'Harley Quinn' Sets Course For Metropolis With Season 5 Trailer, Premiere Date
Harley and Ivy are ready to blow your minds as they descend on Metropolis in the new year
Creature Commandos may have only just premiered, but with only seven episodes for its first season, it’s going to be over rather fast. Luckily, we already know a DC animated series will be ready to tap in. The first series in the new DC Universe will be followed by the last vestige of the defunct DC Universe streaming service when Harley Quinn’s fifth season premieres on Max on January 16, the week following the Commandos finale. Max made the announcement Wednesday, complete with a new trailer and poster.
Season 5 sees Harley (voiced by Kaley Cuoco) and Ivy (Lake Bell) moving to Metropolis and seemingly living their best life. Yet, something bigger awaits them, breaking the city's glossy exterior that threatens everyone across the world, including supervillains, superheroes, and all the chaos they bring. Gotham has become a complete mess of even lower quality than normal, laden with toxic waste abd on the brink of collapse. Meanwhile, Metropolis is stacked with classy high society parties and apartments that allow Ivy, Harley and their friends, Batman (Diedrich Bader)’s other rogues to live it up, thanks to Ivy’s new position as the head of the mayor's new Metropolis Green Initiative. Brainiac (Stephen Fry) looms overhead with plans to erase all imperfection from the world. And he’s got a little monkey alien with him. The duo takes a stand for their new home, Bane (James Adomian), in particular vowing not to fall to AI, and the Daily Planet, which seeks to expose the city’s great threat. Lena Luthor appears as well, voiced by Aisha Tyler, and a Brainiac attack gives glimpses of Perry White and Lois Lane, the latter voiced by Natalie Morales, who looks to be the gang's new ally at the Daily Planet. Being the Planet, Superman (James Wolk) himself is there, as is the Joker (Alan Tudyk). The season will continue to star Ron Funches as King Shark and J.B. Smoove as Frank the Plant.
Notably, Red X appears, a character introduced in the 2003 Teen Titans series and has since, like Harley, made his way to the comics. In fact in the four years since his introduction to that medium, there have been as many people who have taken up the identity. This may very well be the character’s first animated appearance outside of Teen Titans series.
When asked about the new season, showrunner Dean Lorey said “I wanted to get the old gang back together and get a little back to basics. So it’s a different season, it’s a bit more focused, and it has a lot of new stuff but with the same group.” Essentially, it will “we resolve the things that we needed to Season 4” such as that Nightwing resurrection cliffhanger, “it is a very new season.” Running ten episodes, Harley Quinn’s fifth season will release weekly, with no multi-episode releases and a March 20 season finale.
Sources: Press release, Collider, TVLine