Has a favourite character of yours ever been screwed over by an adaptation or remake of whatever it is he/she appeared in? Perhaps the writers made a boring stereotype out of someone who was once complex and three-dimensional, or conversely tried to squeeze too much depth out of a deliberately simplistic personality? Well, here's your chance to complain about it!
WARNING: WHINING AHEAD
I recently worked my way through all four seasons of Batman: The Animated Series, and the one character I found the most consistently entertaining to watch was Harley Quinn. She's air-headed and exuberant, yet never so much that it gets on my nerves and in fact it just makes her all the more likeable. Yet under her bubbly exterior she's surprisingly competent and dangerous, especially when working on her own (she very nearly killed Batman single-handedly, and would have done so if she hadn't been thrown out a window by a certain abusive boyfriend. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC5v5dLMW2A])
Harley Quinn in the Rocksteady games... not so much. Don't get me wrong, I love both Arkham Asylum and Arkham City, but their Harley is just annoying. She's more or less reduced to being a brainless bimbo groupie, especially in Arkham City where the extent of her roll is to set a completely ineffectual trap for Batman and to whack him with a bat after he's already been gassed by the Joker. The next time you see her she's tied up for some reason, and after that she disappears until the very end of the game and only shows up for about one second. Disappointing, to say the least.
PS: Keep in mind that I haven't played Harley Quinn's Revenge, so I can't say whether it improves things or not. Still, for the most part it seems like they should have just left her out of the Arkham games.
PPS: Also I don't like her new costumes, because I'm probably gay and like penis.
I recently worked my way through all four seasons of Batman: The Animated Series, and the one character I found the most consistently entertaining to watch was Harley Quinn. She's air-headed and exuberant, yet never so much that it gets on my nerves and in fact it just makes her all the more likeable. Yet under her bubbly exterior she's surprisingly competent and dangerous, especially when working on her own (she very nearly killed Batman single-handedly, and would have done so if she hadn't been thrown out a window by a certain abusive boyfriend. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC5v5dLMW2A])
Harley Quinn in the Rocksteady games... not so much. Don't get me wrong, I love both Arkham Asylum and Arkham City, but their Harley is just annoying. She's more or less reduced to being a brainless bimbo groupie, especially in Arkham City where the extent of her roll is to set a completely ineffectual trap for Batman and to whack him with a bat after he's already been gassed by the Joker. The next time you see her she's tied up for some reason, and after that she disappears until the very end of the game and only shows up for about one second. Disappointing, to say the least.
PS: Keep in mind that I haven't played Harley Quinn's Revenge, so I can't say whether it improves things or not. Still, for the most part it seems like they should have just left her out of the Arkham games.
PPS: Also I don't like her new costumes, because I'm probably gay and like penis.
