Batman: Caped Crusader first look reveals Asian American Harley Quinn and ‘really weird’ Dark Knight
'Batman: Caped Crusader' creator Bruce Timm reveals how the new show's Harley Quinn differs from the 'Batman: The Animated Series' original in more ways than one. https://t.co/P6UiSH8Hc5
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- The show will be a 40s period piece: “[Character designer] James [Tucker] and I are both really big fans of movies from that era, so we decided to really lean into that in terms of the clothes, the cars, the architecture, and the level of technology,” Timm says of the new show’s setting. “Early on, we decided there would be no computers and no cell phones. That changed everything.”
- The show features an Asian Harley Quinn who is no longer Joker's girlfriend but Bruce's psychiatrist. “I co-created the character, so I have a lot of love and affection for her, but I thought there might be something interesting about bringing her on the show, just not as Joker’s girlfriend,” Timm says. “So how do we do that? A big part was just doing a basic flip. The original Dr. Quinzel was a little bit more serious, and then when she became Harley, she got really goofy and weird. So we thought, what if we reverse that? When she's Dr. Quinzel, she's a little bit more whimsical and fun, and then when she's Harley Quinn, she's scary.” Harley will use psychiatry as a weapon against Batman.
- “He's a really weird human being,” Timm says of Batman. “He's not obsessed with his parents' murder, but it changed him in a way where he’s still not adjusted to being a human being. He's literally Batman; inside, that's who he is. Whenever he's Bruce Wayne, that's not just him with a mask off, that's him wearing a person suit. He's trying to pretend to be something that he's not.”