Guy Kopski

Origin

Guy Kopski was a Gotham State University student who was dating fellow psychiatry major Harleen Quinzel (who would later become Harley Quinn) and whom he often referred to as "Quinz".

During his senior year Kopski wrote his thesis paper on Chaos Theory and at the same time was developing a formula for a new "Think Drink" that he was thinking of selling to the market one day.

A bit of a joker himself, he would read articles from the newspaper to Harleen not only to make her laugh but for his own amusement as well and one of the articles that he reads to her happens to feature the Joker. He seemed to have had a very good relationship with Harleen and the couple loved each other very much to the extent of being willing to do anything for each other (something that would prove very fatal later on in their relationship).

Knowing that Harleen was failing her classes, her department chair, Dr. Markus, proposed that she conduct an experiment under his supervision as a step into securing her entrance into grad school. Using her thesis of Love and Crime as the basis of the experiment, Harleen decides to use her boyfriend to test her theory. Believing that she had the whole experiment under her control, Harleen decides to "test" Kopski's love for her by making up a scenario in which she blackmails her department chair into passing her, or she would accuse him of attempting to rape her should he fail to acquiesce. In the same scenario Dr. Markus records her blackmailing him and pulls out a gun on her to kill her. Attempting to take the gun away from his hands, Harleen ends up shooting him by accident and runs away from the cops in a stolen vehicle until she loses them. Believing his girlfriend's tale without question, Kopski takes off with a loaded gun to finish off Dr. Markus before Harleen has a chance to find out if he'd still love her despite what she did.

Knowing that her experiment failed, Harleen goes after Kopski to stop him from Killing Dr. Markus and to tell him that nothing she said really happened, only to find out that she is too late and that he has already killed an innocent man. Horrified at his own crime, Kopski tries to explain to Harleen that he only wanted to protect her when he accidentally shot a homeless man to death thinking he was Markus. Knowing that he's going to live with the guilt of having killed an innocent man for the rest of his life, Kopski points the gun to himself threatens to commit suicide. Harleen tearfully tries to talk him out of killing himself by telling him that she loves him, but pulls the trigger anyway telling her "do it because you love me".

In her despair, a grief-stricken Harleen goes back to trash her dorm room realizing that her boyfriend was right about people not always being in control of things. She then decides that the only other person who understands that is the Joker and decides that she wants to meet with him by interning at Arkham. She then blackmails Markus into passing her to get into grad school by using a recorded tape as evidence that he was in fact in her dorm room.

Harleen later finds out as Harley Quinn that Dr. Markus had been responsible for Kopski's suicide when he poured diluted Joker venom into his "Think Drink" thus leading to his irrational behavior. She avenges his death by tormenting Markus and leaves him to his fate when he accidentally gets the Joker venom on himself in his attempt to kill Quinn with it.