Margot Robbie reacts to Harley Quinn’s sad fate in Zack Snyder’s Justice League. Fan favorite Batman universe character Harley Quinn joined the DCEU in 2016’s Suicide Squad. And she exited the DCEU off-screen before the events depicted in the epilogue to Snyder’s Justice League, at least according to Snyder.
The epilogue of Snyder’s Justice League of course depicts a grim future in which Earth has been devastated by Darkseid using the power of The Anti-Life Equation. In the tacked-on scene, Batman, Mera, Cyborg and The Flash are wandering the post-apocalyptic wastes when they happen upon The Joker, played once again by Jared Leto. During the course of this meeting, Batman talks to Joker about killing his former girlfriend Harley Quinn, and tells his nemesis the brutal last words Harley uttered before dying in his arms.
This seemed to some people like a rather unceremonious way to kill off Harley Quinn after all she did for the DCEU. When asked for her take on Harley Quinn’s off-screen Snyder Cut death, Quinn actress Robbie surprisingly revealed that she wasn’t even aware of the Justice League scene. When told the news by an EW interviewer Robbie expressed genuine shock, saying. "Whaaat? I didn't know that. Thank you for telling me!" Robbie then went into her thoughts about Snyder’s way of killing off Quinn, expressing no hard feelings and showing that she’s a good trooper when it comes to the nature of the DC movie universe, which is becoming as stuffed with alternate realities as the comics. She said:
"Each movie is its own sort of thing, and I think that works in the comic book world, and I think that works in the DC film world as well. It's not like Marvel where everything is more obviously linked in a more linear way. It feels like there's so many adjacent stories, worlds, and films happening at the same time, just like there are in the comics. So, yeah, I didn't know that, but it doesn't necessarily change what other people are able to do with this universe, I don't think. What one director decides I don't think dictates what another director might be able to pick up and do with the world and the characters, which is fun.”
Robbie further emphasized that she understands Snyder wanting to go his own way with his take on the fate of Harley Quinn. “He didn't have to be beholden to the version that David Ayer [director of Suicide Squad] set up,” she said, adding “He could pick it up and make it his own, which I'm sure was more appealing for him."
Snyder of course inserts Batman’s news about Harley Quinn’s death as a way of pointing up the mirror-image nature of his relationship with Joker, as Joker previously killed Batman’s own sidekick Robin. But obviously in another completely un-Snyder-related branch of the DC movie multiverse, Harley isn’t even Joker’s sidekick anymore and has taken on a cinematic life of her own through movies like Birds of Prey and The Suicide Squad. In this world, Harley is no longer defined by her relationship with Joker, which may partly be why her "death" in Justice League felt unfair.
Though killing Harley Quinn off-screen certainly suited Snyder’s purposes, while once again making Quinn's story secondary to the Joker's, it’s good to know that the DCEU at large is not in any way beholden to the move Snyder decided to make, meaning the emancipated and much more fun Harley Quinn can return as long as Robbie and DC want to bring her back. The fact that Robbie didn’t even know Snyder had killed Harley Quinn in Justice League just goes to show how loose a concept the “DC Cinematic Universe” actually is, and how truly free creators are to play around within that concept.
Source: EW
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