalMovies line, ''Batman and Harley Quinn'' is an original story created by Creator/BruceTimm. It's about ComicBook/HarleyQuinn teaming up with Franchise/{{Batman}} against ComicBook/PoisonIvy and Jason Woodrue. It stars Creator/KevinConroy as Batman, Creator/LorenLester as Nightwing, Creator/MelissaRauch as Harley Quinn, Creator/PagetBrewster as Poison Ivy, and Creator/KevinMichaelRichardson as Jason Woodrue. It uses a similar animation style to ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries The New Batman Adventures]].''
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5	Poison Ivy has been recruited by Jason Woodrue (aka, the "Floronic Man") in a new plan to destroy humanity and let plant life reclaim the Earth. In order to gain a better understanding of Ivy and a way to defeat her, Batman and Nightwing are forced to recruit Poison Ivy's BFF, Harley Quinn, who has seemingly gone clean and retired from crime since her latest parole release.
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7	The film was released in August of 2017, just in time for Harley Quinn's 25th Anniversary. Two digital comics were released, a prequel series ''Harley Quinn and Batman'' and sequel series ''Batman and Harley Quinn'', which explained how Harley Quinn retired and what happened post-movie.
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9	!!Tropes in this film:
10	* AccidentalMisnaming: Harley starts out referring to Nightwing as "Nightwig". He eventually corrects her and she does start to say it right, but still gets it wrong a few times.
11	* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: [[spoiler:Harold's death]] is presented in a much more somber tone than the rest of the movie, ditto can be said for the scene following it between Harley and Nightwing.
12	* AlternateContinuity: Co-writer Jim Krieg has stated the film is DCAU adjacent, taking place in a parallel universe to B:TAS because everything is sillier. The film's composers have also mentioned it takes place in a "similar" universe to B:TAS. Bruce Timm had said he's not in control of what's in continuity and that this movie could just be head-canon, but he personally viewed it somewhat as a continuation.
13	* AmbiguousSituation: Due to his being TheGhost, just which Black Condor is on the League. While the second one, Ryan Kendall, ''was'' a member during the ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational era, given the large case of TeamMemberInTheAdaptation during ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited'', it's possible that it also applies here and it's either Richard Grey Jr. (who was the original) or John Trujillo (who replaced Kendall after his death) Booster was talking about.
14	* AntiClimax: [[spoiler:Swamp Thing arrives to pull an apparent BigDamnHeroes moment, only to do nothing but state his opinion and take off. Harley reminds Batman that Woodrue is still mostly plant and would burn easily, and the movie ends with Batman striking up a match right before it cuts to the credits... although we do see the results of his handiwork in the first stinger.]]
15	* ArtStyleDissonance: The art style is similar to that of ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries The New Batman Adventures]]'', but the movie is much more sillier and raunchier than any previous episode of ''Batman: The Animated Series'' or ''The New Batman Adventures'', including how characters like Batman or Nightwing are portrayed.
16	* BadGuyBar: Halfway between Gotham and Bludhaven is a dive bar where supervillains' henchmen can unwind and dance the night away. One of the henchmen even sends Bats one of his favorite drink: milk.
17	* BaitAndSwitch: When Harley says that her contact wants her to do something for him, it initially looked like a sexual favor due to the presentation and Harley's reaction but he actually wanted her to sing for him.
18	* BigBadDuumvirate: Poison Ivy and Jason Woodrue aka the Floronic Man.
19	* BlackComedyRape: Played with. While Nightwing ''does'' eventually consent to Harley's sexual advances after some initial attempts to say no, the fact that he's tied to her bed BDSM style, and his sheepish guilt afterwards suggest he may have felt he didn't have much of a choice. Then again, when Batman finds him and Harley together they're in the middle of a joyful friendly tickle fight, so his sheepish guilt could also just be because he knows Batman [[SherlockScan took one look at the room and knew]]. Also skirts the [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale Rape Double Standard]], as if the roles were reversed Nightwing would straight up come off as a villain.
20	* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: When Batman blackmails Sarge Steel with knowledge that many A.R.G.U.S. agents, Steel included, have visited what's clearly implied to be a brothel that caters to the BDSM crowd, Steel says those visits could be considered "therapy". That said, both versions are in play as Bruce calls it an "exchange" when Steel calls him out on it.
