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You're the only one for me, Batman, you know that right? Nobody else even comes close. Not anybody.
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~ Poison Ivy.
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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.
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~ Poison Ivy.
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And there's no way back from extinction... right?
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~ Poison Ivy.
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What is there left to say after all this time? He was brilliant. He was evil. he was cruel. He was generous. He was horrible. I loved him. I hated him. He was death of me. I'm finally free of him
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 the sanctity of plant life and the environment at all costs, bringing her into conflict with Batman and other heroes. Over the years, Ivy's characterization has shifted from being a sadistic eco-terrorist to a neutral extremist, with many modern incarnations portraying her as a well-intentioned anti-hero and an avatar of the Green, the source of all plant life.
Bom in Seattle, Washington, of a wealthy family, Pamela Lillian Isley was early attracted to botany, which be came her major at college. Her professor, a Frenchman named Marc LeGrand, romanced her, convincing her of his intention to marry her-as soon as he had enough money. He told her he might be able to make a fortune with a discovery based on an uncontaining ancient Egyptian herbs. However, only burglary could get it from a museum and Pamela was brilliant enough to do just that. What she didn't know was that the herbs were a deadly, untraceable poison, and LeGrand slipped a bit into her drink when they toasted their future. He thought he was rid of the one person who knew of his part in the theft, but he was wrong. Somehow, Pamela's system resisted the poison and assimilated it, making her immune to all poisons.
She then took the criminal identity of Poison Ivy due to her interest in plants and immunity to poison and committed a series of crimes so brilliant she was never even suspected. Ivy arranged to end the careers of three female criminals who took credit for her deeds, with a trick that delivered them to the law. Ivy then found herself face-to-face with Batman, but her eventual attempts to vamp him failed and she landed in jail.
Ivy also prided herself on her sex appeal. When a man resisted her or double-crossed her, she could never forgive him. Hence Batman became her mortal enemy. Ivy later allied herself briefly with The 100, accepting a contract to kill The Thom, but she failed. She also twice became a part of the Injustice Society, first when it was formed by Libra, and then when it was resurrected by Abra Kadabra. She also had a short stint with the Secret Society of Super-Villains. She has also gone after Bruce Wayne for spuming her-unaware that he is Batman. Once she almost pulled off a scheme to gain control of the vast assets of the Wayne Foundation.
Post-Crisis[]
After the Crisis on Infinite Earths, Poison Ivy truly develops her plant-based powers as she attempts to destroy the Wayne Foundation. Some versions of her origin story also linked her to Jason Woodrue aka the Floronic Man. In the one-shot Batman: Poison Ivy #1, Ivy's origin is retold for a modern audience, placing her first appearance much earlier in Batman's career. Poison Ivy later gains a green skin tone as she takes over Robinson Park during the "No Man's Land" event.
Ivy briefly joined the Suicide Squad before signing up with a more informal team, the Gotham City Sirens. Ivy also had a hand in the origin of Harley Quinn, when she served her a concoction that gave Harley enhanced reflexes and strength. Poison Ivy proved her stature as one of Batman's main foes during "Knightfall", when she amassed a squad of enthralled warriors to take on the Dark Knight.
The New 52[]
Poison Ivy's history was altered for the New 52. In this continuity, Pamela Isley was born with an allergy to sunlight. Her doctor prescribed a lotion that would help her, but her abusive father forbade her to go outside. Whenever her mother let her out of the house, he beat her. Her mother found solace from his abuse in gardening, but he eventually beat her to death, burying her in the garden, a crime for which he was imprisoned for life.
In college, Pamela designed pheromone pills to study their effects. These pills helped her significantly when the Dean, under their effects and control, decided against her expulsion and got her out of jail. After she graduated, she visited her father in prison, kissing him while he was there. He died the next day, with the poison used being unable to be found.
