Just in, a new trailer has been dropped for Harley Quinn Season 5, and it has Gotham in ruins, with Harley and Ivy deciding to move to the shining beacon of tomorrow which is Metropolis. Check this out:

Though Harley and Ivy do move to a new city, it does look like a lot of the old cast is back from Gotham with Bane, King Shark, and Clayface still hanging around. With Metropolis though, it does bring in some more familiar characters like Lois Lane, and of course, Superman.

There’s also the looming threat of Superman villain Brainiac who is always up to some kind of world-ending shenanigans. It’s even so bad that the Joker is teaming up with everyone just to stop him.

Admittedly DC is currently in a transition period with the live-action films, but the animation front has always been steady. Besides the occasionally released animated films based on comic properties, shows like Harley Quinn continue to add some more variety in DC entries with it filling the void for adult comedy shows—even Marvel doesn’t have that with all their Disney+ success.

Harley Quinn Season 5 is set to premiere on Max on Jan. 16, 2025.

Talking to Entertainment Weekly, director Todd Phillips explained that while they did shoot the scene, he ultimately had to cut it because it ruined the flow of Harley’s triumphant march into the courthouse. He says:

“It had dialogue in it, and, all of a sudden, I wanted it to be more of a music and vibe moment … For that moment to have played, it needed dialogue behind it. Meaning, the woman said something, and then Gaga stopped and did this thing, and it just kind of got in the way of the moment.”

For context, the scene that was cut involved a protester shouting at Harley, telling her, “You’re going to hell!” to which Harley grabs her, kisses her forcefully in the mouth, and says, “Now we’re both going.” It felt like such a great character moment for Harley, so you can imagine some people’s disappointment that it didn’t make it to the final movie.

Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn kissing a woman in Joker is everything I never knew I needed. pic.twitter.com/Yrgr5lKee3

— berry (@sckberry) March 27, 2023

With the movie’s reliance on vibe and visuals though, I do understand how the kiss would have definitely taken some momentum out of the scene—which was supposed to focus rather on Harley Quinn’s fixation on Arthur.

Besides that kiss, a lot of things also didn’t make it into the final film. There was supposed to be a whole song and dance sequence at the staircase which turned out to be Harley’s final scene with Arthur. Plus, there was also the scene from the trailer where Harley and Joker walk out of the courthouse steps dancing together.

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Hopefully we get a better look at some of the cut scenes down the line. But as of now, Folie a Deux has an uphill battle at the box office, being plagued with terrible reviews. On the other hand, more people are coming out to support the film, but will it manage to last another week in theatres to account for good word of mouth?

Joker: Folie a Deux is now showing in cinemas.

For this iteration of the character, she’s actually named Lee Quinzel, and rather than being the Joker’s psychiatrist, she’s a fellow patient of Arkham. Now a new featurette has been dropped giving us a better look at Lee brought to life by none other than Lady Gaga. Check it:

“She easily slipped into that world,” says director Todd Phillips, “It’s not like she’s trying to be Harley Quinn from the comic books. She’s Lee in this world.”

With Joker establishing a new take on the origin of the character, fans are also expecting a fresh iteration of Harley for this movie. Though it’s been well-established in previous properties that Harley and Joker are a toxic couple, and Harley is essentially the Joker’s doormat, it’s possible that Folie a Deux could do something different with the relationship.

Maybe Harley is inspired by the Joker, but she ultimately ends up becoming more fierce than him? At this point in the story, it just doesn’t seem like Arthur could be the same Joker that we’ve seen Mark Hamill or Heath Ledger’s versions have been. But who knows, maybe the movie could build up to it, now that he’s trapped in Arkham and there’s no other way to let out the crazy.

I’m just hoping we get a greenlight for a third movie where Joker actually has to take on his version of Batman—which a lot of people know is Joker’s real true love.

Joker: Folie a Deux comes to cinemas on Oct. 4.

The series is set to premiere later this month, and we have a new trailer showcasing Kite Man and all the different villains that will be showing up in his spinoff series. Check this out:

Though the DC baddie didn’t push through with his partnership with Ivy, this show is giving him a new love interest in the form of Golden Glider, the younger sister of Captain Cold. We also get to see that Kite Man is starting his own business in the form of a bar; and it looks like it’s going to be featuring appearances from all kinds of DC villains big and small—from Polka-Dot Man to Darkseid.

With the Harley Quinn series already being as wild as it is, it’s curious how Kite Man is going to set itself apart. HQ already has the wacky version of the villains getting into random hijinks with Harley; but how would things be different now that Kite Man is at the center of the show? Even the animation style and look are the same.

