The Strange, Hidden Story of Harley Quinn
Before her Birds of Prey arc, Harley has a storied past.
在《猛禽小队》系列之前，哈雷有着一段传奇的过去。
Photo: Photo illustration by Jed Egan.
照片：杰德·伊根的照片插图。
Images courtesy DC Entertainment.
图片由 DC Entertainment 提供。
It’s been a wild few years for Harley Quinn and her admirers.
对于哈莉·奎因和她的崇拜者来说，这是疯狂的几年。
When we first published this article in February of 2015, Margot Robbie had just recently been cast as the iconic DC Comics character for the then-upcoming film Suicide Squad .
当我们于 2015 年 2 月首次发表这篇文章时，玛格特·罗比最近刚刚被选为当时即将上映的电影《自杀小队》的标志性 DC 漫画角色。
When the film was released in July of 2016, it received near-universal panning from critics, but Robbie’s performance was often isolated as its sole bright spot: As one review put it , “It’s Robbie who displays the most thrilling superpower of all: turning into a movie star while having a gonzo blast swinging a baseball bat and tossing off naughty, gum-snapping one-liners.” Meanwhile, in comics, Harley Quinn has continued to be a driving force for DC’s sales, regularly starring in her own series while also making plentiful appearances elsewhere.
当这部电影于 2016 年 7 月上映时，它受到了影评人几乎普遍的批评，但罗比的表演常常被视为唯一的亮点：正如一篇评论所说，“罗比展现了最令人兴奋的超能力：挥舞着棒球棒，疯狂地挥舞着棒球棒，扔出调皮的、嚼口香糖的俏皮话，变成了一名电影明星。”与此同时，在漫画中，哈莉·奎因仍然是 DC 销量的推动力，经常在自己的漫画系列中担任主角，同时也在其他地方大量露面。
Now, she has her own R-rated cartoon on DC’s streaming platform, DC Universe, and — perhaps most important — is about to return to the big screen as the lead character in the cumbersomely titled Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) , played once again by Robbie.
现在，她在 DC 的流媒体平台 DC Universe 上拥有了自己的 R 级动画片，而且——也许最重要的是——她即将重返大银幕，担任标题繁琐的《猛禽小队》（以及《小丑女的奇妙解放》）中的主角，再次由罗比扮演。
It seems you can’t keep a good weirdo down.
看来你无法压制一个优秀的怪人。
(Well, a mostly good weirdo.
（嗯，基本上是一个很好的怪人。
She’s still a long way away from Wonder Woman.) With the new movie about to debut, we thought it would be a good opportunity to revisit her story, so that everyone from the diehards to the merely Quinn-curious can familiarize themselves with the character’s fascinating origins, development, and deeper meaning.
她距离神奇女侠还有很长的路要走。）随着新电影即将上映，我们认为这是一个重温她的故事的好机会，这样每个人，从顽固分子到仅仅对奎因好奇的人，都可以熟悉这个角色迷人的起源、发展和更深层次的意义。
The comics industry is in the midst of a golden age for admirable female role models.
漫画行业正处于令人钦佩的女性榜样的黄金时代。
Every few months, we get more series starring women worth looking up to: superheroes who work to fight sexism in the workplace by day and evil by night, hard-boiled detectives who battle to avert crises both public and personal, teenagers trying to build a kinder world free of prejudice.
每隔几个月，我们就会推出更多由值得尊敬的女性主演的连续剧：白天努力对抗工作场所性别歧视、晚上对抗邪恶的超级英雄、努力避免公共和个人危机的冷酷侦探、努力建立一个没有偏见的更友善世界的青少年。
But there’s a fly in the ointment, and she’s wearing clown makeup.
但美中不足的是，她化了小丑妆。
Harley Quinn is the best-selling female character in comics, and she’s casually homicidal, gleefully amoral, and mentally unbalanced.
哈莉·奎恩是漫画中最畅销的女性角色，她经常杀人、不道德、精神不平衡。
There was a time when she was a mental-health professional, but she shredded her Hippocratic Oath when she hopped into bed with a mass-murdering, psychopathic patient and began a crime spree that would make Bonnie and Clyde wince.
曾经有一段时间，她是一名心理健康专家，但当她与一名进行大规模谋杀的精神病患者上床并开始犯罪狂潮时，她撕碎了希波克拉底誓言，这让邦妮和克莱德畏缩了。
In the 22 years since she first entered our world as a one-off character in a Batman cartoon, she’s occasionally made the world a better place — but it’s usually by accident and never for truth, justice, and the American Way.
自从她作为蝙蝠侠动画片中的一次性角色第一次进入我们的世界以来的 22 年里，她偶尔会让世界变得更美好——但这通常是偶然的，从来不是为了真理、正义和美国方式。
No one could have predicted that Harley would last beyond her first appearance, much less become the title character in a series that cracks the best-seller charts every month.
没有人能预料到哈莉会在她第一次亮相之后持续下去，更不用说成为每月打破畅销书排行榜的系列剧的主角了。
Her real-world path to icon status is bizarre and unprecedented in the superhero ecosystem.
她在现实世界中成为偶像的道路在超级英雄生态系统中是奇异且前所未有的。
But here she is: Jewish, queer, morally questionable, deeply imperfect, and beloved by millions.
但她是这样的：犹太人、酷儿、道德上有问题、非常不完美、受到数百万人的喜爱。
The company that owns her, DC Entertainment, has declared February 2015 to be “ Harley Quinn Month ,” and now is the perfect time for us to ask whether Wonder Woman is comics’ biggest female icon anymore.
拥有她的公司 DC Entertainment 宣布 2015 年 2 月为“哈莉·奎因月”，现在正是我们询问神奇女侠是否仍是漫画界最大的女性偶像的最佳时机。
(And, if Harley’s superfans are to be believed, she’s even more of a feminist character than the venerable Amazon.) Here, then, is the strange, hidden story of Harley Quinn, the superhero world’s most successful woman — who she is and how she came to be.
