Harley Quinn’s New Variant Hints At A Hilarious Trend For DC Heroes and Villains

In DC’s Christmas special, a new variant of Harley Quinn indicates that there may be more to the Fifth Dimension than Earth’s heroes are aware of.

Warning! This post contains SPOILERS for DC’s Grifter Got Run Over By A Reindeer #1In DC Comics’ Christmas special, Harley Quinn’s new variant teases a pretty funny trend for DC heroes and villains. While attempting to enjoy the holidays, Harley finds Gotham under siege by a version of herself from the Fifth Dimension looking to make things far more chaotic and entertaining. Combined with the recent debut of Nightwing’s Fifth Dimensional imp, a pattern is potentially beginning to form in the DC Universe.

In the new DC’s Grifter Got Run Over By A Reindeer #1, the anthology special features a short story from writer John Layman with art by Juan Doe. Starring Harley Quinn, the story is entitled “Eight Crazy Nights” in which Harley encounters Ms. Trxlchyk, her own Fifth Dimensional Imp responsible for Gotham’s recent crisis featuring giant monster gingerbread men, rabid reindeer, snowmen muggers with peppermint shanks, and more. As such, the existence of Tryxy potentially suggests that every hero and/or villain has their own imp variants with penchants for hijinks.

Does Every DC Hero and Villain Have Their Own Fifth-Dimensional Imp?

Thankfully, Harley talks Ms. Tryx down from ruining Christmastime, though the new DC imp promises to show up some other holiday like next Halloween. Regardless, it’s worth noting that Dick Grayson’s Nightwing just got his own Fifth Dimensional Imp as well known as Nite-Mite (a mirror of Batman’s imp Bat-Mite). While Trxy claims she’s from the Fifth and a Half Dimension, the theory still stands that every hero and villain may have their own imp and could one day meet them when and if they decide to come to DC’s primary reality.

While the original Fifth Dimensional Imp is the Superman foe Mister Mxyzptlk, he’s not exactly a counterpart to the Man of Steel like Bat-Mite, Nite-Mite, or Ms. Trxlchyk are for Batman, Nightwing, and Harley respectively. Perhaps Superman’s direct Imp counterpart has yet to be seen? Either way, these new imps from the Fifth Dimension could certainly lead to a very wild DC event in the future.

At any rate, it would be very fun to see Trxy return for a new story in next year’s Halloween special, just like she promised Harley Quinn. Likewise, the precedent she and Nightwing’s imp have set could be a lot of fun going forward. After all, who wouldn’t want to see impish versions of Lex Luthor or Darkseid that won’t leave them alone? DC’s Grifter Got Run Over By A Reindeer #1 is on sale now from DC Comics.

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