With the help of the Dean, she later became a research assistant at Wayne Enterprises. She helped a man with a project that would allow plants to grow faster. However, the Riddler and Karl Helfern stole her plans and used them to make plants overtake Gotham City in an event that Batman called "Zero Year".
Luckily, Batman defeated the two and started a process to remove the plants. After the city was restored, Bruce Wayne looked into Pamela's plan when she came to him with a project to cut the advertising division by 100%. Her plan was to use pheromones to get clients, proving it due to her getting the interview with him due to it.
However, Bruce rejected her plan, calling it brainwashing, fired her, and explained that the company now owns her research. She rushed back to get what she could, with her main target being a serum she made from her research on botany. However, she was splashed with her own chemicals, giving her the ability to control plants and her pheromones, connecting her to the Green, and making her unable to be affected by viruses and poison. From that point on, she became the Eco-terrorist known as Poison Ivy. She eventually became a dedicated and valiant member of the Birds of Prey, but only until she no longer had any use for them.
DC Rebirth[]
After the events of DC Rebirth, during which she had tried to control the minds of every living being in an attempt to protect the environment, Ivy began to dread about the deaths she had unintentionally caused in the past. Harley Quinn came to comfort her and told Ivy of a secret haven where troubled superheroes go to get help in dealing with personal issues called the Sanctuary. Ivy decides to go there for guidance, where she starts to recover - only to get caught up in a massacre which seemingly claims her life.
However, prior to the event, Ivy used the power of The Green to give Harley Quinn a part of herself in the form of a flower as a token of their love. This flower would eventually be obtained by Wally West (the one responsible for the massacre) who planted it and used the Speed Force to accelerate its growth. The flower grew to gigantic proportions and bloomed to reveal the surviving piece of Ivy had grown a new humanoid body for herself made entirely from plant matter. She eventually reunited with Harley Quinn and explained her survival as Harley ran to embrace her.
Ivy was later completely restored, thanks to Lex Luthor. In the meantime, a part of her had gone on a road trip with Harley Quinn, who mistook this overgrowth clone for the real Poison Ivy. Feeling hurt and abandoned by her beloved Harley, Ivy severed ties with her, preferring to forsake Harley's new heroic direction for her more villainous roots.
Personality[]
Dr. Pamela Isley was a wallflower who was a botanical genius of such talent that she was scouted by Jason Woodrue for his team. He emotionally, psychologically, and professionally manipulated her, which she tolerated due to her low self-esteem. After his experiments changed her into Poison Ivy, she became extraordinarily confident and openly seductive, although her seduction almost always ended in the deaths of the target.
Due to her special affinity for plant life, Poison Ivy's specialty is eco-terrorism. She is always pictured with flowing red hair and a green plant-like outfit. Her only human companion is Harley Quinn, for whom she has complicated feelings, as she sympathizes with her due her own history of suffering domestic violence and emotional abuse, but Ivy finds Harley's capriciousness, attention deficient hyperactive disorder, and habit of ruining plans with her carelessness.
Ivy continued to tolerate her out of sisterly affection. Ivy also despises Harley's boss and on-off lover the Joker for abusing her, although has worked with him in the past, and is willing to collaborate with him again if it is beneficial to her environmentalism.
Poison Ivy is immune to toxins and uses this ability to her advantage over her enemies; she is able to share this immunity, as she bestows it to her fellow Sirens, Catwoman and Harley Quinn.
Poison Ivy's feelings about humanity have varied. In most media, Ivy wants to exterminate all humanity and make her plants the world's new dominant species. However, possibly due to her relationship with Harley and Catwoman, Ivy eventually started to show a more humane side and actually help those in dire need, although she refused to show mercy to people like corporate moguls who willingly and callously spread pollution and decay for their own profit. On rare occasions, Batman can convince her to spare them if he has evidence that would ensure the collapse of their corporate empires and subsequent imprisonment.
