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Harley Quinn (2019)

  • Every inmate in Arkham knows that Joker is an awful boyfriend who would totally let Harley rot there indefinitely, and encourages her to break up with him.
  • Played for Laughs when Doctor Psycho is kicked out of the Legion of Doom for calling Wonder Woman and his wife Giganta (who divorces him) the C-word on national television, with Lex Luthor saying in a press conference that his behavior "doesn't represent their brand of evil". Later, it is revealed even Darkseid thinks Psycho using the C-word is in bad taste.
    • However, it should be noted that this was more Hypocritical Humor on the Legion's part, as they are just as sexist, if not more so than even Psycho (they only have one female member, Cheetah, and Luthor can't even bother remembering her name). It's just that they won't stoop to calling their enemies by that word.
  • Several of the villains are horrified by the invokedQueen of Fables' mass-murdering tendencies to the point where even King Shark, who occasionally eats people, faints when she has The Three Little Pigs eat the evidence of one of her massacres.
  • This is one of the defining elements of Poison Ivy's characterization, to the point she's hardly evil even though she's an Eco-Terrorist. Whereas Ivy's counterparts in the comics, other cartoons, and films are often sadistic fanatics who use saving the environment as an excuse to hurt people, this version is motivated solely by saving the Earth. While she's still considered a misanthrope, she doesn't go out of her way to kill whenever she wants and keeps trying to act as Harley Quinn's moral compass. Ivy even repeatedly complains about being considered evil even though all she wants is to protect the environment.
    Harley: Yeah, says the girl who dissolved the head of ACE Chemicals in a bath of his own herbicide.
    Ivy: Best Earth Day ever. [chuckles]
  • Harley picks up an unknown ray gun to shoot a goon in "Dye Hard". It seems not to do anything, but another goon points out that it is labeled "Cancer Ray", so it was presumably, therefore, made to give people cancer. Harley is horrified.
    Harley: Why would they even make this?! [...] I'm so sorry!
  • When Harley announces her decision to murder Robin after everyone now thinks he's her Arch-Enemy, this earns a shocked reaction from Ivy and the others but for different reasons.
    • Ivy argues that while she knows Harley could kill Robin, she shouldn't because it'd make everyone believe he was her nemesis after all. So it's more that Ivy pragmatically believes Harley needs to avoid the temptation because it would only ruin Harley's reputation.
    • Psycho, Clayface, and King Shark are all shocked more because, as King Shark points out, killing Robin would make her a child murderer and thus would be crossing the Moral Event Horizon. In fact, when the three help Harley stage her plan to make Robin admit he's not her Arch-Enemy the three are perfectly aware they're only planning to scare the kid.
  • The presence of Victor Zsasz and Killer Croc in Bane's prison would indicate that serial killers aren't tolerated by the Injustice League.
  • Joker disapproves of swearing in front of his girlfriend's kids. He also hates how little funded Gotham's public schools and public healthcare system have become and decides to run for mayor on a progressive platform.
  • Harley pushes the Queen of England out of an airplane... with a parachute. Probably.
  • In Season 4, Poison Ivy promotes "socially conscious evil" in her role at the Legion of Doom. In the finale, she decides that it's impossible to bring the other supervillains around to her standards and quits (with a bang!).

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