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'''Poison Ivy''' is a female comic supervillain who features in [[DC Comics]]. ==Biography== ===Pre-Crisis=== [[File:BatmanV1-181.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Poison Ivy in Batman v1 #181.]] '''Pamela Isley''' According to one account, she was born as '''Lilian Rose''' who studied botany where she became enamoured with her French professor '''Marc Legrand'''. He specialised in botany where the two eventually embarked on a secret affair with her being completely committed to him. Legrand convinced her to break into the Egyptian exhibit at the museum as a recent find had brought in relics that contained preserved plants within them. He claimed that he could use this to become rich and the two could get married with that money. Thus, Lilian did as she was asked and returned with the artefacts where Legrand used some of them to poison Rose in an effort to kill her so that no one could identify his theft. However, the poisons came to be absorbed by Lilian's body and she gained an immunity to them along with the power to control plants along with control men thus leading to her adopting the name of Poison Ivy. In this guise, she came to take her revenge against Legrand where she turned his body into a wood-based plant entity who had forgotten his past and served her as her henchman. (World's Finest v1 #252) ===Post-Crisis=== Following the Crisis on Infinite Earths, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events. '''Pamela Lillian Isley''' In college, she came to study under a man who knew more about plants than anyone with this being [[Jason Woodrue]]. (Secret Origins v2 #36) She came to be involved with her professor during a time he was conducting macabre experiments in hybridization. This involved genetic restructuring of mature animals until he decided to progress to human experiments where he convinced Pamela to take part in his research. (Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight v1 #43) Thus, he made her participate in a series of experiments where she later claimed that she had died and been reborn with the power to control plants. (Secret Origins v2 #36) She remained in the hospital until she recovered and by the time she came back to school Professor Woodrue had already left for the east coast. By this point, there was a stark change in Pamela's personality as she would switch between being sweet to destructive. She was later with her boyfriend when he totalled his car during a fight with her later quitting school. (Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight v1 #43) One of her fellow grad students who worked with her during this time was '''Philip Sylvian''' where the two did some research together. (Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight v1 #43) Needing a place to stay, she used her abilities to seduce the Riddler and kept him docile whilst she lived at his townhouse off Robinson Park. (Gotham City Sirens v1 #1) ===Post-Flashpoint=== Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events. Pamela Isley was born with a skin condition - an aversion to sunlight. Though the doctor had prescribed her a lotion to protect her, little Pamela's abusive father had forbidden her from going outside at all. On one occasion, when her mother allowed her to play outside, he had angrily punched her in the face, giving her a black eye. As if nothing had happened, Pamela's mother stepped outside and began gardening. Seeing her daughter there, she explained that she liked gardening because the flowers listen to her, and sometimes, if she stays very quiet, they speak back to her. When Pamela had asked about the black eye, her mother had assured her it was nothing to worry about. The abuse continued. Every time he hit her, Pamela's father bought his wife's forgiveness with flowers, and her garden would grow. That was how Pamela learned that flowers could manipulate people. However, she also learned of human cruelty when her father murdered her mother in cold blood, having had enough of her disobedience to him. He buried his now ex-wife under her own garden—her flesh decaying and now feeding the very flowers she planted—before being arrested by the police. At the trial, he was found guilty of domestic violence and murder, and sentenced to life in prison. Pamela was then sent to live with a relative. In college, she created designer drugs, doling pheromone pills out in order to study their effects. The University learned of her activities, and she was expelled and put in jail pending a criminal indictment. However, she had already used her pills to get the Dean under her thumb. Charges were dropped, and she graduated Summa Cum Laude. After graduating, Pamela visited her father in prison for the first time since the murder of her mother. He stubbornly sat in silence, just staring at her and waiting for her to make the first move. After a time, she decided to do what made the most sense. She leapt up out of her seat and kissed him on the lips. By the next morning, he was dead, and the toxin used to kill him was untraceable. (Detective Comics v2 #23.1) After being freed by Ignatius Ogilvy, Ivy came to owe the man a favour as he wanted greater power to defeat Batman. (Detective Comics v2 #19) This led to him being given a concoction that transformed him by giving him superhuman abilities where he took the name '''Emperor Penguin'''. (Detective Comics v2 #20) She then went to rendezvous with Harley at Eden only to arrive to find it burnt down with Joker's clowns present at the scene. Ivy then used her powers to kill the clowns and decided to use this as an opportunity to re-invent herself with her taking the name of '''Queen Ivy'''. (Batman: The Joker War Zone v1 #1) ==Overview== ===Personality and attributes=== She was born as '''Pamela Lilian Isley''' though in time she was known by a number of names on different files including '''Pamela Isley''' and '''Lilian Rose''' though she also let people call her '''Ivy'''. (Secret Origins v2 #36) After re-inventing herself, she decided to take the name of '''Queen Ivy'''. (Batman: The Joker War Zone v1 #1) Pamela was said to had always wanted to be a botanist as she lived flowers and plants. She felt that they were real with her in her youth talking to them and telling them her hopes as well as her fears. (Secret Origins v2 #36) It was said that Isley related with plants more than she did with people. (Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight v1 #43) No one was said to be able to figure Pamela out when she was younger as she was a smart woman that was drawn to abusive men. (Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight v1 #43) According to herself, she claimed that she was a really ugly kid with buck teeth and plump hair. She was said to had discovered boys when she was 5 years old whilst they discovered her when she was 15 years old. (Secret Origins v2 #36) Her family were said to had been rich but not super-rich. (Secret Origins v2 #36) By the time she was an adult, her parents were noted to had been deceased and that she had few living connections to her past. (Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight v1 #43) ===Powers and abilities=== [[File:PoisonIvyCycleOfLifeAndDeathV1-2Textless.