（而且，如果哈莉的超级粉丝可信的话，她甚至比受人尊敬的亚马逊女权主义者还要多。） 那么，这就是超级英雄世界上最成功的女性哈莉·奎因的奇怪而隐秘的故事——她是谁以及她是如何成为的。
Writer Paul Dini is credited as the creator of Harley, and that’s technically true.
作家保罗·迪尼被认为是哈雷的创造者，这在技术上是正确的。
He came up with the character while he was writing for the acclaimed Batman: The Animated Series in the early ‘90s.
上世纪 90 年代初，他在为广受好评的《蝙蝠侠：动画系列》创作剧本时构思出了这个角色。
But the true origins of Harley Quinn lie years earlier, in the mind of the actress who voiced her on the cartoon: Arleen Sorkin.
但哈莉·奎恩的真正起源早在几年前就存在于为她在动画片中配音的女演员阿琳·索金的脑海中。
In 1987, Sorkin was a regular on the soap opera Days of Our Lives , playing the show’s comic relief: the ditzy, leggy, Noo Yawk–accented Calliope Jones.
1987 年，索金是肥皂剧《我们的日子》中的常客，扮演该剧的喜剧浮雕：呆呆的、长腿的、带有 Noo Yawk 口音的卡利奥佩·琼斯 (Calliope Jones)。
But unlike her flighty character, Sorkin was a skilled and experienced comedy writer.
但与她轻浮的性格不同，索金是一位技艺精湛、经验丰富的喜剧作家。
“I could never just come in and run my lines,” she told Vulture.
“我永远不能只是进来运行我的线路，”她告诉 Vulture。
“I was forever suggesting stuff, probably out of boredom!” So when she went to a screening of the faux -medieval The Princess Bride , an idea struck her: Why not do a fairy-tale dream sequence on Days ?
“我总是在建议一些东西，可能是出于无聊！”因此，当她去观看仿中世纪电影《公主新娘》的放映时，她突然想到：为什么不在《日子》中演一段童话般的梦境呢？
The producers were into it and aired an episode in which Calliope acts as a court jester, roller-skating into a throne room and doing some hackneyed borscht belt gags for a royal family.
制片人对此很感兴趣，并播出了一集，其中卡利奥佩扮演宫廷小丑，滑旱冰进入王座室，并为王室成员表演一些陈腐的罗宋汤腰带搞笑动作。
Dini and Sorkin were college friends, and one day, she gave him a VHS tape of her favorite Days moments — including her jester bit.
迪尼和索金是大学朋友，有一天，她给了他一盘她最喜欢的日子时刻的录像带——包括她的小丑片段。
The tape sat idle for years.
该磁带闲置多年。
But in mid 1991, Dini was sick as a dog and popped the tape into his VCR.
但在 1991 年中期，迪尼病得要命，他把录像带塞进了他的录像机里。
He was a budding television writer at the time, cranking out freelance scripts for the as-yet-unaired Batman: The Animated Series .
当时他是一位崭露头角的电视作家，为尚未播出的蝙蝠侠：动画系列创作自由剧本。
He’d been struggling to come up with a female character to use as a one-off in an episode about Batman’s archnemesis, the Joker.
他一直在努力想出一个女性角色来作为关于蝙蝠侠的宿敌小丑的一集中的一次性角色。
“I thought, Maybe there should be a girl there ,” he said.
“我想，也许那里应该有一个女孩，”他说。
“And I thought, Should the girl be like a tough street thug?
“我想，这个女孩应该像一个强硬的街头暴徒吗？
Or like a hench-person or something?
或者像个小偷之类的？
And then suddenly the idea of someone funny kind of struck me.” When he saw Sorkin in clown makeup, the pieces fell into place, and he came up with a silly little sidekick.
然后突然间，我想到了一个有趣的人。”当他看到化着小丑妆的索金时，所有的一切都井然有序，他想出了一个愚蠢的小伙伴。
He gave her the comic-book-y name of Harley Quinn, sketched out an idea for her look, and brought the sketch to the cartoon’s lead artist, Bruce Timm.
他给她取了漫画里的名字“哈利·奎因”，勾画出她的造型草图，并将草图带给了漫画的首席艺术家布鲁斯·蒂姆。
“He did do a rough design for her, which was, frankly, not very good,” Timm recalled.
“他确实为她做了一个粗略的设计，坦白说，这不是很好，”蒂姆回忆道。
“It had a weird ‘60s kind of vibe to it.
“它有一种奇怪的 60 年代氛围。
It was just odd.
这很奇怪。
Charming, but odd.
迷人，但奇怪。
I thought we could improve on that.
我认为我们可以改进这一点。
So I immediately started researching traditional harlequin gear and did kind of a simplified super-villain version of that.
所以我立即开始研究传统的丑角装备，并做了一种简化的超级反派版本。
It was always intended to be just a one-off.” Nevertheless, Timm was — and is — a perfectionist and labored to give this cameo character a distinctive look: a red-and-black full-body jumpsuit adorned with playing-card diamonds, ruffled cuffs, and a dual-pronged jester’s cap.
它始终只是一次性的。”尽管如此，蒂姆过去和现在都是一个完美主义者，并努力为这个客串角色赋予独特的外观：红黑相间的全身连身裤，饰有扑克牌钻石、荷叶边袖口和双爪小丑帽。
Dini invited Sorkin to record the voice for the character she’d inspired.
迪尼邀请索金为她启发的角色录制声音。
Sorkin had left Days of Our Lives and was game for some work, especially if it just involved a few hours in a recording studio.
索金已经离开了《我们的日子》，并开始从事一些工作，尤其是那些只需要在录音室呆上几个小时的工作。
She was committed on the microphone but didn’t put a whole lot of work into preparation.
她全神贯注于麦克风，但没有投入大量的准备工作。
“I picked a voice that came easily,” she said.
“我选择了一个容易听懂的声音，”她说。
It was, in essence, her own voice: high-nasal, sing-song-y, and filled with Brooklyn-ish inflections.
