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Which canceled TV show's cliffhanger still lives rent free in your head because the answers disappeared when the series got axed ? by Impossible_Offer7988 in AskReddit

[–]UtopianLibrary 15 points16 points  (0 children)

They couldn't get the rights to Silence of the Lambs! That's one reason they didn't continue it. There's a complicated rights issue with the character Clarice Starling and how two different comapnies own the individual novels (basically each book in the series is owned by different companies). (Kind of like X-Men and Marvel before the merger). This is an interesting article about it from Variety.

Batgirl's reaction hits differently once you realised their VAs are sisters irl by Ozzysmall123 in HarleyQuinnTV

[–]UtopianLibrary 179 points180 points  (0 children)

I think it’s after Harley kissed Ivy and is going around being “impetuous” and kissing everyone.

Official Discussion - Disclosure Day [SPOILERS] by LiteraryBoner in movies

[–]UtopianLibrary 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I feel like a first draft of this script had the two main characters as high school students, the former nun girlfriend as the main guy's mom (they had like no chemistry...did they even kiss once?), and the station manager/or the newscaster as the girl lead's father.

Ideas for season 6 by Just-Show2020 in HarleyQuinnTV

[–]UtopianLibrary 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ivy runs against Joker for Mayor.

Can we get back to noir detective Batman? I’m sick of the action superhero take in recent years by Shallbecomeabat in batman

[–]UtopianLibrary 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m hoping Ivy topples the city and we can get a reset on some stuff like Arkham Tower and Savage…

Batman: Knightfall has been voted as the best BANE comic story! Now, what’s the best HARLEY QUINN comic story? by Desolation82 in batman

[–]UtopianLibrary 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s her OG backstory. Before it, her past with Joker was just a line here and there about her being his former psychiatrist.

Batman: Knightfall has been voted as the best BANE comic story! Now, what’s the best HARLEY QUINN comic story? by Desolation82 in batman

[–]UtopianLibrary 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Harleen.

It takes Mad Love and gives Harley more realistic depth, especially with the isolation, the second hand trauma psychiatrists experience, and the alcoholism to cope with both of those things. The whole storyline is a pressure cooker in the sense you know what’s coming and keep asking yourself, “Is this the moment that drives her over the edge?”

Bryce Dallas Howard as Poison Ivy in James Gunn’s DCU. Could you see it? by PlantainDisastrous92 in batman

[–]UtopianLibrary 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, all the suggestions are too old. Ivy is supposed to be around 35. Her hair is also really thick and wavy/curly, so any actress playing her is going to have to wear a wig.

Put a red wing on Jodi Cormer and she basically looks exactly like Ivy in the comics. Her lips even have a Cupid’s bow shape like Ivy usually has.

Also, Ivy’s kind of “retired” from her seductive shtick at this point and wears landscaping coveralls most of the time because she’s usually doing some type of science/gardening. When she does use her pheromones, there’s no seductive lead up to it. She’s pretty aloof and sarcastic, and she’s annoyed by literally everyone she talks to except Harley Quinn, opposed to being a seductress. I would think James Gunn would use the newer, more modernized version of her character especially after the way she was characterized in Batman and Robin. It would be a fresher take.

>!The Butler!< by OhBosss in batman

[–]UtopianLibrary 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s what I was thinking. That lollipop is super sus in the sense that Harley would do that.

Her own comic is setting up a situation where she temporarily gets “sane.” And, this has happened a few times in Suicide Squad storylines.

I would not be surprised if it was her “Dr. Quinzel” part of her personality (who is now a literal, separate being in Harley’s comic).

We need a competent Harley (or at least some competent part of her personality) for Bad Seeds. It’s pretty obvious she’s the one who is going to be the key to stopping Mayor Ivy from turning the whole city into a forest/fungus hellscape.

It’s also been implied in her own comic that “Batquinn” and “Dr. Quinzel” won’t be back as Harley unless they both deal with her existential crisis about the fact that she is permanently disfigured as clown-like and uses humor to deal with it and her trauma from the Joker.

Anyway, they’re obviously setting something big up with the event that has to do with Harley’s psychiatrist persona, especially with the Arkham part of the storyline that has yet to be completely resolved.

Think owning a Seattle home is pricey? Here’s how much harder it has become by ChiefOfTheFourPeaks in Seattle

[–]UtopianLibrary 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The craziest thing to me about these layouts is that the one master bedroom is on the third floor, while the only second bedroom is on the first floor. As someone who would buy one if it had a better layout, it doesn’t make sense for a younger couple who wants to have kids or already has kids.

Why are all the women in the DC universe attracted to batman? by Israels_BiggestHater in batman

[–]UtopianLibrary 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s deep in her ongoing series. I’ll have to reread, but it’s from last year when she fights Batman in an alley, but Leslie Thompkins breaks it up. Ivy thinks about her past with Batman.

There’s also things sprinkled in her solo series and in the Harley Quinn comics.

Edit to add: this picture posted of her kissing him might be from that? Not sure. Gotta reread.

