Tag: Batman

Worldbuilding Wednesday 5/28/2025: Let’s Talk About Batman Villains (Harley Quinn)

The more I got into last week’s Worldbuilding Wednesday post the more I realized how convoluted the history of Harley Quinn really is. For one thing, she wasn’t the Joker’s first female sidekick. That honor belongs to Duela Dent, who originated in 1976. She claimed to be the Joker’s daughter and wanted to join the …

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Worldbuilding Wednesday 5/21/2025: Let’s Talk About Batman Villains

In this post I’m going to do something I’ve wanted to do for a while: analyze Batman villain names. Batman has been all over the place for the past three decades, and plenty of folks have seen the shows, the movies, the parodies, the comics  (which comprise only a small part of the franchise now), …

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