从本质上讲，这就是她自己的声音：鼻音高亢、唱歌般，充满了布鲁克林式的语调。
“It is to laugh, huh, Mistah J?” Harley says to the Joker in her first-ever line of dialogue in that fateful 1992 episode “Joker’s Favor.” Right away in that rhetorical question, we get some of the elements that have stood at Harley’s core ever since.
“是为了笑吧，Mistah J？”在 1992 年那一集“小丑的青睐”中，哈莉在她的第一句对话中对小丑说道。从这个反问句中，我们立刻就得到了一些自那时以来一直处于哈雷核心的元素。
For one, she’s full of nicknames and delightfully early-20th-century idioms (“It is to laugh,” in this context, basically means “Ain’t that the truth”).
首先，她充满了绰号和令人愉快的 20 世纪早期习语（“这是为了笑”，在这种情况下，基本上意味着“这不是事实”）。
Most important, she’s immediately expressing a kind of sycophantic devotion for superhero fiction’s preeminent bad guy.
最重要的是，她立即表达了对超级英雄小说中杰出坏人的一种阿谀奉承。
But she was more than just a plot device, even in that first episode.
但她不仅仅是一个情节设计者，即使在第一集中也是如此。
Sure, she was partially an homage to the villains’ molls from the campy ‘60s Batman TV show, but Harley wasn’t content to be eye candy.
当然，她在一定程度上是对 60 年代蝙蝠侠电视节目中反派角色的致敬，但哈雷并不满足于成为养眼的人。
“Hey, sugar, you wanna read me my rights?” a cop asks her at one point.
“嘿，甜心，你想读一下我的权利吗？”一名警察曾经问过她。
“You have the right to remain silent!
“你有保持沉默的权利！
” she barks, before she kicks him in the shin, hard, and mutters, “Jerk.” She’s even aware of the gender stereotypes that a viewer might saddle her with: During the episode’s climax, Harley plays on Batman’s paternalism in an attempt to distract him, making doe eyes and saying, “I know, you’re thinking, What a shame!
“她咆哮着，然后用力踢了他的胫骨，并嘟囔道：“混蛋。她甚至意识到观众可能会给她带来的性别刻板印象：在剧集的高潮中，哈莉利用蝙蝠侠的家长式作风试图分散他的注意力，她瞪着母鹿的眼睛说：“我知道，你在想，多可惜啊！
A poor, innocent, little thing like her, led astray by bad companions!
像她这样可怜、天真的小东西，却被坏伙伴带入了歧途！
” (She then grabs a knife and tries to stab him.) She’s also straight-up delightful: an acrobatic sprite, prone to shouts, disguises, and reciting poems before her boss tries to murder police officers.
（然后她抓起一把刀，试图刺伤他。）她也很讨人喜欢：一个杂技精灵，在她的老板试图谋杀警察之前，很容易大喊大叫、乔装打扮、背诵诗歌。
Cartoons have no single auteur, and the minds that contributed to “Joker’s Favor” were as shocked as anyone when they saw what they’d created.
动画片没有单一的作者，而《小丑的青睐》的创作者们在看到自己创作的作品时，和任何人一样感到震惊。
“When that first episode she appeared in came back from overseas and we saw her animated, with the combo of the visual and Arleen Sorkin’s performance, y’know, it was kind of magical,” Timm said.
“当她出现的第一集从海外回来时，我们看到她的动画，视觉效果和阿琳·索金的表演相结合，你知道，这有点神奇，”蒂姆说。
“Paul started immediately planning her return and saying, ‘Y’know what?
“保罗立即开始计划她的回归并说，‘你知道吗？
I’m gonna bring that Harley Quinn character back.”
我要把哈莉·奎茵这个角色带回来。”
Dini didn’t just bring her back.
迪尼不只是把她带回来。
Over the next seven years, Dini, Timm, and Sorkin built Harley into one of the most memorable Batman characters of all time.
在接下来的七年里，迪尼、蒂姆和索金将哈利打造成有史以来最令人难忘的蝙蝠侠角色之一。
That was no small trick, given that the Batman mythos was already more than 50 years old and had featured the same general cast of archetypes for decades.
这可不是一个小把戏，因为蝙蝠侠神话已经有 50 多年的历史，并且几十年来一直以相同的原型为特色。
It was made all the more remarkable by the fact that she didn’t even exist in the mainstream Batman comics of the time — it was all happening on a kids’ TV show and its spinoff products.
更引人注目的是，她甚至不存在于当时的主流蝙蝠侠漫画中——这一切都发生在儿童电视节目及其衍生产品中。
And even though children were the target audience, Harley’s story lines were provocative in ways no other Batman tales had been.
尽管目标受众是儿童，但哈利的故事情节却具有其他蝙蝠侠故事所没有的挑衅性。
Harley stories grappled very directly — albeit in exaggerated, cartoonish fashion — with cycles of domestic violence.
哈雷的故事非常直接地——尽管以夸张、卡通化的方式——与家庭暴力的循环作斗争。
In classic episodes like “The Laughing Fish,” “Harley and Ivy,” and “Harlequinade,” Harley and the Joker map out a fascinating power dynamic.
在《笑鱼》、《哈雷与艾薇》和《丑角》等经典剧集中，哈雷和小丑描绘了迷人的权力动态。
Like all great superhero-fiction relationships, Joker and Harley’s followed a template.
就像所有伟大的超级英雄小说中的关系一样，小丑和哈莉的关系遵循着一个模板。
At the start, Harley is head over heels for Joker, but he treats her like dirt.
一开始，哈利对小丑神魂颠倒，但他却视她如粪土。
Then they separate, usually because Joker kicks her out or Harley decides she’s had enough.
然后他们分开，通常是因为小丑把她赶了出去，或者哈利觉得她受够了。
Harley strikes out on her own or shacks up with fellow villainess Poison Ivy (Dini strongly implied that Harley and Ivy have a sexual relationship, and this fact is more or less canon by now, though DC never officially confirms it).
哈莉独自出击，或者与恶棍毒藤女同居（迪尼强烈暗示哈雷和艾薇有性关系，这一事实现在或多或少是正统的，尽管 DC 从未正式证实过）。
Harley fluctuates between pining for Joker and cursing his name.
