Suicide Squad
Warning : contains spoilers forTitans Academy # 13 !
As the fight between twoSuicide Squadsrages over the fate of Earth-3 , Rick Flagg ’s squad recruitment of a newHarley Quinnfixes a major trouble the franchise has been struggling to direct . Although her recruitment into Amanda Waller ’s infamous team had its disceptation , Harley ’s popularity saw her finally feature in versions of the Suicide Squad in idiot box and moving picture . But this popularity hit a barricade when it was revealedHarley ’s changeless selection on the Squadhad accumulate enough time to assure her freedom , with the pardoned reprehensible returning to Gotham to help oneself Batman during theJoker War . Harley has become democratic enough that DC wants her off on her own adventures , but with such a high employee turnover of characters , how can Suicide Squad retain fans without its most iconic fellow member ?
DC has managed to keep Harley in the Suicide Squad a little long thanks to stories localize in the yesteryear ( like the recentMan - Bat ) andnon - canyon tales likeSuicide Squad : Blaze , but in the society ’s on-going canyon , it make no sense for a free - and - percipient Harley to prosecute her own adventuresandvolunteer for life - jeopardize delegation with the Squad . This job is addressed during the multiversal battle of theWar for Earth-3crossover , when Rick Flagg and his Suicide Squad - fresh from battling Waller ’s forces - head to Teen Titans Academy in hunt of allies .
InTitans Academy # 13by Tim Sheridan and Tom Derenick , the Titans are still deal with the radioactive dust fromthe Book of Revelation of Red X ’s true identity , and are so distrait that they do n’t acknowledge Rick Flagg and his Suicide Squad arrive thanks to the Mirror Master . They bring with them a new Harley , specifically the Harleen Quinzel from Earth-8 . Although appearing a little vernal and more inexperient than her mainstream doppelganger , this Harley Quinn has the same skills , personality , and survival instincts , which not only fills the vacancy leave behind by the original Harley ’s absence in the Squad , but also opens up a multiverse of options for succeeding Suicide Squad recruitment .
The new Earth-8 Harley fix theSuicide Squadfranchise ’s big trouble - it get to keep a placeable reading of Harley Quinn , even as the original antihero hit Gotham in search of repurchase . However , there are other benefits . Amanda Waller ’s Task Force Xearned the sobriquet " the Suicide Squad"as it is loosely not expected the members - who are mostly jail super felon - will survive their dangerous and life - threatening missions . Harley Quinn has traditionally been immune to this because of her popularity , making her the member who is almost guarantee to survive , since DC does n’t want to write out a fan - favorite theatrical role . However , now that the Squad ’s Harley is a doppelganger from another reality , her plot armor has been stripped aside , resulting in a Harley who can stick truer to the Suicide Squad ’s deadly ethos .
While storylines have shown that Amanda Waller ’s control of theSuicide Squad can even transcend destruction , the use of the multiverse opens a plethora of selection not only for Harley Quinn but other extremity as well . Should Waller or Flagg see their phallus die during a mission , they can trip to other worlds and recruit near - replicas of fan - favorite fibre , mysteriously suggesting that now , no world is safe from enlisting into any variant of the Suicide Squad . Suicide Squadhas pay back the issue ofHarley Quinn ’s solo fame by plucking a 2nd translation of the hero from the multiverse , both establishing the precedent for bringing back character without tawdry resurrections , and dashing fan ’s security that sure extremity will always pull through because of their popularity .
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