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[[caption-width-right:350:And you thought "Going Green" would be lame.]]
Poison Ivy (real name [[ThemedAliases Pamela Isley]]) is a Creator/DCComics supervillainess known to be one of Franchise/{{Batman}}'s main adversaries.
Poison Ivy was created by Creator/BobKanigher in 1966 as a villainous {{Expy}} of Creator/BettiePage, as well as a replacement villainess for Comicbook/{{Catwoman}}, who had graduated from an AntiVillain into an AntiHero. She was also meant to be DC's take on the then-recent feminist movement, as she would be an independent villainess not tied to any other villain as their [[TheBaroness Baroness]] or [[UnholyMatrimony lover]]. At her core, however, she is a FemmeFatale and one of the deadliest in all of comics.
Her most consistent origin is that of a botanist named Dr. Pamela Isley who has an obsession/affinity for plants. Following some type of lab accident (which may or may not have been caused by corrupt supervisors/backers), she becomes the eco-terrorist known as Poison Ivy. Though she started out as a BadassNormal only using plants as her gimmick, due to several [[TookALevelInBadass levels taken in badass]] and many {{Retcon}}s, she has gained more and more powerful GreenThumb abilities over time, as well as {{pheromone|s}} [[{{Glamour}} powers]] and [[PoisonousPerson various forms of poisons and toxins]] (usually delivered by {{kiss|OfDeath}}es). She is also sometimes revealed to be [[PlantPerson half plant]] herself. This makes her one of the rare Batman villains that has legitimate superpowers.
She, like Catwoman before her, has become more and more sympathetically portrayed as time goes on. Sometimes, Ivy's [[DatingCatwoman a love interest for Batman]] too, with several stories implying something deeper between them. On the other hand, she has gained a regular {{Love Interest|s}} in ComicBook/HarleyQuinn, whose main portrayal is as the Joker's girlfriend and sidekick. In 2015, [[WordOfGod DC]] editorial [[WordOfGay confirmed that]] Ivy and Quinn are sexual partners, making them one of the most prominent same-sex couples in comics. Both women have also become affiliated with the ComicBook/SuicideSquad and the ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey, making them very ambiguous {{Heel Face Revolving Door}}s.
In 2015, Poison Ivy received her first-ever self-titled comic, in the form of a limited series called ''Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death'', which deals with a reformed Ivy trying her best to make a serious career as a scientist again.
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!!Tropes associated with Poison Ivy:
* AbusiveParents: As of New 52 and on, Ivy's father was extremely abusive towards her mother. He always bought her flowers as an apology. Of course, he eventually killed Ivy's mother and buried her in their beloved garden. Naturally, about a decade later, Ivy killed him.
* AdaptationalHeroism: She gets hit with this in a few continuities:
** ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'': She's portrayed as being more focused on protecting her plants than going on eco-terrorist sprees, and refuses to team up with other villains. In ''Arkham Knight'', [[spoiler:she even helps Batman save Gotham from Scarecrow's Cloudburst, [[HeroicSacrifice though doing so costs her her life]].]]
** ''WebAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls'': She's portrayed as an adorably dorky straight-up superhero.
** ''ComicBook/DCComicsBombshells'': She only ever uses her powers against the German hierarchy.
* AdaptationalVillainy: On the flip side, she gets this treatment in ''VideoGame/Injustice2''; she's a lot colder and more aloof to Harley than usual, [[spoiler: and even almost kills her with her pheromones without a hint of remorse.]] Additionally, her dialogue with ComicBook/SwampThing implies that [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist she isn't even interested in protecting the Green - she just wants its power all to herself]].
* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: She is DC's answer to Marvel's ComicBook/TheEnchantress as they are both FemmeFatale supervillains with seduction based mind-controlling powers that frequently flirt with their [[Franchise/{{Batman}} respective]] [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor heroes]].
** Hilariously enough, Marvel then made an equivalent to ''her'' in their popular ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' series, named Klara Prast. As Klara is only in her preteens, she doesn't copy the sexual nature of Poison Ivy. Instead, she has Poison Ivy's power over plants.
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Sometimes has green skin, especially the versions of her that are part-plant.
* AntagonistAbilities: Ivy is typically a pushover if you can actually get in a solid blow on her. The problem is getting past her plant mooks, resisting her {{Glamour}} and MindManipulation powers, and not letting her poison you. If you can get past all of that, she can't put up much of a fight. But that's a ''big "if"''.
* AntiVillain: She wants to protect plant life and stop humans from polluting the world and deforesting it. The problem is that she views a plant's life as infinitely more valuable than any number of humans' lives (even if it's just a tiny leaf, since that leaf can sprout into a new plant).
* BadassBookworm: She's a very talented and knowledgeable botanist and chemist, but she's also one of the most deadly people on the planet, with powerful control over nature.
* BettyAndVeronica:
** She is the Veronica to Catwoman's Betty and Batman's Archie. Although Catwoman is a criminal also, she's far more sympathetic and has more nice/heroic qualities.
** She is the Betty to Joker's Veronica and Harley's Archie. Compared to the Joker, she is far more loving and affectionate toward Harley. Granted, it's not saying much and she isn't above her own problems.
* BewareTheQuietOnes: Somewhat. Back when she was just Pamela, she was actually pretty shy and demure with the implications of having controlling parents. Then her accident happens, (sometimes because of a college professor, The Floronic Man) and she finally vents out her problems and issues.
* BisexualLoveTriangle: Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn's relationship has primarily been this way since they met in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' (though DC [[HideYourLesbians kept it as subtexty as possible]] for years). Harley is head-over-heels for her boyfriend, ComicBook/TheJoker. The Joker is ''extremely'' [[DomesticAbuse physically and emotionally abusive]] but Harley always goes back to him in the end. Ivy on the other hand has feelings for Harley and the two have a much more stable relationship, but DependingOnTheWriter Harley is either oblivious, knows of Ivy's feeling but ignores her, or has flings with Ivy when she and the Joker are separate. Starting with the ComicBook/New52 reboot, DC revamped Ivy and Harley's relationship to be more obviously romantic and requited. They're either FriendsWithBenefits or a non-monogamous couple.
* BlackEyesOfEvil: Her New 52 design made her eyes entirely black, save for her glowing green irises.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Redhead to Harley's Blonde and Catwoman's Brunette in the ''Comicbook/GothamCitySirens''.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: What keeps her from being a purely evil character despite her occasional state as a MisanthropeSupreme is her completely alien sense of right and wrong. In short, she considers crimes in terms of their effect on nature, starting with plant life, then animals, with humanity on the lower scale.
** On the other hand, she targets men through seduction before killing them which doesn't advance her goals and seems to be more her way of venting out at being hurt by people (especially Jason Woodrue.)
* BodyOfBodies: Harvest is a creature of sentient vegetation used by Poison Ivy. It was created when a carnivorous plant that Poison Ivy fed her victims to absorbed the personas of the people it ate. In this form it was able to rapidly regenerate and transform itself into any plant-life it chose to, and would manifest itself with the faces and other physical characteristics of Ivy's victims across its surface. Harvest attempted to take revenge on Poison Ivy by attacking her inside Arkham Asylum although Batman intervened and protected her. Harvest was seemingly destroyed in this battle although Batman remarked that its regenerative abilities meant it could come back and attack again at any time
* BoobsAndButtPose: Ivy poses in one of these in almost every appearance. Partly justified in that she isn't completely human and that her powers work by seduction.
* BreakoutVillain: Became one of Batman's most recognized foes since the ''90's'' thanks to ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', even getting featured as a main character in ''Comicbook/GothamCitySirens''. Even if Poison Ivy is a Batman villain, she has become something of a recurring villain in the grand universe like ComicBook/BlackAdam, although she rarely is a BigBad.
* CharmPerson: Ivy's pheromones tend to work like this. She can also use more direct MindControl through toxic kisses (when they don't just kill outright). The scope and effects of these powers are DependingOnTheWriter.
* ClarkKenting: Downplayed in ''Comicbook/GothamCitySirens'', when Ivy goes to work for a lab the only difference between her disguise and her usual look is a pair of glasses and a lab coat. What she does do is use her powers to revert back to her original skin colour, instead of the current green.
* CreateYourOwnVillain:
** A rare example of a villain creating another, hostile-to-them, villain. Ivy herself is usually the creation of a pre-mutation Floronic Man, a minor DC villain with ComicBook/SwampThing style powers. However, the Floronic Man (Jason Woodrue) was not villain when he experimented on Ivy.
** One post-90s storyline involves a ManEatingPlant she overused [[ForTheEvulz for assorted petty reasons]] developing sapience and becoming Harvest, which yearns to kill her.
* CulturedBadass: She is quite versed in being sophisticated and lady-like. However, she mostly uses it as part of her FemmeFatale allure. She also drops obscure botanical knowledge at the drop of a hat, often in the context of explaining that YouAreAlreadyDead to her poisoning victims.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: In her "environmentalist" depiction, Poison Ivy's powers would allow her to influence people far more effectively and acceptably if she'd use them in a sensible fashion. It's generally justified that she fails to realize this because she's a TautologicalTemplar, who either doesn't understand that non-violence can be ''more'' effective at convincing people than violence or simply her demands are too unreasonable to be taken seriously.
