Several actors have played Batman on the big screen, but for many fans Kevin Conroy is their Batman. Conroy has been voicing the animated version of Batman since the 90s, and he recently added another chapter to his legacy when he voice the character in “Batman And Harley Quinn.”
Harley Quinn is all the rage right now thanks to Margot Robbie’s live action version, but Conroy remembers when the character was first introduced on “Batman: The Animated Series.” Quinn is a character who only seems to become more and more popular with each passing day, and during a recent interview Conroy shared his reason as to why he thinks people love her so much.
“I think it has a lot to do with The Joker,” Conroy told HeyUGuys. “Before Harley Quinn, the only foil for The Joker was Batman. The Joker defines Batman and Batman defines The Joker. Mark [Hamill] and I have often approached the roles as the yin and yang of each other but I’m like the dark grounding for Joker, he had no one to really go crazy with and Harley Quinn gave him that.”
“She got to be this crazy reflection of the Joker, so I think the better Mark was, the better Harley Quinn was. A lot of her popularity grows out of people’s love for The Joker. They love Mark as The Joker. She gets reflected glory from that character but Arleen Sorkin, Tara Strong and now Melissa [Rauch] then took that and made it this crazy, gum-chewing, wise-cracking New Jersey broad who’s just crazy, crazy evil and so much fun.”
Fans are going to be seeing a lot more of Harley Quinn in the years to come, because Margot Robbie is set for “Suicide Squad” too as well as “Gotham City Sirens” and another spinoff that will focus on The Joker and Harley.