Ivy has even tried to protect both humans and plants in some cases. Although these attempts are usually done using the wrong methods (such as controlling people's minds through tainted vegetables to achieve peace).
In her downtime, she is usually focused more on caring for her plants rather than engaging in human interaction. It has been implied in some iterations, especially The New 52, that she is attracted to Batman.
In DC Rebirth, Pamela was already confident from the beginning, aware of her beauty, and is sexual, engaging in multiple casual sexual dalliances. Once recruited by Jason Woodrue, her attitude became much more subdued and uncertain due to his controlling and eventually abusive nature.
After becoming Poison Ivy, she lacked the murderous intent of her original versions, as upon the thought of accidentally killing a gangster, she was so distraught that she took over the world with her pheromone powers to enforce peace as penance. Yet evidently, her blind love for Harley Quinn left her unable to control her mind, and the protected Batman and Catwoman unite the pair to make Ivy undo her conquest.
Unlike older Ivy versions, Rebirth is excessively sentimental and saccharine, showing insecurities and self-doubts unbecoming the character; while older versions has her be commanding and powerful with her sexuality, now with Harley, she is extremely meek and sappy, often becoming a sidekick to Harley, rather than an independent woman.
After dying and being revived, Poison Ivy displayed her earlier version's ability to murder without remorse or concern. She called herself Queen Ivy, showing a desire for world domination like some previous continuities. She harnessed a fungus that infected people, which turned them into zombies (akin to The Last of Us video games series).
She initially dismissed the fungal spread and dozens of deaths, but becomes slightly rueful when a one night stand got infected; and upon learning Jason Woodrue was a part of the fungus as his newly evolved Floronic Man form, she worked hard to undo the damage and foil his world domination plot. She was willing to sacrifice her life to destroy the infectious fungus, although she inevitably revived in a Birth of Venus homage.
Powers and Abilities[]
Powers[]
Chlorokinesis: Semi-mystical connection to the plant world through a force called the Green. In some adaptations, she can control plants with her mind. For example, in Arkham Asylum: Living Hell she was able to manipulate and animate plants, using roots to form supports for a tunnel she and another inmate named Magpie were digging to escape, and also spawning glowing fungi to entertain Magpie. She controls an entire tree to come down on Clayface, ensnaring him in its branches. More recently, in Batman & Poison Ivy: Cast Shadows, she can be seen bringing down a whole skyscraper with giant vines.
Toxic Immunity: Genetic Immunity to all toxins, bacteria, and viruses. However ironically this makes her infertile.
Toxikinesis: A deliberate overdose of plant and animal-based toxins into her bloodstream that make her touch deadly. Ivy can create the most potently powerful floral toxins in Gotham City. Often these are secreted from her lips and administered via a kiss. They come in a number of varieties, from mind-controlling drugs to instantly fatal necrotic. Her skin is toxic as well, although contact with it is usually not fatal.
Pheromone Control: Ivy is known to be able to seduce men and women alike, often using pheromones to do so but even without the pheromones her beauty is still an asset that can seduce.
Regeneration - Due to her unique physiology she is able to regenerate limbs and most forms of injuries at an accelerated rate.
Longevity/Semi-Immortality - Her hybrid physiology seemingly slows to outright stops her aging process to where as long as she maintains enough solar energy and water can presumably can survive indefinitely.
Abilities[]
Botanist: Expertise in botany. She specializes in creating new plant species and plant/animal hybrids.
Toxicologist: Expertise in toxicology. BAtman once called her "a genius combined with a fanatic" a description she does not dispute
Expert Martial Artist: Poison Ivy's athletic abilities have grown over the course of her career. She has learned a limited style of martial arts fighting, proficient at climbing and leaping, and a strong and fast swimmer.
Ivy punches Harley.
Average Strength: Poison Ivy possesses the strength level of around three women her age, size and weight who engages in intensive regular exercise. This sometimes allows her to hold her own against the likes of Batman.
