The character was still fun when she was paired in the Batman Adventures comics with Poison Ivy, when they were just crime-loving friends, but Harley Quinn has gone through so many incredibly terrible permutations over the years, from murderous fiend to the status quo of the past several years as DC's feminist lesbian Deadpool.
Harley has an issue of flanderization. Like you could make Harley and Ivy work as lesbians, a sort of Bonny and Clyde approach or toxic relationship that enforces the worst traits of the two yet they're cool with it, but WB just reduces them to "just the other one's girlfriend", though its worse with Ivy as she is less popular and is just generic lesbian lady.
Same with Harley who has a goofy, eccentric personality, but they just make her deadpool because that's popular and she's a funny character who isn't super evil like the Jonkler.
Speaking of which, they rarely ever even try to have that relationship or dynamic since people connected to that abusive relationship in the sense they can see themselves in Harley and the comics tried to actually explore her growing past that in some cases. But most adaptations (aside from like the Harley Quinn show) just have her leave him and be super happy immediately.
There's also how they exaggerate how stupid she is as while Harley isn't the sharpest bulb in the shed, she's still pretty smart at times yet her idiocy is exaggerated to the point that she's mentally retarded, but its actually cause she's cooky and random.
Obviously because they can't do such a dark thing because WB tries to make her a new pillar for the DC brand when that's part of her history.
It gets worse when brand syngergy comes into play because of that Suicide Squad Game where she just becomes the typical lesbian Harley who is ultra confident despite the fact this game they made takes place in the Arkhamverse where she is a literal baby killer and has repeatedly shown in other games to constantly double down on loving the Joker that she'd start doing terrible things because of it.
tl;dr Harley is a victim of her popularity where WB just makes her a lol so random goofy character because they don't want to bother with any of the nuances. Its very sad that the animated stuff mostly tries more than their other subsidaries.
Warner bros is leagues more incomptetent than disney.
For the sake of brand recognition and shit they have been cannibalizing each and every property they own birthing failure after failure.
Stuff in the likes of Looney toons back in action and Space jam where charming at first, their costant repeat of this, alongside poor quality has quickly turned it all into festering slop.
Not to mention how WB cancels every single thing or fucks over projects that have any success for the sake of short term gains and not wanting to take risks with new IP even if the people working for them have shown to be reliable. WB burns so much good will that it is insane and then ask themselves "how can we reach out to kids?" after cancelling all kids programming or denying any new IPs to blossom.
Disney is a terrible company but they at least try to pretend to be in touch with their audience even if it's half-hearted attempts.
WB would see anything they think is a billion-dollar idea and go all in on it to make it the next big thing even if it doesn't prove to succeed like how they made Black Adam be this hyped up character in their animated super pets movie and the comic books before that movie came out.
It’s been said before, but what CW tried to do with the failed PPG live action reboot is no different with what they tried to do with Riverdale by making the Archie characters dark, gloomy and way too gay for the sake of checking off boxes and not adding anything new or original to the “updated” story.
Same thing with what they did to Nancy Drew on trying to turn her into a “#girlboss” detective.
Riverdale was able to get multiple seasons because Archie is surprisingly more flexible compared to the Powerpuff girls and it can work with a very low budget as it is very grounded, it also gets really retarded that at least can give it a "so bad it's good" vibe.
PPG has more established stuff and routinely have the girls fight kaiju regularly that would be way beyond the budget for CW and that trailer shows it with how it looks like a Linkara skit.
