My Review of Harley Quinn's 4x06: "Metamorphosis"

 

Written by Conner Shin

Directed by Michael Moloney

Joker (to everyone): "I killed Nightwing."

Well that mystery got solved very fast. Boo to Nightwing being dead but yay to evil Joker again. First he told his new family about his return to villainy and than everyone else at the Legion of Doom.

In all fairness while Harley let Batgirl get into her head about Nightwing being killed by Ivy (who wasn't broken up about his death), she should've looked a bit closer to her ex instead. Does this mean Joker is the antagonist for the remainder of the season? Probably.

Right now, the Bat Family is toast. Nightwing's dead, Robin has gone to his mommy and Batgirl's a mess. Things are so bad that Harley's the rational one of the gang and even now she doesn't even have Ivy to lean on. It's quite the mess for her.

Ivy's attention this week was definitely on getting rid of the PR team from hell more than Harley. Her plan to somewhat destroy her reputation during a Little Poison Miss Ivy pageant was pretty clever and full of Easters Eggs to the characters looks in various media over the years.

It also helped that Ivy managed to make amends with Terra, Tefe and Volcana by getting them in on the plan as well as the inadvertent use of King Shark's babies for good measure. Eh, who needs a PR team anyways?

Also in an amusing subplot Security Guard Gordon turned out to be most useful in helping King Shark handle the stress of looking after eight babies. Too bad he wasn't as helpful in sorting out a spiralling Babs though.

- Nightwing's coffin had a tribute to his backside but the event was spoiled by Toyman being a dick. Nora was also flirting with Captain Cold.

- Aside from a little girl dressed as Poison Ivy from Batman & Robin, we also had Sugar and Spice from Batman Forever as well with Two-Face.

- We got to meet Lucius Fox briefly in the episode and Alfred is using his wine business to get into a nicer prison.

- Chronology: Not long from where the previous episode left off.

Metamorphosis loses a point for Nightwing's death but Joker's return to evil and the Ivy and King Shark plots were great along with Frank being involved in the sleepwalking story with Harley. Overall, another enjoyable episode.

Rating: 8 out of 10