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Why Harley Quinn And The Joker Shouldn't Be Your #Relationshipgoals

Are you sure these are your #RelationshipGoals?

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Why Harley Quinn And The Joker Shouldn't Be Your #Relationshipgoals
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The world has been going crazy for the new "Suicide Squad" movie, which dropped in theaters August 5. I decided to jump on the bandwagon, and I sure am glad I did. The movie was epic, and I'm not usually one to rave about a movie like this. Prior to this, I have never seen a single DC Comic movie. Nope, not one. I guess I'd consider myself a Marvel kind-of-person. So, naturally, I'm not going to know much about the DC heroes -- or, as you can find in this movie, anti-heroes. One notorious DC couple the average Joe is bound to know, though, is Harley Quinn and Joker. At first, I'll admit, I figured it was like any other relationship found in those superhero movies, loving and caring and whatnot. I learned quickly that this relationship was the total opposite. However, I do not live under a rock and I stumbled across many posts around all kinds of social media platforms romanticizing and praising the relationship between Harley Quinn and the Joker. Many of these posts contain pictures that may have been taken out of context, some posts were even fan art. Those aren't the things you should be basing your opinions off of, people!

From the back story provided by "Suicide Squad," Harleen Quinzel was a psychiatrist at a mental hospital, which is where she met the Joker, who she ended up falling in love with. She was so smitten by "Mistah J" she admitted to him she'd do anything for him. That's what every man wants to hear, although the Joker may have taken it a bit too far. She threw herself into chemicals for the man, please explain to me how you'd consider that "#relationshipgoals." Her pretty face and seductive ways can only get her so far, although it doesn't really seem the Joker expects much more from her, and it seems he prefers her as a ditz rather than the intelligent doctor she was before.

The pain, the suffering, the mental games the Joker plays with Harley, and yet she's still madly in love with him. It's an abusive and manipulative relationship, one she just can't seem to get enough of. I mean, who wouldn't want the man they love to send strong electric shocks through their head? Sounds like an ideal date night to me.

The provocative look Harley Quinn gives off can be assumed to be the work of the Joker. The Puddin' collar is a nice touch, I'll give him that.

While there're rumors that the movie's deleted scenes contained even more of Harley Quinn and her abuser, the director tried to show the "softer" side of the Quinn/Joker drama. All the times the Joker drops "baby" and offers a loving embrace to Harley, we see a different side of their relationship. In fact, the scene where the Joker pushes Harley out of the stolen helicopter as it plummets to the ground was supposed to be carried out much differently. In the final cut, we see him push Harley out of the helicopter to save her life when originally he was supposed to push her out of the plane to kill her. Yeah... relationship goals for sure. In my opinion, the Joker is just keeping up the mind games to keep his lover in the twisted, deranged love story he has concocted in his mind.

So, come on, is this what you'd want in a relationship? I don't know about you, but a relationship like this isn't one I'd want to be posting about on social media with #relationshipgoals in the caption, but that's just me. After all, straight from the mouth of Harley Quinn herself, "you think after living with Mistah J I'd be used to a little pain."


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