21	* BreastAttack: Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn hit each other in their breasts during a fight.
22	* BreatherEpisode: For the DC Animated Films as a whole. After several DarkerAndEdgier films in the series such as ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheKillingJoke'' and ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDark'', the creators even said that they wanted ''Batman and Harley Quinn'' to be more light-hearted.
23	* CallBack: Harley Quinn wants Batman to sing for her, much like Circe makes him do in the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' episode [[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS1E5ThisLittlePiggy This Little Piggy]].
24	* TheCameo:
25	** Many of the henchmen and henchwomen featured back in ''Batman: The Animated Series'' or the Adam West show makes a reappearance at the [[BadGuyBar roadhouse]] (see MythologyGag below for complete list).
26	** [[spoiler:Swamp Thing]]'s appearance in the film is nothing but an anticlimactic cameo.
27	* CantYouReadTheSign: After the customer who groped Harley gets slammed to the floor, he yells that he has a broken arm. The diner manager shrugs it off and points out the "look but don't touch" sign.
28	* ChainedToABed: Harley ties Nightwing to her bed to hold him captive, since she doesn't want him revealing her whereabouts and isn't willing to kill him. She then decides to take advantage of the situation.
29	* ChekhovsGun: When Harley gets Poison Ivy's location from Ivy's former henchman, Shruby, he writes the location on a matchbook. Later, at the end of the film, Harley suggests lighting Jason Woodrue on fire and ask if anyone's got a match. Guess what Batman pulls out of his utility belt.
30	* ComfortTheDying: In one scene [[spoiler:Dr. Goldblum]] is mortally wounded and trying to tell the heroes about Poison Ivy and Floronic Man's plot. [[PetTheDog Harley holds his hand and tells him when he gets to Heaven he should talk to her grandmother, as she thinks he'll like her.]]
31	* TheComicallySerious: As per tradition, any time that Batman interacts with Harley Quinn. If anything, he takes it further in this film, as even in the face of such things as Nightwing and Harley in a tickle fight, flatulence filling the Batmobile, and a drunken thug ''mockingly Batusi-ing at him,'' Batman steadfastly refuses to engage with anyone's silliness.
32	* ComicallySmallBribe: When Harley's um... digestive problems become too much for the Dynamic Duo to bear, Batman pulls over at a gas station so Harley can relieve herself. Nightwing offers Batman $10 to floor it without her, apparently forgetting that Batman is a billionaire.
33	* ContinuityCavalcade: The roadhouse contains numerous villain henchmen and associates who have appeared throughout ''Batman: The Animated Series'' and ''The New Batman Adventures''.
34	* ContinuitySnarl: When exactly the film is set in uncertain. In particular, there some evidence to suggest it takes place ''before'' the [[spoiler:Tim Drake incident in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'']]. The problem being: if that's the case, it would mean Harley [[spoiler:redeemed herself, and got the life she had always wanted, only to throw it all away and go back to being a villain just a few years later.]] For obvious reasons, this makes little sense.[[note]]Tie-in comics to the DCAU, and especially to ''Batman Beyond'', attempt to suggest what is depicted in ''Return of the Joker'' to be a timeline that's been averted, and now alternate timelines and futures have replaced them, as depicted in later "Beyond" and DCAU comics.[[/note]]
35	* CoolCar: The original Batmobile from ''[=BTAS=]'' is back.
36	* CosplayCafe: "Superbabes", the sleazy diner where Nightwing finds Harley Quinn working at where the waitresses [[SexyWhateverOutfit wear skimpy versions of superheroine/supervillainess costumes]].
37	* CoversAlwaysLie: The cover of the DVD/blu-ray shows Harley with her trademark mallet. She's never seen with it in the movie.
38	* CreatorCameo: Bruce Timm has a brief appearance [[spoiler:providing the voice of ComicBook/BoosterGold when Batman talks to him on the Batmobile's phone.]]
39	* CrossCounter: Harley and Ivy land one on each other during the final fight.
40	* CuttingTheKnot: [[spoiler:Floronic Man has high resistance and is unaffected by bullets. Harley points out that they could just set him on fire.]]
41	* DarkActionGirl: Poison Ivy is one of the film's main villains and is pretty good in a fight. Harley Quinn was one before she retired.
