What If Harley Quinn Was In The Dark Knight?

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  • Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
  • With appearances in live action films, her own animated series, comics and more, Harley Quinn has recently rivaled the popularity of her boss/lover/enemy, The Joker. Back in 2008, the character was well known, but Christopher Nolan elected not to add her into his seminal "Dark Knight" film. Was it possible for Harley to mesh into that movie with its dark/realistic tone and have her stand alongside the academy award winning performance of Heath Ledger's Mr. J? FanScription is once again the show you both need and deserve to answer that question.
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  • @ChannelAwesome
    @ChannelAwesome  3 года назад +57

    What other What If topics would you like to see covered?
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    • @milosbatmanvideos
      @milosbatmanvideos 3 года назад +4

      Here before this blows up

    • @YakkoWarnerTower
      @YakkoWarnerTower 3 года назад +2

      Lol probably talk about the Fresh Prince of Bel Air or more 90s sitcoms.

    • @GreatHornedCynic
      @GreatHornedCynic 3 года назад +3

      What if LeBron James was the villain alongside Al. G Rhythm in Space Jam 2? Think about it.
      LeBron James, an infamously despised corporate sellout teams up with Al. G, who in this version is a disgruntled Warner Bros employee, after the company rejects LeBron's suggestion that he shamelessly insert himself into their properties. This can serve as commentary on how studios take advantage of celebrity worship to bring people to their movies instead of actually making them good again.
      Al. G creates the virus and takes control of the Server-verse, and LeBron teams up with the Server-verses villains to take over everything. Al. G is the brains while LeBron is the dumb muscle who clearly just does whatever he wants. Both want attention but for different reasons. Al. G wants recognition for his intellect and achievements, while LeBron just wants more and more vacuous fame because its all he knows.
      That leaves the Looney Tunes as the only ones who can stop LeBron and Al. G from irreversibly corrupting the server-verse. They are at a major disadvantage because A: They've been isolating themselves from the other properties because of how out of touch they are with modern times and B: The villains (alongside Al. G) have done their research on the Looney Tunes, and have planned accordingly on how to deal with them.
      Enter Dom, LeBron's son. He teams up with the Looney Tunes in order to take down Al. G and save his dad from himself. This time around, the game is a versus match between the server-verses Heroes and Villains, with Dom giving the Toons and other heroes advice on how to deal with the villains. The most important thing is that these characters actually interact with each other, playing off their personalities and giving us actual, honest to god good fanservice.
      I mean, ANYTHING is better than what we got... Right?

    • @troopcaptain
      @troopcaptain 3 года назад +2

      What if Scooby Doo met Tom and Jerry?

    • @michaellucejr.6374
      @michaellucejr.6374 3 года назад +4

      Great stuff, Walter. I love these "What If" stories but maybe you could do the same for the Christopher Reeves Superman movies, mainly 3 and 4. And maybe you could do the same for Superman Returns?

  • @Kaybub99
    @Kaybub99 3 года назад +403

    Before Heath Ledger’s death, there were discussing that the sequel would have involved the Joker escaping Arkam Asylum. This plot could have easily introduced Harley as the psychiatrist who helps the Joker to escape.

    • @sgtjohnson
      @sgtjohnson 3 года назад +27

      If Heath didn’t pass away.
      What I would’ve done is have the Joker locked up in Arkham. The last scene we see with the joker is him hanging upside down.
      So the start of the next movie I’d have him thrown into the asylum, and have Dr Quinzel spend a few sessions with him, eventually having her mind warped/falling in love with him breaking him out and causing chaos

    • @Volvagia1927
      @Volvagia1927 3 года назад +7

      I doubt they would have gone there. First: The Arkham Escape would have been that movie's equivalent to Movie 2's Bank Heist. "An Employee Lets Him Out" is a minute and a half, two minute scene at longest, not the five-six minute devious act of puzzle solving and masterful execution Nolan would insist on. He'd insist on a big shock line like "No, no, no, I kill the bus driver" or "Crashing this plane...with no survivors!" "I had help on the inside" isn't really comparable to either of those. Second: Her name is an implausible PUN name. There's a reason super serious, edgy, dude movies DON'T have characters with names like that. Zack Snyder was NEVER going to include Roy G. Bivolo! Marvel's at least un-self conscious enough about it that they'll include those dumbly named characters but make jokes about it.

    • @sparkageddon3186
      @sparkageddon3186 3 года назад +11

      @@sgtjohnson and harley quinn was gonna be played by brittany murphy in DARK KNIGHT RISES but she died i think the same year

    • @lonelysatoshi2482
      @lonelysatoshi2482 3 года назад +11

      Yeah, Heath himself had plans for the character in a future sequel, and I definitely think Nolan also did, and I absolutely think that one of those ideas were introducing Harley Quinn and Joker escaping Arkham with her help

    • @BuckarooBanzai84
      @BuckarooBanzai84 3 года назад +1

      Exactly! =)

  • @ExceedAccel
    @ExceedAccel 3 года назад +151

    I love the Harley reveal and the emphases on her role in the darker universe. I still wish Harvey wasn't killed off at the end though. I'd love to see a sequel where Batman is faced to fix his mistake of not saving Harvey during a final encounter of the trilogy.

    • @zacharymartin5986
      @zacharymartin5986 3 года назад +2

      Harley's not dead. They said she was arrested.

    • @ExceedAccel
      @ExceedAccel 3 года назад +5

      ​@@zacharymartin5986 I was talking about Harvey, not Harley.

    • @zacharymartin5986
      @zacharymartin5986 3 года назад +2

      @@ExceedAccel Oh, sorry, my mistake.

