HarleyQuinn Season 3 Episode 8, 'Batman Begins Forever,' shows a strange but healing trip into the mind of Bruce Wayne.
Editor's note: The below contains spoilers for Season 3 of Harley Quinn.We all know the story. Crime Alley, pearls clattering to the ground, a young Bruce helpless to save his parents from a petty thug with a gun. It’s a crucial part of Batman’s character, and it’s something that is revisited one way or another in every iteration the Caped Crusader appears in.
While the tragic origins have been explored and retold a thousand times over, Harley Quinn does something unique as the show ventures past the basic retelling and explores both the immediate and future ramifications of the event. And since this particular adaptation is set in Bruce’s mind, the possibilities are infinite, something Harley realizes as she decides to intervene. She grabs hold of Bruce and shields his eyes from the traumatic scene.
"A Couple of Weird Years" As they pass more memories in the mind cave, Batman references abound, from Adam West’s bomb-toting Batman to Michael Keaton in Batman Returns, warding off penguin robots, Bruce admits that he has “had a couple of weird years.” A 'Chill' Confrontation What the scene encapsulates is something that couldn’t ever be transcribed in any ordinary story. It wouldn’t make sense for Batman to revert back to a scared 8-year-old boy when faced with terror or trauma in the real world, but one has to imagine he has felt this way before. You’d never know it through his massive, shadowy presence as Batman but as we see in the episode Bruce can’t hide the trauma from himself.
At this point, Joe Chill has transcended beyond the petty thug that shot his parents down, Chill isn’t even a name anymore but a call to action. As long as the Chill in his own mind is hunting and killing his parents, he must continue his mission as Batman. And in order to continue the cycle, Chill Bruce insists that young Bruce goes back with him to continue reliving the memory exclaiming, “Come on, champ. Let’s go watch our parents die. It’s what we deserve.
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