42	* DatingCatwoman: Lampshaded when (faced with Batman's DisapprovingLook for sleeping with Harley) Nightwing mutters that it's not like Batman has never made out with a supervillain.
43	* DarkerAndEdgier: Slightly, in that it has more explicit sexual innuendo than ''The Animated Series'' and characters drop some mild swears, but averted for the most part.
44	* DenserAndWackier: The movie leans much more toward comedy and is much raunchier than any previous DCUAO film, or even any episode of ''Batman: The Animated Series'' or ''The New Batman Adventures''.
45	* DependingUponTheUndependable: The premise of the plot. To try and foil the plans of Poison Ivy and the Floronic Man, Batman needs insider knowledge that he simply doesn't have. That source of insight turns out to be [[CuteAndPsycho Harley Quinn]], who's best friends with Ivy and not all that eager to become a plant hybrid. But Harley's the definition of "loose cannon" in Batman's mind, so he's ''really'' not looking forward to this.
46	* DesignatedGirlFight: Ivy and Harley, natch.
47	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: During the second verse of the twins' duet, one gets down on his knees, in accordance with the lyrics, while holding the microphone, while the other remains standing. The resulting image is quite… [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baWC7buWmDA&t=1m15s suggestive.]] [[note]] Especially since "speaking into the mic" is slang for fellatio.[[/note]]
48	* DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff: In the villain bar, Batman unfastens his Utility Belt and tosses it on the ground before proceeding to beat the crap out of everyone there.
49	* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Harley more or less goes straight, and in the post credits scene, has gone back to being Dr. Harleen Quinzel and has her own TV show.]]
50	* EnemyMine: Batman and Harley Quinn are usually enemies.
51	* EvenEvilHasStandards:
52	** Harley keeps Nightwing prisoner to keep him from blowing her cover, but balks at the idea of killing him.
53	** While Ivy is okay with turning every living thing in the world into a plant-animal hybrid, she doesn't like Jason's methods and ultimately decides that the risk of everyone dying outweighs the possibility of success.
54	* FakeStatic: Batman has Nightwing crinkle some paper next to the microphone to fake the sound of static when Booster Gold calls them suggesting other available superheroes to assist them and wanting to join them himself. He's not fooled.
55	-->"Sorry, we're going under some high-tension wires."
56	-->"It sounds like paper."
57	* FallenOnHardTimesJob: Harley after she tried to go straight. She is a waitress in a restaurant where the waitresses wear skimpy versions of heroine and villainess outfits. Apparently, she was also offered porn movie roles, but decided against it.
58	* FanserviceWithASmile: Gotham has a restaurant called "Superbabes" in which the wait staff all wear skimpy versions of famous superheroines and villainesses of the DC Universe (including Catwoman, Supergirl, Batgirl, Power Girl, Starfire, Vixen, Fire, Ice, and even ''Granny Goodness''). Harley works there as a waitress wearing a skimpy version of her own Harley Quinn costume that shows her panties. Indeed, one of male customers tries to cop a feel... bad move.
59	* FirstNameBasis:
60	** Jason refers to Poison Ivy as "Pamela".
61	** Floronic Man is referred to by his name on multiple occasions.
62	* FlippingTheBird: Harley, right before she starts singing.
63	* ForgottenPhlebotinum: Batman and his crew can't stop [[HealingFactor Jason because he keeps regenerating from his wounds]]? [[MundaneSolution How about weed killer?]] It worked great in "[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE29EternalYouth Eternal Youth]]" and "[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheAdventuresOfBatmanAndRobinE5HouseAndGarden House and Garden]]" and somehow, Batman never thought of using it in this episode.
64	* ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself: Harley dropped out of sight after she was let out on parole. She's been working at a diner where the waitresses [[SexyWhateverOutfit wear skimpy versions of superheroine/supervillainess costumes]], with [[HiddenInPlainSight nobody realizing that she's the real Harley Quinn]] until Nightwing sees her take down a customer who grabbed her butt.
65	* GainaxEnding: The movie ends rather weirdly, see AntiClimax for details.
66	* GassyGastronomy: Harley complains that she has to use the bathroom due to eating spicy hot wings, but [[BathroomControl Batman and Nightwing ignore her pleas]]. To make them pull over, she starts to fart loudly, and even Batman can’t handle the stench, so he stops by a gas station.
