DC Youngverse/Tropes


 * Adaptational Badass:
 * In this version, Harley Quinn is shown to be an athlete in addition to her skills as an aspiring therapist.
 * This version has the Joker taking the Man-Bat serum, making him a far more physically imponent fighter.
 * Adaptational Intelligence: While still pretty much The Ditz, Harley is smarter tan most versions, mainly due to her failing in love with the Joker due to a facination with creepy clowns instead of believing bullcrap from him, and being able to see the monster he is far sooner than most versions.
 * Adaptational Nice Guy: While Harley Quinn still has a crush on the Joker, she ultimately chooses her friendship with Barbara Gordon over him, to the point of helping her defeat the Joker and becoming her crime-fighting partner afterwards.
 * An Aesop:
 * If you wanna change the world, do it in a way that both is morally right and in your own way.
 * Nobody tells you who you are.
 * Author's Saving Throw: Similar to The Lego Batman Movie, the film avoided protests towards the Bruce/Barbara ship by explicity showing them in a mentor/mentee relationship, to not to mention the age gap between both being too high for even supporters to support it here.
 * The Cameo: Detective Candice, Rupert Thorne's assistant in Batman: The Animated Series, briefly appears during a poker game with the Joker where she tells him about Batgirl during a conversation. She later provides information on Batgirl to the Joker in exchange of survival.
 * Character Relaiment: A franchise-wide example. The film potrays the Batman mythos closer to their pulp science fiction potrayal from the comics, something only The Lego Batman Movie has shown in theatrical Batman films, and avoiding the Badass Normal potrayal shown eber since The Dark Knight Trilogy.
 * Composite Character:
 * This version of Batgirl is level-headed like lost of her potrayals, but occasionally shows a Genki Girl actitudes closer to her 2019 DC Superhero Girls self.
 * This version of Harley Quinn has her usual Ditz/Genki Girl aspects, is best friends with Batgirl like her 2019 DCSHG self, and is a more heroic person much like her New 52 self.
 * This version of Batman is more akin to the Burton version, but his reasons for retirement are similar to those in Batman Beyond.
 * Disney Villain Death: The Joker dies by falling from a plane into Gotham City while trying to catch a Batarang Batgirl dropped.
 * He Really Can Act:
 * While no one doubted Genesis Rodriguez would have the comedy chops required to voice Harley Quinn, she also manages to deliver some surprisingly heartwarming lines while still feeling pretty much in-character gor Harley.
 * Everybody agrees that Mark Hamill's vocal performance as the Joker is one hell of a Tough Act To Follow, but it is unanimously agreed that Tom Hiddleston more than managed to live up to the task by providing a performance just as creepy and entertaining as Hamill while giving the character a level of eloquence that allows his interpretation to stand on his own.
 * Meaningful Echo: Upon being given the mantle of Batgirl, Barbara exclaims "I'm Batgirl!". She later repeats these words after choosing to make the world a happier place and do things her way, when a poor man asks her who she is.
 * Mythology Gag:
 * Before fighting the Joker, Harley Quinn says "Hey, Joker. You wanna get nuts? Come on! Let's get nuts!"
 * Harley's entrance at the climax causes the Joker to ask Batgirl "Is she with you?". The shot also resembkes the scene in which Catwoman met Batman and the Penguin in Batman Returns.
 * Shirley Walker's The New Batman Adventures theme appears througth the film.
 * At one point in the film, Batgirl says to Bruce that he should have tried with contacting Wonder Woman if he tried go fight Kryptonians due to their weakness to magic.
 * This version of Harley uses a javelin to fight as well as her maze, a nod to her being given one in The Suicide Squad.
 * A joke at the start of the film has Gotham Vuty being referred as "the one place worse than Corto Maltese",
 * Barbara's school is called "Faust's School for Gifted Young Minds", a nod to 2019 DCSHG creator Lauren Faust.
 * Barbara's room has posters with nods to Batman composers from Shirley Walker to Michael Giacchino.
 * During the end credits, Batgirl and Harley can be seen fighting alongside Bumblebee, Jessica Cruz' Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, Supergirl, and Zatanna; all of them starred in the 2019 DCSHG series alongside Batgirl.
 * Upon learning of Batman's retirement, Joker says that "without Batman, crime has no punchline".
 * At one point, the film recreates the Joker's dance in the stairs from his solo film.
 * Joker's appearamce before learning of Batgirl is similar to that of Heath Ledger's potrayal.
 * The scene where Joker learns of Batgirl while playing poker with corrupt detective Candice is an homage to an episode of Batman: The Animated Series.
 * Role Reprise: Michael Keaton reprises his role from the Burton films and The Flash as the voice of Batman.
 * Take That!:
 * After the Joker is done dancing on stairs, ge starts dancing on the ground in a manner simikar to Emo Peter's mementically famous Spider-Man 3 dance... only that this clearly is meant to be intentionally ridiculous.
 * At the start of the film, while mocking Batman due to his age, Joker says he "kinda looks like Iron Man".
 * Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: While the film is relatively lighthearted, specially for a movie based on the Batman franchise, it neverthless dosen't sugarcoat how much of a monster the Joker is, being as every bit as terrifying as always.
 * Unexpected Character:
 * To see Detective Candice, a minor character from Batman: The Animated Series, have a role at all in the story was quite a shock to many.
 * Man-Bat surprised auduences by actually showing up here. Ehile in the actual film his alter-ego dosen't habe a big role, at least the serum does.
 * On that note, nobody expected to see the more unknown Man-Bat Commandos making their theatrical debut here.