#harlequin teen

[chernobog13]

The full membership of the Teen Titans, circa 1977, by the late, great George Perez.

This is from when there were two teams - Titans East (Robin, Kid Flash, Wonder Girl, Speedy, Aqualad, Guardian, Bumblebee, and Harlequin), and Titans West (Hawk, Dove, Lilith, Gnark, Bat-Girl, Golden Eagle, Beast Boy) - and before Perez and writer Marv Wolfman brought the concept to new heights with The New Teen Titans.

[dcdreamblog]

I was reading about heroic legacies and clown themed people and was suddenly reminded of this superheroine? supervillianess? who has claimed to be the daughter of like half of Gotham's male rogues, I think the one that stuck was calling her the Joker's Daughter, I think she was called Harlequin for a time (weirdly fitting considering the most famous lover of his), pretty sure she was on the Titans for awhile, last I heard of her she was apparently from a universe where the Joker is a good guy?

The woman you are referring to was named Duela Dent and, without wishing to make light. She seemed to be a very sick woman.

(A file photo of Dent, during one of the times she seemed on a stable period with the Titans) She just sort of appeared one day on a mad spree, claiming within hours of her appearance to be the daughter of the Joker, Catwoman, the Penguin, Scarecrow and finally "settling" on Two-Face (her given name is more than likely an alias of some kind). She vanished after her first encounter with Robin leaving many questions left unanswered. She appeared sometime later alongside the Titans, who assured the public she was attempting to make up for the misdeeds of her malevolent sire (not that they never actually pin down who that is. Probably because they also don't know)

She eventually changed her nom de geurre to Harlequin (though note, due to the spelling she's actually stealing from golden age villainess Molly Mayne, not Harleen Quinzel, whose Harley Quinn moniker has always been an intentional pun on her coincidental legal name.)

She was their firm ally until sometime after the team's refoundation in the wake of the Technus Crisis (that time a big pile of space junk tried to eat the moon). After that...

It's uncertain whether Ms. Dent's struggles with mental health are a lifelong malady or just something she developed later in life, I'm not her psychologist.

She has been on the Titans for short spells, but also has a pattern of randomly showing up in violent incidents were she rants about the Titans and her own mysterious parentage to anyone who will listen, racing for as long as she is allowed and then being taken into custody by her very concerned teammates.

She has had a long series of stays, both consensual and forced at the Helping House Mental Institution in Industry, California. As far as I know she's there now but its neither my business nor my interest to snoop. What I can tell you is she hasn't been seen in public in years.

If she truly is the daughter of one of Gotham's criminal elite then one can only guess at her trauma and applaud her for attempting to make good on their legacy despite whatever scars they left her with. If her idea of villainous parentage at all is a part of her mental struggles, then she still deserves support for battling again and again and always ending up on the side of the angels after all. No matter what, people are alive now who wouldn't have been because of her and that always deserves kudos.

[nerdytextileartist]

Pre-Crisis Duela Dent for @judedeluca, ink and color pencil, text GIMP.

After Alberto Vargas.

Happy Birthday, Jude.

[onlylonelylatino]

The Teen Titans by George Pérez

[blasphemlm]

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I'd love to hear you talk about something you physically have to stop yourself from bringing up or sharing with just everyone you run into lol

This is totally out of left field but... the requirements for romance as a genre. 

I was a very isolated teen who got a metric fuckton of those harlequin romance novels at a used booksale (and other nefarious means), and as a result I can clock a romance subgenre vs Romance genre story from a mile away. I also have a visceral hatred for stories that pair naive FLs with unlikable MLs, but that's a different topic.

To be considered Romance, it needs 3 things; a happily ever after, a main plot that centers around the relationship, and conflict which eventually leads to character growth.

Without these things the story falls into one of the hundreds of subgenres of romance. Kinda like how horror has so many subgenres, romance also has different branches, each with their own requirements and vibes.

Now I could get into the nitty gritty and talk about how I don't think a story should be considered romance if the Love Interest is inherently unlikable and misogynistic. Or how the Romance genre in general gets a bad rap for its intended audience (also misogynistic). But then we'd be here all day and my opinions are just that, opinions.

[iodoesdolls]

My dolls from the 1970s Teen Titans team! Bumblebee, Nightwing (although he was still Robin back then), and Harlequin.

[dailydccomics]

lmao Duela just wants to have fun ok!!! Teen Titans vol 3 #45

[thearcalian]

[judedeluca]

I wonder how many Titans fans know that Vogue and Shaft from Rob Liefeld's Youngblood are reconfigured versions of Duela Dent and Roy Harper from a failed pitch Liefeld made for a Titans comic in the early 90s

[ionalottabookmarks]

Do I want red hair or purple hair for my Duela Dent costume?

[doctorslippery]

[chernobog13]

Teen Titans East (Robin, Wonder Girl, Kid Flash, Aqualad, Bumblebee, Guardian, Speedy, and Harlequin) and Teen Titans West (Bat-Girl, Lilith, Gnarkk, Beast Boy, Hawk, Dove, and Golden Eagle) pose for a commemorative photograph in Teen Titans (vol. 1) #52 (December, 1977). Art by Don Heck and Bob Smith; colors by Jerry Serpe; letters by Milt Snappin.

This was the penultimate issue of the series, the cancellation of which had already been announced. The following issue would be the last, featuring Bumblebee and Guardian looking through a casebook to learn the untold tale of the formation of the team. When Bumblebee and Guardian finish the other members arrive to announce that the Teen Titans are being disbanded so the members can purse their own solo careers.

That didn't last long, though, as the team would be back in 1980 under new management - Marvel Wolfman and George Perez - as the New Teen Titans.

[devilsworks]

At @/jaytoddz request on insta, Have DUELA DENT!!!! (As Harlequin) I found out how she was back in Ram V's TEC a few weeks ago and ofc had to tell my fellow Duela lover, we're both glad she's back and hope she continues to appear :D

[thebestcomicbookpanels]

Harlequin in Teen Titans #48

[cryptocollectibles]

The Official Teen Titans Index #1 (1995) by ICG

Written by Murray R. Ward, cover by Chuck Patton & Al Gordon.

[blanddcheadcanons]

Duela Dent/Harlequin and Riddler's daughter/Enigma are in lesbians

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