** Averting this is at least attempted in "Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death", where she tries to market more legitimate eco-friendly creations of hers as opposed to her traditional methods of just running around turning people into plants or feeding them to mutant carnivorous trees.
** A possible aversion appears in another example: when Harley pointed out that some of her plants (such as vines as strong--or stronger--than steel beams or organisms that produce light) could help humanity, Ivy bitterly responded: "I don't do that, Harley. I don't save people. I'm poison, remember?" It's implied that given the opportunity, she ''would'' like to use her plants for good (or at least legal monetary gain), but [[ThenLetMeBeEvil people don't expect her to, so she doesn't]].
* DarkChick: As said below, she isn't much of a fighter but that doesn't make her any less dangerous.
* DeadpanSnarker: Being around Harley so much gives her a ''lot'' of practice.
* DefrostingIceQueen:
** Upon meeting Harley, Ivy [[CharacterDevelopment softened somewhat towards humans]], but still manages to be [[{{Tsundere}} quite strict]] whenever Harley screws up her plans. [[CuteClumsyGirl Which is frequently]].
** In the New 52 ''Comicbook/BirdsOfPrey'', she is completely unapologetic for her murderous crimes in the past, but is willing to assist Black Canary and company and work as a team. Even if she does mutter complaints along the way.
* DependingOnTheArtist:
** Mainly how clearly she is a PlantPerson. Some artists will show her as someone with basically human skin and hair and green clothes who could easily blend into a crowd; others will have with her obviously green skin and vines growing out of her body. Still others take a more subtle UncannyValley approach, with her appearing mostly human until you look closer and notice the flower patterns all over her.
** Tim Sale's portrayal of Ivy is by far one of the most extreme depictions, giving her a hair style that's literally a giant bush growing out of her head. It gives the impression of her emerging out of a nearby forest or jungle.
** Artist P. Craig Russell illustrated Ivy looking rather demure and somewhat mousy in the two part "Hot House" story arc set after her original arrest in the Post-Crisis era, something virtually no other artist has done barring whenever Ivy's disguised. However, under the effects of her pheromones Batman sees Ivy as more of a PlantPerson, ethereal with green skin and leaves and plants in her hair. This offers the interpretation Ivy's jaw dropping beauty is really the effect of her pheromones altering the way everyone perceives her.
* DependingOnTheWriter:
** Sometimes she is an extremist eco-terrorist bent on protecting Mother Earth from the ravages of humanity; originally and just as often, she is just a glorified superhuman crook and seductress in it for the money. She's even occasionally shown concern for "innocent" human life, children especially, most famously in a particular issue of ''ComicBook/GothamCentral'', and in ''ComicBook/GothamCitySirens''. Some more recent portrayals also verge on HumanoidAbomination, depicting her as a being who, while mostly human in appearance, is of completely alien and inhuman morality and thinks more like a sentient plant with a side of HiveQueen.
** Of all people, Paul Dini once wrote Ivy straight up cruel and unsympathetic. The story in question depicts her seducing random people (both men and women) off the street, taking them to her lair and feeding them to her carnivorous plants. On top of that, it shows Ivy enjoying and mocking the lengthy suffering of the victims being slowly digested by the plants. Batman was so disgusted by her actions that, for a brief moment, he entertained the idea of ending Pamela's life.
** Is she insane because of a lonely, neglected childhood? Was her turn to villainy the result of chemical and biological alterations affecting her mental stability or cognitive processes, with serious psychological consequences? is she driven by her history of being betrayed by men? Or is it some combination of all of the above plus some [[IncrediblyLamePun garden-variety]] sociopathy? Notably, Creator/NeilGaiman gave her an origin that hints at all of these possibilities, but ultimately suggests the answer is unknowable. Later writers have chosen to emphasize particular angles or thrown in their own ideas.
** Gail Simone's second ''Batgirl'' Annual in the New 52 era offered the idea of Ivy suffering from an extreme form of Seasonal Affective Disorder, explaining her changes in personality and mood a result of the changing seasons.
* DiscontinuityNod: When her Post-Crisis origin was first established, Creator/NeilGaiman briefly mentioned her original backstory involving Marc [=LeGrand=] and the Egyptian herbs. Ivy laughed this off explaining that was all a lie she came up with and was surprised anyone actually believed it.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Will straight up murder all of humanity because they mistreat plants.
* DoesNotLikeMen: As part of her StrawFeminist motif, Ivy is typically portrayed as being disgusted by men. She finds them stupid, smelly, grotesque, ill-mannered, and easy to manipulate. The sole exceptions are Batman and a few other select males whom she feels aren't ''all'' bad. This depiction is [[SocietyMarchesOn falling by the wayside]] in favor of her BlueAndOrangeMorality covering plants. In all of her origin stories, a man royally screwed her over. Silver Age? Her lover and partner in crime betrays her and tries to poison her. Post ''Infinite Crisis''? Her college professor and crush, Jason Woodrue (later the Floronic Man) experimented on her and turned her into an abomination against her will. New 52 dad? Straight up murdered her mom and buried her in their garden.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Some versions of her, such as the one from ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'' and the ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries''.
* DruggedLipstick: Most common explanation for her deadly or mind controlling kiss.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Originally, Ivy was a much more obvious {{Expy}} of Bettie Page, and even had a southern accent much like Page's. She also didn't have any real plant powers and was just a criminal with a serious plant motif going on.
* EarthyBarefootCharacter: As part of her nature gimmick, she is usually shoeless, even when not naked.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
** Usually, her plants are her darlings and she'll even try to sacrifice her own life to save theirs. Later in her publication, she started treating Harley Quinn this way as well, as perhaps the only human being Ivy truly loves.
** Starting around ''ComicBook/BatmanNoMansLand'', Ivy has also taken a protective stance toward children.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: DependingOnTheWriter, she won't harm the sick, elderly or children. More consistently, however, she won't use any villainous methods that do more harm to the environment than necessary.
* EnemyMine: In some iterations she will temporarily assist heroes against villains who threaten greater ecological damage than she attributes to normal humanity.
* EvilSmellsBad: Inverted: she is often described as having a pleasant floral smell, and her MindControl powers usually involve good-smelling pheromones and fragrances.
* EvilRedhead: An evil woman with red hair.
* EvilVersusEvil: Thanks to Having Standards and Loved Ones, she's taken on corrupt, murdering cops, polluting corporations, and (often on behalf of Harley) even the Joker himself.
* {{Expy}}: Of Creator/BettiePage, which was more evident in her original appearances but still remains with her status as a ShamelessFanserviceGirl.
* FemmeFatale: With greater emphasis on the Fatale. Ivy doesn't like Man -- and we mean that in regards to both the species ''and'' the gender. Thus, any sexual enticement or favors she offers are typically just [[TheTease manipulations]] to get a hapless dupe under her control. However, there ''are'' some men she has found worth her interest -- primarily Batman, but occasionally other men who have proven to be sympathetic to her goals or more interesting than others.
* {{Flanderization}}:
** Ivy went from a normal woman who just used plants as a gimmick out of insanity to a half-plant woman with actual power over plants and who, DependingOnTheArtist, even looked plant-like. [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools Many people seem to prefer this latter iteration.]]
** Ivy went from a StrawFeminist to an EcoTerrorist.
* {{Foil}}: Was made to be a replacement for ''ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}'' and has become an antithesis to her in many ways. Catwoman is an animal lover mostly depicted in a skin-tight black outfit, Poison Ivy is a plant lover mostly known for wearing revealing green outfits. Catwoman is a thief who does her own fighting, complete with a whip for her weapon, while Poison Ivy is an eco-terrorist who does little fighting on her own and prefers using her plants do her fighting for her. Catwoman doesn't harm innocents while Poison Ivy has no qualms, though both have an affection for children. Both also share an interest in Batman; Catwoman greatly admires him and works with him, becoming one of the two women he loves and close enough to learn his true identity, while Poison Ivy varies from just having a sexual attraction to possibly being in love with him despite being more willing to harm or kill him if need be, and while Batman has shown some level of sympathy for her, he does not often return her affections.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: A downplayed, villainous example. She does love all plants, and in most incarnations is an AnimalLover as well. Unfortunately, she regards all humans (except for Harley Quinn and ''possibly'' Catwoman) to be [[MisanthropeSupreme worthless scum deserving of death.]]
* FullFrontalAssault: She tends to fight in the nude, often to underscore how alien her thinking is.
* FungiArePlants: The titular character has occasionally controlled fungi with her GreenThumb, despite her powers explicitly drawing from the Green. In DC lore, this is the mystical force with domain over plants, while fungi fall under the domain of the Grey, a different being.
* GaiasVengeance: She sees herself as this and claims to be carrying out the will of MotherNature (or to embody Mother Nature herself). How much of this is true and how much is delusion is up to your interpretation.
* GardenOfEvil: She tends to constantly be making these for bases of operations, which is only logical.
* GardenGarment: She's usually wearing leaves and flowers.