    • @shen8976
      @shen8976 3 года назад +9

      @@ExceedAccel damn i read that wrong too. Very similar names haha

    • @ExceedAccel
      @ExceedAccel 3 года назад +5

      ​@@shen8976 I am talking about both lol

  • @jamesgarrett8833
    @jamesgarrett8833 3 года назад +77

    This would’ve work having Harley Quinn being Joker’s female henchman. It’s genius having her be the former fiancé of Harvey Dent because in the movie before Harvey face got burned & lost Rachel! He was already had a dark side and was a few steps away from becoming evil because that scene where he held that guy at gunpoint, scaring him to give information proved it. So her being the former Fiancé as part of Joker’s gang, through her the Joker would’ve fully be aware of Harvey Dent’s dark side, thus knowing for a fact that a little push would turns Dent into Two-Face

  • @Jay-Da-Giant
    @Jay-Da-Giant 3 года назад +177

    I hope you do a what if Dick Grayson’s Robin was in The Dark Knight Rises with Bruce being alive at the end in this version.

    • @srstriker6420
      @srstriker6420 3 года назад +19

      Yeah and especially the Riddler and Penguin should be the villains

    • @Jay-Da-Giant
      @Jay-Da-Giant 3 года назад +8

      @@srstriker6420 great idea. Plus, Bane was super cringe in The Dark Knight Rises.

    • @srstriker6420
      @srstriker6420 3 года назад +4

      @@Jay-Da-Giant yeah and now that the Joker has escaped, I guess that they will his new allies

    • @UltimateGamerCC
      @UltimateGamerCC 3 года назад +9

      @@Jay-Da-Giant Bane was put in a leading role when he shouldnt have been, Bane is a mercenary who is famous for nearly killing Batman, he didnt need to be the mastermind in TDKR, in fact akin to my posted comment, Harvey should've been the big bad of the 3rd Movie, rather than shoed in as a last minute threat.

    • @louisduarte8763
      @louisduarte8763 3 года назад +4

      @@UltimateGamerCC Bane wasn't the mastermind, Talia al-Ghul was.

  • @ComicalRealm
    @ComicalRealm 3 года назад +104

    Fun fact: Harley Quinn made her comic book debut respectively in The Batman Adventures #12 in September 1993. This was just after a year when she had her appearance on television in the episode of Joker’s Favor (S1E07 Batman Animated Series) which was aired on September 11th in 1992.

  • @FATE522
    @FATE522 3 года назад +104

    3:06 Anyone would have laughed like me if Walter finished the Fanscription with Harley Quinn asking what happened to the rest of the other guys and the Joker shoots her and that ends the video? 😂😂😂

    • @questworldiangreenknight7455
      @questworldiangreenknight7455 3 года назад +6

      If only this was on April 4th 😂😂😂😂😂

    • @armandoflores9098
      @armandoflores9098 3 года назад +2

      True

    • @FATE522
      @FATE522 3 года назад +2

      @@eddiediaz5518 Can I get a source of where he says he doesn't like the comics?

    • @FATE522
      @FATE522 3 года назад +2

      @@eddiediaz5518 He has said in multiple interviews that the whole Dark Knight trilogy is based off The Long Halloween and other comic books

  • @ThatMissQuin
    @ThatMissQuin 3 года назад +161

    Brittany Murphy would have been a great Harley Quinn to Heath Ledger's Joker

    • @Humblemumble7
      @Humblemumble7 3 года назад +14

      You ever think about Fairuza Balk? I think she would've been BADASS

    • @motor4X4kombat
      @motor4X4kombat 3 года назад +12

      That Would have beeing ironic on so many levels.

    • @srstriker6420
      @srstriker6420 3 года назад +4

      @@Humblemumble7 well I did see her in the island of Dr Moreau and she more Catwoman than Harley

    • @wisconsinking323
      @wisconsinking323 3 года назад +2

      @@Humblemumble7 Who?

    • @zachariahjonahmaldonado5897
      @zachariahjonahmaldonado5897 3 года назад +2

      You're messed up for that.

  • @DN0103
    @DN0103 3 года назад +67

    When you said that Harvey's fiancé went missing a year ago and Harley was masked, I knew exactly where it was going and I loved every moment of it.
    Now don't get me wrong, The Dark Knight is one of, if not, the most perfect batman movie ever made, but...I'd honestly watch this version a lot more.
    I also love this version of the Joker a lot, not just the Heath Ledger Joker, but in this...him and Harley being a thing is so much more cute and adorable than the love-abuse romance they normally have.

    • @omarflores9011
      @omarflores9011 3 года назад +5

      I would do a parody of the beauty and the beast dance scene and the lady and the tramp spaghetti scene

    • @michaelflores9384
      @michaelflores9384 Год назад

      @davidtheawesome3744 I would too, because in my opinion, all 3 of Nolan's films SUCKED, but The Dark Knight, was the one that sucked the most of the three

  • @nilehoruseus
    @nilehoruseus 2 года назад +9

    Fun fact: Before Heath Ledger’s death he was supposed to appear in The Dark Knight Rises

  • @ColtonCash
    @ColtonCash 3 года назад +55

    That was pretty good the whole segment with Harley becoming joker's apprentice was very dark and I think that would have worked perfectly if they put that in the movie

  • @99annanic
    @99annanic 3 года назад +46

    As a tribute to the passing of Richard Donner, I’d love to see you guys do a ‘What If Richard Donnor directed Superman III’

    • @srstriker6420
      @srstriker6420 3 года назад +6

      Yeah and use Brainiac as the villain

    • @byronrush9802
      @byronrush9802 3 года назад

      @@srstriker6420 that would be my shittttttttttttttttttttt!!!!!!!!

    • @srstriker6420
      @srstriker6420 3 года назад +1

      @@byronrush9802 what?

    • @byronrush9802
      @byronrush9802 3 года назад +1

      @@srstriker6420 key and peele reference

    • @billymccrary2246
      @billymccrary2246 2 года назад +2

      Agreed.

  • @louisduarte8763
    @louisduarte8763 3 года назад +17

    Well, you did it. You made Harley Quinn even more horrifying than "What IF" she was in the '89 Batman movie. I can see this version leading into "What If The Joker was in TDKR".
    Have I said before that FanScription totally rocks at title cards? This one is one of the best yet!

