February is The LEGO Batman Movie month and all month long at LEGO Stores and on Shop@Home, they will be giving away free posters with any purchase. The posters are four of the character posters for the movie which I’ve reported on before. The characters include:
Harley Quinn – February 1-5
Batman – February 6-12
Batgirl – February 13-19
Robin – February 20-26
Surprisingly, the Joker isn’t one of the posters that will be given away which is strange because he’s one of the main antagonists of The LEGO Batman Movie.
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Regarding Harley over Joker, the Joker is Batman’s most iconic villain, but Harley Quinn is one of DC’s most popular characters. Just look at the shift in minifigs to see evidence of this. In the Batman theme, Joker got a 1st year release and one of the handful of repeat appearances, where Harley only showed up in one set in the third and final year (and Batgirl would still have years to go before her debut). In DCS, Joker has had several variants inflating his total and I really only count him as being one ahead of Harley at this point (LBM included) with 9 vs 8 available today, with another Harley minifig rumored to be coming in the summer wave. The only other superhero characters who surpass those numbers from DC are Batman and Robin. From Marvel, I think Iron Man and Spiderman are the only games in town, and most of their minifigs are based on movie costumes that change from one film to the next and the fact that the MS theme largely skews towards movie releases.
In terms of comic books, Harley has been carrying a solo title for quite some time where I don’t know of anything but one-shots for the Joker since the mid-70’s.
Now, add to that the fact that Harley is female and Joker is not (which evens out the genders at 2:2 where TLM only had Wyldstyle), and it’s not at all shocking that Harley got the final spot in the lineup.