Harley Quinn vs. The Multiverse

After months of whispers and hypothesis, the trailer for MultiVersus has formally dropped and the DC presence is powerful. Alongside Warner Bros’ most storied characters, Batman, Superman and Surprise Girl 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 will see Harley clearing just about everybody introduced to date. Let’s break it down.
 

The Dwelling Staff: Batman, Superman and Surprise Girl

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 + Pink #11, “Hypothetically Talking,” Harley lays out her plans for a way precisely she’d take out every of the A-Record heroes of the Justice League, benefiting from their core psychological motivations and weaponizing them in opposition to the heroes. Superman will exile himself if it meant another person wouldn’t get harm. Surprise Girl, as a determine of mythology, is subjected to the tales we inform about her. And as for Batman, effectively…Harley’s plan for Batman would have labored, if Bat-lady hadn’t proven up as a substitute. Fortunate for Harley, Kate Kane hasn’t gotten her MultiVersus invite but.
 

Tom & Jerry

What you must keep in mind about Harley Quinn is that considered one of her best strengths isn’t her gymnastic agility, or her aptitude with an enormous mallet—it’s her diploma in psychiatry. Her different nice power, notably within the MultiVersus enviornment: 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 gadgets, Tom & Jerry completely hate one another’s guts. All Harley has to do to take this group down is remind Tom of all of the instances Jerry’s triggered him grievous bodily hurt, and it’s again to your customary sport 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 consider in Steven. No person’s going to get you crying at your TV concerning the significance of acceptance and friendship quicker than Steven Universe. However Steven is from a world the place each battle might be received with an openness of coronary heart and a willingness to hearken to the attitude of an enemy who at all times 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 truly two individuals. (Spoilers for the tip of Steven Universe season one. It’s a very good present, truthfully, go watch it should you haven’t.) If there’s one factor Harley’s discovered from the Joker, it’s how messy breakups might be. All it takes is slightly 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 likely 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 at all times 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 effectively dealt with within the reveal trailer. It’s Bugs Bunny who’s the issue. Bugs, together with his fast wit and documented skill to noticed Florida off the USA of America, is a a lot more durable buyer than he could seem on the floor. However let’s keep in mind Harley did discover a technique 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 received to deliver slightly tortoise to satisfy his hare.
 

Thriller, Inc: Shaggy and Velma

As you’ve already seen within the trailer by now, the usually cowardly Shaggy has been by way of an enormous energy improve on his technique 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 considered one of her trademark egg salad sandwiches on the prepared, she will be able to have Shaggy combating for her very quickly. Now, in opposition to Velma, that is when Harley’s agility is useful. One swipe of her glasses, and he or she’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 received’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 Music of Ice and Fireplace ebook collection and after a sure level, it diverges considerably from the course of the books. Which looks as if data a sure Stark want to know. With entry to the hub of a multiverse, Harley can have her enemy abandoning the battle fully and searching for solutions as quick as she will be able to say “Woman Stoneheart.”
 

The Iron Freaking Big?

Okay, I used to be not ready for this one. This heartwarming mild large of unimaginable energy is clearly going to be powerful to beat—not simply due to his measurement and power, 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 reap the benefits 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

Properly, you may’t beat ‘em all. Finn the Human’s adoptive brother and finest good friend 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 harm a canine. Jake’s received this one.
 

Reindog

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

Contemplating the roster to date, that’s nonetheless a fairly good hit price! Possibly we’ve satisfied you to offer Harley a attempt as your important. If not, then be careful! As , Harley’s additionally identified for breaking the fourth wall…and in a fists-first sport like MultiVersus, do you actually wish to see what would possibly occur should 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 creator of our month-to-month “Ask the Query” column and writes about TV, motion pictures, comics and superhero historical past for DCComics.com. Observe 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.