    • @pedrojosebellobelen3824
      @pedrojosebellobelen3824 Год назад +3

      I agree with this being a prequel to What If The Joker Was In TDKR? Only with a couple of changes like Catwoman instead approaching Joker at another place with his reveal and everything else similar only with Harley tagging along until the end where she’s knocked out by Catwoman as Joker gets into the Bomb that is carried by the Batship and the ambiguous finale after it blows up.

  • @TheTitan1138
    @TheTitan1138 3 года назад +23

    That was Fantastic! Right now I don't see any other way this fanscription could have gone. The idea that Harley was once married to Dent was an interesting twist, and it worked for this adaptation.

  • @Kentrc11
    @Kentrc11 3 года назад +52

    This ending with Harley doesn't seem to change the storyline of The Dark Knight Rises much. Bane can still arrive in Gotham 8 years later & Joker may still be at large, but Batman may have been more prepared for both since he continued wearing the cowl.

    • @srstriker6420
      @srstriker6420 3 года назад +5

      Or especially the early rumours where Riddler and Penguin would have been the villains

    • @wisconsinking323
      @wisconsinking323 3 года назад +3

      @@srstriker6420 "source"?

    • @srstriker6420
      @srstriker6420 3 года назад +2

      @@wisconsinking323 many places mainly Google

    • @LordMoonshadowGaGa
      @LordMoonshadowGaGa 3 года назад +4

      There’s already a Fanscription of Joker being in TDKR, so you can just consider this the prequel to that.

    • @teresatovar2115
      @teresatovar2115 2 года назад +5

      My version of The Dark Knight Rises would be with the Riddler, Harley Quinn and Joker as villains.

  • @suryasingh9738
    @suryasingh9738 3 года назад +40

    If Harley was in TDK, it probably would've been a little harder for Heath Ledger's Joker to shine.

    • @srstriker6420
      @srstriker6420 3 года назад +5

      Or maybe that she stays in jail and Joker gets new allies like Penguin and the Riddler

    • @suryasingh9738
      @suryasingh9738 3 года назад +3

      @@srstriker6420 Yeah I kinda liked it when it was just Bane and Catwoman in the picture, not Joker and TWO new rogues.

    • @srstriker6420
      @srstriker6420 3 года назад +1

      @@suryasingh9738 well you also had Talia and Scarecrow as a cameo which did you not think was weird for being in the Dark knight?

    • @suryasingh9738
      @suryasingh9738 3 года назад +1

      @@srstriker6420 One was a cameo both times and the other wasn't even revealed till the end of the climax.

    • @suryasingh9738
      @suryasingh9738 3 года назад

      @@srstriker6420 Who should play these versions of Penguin and Riddler?

  • @JinxSanity
    @JinxSanity 3 года назад +28

    Kinda hoping the final fight between Two-Face and Batman would had involved Harley Quinn.
    Like imagine Batman actually able to convince Two-Face to spare Gordon's son and stop his madness.. only for Harley Quinn to shoot Harvey and take Gordon's son hostage with Batman in pursuing of her. They climb up the building with Harley teasing Batman about throwing Gordon's son off the building (and similar to the Batman 89 finale). Eventually Batman ends up in a standoff against Harley Quinn trying to make her remember who she was (Bruce would had known her) .. as Harley Quinn hesitates and starts to remember her brainwashing, a wounded Harvey rushes out of the darkness and tackles Harley away from Gordon's son, and the two fall of the building. They both die but end up tragically together in death.
    Harvey is framed as a hero, but his ex-fiancee Harley is framed as the mafia and cop killer in order to save Harvey's reputation despite going against his wishes, as throughout the entire movie he would had express for Harley to be remembered as a victim of Gotham's corruption rather than the monster she became. Which Bruce and Jim are forced to overwrite in order to save Dent's legacy at the expense of Harley's innocent saint image.
    Ending goes as in the actual movie But Batman still seen as a hero, leading the ending open for more of his rogues gallery rather than the retirement that follows into Dark Knight Rises.

  • @ashleytuchin7693
    @ashleytuchin7693 3 года назад +20

    I like it! Personally, if I were going to put Harley in the Dark Knight trilogy, I'd put her in an alternate third movie (either following her classic origin, or simply making her psychotic Joker fan-girl who carves up her own face), but this works really well for The Dark Knight. I hope we'll get to see this continue on into an alternate Dark Knight Rises.

  • @darkman80723
    @darkman80723 3 года назад +34

    Honestly, definitely Anna Faris. Like yeah she's known for her comedy but she is a pretty decent actress. I think she would have been able to balance the crazy/dangerous person that a decent portrayal of Harley Quinn needs.

    • @wisconsinking323
      @wisconsinking323 3 года назад +2

      Watch Keanu (keey and Peele movie) she cameo's in this one scene.

  • @kenguyii9108
    @kenguyii9108 3 года назад +30

    Another cool Batman FanScript! I wonder what other ideas you’ll be interested in taking:
    -What if Tim Burton directed “Batman and Robin”?
    -What if Heath Ledger was in Suicide Squad?
    -What if Newt, Hicks and Bishop survived in Alien 3?

    • @SeasideDetective2
      @SeasideDetective2 2 года назад +7

      Heath Ledger could never have fit into SUICIDE SQUAD.
      I'm trying to remember if the "FanScription" treatment has ever been given to a "classic" (pre-1970s) movie. I think the closest they've come has been MARY POPPINS RETURNS, which is a sequel to a movie from that era. If they ever do any:
      - What if THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) was more accurate to the L. Frank Baum book?
      - What if IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE was darker and less comedic?
      - What if THE SEARCHERS was darker and less comedic? (This was the movie that inspired TAXI DRIVER, but the tone is hardly like that of TAXI DRIVER at all.)
      - What if BATMAN: THE MOVIE (1966) had been much more serious in tone than the TV series?

