Greetings nerdy list afficionados and welcome back to Top 10 Nerd today we’re looking
at villains who have wracked up a list of heroes they have defeated today’s contender
is Harley Quinn who over the years since her introduction in 1992 has moved up to being
a fan favourite in the DC universe some even going so far as to say she can get a little
overused at times.
Regardless of how you feel it is clear that Harley Quinn has gone up against some heavy
hitters and bested some that may come as a surprise to you.
I’m Sasha and these are the Top 10 Supeheroes Who Lost To Harley Quinn let’s get started.
Number 10 Batman (mad love) Harley Quinn first debuted in the DC animated universe the DCAU
in the episode Joker’s favour she was meant to just be a one off but fans were intrigued
and really liked the character so she stuck around.
As the series went on she would eventually be given a backstory just how she had fallen
for the clown prince of crime in the first place.
This was handled in the episode mad love which is also the episode where she bests Batman.
In a bid to make her puddin’ happy Harley takes and modifies one of his plans using
herself as bait claiming she finally realizes its’s not funny anymore and going to meet
batman on the pier she then knocks him out and hangs him upside down over a tank of Pirahna
correcting the portion of the joker’s plan he couldn’t figure out how to make the fish
smile.
While she does get Batman trussed up he manages to psych her out but by that time the Joker
gets there and has the opposite reaction to what she was expecting he is infuriated with
her and pushes her out the window.
Number 9 - Tim Drake - Still in the DCAU we’re jumping forward in the timeline a bit to Batman
Beyond but really to when Tim Drake was Robin.
Harley was able to knock him out with her mallet in an alley by pretending to be a women
getting mugged this was so he could be brought back to the Joker and tortured until he became
a little mini Joker who they could then raise together as their son as they had decided
that they wanted children.
The whole thing was horrifying and would end with Harley seemingly falling to her demise
but cartoon logic rules and she survived and was shown to have had grand children who had
grown up to join the Joker’s gang.
Number 8 - Nightwing - This comes to us from the animated film Batman and Harley Quinn
you know the one where Harley ties Nightwing to a bed and has sex with him in a scene you
could never have done the other way regardless of whether you found it hot ot rapey.
So when Batman and Nightwing are tracking down Harley Quinn Dick is the one that finds
her and the two have a fight in the alley outside her work and she bests him hard.
Guess all that training didn’t stick it’s after this that she takes him back to her
apartment and gets undressed in front of him and then when he has a biological response
which fun fact does not indicate consent has her way with him.
He seems into it but again you couldn’t do this the other way hence my salt.
Salt!!
Number 7 - Black Canary - Heading over to the Injustice verse for this one we have Black
Canary coming upon a newly reformed Harley Quinn in the arrowcave and Harley and her
end up getting into a pretty intense fight.
They’re evenly matched throughout most of it until Black Canary who is down for the
moment needs to ask for a bucket to throw up into which effectively stops the fight
as Harley realizes she’s pregnant which yeah not a time to get into a fight where
people who don’t know could be kicked your stomach etc irresponsible.
The two end up sitting down and having a heart to heart where Harley opens up about having
a daughter of her own fathered by the Joker who she had given up so she would have a better
life.
Such was the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Defeated with kindness and empathy and friendship.
Number 6 - Wonder Woman - Along this same vein we have the time Harley joined the Amazon’s
in the event countdown to final crisis which as we now know was far from the final crisis
false advertising this comic needs a name chance.
So Harley would end up in an Amazonian run woman’s shelter and would even train ever
so briefly with Diana.
Harley has wormed her way into the Amazon’s heart in the new 52 as well she does that
some heroes find her endearing and want to give her a chance.
Power Girl felt this way to so I guess this number is just all about her making heroes
not even want to fight her cause they’ve become lowkey friends.
Number 5 - Damien Wayne - No we’re not talking about the new 6 rated series that drops f
bombs and c words and anything else it can to prove that it is indeed adult.
Harley has had a run in with young Damien as early as episode 4 but for this we’re
once more looking at the Injustice universe.
Here Damien is nightwing a mantle he took up after accidentally killing his older brother
Dick Grayson in a moment of anger.
This would of course put a huge distance between him and Bruce, Dick’s his favourite don’t
@ me.
He ends up allying with the regime as a result and when he gets into it with Harley she is
not here for it and she hands his butt right back to him channeling all her rage at what
she feels is his mistaken allegiance which ties into her feelings about her former relationship
with the Joker.
She goes so hard she nearly kills him and she needs to be pulled off.
Take that training with the league of assassins that doesn’t have anything on an angry Harley
Quinn.
Number 4 - Booster Gold we now come to heroes in crisis.
The harley from this story well let’s say she had some special the author likes me OP
powers.
One of the heroes Harley would defeat in this series yes I said one of was Booster Gold.
Her and Booster would both for awhile believe the other was responsible for the deaths at
sanctuary the super secret farmhouse every hero and villain knew about that you had to
go to or the other’s shamed you to get therapy from an A.I who then deleted the information
except it didn’t actually.
Harley would angrily take on Booster Gold and he wouldn’t prove to be much of a challenge
for her why didn’t he use his tech….cause well he didn’t want to hurt her, she just
needed to get that mad out of her system.
This was very much everyone beat up Booster Gold the series, at least he got to have some
pie,
Number 3 - Batman - Yes Harley took on Batman in heroes in crisis as well and she was able
to lasso him up with Wonder Woman’s lasso of truth right around the neck while on his
back.
That’s right harley quinn was able to fight the trinity to a stand still by capturing
Batman, in heroes and crisis harley could do anything she got the lasso off of wonder
woman after she got a hug because she also got a lot of hugs in this series everybody
was really concerned about her.
She nearly broke Batman’s neck.
Number 2 - The Flash (Wally West) - Wally West ended up being the core of heroes in
crisis and some feel it was a moment of complete character assassination while others thought
it was a briliant commentary on mental health.
Regardless of how you feel about that in this comic Harley beat the flash that’s right
an ordinary woman with no powers beat the faster man alive with an oversized hammer
now it would turn out there was a reason for this kinda an elaborate plot set up by Wally
after he had snapped and killed the other people at sanctuary cause he read everybody's
files you know “the deleted ones” he then used the speed force to time travel to cover
up his crimes.
But Wally has flash forward now so maybe there’s still hope for him I believe.
Number 1 - Superman - Yes Harley Quinn took out the man of steel a depowered man of steel
but still, let me explain.
This took place in Harley’s little black book series, in issue 5 an alien wanted to
see a boxing match to take on Earth’s champion the man of steel and ended up with the challenger
being Harley Quinn.
He depowered the man of steel so it would be a “fair fight” and then proceeded to
sit back and watch the action unfold.
So Harley handily beat Clark no contest really she just had the moves and Clark apparently
has never taken anything close to resembling a martial arts class even tho this is hardly
the first time he’s been depowered.
So Superman is knocked out by Harley Quinn who is thrilled tho the reader is reminded
to take Harley’s retellings of events with a grain of salt.
Still this series is meant to be a fun romp of Harley adventures and what more of a tall
tale is there than her taking on the man of steel.
Harley does love roller derby maybe she also loves boxing.
So those were ten superheroes who lost to harley quinn can you think of any others share
your favourite Harley Quinn moment down below.