Even if that was the case, it does seem like WB has enough faith in the character to actually give him a spinoff. I guess he’s one of the more memorable supporting characters from the Harley series, so it would be great to see how he really comes out now that he has his own show.

Catch Kite Man: Hell Yeah! when it premieres on Max this July 18.

The anime is set to premiere later this week, and they’ve officially released the opening sequence. Check this out:

Just in case you’re not familiar with Wit Studio, they’re the same animation studio that delivered hits like Attack on Titan, Spy x Family, and Netflix’s The Great Pretender.

Looking at the Suicide Squad intro, it does seem we have some more characters appearing besides the main Squad members including Harley Quinn, King Shark, Peacemaker, Clayface, and Deadshot.

We have teasers for characters like the Joker, the Thinker, and Katana. It also seems like we’re going to have the Enchantress be a villain in the movie, as her straw heart looks just like the one that Waller has from the first Suicide Squad.

With the Squad going to a fantasy world, we should expect other fantasy tropes to show up in the series like monsters and dungeons. By the looks of the opening, we should also expect them to run into a dragon. Personally I would love if they managed to include some fantasy versions of other DC characters like a medieval Batman or a medieval version of villains like Scarecrow or Killer Croc.

It’s unclear how many more anime adaptations we’re getting for DC, but based on the success of Suicide Squad ISEKAI, we could be getting more down the line. Personally I hope they do a collaboration with Trigger (Dungeon Meshi, Kill la Kill) at some point.

Catch Suicide Squad ISEKAI when it premieres on Max on June 27.

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We’ve gotten a Joker that’s fallen into acid, and a Joker that’s mentally and physically scarred; but this new take on the Joker looks to be insane by your usual anime standards.

It’s pretty interesting that this Joker is a little queer-coded, because, even if he does have Harley Quinn to act as his love interest, any true Batman fan knows that his real love affair is with the Dark Knight.

By the looks of it, this series could be a one-and-done for DC, but depending on how Suicide Squad is receieved, we could be looking at more anime adaptations of DC characters going into the future; but we’ll just have to wait and see what audiences will think in July.

Here’s the official description for the series:

In the crime-ridden city of Gotham, Amanda Waller, the head of A.R.G.U.S., has assembled a group of notorious criminals for a mission: Harley Quinn, Deadshot, Peacemaker, Clayface, and King Shark. These Super-Villains are sent into an otherworldly realm that’s connected to this world through a gate. It’s a world of swords and magic where orcs rampage and dragons rule the skies—an “ISEKAI”!

With lethal explosives planted in their necks, there’s no running or hiding, and failing the mission means a one-way ticket to the afterlife! Can Harley Quinn and her crew conquer this perilous ISEKAI realm?! Brace yourselves for the pulse-pounding saga of the elite task force known as the “Suicide Squad” as they embark on a jaw-dropping adventure!

Suicide Squad ISEKAI is set to start airing this July.

The series is set to premiere this year, and we have a new trailer showcasing villains Harley Quinn, Joker, Deadshot, King Shark, Peacemaker, and a Michael Jackson-inspired Clayface. Check this out:

The trailer also showcases the anime’s ending theme Go-Getters from Mori Calliope. We should also expect there to be a unique opening theme, but we’ll just have to wait until the marketing is ready to reveal that to the audience.

With the character of the Joker having a hard time coming back to the big screen, it’s great that we got an anime iteration of him in this series; and he looks every bit as anime-fied as you would expect a character like him to be.

We never really got to see Jared Leto’s true performance as the Joker in Suicide Squad, but maybe this Suicide Squad ISEKAI version could be a close-second. He does have a lot of the tattoos, and he’s a bit closer to a crazy mob leader than a dangerous clown—but it could be too early to tell.

You think Batman is going to show up?

No specific release date has been announced for Suicide Squad ISEKAI, but you can expect it to premiere sometime later this year.

#ReleaseTheAyerCut may go trending every once in a while, and Ayer has recently shared another breakdown of everything WB had cut from his darker version of Suicide Squad. Here’s his post:

Asked and answered.
It’s honestly not worth answering again. But here goes – I had a complete Joker arc and character was scary and formidable. Harley had an arc – it was her movie. Diablo lived. Different ending. Enchantress / June had character arcs and made sense. Flag had a… https://t.co/TAg6Knpdzj

— David Ayer (@DavidAyerMovies) January 2, 2024

We don’t know exactly what went down at WB when they decided to change the cut of the film, but it was said that after the divisive reaction of BvS, they decided to get Trailer Park, a studio that specialized in trailers, and who also provided the Bohemian Rhapsody trailer of the movie, to cut the film to what is known as the theatrical version.

