'Harley Quinn' Season 2 Trailer Teases Potential Poison Ivy Romance

Harley Quinn is having one hell of a year.

While Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn may not have blown past box office records, it opened to largely positive reviews, and might be about to receive a second life through early digital release thanks to the coronavirus outbreak.

And the DC anti-hero is also bashing her way into a second season of her well-received cartoon series on DC Universe, premiering on April 3.

Harley Quinn features the titular character finally breaking free from her relationship with/servitude to the Joker and instead forming her own crew while crashing with BFF Poison Ivy. While season one often hinted that there were strong feelings between the two, it also pushed Ivy into an unconvincingly relationship with bumbling villain Kite Man — but the main focus was always on the friendship between Harley and Ivy.

Now, a trailer released for season 2 is giving fans hope that a romantic relationship between the two might finally begin to bloom.

To be perfectly fair, the trailer doesn’t give much away in terms of our favorite Gotham ladies, focusing more on Harley’s continuing quest to become the most feared supervillain after proving herself and saving the city from complete destruction and the rule of the Joker last season. But a short clip of the two tentatively touching hands has us holding our breath.

Okay, and it isn’t only that. Showrunner Justin Halpern recently gave an interview addressing the fan favorite couple and their comic 'verse romance potentially making its way into Harley Quinn.

“We have caught a lot of heat for not having them together right away, and I get it, but our thinking was we didn’t want Harley to jump right back into another relationship when she was on a journey for self-discovery,” he admitted. “That felt like selling out her character.”

Halpern shared similar thoughts about Ivy, who he notes “has a bit of social anxiety and neuroses and scars from her life,” which she needs to deal with before being “in a place where they could really and truly experience a loving relationship and make it work.”

“I don’t want to spoil it, so I’ll just say I think we get to the place where people want us to get to, but we do it carefully,” he continued. “We’re not trying to bait anyone or tease anyone. We pay off things in a satisfying way but we want to make sure we earn it.”