67	* TheGhost: A conversation between Batman and ComicBook/SargeSteel confirms the existence of ComicBook/LadyShiva and a later one between Bats and ComicBook/BoosterGold similarly reveals the existence of Bloodwynd, Black Condor, and Triumph. The Superbabes scene also suggests the existence of ComicBook/{{Starfire}} and ComicBook/PowerGirl.
68	* GiveMyRegardsInTheNextWorld: A variant: as Harley [[PetTheDog comforts the dying Dr.Goldblum]], she tells him to say hi to her grandmother Fran once he gets to Heaven, as she thinks he'll like her.
69	* GroinAttack: Heavily hinted by Batman at the henchmen bar, if the "OW MY BALLS!" sound effect and the victim's InstantSoprano is anything to go by.
70	* HandbagOfHurt: Harley attacks Nightwing with her purse during their fight. Said purse is revealed to be housing a ten-pound kettle bell.
71	* HiddenHeartOfGold: Harley is definitly capable of being a very good person. Seen when she comforts the dying Dr. Goldblum.
72	* HopeSpot: Happens twice in the climax.
73	** After Batman, Nightwing and Harley's efforts against Floronic Man fail to stop him, [[spoiler:Ivy turns against him]] and while [[spoiler:she wins the plant-based tug-of-war]], Floronic Man proceeds to knock her out with a single punch.
74	** Then [[spoiler:Swamp Thing]] makes his grand entrance, reducing Jason to a cowering mess. [[spoiler:Swamp Thing]] tells Jason that what he's doing is wrong, but says it's not his right to stop it and [[spoiler:Swamp Thing]] disappears without lifting a finger. Lampshaded by Harley:
75	--> '''Harley''': Well that was a big-ass bucket of nothing!
76	* {{Hypocrite}}: During the scene in Harley's apartment, Harley makes fun of the mullet that Nightwing used to have. This is coming from a woman who's probably pushing forty by this point yet still wears her hair in GirlishPigtails.
77	* HypocriticalHumor: Faced with Batman's DisapprovingLook for sleeping with Harley Quinn, Nightwing mutters that [[DatingCatwoman he's not the only one who's made out with a supervillain.]]
78	* InsistentTerminology: When Batman calls Harley a psychopath, she insists she's a sociopath instead.(In truth she is neither, as while she's mentally ill she can feel things like compassion and remorse, something real sociopaths and psychopaths don't do.)
79	* InterrogationMontage: Nightwing goes round showing a picture of Harley.
80	-->'''Man:''' Haven't seen her.\
81	'''Bum:''' Would have liked to!\
82	'''Landlord:''' Dame owes me three weeks back rent! If you find her, you tell her she can eat my sh--\
83	'''Old man:''' Sheee had... the cutest smile.
84	* KarmaHoudini: Poison Ivy doesn't appear to get punished for trying to turn the entire human race into plants. We do get a very sweet moment where Harley starts to cry, causing Poison Ivy to start crying as well, abandon her plan, and give Harley a huge hug, leading Ivy to pull a HeelFaceTurn against Woodrue. However, after getting knocked aside by him, she is [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse never seen again afterwards]].[[note]]The sequel tie-in comic shows her back in Arkham Asylum, with Batman offering her the opportunity for a work-release and to go straight.[[/note]]
85	* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:Batman defeats Woodrue this way, thanks to a suggestion from Harley.]]
86	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: The "redeemed" Harley is still an obnoxious bitch most of the time. She' still turns out to be basically a good guy, even though [[spoiler:she seems to double-cross Batman and Nightwing, it's just a trick as she saves them again right after.]]
87	* MatchCut: When Harley Quinn kisses Nightwing while he is strapped to her bed, Floronic Man's voice is heard saying that is "disgusting". However, turns out he was referring to Poison Ivy using her kiss on the KidnappedScientist.
88	* MerchandisingTheMonster: Harley Quinn is found working at "Superbabes", a café staffed by women dressed as female heroes and villains from InUniverse.
89	* MistakenForGay: Harley tells Nightwing that this is what some people think about him and Batman. Nightwing proves it wrong.
90	* MoodDissonance and often MoodWhiplash: this film relative to the more serious DCAU, and several times within the film itself. One moment, [[spoiler:you're discussing the potential extermination of all life on earth via mutant virus due to an ecoterrorist's misguided idealism]]; the next moment... you're treated to a scene-long fart joke.
