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This Inconsistently Heinous was Headlined on June 2024. |
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This article pertains to an Inconsistently Heinous with more than one version who is Inconsistently Heinous! |
NOTE: This is a composite profile of the mainstream versions of Poison Ivy who undergoes major changes to her character from the several cosmic retcons that have happened in the DC universe. |
“ | I have no interest in your deals. No interest in you, in any of you, on the outside. This park, this is Gotham now... its future. Reclaimed by nature, pure without mankind's assaults. It is a sanctuary now, and I am guardian. I will not let it be defiled. Not by anyone. Certainly not by you. Leave. | „ |
~ Poison Ivy. |
“ | And there's no way back from extinction... right? | „ |
~ Poison Ivy. |
Pamela Lillian Isley, better known as Poison Ivy, is a major character in the DC Universe, specifically serving as a major character in the Batman franchise and the deuteragonist of the Harley Quinn franchise.
She is a brilliant botanist who was transformed into a human/plant hybrid with the ability to manipulate plants and control people through pheromones. Using her powers, she would lash out against humanity in order to protect plant life and the environment at all costs. She is an enemy and occasional ally of Batman, the Bat Family, and the Birds of Prey and the best friend and lover of Harley Quinn.
Her Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Her Heinous?[]
New Earth[]
- In her first notable crime and first confrontation with Batman, she planned to spread fungal spores across all Gotham that would suffocate everyone to death unless the city met her demands.
- She became obsessed with Batman as one of the few men to resist her control, and as part of this obsession, she would repeatedly try to seduce and control him against his will. It's also implied she planned to rape him.
- According to "A Poison of the Heart," she turned her botany teacher into her tree-monster slave named Redwood.
- She turned her manservant Ivor into a tree-monster to serve her. Ivor repeatedly mentioned that he was in a great deal of pain during the whole experience.
- She infected a bunch of people to make them her zombified slaves. It is implied that she rapes people she brainwashes.
- In Batman/Green Arrow: The Poison Tomorrow, she tried to spread deadly toxins across Gotham and the world that would kill everyone who couldn't develop a natural immunity. She believed this plan to be one that "saves" humanity, as it would radically decrease the population and have Ivy rebuild the world from scratch as it's "New Eve."
- She threatens to suffocate two hostage doctors to death just to extort a getaway vehicle.
- For years, she sadistically fed people like her ex-lovers or incompetent minions to her man-eating plants, where they are slowly dissolved and digested. She referred to this as a "guilty little pleasure" of hers.
- In "Batman: Contagion," she uses mind-control on sick people after tricking them into getting a cure that didn't work.
- She kidnaps several Wayne Enterprises officials and holds them as hostages.
- In Batman: Battle for the Cowl, she and Killer Croc attempted to murder a child Damian Wayne.
- In Gotham City Sirens, she kidnapped and mind-controlled the Riddler to use his house as an apartment.
- In "Batman: Hush," she used mind-control on Superman and made him fight Batman, due to the fact that the Riddler and Hush were manipulating her and all the Gotham City Rogues to do their bidding in an elaborate scheme to break Batman.
- When she realizes that she was but a pawn in the Riddler's twisted game, she feigned hospitality when Nygma needed somewhere to hide after Hush betrayed him. Soon enough, she psychologically torments and brutally beats the Riddler to a pulp as revenge for having used her, and she does it to the point where Edward's spirit was ultimately shattered, leaving him to beg for death. (One could argue that he deserved it, another could argue that it was over-excessive)
Prime Earth[]
- According to Detective Comics #23.1, before she was Poison Ivy, she worked for Wayne Enterprises and tried to convince Bruce Wayne to use brainwashing on customers.
- She orchestrated terrorist attacks across Gotham that leveled some buildings full of people.
- She used mind-control toxins on Clayface to make him think she's his wife.
- In the Birds of Prey "Your Kiss Might Kill" arc, she poisoned the Birds of Prey and said she'll give the antidote only if they help her stop a certain CEO. The poison would have spread and killed all of humanity if it wasn't cured. Note that Ivy herself was a team member of the Birds of Prey at this time.
- In Forever Evil: Arkham War, she teamed up with Scarecrow to take over Gotham.