Weaknesses[]
Vulnerability to Darkness: Poison Ivy requires substantial amounts of solar energy to live.
Mental instability: Due to Poison Ivy's obsession with plants, when she thinks that they are being threatened, she becomes unstable, destructive, and filled with rage. She is willing to save her plants at all costs, even if she has to surrender to Batman or ask for his help.
Vanity: Poison Ivy's self-confidence in her looks and charms can cause her to overlook or dismiss potential disasters.
In HMB, Poison Ivy, along with the other rogues (Harley Quinn, the Penguin, Mr. Freeze, the Riddler, and Scarecrow), works with Sweet Tooth to destroy the Dark Knight and put nuclear warheads in Gotham City's water supply.
Poison Ivy serves as one of the two main antagonists (alongside Mr Freeze) of the 1997 film Batman & Robin. She was portrayed by Uma Thurman, who also portrayed Medusa in the Percy Jackson film franchise.
She teamed up with Bane and Mr. Freeze to freeze Gotham City.
Promotional for an older Ivy Pepper for the third season of Gotham.
A younger version of Poison Ivy named Ivy Pepper (rather than Pamela Isley) appears on the Fox television show Gotham - which depicts the origins of various DC characters prior to Batman's arrival in the city.
She was originally portrayed by Clare Foley, but was replaced by a new actress Maggie Geha for the third season in which Ivy developed into Poison Ivy. Peyton List later portrayed the mutated Ivy in the fourth and fifth seasons.
Aside from coming across as creepy, and later taking part in growing magic mushrooms for Butch Gilzean's gang, she isn't depicted as a villain or antagonist during the first and second season. Ivy appeared in the first episode "Pilot" as the daughter to a criminal named Mario Pepper, who is accused of murdering Bruce Wayne's parents Thomas and Martha.
Mario was later killed when he attempted to attack Detective Jim Gordon, leaving both Ivy and her mother alone (although Mario was abusive towards them). She appeared later in the season when Selina with Bruce Wayne in tow tried to find her fence. When Ivy ended up homeless after running away from her foster parents (which she was placed into after the suicide of her mother) she was taken in by Selina, who was squatting at Barbara Kean's apartment.
The character appeared during the second season in which Detective Harvey Bullock tried to find the location of Selina Kylie and Bridgit Pike. Later on, when Bruce began living on the streets of Gotham as part of his training to learn the criminal way, they went to visit Ivy who was growing magic mushrooms for the Gilzean crime family. In the third season, Ivy later aged after she had an encounter with an escaped monster from the Indian Hill facility.
Ivy blows her poisonous dust on two people.
In the fourth season, Ivy, tired of being disrespected, consumed mystical potions and chemicals from a Chinese shop enhancing her abilities and altered her appearance. She entered a hibernation phase for many months and emerged from a cocoon covered with plants having been reborn with a new appearance and an ability to poison people with a scratch.
Ivy later acquires Lazarus Water and mixed it with her own blood to create a deadly crimson flower with poison pollen that could create more of the flowers through victims' flesh and blood. She is stopped by Selena Kyle who destroys a vial containing the last of the Lazarus Water. Ivy leaves warning Selena to never get in her way again.
During No Man's Land, Ivy became known as "The Witch" and ruled over Robinson Park. She took over a museum mausoleum with plants that feed off of humans.
Poison Ivy appears in the third and final season of the Arrowverse series Batwoman as the secondary antagonist. She was played by Bridget Regan, who also played Dottie Underwood in Marvel's Agent Carter. Her vine was one of Batman's trophies that was taken by a brainwashed Kate Kane and was accidentally released, thrown into the Gotham River.
The vine was exposed to water and seen reaching the shore before starting to grow at an exceptional rate. The vine grew and infected Mary Hamilton with some of Poison Ivy's essence and dragged her into Gotham Park. Transformed into Poison Mary, she underwent a drastic new personality and appearance teaming with Alice to "have fun".
