- ❝ Oh, you've got a line? Hey guys, she has a line. Superheroes have a line. Teen Titans have a line. We don't give a fuck! ❞
- — Queen of Fables to Harley Quinn[src]
Queen of Fables is a recurring character and secondary antagonist of the first season of the T.V. series, Harley Quinn and a supporting character in its spin-off series, Kite Man: Hell Yeah!. She is a sorceress with the power to conjure living versions of fairytale characters who once attempted to destroy Gotham City.
After fighting the Justice League and being imprisoned inside the U.S. Tax Code, she became a mentor to Harley Quinn and briefly joined her crew when she was restored to her original form. This didn't last long as Harley decapitated her for betraying her and was saved by Kite Man, who placed her head in a jar.
Appearance[]
The Queen of Fables is an African-American adult female wearing golden armor. It consists of a chest plate, tall necklace-like jewelry, golden circular earrings, thin golden lines on the top of her boots, and what is either partially golden hair or a crown.
She wears light purple high-heel boots that almost reach her knees, pinkish-red leggings, and hot pink long gloves that cover almost all her arms. She also wears a light purple headdress-like clothing item that appears to be an extension of either her neck jewelry or a dark purple cape, which is also cut into the shape of a large leaf.
She has pinkish-red hair above the golden portion that seems to be made to look similar to a flame. She wears hot pink, shiny lipstick and has a small heart-red heart on her right cheek near her eye, which seems to be a tattoo, although it could be a mark of sorts.
Biography[]
Background[]
Queen of Fables was the first female supervillain who almost destroyed Gotham City in the '80s. She was a powerful sorceress and fed up with her position, not among the male supervillains; she single-handedly turned Gotham into an evil forest, using her magic to pull characters from the pages of storybooks until she had a whole army at her command. Unfortunately, her plans were stopped by the Justice League, and she was sealed in a U.S. Master Tax Guide Book instead of being sent to Arkham Asylum. She has been acting as a tax consultant for over 30 years until she was released from the U.S. Master Tax Guide Book.[2]
Season 1[]
"So You Need a Crew?"[]
- Main article: So You Need a Crew?
Poison Ivy told Harley Quinn about the Queen of Fables after Harley tried to recruit her to her crew. Ivy insisted there was a "glass ceiling" for female supervillains and told her how The Queen of Fables was a sorceress who conjured an entire army. When Harley asked what happened to her, Ivy gave her a card and told her to ask her herself. Harley went to Taxes 4 Free, where she met the Queen of Fables, who told her how the Justice League came after her and her crew and, instead of throwing her into Arkham Asylum like any male villain, they had Zatanna Zatara imprison her inside a U.S. Tax Code book. She made a point about the double standards regarding male and female villains, saying she couldn't even get a crew, so she had to create her own.
This inspired Harley to seek out villains who were downtrodden and disrespected, desperate enough to work for her. Later, Queen of Fables watched on the news as Harley's Crew made their debut by robbing Maxie Zeus.
"The Line"[]
- Main article: The Line
News about the Queen of Fables is released, stating a judge ruled that her imprisonment in a tax book was a cruel and unusual punishment. From her tax business building, the Queen laments the picture they used of her, and Harley, who was also there, relates to her own. They then discuss their coffee talks and an update on Harley's progress on the Legion of Doom. Harley scoffs at her progress thus far, and Queen suggests that she snatch something they'd want. Queen then ends their conversation to prepare herself for her next client.
More news coverage from the courtroom features Queen being released from her textbook imprisonment. Despite expecting to walk away scot-free, Queen is astonished to learn from the judge that she'll be serving the remainder of her sentence in Arkham Asylum.
Harley, Ivy, and Frank watched this news coverage from the Gotham Mall. Frustrated by Queen's treatment, Harley leaves to rescue her mentor, despite Ivy trying to reason with her. She'd go on to rescue Queen from her transport van to Arkham, retrieve Queen's Book of Fables, and the two high-tailed it back to Harley's HQ.