* GlassCannon: Ivy relies mostly on her plants when it comes to physical fights and isn't a very effective hand-to-hand combatant against more highly-trained brawlers like Bats himself or even Catwoman. Random {{Mooks}}, though, she tends to be fine fighting.
* {{Glamour}}: She has {{pheromone|s}} abilities which allow her to control other people, usually men. She can also stimulate hormones and pleasure centers by touch, taste and smell, as well as take more direct control via a kiss.
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Pretty much how her relationship with Harley is portrayed. As well as their..."extended" friendship with Catwoman, who is also Bi.
* GoodPowersBadPeople: The current image trope. Ivy's control over plant life would have been fairly benevolent on its own. Too bad she is an insane and genocidal misanthrope.
* GreenThumb: The quintessential plant-themed comic book character. How much power she has [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands constantly changes]], but at her full power, she's been shown capable of summoning, growing and manipulating entire forests to demolish city blocks. Neil Gaiman's origin links her to the Green, the elemental force connecting all plant life, and the idea's seen use since, particularly post-''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}'' with ComicBook/SwampThing back in mainstream continuity.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Later depictions of her tend to state that she ''is'' one, with various explanations as to how she got that way.
* HappinessInMindControl: Her mind-control powers occasionally work this way. It's best seen in The Long Halloween, when Carmine Falcone hires Ivy to put Bruce Wayne under her spell and get him to agree to let Gotham Central Bank to launder Falcone's money (Wayne's on the board of directors and the lone holdout in keeping the gangster at bay). While enchanted, Bruce is essentially a passenger in his own mind, but he feels oddly content and calm while connected to "the Green."
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: She has worked alongside heroes in the past, especially the Comicbook/SuicideSquad and the Comicbook/BirdsOfPrey. However, she always has her own agenda, so trusting her is a bad idea. She also tries to reform every now and again, but it never really sticks.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Her relationship with Catwoman. With Harley, [[LoveInterests you can hold the "heterosexual"]].
* HideYourLesbians: There was massive speculation and FlipFlopOfGod regarding whether or not she and Harley Quinn were lovers as far back as their original GirlsNightOutEpisode in ''The Animated Series''. They were always considered a ''little'' bit too close for [=BFFs=]. In 2015, DC finally admitted to the relationship and has ran with it ever since.
* HopelessSuitor:
** Despite her wishes, she doesn't actually stand much of a chance with Batman. His affections are torn almost completely between ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} and ComicBook/TaliaAlGhul. Poison Ivy, though physically tempting to him, doesn't often blip on his emotional radar.
** Pre New 52 she was this for Harley, as no matter how close the two were Harley would always run back to the Joker when he came calling. Averted Post New 52 although, ironically, their relationship changed to be a open one, in which both girls are sexually available to other people.
* HotScientist: She's very attractive, no matter what depiction the creators go with. Even in a labcoat, she's [[https://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/10/107617/4850121-12104974_735160949922497_490994365_n.jpg quite a looker]].
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** In her "eco-terrorist" depiction. Ivy likes to complain about how she is "forced" to do the things she does because humanity won't listen to reason -- when that same complaint can be leveled against Ivy herself!
** Also, it's kind of hypocritical that a woman who claims to want to protect plants from being exploited does so by... manipulating plants to grow in all manner of unnatural ways.
** Lampshaded in one of her possible pre-fight banter routines against ComicBook/SwampThing in ''VideoGame/{{Injustice 2}}'':
--->'''Swamp Thing:''' You claim to serve the Green.\\
'''Poison Ivy:''' The plants are my babies.\\
'''Swamp Thing:''' [[ArmorPiercingResponse So why treat them as slaves?]]
** For all her disdain of humanity and hating using people, a large part of her motivation boils down to payback for her neglected childhood and heartbreak from her college professor, which is a very personal, selfish and petty driving force.
* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: Ivy is used to her looks and pheromones getting people to do anything he wants. However, both Batman (due to his HeroicWillpower) and Harley (because she's crazy and immune) are exceptions and thus both have Ivy's affections.
* ImAHumanitarian: Actually, despite her typical hatred for humanity, her identification with plants, and the fact she is often depicted as ''enjoying'' feeding human victims to her {{Man Eating Plant}}s, the idea that she might eat human flesh herself has been used very, ''very'' rarely, if it's ever been used at all.
* InSeriesNickname: In comics and other media Harley Quinn always uses nicknames for her, which include Pam, Pammy, Ive ("I've"), but most commonly Red.
* KissOfDeath: ''The'' example of this trope in comics to the point that her kissing someone is always a sure OhCrap moment. Her powerful floral toxins are often secreted from her lips and administered via a kiss. She can use her powers through any skin contact, but enjoys doing it by kiss.
%%* LeotardOfPower: Some depictions have this.
%%* LivingAphrodisiac: One of her powers. She is also the page image.
* LovecraftianSuperpower: As Ivy's powers have increased, she has become steadily less and less human. Nowadays she has more in common with Swamp Thing than Catwoman.
* LoveTriangle: She loathes Comicbook/TheJoker due to his abusive control and manipulation of Harley. She also hates the fact that his control over Harley is so tight that [[{{Gaslighting}} Harley is always unsure of herself or her own sanity]] and will often ditch Ivy to run back to her "Puddin'" in an instant. Ivy still cares for her regardless of this, though. Ironically, this means the two are less likely to try to kill each other than most of Batvillain rivals. Ivy wants Harley to leave Joker, and Ivy killing Joker would just drive Harley away. Joker, for his part, thinks it's funny that Ivy can't really touch him.
* MadScientist: Possesses a disturbed and unhinged love for plants, to the point of preferring them to people.
* MaleGaze: Any drawing or rendition of her is likely to focus on her feminine body parts first and foremost.
* MamaBear: Towards the orphans she looked after, as well as her plants, and Harley when the Joker's involved.
* ManEatingPlant: She specializes in siccing these on her enemies. Darker portrayals of the character tend to enjoy using these to "dispose" of people she's become bored with -- something that came back to bite her when the combined pain and anguish of one plant's victims mutated it into the vengeance-seeking Harvest.
* MasterPoisoner: Her main form of attack; it helps that her body makes it on its own, though she can make it in a lab just as well.
* MenAreTheExpendableGender: InUniverse, this is often a key part of her ''modus operandi'', and she has a long history of turning men into her thralls or even into mutated pawns only to dispose of them casually once they have [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness Outlived Their Usefulness]].
* MindManipulation: In addition to her {{Glamour}} powers, she can flat out control a person if she manages to kiss them or induce some other means of control into their system. Not even someone who is strong in will and body like Batman, or flat out immune to poisons, like Comicbook/{{Superman}}, can resist her control.
* MisanthropeSupreme: In many of her depictions, she despises the human race and sees them as a cancer that must be removed so that plants can thrive.
* MoralityPet: Her relationship with Harley is a deconstruction of this trope. Both she and Harley are villains, so neither of them are all that "moral" to begin with. However, Ivy will try and do good when it's for Harley's sake and vice-versa. Further, Ivy tries to help break the abusive control The Joker has over Harley, and Harley tries to convince "Red" that not all humans are so bad. At the same time, Ivy can be controlling and upset with Harley (though not to the abusive extent like the Joker does).
* MoralPragmatist: [[DependingOnTheWriter When portrayed as]] a WellIntentionedExtremist, she typically sides with whomever is most willing/able to help her goals to protect endangered plant and animal life from human neglect and greed. In her 2016 series, she tries to reform and return to being a scientist since the academic community is more than willing to throw money and resources at her project because [[JustThinkOfThePotential of the huge potential it possesses]].
** Averted when it comes to the Joker. Ivy has no problems killing the Joker in theory, it's just that it'd hurt Harley, too.
* MostCommonSuperPower: Her buxom breasts are portrayed as D-cup sized.
* MsFanservice: One of comics' major examples of the trope, and the single best example in all of the Bat-books. Ivy is a very beautiful woman who has a very voluptuous yet athletic body, impressive hour glass figure, buxom breasts, toned broad shoulders, and long toned yet shapely legs. She tends not to wear anything, other than [[GardenGarment leaves]] and vines (along with sexy outfits that she wears with green tights). In the New 52, she got a form-fitting outfit, but even that just amounts to plant spores and leaves hugging up on her body, though she went back to her normal green bathing suit-like outfit. Even when in battle, she usually speaks in a sultry tone, uses sexual innuendos, and takes stock Playboy Playmate poses while her plants fight for her.
* NeverBeHurtAgain: Some portrayals of her emphasize this motivation. She got mutated when she fell for a guy PlayingWithSyringes; now she is obsessed with controlling men.
* {{Nerd}}: Okay... she may be evil, but let's take a moment to really think about her.
* NotGoodWithPeople: By which we mean that she cares little for their lives, with exceptions (like Harley).
** Even before becoming a villainess, she was this, being pretty shy and demure.
* PetTheDog: Will occasionally demonstrate that she's not ''all'' bad, compared to the usual psychopaths Batman deals with. Most notably during the ''No Man's Land'' arc, where she took in several dozen orphans despite her grudge against humanity. Very DependingOnTheWriter, though.