    • @oscarrinza2256
      @oscarrinza2256 2 года назад +3

      I totally agree with the Batman and Robin idea. Here's some that they can also do:
      -What If the DCEU started with Batman Returns and Superman Returns?
      -What If The Joker was in Matt Reeves' Batman?
      -What If The Joker was the main villain in Suicide Squad?
      -What If we fixed the Dark Universe?
      -What If James Cameron directed Terminator 3?
      -What If Fan4stic wasn't interfered by Fox?

    • @user-ld8lv5py7k
      @user-ld8lv5py7k Год назад +1

      @@SeasideDetective2health ledger fit in only when bale Batman is the second main character

  • @cinematicpadawan4648
    @cinematicpadawan4648 3 года назад +25

    Could you do a “What If Johnny Joined Miyagi-Do Instead of Daniel in ‘The Karate Kid?’”

  • @CareyHAuthor
    @CareyHAuthor 3 года назад +9

    Harley being captured could segway into Suicide Squad, too. This was good.

  • @2dudesreview67
    @2dudesreview67 3 года назад +38

    What if Heath Ledger played Joker in a live action version of the killing joke?

    • @SuperSwordman1
      @SuperSwordman1 3 года назад +1

      It would have been horrible. Because Heath Ledger was a horrible Joker. Third worst of all time.

    • @gagefranke6290
      @gagefranke6290 3 года назад +4

      @@SuperSwordman1 Who would the other two most horrible be?

    • @SuperSwordman1
      @SuperSwordman1 3 года назад +1

      @@gagefranke6290 The silver goes to Jared Leto, and the gold for the Worst Joker of all Time goes to Joaquin Phoenix.

    • @caseysshenanigans708
      @caseysshenanigans708 3 года назад +4

      @@SuperSwordman1 You--
      Okay then

    • @gagefranke6290
      @gagefranke6290 3 года назад +7

      @@SuperSwordman1 I'd say Jared Leto is definitely the worst. Phoenix gave a good performance as a tragic psychopath, but I just never bought him as the Clown Prince of Crime. And while I personally liked Heath Ledger, I respect your opinion. Who's your favorite Joker?

  • @GoldBearanimationsYT
    @GoldBearanimationsYT 3 года назад +11

    Cool

  • @e.l.gstudios31
    @e.l.gstudios31 3 года назад +14

    9.8/10 Very different than expected and much more interesting indeed, having Harvey see Rachael death on the news, and breaking down is something what Christopher Nolan does in Interstellar, very good, not masterpiece like what we got, but a remix of it that beyond expectations, very well done

  • @prestonendresmovies
    @prestonendresmovies 3 года назад +14

    Never would’ve expected this version. I still can’t wait for Batman & Robin to be Tim Burton-ized!

    • @jamesgarrett8833
      @jamesgarrett8833 3 года назад +4

      Tim Burton has talked about in interviews what his Batman Forever version would’ve been. Like he said his title for the movie was going to be “Batman Continues”, Batman costume was still going to be a suit of armor, but instead of it being all black the armor suit was going to resemble the colors from the comics, Billy Dee Williams was going to play Two-Face & Robin Williams was going to play The Riddler
      What if Tim Button got the opportunity to make a fourth Batman movie also. What could’ve been? Like how would he had introduced Batgirl?

    • @armandoflores9098
      @armandoflores9098 3 года назад +3

      True

    • @prestonendresmovies
      @prestonendresmovies 3 года назад +2

      @@jamesgarrett8833 Well let’s bet he saw the Batman Forever this channel made and hope he appreciates his somewhat vision being put into motion

    • @captainbeastwinger4940
      @captainbeastwinger4940 2 года назад

      @@jamesgarrett8833 that's false the continues thing has no evidence
      The Robin Williams casting was when joel Schumacher was already the director
      And billy dee being two face is just an obvious assumption because he played harvey in a previous movie
      Same with Marlon wayans as Robin that's just an assumption because he almost played Robin in batman returns
      In the batman returns Blu ray featurette tim burton literally said he just had a meeting for a third movie he was never officially on board to direct it

  • @MelBrooksFan78
    @MelBrooksFan78 3 года назад +7

    I have an idea for FanScription:
    What If The Riddler Was The Villain In The Dark Knight Rises?

  • @Achillez098
    @Achillez098 3 года назад +20

    Holy crap, I feel like this version is BETTER than the original! The original's ending of Batman taking the blame for the deaths of Dent and the cops never made that much sense, and felt forced. This version works perfectly! Great job you guys, you've outdone yourselves again!

    • @jerrywil7012
      @jerrywil7012 3 года назад +3

      In my opinion, it wasn’t forced at all. If Batman didn’t take the blame for all the people Harvey killed, then his image as Gotham’s savior would’ve been ruined. So no, I don’t think it was forced. If anything, I think it’s actually pretty clever.

  • @sigamigs
    @sigamigs 3 года назад +24

    Awesome work as always Walter!!

    • @YakkoWarnerTower
      @YakkoWarnerTower 3 года назад +4

      Agreed man he's such a witty, and underrated guy.

  • @billymccrary2246
    @billymccrary2246 2 года назад +3

    FanScription Ideas:
    What if Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie was better?
    What if Andrew Garfield's Spider-Man was in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
    What if Richard Donner directed both Superman 3 and 4?
    What if Bizarro was in Superman: The Quest for Peace?
    What if The Amazing Spider-Man 2 was better?
    What if Tim Burton directed Batman and Robin?
    What if Ghostbusters 3 Happened?
    What if Superman Returns was a reboot instead?
    What if Michael Bay never directed the live-action Transformers movie?
    What if Jonah Hex was better?

  • @johnwells5414
    @johnwells5414 3 года назад +8

    Nice twists and turns! Any chance you are doing a what if sequel to this?

  • @guillermosierracuellar9812
    @guillermosierracuellar9812 3 года назад +18

    Imagine her as the therapist of 2 face
    Or by the dark tone of the movie she would have been used as a sacrifice for the joker's plan

  • @YakkoWarnerTower
    @YakkoWarnerTower 3 года назад +46

    Lol she'll probably have a more "darker" backstory.

