Biggest Unanswered Questions In Birds Of Prey

Birds of Prey gives viewers a pretty satisfying and explosive ending But what we know about the characters in their previous incarnations, as well as the iconic Gotham City setting, raises a ton of questions about what did and didn't happen in the movie.

Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) begins with Harley breaking the news that Joker has quite literally kicked her to the curb, explaining the Clown Prince of Crime's absence from the film. Once word gets out that Harley is no longer under Joker's protection, it spreads fast. Roman Sionis, the crime boss known as Black Mask, sends all of his men after her. Plus, the cops and every thug who ever lived through Harley's abuses are out to get their pounds of flesh. And Harley doesn't exactly go into hiding she blows up Ace Chemicals in a breakup announcement to the whole world.

It takes less than 24 hours for all of Gotham to know that Harley Quinn just sprouted a huge target on her head. It stands to reason Joker must have heard about it all, too. In most likelihood he would know all about the plant explosion, Sionis capturing Quinn, the hunt for the Bertinelli diamond and Quinn's dust-up with the cops.

Assuming he does know what's happening between Harley and Black Mask, he probably sees it as a win-win either Harley kills a potential rival of Joker's, or Sionis cuts off one of Joker's loose threads for him. A reasonable enough explanation is that Joker would likely be content to sit back and let the carnage unfold, though it's still a bit hard to believe he wouldn't get involved somehow. That guy loves attention.

In the real world, with Ben Affleck setting aside the role of Batman and the shaky status of DCEU's shared narrative, it isn't a huge surprise that the Dark Knight doesn't make an appearance in Birds of Prey. But in-universe, considering most of the film takes place in Gotham City, you've got to wonder exactly why he's absent.

After making a huge mess by blowing up Ace Chemicals, Harley assaults over a dozen cops in the GCPD, lets a bunch of prisoners loose, and has a violent tussle with armed bikers in the evidence room, likely tainting every piece of evidence in there. There's a killer on the loose, Huntress, shooting mobsters in the throat with a crossbow. Eventually, the clash between Harley and Black Mask erupts into a full-scale war in Amusement Mile.

With all that chaos, Batman should have shown up at some point during the events of Birds of Prey, right? If we had to whip up an explanation for his absence, maybe he was working with the Justice League outside Gotham, maybe on another planet or in another dimension. Otherwise, it seems like there's no way he'd let all this criminal activity happen on his watch. Keep watching the video to see all the biggest unanswered questions in Birds of Prey!

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Where was the Joker? | 0:16
Where was Batman? | 1:33
Will Renee become The Question? | 2:46
Did Harley really just pawn the diamond? | 3:47
How did Black Canary get her powers? | 4:41
Why was Captain Boomerang wanted in Gotham? | 5:51
Why hasn't Waller recaptured Harley? | 6:50
Were Sionis and Zsasz in love? | 8:05
Will Harley rejoin the team? | 9:10
What was Harley's Batman secret? | 10:09


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