哈利在思念小丑和咒骂他的名字之间摇摆不定。
Joker realizes something’s missing from his life without his gal.
小丑意识到没有他的女朋友，他的生活就少了一些东西。
Then some explosive turn of events reunites the murderous twosome.
然后，一些爆炸性的事件让这对凶残的两人重聚。
There were all kinds of variations, but the core outline became like a Punch and Judy show: cyclical, violent, and compellingly simple.
有各种各样的变化，但核心轮廓变得像潘趣与朱迪的表演一样：循环、暴力、而且极其简单。
There are a pair of transcendent moments in the season-two episode “Harlequinade” that come as close as any to encapsulating the tragedy, comedy, and magic of the Harley-Joker romance.
第二季的“Harlequinade”中有两个超凡的时刻，几乎概括了哈雷与小丑浪漫史的悲剧、喜剧和魔力。
Harley, separated from the Joker after an arrest (he’s noticeably unconcerned with getting her out), agrees to help Batman on a caper in exchange for a full pardon.
哈利在被捕后与小丑分开（他显然并不关心把她救出来），同意帮助蝙蝠侠以换取全面赦免。
At a gangster hideout, she has to create a diversion to allow Robin to break into the building.
在一个黑帮藏身处，她必须制造一个岔路，让罗宾闯入大楼。
When the lead mobster says he doesn’t understand why Harley sticks with the Joker, she leaps in front of the hideout’s in-house band and begins to sing.
当黑帮头目说他不明白哈利为什么坚持和小丑在一起时，她跳到藏身处的内部乐队面前开始唱歌。
It’s an obscure novelty song from the 1940s, “ Say That We’re Sweethearts Again ,” filled with lyrics like, “I never knew that our romance had ended / until you poisoned my food” and “Won’t you please put down that acid?” As Sorkin croons, it’s hard to know whether you should laugh or cry.
这是一首来自 20 世纪 40 年代的晦涩新奇歌曲，《再说一遍，我们是甜心》，歌词充满了这样的歌词：“我从来不知道我们的浪漫已经结束/直到你在我的食物里下了毒”和“你能放下那酸吗？”当索金低声吟唱时，很难知道你是该笑还是该哭。
Harley holds everyone’s attention with a vaudevillian flair.
哈雷以歌舞杂耍的风格吸引了所有人的注意力。
She’s feminine but not objectified.
她是女性化的，但并不客观化。
She’s in charge of the entire room.
她负责整个房间。
And yet, she still misses her soul mate, no matter how awful he might be to her.
然而，她仍然想念她的灵魂伴侣，无论他对她来说有多糟糕。
By episode’s end, the two are reunited, but in a way that could only happen to Joker and Harley.
在剧集结束时，两人重聚，但这种方式只会发生在小丑和哈莉身上。
Joker tries to blow up Gotham and — to Harley’s shock — is willing to leave her behind as he flies away in a biplane.
小丑试图炸毁哥谭，但令哈莉震惊的是，小丑愿意将她抛在身后，乘坐双翼飞机飞走。
Harley, furious, shoots a jester-shaped toy at the cockpitted Joker, yelling, “Laugh this off, puddin’!
愤怒的哈雷向驾驶舱里的小丑射击了一个小丑形状的玩具，并大喊：“笑吧，布丁！
” Joker crashes, and Harley saves the day (though she only did so out of rage toward her scornful lover).
小丑崩溃了，哈利拯救了世界（尽管她这样做只是出于对她轻蔑的爱人的愤怒）。
She walks up to him, armed with a machine gun.
她拿着机关枪走到他面前。
Ever the emotional abuser, Joker taunts her: “You don’t have the guts .
作为精神虐待者，小丑嘲笑她：“你没有这个胆量……”
Not in a million years would you— ” Harley cuts him off by pulling the trigger, her eyes welling with tears.
一百万年内你也不会——”哈利扣动扳机打断了他的话，她的眼里充满了泪水。
But a comical sign reading “RAT TAT TAT” is all that comes out of the barrel.
但从桶里出来的只是一个滑稽的标语，上面写着“RAT TAT TAT”。
Surprised, Harley gives a sheepish grin.
哈利惊讶地露出羞涩的笑容。
Joker’s scowl abruptly turns into a smile.
小丑的皱眉突然变成了微笑。
“Baby, you’re the greatest!” he shouts.
“宝贝，你最棒了！”他喊道。
This act of violent defiance has rekindled his love.
这种暴力反抗的行为重新点燃了他的爱情。
She squeals and runs into his arms.
她尖叫着跑进他的怀里。
Even F.
甚至F。
Scott and Zelda would blush.
斯科特和塞尔达会脸红。
(It’s also worth noting that their star-crossed romance was inter-ethnic: Harley was written as Jewish, often uttering yiddishkeit words like plotz .
（还值得注意的是，他们不幸的浪漫是跨种族的：哈利被写为犹太人，经常说出像“plotz”这样的意第绪词。
As Sorkin put it: “At least we know the Joker isn’t an anti-Semite!”)
正如索金所说：“至少我们知道小丑不是反犹太主义者！”）
Fans immediately responded to this strange, passionate woman.
粉丝们立即对这个奇怪、热情的女人做出了回应。
Tara Strand was about 15 and living in the Podunk town of Victorville, California, when she first saw Harley on The Animated Series , and right away she “felt this big kinship with her.”
塔拉·斯特兰德 (Tara Strand) 大约 15 岁，住在加利福尼亚州维克多维尔 (Victorville) 的波敦克 (Podunk) 小镇，当她第一次在动画剧集中看到哈雷 (Harley) 时，她立即“感受到了与她的巨大亲缘关系”。
“There weren’t a lot of female characters at the time like her who were so human and unique and refreshing and weird, and not just sexy,” she said.
“当时像她这样如此人性化、独特、清新、怪异，而且不仅仅是性感的女性角色并不多，”她说。
“Harley was the one person who can handle what the Joker can dish out.
“哈利是一个能够应对小丑所发出的声音的人。
She’s maybe a little masochistic, but the Joker needs somebody who can deal with the Joker, and Harley’s it.”
