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The over-the-top Gotham City anti-hero Harley Quinn once used a weapon that was too obscene and ridiculous for inclusion in The Suicide Squad.
James Gunn’s latest film, The Suicide Squad, is the perfect setting for Gotham City’s Cupid of Crime, Harley Quinn. But in Harley Quinn #8 — by Amanda Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti, Chad Hardin and Alex Sinclair — Harley used a weapon that was too gag-inducing even for her latest film.
Harley somehow managed to become the landlord of a large apartment building in the middle of the city. In an effort to be caring and considerate, Harley devoted an entire floor of the building to animals. With trees and grass aplenty, the designated floor of the apartment building was the perfect place for all of the cats and dogs to hang out and relax just like they were outside. However, one of the more noticeable problems with Harley’s well-intentioned idea was that cats and dogs can’t use indoor plumbing fixtures.
To rectify the smelly situation that begins to bother her other tenants, Harley concocted the perfect device to get rid of all of the animal waste. Bringing her tenants up to the roof of the apartment building Harley revealed a giant catapult that she calls the Scatapult. Leaving no doubt in anyone’s mind as to it’s purpose, Harley loaded the Scatapult with bags and bags of collected animal waste that had been stinking up the building. The Scatapult launched the bags high into the air and away from the building. Despite hitting a nearby bridge, a roller-coaster full of riders, and the side of an office building, the Scatapult was a huge success. While designed initially to launch waste, Harley wasted no time in loading the Scatapult with an unfortunate bounty hunter and launching him to his demise.
Harley’s presence in The Suicide Squad showcases her perfectly: she’s an expert hand-to-hand combatant, talented acrobat, and bursting with chaos-infused positivity. However, despite how far the film is willing to go with its mixture of gallows humor and copious gore, there is a certain line that it walks in order to maintain a sense of balance. This means that the item Harley used here would probably not translate very well into the film.
While any amount of humor and blood might appear to be acceptable, keeping a consistent tone throughout the film is paramount. Harley’s sense of humor is wacky, but it acts as a foil to the more grounded and profane humor from characters such as Peacemaker and Rick Flag. For all of her personality and antics, Harley never rips the tone of the film off track. The weapon she uses to defeat Starro, a javelin, makes sense contextually for the events in the film; her specialized catapult would clash horrifically with the rest of the film’s content. Starro is a classic villain and one that even the Justice League has had difficulty defeating. Reducing this threat to a punchline for a joke of this caliber would be too much, even for a film like The Suicide Squad.
Within the context of her own adventures, the Scatapult would probably be fine for Harley to use. As was shown within its debut comic, Harley created something juvenile and silly but then used it to kill someone. The great thing about Harley as a character is her range: she can fit into less serious stories while also excelling at playing the murderous villain in others. The Scatapult might not have been suited for The Suicide Squad, but Harley herself was the perfect piece to completing James Gunn’s blood-soaked addition to the DCEU.
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