It’s said that love is strange. For Harley Quinn, it’s going to get stranger,
Season four of the popular and R-rated animated series will start on Max next week, and fans at Comic-Con got a preview during the first day of the event.
Harley (voiced by executive producer Kaley Cuoco) is still in love with Poison Ivy (Lake Bell). However, there’s a problem.
Ivy has joined forces with Lex Luthor to run the Legion of Doom (not the Super Friends version). Harley makes the shocking decision to join Nightwing and Robin, and…well… look below…
Batman is out of action because he was sent to Arkham Asylum at the end of last season.
The main focus, though, is how Harley and Ivy try to make it work despite being on opposite sides. Supervising Producer Cecelia Aranovich Hamilton says both girls have tried to keep their personal and professional lives apart, but that’s not easy. They’ll try, though.
Fellow producer Ian Hamilton says that’s reflected in the scripts he’s been getting. “A lot of times, when you’re reading a script that’s come from the showrunners or the writers,” he says, “and you see yourself so much in the script, you feel like this is written about you.”
That’s why the show resonates with the fans, though. “You feel yourself in these characters,” he says. “You feel yourself having a fight with your significant other or an argument or whatever, It tends to come from that, how true and realistic and heartfelt the writing is.”
Fans will also see some obscure characters from the DC Universe this season, One is Snowflame, who gets his powers from cocaine, while Codpiece fires a beam of light from his loins. Ian says that Codpiece seems to be a popular fellow. “He shows up at important parties,” he says. “He is, for some reason, in the room when big decisions get to be made.”
As for Harley’s future in the DC Universe, and James Gunn’s future role, the producers hope fans will keep embracing her and the show.
Here’s the trailer for Harley Quinn’s new season starting July 27th (and there’s a lot of violence and swearing):
