Harley Quinn vs. The Multiverse

After months of whispers and hypothesis, the trailer for MultiVersus has formally dropped and the DC presence is robust. Alongside Warner Bros’ most storied characters, Batman, Superman and Marvel Lady have all come to play in a contest to find out the best fighters within the Multiverse.

However let’s be actual, the champion of this specific ring is Harley Quinn.

You doubt? Look, the competitors could also be fierce, however we are able to see Harley clearing just about everybody introduced up to now. Let’s break it down.
 

The Dwelling Workforce: Batman, Superman and Marvel Lady

Don’t suppose Harley Quinn has what it takes to beat the best heroes within the DC Universe? Higher suppose once more. In Harley Quinn: Black + White + Purple #11, “Hypothetically Talking,” Harley lays out her plans for the way precisely she’d take out every of the A-Listing heroes of the Justice League, making the most of their core psychological motivations and weaponizing them towards the heroes. Superman will exile himself if it meant another person wouldn’t get damage. Marvel Lady, as a determine of mythology, is subjected to the tales we inform about her. And as for Batman, properly…Harley’s plan for Batman would have labored, if Bat-lady hadn’t proven up as an alternative. Fortunate for Harley, Kate Kane hasn’t gotten her MultiVersus invite but.
 

Tom & Jerry

What it’s important to keep in mind about Harley Quinn is that one in every of her biggest strengths isn’t her gymnastic agility, or her aptitude with a giant mallet—it’s her diploma in psychiatry. Her different nice energy, notably within the MultiVersus area: popular culture consciousness. She’s watched sufficient TV and cartoons to know who all of those guys are. And just about everybody is aware of that, left to their very own units, Tom & Jerry completely hate one another’s guts. All Harley has to do to take this workforce down is remind Tom of all of the instances Jerry’s brought on him grievous bodily hurt, and it’s again to your commonplace recreation of cat-and-mouse.
 

Finn the Human

Finn of Journey Time is a well-traveled hero who, in need of possibly Batman or Bugs, has extra expertise coping with all types of cartoony nonsense than anybody else right here. However he does have one dependable weak spot: a debilitating worry of the ocean. So long as Harley calls dibs on stage choice, she will be able to win earlier than the battle even begins by setting the battle on a seaside someplace. I imply, the Crystal Gems dwell on a seaside, in order that’s most likely a secure guess for a selectable stage, proper? Talking of…
 

The Crystal Gems: Garnet and Steven Universe

Don’t get us fallacious: like anybody with eyes, ears and a coronary heart, we imagine in Steven. No person’s going to get you crying at your TV concerning the significance of acceptance and friendship sooner than Steven Universe. However Steven is from a world the place each battle may be gained with an openness of coronary heart and a willingness to take heed to the angle of an enemy who all the time seems to easily be misunderstood. Steven Universe has not met Harley Quinn. Harley’s about to offer Steven a lesson in belief, which is to say, don’t give it to everybody. As for Garnet, she’s a fairly succesful fighter, however like Tom & Jerry, she’s additionally really two individuals. (Spoilers for the top of Steven Universe season one. It’s a very good present, actually, go watch it when you haven’t.) If there’s one factor Harley’s realized from the Joker, it’s how messy breakups may be. All it takes is a bit of wedge of doubt between the Ruby and Sapphire who make up Garnet for Harley to separate them aside and seize her win.
 

The Looney Tunes: Bugs Bunny and Taz

Toon energy is without doubt one of the hardest to beat in a multiverse battle of clashing tones. In spite of everything, it doesn’t matter what you throw at a cartoon, they all the time comically bounce again. The benefit Harley has is that she’s one thing of a cartoon herself. In spite of everything, she does originate from an animated collection. Plus, Harley already appears to have Taz properly dealt with within the reveal trailer. It’s Bugs Bunny who’s the issue. Bugs, together with his fast wit and documented capacity to noticed Florida off the US of America, is a a lot more durable buyer than he might seem on the floor. However let’s keep in mind Harley did discover a method to deal with Bugs’s DC counterpart, Captain Carrot, again in Convergence: Harley Quinn, so it’s a battle she’s ready to win. She’s simply bought to convey a bit of tortoise to fulfill his hare.
 

Thriller, Inc: Shaggy and Velma

As you’ve already seen within the trailer by now, the usually cowardly Shaggy has been by means of an enormous energy improve on his method to this battle. However at the same time as he ascends to anime-style energy ranges, Shaggy nonetheless has the identical weak spot for meals. So long as Harley has one in every of her trademark egg salad sandwiches on the prepared, she will be able to have Shaggy combating for her very quickly. Now, towards Velma, that is when Harley’s agility turns out to be useful. One swipe of her glasses, and she or he’s famously helpless with out them.
 

Arya Stark

Now, it’s getting more durable. In case you’re one of many three individuals who hasn’t seen it but, Arya Stark is everybody’s favourite little badass from Recreation of Thrones, a lethal terror with a blade and an murderer with a thousand faces. However Harley is one thing Arya gained’t see coming and the one factor George R.R. Martin treats with extra reverence than a knight on a mission—Harley Quinn is a reader. Recreation of Thrones relies on Martin’s A Tune of Ice and Hearth e-book collection and after a sure level, it diverges considerably from the course of the books. Which looks like data a sure Stark wish to know. With entry to the hub of a multiverse, Harley can have her enemy abandoning the battle fully and in search of solutions as quick as she will be able to say “Girl Stoneheart.”
 

The Iron Freaking Large?

Okay, I used to be not ready for this one. This heartwarming mild large of unbelievable energy is clearly going to be powerful to beat—not simply due to his dimension and energy, however as a result of I can’t think about anybody right here having the capability to ever hurt him. Harley is loopy, although. So, possibly she will be able to make the most of his naivete like she did with Steven. Or, I don’t know, a large magnet or one thing. Bugs most likely has the ACME hookup.
 

Jake the Canine

Effectively, you may’t beat ‘em all. Finn the Human’s adoptive brother and greatest buddy has all of the stretchy powers of Plastic Man, which already places him in a excessive tier. However on high of that, he’s additionally a canine. And as readers of Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti’s Harley Quinn know, Harley would by no means, ever damage a canine. Jake’s bought this one.
 

Reindog

I, uh, don’t know what a Reindog is. We’re fairly positive this man’s new right here. Harley’s on her personal.
 

Contemplating the roster up to now, that’s nonetheless a fairly good hit charge! Possibly we’ve satisfied you to offer Harley a attempt as your most important. If not, then be careful! As you understand, Harley’s additionally identified for breaking the fourth wall…and in a fists-first recreation like MultiVersus, do you actually need to see what may occur when you make her mad?

MultiVersus, the free-to-play platform fighter from Warner Bros. Video games and Participant First Video games, hits open beta this June. For extra data on how one can get in on the Closed Alpha, click on right here.

Alex Jaffe is the writer of our month-to-month “Ask the Query” column and writes about TV, films, comics and superhero historical past for DCComics.com. Comply with him on Twitter at @AlexJaffe and discover him within the DC Group as HubCityQuestion.

NOTE: The views and opinions expressed on this characteristic are solely these of Alex Jaffe and don’t essentially replicate these of DC Leisure or Warner Bros.