15 Things You Need To Know About Harley Quinn 

It’s been a long time coming, but we’re finally about to get one of cinema’s first real villainous team ups when

hits theaters this summer. Aside from hopefully righting the ship that nearly tipped over with

is meant to extend the DC Cinematic Universe and bring a whole bunch of new and returning characters into the fray in an exciting way. With

, look for director David Ayer to bring some much needed sense of fun to DC movies and provide audiences with the type of light-hearted adventure that Christopher Nolan and Zack Snyder never could.

And look for most of that fun to come courtesy of fan-favorite character Harley Quinn, making her big screen debut after years of fanboy dreams and wild comic book storylines. Yes, the crazed lover of Mr. J is about to enter the pop culture stratosphere, and to prepare you, here’s

15 Things You Need To Know About Harley Quinn.

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Unlike most well-known characters in pop culture, Harley Quinn didn’t originate from the pages of a comic book during the Golden Age of Comics. Instead – blazing a new trail as her character so often does – she originated from a scene in

. From there, starting off as a humble cartoon sidekick to the Joker in a September 1992 episode, Harley Quinn made history and jumped into the comic books and into history as one of every fanboy and fangirl’s favorite supervillains.

Originally nothing more than a girlfriend and accomplice to The Joker on the small screen, the character gained such a strong following that DC Comics fleshed out her backstory by bringing her into the Batman Comics. Eventually evolving into a complex villainess that has become a major player in Gotham City, the well fleshed-out history of Harley Quinn’s creation is second only to the history of the character that she would later become.

In one of the cooler origin stories in comic book history, Harley Quinn started off as a wide-eyed young psychiatrist that was tasked with doling out therapy to The Joker in Arkham Asylum. As her therapy sessions with The Joker wore on, she soon found herself falling in love with the deranged Clown Prince of Crime as he manipulated her in ways that only he could.

After becoming completely obsessed with her beloved Mr. J, Harley Quinn soon finds herself as his accomplice and sidekick, doing anything for the man that she loves more than anyone in the world. Turning to a life of crime and obsession, Harley gives up her practice, which is probably a good thing, since she didn’t seem to be that good at it in the first place.

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