* {{Pheromones}}: Poison Ivy uses these to get men to do her bidding. Depending on the Writer, it can also work on women as well, especially if that woman is a lesbian or bisexual. Since she's a scientist, however, she's able to upgrade her abilities or develop new pheromones that compel a person regardless of sexual orientation or target. For instance, one concoction causes two men (who were previously shown to be attracted to women) to start making out with each other uncontrollably. Said pheromones are usually [[RuleOfPerception represented as green or pink squiggly lines, as the reader obviously can't smell them]], although whether the people in-universe can see them or if it's just for the reader's benefit is often unclear.
* PlantPerson: '''The''' example, in comics. Often, her skin is colored green and she protrudes leaves to cement the fact.
* PoisonousPerson: Her body (and the plants she controls) typically utilize a wide variety of poisons and toxins which can kill in anywhere from seconds to days.
* {{Polyamory}}: DC describes her relationship with Harley as "girlfriends, without the baggage of jealousy".
* PowersDoTheFighting: Ivy isn't a physical fighter. The only powers she directly uses against a person are her good looks, pheromones, and poisons against an enemy. Occasionally, she also can grow CombatTentacles in the form of plant vines. Aside from that, her {{Man Eating Plant}}s always do the dirty work for her while she stands around looking hot.
* RecliningReigner: Typically reclines or {{slouch|OfVillainy}}es on some type of throne or seat while her plant minions and {{Slave Mook}}s carry out her commands.
* RedheadInGreen: Her primary clothing is green, and her skin color has also become green in some depictions, but she is always a red head.
* RetCanon: Her relationship with Harley started in the ''DCAU'' (specifically in ''Batman: The Animated Series'') but became canon the moment Harley joined the comics universe.
** Ivy was originally just a [[ClarkesThirdLaw sufficiently advanced botanist.]] These days, she's probably a plant elemental bound in human flesh.
** Additionally, she was mainly played as TheSociopath in the comics until the animated series gave her much more pronounced ecoterrorist motives.
* ScrewTheRulesImBeautiful: Tends to use her looks to do whatever she wants. In fact, this was her main gimmick (aside from plants) when she first debuted.
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Ivy does not give a crap about whether or not anyone approves of her sexiness or sexuality. She wears as much or as little clothing as she cares to. In fact, when she gains a new job as a scientist in her 2016 series, she makes it clear that the only reason she dresses professionally is so that she can prove she's serious about her fresh start. The second she gets [[HomeNudist home]], off her clothes go.
* ShesGotLegs: She has very long toned yet shapely legs and highlights them through her original costumes (that she wore her trademark green tights with), whenever she is not wearing any clothes, and her skin tight outfit.
* ShrinkingViolet: Pre-transformation.
* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: It's probably the chlorophyll running through her veins.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Surprisingly why she is drawn to Batman. Besides being able to resist her {{Pheromones}} through his beyond human willpower, there's the fact Batman lives up to be a paragon of virtue, which draws Ivy in.
* TheSociopath: This is sometimes presented as more along the lines of wishful thinking on her part since she is shown to have the ability to genuinely care for others, such as the orphans she cared for, Harley, and her plants.
** However, this was her original characterization, running all the way through her appearances in ''Comicbook/SuicideSquad''.
* SoLastSeason: She went from an ordinary woman with a plant fetish and a poisonous kiss to, for all intents and purposes, an immortal nature goddess.
* SouthernBelle: Her earliest appearances depicted her as having a very thick Southern accent.
* StrawFeminist: She was initially created to be DC's answer to feminism back in 1966. She's a powerful, capable, intelligent and independent woman and refuses to play second-fiddle to a male partner. However, she is also a man-hating, tree-hugging (literally), sexually-manipulative villain who doesn't just not need men, but flat out wants them all dead. That's before we get into her lesbian relationship with Harley and passive-aggressive relationship with Batman.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: PlayedWith. She doesn't wear clothes (usually), but when she does, she molds them into bikinis, leotards, lingerie, and other fetishwear. However, she also doesn't [[PowersDoTheFighting do physical fighting]], so she can technically look however she wants while she goes about her business. Also, practical battle clothing would ''arguably'' take away from her seduction abilities.
* SuddenNameChange: While her civilian name was initially established as Pamela Isley, Gerry Conway inexplicably gave her the name of "Lillian Rose" when he wrote her origin in World's Finest #252. Post-Crisis, Neil Gaiman would re-establish the Pamela Isley name (along with overhauling her origin).
* TautologicalTemplar: This is her ongoing problem with convincing people to be more eco-friendly during her "enviro-terrorist" depictions; Pamela is either adamant that people adopt more "Green" technologies '''right now''' and uses violence to try and terrorize people into submitting, makes demands that are so unfairly slanted against human life that there's no way anybody can take her seriously, or both.
** A perfect example of the "makes unreasonable demands" aspect comes from ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'', where she responds to Bruce Wayne pointing out that her suggestions to have Wayne Enterprises cease "toxifying the environment" by abandoning the use of diesel fuel and coolants would cause the deaths of millions of people due to cold and hunger alone by bemusedly declaring that those deaths would be "acceptable losses" to protect the planet.
* TheTease: She has no problem leading men on, but for the most part she's not actually interested in granting their desires.
* TokenEvilTeammate: During her stint on the Birds Of Prey. Also plays this role in storylines where she teams up with Harley and/or Catwoman - of the three of them, Ivy is always the most overtly sadistic.
* TokenSuper: She serves as this for the ''ComicBook/GothamCitySirens'', possessing her trademark GreenThumb powers while Harley Quinn and Catwoman have no superpowers.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The Girly-girl to Harley's Tomboy. Harley is more physically capable, more of a BloodKnight, and much more aggressive. Ivy is much more feminine, passive-aggressive, demure, and can't do much fighting without her abilities.
* TortureTechnician: Almost as much as the Scarecrow, she's a dedicated misanthrope who loves making people suffer.
* TrulySingleParent: Some storylines demonstrate her ability to engineer fully functioning plant "children" that can almost pass as real humans. They rarely last long, however. In "No Man's Land", she creates a whole species of mutant plant people called "Feraks" and "Cycle of Life and Death" focuses on a group of children she grows and tries to protect.
* UnholyMatrimony:
** With Clayface briefly in the New 52. It was just a ploy to keep him under her sway, and lasted almost no time at all.
** More sincerely and stably in the New 52 and Rebirth era with Harley Quinn -- her genuine love for Harley is one of the most positive things about her.
* TheVamp: The current trope image. Started out as this, but eventually became an eco-terrorist. She still has shades of it though.
* VillainessesWantHeroes: Ivy considers Batman "the perfect man" and wants him for herself. She also has a twisted interpretation of their relationship as Batman being her KnightInShiningArmor while she's locked up in Arkham, and at times has been frustrated and confused by why he would ever reject an offer to be with her forever. Going so far in a story to cause havoc on Gotham from her cell in Arkham, and relenting only when Batman visits and kisses her.
* VillainousBSOD: When she accidentally poisoned one of the children under her care in ''No Man's Land''. It ultimately causes her to give them up.
* VillainousCrush: DependingOnTheWriter, she could have an attraction to Batman that ranges from either a minor attraction to either lust or genuine affection. While not at the same level as his [[DatingCatwoman relationship with Catwoman]] Batman could return her affection in some way, also depending on the writer.
** In one such issue, she mistook his saving her from death as proof he loves her, though he responds that she doesn't know the meaning of love.
* VillainousFriendship: Her friendship with Harley is genuine on both sides. She also has shown to be on friendly terms with Catwoman, though not nearly to the extant she is with Harley.
* VillainsOutShopping: She is often depicted just going out shopping or having fun with her girlfriend, Harley.
* VitriolicBestBuds: She may be best friends with Harley, but she sometimes shows a very low opinion of her intelligence and common sense. This is played more seriously as this is one of the factors that keep Ivy and Harley from having a long-lasting relationship.
* WeCanRuleTogether: More with Batman than Harley. Ivy really wants Batman to stay with her forever in her garden paradise of pleasure, and has actually suggested at least once that she'd give up crime forever if he did it.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: She wants to protect plants from the humans that abuse and massacre them. She'll go to any extremes to do this, and sees human life as meaningless by comparison.
* WesternTerrorists: Of the "Fanatical Eco-Terrorist" sub-variety. Her fixation on the health of plants often leads to her committing atrocities to protect nature at the expense of human life.
* WhenTreesAttack: She can summon or grow entire trees to attack her enemies, and she can even get them to walk around.
* WickedCultured: As part of her FemmeFatale allure, she can behave like a sophisticated and charming lady when she wants.
* WomanScorned: Her original motivation was that only Batman had resisted her seductions, and that she hated him for it.
* WomenPreferStrongMen: PlayedWith. Ivy has definitely shown interest in, say, Batman or Comicbook/{{Nightwing}}, whom she considers attractive and not that bad compared to most men. Further, she tends to go for the biggest, strongest man around when looking for a new SlaveMook, such as the times she immediately planted a kiss on the lips of Franchise/{{Superman}} and then over in ''[=WF3:=] World's Finest Three'' Comicbook/{{Superboy}} when she faces off against him and ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}}. How actually interested she is in them sexually is debatable, however.