她可能有点受虐狂，但小丑需要一个能对付小丑的人，而哈雷就是这样的人。”
Strand, like countless other viewers around the world, became Harley Quinn obsessives.
斯特兰德和世界各地无数其他观众一样，成为了哈莉·奎恩的迷。
She sought out fellow enthusiasts on the nascent World Wide Web and made friends as far away as Germany and Australia.
她在新生的万维网上寻找其他爱好者，并结交了远至德国和澳大利亚的朋友。
(It’s hard to get a number demonstrating the breadth of ‘90s Harley fandom, but Sorkin, Dini, and Timm all recalled torrents of fan letters.) And for the most part, Strand’s Quinn-thusiast friends were women.
（很难找到一个数字来证明 90 年代哈雷迷的广泛程度，但索金、迪尼和蒂姆都记得大量的粉丝来信。）而且大多数情况下，斯特兰德的奎因狂热者朋友都是女性。
Together, they compiled online indexes about Harley and composed long essays about what makes her tick.
他们一起编制了有关哈雷的在线索引，并撰写了有关她的魅力的长篇文章。
Building a woman-dominated superhero fandom in the mid ‘90s was a remarkable thing, and Harley had inspired them to do it.
在 90 年代中期建立一个以女性为主的超级英雄粉丝圈是一件了不起的事情，而哈雷激励了他们这样做。
“Feminism is about showing women as fully fleshed out human beings, and that’s what Harley is,” Strand said.
斯特兰德说：“女权主义旨在将女性展现为充实的人，而哈雷正是如此。”
“She doesn’t make choices that are smart or good for a woman, but she gets to make those choices.
“她不会做出明智或对女性有利的选择，但她可以做出这些选择。
Men are allowed to be fuck-ups in all kinds of characters, and women aren’t.
男人可以扮演各种角色，但女人却不能。
We have to be idealized.
我们必须理想化。
She gets to not be.”
她不能这样。”
DC had a hit on its hands unlike any it’d seen in a long time.
DC 遭受了很长一段时间以来从未见过的打击。
Harley was the breakout star of Batman: The Animated Series , and the show was a massive success, giving way to spinoff and tie-in shows that would last until 2006.
哈利是《蝙蝠侠：动画系列》中的突破明星，该剧取得了巨大成功，随后衍生出的衍生剧和配套剧一直持续到 2006 年。
Harley was a character invented in a non-comics property with little fanfare and very few top-down editorial edicts.
哈雷是一个在非漫画作品中发明的角色，很少大张旗鼓，也很少有自上而下的社论法令。
But now she was generating a tidal wave of fan response demanding more of her.
但现在她引起了粉丝的强烈反应，要求她提供更多。
Toys were made, more episodes penned, and soon she was called up to the big leagues, where she had a meteoric rise — followed by a depressing fall into irrelevance.
玩具被制作出来，更多的剧集被创作出来，很快她就被征召到大联盟，在那里她迅速崛起——随后令人沮丧地陷入无足轻重的境地。
The game changer was a concise tale called “Mad Love.” By 1994, Harley fever had caught on, and DC’s comics arm asked Dini and Timm to create a single-issue comics story that would reveal Harley’s origin story.
改变游戏规则的是一个名为“疯狂的爱”的简洁故事。到 1994 年，哈雷热潮开始流行，DC 漫画部门要求迪尼和蒂姆创作一个单期漫画故事，以揭示哈雷的起源故事。
We’d already gotten hints that Harley had once been Joker’s psychiatrist, but in “Mad Love” we fully saw her early days as mild-mannered Harleen Quinzel, gymnast and aspiring mental-health professional.
我们已经得到暗示，哈莉曾经是小丑的精神科医生，但在《疯狂的爱》中，我们完全看到了她早年的形象，性格温和的哈琳·昆泽尔、体操运动员和有抱负的心理健康专业人士。
Looking to write a pop-psychology book about the Joker, she falls for him and decides (of her own volition) to become his sidekick.
她想要写一本关于小丑的流行心理学书籍，她爱上了他，并决定（自愿）成为他的助手。
“Mad Love” was a massive hit, winning an Eisner (the comics’ world’s Academy Award) for the year’s best single issue and convincing DC that Harley was a marketable property.
《疯狂的爱》大受欢迎，赢得了艾斯纳奖（漫画界的奥斯卡奖）年度最佳单期漫画奖，并让 DC 相信哈雷是一个有市场的财产。
Soon Harley was a regular in The Batman Adventures , a comics series set in the universe of The Animated Series .
很快，哈利就成为了《蝙蝠侠历险记》的常客，这是一部以动画系列宇宙为背景的漫画系列。
And finally, after years of cartoonish popularity, DC made her a canonical character in the primary Batman comics continuity in 1999.
最后，经过多年的卡通流行，DC 于 1999 年将她定为第一部蝙蝠侠漫画中的经典角色。
Such continuity is treated with great care, and if a character created outside of it is allowed to enter, it’s no small creative achievement.
这种连续性得到了非常仔细的对待，如果允许在其之外创建的角色进入，这将是不小的创作成就。
In the early aughts, Harley was everywhere.
早期，哈雷无处不在。
In 2001, she got her own monthly comics series, the eponymous Harley Quinn .
2001年，她推出了自己的月刊漫画系列，同名的《哈利·奎因》。
The next year she became a recurring character on TV’s Birds of Prey , a loose adaptation of a comics series of the same name.
第二年，她成为电视剧《猛禽小队》中的常驻角色，该剧改编自同名漫画系列。
She starred in a goofy web-only animated series called Gotham Girls , which aired as minutes-long Macromedia Flash cartoons.
她主演了一部愚蠢的网络动画系列片《哥谭女孩》，该系列片以长达数分钟的 Macromedia Flash 卡通片形式播出。
She bounced and laughed her way across DC’s various platforms.
她在 DC 的各个平台上蹦蹦跳跳地笑着。
The high times were not to last, though.
然而，美好时光并没有持续多久。
In the mid aughts, things fell apart for Harley.