There, Harley asks for a creature from her book that's no bigger than 4 inches tall, which Queen obliges to do to rescue her and cracks a joke about Prince Charming. King Shark then asks her if she can pull any fairy tale character out of her book, and Queen says yes and asks who is his favorite. Shark answers Humpty Dumpty, and after she summons him from his book, Queen proceeds to slice off the top of his head and prepare to cook his yolk.
Dressed incognito, Ivy tries to reason with Harley about reconsidering her relationship with Queen, but Harley believes that Queen can teach her the ropes about true villainy. While this conversation continues, Queen prepares Humpty Dumpty by cooking him over an oven fire and using a meat tenderizer to break his arms.
Afterward, outside of the S.T.A.R. Laboratories, Queen summons Cinderella's mouse named Françoise to assist them in stealing the personal force field there. As Harley and crew head into the cave leading to the place, a soccer ball hits her in the head, and when a man wearing a Praxis t-shirt retrieves it. Harley and Queen investigate and learn that a family reunion is being held nearby, and the person who saw them was notifying someone about it. Although Harley wanted to abort the mission, Queen volunteered to handle it by summoning various fables from her book.
Eventually, the crew succeeds in stealing the forcefield and discovers that Queen had the Big Bad Wolf slaughter everyone there. Her reason was to end the bloodline to prevent any attempt of revenge, which is part of Evil 101. Doctor Psycho argues that he taught that at Boston College, but that wasn't covered. Queen then asks if any spotted any survivors; Harley spots one person but lies, claiming there wasn't. Hence, Queen summons the Three Little Pigs to devour the corpses around the place.
Back at the Mall, Queen complains about how difficult it is to get their brain off of your cape, and Ivy talks to Harley about her opinion of Queen, which Harley now agrees with. Right as Harley was going to politely cut ties with Queen, who decided to continue working with Harley and her crew longer. She even details that if they thought the Three Little Pigs could eat corpses, they haven't seen the Three Blind Mice do it.
However, Harley severs ties with Queen, and the two have a major falling out because of it. Recalling Repunzal and Rumplestiltskin back into her book, she takes her leave by flipping Harley and the crew off as she's flown out of the mall by two of her doves.
Sometime later, Queen reappears in Harley's hideout, where she and Big Bad Wolf intend to steal the Weather Machine Harley and her crew had stolen. Before either can do anything, a blond-haired man, who shoots lightning bolts from his hands, appears, demanding who killed his family. To this revelation, Queen admits it was her and, behind cover, rebukes Harley for not telling her about a survivor at the family reunion, which she realizes the blonde-haired girl was a guy. It prompts Queen to reiterate, "The need to end the bloodline".
Hence, Harley offers Queen to the blond-haired man named Jason Praxis, but when he fires a lightning bolt toward her, it backfires because Harley had put the forefield wristwatch on her. A little after this, Queen finishes off Jason by stabbing him from the back of his neck and causing him to faint dead.
"Devil's Snare"[]
- Main article: Devil's Snare
As Harley and her crew faced the Justice League, Fables arrived and revealed that she had been working together with The Joker, capturing The Flash, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman and Superman in her storybook. At the same time, they were distracted by the trees and Harley's crew. She taunts Harley for not killing her when she has the chance and uses the beanstalk from Jack and the Beanstalk to send Harley and her crew up to a castle in the clouds, where a giant threatens them.
Kite Man helps them defeat the giant and return down below, where she once again attacks them, this time aided by the Big Bad Wolf dressed as Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother. Clayface attempted to deter the wolf with a disguise, but failed. The Wolf returned to the Queen of Fables with Harley's bloodied head in its mouth, seemingly successful in killing her. However, Harley reveals it was a ruse, which Fables admits was good. She was then decapitated by Harley Quinn using her bat. King Shark had defeated the Wolf and ate most of its insides so Harley could use its skin as a disguise to get close to her.