* {{Yandere}}: Countless cheesy analogies towards flowers (especially roses) have been made about this aspect of her personality.
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[[caption-width-right:350:And you thought "Going Green" would be lame.]]
Poison Ivy (real name [[ThemedAliases Pamela Isley]]) is a Creator/DCComics supervillainess known to be one of Franchise/{{Batman}}'s main adversaries.
Poison Ivy was created by Creator/BobKanigher in 1966 as a villainous {{Expy}} of Creator/BettiePage, as well as a replacement villainess for Comicbook/{{Catwoman}}, who had graduated from an AntiVillain into an AntiHero. She was also meant to be DC's take on the then-recent feminist movement, as she would be an independent villainess not tied to any other villain as their [[TheBaroness Baroness]] or [[UnholyMatrimony lover]]. At her core, however, she is a FemmeFatale and one of the deadliest in all of comics.
Her most consistent origin is that of a botanist named Dr. Pamela Isley who has an obsession/affinity for plants. Following some type of lab accident (which may or may not have been caused by corrupt supervisors/backers), she becomes the eco-terrorist known as Poison Ivy. Though she started out as a BadassNormal only using plants as her gimmick, due to several [[TookALevelInBadass levels taken in badass]] and many {{Retcon}}s, she has gained more and more powerful GreenThumb abilities over time, as well as {{pheromone|s}} [[{{Glamour}} powers]] and [[PoisonousPerson various forms of poisons and toxins]] (usually delivered by {{kiss|OfDeath}}es). She is also sometimes revealed to be [[PlantPerson half plant]] herself. This makes her one of the rare Batman villains that has legitimate superpowers.
She, like Catwoman before her, has become more and more sympathetically portrayed as time goes on. Sometimes, Ivy's [[DatingCatwoman a love interest for Batman]] too, with several stories implying something deeper between them. On the other hand, she has gained a regular {{Love Interest|s}} in ComicBook/HarleyQuinn, whose main portrayal is as the Joker's girlfriend and sidekick. In 2015, [[WordOfGod DC]] editorial [[WordOfGay confirmed that]] Ivy and Quinn are sexual partners, making them one of the most prominent same-sex couples in comics. Both women have also become affiliated with the ComicBook/SuicideSquad and the ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey, making them very ambiguous {{Heel Face Revolving Door}}s.
In 2015, Poison Ivy received her first-ever self-titled comic, in the form of a limited series called ''Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death'', which deals with a reformed Ivy trying her best to make a serious career as a scientist again.
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!!Tropes associated with Poison Ivy:
* AbusiveParents: As of New 52 and on, Ivy's father was extremely abusive towards her mother. He always bought her flowers as an apology. Of course, he eventually killed Ivy's mother and buried her in their beloved garden. Naturally, about a decade later, Ivy killed him.
* AdaptationalHeroism: She gets hit with this in a few continuities:
** ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'': She's portrayed as being more focused on protecting her plants than going on eco-terrorist sprees, and refuses to team up with other villains. In ''Arkham Knight'', [[spoiler:she even helps Batman save Gotham from Scarecrow's Cloudburst, [[HeroicSacrifice though doing so costs her her life]].]]
** ''WebAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls'': She's portrayed as an adorably dorky straight-up superhero.
** ''ComicBook/DCComicsBombshells'': She only ever uses her powers against the German hierarchy.
* AdaptationalVillainy: On the flip side, she gets this treatment in ''VideoGame/Injustice2''; she's a lot colder and more aloof to Harley than usual, [[spoiler: and even almost kills her with her pheromones without a hint of remorse.]] Additionally, her dialogue with ComicBook/SwampThing implies that [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist she isn't even interested in protecting the Green - she just wants its power all to herself]].
* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: She is DC's answer to Marvel's ComicBook/TheEnchantress as they are both FemmeFatale supervillains with seduction based mind-controlling powers that frequently flirt with their [[Franchise/{{Batman}} respective]] [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor heroes]].
** Hilariously enough, Marvel then made an equivalent to ''her'' in their popular ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' series, named Klara Prast. As Klara is only in her preteens, she doesn't copy the sexual nature of Poison Ivy. Instead, she has Poison Ivy's power over plants.
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Sometimes has green skin, especially the versions of her that are part-plant.
* AntagonistAbilities: Ivy is typically a pushover if you can actually get in a solid blow on her. The problem is getting past her plant mooks, resisting her {{Glamour}} and MindManipulation powers, and not letting her poison you. If you can get past all of that, she can't put up much of a fight. But that's a ''big "if"''.
* AntiVillain: She wants to protect plant life and stop humans from polluting the world and deforesting it. The problem is that she views a plant's life as infinitely more valuable than any number of humans' lives (even if it's just a tiny leaf, since that leaf can sprout into a new plant).
* BadassBookworm: She's a very talented and knowledgeable botanist and chemist, but she's also one of the most deadly people on the planet, with powerful control over nature.
* BettyAndVeronica:
** She is the Veronica to Catwoman's Betty and Batman's Archie. Although Catwoman is a criminal also, she's far more sympathetic and has more nice/heroic qualities.
** She is the Betty to Joker's Veronica and Harley's Archie. Compared to the Joker, she is far more loving and affectionate toward Harley. Granted, it's not saying much and she isn't above her own problems.
* BewareTheQuietOnes: Somewhat. Back when she was just Pamela, she was actually pretty shy and demure with the implications of having controlling parents. Then her accident happens, (sometimes because of a college professor, The Floronic Man) and she finally vents out her problems and issues.
* BisexualLoveTriangle: Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn's relationship has primarily been this way since they met in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' (though DC [[HideYourLesbians kept it as subtexty as possible]] for years). Harley is head-over-heels for her boyfriend, ComicBook/TheJoker. The Joker is ''extremely'' [[DomesticAbuse physically and emotionally abusive]] but Harley always goes back to him in the end. Ivy on the other hand has feelings for Harley and the two have a much more stable relationship, but DependingOnTheWriter Harley is either oblivious, knows of Ivy's feeling but ignores her, or has flings with Ivy when she and the Joker are separate. Starting with the ComicBook/New52 reboot, DC revamped Ivy and Harley's relationship to be more obviously romantic and requited. They're either FriendsWithBenefits or a non-monogamous couple.
* BlackEyesOfEvil: Her New 52 design made her eyes entirely black, save for her glowing green irises.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Redhead to Harley's Blonde and Catwoman's Brunette in the ''Comicbook/GothamCitySirens''.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: What keeps her from being a purely evil character despite her occasional state as a MisanthropeSupreme is her completely alien sense of right and wrong. In short, she considers crimes in terms of their effect on nature, starting with plant life, then animals, with humanity on the lower scale.
** On the other hand, she targets men through seduction before killing them which doesn't advance her goals and seems to be more her way of venting out at being hurt by people (especially Jason Woodrue.)
* BodyOfBodies: Harvest is a creature of sentient vegetation used by Poison Ivy. It was created when a carnivorous plant that Poison Ivy fed her victims to absorbed the personas of the people it ate. In this form it was able to rapidly regenerate and transform itself into any plant-life it chose to, and would manifest itself with the faces and other physical characteristics of Ivy's victims across its surface. Harvest attempted to take revenge on Poison Ivy by attacking her inside Arkham Asylum although Batman intervened and protected her. Harvest was seemingly destroyed in this battle although Batman remarked that its regenerative abilities meant it could come back and attack again at any time
* BoobsAndButtPose: Ivy poses in one of these in almost every appearance. Partly justified in that she isn't completely human and that her powers work by seduction.
* BreakoutVillain: Became one of Batman's most recognized foes since the ''90's'' thanks to ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', even getting featured as a main character in ''Comicbook/GothamCitySirens''. Even if Poison Ivy is a Batman villain, she has become something of a recurring villain in the grand universe like ComicBook/BlackAdam, although she rarely is a BigBad.
* CharmPerson: Ivy's pheromones tend to work like this. She can also use more direct MindControl through toxic kisses (when they don't just kill outright). The scope and effects of these powers are DependingOnTheWriter.
* ClarkKenting: Downplayed in ''Comicbook/GothamCitySirens'', when Ivy goes to work for a lab the only difference between her disguise and her usual look is a pair of glasses and a lab coat. What she does do is use her powers to revert back to her original skin colour, instead of the current green.
* CreateYourOwnVillain:
** A rare example of a villain creating another, hostile-to-them, villain. Ivy herself is usually the creation of a pre-mutation Floronic Man, a minor DC villain with ComicBook/SwampThing style powers. However, the Floronic Man (Jason Woodrue) was not villain when he experimented on Ivy.
** One post-90s storyline involves a ManEatingPlant she overused [[ForTheEvulz for assorted petty reasons]] developing sapience and becoming Harvest, which yearns to kill her.
