Gotham’s largest drawback is now going to be giving Superman mallet-sized complications. Within the first trailer for the fifth season of Max Unique Harley Quinn, the titular queen of mischief (Kaley Cuoco) and Poison Ivy (Lake Bell) have left the dirty streets of Gotham and make their option to Metropolis in a Batman/Superman mashup that’s excellent for kicking off 2025.
Within the trailer, the worlds of the best detective and Krypton’s biggest orphan merge with Quinn on the middle of all of it. Joker (Alan Tudyk) asks Superman to save lots of the day, Bane (James Adomian) wars in opposition to AI robots in Metropolis, and all of them are in the best way of no matter evil plan Superman villain Brainiac (Stephen Fry) has cooked up. In accordance with Max’s synopsis of the season, “Harley and Ivy uncover that one thing sinister is at play” in Metropolis after they arrive, they usually can depend Lex Luthor (Giancarlo Esposito) and his sister Lena Luthor (Aisha Tyler) as threats, together with Brainiac.
This season is about to premiere on January 16, 2025, and comes after Harley Quinn’s pocket of the DC animated universe expanded this yr with its first spin-off sequence, Kite Man: Hell Yeah! The present options the comedic, endearingly ill-fortuned character who, on Harley Quinn, was the title character’s ex-fiance and is voiced by Recent Off The Boat’s Matt Oberg. In a November interview with ScreenRant, government producer and author Dean Lorey hinted at one other attainable spin-off from what he calls the Harleyverse:
“Effectively, I’m all in on the Harleyverse. There’s a present that I hope to have the ability to announce considerably quickly, that’s within the Harleyverse that I’m very enthusiastic about.”
I actually wouldn’t thoughts seeing King Shark (Ron Funches) be a lovable big getting himself out of hassle by hacking into something with a pc chip, and perhaps assuming the royal duties of his underwater kingdom. Or, we may wash away the stain Joker: Folie à Deux left in our eyes by letting Alan Tudyk have his personal present because the homicidal trickster. Whether or not these spin-offs occur or not, it’s good to know we received’t have to attend lengthy for the middle of the Harleyverse to return and get again to serving us homicide with a smile.