91	* MoralityPet: Harley is this to Ivy. [[spoiler:She even successfully convinces her to abandon Floronic Man's EvilPlan.]]
92	* MsFanservice: Harley, taken up to eleven. Her waitress costume is insanely revealing. In her apartment she's in her bra and panties that shows off more of her ass than it covers and shows off the top half of her ass when she bends over. Her song and dance number looks like she's about to have an orgasm on stage (and she often sounds like she's having one too) and that's not even mentioning her seduction of Nightwing.
93	* MuggingTheMonster: At Superbabes some {{Jerkass}} tries to grab Harley's ass (likely not knowing or believing she's the real deal.) She even warns him not to, only for him to try anyways and get his arm broken for his trouble.
94	* MundaneSolution:
95	** After {{No Sell}}ing everything the heroes throw at him, Floronic Man meets his match in [[spoiler:Poison Ivy. Following an intense, dramatic struggle that ends with Ivy decisively establishing herself as the superior [[GreenThumb botanokinetic]], Floronic Man stares at her in awe... and then promptly knocks her out with a simple punch]].
96	** Batman and Nightwing recount how none of their highly-advanced weapons were capable of harming Floronic Man and conclude that they have failed their mission. Cue Harley pointing out that [[spoiler:the villain is a walking pile of leaves and suggesting they light up a match to set him on fire]]. This extremely simple solution spells the villain's downfall.
97	* MythologyGag:
98	** In the comic, Harley has her New 52 Rebirth costume (the one with the red and blue mascara and ponytail tips).
99	** At one point, Harley dons her ComicBook/New52 costume, right down to the black and red hair.
100	** Early on, Harley keeps referring to Nightwing as "Nightwig", mostly because she remembers the fact that he used to have a mullet.
101	** Among the several waitresses in Harley's job can be spotted Jim Balent's ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}, ComicBook/PowerGirl and the New 52's ComicBook/{{Starfire}}, just to name a few.
102	** The BadGuyBar scene has several references to [[Series/Batman1966 the 1960s series]]:
103	*** Batman orders a glass of milk
104	*** A mook does the Batusi to mock Batman. Said Mook and his companion are dressed just like Catwoman's mooks from the show.
105	*** When the bar's clientele attack Batman the fight is represented by sound effects and [[WrittenSoundEffect onomatopoeia]].
106	*** It has also several minor characters from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', mostly of them minor villains or henchmen of the main villains of the series: Min and Max, [[UnexplainedRecovery the twins that worked for Harvey Dent and were killed by Rupert Thorne]] at the end of "Two-Face" part 2; Farmer Brown's genetically modified daughter Emmy Lou; Rocco and Henshaw, Joker henchmen; Crocker from "Appointment in Crime Alley"; Driller, a safe-cracking thug from the episode "POV"; Joker's henchmen from "Beware The Creeper"; Roland Daggett's henchman Germs; Scarface's henchman Rhino; Lily and Violet from "Eternal Youth"; Enrique El Gancho (Ricky the Hook); Nitro; a Calendar Boy; Ratso from "Read My Lips"; Candace (a minor villain who worked for Rupert Thorne, and Bane, and Two-Face); Mr. Freeze's henchgirls, the Moles, from "Cold Comfort"; Penguin's Iceberg Lounge waitress from "The Ultimate Thrill"; Captain Clown (a robot) from "The Last Laugh", and Randa Duane from "Heart of Steel", parts 1 and 2; Maven, Selina Kyle's assistant from "The Cat and the Claw". And, for some inexplicable reason, [[AndZoidberg Ra's Al Ghul's bodyguard Ubu.]] Felix and Leo, two of Catwoman's henchmen from the 60s Batman, also do the Batusi.
107	** Floronic Man feeds Poison Ivy the last of the hallucinogenic yams he got from ComicBook/SwampThing during Creator/AlanMoore's ''Anatomy Lesson'' storyline.
108	** The sequel comic includes Harley having an accidental encounter with [[ComicBook/SuicideSquad Waller, Flagg, Deadshot, and Boomerang]], likely just after their actions in ''[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS2E4TaskForceX Justice League Unlimited]]'', and reveals that [[Film/SuicideSquad2016 Killer Croc's just been forced into serving Waller]]. All this is either as a foreshadowing of where Harley might end up soon, or to explain away why she's never depicted working for Waller in the [=DCAU=] like in other continuities.