The closest thing that fans got to what Ayer considers his version of the movie was the first look that was released at SDCC Comic-Con—way before the release of Batman v Superman.

We don’t know if James Gunn and Peter Safran will eventually let Ayer release his version of the movie, but Ayer seems to have been very vocal lately, so maybe he knows something we don’t. Personally, I’m always on the side of the creatives being able to release what they originally wanted, so I say #ReleaseTheAyerCut and give us Jared Leto’s intended take on the Joker.

In a recently released episode of Suicide Squad Insider, it’s revealed that Poison Ivy had somehow resurrected into a tween that’s being experimented on by Lex Luthor. Watch this (Ivy comes in at 8:44):

For context, this is what happened to Ivy in Arkham Knight:

Though we never really got to see Harley and Ivy’s romance play out in any of the games, it’s still implied that the characters have history in Suicide Squad. Though Ivy may not remember Harley in this continuity, her pheromones can ‘remember’ her. We don’t know how the game eventually wants to tug on that relationship, but introducing a young Ivy is definitely stirring the pot with some fans.

As far as the game goes, Poison Ivy will be essential to a new gameplay mechanic which will allow her and her plants to dish out status effects that are inspired by other DC villains unto unsuspecting enemies. On the other hand, it’s also been revealed that Penguin will be the one supplying the Squad with weapons and has been delegated to this game’s version of a crafting station.

Admittedly, Suicide Squad has been so delayed that fans are starting to lose interest in the game, but hopefully Rocksteady manages to knock it out of the park when it finally releases next year.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is set to launch on Feb. 2, 2024 for PC, Xbox Series X|S, and PS5.

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We don’t have any context for any of the stills, but the first image does look like a shot of Arthur in Arkham Asylum. We’ve also seen images of Gaga in her Harley Quinn outfit before, but here she’s all clean cut but it’s Arthur who’s in the make-up. It looks like they’re in some kind of court scene, but it’s possible it could be somewhere in the asylum; maybe even a dream sequence.

With Joker set to release in October, we should expect some kind of teaser to come out soon. I would guess that WB would be ready to market the movie around June, but seeing that the first Joker was such a massive hit, they would probably want to start getting people excited around January.

Maybe they’re just waiting to distance their release from the last DCEU film, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, but at this point, I think DC fans will take anything just to get excited about the IP again after a poor year of the DCEU’s final breaths.

Catch Joker: Folie a Deux when it comes to cinemas on Oct. 4, 2024.

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Super-Villains sent to ISEKAI!? The most dangerous & bizarre fantasy adventure unveiled!!

For those who don’t know, “ISEKAI” is an anime genre where a character from the modern world is thrust into a fantasy one where they have to battle monsters and all kinds of magical things. The most prominent examples of ISEKAI are properties like Re: Zero, Mushoku Tensei, and KonoSuba: God’s Blessing on This Wonderful World!.

The animation will be coming from Wit Studio, who has delivered titles like Attack on Titan, Ranking of Kings, and Spy x Family. Warner Bros. Japan is also attached to the project as producer.

The character designs for 'Suicide Squad: ISEKAI' are distinctively fresh—especially Deadshot & Joker. Can’t wait to see the team in action in 2024! pic.twitter.com/mdzMLDVEEd

— Jordan Jones (@jordnjnes) December 2, 2023

We don’t know exactly what the story for Suicide Squad ISEKAI is going to be, but seeing the trailer and knowing the genre of the Suicide Squad, it’s very likely that it’s going to be more violent than what most ISEKAI fans are used to. Though the trailer is also in Japanese, I’m pretty sure that DC will be looking for an English dub to better sell the property in the West.

No official release date has been announced for Suicide Squad ISEKAI, but watch out for the series when it premieres sometime in 2024.

With him out of the relationship though, Max has dropped a trailer for his spinoff Kite Man: Hell Yeah! Which will also feature a lot of other DC faces including Darkseid and Harley Quinn herself. Check this out:

We don’t know much about the story yet, but we should expect some more hijinks with the character who actually had his own memorable moments in the Harley Quinn show.

Though Kite Man is technically a villain, the fact that he was able to step away and let Harley and Ivy be together has fans praising him for being a stand-up guy. Now he’s dating the Golden Glider (who we see in the trailer), the younger sister of Captain Cold.

Max may have been cancelling animated series left and right, so it’s kind of surprising that a character like Kite Man would actually get his own show. It’s unclear how the series will manage to set itself apart from Harley Quinn, but it’s possible we could have some more male-focused stories with even more obscure characters from the comics showing up.

It’s just a guess.