* CulturedBadass: She is quite versed in being sophisticated and lady-like. However, she mostly uses it as part of her FemmeFatale allure. She also drops obscure botanical knowledge at the drop of a hat, often in the context of explaining that YouAreAlreadyDead to her poisoning victims.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: In her "environmentalist" depiction, Poison Ivy's powers would allow her to influence people far more effectively and acceptably if she'd use them in a sensible fashion. It's generally justified that she fails to realize this because she's a TautologicalTemplar, who either doesn't understand that non-violence can be ''more'' effective at convincing people than violence or simply her demands are too unreasonable to be taken seriously.
** Averting this is at least attempted in "Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death", where she tries to market more legitimate eco-friendly creations of hers as opposed to her traditional methods of just running around turning people into plants or feeding them to mutant carnivorous trees.
** A possible aversion appears in another example: when Harley pointed out that some of her plants (such as vines as strong--or stronger--than steel beams or organisms that produce light) could help humanity, Ivy bitterly responded: "I don't do that, Harley. I don't save people. I'm poison, remember?" It's implied that given the opportunity, she ''would'' like to use her plants for good (or at least legal monetary gain), but [[ThenLetMeBeEvil people don't expect her to, so she doesn't]].
* DarkChick: As said below, she isn't much of a fighter but that doesn't make her any less dangerous.
* DeadpanSnarker: Being around Harley so much gives her a ''lot'' of practice.
* DefrostingIceQueen:
** Upon meeting Harley, Ivy [[CharacterDevelopment softened somewhat towards humans]], but still manages to be [[{{Tsundere}} quite strict]] whenever Harley screws up her plans. [[CuteClumsyGirl Which is frequently]].
** In the New 52 ''Comicbook/BirdsOfPrey'', she is completely unapologetic for her murderous crimes in the past, but is willing to assist Black Canary and company and work as a team. Even if she does mutter complaints along the way.
* DependingOnTheArtist:
** Mainly how clearly she is a PlantPerson. Some artists will show her as someone with basically human skin and hair and green clothes who could easily blend into a crowd; others will have with her obviously green skin and vines growing out of her body. Still others take a more subtle UncannyValley approach, with her appearing mostly human until you look closer and notice the flower patterns all over her.
** Tim Sale's portrayal of Ivy is by far one of the most extreme depictions, giving her a hair style that's literally a giant bush growing out of her head. It gives the impression of her emerging out of a nearby forest or jungle.
** Artist P. Craig Russell illustrated Ivy looking rather demure and somewhat mousy in the two part "Hot House" story arc set after her original arrest in the Post-Crisis era, something virtually no other artist has done barring whenever Ivy's disguised. However, under the effects of her pheromones Batman sees Ivy as more of a PlantPerson, ethereal with green skin and leaves and plants in her hair. This offers the interpretation Ivy's jaw dropping beauty is really the effect of her pheromones altering the way everyone perceives her.
* DependingOnTheWriter:
** Sometimes she is an extremist eco-terrorist bent on protecting Mother Earth from the ravages of humanity; originally and just as often, she is just a glorified superhuman crook and seductress in it for the money. She's even occasionally shown concern for "innocent" human life, children especially, most famously in a particular issue of ''ComicBook/GothamCentral'', and in ''ComicBook/GothamCitySirens''. Some more recent portrayals also verge on HumanoidAbomination, depicting her as a being who, while mostly human in appearance, is of completely alien and inhuman morality and thinks more like a sentient plant with a side of HiveQueen.
** Of all people, Paul Dini once wrote Ivy straight up cruel and unsympathetic. The story in question depicts her seducing random people (both men and women) off the street, taking them to her lair and feeding them to her carnivorous plants. On top of that, it shows Ivy enjoying and mocking the lengthy suffering of the victims being slowly digested by the plants. Batman was so disgusted by her actions that, for a brief moment, he entertained the idea of ending Pamela's life.
** Is she insane because of a lonely, neglected childhood? Was her turn to villainy the result of chemical and biological alterations affecting her mental stability or cognitive processes, with serious psychological consequences? is she driven by her history of being betrayed by men? Or is it some combination of all of the above plus some [[IncrediblyLamePun garden-variety]] sociopathy? Notably, Creator/NeilGaiman gave her an origin that hints at all of these possibilities, but ultimately suggests the answer is unknowable. Later writers have chosen to emphasize particular angles or thrown in their own ideas.
** Gail Simone's second ''Batgirl'' Annual in the New 52 era offered the idea of Ivy suffering from an extreme form of Seasonal Affective Disorder, explaining her changes in personality and mood a result of the changing seasons.
* DiscontinuityNod: When her Post-Crisis origin was first established, Creator/NeilGaiman briefly mentioned her original backstory involving Marc [=LeGrand=] and the Egyptian herbs. Ivy laughed this off explaining that was all a lie she came up with and was surprised anyone actually believed it.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Will straight up murder all of humanity because they mistreat plants.
* DoesNotLikeMen: As part of her StrawFeminist motif, Ivy is typically portrayed as being disgusted by men. She finds them stupid, smelly, grotesque, ill-mannered, and easy to manipulate. The sole exceptions are Batman and a few other select males whom she feels aren't ''all'' bad. This depiction is [[SocietyMarchesOn falling by the wayside]] in favor of her BlueAndOrangeMorality covering plants. In all of her origin stories, a man royally screwed her over. Silver Age? Her lover and partner in crime betrays her and tries to poison her. Post ''Infinite Crisis''? Her college professor and crush, Jason Woodrue (later the Floronic Man) experimented on her and turned her into an abomination against her will. New 52 dad? Straight up murdered her mom and buried her in their garden.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Some versions of her, such as the one from ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'' and the ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries''.
* DruggedLipstick: Most common explanation for her deadly or mind controlling kiss.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Originally, Ivy was a much more obvious {{Expy}} of Bettie Page, and even had a southern accent much like Page's. She also didn't have any real plant powers and was just a criminal with a serious plant motif going on.
* EarthyBarefootCharacter: As part of her nature gimmick, she is usually shoeless, even when not naked.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
** Usually, her plants are her darlings and she'll even try to sacrifice her own life to save theirs. Later in her publication, she started treating Harley Quinn this way as well, as perhaps the only human being Ivy truly loves.
** Starting around ''ComicBook/BatmanNoMansLand'', Ivy has also taken a protective stance toward children.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: DependingOnTheWriter, she won't harm the sick, elderly or children. More consistently, however, she won't use any villainous methods that do more harm to the environment than necessary.
* EnemyMine: In some iterations she will temporarily assist heroes against villains who threaten greater ecological damage than she attributes to normal humanity.
* EvilSmellsBad: Inverted: she is often described as having a pleasant floral smell, and her MindControl powers usually involve good-smelling pheromones and fragrances.
* EvilRedhead: An evil woman with red hair.
* EvilVersusEvil: Thanks to Having Standards and Loved Ones, she's taken on corrupt, murdering cops, polluting corporations, and (often on behalf of Harley) even the Joker himself.
* {{Expy}}: Of Creator/BettiePage, which was more evident in her original appearances but still remains with her status as a ShamelessFanserviceGirl.
* FemmeFatale: With greater emphasis on the Fatale. Ivy doesn't like Man -- and we mean that in regards to both the species ''and'' the gender. Thus, any sexual enticement or favors she offers are typically just [[TheTease manipulations]] to get a hapless dupe under her control. However, there ''are'' some men she has found worth her interest -- primarily Batman, but occasionally other men who have proven to be sympathetic to her goals or more interesting than others.
* {{Flanderization}}:
** Ivy went from a normal woman who just used plants as a gimmick out of insanity to a half-plant woman with actual power over plants and who, DependingOnTheArtist, even looked plant-like. [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools Many people seem to prefer this latter iteration.]]
** Ivy went from a StrawFeminist to an EcoTerrorist.
* {{Foil}}: Was made to be a replacement for ''ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}'' and has become an antithesis to her in many ways. Catwoman is an animal lover mostly depicted in a skin-tight black outfit, Poison Ivy is a plant lover mostly known for wearing revealing green outfits. Catwoman is a thief who does her own fighting, complete with a whip for her weapon, while Poison Ivy is an eco-terrorist who does little fighting on her own and prefers using her plants do her fighting for her. Catwoman doesn't harm innocents while Poison Ivy has no qualms, though both have an affection for children. Both also share an interest in Batman; Catwoman greatly admires him and works with him, becoming one of the two women he loves and close enough to learn his true identity, while Poison Ivy varies from just having a sexual attraction to possibly being in love with him despite being more willing to harm or kill him if need be, and while Batman has shown some level of sympathy for her, he does not often return her affections.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: A downplayed, villainous example. She does love all plants, and in most incarnations is an AnimalLover as well. Unfortunately, she regards all humans (except for Harley Quinn and ''possibly'' Catwoman) to be [[MisanthropeSupreme worthless scum deserving of death.]]
* FullFrontalAssault: She tends to fight in the nude, often to underscore how alien her thinking is.
* FungiArePlants: The titular character has occasionally controlled fungi with her GreenThumb, despite her powers explicitly drawing from the Green. In DC lore, this is the mystical force with domain over plants, while fungi fall under the domain of the Grey, a different being.
