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This Joker and Harley Original production cel from The Batman Superman Movie: World's Finest is a great image that celebrates the unhealthy "folie a deux" featuring these two supervillains! Joker and Harley comes framed and the price doesn't include shipping. Contact us for that price!
About The Batman Superman Movie: World's Finest
"World's Finest" is the 16th, 17th and 18th episodes of the second season of Superman: The Animated Series, and the 29th, 30th, and 31st of the overall series. Originally, this three-parter aired back-to-back-to-back as a movie event on October 4, 1997.
The episode depicts the first meeting of Batman and Superman in the DCAU, when Batman comes to Metropolis in pursuit of the Joker, who has offered to kill Superman for Lex Luthor. Superman finds himself out of his depth when matched against the Joker's cunning and unpredictability, while Batman has trouble with the resources Luthor provides the Joker with. Both heroes must agree to overcome their differences to put a stop to the Joker and Luthor.
Production notes
- The catfight between Harley Quinn and Mercy Graves was one of the earliest concieved story beats according to Bruce Timm. "We knew from the beginning that if we were going to pair Luthor and Joker up, they both had henchgirls, and the first thing that popped into our testosterone-driven head was "cat fight!"
- The idea to pair up Lois Lane and Bruce Wayne for this episode was inspired by Dave Gibbons and Steve Rude's "World's Finest."[1]
- Lois figuring out Batman's secret identity was Bruce Timm's idea. "I thought it was an ironic thing to do. She's been with Clark Kent/Superman all these years and never saw past those glasses, and then she's with Bruce Wayne a couple of days and suddenly she discovers his secret."
- In the audio commentary, Timm says that it was Glen Murakami's suggestion not to put red lips on the Joker. Murakami justifies it on grounds of "simplification", and Timm admits it was a mistake.
- The tune played by the Joker's balloon in Part II is first heard in the Batman: The Animated Series episode "Robin's Reckoning", during a fight on a carousel. It was also previously heard at the carnival in "Baby-Doll".
- In part three, when the larger Wayne/Lex T-7 hits Superman with the Gatling gun, there's an explosion that is reused footage from a scene of "My Girl", in which Mr. Eelan blows a vat of hot lead off its support.
- In part three, when Joker drops his bag of marble grenades, the rolling marbles are reused footage from the marble grenade scene in part two.
- Because the Laughing Dragon was carved (approximately) thirty years before the events of this episode, it can be deduced that Superman/Clark Kent is at least 30 and possibly older (going by Earth years, as Kryptonians physically age much more slowly than humans do, as shown in "The Call", where Superman is in his 80s but appears in his 50s).