    • @lathanfitzpatrick3531
      @lathanfitzpatrick3531 3 года назад +3

      I've got my pun gun!

    • @YakkoWarnerTower
      @YakkoWarnerTower 3 года назад +2

      @@lathanfitzpatrick3531 Lmao.

    • @SeasideDetective2
      @SeasideDetective2 3 года назад +3

      Amusingly, I think going all out with the "silly" Harley would actually work here! I actually believe that the villains should be portrayed as at least partly humorous if the hero is super-serious, because I think that makes the hero seem darker and adds even more edginess than would an all-dark portrayal of the whole thing. Given how offensive comedy has become in our culture, making a villain into a big laugh riot can actually make him/her come off as more evil. I can imagine Harley as a silly but repulsive character, spouting the worst kinds of ethnic jokes, as well as one-liners about abortion and other societal no-no's, and treating EVERYTHING as funny no matter how gruesome or tragic it is. Like, for example, Harley dressing as the stereotypical dumb cheerleader and singing a rhyming chant for the Joker as he went on a killing spree. You could argue that this depiction would turn an otherwise serious film into a farce, but I disagree; it would make the film feel more authentic because it would offend the other characters in the story AND the real-life audience pretty much equally. And, of course, when a film is offensive it automatically becomes more important. So when all the usual "moral guardians" start ranting about how obscene the Joker and Harley are, we could just shrug and say, as Harley herself once did: "They're bad guys. It's what they do."

    • @charlieorr3048
      @charlieorr3048 3 года назад +3

      @@SeasideDetective2 I really like how you view this. I think if the Nolanverse were to have had Harley Quinn, the relationship with Heaths Joker should have been a toxic, morbid Sid-and-Nancy type of thing. I really, REALLY love your idea around offensiveness. Your concept that this version of Harley makes really disgusting and morbid comments about taboo subjects like death and abortion is really fascinating to me. I think she should absolutely be a deviant monster who spouts some really depraved dark shit and has an awful, hopeless worldview from her years in Psychiatry. I guess the part I think would need to be toned down is the ditziness of the traditional, comic book version. By that I don’t mean she’s got to be serious all the time, but an Arkham game, Batman TAS version of her would NOT work in this trilogy. I find the idea of her being a really disturbed psychiatrist who fell down the rabbit hole of criminal psychology and couldn’t get out much more compelling than a goofy sidekick like some of the comics and games portray her as. Great idea though!!! Wish they had done it

    • @samuelbarber6177
      @samuelbarber6177 3 года назад

      @@SeasideDetective2 I actually think that could work. An over the top caricature of a villain can work in this movie provided they’re still sinister. This is why I think a movie like Jim Carrey’s The Cable Guy works for me. Yes, he’s crazy in that movie, but he’s still quite frightening. The same with Jerome and Jeremiah Valeska in Gotham. If they’re treated like a joke, like the villains in Batman And Robin, then the movie becomes an awful farce.

  • @massimopetrangelo8692
    @massimopetrangelo8692 3 года назад +20

    I love these creative ideas! Hopefully you make a Fanscription where the Ventriloquist and Scarface were in a Batman film? ❤️❤️

    • @lathanfitzpatrick3531
      @lathanfitzpatrick3531 3 года назад +3

      Yes please super interesting character shame his first live action movie appearance was a dead body in titans :(

    • @massimopetrangelo8692
      @massimopetrangelo8692 3 года назад +2

      True! He did appear in Gotham but got killed in the same episode! So I really hope they do a Fanscription like that, or if the Ventriloquist gets his own movie! To me, he’s the best and creative villain for Batman!

    • @srstriker6420
      @srstriker6420 3 года назад +2

      @@massimopetrangelo8692 oh yeah I always keep forgetting about them as many people thought the Riddler and Penguin would appear in the dark knight rises

    • @SeasideDetective2
      @SeasideDetective2 3 года назад +1

      Or the 1939 WIZARD OF OZ as the second-ever animated feature film in history!

  • @aceyspud551
    @aceyspud551 3 года назад +26

    I’m honestly glad to see it just be Batman V Joker sometimes.

    • @KLANGS
      @KLANGS 3 года назад +3

      But those plot twists with Harley Quinn were good though

    • @MuciusSkaevola
      @MuciusSkaevola 2 года назад

      Especially since the Dark Knight is more based on Joker's first comic appearance, when he would punch batman alone without any struggle.

  • @Kimishintaro
    @Kimishintaro 3 года назад +13

    I don't see Harley Queen in "The Dark Knight". I see her more fitting to the sequel "The Dark Knight Rises", with the Joker carrying Harleen Quinzel to insanity in a first part movie, in a very "Silence of the lambs" way, then showing her in the end, and then developing her arc in a "Dark Knight Rises part 2"

  • @GreenHoneyBooBoo
    @GreenHoneyBooBoo 3 года назад +12

    Again, another interesting concept

  • @thesephiam
    @thesephiam 3 года назад +8

    These are good additions but it needs more interplay between Harley and Joker. Everything else is spot on.

  • @evanvoltwolfpackleader8470
    @evanvoltwolfpackleader8470 3 года назад +27

    I could be wrong but wasn't there dark knight teasers where it showed harley breaking the wall to show the bat symbol? This was WAY long ago

    • @georgew1466
      @georgew1466 3 года назад +5

      I don’t remember that

    • @delycan4912
      @delycan4912 3 года назад +7

      @@georgew1466 Same. was probs fan made

    • @YakkoWarnerTower
      @YakkoWarnerTower 3 года назад +2

      That's probably a deleted scene or fanmade.

