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She also asks Batman to give her protection in return for helping to stop Joker.

She sends a tape to the police department, addressing to Batman that the Joker plans to eliminate the whole city with gas bombs. Upon returning to Arkham, she broke the Joker out of Arkham, with the Joker observing her now as Harley Quinn.Īt the end of the flashback, Harley gets an idea of how to get rid of Batman. Finally desiring to help Joker, she went to the novelty store and took various prank toys, a mask, and a costume. He called that the downside of comedy, that they 'always take shots from folks who just don't get the joke'.Īfter numerous interviews, Harley concluded that Joker was not an insane criminal, but a tortured soul looking for acceptance, and that many people, especially Batman, are getting in the way of that. The next day, he had his father's best pants around his ankles like the clowns he saw at the circus, but his father broke his nose in response. He laughed really hard at the clowns there, doing things like dropping their pants. When Harley was first interviewing the Joker, he claimed that he had an abusive father that beat him up almost every day, and that the only time he saw his father happy was when he brought Joker to the circus when he was seven years old. At that moment, she has a flashback of when she started working at Arkham Asylum as a new psychiatrist. Confused and angry, Harley wonders how her life took a turn for the worse, when she started to think it is Batman's fault. Harley then suggested that Joker just shoot Batman, but the Joker claims that he wants to give him a superior, complicated death that would humiliate Batman. At the same moment, Harley attempts to flirt with him in order to get his attention, which the Joker was ignoring. Meanwhile, back at the Joker's lair, the Joker is obsessively thinking of ways to kill Batman. Batman throws it out the window moments before it exploded. Harley sprays gas at him to stun him while they made their escape, but not before Joker throws a grenade at them.

Harley Quinn straps Gordon to the chair as Joker prepares to kill him with a drill through his head, when the Batman bursts through the window to save him.

The episode starts with Commisioner Gordon getting a dentist's appointment as part of the police physical, but the dentist actually turns out to be the Joker, who has led Gordon into a trap. In the episode, Harley Quinn recaps of the day she first met Joker, and how she thinks Batman gets in the way of her love. 'Mad Love' is the 11th episode of The New Batman Adventures.

The batman adventures mad love paul dini