Poison Mary met Marquis Jet at a party and told him Batwoman's true identity.
Poison Ivy is a major recurring antagonist in "Batman: The Animated Series". She is one of Batman's enemies and arguably his female archenemy (with Catwoman and Talia al Ghul being an on/off villain and Harley Quinn being a henchwoman).
Born as Pamela Lillian Isley, Poison Ivy is an Eco-terrorist who Batman first encounters in the episode "Pretty Poison", where she is also the girlfriend of Two-Face. She gradually grows into one of his biggest enemies and forms alliances with various other villains throughout the series.
Her most notable relationship is with Harley Quinn, with whom she became reluctant best friends with. The two of them even became two of the primary protagonists of a spin-off series Gotham Girls.
In The New Adventures her complexion changed to green. A tie-in comic later revealed the green-skinned Ivy was a plant doppelganger created by the original Pamela Isley, so she could leave a decoy to allow her to escape Gotham to go to Louisiana to continue work with Jason Woodrue.
Poison Ivy is one of the two main antagonists of the 2017 DC animated film Batman and Harley Quinn. She teams up with Floronic Man to transform all of humanity into plants. However, unlike him, she manages to redeem herself by changing her mind about their plan through Harley Quinn's emotional persuasion, knowing its severe risks, especially if such plan is enacted mistakenly (since it's not just the entire human race that will be affected by it).
In this continuity, Poison Ivy is depicted as a heroine, as opposed to her traditional villainous nature. However, in the novels it is noted that many of the young heroes will likely eventually become villains, meaning that this could simply be a backstory for Ivy's villainy. Though it is unclear if the cartoon series will follow with this concept.
She officially became a supervillain in the film Lego DC Super Hero Girls: Super-Villain High, though she returns to heroism by the ending.
Batman: Hush (Film)[]
Ivy in Batman: Hush.
Main article: Poison Ivy (DC Animated Movie Universe)
Poison Ivy appears in Batman: Hush as one of the secondary antagonists (along with Joker and Bane), voiced by her Gotham actress Peyton List.
Poison Ivy is the deuteragonist in DC Universe's adult animation series Harley Quinn. She was voiced by Lake Bell, who also voiced Vanessa Fisk in Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse.
Poison Ivy is one of the villains that Batman faces in Batman: Arkham Asylum. She is released from her cell by Harley Quinn, even though she was not on the list that the Joker had given her. Poison Ivy then resides in the Botanical Garden's, waiting for the Batman to show up. When Batman finds her, he can easily hurt her, because she has been in the dark for too long.
She tells him that he can find an antidote for the Titan in Killer Croc's lair. When Batman leaves the Gardens, the plants start living. The Joker tells Batman that he gave Poison Ivy a Titan shot. Her plants are now taking over the entire island, even lifting statues of the warden and eventually reaching to the top of the Clocktower and the Lighthouse.
When Batman came back with the antidote, Poison Ivy became stronger and knocks away the antidote before he can use it. She turns herself into a gigantic plant-monster. After beating her, she falls into a giant hole. At the end of the game, after beating the Joker, there is a cut scene showing how the guards bring her back to her cell.
She also has an entry in the character bios. Her profile states: Botanist Pamela Isley was transformed by a science experiment gone wrong into a plant-human hybrid. With chlorophyll flowing through her veins instead of blood, she developed a toxic touch and a pheromone-fueled talent for seduction.
Her crimes have become more ecologically focused as she has increasingly abandoned her human side, identifying more with the natural world. Her unique brand of Eco-terrorism often puts her into conflict with Batman, whose iron will usually protect him from her seductive powers. Although, she held pragmatism, thus allied with Batman in order to counter Scarecrow's latest fear toxin that threatened to kill all plant life. Despite her misanthropy, she did display a willingness to risk her own safety to save the city; granted, her primary motive was to safe the flora, with the human toll being a tangential, but unlikely for her additional protection.