到了中期，哈雷的事情就分崩离析了。
Her solo comics series was something of a bomb and veered wildly between forgettable fluff, awkward neo-noir, and larger-than-life nonsense.
她的个人漫画系列有点像炸弹，在令人遗忘的废话、尴尬的新黑色和传奇般的废话之间疯狂地转变。
It was canceled in 2003.
该计划于 2003 年被取消。
Elsewhere in mainstream comics continuity, she was used only sporadically, rarely generating the kind of buzz on the page that she’d generated on-screen.
在主流漫画的其他连续性中，她只是偶尔被使用，很少在页面上产生她在屏幕上产生的那种嗡嗡声。
What went wrong?
出了什么问题？
Comics essayist and Batman historian Chris Sims offers a theory.
漫画散文家兼蝙蝠侠历史学家克里斯·西姆斯提出了一个理论。
“When you move her into mainstream continuity in 1999, it immediately changes things, because she’s in love with the Joker we have in the comics , not the one in the cartoon,” he told me.
“当你在 1999 年将她带入主流连续性时，事情立即发生了变化，因为她爱上了漫画中的小丑，而不是卡通中的小丑，”他告诉我。
“And comics Joker has killed a million people.
“漫画《小丑》已经杀死了一百万人。
He’s a sadistic, torturing murderer.
他是一个残暴、折磨人的杀人犯。
You can’t sympathize with her when that’s the Joker she likes.” On the other hand, if you move her away from the Joker, you remove her defining relationship.
当那是她喜欢的小丑时，你无法同情她。”另一方面，如果你让她远离小丑，你就消除了她的决定性关系。
It would be like writing years’ worth of Joker stories that didn’t involve Batman: empty and confusing.
这就像写了好几年不涉及蝙蝠侠的小丑故事一样：空洞且令人困惑。
Then, out of nowhere, Harley’s salvation came from far outside the pages of monthly comics.
然后，哈利的救赎不知从何而来，远远超出了每月漫画的页面。
It was a mixed blessing, as that salvation also set an extremely controversial new template for Harley Quinn, one that would pit fan against publisher as it rocketed the character to her greatest heights of fame to date.
这是一件喜忧参半的事情，因为这次拯救也为哈莉·奎因设定了一个极具争议的新模板，当它让哈莉·奎茵的名气飞升到迄今为止的最高点时，这会让粉丝与出版商对立起来。
Given her birth outside of comics, it’s oddly fitting that Harley’s rebirth came in another medium, too: video games.
考虑到哈莉的诞生不是在漫画中，奇怪的是，哈莉的重生也出现在另一种媒介中：电子游戏。
In 2009, Rocksteady Studios released an action-adventure beat-’em-up called Batman: Arkham Asylum, and although it was insanely gritty and violent, the creators took their primary inspiration from Batman: The Animated Series .
2009 年，Rocksteady Studios 发行了一款名为《蝙蝠侠：阿卡姆疯人院》的动作冒险清版游戏，虽然游戏极其粗暴和暴力，但创作者的主要灵感来自于《蝙蝠侠：动画系列》。
Dini wrote it; Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill returned to voice Batman and the Joker; and most consequentially, Harley Quinn was a huge character, voiced by Sorkin.
迪尼写的；凯文·康罗伊和马克·哈米尔回归为蝙蝠侠和小丑配音；最重要的是，哈莉·奎茵是一个巨大的角色，由索金配音。
Indeed, she’s the only major female character visible for most of the game.
事实上，她是游戏大部分时间里唯一可见的主要女性角色。
And that visibility is where the great Harley Quinn controversies of the past few years began.
而这种可见性正是过去几年哈莉·奎茵引发的巨大争议的开始。
Gone was the iconic red-and-black jumpsuit, replaced by thigh-high boots, a red-and-purple corset that barely covers her breasts, and — given that the whole game took place inside an asylum — some scraps of white doctor’s robes, stained with blood.
标志性的红黑连身裤不见了，取而代之的是长筒靴、几乎遮盖住胸部的红紫色紧身胸衣，以及——考虑到整场比赛是在精神病院内进行的——一些沾满血迹的白色医生长袍的碎片。
Her face was still painted, but her jester’s cap was replaced by two massive, blonde pigtails.
她的脸仍然涂着彩绘，但她的小丑帽被两条巨大的金发辫子所取代。
It was, to put it mildly, a very different visual approach to the character.
温和地说，这是对角色的一种非常不同的视觉方式。
“There was a huge outcry for a lot of people who really like Harley Quinn,” recalled famed pseudonymous comics journalist “Sue” of the site DC Women Kicking Ass .
DC Women Kicking Ass 网站的著名漫画记者“Sue”回忆道：“很多真正喜欢哈莉·奎恩的人都强烈抗议。”
“It was clearly a little bit of pandering.
“这显然有点迎合。
Does it fit Harley?
哈雷适合吗？
I don’t know.
我不知道。
The Harley Quinn character has always totally run out of fucks to give, so would she mind wearing that?
哈莉·奎因这个角色总是完全没有办法给予，所以她介意穿那个吗？
I don’t know.”
我不知道。”
Dini and Timm are divided on their feelings about Arkham’s Harley.
迪尼和蒂姆对阿卡姆哈雷的感情存在分歧。
Dini, as the game’s writer, was very much in favor of the new direction, telling gaming site the Reticule , “I had a large amount of input into the way the characters were depicted, I wanted to make them darker …
作为游戏的编剧，迪尼非常赞成这个新方向，他告诉游戏网站 The Reticule，“我对角色的描绘方式投入了大量的精力，我想让他们变得更暗......
I wanted to make it clear that Harley Quinn was out of her mind.” Timm, on the other hand, seems far more agnostic: “There must be something to it, because that is, right now, the most popular version of her, I guess,” he told me.
我想明确表示哈莉·奎恩已经疯了。”另一方面，蒂姆似乎更加不可知论：“这一定有什么道理，因为我想，这就是她现在最受欢迎的版本，”他告诉我。
“I don’t own the character, so whatever DC wants to do with it is fine with me.”
