Harleen Quinzel

Three years ago Harleen Quinzel was a promising grad student of Psychiatry at Gotham University who had earned the one single thing she wanted more than anything else: An internship at Arkham. A fairly quiet girl, only her academics made her stand out from the crowd and with continued signs of excelling, and several pleads to Professor Crane, she even managed to gain the ability to speak with and analyze the individual focused on in her dissertation.

No one is entirely certain how it was that the Joker played a part in transforming the shy Quinzel into the eccentric Harley Quinn or how it was exactly that she managed to break him out of Arkham and gained a place seemingly at his right hand for the next few years. Even those who worked for the Joker and were later questioned by authorities could only begin to speculate what significance, if any, the woman had. Most would state that she simply was a glorified, obsessive henchman who was convinced that she was in a romantic relationship with the criminal. Others wondered if there was more to it.

With the Joker's death, Quinzel has vanished into the Gotham underworld. Some even believe her to have been killed herself without the apparent "protection" that the Joker offered her. Rumors however, state that she is living with fellow criminal and friend Pamela Isley and has gained a new subject of obsession: the death of Batman.