Life endures. It adjusts and grows stronger. The weeds you try to kill become super-weeds, immune to your poison. And so you increase your toxins and poison the world in a cycle of madness. I call it forth, the power of the plants, even from the terminator seeds that should not grow. I am the guardian of the Green. I am Poison Ivy.
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~ Poison Ivy, in "Poison Ivy: Green Savior" (Secret Origins #10).
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Me? I'm a genius. I can make plants behave like animals and make animals into plants. And I'm part plant as well. It doesn't show. But I am... What am I? I am the Queen of the May, crowned in leaves, and blossom, and thorns. I am hope and beauty and truth. A symbol of growth in the dark times that are upon us... I am impossible. Woodrue killed me. You know that? I don't know what he gave me in those college experiments. But it killed me... killed her... birthed me... What am I? I am Poison Ivy.
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~ Poison Ivy, in "Poison Ivy: Pavane" (Secret Origins #36).
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Oh, Batman. Or rather, Bruce Wayne. What do I want? Don't you understand? Every person holding a gun. Every army, waiting for orders. Every man with a missile, every woman with a bomb. Every superhero. Every super-villain. Every master of magic, explorer of the infinite, the smartest alive. Every human attempting to be a god. Everyone. They all love me. I feel them, understand each of them, as I understand the Green. I control them, all of them, as I control the Green. Want? No. No, no, no. You see... I don't want anything, Batman. I already have everything.
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~ Poison Ivy, in "Everyone Loves Ivy."
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Well sometimes you need to prune back hard in order to make something flourish.
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~ Poison Ivy interview tape in Arkham Asylum after a doctor mentions she almost killed everyone in Gotham City.
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Actually Batman, you and I are surprisingly alike. We both strive to see evil-doers punished. But while you got your gallery of rouges, I have my grove.
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~ Poison Ivy to Batman.
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Poison Ivy: I wanted to do the right thing. Batman: Perhaps. But in the wrong way.
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~ Poison Ivy admitting her mistake to Batman, in Batman #651 by Don Kramer and Keith Champagne.
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You know you can't resist me. No man can...
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~ Poison Ivy, in Batman: The Long Halloween #5.
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Enslaving humanity is balance.
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~ Poison Ivy in Injustice 2.
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I keep making the same mistakes, Jason. Because it's impossible to watch what's happening to the planet and not be furious. And then punish whoever is convenient instead of whoever is responsible.
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~ Poison Ivy admitting her faults in Poison Ivy (2022) #6
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The time for heroes is over. What we need now are assassins. Saboteurs. Revolutionaries. People who are not afraid to defend what is left of the Earth. With violence when necessary. Justice is not coming. But retribution may still be within reach.
Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn's relationship is so popular that as far back as Batman: The Animated Series, people interpreted Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn's friendship as a romantic relationship, with there even being a comic implying this, although the comic was open to interpretation as Harley was asking Batgirl if her friendship with Ivy was like the rumoured romantic relationship between Batgirl and Supergirl, which showed that Harley believed Batgirl was lesbian, rather than confirming such a relationship herself.
As of the New 52, they become "friends with benefits."
In DC Rebirth, Poison Ivy had a female lover who'd become Gardener, who was before and concurrent to a relationship Pamela had with Jason Woodrue, which was the only heterosexual relationship she had in this continuity.
In the Harley Quinn TV show, in season 1, Ivy and Harley have sex, which makes Kite-Man end his engagement with Ivy, then as of season 3 they are a romantic couple.
In the Batman: Fear State Saga, it is confirmed that Ivy and Batman had once been in a romantic relationship.
Prior to 2011, Poison Ivy was portrayed as bicuriously alluring, though heterosexual and aiming for men as targets and lovers. After being attached to Harley Quinn, she was altered to be a de facto wife to her, despite their occasionally open relationship. Though, Ivy also only engages with women now.
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