No official release date has been announced for Kite Man: Hell Yeah!, but you can watch out for it on Max sometime in 2024.

Ayer has been very vocal online about wanting to release his cut of the movie (not unlike #ReleaseTheSnyderCut), but he goes into more detail about what went down behind the scenes during an appearance on Jon Bernthal’s Real Ones podcast. Ayer says:

“Hollywood—I tell people—is like watching someone you love get f*cked by someone you hate… The big one is Suicide Squad. That shit broke me. That handed me my ass.”

For context, here was the original tone of Suicide Squad when it was first revealed at Comic-Con 2016:

By the time the movie came out, the film had become more comedic in tone, and it was said that the studio had hired a trailer company to re-edit the movie and make it more “fun”. Ayer continues:

“Come right off Fury, right? I had the town in my hand—could’ve done anything, and I did do anything. And go on this journey with it. And the same thing—authentic, truthful, let’s do all the rehearsal, let’s really get in each other’s souls. Let’s create this amazing, collaborative thing, right? And then Deadpool opened, and they never tested Batman v. Superman, so they were expecting a different result and then they got hammered by all the critics. Then it’s like, ‘Okay, we’re going to turn David Ayer’s dark, soulful movie into a f*cking comedy now.’”

Among the plot points that were said to have been dropped from the original plan was the emphasis on the toxic relationship between Harley and Joker; plus an affair between her and Deadshot. With so many people also hating on Jared Leto’s version of Joker, Ayer has gone to say that no one has ever seen his ‘real’ performance since the studio butchered down what Ayer described as a ‘terrifying’ Clown Prince of Crime.

For now, fans—and Ayer himself—have been trying to  get an online campaign for #ReleaseTheAyerCut online, but with DC’s new management, it’s starting to look unlikely we’ll get the film released.

Who knows, maybe with enough Multiverse hype and another pandemic, maybe Ayer’s Suicide Squad would eventually see the light of day.

One rumor that’s come out is that Barbie star Margot Robbie, who had played the role of Harley Quinn since 2016’s Suicide Squad, is apparently going to keep playing the character moving forward. This comes from @MyTimeToShineH:

I can confirm Margot Robbie will be back as Harley Quinn in the DCU pic.twitter.com/ZYBjR5fOsG

— MyTimeToShineHello (@MyTimeToShineH) August 14, 2023

Granted, there hasn’t been anything official about Robbie keeping the role, but she is one of the most celebrated parts of the old DCEU, and when rumors were going around that Gunn would be rebooting everything, a lot of fans stepped up to have him keep Robbie as Harley.

For now, we don’t really know what Gunn plans to do with Harley. The last we saw of her was when she was in the helicopter having just saved the world from an alien mind-controlling starfish. There were rumors going around that they wanted to have Harley pair up with Poison Ivy down the line, but we haven’t gotten any official updates. There were some that thought that Harley could be in a Gotham City Sirens film, but we haven’t got any updates on that for years.

If anything, it would be great if they could get Robbie back. Personally, I’m still up for director David Ayer releasing his original take on Suicide Squad before the studio meddling, but that could just lead to more muddying of the timeline.

Hopefully Gunn gives us an update soon. For now, catch Robbie in Barbie now screening in theaters.

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With the last season bringing Harley and Ivy together, it looks Season 4 will once again have them at the opposite ends of the hero/villain spectrum, what with Harley joining the Bat-Family and Ivy getting in on Lex Luthor’s Legion of Doom.

While the clash between the Legion and the Justice League is expected, the inclusion of Harley on the heroes’ side is definitely a good set-up for comic book shenanigans and Harley not quite grasping what it means to be a law-abiding hero.

You have to hand it to a show like Harley Quinn. While the DC side of movies had been flip-flopping on what kind of direction to take with its stories, HQ was able to move forward with its zany take on DC characters, with the heroes even being written to be less than perfect than their live-action counterparts.

Not to mention Harley Quinn also manages to make topical jokes at internet pop-culture managing to poke fun at the dark Joker solo movie starring Joaquin Phoenix as well as Zack Snyder’s Justice League loyalists and their hate for ‘woke’ media.

Harley Quinn Season 4 premieres on Max on July 27.

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On While it looks like the Joker is going to be keeping his look from the first movie, everyone has their eyes on Gaga’s version of Harley Quinn. If anything it doesn’t feel like they want to make her look as loud as possible like with Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn. For this timeline’s Harley, she keeps a very simple look, with her hair just looking a little disheveled, white makeup, lipstick, and diamonds on her eyes.

Some set photos have revealed a bright red outfit, and I have a feeling that could be under the jacket that she’s wearing in the photo.