109	* NiceMeanAndInbetween: Batman is the nice (although he's not quite as [[AllLovingHero compassionate]] as in ''The Animated Series''). Harley is the mean, being [[{{Jerkass}} completely obnoxious]] for most the the film (although she turns out to have a [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold nice streak]] after all). And Nightwing is the In-between (he's far nicer than Harley, but not quite TheParagon Batman is.)
110	* NobodyPoops: Averted. At one point Harley really needs to go but Batman and Nightwing won't stop. So she keeps [[ToiletHumor farting]] until they relent and stop at gas station so she can do her business.
111	* NoodleIncident: As mentioned under "The Ghost", Lady Shiva exists in this universe, but all we know from that scene is that she retains her ties to the League of Assassins and was involved in a battle in Nanda Parbat that brought her into conflict Batman and A.R.G.U.S.
112	* NotSoAboveItAll : Batman finds himself dropping his stoicism on a number of occasions (i.e tapping to the beat of Harley's song), usually because of Harley's antics. Sometimes he's exasperated by her, while other times he seems to genuinely enjoy her company at that moment. [[spoiler:He and Nightwing even kiss her cheeks, both at once, when Harley proposes an idea to defeat Floronic Man for good.]]
113	* OffhandBackhand: It's his signature move, ''of course'' Batman is going to do it. Bonus points for funny because he does it to the mook mocking him by doing the Batusi.
114	* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Batman takes his belt off and tells the entire BadGuyBar "[[PreAssKickingOneLiner Let's dance.]]" He proceeds to beat up the club offscreen.
115	%%* OhCrap: Nightwing lets one out when he realizes he has to recruit Harley.
116	* PercussiveTherapy:
117	** After Nightwing's initial attempts to enlist Harley's aid fall on deaf ears, he threatens to bring her in for failing to check in with her parole officer. She attacks him and declares that he's about to receive all the payback for the sexual harassment she's been enduring.
118	** With the threat of Ivy and the Floronic Man hanging over their heads, while being forced to deal with Harley's insanity, when a bar full of minions decide to try and pummel Batman to death, the Dark Knight ''takes off his belt'' and invites them to try, a broad smile on his face as he works out his frustration on them.
119	* PoisonRing: Harley beats Nightwing in their fight by sucker punching him with a ring that delivers a mild version of Joker Venom (just strong enough to make the victim laugh a little bit and lose consciousness for a short time).
120	* PrettyInMink: Harley has a bunch of costume variants in her closet, including "Arctic Harley", which is just a white fur jacket.
121	* PseudoRomanticFriendship: PlayedWith, Harley and Ivy both care a lot about each other and a lot of their motivations and actions are fueled by their feelings for one another. That said though they end up having a pretty brutal fight in the climax. But Ivy is finally convinced to turn on Floronic Man when Harley gives her PuppyDogEyes. Then, when Floronic Man sees this, he describes Harley as Ivy's 'mate'.
122	-->'''Ivy''': ''(Hugging Harley and crying)'' [[VitriolicBestBuds I hate you so much]].
123	* PsychopathicWomanchild: Harley, as usual. She's not as psycho as before but still has a very childish demeanor. [[spoiler:she gets better at the end.]]
124	* PuppyDogEyes: [[spoiler:At the climax, Harley unleashes "the nuclear option," combining puppy dog eyes with HumanizingTears, in an attempt to convince Ivy to quit working with the Floronic Man. It works.]]
125	* RagingStiffie: While not shown to the viewer, Nightwing gets one while tied to a bed and seeing Harley in her bra and panties. She most definitely notices it and decides to take advantage of him.
126	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: When the handsy customer at the bar complains that Harley broke his arm, rather than fire her, the unfazed chef points to a sign telling him not to touch the girls.
127	* RedShirt: All the unnamed soldiers and cops working with the trio are dead meat.
128	* ResortToPouting: [[spoiler:Harley manages to get Ivy to give up her plan by pulling an extreme example of PuppyDogEyes.]]
129	* RetiredBadass: Harley has hung up the tights when the story starts, but she still has the moves to fight off even ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} and flip a huge, [[PervertRevengeMode lecherous]] man.
