History YMMV / PoisonIvyComics

* AudienceAlienatingEra: Her Post-''ComicBook/HeroesInCrisis'' characterization, which amounts to [[spoiler:Ivy being StuffedInTheFridge to give Harley Quinn motivation, only to be brought back from the dead within the same series as more plant than human. Not only has she been effectively turned into a blatant rip-off of ComicBook/SwampThing to the point she looks like she's been ''skinned alive'' and has no nipples or genitalia, but her killer (and the person who brought her back) was ''Wally West'', of all people. The follow-up series ''Harley Quinn & Poison Ivy'' only made this more of a DorkAge when it was supposed to fix the damage done to Ivy. After six issues of Harley trying to help Ivy deal with her trauma (as in, trauma she received at a place that was supposed to help her pre-existing trauma), it turns out there are now two Ivys (one calm and gentle, the other angry and vengeful). The calm Ivy tells Harley to escape as she fights and later merges with angry Ivy, in the process only kissing Harley on the forehead before she departs. So after brutalizing Ivy and dehumanizing her, DC treated her fans to six issues of queerbaiting between her and Harley. It then turned out the two Ivys never actually merged at all, with the angry one becoming Queen Ivy while the calm one was abducted and put in stasis so drugs could be harvested from her biochemistry over in ''Catwoman''.]]

* DorkAge: Her Post-''ComicBook/HeroesInCrisis'' characterization, which amounts to [[spoiler:Ivy being StuffedInTheFridge to give Harley Quinn motivation, only to be brought back from the dead within the same series as more plant than human. Not only has she been effectively turned into a blatant rip-off of ComicBook/SwampThing to the point she looks like she's been ''skinned alive'' and has no nipples or genitalia, but her killer (and the person who brought her back) was ''Wally West'', of all people. The follow-up series ''Harley Quinn & Poison Ivy'' only made this more of a DorkAge when it was supposed to fix the damage done to Ivy. After six issues of Harley trying to help Ivy deal with her trauma (as in, trauma she received at a place that was supposed to help her pre-existing trauma), it turns out there are now two Ivys (one calm and gentle, the other angry and vengeful). The calm Ivy tells Harley to escape as she fights and later merges with angry Ivy, in the process only kissing Harley on the forehead before she departs. So after brutalizing Ivy and dehumanizing her, DC treated her fans to six issues of queerbaiting between her and Harley. It then turned out the two Ivys never actually merged at all, with the angry one becoming Queen Ivy while the calm one was abducted and put in stasis so drugs could be harvested from her biochemistry over in ''Catwoman''.]]

* LesYay: Her sexuality has been speculated upon for years, especially due to occasions where she has deliberately attempted to seduce female characters as well as men. That's not to even mention her relationship with Harley Quinn, which was later canonized.

* DorkAge: Her Post-''ComicBook/HeroesInCrisis'' characterization, which amounts to [[spoiler:Ivy being StuffedInTheFridge to give Harley Quinn motivation, only to be brought back from the dead within the same series as more plant than human. Not only has she been effectively turned into a blatant rip-off of ComicBook/SwampThing to the point she looks like she's been ''skinned alive'' and has no nipples or genitalia, but her killer (and the person who brought her back) was ''Wally West'', of all people. The follow-up series ''Harley Quinn & Poison Ivy'' only made this more of a DorkAge when it was supposed to fix the damage done to Ivy. After six issues of Harley trying to help Ivy deal with her trauma (as in, trauma she received at a place that was supposed to help her pre-existing trauma), it turns out there are now two Ivys (one calm and gentle, the other angry and vengeful). The calm Ivy tells Harley to escape as she fights and later merges with angry Ivy, in the process only kissing Harley on the forehead before she departs. So after brutalizing Ivy and dehumanizing her, DC treated her fans to six issues of queerbaiting between her and Harley.]]

* FanPreferredCouple: It's not uncommon for people to want her to be with either Batman, as a ThirdOptionLoveInterest, or Harley Quinn, as someone who doesn't abuse as Joker does.

* CompleteMonster: Not usually, but in ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'', Ivy, [[FromNobodyToNightmare formerly Dr. Pamela Isley]], relishing in her newfound power, she [[AGodAmI declares herself Mother Nature]] and wishes to start anew for the world. Delighting in murdering numerous men with her painful [[KissOfDeath poison kiss]], Ivy tries to turn Batman and Robin against one another with her pheromones, seemingly murdering the sleeping Nora Fries to provoke [[ComicBook/MrFreeze Nora's husband]] to true despair. Deciding to help him kill every living thing in the world after freezing Gotham solid, Ivy intends to [[InTheirOwnImage enact her own fantasies of creation upon the new world she creates]].

