That's why all the edits and cuts are there. To hide their original intentions of a battered woman relationship. Test audiences probably didn't like it, nor did WB/DC want to deal with the feminists if they accurately portrayed their relationship onscreen with the original animation as abusive. Woman must be strong, not weak when it comes to love. They gave them the two sided soul mate love story instead. You bought into it like they wanted, and to you it works. That's fine and shows to DC/WB the edits and cuts worked. To me and others it doesn't. If Joker loved Harley it would show weakness, to his enemies and even to his followers. He needs to be perceived as fearless and without remorse. So could Joker truly love Harley? Sure, but it would never manifest itself in actions, at least not within the view of others. If anything, he would make it seem to be he saves her for her unquestionable loyalty to him. To gain that same kind of devotion from all his underlings. And it doesn't look like to me she took of her puddin' necklace cause he was dead. If you had a locket/meaningful piece of jewelry your wife or girlfriend gave to you and they died, would you take it off and throw it away? Or keep it and cherish it? She was mad at him yet again. And again he came to rescue her in prison, I would say months later. Why would she want to stay in prison and wait? She's a bad guy, remember? She's not there to atone for her crimes because she developed a conscious...