“我不拥有这个角色，所以无论 DC 想用它做什么，我都可以。”
Throughout the game, Harley assists the Joker in his plot to destroy Batman within the confines of Arkham.
在整个游戏中，哈利协助小丑在阿卡姆范围内摧毁蝙蝠侠的阴谋。
She regularly issues classic Dini-esque lines to Batman on her lover’s behalf.
她经常代表她的爱人向蝙蝠侠发出经典的迪尼式台词。
Other than her look, the biggest change we see is how much more grim Joker’s verbal abuse of her is.
除了她的外表之外，我们看到的最大的变化是小丑对她的谩骂变得更加严厉。
It’s particularly chilling to hear him deliver this line of dialogue to Batman: “You had to spoil everything: beating up Bane, feeding Scarecrow to Croc, slapping around Harley — my hobby, by the way.”
听到他向蝙蝠侠说出这句话尤其令人不寒而栗：“你必须破坏一切：殴打贝恩，把稻草人喂给鳄鱼，拍打哈雷——顺便说一句，这是我的爱好。”
Arkham Asylum was a gargantuan hit.
《阿卡姆疯人院》获得了巨大的成功。
Video games are a massively more influential medium than comics these days (for context: Arkham Asylum sold 2.5 million units within just a few weeks of its debut; the biggest-selling Batman comic of that same month only sold 106,835 copies).
如今，电子游戏是比漫画更具影响力的媒介（背景信息：《阿卡姆疯人院》在推出后短短几周内就售出了 250 万份；同月最畅销的蝙蝠侠漫画仅售出 106,835 份）。
Since Harley hadn’t been in any Batman feature films, Arkham Asylum was the single most influential depiction of the character since her Animated Series heyday.
由于哈雷没有出现在任何蝙蝠侠故事片中，阿卡姆疯人院是自她的动画系列全盛时期以来对该角色最有影响力的描述。
A sequel called Arkham City hit shelves in 2011, and although Harley had her original red-and-black color palette back, the costume was still more dominatrix than clown.
名为《阿卡姆之城》的续集于 2011 年上架，尽管哈雷又恢复了原来的红黑配色，但这套服装仍然更像是一个施虐者，而不是小丑。
She also, for the first time, was no longer voiced by Sorkin, who was replaced by Tara Strong, a longtime DC voice actor who had worked alongside Sorkin for years while doing other voices on DC’s cartoons.
她还首次不再由索金配音，取而代之的是塔拉·斯特朗（Tara Strong），塔拉·斯特朗是 DC 的长期配音演员，曾与索金一起工作多年，同时为 DC 动画片中的其他声音配音。
(Neither Rocksteady nor Sorkin offered much detail to me about the decision, simply saying the company wanted to shake things up and move in a slightly different direction.)
（Rocksteady 和 Sorkin 都没有向我提供有关该决定的太多细节，只是说公司希望进行调整并朝着稍微不同的方向发展。）
But the games were just the prelude to an even bigger outcry from fans and critics.
但这些比赛只是球迷和评论家更大抗议的前奏。
The real bone of contention came out of the comics.
真正争论的焦点来自于漫画。
In 2011, DC kicked off a company-wide relaunch of their comics, rebooting their entire universe and giving many characters a complete makeover.
2011年，DC在全公司范围内重新推出了他们的漫画，重新启动了他们的整个宇宙，并对许多角色进行了彻底的改造。
Harley was one such character.
哈利就是这样的角色之一。
She became one of the stars of Suicide Squad , a series about super-criminals hired by the government to go on high-risk black-ops missions.
她成为《自杀小队》的明星之一，该剧讲述了政府雇用超级罪犯执行高风险的黑色行动任务的故事。
Before the first issue even came out, it caused a furor among longtime fans.
第一期还没出来，就引起了长期粉丝的愤怒。
The cover prominently featured Harley, hips cocked, hair dyed, and wearing an even more revealing corset than the one she’d worn in Arkham Asylum.
封面上突出的是哈莉，她翘起臀部，染了头发，穿着比她在阿卡姆疯人院穿的更暴露的紧身胸衣。
“It’s that classic idea of ‘show us as much skin as possible because it’ll bring in those teenage boys,’” said Laura Hornack, a Harley Quinn superfan from Germany.
“这就是‘尽可能多地向我们展示皮肤，因为这样可以吸引十几岁的男孩’的经典想法，”来自德国的哈雷·奎因超级粉丝劳拉·霍纳克 (Laura Hornack) 说。
She launched an online campaign attacking the visual change and even went so far as to organize a protest at 2011’s San Diego Comic-Con.
她发起了一场攻击视觉变化的在线运动，甚至在 2011 年圣地亚哥动漫展上组织了一场抗议活动。
Turnout wasn’t great, but she wasn’t alone in her skepticism about the character’s direction.
投票率并不高，但她并不是唯一一个对这个角色的方向持怀疑态度的人。
In Suicide Squad , Harley was a somewhat different animal from her classic depiction.
在《自杀小队》中，哈莉是一种与她的经典描述有所不同的动物。
She was still in love with the Joker, but thought he’d been killed, so we mostly saw her palling around with her fellow Squad members — even hooking up with stoic assassin Deadshot.
她仍然爱着小丑，但认为他已经被杀了，所以我们大多看到她和其他小队成员交往——甚至与坚忍的刺客死亡射手勾搭上。
She was more of a psychopath than usual, grinning as she executed bloody murders and giggling in situations where even her hardened teammates were terrified.
她比平常更像一个精神病患者，在实施血腥谋杀时咧着嘴笑，在连她的铁石心肠的队友都感到害怕的情况下咯咯地笑。
The book was, for the most part, critically panned and canceled after 30 issues.
这本书的大部分内容都受到了批评，并在发行 30 期后被取消。
She remained massively popular in the continuing installments of the Arkham video-game series (she even got her own spinoff game, Harley Quinn’s Revenge, in 2012), but her comics persona was in crisis.
