Editor-in-chief Dan Didio would later insist, “She was never really a Robin.”Īs such, Birds of Prey affords these characters a sense of agency and dynamism that has often been denied them. Brown was briefly the first canon female Robin, orchestrated strictly for dramatic effect to increase the impact of death during the “War Games” storyline. The Black Mask’s most high-profile story, which briefly bumped him up to B-list status in the rogues’ gallery, found him brutally torturing and murdering Stephanie Brown. It is notable that the film’s primary villain is the D-list Batman baddie Black Mask.
She soon broke out, became the focus of her own stories, and made her way into the comic continuity, but until recently she was entirely defined by the Joker. The character was created for “Joker’s Favor,” an episode of Batman: The Animated Series, to serve as henchwoman to the Clown Prince of Crime. Harley Quinn is a character who is defined by her relationship to the Joker, in a very literal sense. Cassandra is the product of a broken home, her parents heard arguing but never seen. Harley recalls her relationship with a father who continually abandoned her. Renee Montoya (Rosie Perez) works in the Gotham City Police Department, but there’s no mention of James Gordon. Birds of Prey is aware of both - especially through their absence.īirds of Prey is populated with absent authority figures, drawn from both continuity and character.
Harley makes one explicit mention of “the Batman” while recounting her life story to Cassandra Cain (Ella Jay Basco), and the Joker appears in both a cartoon prologue and as a shoulder in a quick flashback origin story sequence. This is a Batman and Joker story, but without Batman and the Joker. This is a statement of purpose for Birds of Prey. No one gives two shits who we are, beyond that.” Harley drunkenly answers her own question, explaining, “A harlequin’s role is to serve. “Do you know what a harlequin is?” Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) asks Dinah Lance (Jurnee Smollett-Bell) early in Birds of Prey.
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