* GaiasVengeance: She sees herself as this and claims to be carrying out the will of MotherNature (or to embody Mother Nature herself). How much of this is true and how much is delusion is up to your interpretation.
* GardenOfEvil: She tends to constantly be making these for bases of operations, which is only logical.
* GardenGarment: She's usually wearing leaves and flowers.
* GlassCannon: Ivy relies mostly on her plants when it comes to physical fights and isn't a very effective hand-to-hand combatant against more highly-trained brawlers like Bats himself or even Catwoman. Random {{Mooks}}, though, she tends to be fine fighting.
* {{Glamour}}: She has {{pheromone|s}} abilities which allow her to control other people, usually men. She can also stimulate hormones and pleasure centers by touch, taste and smell, as well as take more direct control via a kiss.
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Pretty much how her relationship with Harley is portrayed. As well as their..."extended" friendship with Catwoman, who is also Bi.
* GoodPowersBadPeople: The current image trope. Ivy's control over plant life would have been fairly benevolent on its own. Too bad she is an insane and genocidal misanthrope.
* GreenThumb: The quintessential plant-themed comic book character. How much power she has [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands constantly changes]], but at her full power, she's been shown capable of summoning, growing and manipulating entire forests to demolish city blocks. Neil Gaiman's origin links her to the Green, the elemental force connecting all plant life, and the idea's seen use since, particularly post-''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}'' with ComicBook/SwampThing back in mainstream continuity.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Later depictions of her tend to state that she ''is'' one, with various explanations as to how she got that way.
* HappinessInMindControl: Her mind-control powers occasionally work this way. It's best seen in The Long Halloween, when Carmine Falcone hires Ivy to put Bruce Wayne under her spell and get him to agree to let Gotham Central Bank to launder Falcone's money (Wayne's on the board of directors and the lone holdout in keeping the gangster at bay). While enchanted, Bruce is essentially a passenger in his own mind, but he feels oddly content and calm while connected to "the Green."
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: She has worked alongside heroes in the past, especially the Comicbook/SuicideSquad and the Comicbook/BirdsOfPrey. However, she always has her own agenda, so trusting her is a bad idea. She also tries to reform every now and again, but it never really sticks.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Her relationship with Catwoman. With Harley, [[LoveInterests you can hold the "heterosexual"]].
* HideYourLesbians: There was massive speculation and FlipFlopOfGod regarding whether or not she and Harley Quinn were lovers as far back as their original GirlsNightOutEpisode in ''The Animated Series''. They were always considered a ''little'' bit too close for [=BFFs=]. In 2015, DC finally admitted to the relationship and has ran with it ever since.
* HopelessSuitor:
** Despite her wishes, she doesn't actually stand much of a chance with Batman. His affections are torn almost completely between ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} and ComicBook/TaliaAlGhul. Poison Ivy, though physically tempting to him, doesn't often blip on his emotional radar.
** Pre New 52 she was this for Harley, as no matter how close the two were Harley would always run back to the Joker when he came calling. Averted Post New 52 although, ironically, their relationship changed to be a open one, in which both girls are sexually available to other people.
* HotScientist: She's very attractive, no matter what depiction the creators go with. Even in a labcoat, she's [[https://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/10/107617/4850121-12104974_735160949922497_490994365_n.jpg quite a looker]].
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** In her "eco-terrorist" depiction. Ivy likes to complain about how she is "forced" to do the things she does because humanity won't listen to reason -- when that same complaint can be leveled against Ivy herself!
** Also, it's kind of hypocritical that a woman who claims to want to protect plants from being exploited does so by... manipulating plants to grow in all manner of unnatural ways.
** Lampshaded in one of her possible pre-fight banter routines against ComicBook/SwampThing in ''VideoGame/{{Injustice 2}}'':
--->'''Swamp Thing:''' You claim to serve the Green.\\
'''Poison Ivy:''' The plants are my babies.\\
'''Swamp Thing:''' [[ArmorPiercingResponse So why treat them as slaves?]]
** For all her disdain of humanity and hating using people, a large part of her motivation boils down to payback for her neglected childhood and heartbreak from her college professor, which is a very personal, selfish and petty driving force.
* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: Ivy is used to her looks and pheromones getting people to do anything he wants. However, both Batman (due to his HeroicWillpower) and Harley (because she's crazy and immune) are exceptions and thus both have Ivy's affections.
* ImAHumanitarian: Actually, despite her typical hatred for humanity, her identification with plants, and the fact she is often depicted as ''enjoying'' feeding human victims to her {{Man Eating Plant}}s, the idea that she might eat human flesh herself has been used very, ''very'' rarely, if it's ever been used at all.
* InSeriesNickname: In comics and other media Harley Quinn always uses nicknames for her, which include Pam, Pammy, Ive ("I've"), but most commonly Red.
* KissOfDeath: ''The'' example of this trope in comics to the point that her kissing someone is always a sure OhCrap moment. Her powerful floral toxins are often secreted from her lips and administered via a kiss. She can use her powers through any skin contact, but enjoys doing it by kiss.
%%* LeotardOfPower: Some depictions have this.
%%* LivingAphrodisiac: One of her powers. She is also the page image.
* LovecraftianSuperpower: As Ivy's powers have increased, she has become steadily less and less human. Nowadays she has more in common with Swamp Thing than Catwoman.
* LoveTriangle: She loathes Comicbook/TheJoker due to his abusive control and manipulation of Harley. She also hates the fact that his control over Harley is so tight that [[{{Gaslighting}} Harley is always unsure of herself or her own sanity]] and will often ditch Ivy to run back to her "Puddin'" in an instant. Ivy still cares for her regardless of this, though. Ironically, this means the two are less likely to try to kill each other than most of Batvillain rivals. Ivy wants Harley to leave Joker, and Ivy killing Joker would just drive Harley away. Joker, for his part, thinks it's funny that Ivy can't really touch him.
* MadScientist: Possesses a disturbed and unhinged love for plants, to the point of preferring them to people.
* MaleGaze: Any drawing or rendition of her is likely to focus on her feminine body parts first and foremost.
* MamaBear: Towards the orphans she looked after, as well as her plants, and Harley when the Joker's involved.
* ManEatingPlant: She specializes in siccing these on her enemies. Darker portrayals of the character tend to enjoy using these to "dispose" of people she's become bored with -- something that came back to bite her when the combined pain and anguish of one plant's victims mutated it into the vengeance-seeking Harvest.
* MasterPoisoner: Her main form of attack; it helps that her body makes it on its own, though she can make it in a lab just as well.
* MenAreTheExpendableGender: InUniverse, this is often a key part of her ''modus operandi'', and she has a long history of turning men into her thralls or even into mutated pawns only to dispose of them casually once they have [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness Outlived Their Usefulness]].
* MindManipulation: In addition to her {{Glamour}} powers, she can flat out control a person if she manages to kiss them or induce some other means of control into their system. Not even someone who is strong in will and body like Batman, or flat out immune to poisons, like Comicbook/{{Superman}}, can resist her control.
* MisanthropeSupreme: In many of her depictions, she despises the human race and sees them as a cancer that must be removed so that plants can thrive.
* MoralityPet: Her relationship with Harley is a deconstruction of this trope. Both she and Harley are villains, so neither of them are all that "moral" to begin with. However, Ivy will try and do good when it's for Harley's sake and vice-versa. Further, Ivy tries to help break the abusive control The Joker has over Harley, and Harley tries to convince "Red" that not all humans are so bad. At the same time, Ivy can be controlling and upset with Harley (though not to the abusive extent like the Joker does).
* MoralPragmatist: [[DependingOnTheWriter When portrayed as]] a WellIntentionedExtremist, she typically sides with whomever is most willing/able to help her goals to protect endangered plant and animal life from human neglect and greed. In her 2016 series, she tries to reform and return to being a scientist since the academic community is more than willing to throw money and resources at her project because [[JustThinkOfThePotential of the huge potential it possesses]].
** Averted when it comes to the Joker. Ivy has no problems killing the Joker in theory, it's just that it'd hurt Harley, too.
* MostCommonSuperPower: Her buxom breasts are portrayed as D-cup sized.
* MsFanservice: One of comics' major examples of the trope, and the single best example in all of the Bat-books. Ivy is a very beautiful woman who has a very voluptuous yet athletic body, impressive hour glass figure, buxom breasts, toned broad shoulders, and long toned yet shapely legs. She tends not to wear anything, other than [[GardenGarment leaves]] and vines (along with sexy outfits that she wears with green tights). In the New 52, she got a form-fitting outfit, but even that just amounts to plant spores and leaves hugging up on her body, though she went back to her normal green bathing suit-like outfit. Even when in battle, she usually speaks in a sultry tone, uses sexual innuendos, and takes stock Playboy Playmate poses while her plants fight for her.
* NeverBeHurtAgain: Some portrayals of her emphasize this motivation. She got mutated when she fell for a guy PlayingWithSyringes; now she is obsessed with controlling men.
* {{Nerd}}: Okay... she may be evil, but let's take a moment to really think about her.