她在《阿卡姆》电子游戏系列的续作中仍然广受欢迎（她甚至在 2012 年推出了自己的衍生游戏《哈利·奎因的复仇》），但她的漫画形象却陷入了危机。
In 2013, DC wisely tried to turn a new leaf with Harley.
2013年，DC明智地尝试与哈雷翻开新的一页。
The company announced it’d be launching a new solo Harley Quinn series and hired acclaimed husband-and-wife duo Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti to write it.
该公司宣布将推出新的哈莉·奎恩独唱系列，并聘请了广受好评的夫妻二人组阿曼达·康纳和吉米·帕尔米奥蒂来编写该系列。
The series got off to a rocky start because of a poorly worded contest and subsequent bout of bad press for the first issue.
由于竞赛措辞不当以及随后第一期的负面报道，该系列的开局并不顺利。
But to DC’s relief, future issues have drawn no such ire.
但令华盛顿松了一口气的是，未来的问题并没有引起如此大的愤怒。
In fact, the series has taken a cute and experimental new direction for the character, unlike any she’s ever had.
事实上，该剧为这个角色采取了一个可爱且实验性的新方向，与她以往的任何方向不同。
Conner and Palmiotti have had Harley strike out on her own after a rejection from the Joker, and she’s moved to a place well known for housing over-the-top eccentrics: Coney Island (New York City does, indeed, exist in the DC universe, although it’s not as major a city as Metropolis or Gotham).
康纳和帕米奥蒂让哈莉在被小丑拒绝后独自出击，她搬到了一个以居住极端怪人而闻名的地方：康尼岛（纽约市确实存在于 DC 宇宙中，尽管它不像大都会或哥谭那么重要）。
There, she channels her aggression into roller-derby competitions, gets a day job as a therapist, and assembles a diverse cast of weirdos and outcasts around her.
在那里，她将自己的攻击性投入到轮滑比赛中，找到了一份治疗师的日常工作，并在她周围聚集了一群形形色色的怪人和被排斥者。
She’s still pretty bonkers, but she doesn’t look or act like a fetish fantasy anymore.
她仍然很疯狂，但她看起来或表现得不再像一个恋物癖者。
She’s coming into her own, and the writers try to channel what made her great into slightly more healthy outlets.
她正在进入自己的状态，编剧们试图将她的伟大之处转化为稍微更健康的渠道。
The formula is working, at least financially: Harley Quinn is consistently one of DC’s top-selling comics.
这个公式是有效的，至少在经济上是这样：哈莉·奎因一直是 DC 最畅销的漫画之一。
The character’s popularity is also soaring in other mediums, most notably with her upcoming big-screen debut in 2016’s Suicide Squad movie, where she’ll be played by Margot Robbie.
这个角色在其他媒体上的受欢迎程度也在飙升，最引人注目的是她即将在 2016 年的电影《自杀小队》中首次亮相大银幕，由玛格特·罗比饰演。
She’s still a major figure in the Batman world’s most lucrative products, the Arkham video games, as well as DC Entertainment’s extremely popular Injustice video-game series.
她仍然是蝙蝠侠世界最赚钱的产品《阿卡姆》视频游戏以及 DC Entertainment 极受欢迎的《不义联盟》视频游戏系列中的主要人物。
Though she may have evolved substantially since that fateful cameo in “Joker’s Favor,” Harley has never been more successful, and her star shows no signs of falling.
尽管自从《小丑的宠爱》中那个决定性的客串以来，哈莉可能已经有了很大的进步，但哈雷从未如此成功，而且她的明星地位也没有任何下降的迹象。
And although there are longtime diehards like Strand and Hornack who have abandoned DC’s current iterations of Harley, they should know they have ideological allies in her current comics stewards, Palmiotti and Conner.
尽管像斯特兰德和霍纳克这样的长期顽固分子已经放弃了 DC 目前的哈雷版本，但他们应该知道，他们在现任漫画管理员帕尔米奥蒂和康纳中拥有意识形态盟友。
The writing team considers Harley a feminist character, drawing comparisons — and contrasts — between her and comics’ longest-standing female icon, Wonder Woman.
编剧团队将哈莉视为女权主义角色，将她与漫画中历史最悠久的女性偶像神奇女侠进行比较和对比。
“Wonder Woman sort of represents perfection, whereas Harley represents everybody else,” Conner said.
“神奇女侠在某种程度上代表了完美，而哈莉则代表了其他所有人，”康纳说。
One of the biggest Harley fans I’ve encountered is an Australian named Elise Archer, who’s been a fan since the early days and says her fixation on Harley has helped her through her own battles with PTSD and clinical depression.
我遇到的最大的哈雷车迷之一是一位名叫埃莉斯·阿切尔 (Elise Archer) 的澳大利亚人，她很早就是哈雷车迷，她说她对哈雷车的迷恋帮助她度过了与创伤后应激障碍 (PTSD) 和临床抑郁症的斗争。
She was adamant that Harley was one of the most important feminist figures in superhero fiction — not in spite of her shortcomings, but because of them.
她坚信哈利是超级英雄小说中最重要的女权主义人物之一——尽管她有缺点，但正是因为这些缺点。
“I don’t want to be condescended to with strong, independent female characters who don’t have any flaws and are just kinda perfect and sane and never make bad relationship choices,” she said.
“我不想屈尊于坚强、独立的女性角色，她们没有任何缺陷，只是有点完美和理智，从不做出糟糕的关系选择，”她说。
“For me, the freedom Harley’s been given to be a fuck-up is much less misogynist than all these other hackneyed stories thrust on female characters again and again.”
“对我来说，哈雷被赋予的成为一个混蛋的自由远比所有其他一次又一次强加给女性角色的陈词滥调的故事更不厌恶女性。”
“If you want to make the argument that we’ve gotta teach people how to be good and healthy, do it with the fuckin’ heroes,” Archer said, her voice quivering with emotion.
“如果你想证明我们必须教人们如何变得善良和健康，那就和那些该死的英雄一起做吧，”阿切尔说，她的声音因情感而颤抖。
“Let the villains be the messy ones.”
“让坏人成为混乱的人吧。”