History Recap / HarleyQuinn2019S1E7TheLine

* InsultBackfire: When the mayor calls Harley a scourge, her crew are ecstatic that they've moved up from being a nuisance (and skipped past menace).

* MeaninglessVillainVictory: Harley's crew succeeds in their plan to steal a weather machine, but it turns out to be password protected. After too many failed passwords attempts, the machine self destructs.
* MythologyGag: The restaurant Kite Man tried taking Ivy to is called '' '''Martha's Bruce''' Steakhouse''. Well, [[Film/BatmanBegins Martha's son did buy a fancy restaurant on impulse once]].

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Most criminals don't find the wanton slaughter of innocents to be an acceptable solution to silencing a single witness. Harley decides to kick Fables out of her crew because of her tendency to resort to mass murder whenever a problem comes up.
** It's mentioned that Fables was turned into and been a tax book for three decades. When she needs to get to a bookstore, she asks where the nearest B. Dalton or Waldenbooks stores are; two bookstore chains that were ubiquitous in the 80's but have folded since, like many store chains have been doing.

** The Queen of Fables being turned into a tax book is ruled as cruel and unusual, causing the court to order her release. However, she is still a dangerous villain who tried to destroy the city and as such is immediately sent to serve a more conventional sentence in Arkham.

** Harley's crew failing to enter the password into the stolen weather machine too many times causes it to self destruct. Most modern cell phones have an option to lock up or wipe their data if the wrong password is entered too many times, so of course something as dangerous as a weather machine would have a similar failsafe.

* RealityEnsues:
** The Queen of Fables being turned into a tax book is ruled as cruel and unusual, causing the court to order her release. However, she is still a dangerous villain who tried to destroy the city and as such is immediately sent to serve a more conventional sentence in Arkham.
** Most criminals don’t find the wanton slaughter of innocents to be an acceptable solution to silencing a single witness. Harley decides to kick Fables out of her crew because of her tendency to resort to mass murder whenever a problem comes up.
** It's mentioned that Fables was turned into and been a tax book for three decades. When she needs to get to a bookstore, she asks where the nearest B. Dalton or Waldenbooks stores are; two bookstore chains that were ubiquitous in the 80's but have folded since, like many store chains have been doing.
** Harley's crew failing to enter the password into the stolen weather machine too many times causes it to self destruct. Most modern cell phones have an option to lock up or wipe their data if the wrong password is entered too many times, so of course something as dangerous as a weather machine would have a similar failsafe.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: As part of the MeaningfulTitle, Harley's crew is horrified by Fable's wanton slaughter of innocents (with King Shark throwing up at the memory).

* AllForNothing: The gang steals the weather machine, but realize they need a password to activate it. After too many failed attempts, the machine self-destructs, making their trouble in between pointless.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Harley's crew is horrified by Fable's wanton slaughter of innocents (with King Shark throwing up at the memory).

* ShaggyDogStory: Harley and her crew pull off two complicated heists that sees them burning bridges with the Queen of Fables after she slaughtered an entire extended family in a bloodbath, all so Harley could get her hands on a weather machine... that turns out to be password protected and self-destructions when they guess wrong too many times.