Duela Dent is the second character to use the Harlequin name. Originally appearing as a villain, she called herself the Joker's Daughter, and soon claimed to be the daughter of Joker, as well as Riddler, Scarecrow, Catwoman, and Penguin. In Pre-Crisis continuity, she later revealed her true father was Two-Face, and soon joined the Teen Titans and renamed herself Harlequin.
Duela's age has been retconned many times during the course of her history. When introduced she was a teenaged girl, however in later books, she was portrayed as a much older woman. Recently however she's been returned to a far younger age.
In current continuity, Duela continues to claim various supervillains as her parent. Freely alternating between heroic and villainous roles, Duela is considered a delusional former member of the original Teen Titans but later becomes a member of the evil Titans East. She later betrays Titans East when offered membership with the current team.
Soon after, Duela is killed by a rogue Monitor in the first issue of Countdown, following a failed kidnapping attempt on a celebrity. It is later revealed that she is a native of Earth-3 is the biological daughter of the Jokester and Three-Face (Evelyn Dent), that world's heroic equivalents of the Joker and Two Face,
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