Poison Ivy (The Batman)

Poison Ivy is a recurring antagonist in The Batman, first appearing in "Batgirl Begins". She is the former friend turned nemesis of Batgirl.

She was voiced by Piera Coppola.

Biography[]

Pamela Isley was a young extremist environmentalist. Originally still in High School, she was friends with Barbara Gordon. She convinced her to join her plans to fight against industries that were harming plants in Gotham City, by staging illegal stunts and breaking into them. Not enough for her, Ivy hired the mercenary Temblor to do her dirty work, and dismissed Barbara's warnings that she was getting over her head. She calls her a "goody-good" like her father Commissioner James Gordon (whom she dislikes for reprimanding her methods), and considers their friendship over. Unable to pay Temblor, he was furious to discover this and the fact his "Boss" was a teenage girl with a voice scrambler. Enraged he tried to kill her, Barbara tried to save her, but Pamela abandoned her friend so she herself could escape.

Batman arrived and defeated Temblor, but before he could truly save her, Pamela was exposed to an experimental plant growth formula that mutated her body, turning her into a human/plant hybrid and gave her the power to control and manipulate plants and make mind-controlling pheromone spores when she blows a kiss at her desired target. The formula transformed her into Poison Ivy.

Using her new powers, Ivy furthered her plans, brainwashing people with her spores. Despite their friendship broken, she went to Barbara and asks her to help all plants, which she refused but Ivy is confident that her friend will come around. However, she kidnapped Barbara's father and attempted to kill him; but before she was able to, Batman arrived to stop her. Ivy however managed to brainwash him and take him under her control. Batgirl then arrived and managed to save her father, but was quickly overpowered by Ivy and Batman. However she managed to break Ivy's hold over Batman. Together, the duo managed to take down Ivy. Afterwards, she was imprisoned.

Sometime later, following the Mayor planning to tear down Gotham Park and its plants in order to build a new Children's Hospital, Poison Ivy returned, using a flower shop as her base. She kidnapped several of the city's most powerful people and replaced them with plant clones (she attempted to do the same with Barbara). The people she kidnapped were placed in plant stasis pods, and infected them with a virus that made them think they were simply enjoying a beautiful flowery world. She also managed to capture fellow supervillain the Penguin with this, and used a duplicate of him to further her plans. However, Batman accidentally killed the clone of Penguin and found out he was a plant. After saving Batgirl from the plant clone of Commissioner Gordon, they tracked down Ivy to her lair. Ivy managed to imprison them in stasis, but a special defense mechanism built into Batman's built mistook his low heart beat for him near death, and sent an electric shock to try and restart it. This snapped him out of stasis, he freed Batgirl, and together, they foiled Ivy's plan.

She was one of the many criminals captured by the vigilante Rumor. After being released, she was defeated by Batman and Robin by having Man-Bat crashing into her.

Later still she was kidnapped by Superman's archenemy, Lex Luthor, who used her to take control of Superman, by splicing her mind-controlled spores with Kryptonite dust. She gets free by Batman after he beats Clayface and later gets captured alongside Mercy Graves.

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Batgirl Begins (both parts)
Fleurs du Mal
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The Batman/Superman Story (both parts)

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The Batman 302 Batgirl Begins p2 (CLIP-GirlTalk, Poison Ivy)

Trivia[]

This version of Poison Ivy is one of the youngest, due to her being a teenager rather than an adult.
Despite being responsible for Barbara becoming Batgirl, Poison Ivy doesn't seem to know they are the same person.
- She also never seemed to notice their voices are the same as well. Nor their same shade of red hair.
- It's unclear if she still regards Barbara as her friend despite their differences, as she hardly acknowledge her afterwards.

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