Harley Quinn: The James Gunn MCU joke that had to be cut from season 3

So why would it be cut and how would that set up the MCU as a problem Harley Quinn would need to solve? “[Clayface] says ‘James Gunn, sit on me!’ And James Gunn is sitting and Clayface starts vibrating and James Gunn says, ‘It’s like Thanos snapped and I can feel my anus again.’ And then Clayface is like ‘Who is Thanos?’ and then we’re out,” he laughs.

The gag certainly fits in Harley Quinn’s cheeky humor and would have gotten fans talking, but eventually the crew realized it was too much to handle. “We thought, ‘This is breaking the world, we don’t want to acknowledge that there’s an MCU in the DCU.’

So there we have it, James Gunn x Harley Quinn The Anus joke that could have been.

The showrunners also told us what to expect from Harlivy in the upcoming episodes, saying: “This drum that we keep banging now is that they’re a couple and as long as we’re in charge of the show, will they never break up.” But that doesn’t mean the writers won’t present challenges that Harley and Ivy will have to overcome over the course of the season. “We don’t want their relationship to be nice and they’ll go through trials and tribulations this season.”