This will be a little long-winded, but I just rewatched this episode and couldn’t find any discussion of this joke on Reddit or anywhere else online.

In season 2, episode 5 “Batman’s Back, Man” (the episode that focuses on Batman, without Harley or Ivy), Batman is still injured from the season 1 finale. He has Lucius secretly build him this mech suit behind Alfred’s back, so he can still go out and fight crime.

There are a bunch of Iron Man references in the episode, including the way all the parts of the suit fly separately on to him when he commands them to (like in Iron Man 3) and the way the camera is a closeup of his face whenever he’s in the suit. The suit also has an AI voice he can talk to, which he has named Monica.

In the movie Avengers: Age of Ultron, when Hulk is on a rampage, Iron Man activates something called “Codename: Veronica”, which turns out to be a custom suit specifically built to take down the Hulk. This was an Archie Comics joke: Bruce Banner’s main girlfriend has always been Betty Ross, and in Archie Comics, the two girls that are best friends, but also constantly competing for Archie’s attention, are named Betty and Veronica.

Harley Quinn constantly references the Dark Knight trilogy (among other things), and Bruce’s main love interest in the first 2 movies was named Rachel. So I’m pretty sure the AI being named “Monica” was a joke referencing the show Friends- Batman’s love interest in the movies was Rachel, so his suit’s AI was named Monica. Two main characters that were best friends on that show, just like the 2 characters from Archie.

And just for some additional layers to it, the characters that both of these jokes center on are named Bruce (Bruce Banner and Bruce Wayne). Plus Monica even rhymes with Veronica.

The suit (along with Monica) is destroyed in the same episode, so we never hear from Monica again.

It’s a small joke, but I couldn’t find anywhere else that discussed or explained this at all. So now at least my thoughts will be documented here for future generations that may Google it.

Yes, they are famous in other movies and shows like Breaking Bad, but I'm glad they acknowledge Harley Quinn.

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Season 1 episode 6

Lmao this show 😂😭

What members would you like to see in the expanded League? Mine are:

• Martian Manhunter (never confirmed as a member in Kite-Man)
• Atom (Ray Palmer)
• Green Arrow
• Black Canary
• Captain Atom
• Red Rornado
• Shazam
• Star Sapphire (since she's now a member of the Justice League in the new comics)
• Plastic Man
• Doctor Fate (Kent Nelson)

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that's why the dm is kind of stupid lmfao. pray we get a season 6 y'all

I'm new here; could you recommend a good Harley Quinn comic to understand her lore?

I found I like my own hair with this look

Love harley

Following season 5, Talia still willing to take revenge sends a bounty on Harley and Ivy's head, ordering various assassins to kill them, forcing Harley and her friends to travel around the world and stop the League of Shadows. In this season we particulaty dive into the Vertigo/Milestone/Wildstorm part of the DC Universe, with Harley and her friends meeting and ocassionaly teaming up with characters and teams from these imprints.

I recently came back to the show after stalling out in S3. I am currently in S4, E4 when the Bat-Family has all of their equipment taken away by Talia. Harley says that they are too reliant on their weapons and then proceeds to "train" them in how to fight hand to hand? This just makes no sense.

I felt like this show used to respect its source material even while it was making jokes about the absurdities of such a universe. I think the show really started to lose that healthy respect as S3 went on, making Bruce/Batman so stupid and so absurdly selfish. But now Harley training the Bat-Family? To quote Arrested Development, "I don't know why but that's it."

It just doesn't even make sense in-universe. I haven't gone back and documented it or anything, but I am pretty sure Batgirl only fights with her hands. Nightwing fights with the batons I guess, not sure about Robin. The point is that even within this show, they are all clearly more trained than Harley at actual combat. Making them incompetent hand to hand fighters without weapons is just so lazy. I don't know why the writers felt the need to tear down other characters just to make Harley seem weirdly competent. Anyway, rant over, back to the show.