Season 3[]
"The 83rd Annual Villy Awards"[]
- Main article: The 83rd Annual Villy Awards
A picture of her could be seen during a memorial montage played during the 83rd Annual Villy Awards.
Kite Man: Hell Yeah![]
"Pilot, Hell Yeah!"[]
Not only did Queen of Fables survive being beheaded, but she now lives in a jar, thanks to Kite Man.
"Grand Reopening, Hell Yeah!"[]
After Malice's cat Chessure knocked over both the hamster cage and her jar, Queen of Fables was placed in the hamster cage, where she was taken to meet Gus Students, where she had a bit of a hate-to-hate relationship with a student named Kenneth. When choosing which student would take Queen home, she chose Kenneth because she discovered his mom goes to a gym. Upon arriving, she had Kenneth cut off her head with a breadknife so she could steal her body.
Queen then arrived (with her new body), revealing that Noonan's Bar has a long line. She revealed she needed to show her bust (or Kenneth's mom's bust) to get in.
"Villigan's, Hell Yeah!"[]
When a new restaurant called Villigan's right across from Noonan's, Kiteman and Golden Glider got a gift bag with three free passes to a spa, Queen, along with Malice and Glider, took part in the treatment. However, it was later revealed to be a trap created by Baby Doll in an attempt to kill the new owners of Noonan. Queen then had her head removed from her new body as the spa attendants tried to kill the women there. Luckily, thanks to Golden Glider's powers and Chessure, they escaped death, but not before Queen took some of the leftover parts of the spa attendants and fashioned a new body for her.
"Portal Potty, Hell Yeah!"[]
In a minor appearance, after Bane left a literal footprint in the past, Gus tripped on the footprint, which caused him to bump into Moe and Joe Dubelz and accidentally shoot Queen, resulting in her losing an arm.
"Prison Break, Hell Yeah!"[]
After having her head once again ripped off by Malice's Boyfriend, Malice placed her head onto the body of Moe and Joe, which resulted in her now sharing a body with Moe.
Personality[]
She's heavily implied to be a sociopath. Superficially, she's charming and spirited but is quick to reveal that she has no second thoughts about using mass murder as a solution to literally any problem and does not care if other criminals are horrified. She is ruthless and cold-blooded, arguably even more so than any other villain in the series due to her "destroying to bloodline" policy. Ivy describes Fables as "cable bad" and a person who definitely belongs in Arkham Asylum for life. She also shows that she has no remorse or conscience, as well as displaying a serious lack of empathy; besides not caring for those she murders, she seems unable to realize how her fellow supervillains could be disturbed by her actions or see her actions as rightfully excessive.
She is a chain smoker. She apparently finds Superman attractive. Harley created a Tinder page for her to "get her fuck on".
Despite her willingness to commit mass murder and having a lack of consideration for the thoughts of her fellow villains, she has very few standards, as she was willing to rescue Moe Dubelz from getting eaten by Insect Queen. Despite this, she had no problem with the three pigs and the mice eating dead bodies. This may imply that she is against a person eating another person, let alone a person eating another person alive.
She uses intimidation to control the characters in her storybook, as he disintegrates Hansel in front of all the other characters for trying to start a union, scaring the other characters. On another end, she has a strict yet loose type of parental attitude towards the characters, as she calls in the three bears and the Big Bad Wolf to fight only to see Lex Luther's guards dead, and she allows the four characters to have one beer each before returning to the book.
Abilities[]
- Immortality: She survived being decapitated.
- Everlasting Youth: Despite spending 30 years trapped in a tax code book, when she was released, she appears as the same age as she was when she was trapped, implying that she may not be capable of aging or her aging was stalled after she was trapped in a book.
- Intimidation: She can strike fear into others, as the fairytale characters in her book are scared of her, especially after witnessing her kill another character. She was even capable of scaring Insect Queen the second she saw her with her body back.
- Combat: She is adept at combat.
- Pole Weapon Proficiency: She is proficient in using her staff as a weapon.
- Body Independence: She can eat, drink, breathe, and talk without a body. She is also capable of hopping around in a jar.
