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For any long time Batman fan, if they were to pin point where things got very dark in Batman lore, the most popular choices would have to be in Frank Miller's run on Batman, or even Denny O'Neil to some measurement. However the darkest moment came in "A Death In The Family", which told the story of the death of the second Robin, Jason Todd. Now we could list reasons about why this was the darkest comic and the controversies of trying to "kill" Robin, or whether or not if Jason should have died or this being the early examples of how fans can get really ugly to throw the poor kid under the crowbar, what can be said is how it impacted The Batman mythology and those around them. The person who seemed to be less effected was a character who debuted in the 90s: Harley Quinn.

Realistically in other media, they would've portrayed Harley to be basically Punchline, or have her enjoy helping Joker torture Bruce Wayne by torturing his closest allies, but some of those stories usually forget the human side of her. In the DC Unlimited, the human side of the character is just as important if not more so than the costume. In this reality, Harley Quinn was involved in the storyline, "A Death in The Family", she even went along with helping Joker capture Jason, and expect things to run like they normally do, Batman gets involved, saves Jason, finds and tosses Joker and Harley into Arkham, to let him plan his next caper and things start all over again. But this time, Joker was fed up with Batman always winning. So he thought of a different game. It didn't take her long to find out what Joker was doing with a crowbar, and let's just say the henchmen he hired have an axe to grind with Jason. Then she saw the brutality inflicted on the kid, when Joker beat him with the crowbar, and Joker was laughing as he did so. Harley was shocked with the joy he did. Sure if it were a grown up Dick Grayson, she would've been fine. But she saw how inexperienced this kid was, and how he didn't fair much of a chance. She was angry with angry with both Batman and Joker for bringing a kid into this game. And she felt remorse and guilt for what was happening to the poor Robin, to the point of actually crying and shedding a tear for him, and for the first time her life hoping for the unexpected "Hurry Batman. Please."

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For any long time Batman fan, if they were to pin point where things got very dark in Batman lore, the most popular choices would have to be in Frank Miller's run on Batman, or even Denny O'Neil to some measurement. However the darkest moment came in "A Death In The Family", which told the story of the death of the second Robin, Jason Todd. Now we could list reasons about why this was the darkest comic and the controversies of trying to "kill" Robin, or whether or not if Jason should have died or this being the early examples of how fans can get really ugly to throw the poor kid under the crowbar, what can be said is how it impacted The Batman mythology and those around them. The person who seemed to be less effected was a character who debuted in the 90s: Harley Quinn.

Realistically in other media, they would've portrayed Harley to be basically Punchline, or have her enjoy helping Joker torture Bruce Wayne by torturing his closest allies, but some of those stories usually forget the human side of her. In the DC Unlimited, the human side of the character is just as important if not more so than the costume. In this reality, Harley Quinn was involved in the storyline, "A Death in The Family", she even went along with helping Joker capture Jason, and expect things to run like they normally do, Batman gets involved, saves Jason, finds and tosses Joker and Harley into Arkham, to let him plan his next caper and things start all over again. But this time, Joker was fed up with Batman always winning. So he thought of a different game. It didn't take her long to find out what Joker was doing with a crowbar, and let's just say the henchmen he hired have an axe to grind with Jason. Then she saw the brutality inflicted on the kid, when Joker beat him with the crowbar, and Joker was laughing as he did so. Harley was shocked with the joy he did. Sure if it were a grown up Dick Grayson, she would've been fine. But she saw how inexperienced this kid was, and how he didn't fair much of a chance. She was angry with angry with both Batman and Joker for bringing a kid into this game. And she felt remorse and guilt for what was happening to the poor Robin, to the point of actually crying and shedding a tear for him, and for the first time her life hoping for the unexpected "Hurry Batman. Please."