WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Harley Quinn Season 2, Episode 10, "Dye Hard," now streaming on DC Universe.
Harley Quinn's second season hasn't been shy about death. The Clown Princess of Crime and her crew have, among others, killed Penguin and the Queen of Fables, while Mr. Freeze died to save his wife, Nora. However, thus far, a hero in her camp hasn't died, and given the fake-out the series pulled with Poison Ivy last season, it didn't appear that was on the cards anytime soon.
Well, this has all changed thanks to the deadly alliance formed between Riddler and Dr. Psycho as their new war on Gotham takes the life of Harley's most selfless ally: Sy Borgman.
Early on, Psycho returns to the mall to get his belongings. However, he's actually there to free Riddler so they can raid Wayne Towers. As Harley gets distracted with a robbery the villains have set up, Riddler steals a mind control helmet from the tech department and gives it to Psycho so he can amplify his mental abilities.
It's so he could control the remaining Parademons terrorizing Gotham after Harley's failed coup, as well as King Shark and Clayface. Psycho's bitter Harley pulled the plug on the Parademon assault, so he thinks he's in his rightful place, ruling the monsters and exacting revenge on a crew he believes to be weak. He has a force field covering the tower, though, to make sure no one escapes, as he wants the Parademons to feed on his former friends and Jim Gordon.
Luckily, Shark and Clayface are freed, but as the squad tries to escape in the Bat-plane Gordon borrowed from the Dark Knight, Harley admits someone will have to crash into the force field to bring it down. Sy offers to be the sacrificial lamb as he thinks the crew has a bright future ahead and more so, one of redemption. Harley's emotional as he has been like a father to them all, and so, Sy turns his wheelchair into a helicopter and rams into the field, blowing it and himself up to allow the Bat-plane to escape.
It's a death that'll have ramifications for sure, because you can tell Harley wants to get rid of the Apokoliptian monsters for good, and also, she'll want revenge on Psycho and Riddler. Sy did treat Psycho well too, so Harley won't let that slide, nor will the rest of the squad. Interestingly, she might have a piece of tech that could bring him back as Sy gave her his robotic eye. It might have stored his memory as A.I. and could be implanted into another device or robotic body, but that's not a certainty.
As it stands, their mall lair won't be the same again as Sy fixed all their appliances and kept the place in check as their landlord. But what hurts is that when they needed an extra teammate, he always stepped up with his arsenal. He had the firepower of a one-man army, and Harley hates that a lot of his death stems from her selfish plans to bring in the Parademons to give her control of Gotham. Had she not done that, Psycho wouldn't have betrayed them and Sy would be alive, so Harley's blaming herself for the surprising loss.
DC Universe's Harley Quinn stars Kaley Cuoco, Lake Bell, Diedrich Bader, Alan Tudyk, Rahul Kohli, Christopher Meloni, Tony Hale, Ron Funches, Wanda Sykes, Natalie Morales, Jim Rash, Giancarlo Esposito, Jason Alexander and J.B. Smoove. New episodes air on Fridays.