    • @Coalazure
      @Coalazure 3 года назад +2

      Pretty sure it was supposed to be Gordon breaking the bat symbol

    • @moviemonster1652
      @moviemonster1652 3 года назад

      I would love to see one though

  • @chunkykong8683
    @chunkykong8683 3 года назад +22

    If Harley Quinn Season 3 ever does make a rerfence or an episode of this, then Brandy SI no longer jsut playing Harley but now a new Dark Knight Of The Florida Harringtons!

  • @aldoaviles8121
    @aldoaviles8121 3 года назад +7

    I thought their was going to b a continuation from the what if Tim Burton made batman forever to what if tim Burton directed batman & Robin but this is awesome

  • @RomaroBrandon
    @RomaroBrandon 3 года назад +9

    Harley Quinn being Harvey Dents fiance was too obvious a twist.

    • @houstonashley62
      @houstonashley62 3 года назад +4

      Agreed, but so was the Joker being the last mask at the beginning. If she's to support Harvey's break, it needs a believable connection. How about if Quinzel was a client... witness protection... but Harvey still needs an emotional connection and he is shown to get close to colleagues. That could work.

    • @wayneigoe6722
      @wayneigoe6722 3 года назад +1

      @@houstonashley62 What if Dent was the client to Harley? Like the Two Face persona was fighting to surface, and she was secretly treating it so no one knew he was ill. We keep the love story angle, but then she goes missing like they described, and instead of seeking further treatment, he tries to deal with it on his own, the coin becoming the main thing holding the other side back. When he sees it burned and scarred like in this, and sees the death of rachel... it causes him to start to snap, but then the revelation of Harley being alive and having been helping the joker is what fully pushes him over the edge. He sees how Joker broke her in the footage, then she rips off the bandages, she holds up a cracked mirror, then the footage in the room changes to pictures of him all destroyed on one side helping to drive the point home, and as the we hear the Joker taunt him, the footage changes again to a live image of him as he is in that moment, and as the camera pans around, we see the look on his face change from horror to hatred to a range of other emotions, and finally, the camera comes to rest so the projector is showing his scarred face over his good side and the good side over scars, (or some variant of that) and we see his face show a look of conviction as the joker kicks a revolver to him. *cut to black screen* and the next scene is where Harvey hunts down the corrupt cops and whatnot, and the rest more or less plays out the way they described...

  • @daethalion1725
    @daethalion1725 3 года назад +5

    Good grief, Tamara's voice acting is amazing.

  • @weareallbronies9031
    @weareallbronies9031 3 года назад +8

    I'm starting to notice a trend with these fanscriptions. They are tied into upcoming releases.

  • @Dicegum
    @Dicegum 3 года назад +9

    This would be such an interesting take how do you guys do such a good job every time

  • @georgew1466
    @georgew1466 3 года назад +21

    I think it would’ve been better if the Joker killed Harley as it just feels like something Heaths Joker would do as after all in the comics both of them don’t have the best relationship

  • @SweenyTodd98
    @SweenyTodd98 2 года назад +5

    Wasn't expecting to hear Tamara voicing Harley. I'm used to Aiyanna playing her on this channel, but Tamara's version is really good!

  • @danielrolon56
    @danielrolon56 3 года назад +7

    This was well done. Love it

  • @aldoaviles8121
    @aldoaviles8121 3 года назад +8

    I never expected to c another what if batman video this is awesome

  • @Lolzyhahas
    @Lolzyhahas 3 года назад +2

    I like how you used the news footage from the Dark Knight ARG.

  • @nickleiber274
    @nickleiber274 3 года назад +4

    Dude can u please do a what if two face didn’t die in the dark knight and do a continuation to the third movie. Or do a what if the riddler was in the dark knight rises

  • @jugghead82
    @jugghead82 3 года назад +3

    This sounds so good

  • @Drowmerc
    @Drowmerc 3 года назад +3

    I actually liked the phone scene more here. Good job!

  • @ascenciopictures
    @ascenciopictures 3 года назад +2

    I saw the twist coming from a mile away but I still liked it.

  • @jthree2001
    @jthree2001 3 года назад +5

    Holy shit that was good

  • @vishalkalicharan7710
    @vishalkalicharan7710 3 года назад +5

    Try doing a TV fanscription, like how the MLP ending should have been.

  • @dazz1903
    @dazz1903 3 года назад +3

    Tbh I would watch a cut with Harley of this film.

  • @ZombeeCO2
    @ZombeeCO2 3 года назад +2

    That moment when Harvey woke up...... 😱😱

  • @Harri927
    @Harri927 3 года назад +5

    I think The Dark Knight is perfect without Harley Quinn and I really love that video and I really wanted to see What if Tim Burton directed Batman & Robin.

  • @aldoaviles8121
    @aldoaviles8121 3 года назад +10

    I wish it was anna farris playing harley Quinn in the dark knight

    • @SeasideDetective2
      @SeasideDetective2 3 года назад

      I imagine Alyssa Milano doing her native Brooklyn accent. Even though she was more than six years older than Ledger.

    • @mtoni93
      @mtoni93 2 года назад

      @@SeasideDetective2 ooh I love that!!

  • @weareallbronies9031
    @weareallbronies9031 3 года назад +4

    After the batman is released; they'll have to do what if ben Affleck's batman was in the batman.

  • @bigmacsama
    @bigmacsama 3 года назад +3

    Awesome work! Now do the fourth Batman Movie "Batman & Robin" next!

  • @thefilmwatcher1216
    @thefilmwatcher1216 3 года назад +5

    Spoilies:
    That Harley twist is awesome. How do you guys come up with these mind blowing twists?

  • @omegamorph8211
    @omegamorph8211 3 года назад +2

    I fould ask "what if suicide squad or birds of prey were in the Nolan verse?" but I won't be greedy.

  • @coopercane500
    @coopercane500 3 года назад +4

    You know, I'd be interested in seeing other Batman villains given a similar treatment. Not necessarily a FanScription, but rather a fun thought experiment. What would be Nolan's interpretation of other Batman villains? Hell, I'd even be curious to imagine what Joel Schumacher would've done with other villains, just out of sheer curiosity.

