Previous Post > alright everone is excited about the upcomming Batman movie sure... But has anyone tought to think to cast a harley Quinn jokers sidekick? No of course not, everyone is to fixated on casting a movie and making money if someone would just sit down for a moment and think ok what is important to the role and to stay true to the story. If you honestly think about it, the actress would not have to be some big time star just a good looking annoying voice small woman... Hello thats most of the world! For effect make her a gymnist! but no one once to take the time i get it! > > -Mr. Pickering I really dislike sidekicks. They serve to practical purpose. Batman should be retconned to get rid of sidekicks. Nolan, the awesome director of Batman Begins himself has said he does not like sidekicks and would never feature Robin in any of the films. So if he is not going to have Robin in his films what makes you think he is going to have Harley Quinn in the films? Besides her role would be meaningless in a film about titans fighting it out. It would be like having King Kong fight a T-Rex and then an archeologist shows up in the middle of the fight and says: "Go King Kong! You can do it, I am your biggest fan. "Go Kong!" Then the archeologist throws a rock at the T-Rex. It just does not work and would never work.

> I really dislike sidekicks. They serve to practical purpose. Batman should be retconned to get rid of sidekicks.
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> Nolan, the awesome director of Batman Begins himself has said he does not like sidekicks and would never feature Robin in any of the films. So if he is not going to have Robin in his films what makes you think he is going to have Harley Quinn in the films? Besides her role would be meaningless in a film about titans fighting it out.
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> It would be like having King Kong fight a T-Rex and then an archeologist shows up in the middle of the fight and says: "Go King Kong! You can do it, I am your biggest fan. "Go Kong!" Then the archeologist throws a rock at the T-Rex.
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> It just does not work and would never work.

I don't see your argument. It's been shown in the past that sidekicks (There's gotta be a better word for this) do serve a practical purpose. They can serve as decoys or distractions, they provide input from another perspective, they can do the dirty work or take the fall. They can keep a lookout or watch your back.

In regard to your King Kong analogy, it's not quite the same, being a bit more unbalanced and unreasonable. An archaelogist cannot play on the same field as Kong and a T-Rex on any level. S/he'd just get squashed or eaten. If you look at, in this case, Robin and Harley Quinn, both are effective combatatants and tacticians (When written properly), and have faced their mentor's opposite and come out on top on more than one occasion.

As for it not working, well, one sees a lot of lawkeepers often work in pairs, and there's more than one account of criminals of varying fields having lackeys or accomplices that assisted them.

In regard to the movie, this early on, I'd have trouble with Robin and Harley appearing, but later on? Provided they don't do what they normally do and kill the villain at the end, it'd be cool to see Harley appear, either as a cameo near the end or in a later film. Honestly, it wouldn't be a stretch. Stockholm syndrome isn't a comic book plot device.