Harley Quinn show makes fun of Snyder cut fans, fans turn it into a positive

[The Laughing Fish]

The other day, the Harley Quinn TV show on the DC Universe app had this meta moment where it depicted a stereotypical angry white guy ranting about "Mary Sues" and "virtue signalling", while wearing a blue T-shirt saying "Release The Snyder Cut".

https://ew.com/tv/harley-quinn-pokes-fun-fanboys-exclusive-clip/

Thankfully, the online fan community embraced the joke by adopting the cartoon character as their Twitter avatar, and they even began to sell T-shirts to the Ink to the People charity.

https://screenrant.com/justice-league-snyder-cut-harley-quinn-joke-shirt/
https://inktothepeople.com/releasethesnydercut-guy-hq
https://twitter.com/RTSnyderCut/status/1256039088110665732

This is the second piece of merchandise sold from that website, following a hoodie branded "Zack Snyder's Justice League" sold for a limited time six months ago.

https://inktothepeople.com/zack-snyder-jl-1

One of the producers of the Harley Quinn show, Justin Halpern, appeared to be impressed by the fans for not taking it seriously.

You folks are very good sports

https://twitter.com/justin_halpern/status/1256054746214920192

What do I think about the joke itself? I'm quite glad the community enjoyed the joke in spite of it and do some good with it, because the joke itself was pretty disingenuous, if you ask me. I'm not impressed the show's writers took their idea of using stereotypes of angry white males and tar it together with Snyder cut supporters. The fact they used another character wearing an anti-Last Jedi T-shirt as some kind of "voice of reason" to project all detractors of that film (and other clumsy agenda-driven movies) as misogynists isn't lost on me either. It's not very subtle.

Try as they might, the Snyder cut fandom is a lot more diverse than people give it credit for.

If we want to play this idiotic game of identity politics, the writers should be more outraged that Joss Whedon inserted a nameless Russian family into a JL movie at the expense of Iris West, Victor Stone's fleshed out character arc including his mother, Ryan Choi, and Swanwick's reveal as Martian Manhunter. But what do I know? If I still paid to see Warner Butchers' content, I'd be really pissed. Thankfully I understood their tone-deaf stupidity a long time ago.

From what I've seen of that Harley Quinn show, I'm not impressed with it either. Nowadays, it feels like DC content is trying too hard to make her into a Deadpool clone. It's getting to a point now the character is losing her appeal. If that's what they're going to keep doing then retire the character right now, because it's a far cry from the BTAS/TNBA days. The last thing we need is a female version of Deadpool. Deadpool is f***ing sh*t.

[thecolorsblend]

With each passing year, Harley Quinn becomes more and more attached to ideas and philosophies that I find abhorrent.

And her starting point was an abusive, dysfunctional relationship with the Joker for crying out loud.

[BatmanFurst]

With each passing year, Harley Quinn becomes more and more attached to ideas and philosophies that I find abhorrent.

And her starting point was an abusive, dysfunctional relationship with the Joker for crying out loud.

Tbh I've never been a fan of the character even on the animated series. Joker is so much more interesting as a single threat. I think Harley's origin is probably the only interesting thing about her. Having said all that the DC Universe show has been a pleasant surprise.

[The Joker]

You know, from the handful of episodes I've seen of this show, it certainly appears like the show's central theme, is that nearly every single person in Gotham is sh*t. Either being jerks, annoying, broken, or some cases, a combination of the three.

Am I surprised the show is making light of Snyder Cut fans? Not really. Am I upset? Nope. At this stage it's just another example of something that's tritely familiar. This Harley Quinn cartoon's approach, if I would want to make comparisons, is essentially like 'what if' the Venture Bros. & Archer had a child with Batman Brave and the Bold. It's defintely not for everyone, as the show is most assuredly not aiming to be "family friendly entertainment", but that's fine. Hell, this show literally went out of it's way to establish the Penguin as Jewish. Which, evidently from the fallout, was a little bit too much on the nose for the emotionally fragile Smokey's out there.

Honestly, I wouldn't even say this show is even trying to highlight Harley Quinn in a postiive light. As the show continually convey's the other villains of Gotham main objective is to simply be on top, where Harley's predisposition for pure anarchy is often stressed. A continuous underlying point.