    • @srstriker6420
      @srstriker6420 3 года назад +1

      Yeah because he could have done Penguin and Riddler justice but no because he thinks they’re not realistic but he just thinking about Danny Devito and Jim Carry’s version of them as everyone else thinks as well.

    • @samwitherington8202
      @samwitherington8202 3 года назад

      Seeing what Burtons vision could be interesting as well.

  • @benmacanbhaird8934
    @benmacanbhaird8934 3 года назад +2

    Can you do a ‘what if’ but as a sequel to this? Please.

    • @jthree2001
      @jthree2001 3 года назад

      I need a whole series

  • @BrettLee0
    @BrettLee0 3 года назад +3

    You guys do a great job.

    • @ChannelAwesome
      @ChannelAwesome  3 года назад +2

      Glad you enjoyed it!!

    • @diegolorente8435
      @diegolorente8435 2 года назад

      @@ChannelAwesome can you do on fan scription What if Me and My Shadow made by DreamWorks please do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it on my birthday please do it 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🐓🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 #Let’sGetChannelAwesomeToDoOnMeAndMyShadow

  • @BuckarooBanzai84
    @BuckarooBanzai84 3 года назад +3

    I gotta agree; she was worked in brilliantly! And I especially like how you worked in the 'Killing-Joke' refs as well! But I'm still not completely convinced until I see her in the 'Return of the Jedi' of the Nolan-trilogy; 'Dark Knight Rises'... ;)

  • @shawnconder4984
    @shawnconder4984 3 года назад +3

    I gotta say, I like the idea of Anna Farris as Harley. I could see her pulling everything off but the voice. I'm not sure about Kate Winslet though.

    • @robertlawrence4719
      @robertlawrence4719 3 года назад +1

      Sherri Moon Zombie . Look at her work as Baby in house of a 1,000 corpses and devils rejects . Hell she also has the perfect laugh.

  • @talariswatts-el6174
    @talariswatts-el6174 3 года назад +2

    I would've cast Britney Murphy in the role back in 2008.

  • @ToHoldNothing
    @ToHoldNothing 3 года назад +2

    This seems especially timely with Batman The Long Halloween's Part 1 and 2 being released in the last 2 months, even if Harley quinn isn't present in that storyline even in the comics.
    The whole struggle of Dent in the face of Joker + the gangs in Gothama and changing up the main antagonist to be someone already unhinged. Even adjusting the backstory with Gilda all makes me want to look over the Nolan trilogy again with fresh eyes.

  • @talariswatts-el6174
    @talariswatts-el6174 3 года назад +3

    Perfect way to bring Harley Quinn into the Dark Knight. I loved this! You. Should write a screen play, you're a great writer.

  • @Nick-up5wv
    @Nick-up5wv 3 года назад +8

    That was pretty awesome. I'd leave out the mutilation part and just have Harvey with a discovered bloody ring; not giving away any details to be more mysterious and I also don't believe it's nessacary to scar Harley's face like the Joker's. That's a little too on the head. I do believe it's a chance to insert her origin footage from Suicide Squad however. Also I'm the final confrontation I'd have "Bruce",
    Harley 's pet hyena, attack Batman, explaining it's appearance in Birds of Prey. When Joker is in the interrogation room with the cop he captures, you could play the footage from Birds of Prey where Harley attacks the police station; further influencing the rivalry with her and Montoya later. Than the events of Suicide Squad and Birds of Prey; as well as Zack Snyder's Director's cut all take place BEFORE the Dark Knight Rises showing just how broken and tired Batman has now become and STILL has to take on Bane and Taila; since she's still out for vengeance for her father's death at the end of Batman Begins. How's THAT for overall branching continuity?

  • @milosbatmanvideos
    @milosbatmanvideos 3 года назад +2

    Here before this blows up

  • @batassassin7060
    @batassassin7060 2 года назад +1

    I'm just addicted to Fan Scription

  • @kobevandal5149
    @kobevandal5149 3 года назад +2

    Well done man well done

  • @savagenature1
    @savagenature1 3 года назад +1

    Harley Quinn as Harvey Dent's supposedly dead wife...
    That is Pretty Damn Creative and it Put A Smile On My Face ;)

  • @mrchenz1371
    @mrchenz1371 3 года назад +1

    Harley and two face are my 2 favorite batman villains

  • @jproductions5977
    @jproductions5977 3 года назад +2

    😮 what a twist!

  • @HerbCoswellBornAgain
    @HerbCoswellBornAgain 11 месяцев назад +1

    We need a followup to this. Maybe one that reuses Goyers scrapped ideas of having Joker on trial for his crimes in The Dark Knight. Obviously, not exactly the same, because Joker didn't get caught in this one, and that draft had Dent becoming Two Face, while it already happened here, but hopefully you get what I mean, the point is, this needs a part two.

  • @BMoneyYTB
    @BMoneyYTB Год назад

    Bro I swear this dude comes up with all the great stories and ideas! This story was awesome and brilliantly put together!

  • @JarvisCosric885
    @JarvisCosric885 3 года назад +3

    Sheer perfection

  • @shitpostwrld5708
    @shitpostwrld5708 3 года назад +1

    Heath ledger's acting
    in dark knight was legendary

  • @ianfortuna9385
    @ianfortuna9385 3 года назад +3

    Not gonna lie I enjoyed this

  • @ninjabluefyre3815
    @ninjabluefyre3815 3 года назад +9

    I want to see this cut of the movie so badly! If only we had Holodecks.

  • @mdincorporated
    @mdincorporated Год назад

    These videos are amazing! The voice acting and art are done so well, thank you!

  • @jproductions5977
    @jproductions5977 3 года назад +2

    SO GOOD!

  • @princessmoonwalker
    @princessmoonwalker 3 года назад +1

    This was great.