130	* SchrodingersCanon: When fans asked Bruce Timm if the film was canon to the DCAU, he said he thought it was but that it was ultimately not his choice to make.
131	* SexForServices: Nightwing gets Harley to help by sleeping with her. He'd have been up for it regardless, but the mission takes priority, so he couldn't have taken time out during an investigation to sleep with someone unless it helped.
132	* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Harley has no qualms about stripping to her bra and panties in front of Nightwing. Or taking advantage of [[RagingStiffie the results]].
133	* SherlockScan: When Batman finds Nightwing and Harley tickle-fighting in her apartment, he gives the room a split second scan, (clothing and panties on the floor, the remains of the makeshift bondage tape on Harley's bedposts), and IMMEDIATELY gives Nightwing the "Somebody got him some huh?" look of shame.
134	* ShoutOut:
135	** The information needed for Ivy and Jason's plan was created by [[ComicBook/SwampThing Alec Holland]]. [[spoiler:Swamp Thing actually does show up in the ending... and fails to do anything of importance to stop Woodrue, simply lecturing him briefly before taking off again.]]
136	** Harley's uniform as a waitress at Superbabes is pretty much her New 52 look in a nutshell, complete with bleached white skin and half-red half-black hair.
137	** The walls of Superbabes are decorated with ''precisely'' accurate reproductions of familiar comic-cover and poster portraits of various heroes (male and female), such as Batgirl and Superman.
138	** Every single patron of the henchman bar except the one guy Harley is looking for is a shout-out to either TAS or the Adam West Batman, as pretty much every single one can be traced back to one of the two.
139	** Harley's song in the henchmen bar is her cover of Music/{{Blondie\|Band}}'s "Hanging on the Telephone".
140	** In TheStinger, [[spoiler:''Ask Dr Quinn'']] ([[Series/DrQuinnMedicineWoman the name already a shout out in itself]]), looks like those ''Dr Oz'' type shows, but suddenly morphs into ''Total Wipeout'' (complete with the row of giant ball-things!)
141	** When the henchman is dancing behind Batman in the bar, he does the Batusi--Batman's dance from the 1966 adaptation of Batman.
142	** When talking about Ivy's tendency to turn normal shrubbery and the like into dangerous beings and refers to them as "''Film/LittleShopOfHorrors'', on steroids."
143	** Harley says while fighting Harley that she can "[[Characters/MCUSteveRogers do this all night]]."
144	** Although [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall not mentioning it by name]], Harley is clearly referring to the MoralGuardians book ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seduction_of_the_Innocent Seduction of the Innocent]]'' when asking if Nightwing and Batman are gay.
145	** Rhino mocks Batman by calling him "WesternAnimation/{{Batfink}}".
146	* SirSwearsALot: Lady in this case. 99% of the bad language in the movie comes from Harley.
147	* SlasherSmile: Batman flashes one at the henchmen bar when all the patrons block his path, intending to beat him down. Big mistake.
148	-->'''Batman:''' [[PreAssKickingOneLiner Okay boys,]] [[LetsGetDangerous let's]] [[LetsDance dance]].
149	* StatingTheSimpleSolution: While Batman and Nightwing are discussing what to do about Woodrew since none of their high tech weapons work on him, Harley [[spoiler:says that since he's a plant, they could just set him on fire.]] It works.
150	* SquishyWizard: Poison Ivy and Floronic Man, respectively; when they battle each other, Ivy proves herself the most powerful when it comes to controlling plant life, but, while she's no slouch in a fight either, he has SuperStrength, so he knocks her out on a single hit.
151	* TheStinger: Two. A mid-credits stinger shows [[spoiler:the Floronic Man trying to put himself out after being lit on fire]] while the post-credits scene features [[spoiler:Harley now hosting a GameShow where contestants go through an extreme obstacle course to determine whether they can get therapy from a licensed professional or not.]]
152	* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: Given a reason. While Batman did alert the Watchtower to what is going on, most of the best heroes were busy with a space mission in the Rigel System, with others at a christening at Aquaman's place at Atlantis. The only available heroes included Booster Gold, Black Condor, Elongated Man, Triumph and Bloodwynd, none of them being the kind of guys Batman and Nightwing really want to deal with (No No No, Meh, talking too much, loser, and jerk being Nightwing's response to the suggestions). Batman and Nightwing then hang up, making it Batman Doesn't Want C-List Fodder (or Booster) in Gotham.