We don’t know this Harley’s story yet, but rumors suggest that her origin could be altered in the film. With Robbie’s Harley keeping the psychiatrist-turned-psycho story, it’s been said that this Harley is going to be a fellow patient in Arkham. With Joker and Harley’s relationship notoriously toxic, I’m wondering if they could alter the story so that they are actually a functional (albeit villainous) couple.

Then again, any seasoned comic fan knows that Joker’s true love is Batman.

Joker: Folie a Deux hits theaters on Oct. 4, 2024.

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— ‎ ً (@HailEternal) March 26, 2023

The headline reads ‘Crazy in Love’ with a mugshot photo of Harleen Francis Quinzel and the sub-title reading “Joker has a New Love”. There’s also something about How to Raise Your Chances Playing Zango Tango, but I doubt that’s going to be relevant for the rest of the film.

Based on what we’ve seen, it looks like the relationship between Harley and Joker could be sensationalized, and we could be looking at a Harley who may have a different dynamic with this Joker. While the original Joker/Harley relationship was an abusive one where Harley loved the Joker but he only used her for his own personal gain; I think there could be a chance that Gaga’s Harley wants to use her relationship with Arthur to catapult herself to stardom.

It’s a major turning of the tables for a character like Harley, but it feels like something we can expect in this timeline. Besides, I never really figured director Todd Phillips would just want to retell the ‘Psychiatrist falls for her patient’ angle when it comes to a new version of Harley.

Then again, that’s just my guess.

Catch Joker: Folie a Deux when it hits theaters Oct. 4, 2024.

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Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn on the set of Joker 2. pic.twitter.com/AVoTMWGzJi

— Pop Base (@PopBase) March 25, 2023

Just like Phoenix’s Joker outfit, it looks like this universe’s Harley is also going for a simpler look, with a simple blazer and makeup. So far, this Harley’s only makeup is the slits around her eyes and the pale face, but her entire outfit is covered in diamonds, from the blazer down to the leggings.

Though fans are familiar with Quinn’s psychiatrist origin, it has been rumored that this movie will be shaking up her story; making her Arthur Fleck’s fellow inmate in Arkham. I can still imagine several other ways to make her shrink angle work, but since the first movie also had a unique take on the Joker, I wouldn’t put it past Todd Phillips to try and change Harley’s story as well.

Who knows, maybe this time, the two will actually be in a functional relationship, as compared to the original conceived romance where Joker just abuses Harley who is just obsessed with him. Fingers crossed we get to a third movie where Arthur takes on his version of Batman.

Catch Gaga in Joker: Folie a Deux when it hits theaters on Oct. 4, 2024.

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We don’t know exactly how the movie will tweak Quinn’s origin for the film, but long-time fans know that she was a psychiatrist at Arkham who was assigned to help the Joker; too bad for Gotham though, because she ended up falling in love with him and even helped him escape.

Seeing that Joker had played around with the origin of the character, even teasing that he could be the half-brother of Bruce Wayne, it’s very likely that they could change Quinn’s story. After all, the relationship is notoriously toxic, with the Joker clearly just using Quinn for his own purposes; but with Arthur Fleck not being known to be a manipulator, maybe this could end up being a more sincere romance in comic book terms.

The first movie was an in-depth character study that drew a lot of inspiration from Martin Scorsese films like Taxi Driver and King of Comedy, but rumors are going around that Folie a Deux will actually be a musical. With the first movie managing to take everyone by surprise, I’m hoping Todd Phillips manages to do the same with the sequel.

Hopefully by the third film, this Joker will be ready to face his true romance with his own version of the Batman.

Joker: Folie a Deux is set to release in theaters on Oct. 4, 2024.

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Here’s the official description:

As Harley goes to obsessive lengths to ensure that her first Valentine’s Day with Ivy is the best ever, Bane’s efforts to impress an unexpected date go horribly awry. Meanwhile, after an unfortunate online dating encounter, Clayface engages in some self-love.

So far, the special looks like its own self-contained story with the focus on Harley and Ivy. With Joker’s presence in the main show, you’d think that he would have something to do with a Valentine’s Day special, then again, a lot of people who write Batman consider the Joker’s real great love is the Dark Knight and not Harley.

Since this show doesn’t really take itself too seriously, we should just expect the Valentine’s Day special to just really have fun with the comic book romance ball. While it’s going to be fun seeing what the other characters would be up to on this holiday, I’m eager to see more of Harley and Ivy’s relationship evolve moving forward. Who’d have thought that sexy clowns and plant moms would go so well together?

Harley Quinn: A Very Problematic Valentine’s Day Special comes to HBO Max on Feb. 9.