- Body Attachment and Detachment: She can attach and detach her head from different bodies and body parts without any threat of death and can function normally.
- Intelligence: She possesses a vast intellect, especially when it comes to preventing a potential situation, such as any "revenge killing" by "ending the bloodline" of an entire family. Additionally, this intellect helps her consult with clients at her temporary Taxes 4 Free job.
- Sorcery: As a sorceress, she wields magic and sorcery that is great in power.
- Storybook Character Summoning: She can summon various fairytale characters and objects from a storybook, such as Humpty Dumpty, Cinderella's Mouse, the Big Bad Wolf, and a beanstalk. These beings and objects often cater to her every whim and follow her orders. However, these characters have a will and mind, as Goldilocks got out of Fables' book on her own and refused to go back in. Hansel tried to organize a union with the other storybook characters against the Queen of Fables until she disintegrated him into black ash and bones.
- Book Trapping: She was able to trap the Justice League into her storybook.
- Book Entering and Exiting: She can enter and exit her story book.
- Disintigration: She can disintegrate storybook characters. This is most likely permanent, as Fables apathetically felt sorry for Hansel given that she disintegrated him for nothing when she needed storybook characters to fight off Lex Luthor's goons only to return and see them all killed.
Weaknesses[]
- Loss of Body: She can eat, drink, talk, hop, and breathe without a body, but she can't do anything else, like grabbing an object, without a body. It also implies that she needs her original body to use her powers.
- Sorcery and Magic: Despite being a sorceress wielding sorcery and magic, she is vulnerable to sorcery and magic, especially Zatannas.
- Loss of Storybook: She needs a storybook to use her powers, as seen when she worries and asks if another one is around after Jason Praxis destroys hers. She was able to get another one shortly later. In "Impossible Schemes, Hell Yeah!," Martian Manhunter took her book, and it is unknown if she'll get another one.
Equipment[]
- Storybook: She wields a magical storybook that she can summon fairytale objects and characters. Non-magical beings, like humans, can enter the book, as seen with Rebecca Chen when she entered the book with the anti-life equation.
- Staff: She wields a gold staff with a magenta or green jewel. She can use this as a weapon.
- Forcefield Wristband: She temporarily wielded the Forcefield wristband Harley stole from S.T.A.R.R. Labs and sneaked it onto her wrist to save her from Jason Praxis.
Media Appearances[]
Season 1
- "So You Need a Crew?"
- "The Line"
- "Devil's Snare" (Dies in this episode)
The Eat. Bang! Kill. Tour
- "Journey to Love Part 5" (flashback)
Season 3
- "The 83rd Annual Villy Awards" (cameo; pictured)
She has a speaking role in every episode of Season 1 of Kite Man, Hell Yeah!, which shows that she was revived in "Pilot, Hell Yeah!."
Trivia[]
- She taught the "Evil 101" class, although her lesson on "ending the bloodline" wasn't shared with Dr. Psycho's class.
- Queen of Fables is based on her often forgotten comic counterpart, which originated from JLA: The Queen of Fables. In the original story, Zatanna was not involved; instead, Queen of Fables retreated in what she believed was her book of fables, but Flash had switched it with the U.S. Tax Code Manual, trapping her there and rendering her powerless.
- The Justice League's willingness to throw Harley's entire crew into the Phantom Zone over a reasonable (but wrong) hunch with no trial or even much of an argument lends a lot of credence to her claim that them trapping her in the book was at least an overreaction.
- She is the first major villain to die on the show and the first named character that Harley kills.
- The teaser for the spin-off Kite Man: Hell Yeah! revealed that she had somehow survived and would return for that series.[1]
Gallery[]
- See also: All images of Queen of Fables
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 ‘Harley Quinn’ Spin-Off ‘Kite Man: Hell Yeah!’ Ready to Soar with New Teaser Mercedes Milligan, Animation Magazine (September 14, 2023).
- ↑ "So You Need a Crew?" DC Universe (December 13, 2019).