- She made a deal with Scarecrow, Clayface, and other villains to give them the tools they need to enslave Gotham.
- During the "Everyone Loves Ivy" arc, she inflicted mind-control on the entire world except for Batman and Catwoman. While she brought peace and harmony, it was at the cost of human free will. She eventually let everyone go free, but only because Batman managed to free Harley, who convinced Ivy to do so.
- She ripped an accountant's limbs off for trying to flirt with her in New Year's Evil (2020), despite the fact that she used pheromones on him that made him act in that way.
- In Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death, she killed a man by making plants grow inside him. Though it's implied that he abused dogs, we don't know what exactly he did.
- In the 2022 Poison Ivy comic, she attempted to wipe out humanity using fungal spores that sprouted toxic fungi from peoples' bodies, painfully kills them, and turns them into compost. The first issue has her kill a farmer that way. Another issue has her infiltrate a shipping company to spread the spores worldwide.
What Makes Her Inconsistent?[]
- She is tragic for multiple reasons, which directly correlates to her actions:
- She was raised by an abusive father who refused to let her go outside and who beat her mother, eventually murdering his wife in cold blood. This upbringing led a young Pamela to believe that humans were cruel.
- She was subject to unethical and incredibly painful experimentation by her teacher Dr. Jason Woodrue over several months that could have killed her. She was in love with Jason, and he used that to manipulate her into being experimented on. The experiment led to her becoming the plant-human hybrid she is now.
- Since she is connected to the Green, she feels pain when plant life is harmed. As a result, large-scale environmental destruction is literally agonizing to her.
- In Batman: Poison Ivy, she gave up crime, left Gotham, went to a desert island, turned it into a tropical paradise, and said this was the first time she was happy. Then the island was fire-bombed by a corporation testing it's weapons, making Ivy go back to being evil.
- She is a genuinely well-intentioned extremist, as she believes that her actions are needed to save the world from environmental destruction caused by humans.
- Batman's assertion, however, that she isn't evil but simply misguided, is ridiculous, due to her unnecessary perversion and implicit rape towards the people she brainwashes, as well as her pointless sadism borne of misanthropy.
- She is on & off, sometimes being more of an antihero than a straight-up villain. In some cases, she has even abandoned her goal of wiping out humanity and put aside her usual misanthropy; even if her on & off nature means this isn't permanent, it's still usually genuine at the time.
- She joined a superhero team called the Birds of Prey, where she went on missions to stop villains like the Court of Owls.
- In Batman: No Man's Land, she worked with Batman to help reclaim and save Gotham City after an earthquake.
- In Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death, she tried to make a legitimate living as a scientist.
- At one point in the 2022 Poison Ivy comic, she gave up trying to wipe out humanity and regretted many of her past actions. She spent the rest of the comic as an antihero.
- She is genuinely kind and caring to several people, with plenty of "pet the dog" moments:
- Being able to empathize with plant life, she loves her plants like a mother would her children, even calling them her babies.
- She had a brief but genuine romantic relationship with Bruce Wayne after he helped to temporally cure her of her condition.
- She genuinely loves Harley Quinn, originally as a best friend and later as her girlfriend. Her love for Harley has even quelled her misanthropy at times.
- In Batman: No Man's Land, she protected and cared for several orphaned human children in Gotham's Robinson Park and even saved the children's' lives from Clayface, showing that Ivy cares about children and refuses to hurt them.
- In Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death, she is protective of her "sporelings" named Hazel, Rose, and Thorn. This all shows that despite everything she did, Ivy is an honorable woman.
- When Catwoman gave her $30 million for helping her, Ivy selflessly chose to donate all of the money to charities that protect rainforests in Costa Rica and Madagascar, rather than on anything personal.
- She has moral standards. When she's an antihero, Ivy often focuses her acts of violence on those harming the environment. Furthermore, she also holds the Joker in contempt, especially for his repeated abuse of Harley Quinn.
- She is capable of showing mercy despite being a misanthrope. Like how she let Riddler live after brutally assaulting him to the point of near death, after he used her as a pawn. She claimed she was going to kill the Riddler despite this, but she was probably referring to his ego.
External Links[]
- Poison Ivy on the DC Database Wiki
- Poison Ivy on the Villains Wiki
- Poison Ivy on the Heroes Wiki
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