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Using her pheromones in Poison ivy: Cycle of Life and Death v1 #2.]] It was said that she was a brilliant researcher during her years in university. (Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight v1 #43) She could create facsimiles of herself through plants over great distances allowing them to take on her features and voice so she could communicate with a person over great distances. (Gotham City Sirens v1 #1) Ivy once engineered a carnivorous plant that came to be known as '''Harvest''' where she fed her victims to it. The plant absorbed the personas of the people it ate and developed the ability to rapidly regenerate as well as transform itself into any plant-life it chose. However, Harvest would break free from Ivy's control and would seek revenge against her. (Detective Comics v1 #823) Through genetic engineering, she was responsible for creating human/plant hybrids called '''Sporelings'''. These were plant-based humanoids that grew at an accelerated rate to adulthood. Initially, these included two such children that were '''Hazel''' and '''Rose''' with them being joined a third named '''Thorn''' who was created from research stolen from Poison Ivy. (Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death v1 #5) She once turned Marc Legrand into a wood-based plant creature to serve her where he took the name of '''Redwood''' with him forgetting his past. (World's Finest v1 #252) Among her creations included: *'''Edenspring''' : a product of a hybridization experiment between a desert cactus and an Amazon succulent that caused the accidental creation of a mind-altering drug. (Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight v1 #42) Ivy created a garden paradise she called '''Eden''' in a cave system underneath Gotham City's park after Harley Quinn was poisoned by the Joker. It was meant to serve as a kind of rehabilitation clinic and contained plants that could remove toxins from a person's body. Poison Ivy's usual rule was that there were no clothes around in Eden but this varied if other people were brought to the location. Some of the plants were said to hold residual personalities of Poison Ivy. (Batman v3 #97) ==Notes== *Poison Ivy was created by Robert Kanigher and Sheldon Moldoff where she made her first appearance in Batman v1 #181 (June, 1966). ==Alternate Versions== ==In other media== ===Television=== *In the DC Animated Universe, Poison Ivy made a number of appearances in the shared continuity setting: **In Batman: The Animated Series, Poison Ivy first appeared in the animated television series where she was voiced by actress Diane Pershing. **In The New Batman Adventures, Poison Ivy appeared in the animated television series where she was voiced by actress Diane Pershing. *In The Batman, Poison Ivy appeared in the animated television series where she was voiced by actress Piera Coppola. *In Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Poison Ivy appeared in the animated television series where she was voiced by actress Jennifer Hale in "Chill of the Night!" and by actress Vanessa Marshall in "The Mask of Matches Malone!". *In Young Justice, Poison Ivy appeared in the animated television series where she was voiced by actress Alyssa Milano. *In Justice League Action, Poison Ivy appeared in the animated television series where she was voiced by actress Natasha Leggero. *In Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy appeared in the animated television series where she was voiced by actress Lake Bell. ===Films=== *In Batman & Robin, Poison Ivy appeared in the 1997 live-action film where she was portrayed by actress Uma Thurman. *In Batman and Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy appeared in the animated film where she was voiced by actress Paget Brewster. *In Batman Ninja, Poison Ivy appeared in the setting of the anime film where she was voiced by Japanese actress Atsuko Tanaka and by English actor Tara Strong in the English dub *In Batman: Hush, Poison Ivy appeared in the animated film where she was voiced again by actress Peyton List. ===Video games=== *In DC Universe Online, Poison Ivy appeared in the MMORPG video game where she was voiced by actress Cyndi Williams. *In Infinite Crisis, Poison Ivy appeared as a playable champion in the setting of the MOBA video game where she was voiced once again by actress Tasia Valenza. *In Injustice: Gods Among Us, Poison Ivy was referenced in the setting of the fighting video game. *In Injustice 2, Poison Ivy appeared as a playable character in the fighting video game where she was once more voiced by actress Tasia Valenza. ==Appearances== *''Batman v1'': (1966) *''Detective Comics v1'': *''Gotham City Sirens v1'': *''Birds of Prey'': *''Detective Comics v2'': *''Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death v1'': *''Batman v3'': *''Heroes in Crisis v1'': *''Batman: The Joker War Zone v1'': (2020) ==External Links== *[https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Poison_Ivy DC Database Entry] *[https://comicvine.gamespot.com/poison-ivy/4005-1697/ Comicvine Entry] *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poison_Ivy_(comics) Wikipedia Entry] {{stub}} [[Category:Characters]] [[Category:Female characters]] [[Category:Comic Characters]] [[Category:Bisexuals]] [[Category:Orphans]] [[Category:Doctors]] [[Category:Women Doctors]] [[Category:Toxicologists]] [[Category:Scientists]] [[Category:Women Scientists]] [[Category:Life Scientists]] [[Category:Botanists]] [[Category:Murderers]] [[Category:Eco-Terrorists]] [[Category:Supervillains]] [[Category:Female Supervillains]] [[Category:LGBT Supervillains]] [[Category:DC Comics Supervillains]] [[Category:Batman]] [[Category:DC]] [[Category:Robert Kanigher]] [[Category:Sheldon Moldoff]]

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