153	* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Nightwing expresses disappointment that Harley is working at a sleazy place like Superbabes and points out that Harley could have used her psychiatric training to get better work. After she ties him up in her apartment, Harley informs Nightwing that she did try to get more respectable jobs, but her criminal background prevented her from being hired, and her only options besides the restaurant were in pornography.
154	* TalkShow: Harley hosts one in an end credits scene, which then turns into a game show.
155	* TastesLikePurple: At one point Harley keeps farting and Batman says it "smells like discipline". While probably meant as a metaphor (i.e "I have enough discipline not to give into her demands just because she keeps farting") it's still a very odd thing to say.
156	* ToiletHumor: Harley farts in the Batmobile, so that they will stop and let her use the restroom.
157	* TooDumbToLive: Batman lives, of course, but... for always being regarded as CrazyPrepared, against Woodrue didn't it occur to Batman to have [[RedShirtArmy all those soldiers]] bring along grenade launchers and a couple of flame throwers?
158	* TookALevelInJerkass: Harley's depiction in this film is almost nothing like she did in previous DCAU series. She's rude, obnoxious, foul-mouthed, and argumentative. Very different from the childish AffablyEvil personality she's prevously shown. To be fair, life after parole hasn't been very kind to her, she works a minimum wage job as a waitress at a skeevy restaurant, being forced to dress in scanty clothing and is constantly sexually harassed by the patrons. Society still hasn't forgiven her for her crimes and she's unable to get a better job.
159	** Likewise, Batman's attitude towards Harley is pretty much the opposite of the kindness and understanding he showed her during the BTAS episode ''Harley's Holiday'', even as she's been nothing but helpful to him (though considering her history of pulling a HeelFaceRevolvingDoor, he's somewhat justified in his skepticism, especially if ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker Return of the Joker]]'' chronologically takes place after the film, as has been speculated).
160	* TookALevelInKindness: In contrast to the above, Poison Ivy is much less of a MisanthropeSupreme compared to her main series counterpart. She constantly questions whether her plan to turn the world into plant hybrids is justified, she's visibly upset when Floronic Man kills [[spoiler:Harold and leaves Harley to burn to death, and she ultimately ends up siding against him in the end after Harley convinces her the pain she's causing isn't worth any possible benefits.]]
161	* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: While the pals of the grabby customer are shocked at the beating Harley gave him, all the other restaurant staff regard it as just a typical day.
162	* WellIntentionedExtremist:
163	** Jason claims he is saving the planet by turning all the [[CallAHumanAMeatbag ''Meatbags'']] into plants. While the heroes do agree with him in some ways, his method has just as high a chance of [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt destroying all life on the planet.]]
164	** Harley all but namedrops this trope when she tells Ivy that, "You're heart is in the right place," but "Friends don't let friends kill seven billion people."
165	* WorstAid: Averted. When [[spoiler:Harold is impaled by Jason]] Batman says not to pull out the spike in his chest since that would just lead to more bleeding. [[spoiler:Harold still dies though.]]
166	* VillainHasAPoint: Ivy starts having second thoughts about the plan to mutate everyone into plant hybrids due to the high risk of their formula ''killing'' all life rather than changing it. Jason reminds her that the Earth will suffer a slow death at the rate of pollution and environmental exploitation mankind is creating if they don't take the risk. As he reminds her in her own words, people won't give a damn about saving the Earth unless they're ''made'' to. He's not wrong. Many of the big efforts to regrow forests or clean up oceans only started ''after'' people were faced with the consequences of their current lifestyles.
167	* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Harold, who The Floronic Man kills the moment he perfects his formula]].
168	* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Harley is annoyed at the fact people (such as Batman) refer to sociopaths as "psychopaths".
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170	!!Tropes in ''Harley Quinn and Batman''
171	%%* GroinAttack: Harley gives Joker one.
172	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Harley gets so fed up with the Joker ignoring her for his obsession with Batman that she kicks him in the nuts and declares she's going solo.
173	* WomanScorned: The entire first issue is this: Harley [[SpannerInTheWorks sabotaged all of the Joker's weapons, his escape route and ended up tipping everyone off on the Joker's plan]] to get back at him for his Bat-obsession. It doesn't work. ''At all''.

Context WesternAnimation / BatmanAndHarleyQuinn