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Batman Can Save Downtown Gotham
But Can’t Go Down on Catwoman, DC Says
Rebecca Alter
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Batman has always had a slightly more fragile relationship to his masculinity than other superheroes. While Marvel’s top-heavy boys are glad to be ogled and Deadpool openly stans Bea, Babs, and Bernadette, the Caped Crusader shrouds himself in a bat cowl and hides from intimacy. So when DC told the creators of the animated series Harley Quinn that under no circumstances could Batman go down on Catwoman, maybe they were just trying to keep the character consistent?

The HBO Max adult animated series creators, Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker, told Variety in an interview, “in this third season of Harley we had a moment where Batman was going down on Catwoman. And DC was like, ‘You can’t do that. You absolutely cannot do that.’ They’re like, ‘Heroes don’t do that.’ So, we said, ‘Are you saying heroes are just selfish lovers?’ They were like, ‘No, it’s that we sell consumer toys for heroes. It’s hard to sell a toy if Batman is also going down on someone.’” Is DJ Khaled on the board of DC? Harley Quinn has plenty of violence and gore, and they sell toys based off of that no problem, but Batman can’t pleasure his on-again off-again lover? Well no one can tell us what to do with our Batman and Catwoman action figures in the privacy of our homes

Batman-Catwoman oral sex scene cut from Harley Quinn
By Neil Wilkes, Editor-in-chief | 22m

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A proposed scene in which Batman performed oral sex on Catwoman was cut from an episode of Harley Quinn, co-creator Justin Halpern has revealed.

The dark animated comedy follows the DC character Harley Quinn (voiced by Kaley Cuoco) and her friend Poison Ivy (Lake Bell) and their interactions with other characters from the DC Universe.

The show is known for its adult humour and risque jokes, but talking to Variety, Halpert admitted that one of their more extreme ideas for a scene was deemed to go too far.

"It's incredibly gratifying and free to be using characters that are considered villains because you just have so much more leeway," he said.

"A perfect example of that is in this third season of Harley [when] we had a moment where Batman was going down on Catwoman.

"And DC was like, 'You can't do that. You absolutely cannot do that.' They're like, 'Heroes don't do that.' So, we said, 'Are you saying heroes are just selfish lovers?'

"They were like, 'No, it's that we sell consumer toys for heroes. It's hard to sell a toy if Batman is also going down on someone.'"

The third season of the show is currently in production and is expected to premiere later this year.