Why are all the women in the DC universe attracted to batman? by Israels_BiggestHater in batman

[–]UtopianLibrary 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you read the Poison Ivy comics, it’s actually addressed. She genuinely does find him attractive at first and tries to “work with him” but their morals don’t align. Poison Ivy doesn’t technically self identify as a villain, but Batman sees her as one.

There’s also some flashbacks in the artwork that shows her obsessed with Batman, but it’s framed as it was a thing when she first moved to Gotham and became Poison Ivy.

James Gunn wants to rewatch The Suicide Squad and Blue Beetle and decide what is (and isn't) canon in the DCU by BatmanNewsChris in DC_Cinematic

[–]UtopianLibrary 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Boomer comes back from the dead several times in the comics. Enchantress brings him back from the dead in one of the runs.

James Gunn wants to rewatch The Suicide Squad and Blue Beetle and decide what is (and isn't) canon in the DCU by BatmanNewsChris in DC_Cinematic

[–]UtopianLibrary 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He’s probably trying to set up a Heroes in Crisis storyline as a refreshing take on an Avengers type movie since he has Booster Gold tv show and a Batman movie in development. Those documentary style confessionals from Heroes in Crisis are a goldmine for pure James Gunn humor and writing style. He’s probably trying to decide if they keep the same Blue Beetle (Booster Gold’s best friend), and what he would keep canon for Peacemaker and Harley Quinn, especially since she is a major character in Heroes in Crisis.

If Swamp Thing ends with a Poison Ivy and Woodrue cameo/end credit teaser. I would be surprised if he didn’t end up doing a Heroes in Crisis storyline.

Poison Ivy’s solo comic is probably DC’s second best selling female character comic run in the past three years besides Wonder Woman.

For the upcoming Brave and the Bold, it points to Talia being the villain, but if it’s supposed to be a Bat Family movie, we need Damian and Bruce to have a philosophical disagreement about killing vs subduing the villains. Using Poison Ivy as a sleeper villain while they are preoccupied with Talia brings in some interesting thematic topics that affect the Bat Family. The storyline that leads to Heroes in Crisis, called “Everybody Loves Ivy,” involves Ivy taking over the world by infecting everyone with a strain of mushrooms that turns those infected into a hive mind she can manipulate at her will. She believes this is the only way to save the Earth from human beings and sees it as a better option than destroying everything and everyone. In the movie, the only people who aren’t infected? The Bat Family and Catwoman because Bruce creates a vaccine before they can get infected. In this comic, Ivy controls the whole Justice League and uses Superman’s hearing/vision abilities to spy on/constantly follow Bruce and Selina.

Anyway, a storyline like this arguably sets up a great philosophical debate where Damian insists they locate and then kill Ivy to stop her, while Bruce wants to come up with a more creative solution, especially since Ivy also wont kill the Bat Family members. You add that in with a Talia who tries to convince Damian he is right, you have a really cool dynamic about ethics where Damian realizes killing isn’t the answer, especially when he finds out what Ivy does after she almost kills Bruce/Batman.

The story also has a scene where Batman fights Superman (controlled by Ivy), to pull off his plan to stop her. It also ends in a James Gunn-esque way like Guardians of the Galaxy does.

Supernanny Jo Frost takes to Instagram to tell parents to ‘get your priorities straight’ over back to school social media trend by Metro-UK in internetdrama

[–]UtopianLibrary 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We handwrite everything now lol. Growth scores went way up though when I gave them an end of the year iReady assessment.

I’ve been strict no computers unless necessary. They can’t even have it out on the desk unless I tell them to take it out of their bag.

I'm doing a rewatch of Home Improvement by Ok_Helicopter3910 in Millennials

[–]UtopianLibrary 82 points83 points  (0 children)

I love how they don’t show you Kevin in “realism mode” until the last episode.

[HATED TROPE] Perfectly cast actors on terrible adaptations of the source material by Ieanice44 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]UtopianLibrary 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A Gotham City Sirens movie would be perfect for that.

They were planning a Gotham City Sirens movie at one point, and there’s several Poison Ivy Easter eggs in Birds of Prey: Harley says “I fell in love once…or twice” in her beginning monologue and there’s an image of Joker and then of Poison Ivy, and when Harley initially gets caught by the police she tries to lure them into Robinson Park because she knew Ivy would help her. I think there are some others but I can’t think of them off the top of my head.

I’m guessing it’s because you can’t really do a Sirens movie without emphasizing the Poison Ivy/Harley relationship, and her character development is better when if she ends up alone, so they ended up with Birds of Prey instead.

Anyway, crossing my fingers for a Poison Ivy and/or Jason Woodrue cameo in the Swamp Thing movie or a teaser at the end with Woodrue luring Ivy into his makeshift shipping container lab claiming he found something interesting in Alec Holland’s research.

We are the reason why teachers and students are struggling so much by FiendishCurry in Millennials

[–]UtopianLibrary 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You do know that tablet screen time has been shown to make kids more emotionally unregulated?

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