  • @Beisenterg
    @Beisenterg Год назад +1

    Introducing Harley was great what you should have done with the fake batmen asspect would be to change them into Robins

  • @claytonrios1
    @claytonrios1 3 года назад +4

    I would allow it. I'm sure Nolan would make her as gritty as most of his changes to the Batman series. Besides he's handled evil women before like Talia.

  • @sgtjohnson
    @sgtjohnson 3 года назад +1

    If Heath didn’t pass away.
    What I would’ve done is have the Joker locked up in Arkham. The last scene we see with the joker is him hanging upside down.
    So the start of the next movie I’d have him thrown into the asylum, and have Dr Quinzel spend a few sessions with him, eventually having her mind warped/falling in love with him breaking him out and causing chaos

  • @vimtocat1741
    @vimtocat1741 2 года назад +2

    Really love what's been done I honestly wouldn't have come up with the connection between her and Harvey and would've gone for the more traditional rounded backstory but with a darker angle to it. But that really matches the style of the trilogy for villain backstories.
    I think my personal portrayal would've had her first appear as Harleen Quinzel a student in psychology who makes her first appearance in Dent's party wearing a red and black gown and stays mostly quiet but tries to struggle against one of Joker's goons which earns a glance from Joker himself but once he gets captured she does routine interviews with Joker once he gets captured, Joker takes an interest in her and at first gives her a charming reception and as they talk he gives her more stories about himself that paint him in a more sympathetic light (such as claiming he got his scars during his time in war after being tortured and starved in a ditch and ended up having to cannibalize a fellow soldier to survive long enough to be rescued) all the while cleverly dodging her amateur questions and swapping between a dashing gentleman and a tortured soul, soon Harleen feels that she's making a breakthrough with him and in order to prove she can be trusted she even begins to speak with him off the record confiding in him about her dysfunctional family and bitter relationship with her father and all seems to be going ok at least in her mind and she genuinely believes she's found someone but at the same time he's slowly egging her on and corrupting her into thinking more like him, seeing that she has the potential to be something like him and starts using contacts he knows in the Gotham Police to leave her gifts such as a rose in a vase like in her comic.
    Slowly his words begin to cut into her and she finds herself being more on edge and doubting herself, becoming less focused and wanting to speak with him more and begins to view Batman in an antagonistic light for his brutality, but after learning what happened to Dent and Rachel and that only one of them could survive, Harleen attempts to reason with him only to find Batman mid interrogation and this to her is the final straw and while Batman and Gordon are out attempting to save Dent and Rachel, Harleen reluctantly releases Joker seeing the guard attacking him and tries to stop it only for the scene to play out much like in the original only with Joker killing the guard with her red pen she used to write the notes and holding her hostage instead. Joker then sets the explosive off, Rachel dies, Harvey is burnt and disfigured and Harleen is missing.
    We don't see Harleen until after the final act but everything until then is played out the same with minor details on the missing persons report and even a few posters of Harleen Quinzel herself but everything is mostly the same with Two Face going after the people who arranged Rachel's death and the two trapped ferries, now here's where the change is.
    Harleen is one of the clown hostages dressed in a red and black jester uniform is being held hostage by Joker personally and Batman even finds footage of Joker and his men torturing her but when Batman manages to free her she suddenly attacks him with a sledgehammer in hand and pistol in the other, she'd remove her mask showing much like Joker she's wearing her own clown themed makeup a ghost white face with black lipstick forming a smile and black diamond shapes over her eyes. They both tag team him but he beats her and she seemingly disappears he then deals with Joker but his malfunctioning sonar give Harley Quinn to dress in Joker's clothes and attack him herself while the Joker watches adding to the confusion with his taunts and she's the one dangled from the rooftop as the Joker escapes and Dent is killed.
    The final scene would be Harley Quinn out of her costume and makeup removed now a patient in a white padded cell seemingly in a catatonic state as doctors and nurses theorize on what Joker did to her, she then hears footsteps and sees a deck of Joker cards slid through her hatch door and gives a dark smile.
    As for actress I'm thinking Lilly Rabe personally.

  • @SwagzLife
    @SwagzLife 3 года назад +2

    There are parts of this I really liked and feel could make the movie a bit better, or at least strengthen some of the connections in the movie. For instance, it never made sense to me how they didn't search a very suspicious prisoner to find a very obvious bomb inside them, and it makes much more sense for the Joker to have an accomplice more reliable than "unnamed goon #42". One that sticks around, rather than just being fodder for his plans.
    I'm not the biggest fan of Harley Quinn personally, but I think if written well it'd be fitting to have her in it. As long as the focus is still kept to Heath Ledger's amazing performance, which it would considering hiding Dr. Quinn would be a large part of the narrative. I feel the Joker is a very hands-on guy, but having someone hold a camera for him or something of the sort to allow him to be even more hands-on could work really well. It'd be a shame to just see him be a guy calling the shots and directing a glorified goon around compared to having him do his thing himself.

  • @parkercowan8648
    @parkercowan8648 3 года назад +1

    Heath Ledger really needed a Harley Quinn

  • @TheCommonGentry
    @TheCommonGentry 3 года назад +1

    ..first 18 secs.. perfect cut!!

  • @sam041390
    @sam041390 3 года назад +2

    Love it...I think Brittany Murphy or Anna Faris would've knocked it out the park as Harley

    • @mtoni93
      @mtoni93 2 года назад

      She definitely would have. Rip Brittany.

  • @Gayredheadbitch94
    @Gayredheadbitch94 3 года назад +1

    Brittany Murphy and Heath Ledger as HQ and Joker would have been AMAZING, but sadly its a duo we will never get to see

  • @Burning_Film_Entertainment
    @Burning_Film_Entertainment 3 года назад +1

    What if Newt, Hicks and Bishop survived the beginning of Alien 3 and were Central characters? Have the same story beats and setting just through them in to the mix.

  • @donkey64x
    @donkey64x 3 года назад +1

    This was way too good

  • @mrrunodan8119
    @mrrunodan8119 3 года назад +1

    Please do a Nostalgia critic review of The Loud House movie and Meet Dave