* CompleteMonster: Not usually, but in ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'', Ivy, formerly Dr. Pamela Isley, relishing in her newfound power, she [[AGodAmI declares herself Mother Nature]] and wishes to start anew for the world. Delighting in murdering numerous men with her painful [[KissOfDeath poison kiss]], Ivy tries to turn Batman and Robin against one another with her pheromones, seemingly murdering the sleeping Nora Fries to provoke [[ComicBook/MrFreeze Nora's husband]] to true despair. Deciding to help him kill every living thing in the world after freezing Gotham solid, Ivy intends to [[InTheirOwnImage enact her own fantasies of creation upon the new world she creates]].

* CompleteMonster: Not usually, but in ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'', relishing in her newfound power, she [[AGodAmI declares herself Mother Nature]] and wishes to start anew for the world. Delighting in murdering numerous men with her painful [[KissOfDeath poison kiss]], Ivy tries to turn Batman and Robin against one another with her pheromones, seemingly murdering the sleeping Nora Fries to provoke [[ComicBook/MrFreeze Nora's husband]] to true despair. Deciding to help him kill every living thing in the world after freezing Gotham solid, Ivy intends to [[InTheirOwnImage enact her own fantasies of creation upon the new world she creates]].

* LesYay: Her sexuality has been speculated upon for years, especially due to occasions where she has deliberately attempted to seduce female characters as well as men. That's not to even mention her relationship with Harley Quinn, which was later canonized.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: One of Batman's best-known and most endearing archenemies.

* CantUnhearIt: You're likely to hear either Creator/DianePershing, [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries Tasia Valenza]], or Creator/UmaThurman while reading comics.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: LOADS of it. Even writers can't quite determine what type of person she is, underneath, whether she's really a decent soul twisted by past abuses and {{Lovecraftian Superpower}}s, or if she's a megalomaniacal terrorist and unrepentant murderer.

* FanPreferredCouple: It's not uncommon for people to want her to be with Batman or Harley Quinn.
* FoeYay: Has tons of it, due to her seduction powers. Her attraction to Batman is canon, but she's also had it with: every Comicbook/{{Robin}}, Comicbook/{{Batgirl}}, Comicbook/{{Superboy}}, Comicbook/{{Superman}}, and Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}.

* LesYay: Her sexuality has been speculated upon for years, especially due to occasions where she has deliberately attempted to seduce female characters as well as men. That's not to even mention her relationship with Harley Quinn, which was later canonized.
* IKnewIt: After roughly two decades of speculation, guesswork and shipping, DC Comics finally announced that Ivy and Harley are, indeed, lovers.

* CantUnhearIt: You're likely to hear either Creator/{{DianePershing}}, [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries Tasia Valenza]], or Creator/{{UmaThurman}} while reading comics.

* CantUnhearIt: You're likely to hear either Creator/{{Diane Pershing}} or [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries Tasia Valenza]] while reading comics.

* CantUnhearIt: You're likely to hear either Creator/{{Diane Pershing}}, [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries Tasia Valenza]], or Creator/{{Uma Thurman}} while reading comics.

* CantUnhearIt: You're likely to hear either Creator/{{DianePershing}}, [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries Tasia Valenza]], or Creator/{{UmaThurman}} while reading comics.

This is the YMMV page for Comicbook/PoisonIvy, a Creator/DCComics character and nemesis to Comicbook/{{Batman}}.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: LOADS of it. Even writers can't quite determine what type of person she is, underneath, whether she's really a decent soul twisted by past abuses and {{Lovecraftian Superpower}}s, or if she's a megalomaniacal terrorist and unrepentant murderer.

This is the YMMV page for Comicbook/PoisonIvy, a DCComics character and nemesis to Comicbook/{{Batman}}.

* IKnewIt: After roughly two decades of speculation, guesswork and shipping, DC Comics finally announced that Ivy and Harley are, indeed, lovers.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: LOADS of it. Even writers can't quite determine what type of person she is, underneath, whether she's really a decent soul twisted by past abuses and LovecraftianSuperpower[=s=], or if she's a megalomaniacal terrorist and unrepentant murderer.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: LOADS of it. Even writers can't quite determine what type of person she is, underneath, whether she's really a decent soul twisted by past abuses and LovecraftianSuperpowers, or if she's a megalomaniacal terrorist and unrepentant murderer.