Batman Gambit/Trope Namer: Difference between revisions

** Harley actually manages to outsmart Batman -- more than the Joker ever could -- so he whips out a [[Batman Gambit]] and convinces her the Joker wouldn't believe she could pull it off. So of course to prove it she brings the Joker to Batman... right where he wants him, because Joker would never let anyone else kill Bats, making this a [[Batman Gambit]] that used Harley to pull a [[Batman Gambit]] on the Joker. All while chained upside-down and half-conscious.<br /><br />Of course, this all started because Harley nailed a [[Batman Gambit]] on ''Batman.'' She pretended to be betraying Joker by giving his plans to his worst enemy, on the condition that Batman protect her from her boyfriend's wrath. Then she rigged a robotic Joker decoy to attack her and Batman at the rendezvous point. Batman did as he had promised - he tackled Harley to shield her from the bullets. If he had not done so, she would never have been able to get close enough to him that she could stick him in the back with a needle full of sedative. No wonder he was impressed.

* ''[[Justice League]]'':

** In "Wild Cards," when he talks to Harley Quinn suggesting that the Joker's likely more interested in the girl he's standing next to on TV while he sends Harley out to do the grunt work. She refuses to turn on the Joker and seemingly knocks out Batman then returns to the Joker to talk things out. Joker promptly slaps her aside, quickly realizing that it was all Batman's plan to get her to return to base and lead him to his headquarters, which is just what happened.

** There's also a ''double'' [[Batman Gambit]] -- ''both'' carried out by Bat...men! Justice Lord Batman tries to convince our Batman to join the cause, but Bats ends up reversing it.