* NotGoodWithPeople: By which we mean that she cares little for their lives, with exceptions (like Harley).
** Even before becoming a villainess, she was this, being pretty shy and demure.
* PetTheDog: Will occasionally demonstrate that she's not ''all'' bad, compared to the usual psychopaths Batman deals with. Most notably during the ''No Man's Land'' arc, where she took in several dozen orphans despite her grudge against humanity. Very DependingOnTheWriter, though.
* {{Pheromones}}: Poison Ivy uses these to get men to do her bidding. Depending on the Writer, it can also work on women as well, especially if that woman is a lesbian or bisexual. Since she's a scientist, however, she's able to upgrade her abilities or develop new pheromones that compel a person regardless of sexual orientation or target. For instance, one concoction causes two men (who were previously shown to be attracted to women) to start making out with each other uncontrollably. Said pheromones are usually [[RuleOfPerception represented as green or pink squiggly lines, as the reader obviously can't smell them]], although whether the people in-universe can see them or if it's just for the reader's benefit is often unclear.
* PlantPerson: '''The''' example, in comics. Often, her skin is colored green and she protrudes leaves to cement the fact.
* PoisonousPerson: Her body (and the plants she controls) typically utilize a wide variety of poisons and toxins which can kill in anywhere from seconds to days.
* {{Polyamory}}: DC describes her relationship with Harley as "girlfriends, without the baggage of jealousy".
* PowersDoTheFighting: Ivy isn't a physical fighter. The only powers she directly uses against a person are her good looks, pheromones, and poisons against an enemy. Occasionally, she also can grow CombatTentacles in the form of plant vines. Aside from that, her {{Man Eating Plant}}s always do the dirty work for her while she stands around looking hot.
* RecliningReigner: Typically reclines or {{slouch|OfVillainy}}es on some type of throne or seat while her plant minions and {{Slave Mook}}s carry out her commands.
* RedheadInGreen: Her primary clothing is green, and her skin color has also become green in some depictions, but she is always a red head.
* RetCanon: Her relationship with Harley started in the ''DCAU'' (specifically in ''Batman: The Animated Series'') but became canon the moment Harley joined the comics universe.
** Ivy was originally just a [[ClarkesThirdLaw sufficiently advanced botanist.]] These days, she's probably a plant elemental bound in human flesh.
** Additionally, she was mainly played as TheSociopath in the comics until the animated series gave her much more pronounced ecoterrorist motives.
* ScrewTheRulesImBeautiful: Tends to use her looks to do whatever she wants. In fact, this was her main gimmick (aside from plants) when she first debuted.
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Ivy does not give a crap about whether or not anyone approves of her sexiness or sexuality. She wears as much or as little clothing as she cares to. In fact, when she gains a new job as a scientist in her 2016 series, she makes it clear that the only reason she dresses professionally is so that she can prove she's serious about her fresh start. The second she gets [[HomeNudist home]], off her clothes go.
* ShesGotLegs: She has very long toned yet shapely legs and highlights them through her original costumes (that she wore her trademark green tights with), whenever she is not wearing any clothes, and her skin tight outfit.
* ShrinkingViolet: Pre-transformation.
* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: It's probably the chlorophyll running through her veins.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Surprisingly why she is drawn to Batman. Besides being able to resist her {{Pheromones}} through his beyond human willpower, there's the fact Batman lives up to be a paragon of virtue, which draws Ivy in.
* TheSociopath: This is sometimes presented as more along the lines of wishful thinking on her part since she is shown to have the ability to genuinely care for others, such as the orphans she cared for, Harley, and her plants.
** However, this was her original characterization, running all the way through her appearances in ''Comicbook/SuicideSquad''.
* SoLastSeason: She went from an ordinary woman with a plant fetish and a poisonous kiss to, for all intents and purposes, an immortal nature goddess.
* SouthernBelle: Her earliest appearances depicted her as having a very thick Southern accent.
* StrawFeminist: She was initially created to be DC's answer to feminism back in 1966. She's a powerful, capable, intelligent and independent woman and refuses to play second-fiddle to a male partner. However, she is also a man-hating, tree-hugging (literally), sexually-manipulative villain who doesn't just not need men, but flat out wants them all dead. That's before we get into her lesbian relationship with Harley and passive-aggressive relationship with Batman.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: PlayedWith. She doesn't wear clothes (usually), but when she does, she molds them into bikinis, leotards, lingerie, and other fetishwear. However, she also doesn't [[PowersDoTheFighting do physical fighting]], so she can technically look however she wants while she goes about her business. Also, practical battle clothing would ''arguably'' take away from her seduction abilities.
* SuddenNameChange: While her civilian name was initially established as Pamela Isley, Gerry Conway inexplicably gave her the name of "Lillian Rose" when he wrote her origin in World's Finest #252. Post-Crisis, Neil Gaiman would re-establish the Pamela Isley name (along with overhauling her origin).
* TautologicalTemplar: This is her ongoing problem with convincing people to be more eco-friendly during her "enviro-terrorist" depictions; Pamela is either adamant that people adopt more "Green" technologies '''right now''' and uses violence to try and terrorize people into submitting, makes demands that are so unfairly slanted against human life that there's no way anybody can take her seriously, or both.
** A perfect example of the "makes unreasonable demands" aspect comes from ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'', where she responds to Bruce Wayne pointing out that her suggestions to have Wayne Enterprises cease "toxifying the environment" by abandoning the use of diesel fuel and coolants would cause the deaths of millions of people due to cold and hunger alone by bemusedly declaring that those deaths would be "acceptable losses" to protect the planet.
* TheTease: She has no problem leading men on, but for the most part she's not actually interested in granting their desires.
* TokenEvilTeammate: During her stint on the Birds Of Prey. Also plays this role in storylines where she teams up with Harley and/or Catwoman - of the three of them, Ivy is always the most overtly sadistic.
* TokenSuper: She serves as this for the ''ComicBook/GothamCitySirens'', possessing her trademark GreenThumb powers while Harley Quinn and Catwoman have no superpowers.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The Girly-girl to Harley's Tomboy. Harley is more physically capable, more of a BloodKnight, and much more aggressive. Ivy is much more feminine, passive-aggressive, demure, and can't do much fighting without her abilities.
* TortureTechnician: Almost as much as the Scarecrow, she's a dedicated misanthrope who loves making people suffer.
* TrulySingleParent: Some storylines demonstrate her ability to engineer fully functioning plant "children" that can almost pass as real humans. They rarely last long, however. In "No Man's Land", she creates a whole species of mutant plant people called "Feraks" and "Cycle of Life and Death" focuses on a group of children she grows and tries to protect.
* UnholyMatrimony:
** With Clayface briefly in the New 52. It was just a ploy to keep him under her sway, and lasted almost no time at all.
** More sincerely and stably in the New 52 and Rebirth era with Harley Quinn -- her genuine love for Harley is one of the most positive things about her.
* TheVamp: The current trope image. Started out as this, but eventually became an eco-terrorist. She still has shades of it though.
* VillainessesWantHeroes: Ivy considers Batman "the perfect man" and wants him for herself. She also has a twisted interpretation of their relationship as Batman being her KnightInShiningArmor while she's locked up in Arkham, and at times has been frustrated and confused by why he would ever reject an offer to be with her forever. Going so far in a story to cause havoc on Gotham from her cell in Arkham, and relenting only when Batman visits and kisses her.
* VillainousBSOD: When she accidentally poisoned one of the children under her care in ''No Man's Land''. It ultimately causes her to give them up.
* VillainousCrush: DependingOnTheWriter, she could have an attraction to Batman that ranges from either a minor attraction to either lust or genuine affection. While not at the same level as his [[DatingCatwoman relationship with Catwoman]] Batman could return her affection in some way, also depending on the writer.
** In one such issue, she mistook his saving her from death as proof he loves her, though he responds that she doesn't know the meaning of love.
* VillainousFriendship: Her friendship with Harley is genuine on both sides. She also has shown to be on friendly terms with Catwoman, though not nearly to the extant she is with Harley.
* VillainsOutShopping: She is often depicted just going out shopping or having fun with her girlfriend, Harley.
* VitriolicBestBuds: She may be best friends with Harley, but she sometimes shows a very low opinion of her intelligence and common sense. This is played more seriously as this is one of the factors that keep Ivy and Harley from having a long-lasting relationship.
* WeCanRuleTogether: More with Batman than Harley. Ivy really wants Batman to stay with her forever in her garden paradise of pleasure, and has actually suggested at least once that she'd give up crime forever if he did it.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: She wants to protect plants from the humans that abuse and massacre them. She'll go to any extremes to do this, and sees human life as meaningless by comparison.
* WesternTerrorists: Of the "Fanatical Eco-Terrorist" sub-variety. Her fixation on the health of plants often leads to her committing atrocities to protect nature at the expense of human life.
* WhenTreesAttack: She can summon or grow entire trees to attack her enemies, and she can even get them to walk around.
* WickedCultured: As part of her FemmeFatale allure, she can behave like a sophisticated and charming lady when she wants.
* WomanScorned: Her original motivation was that only Batman had resisted her seductions, and that she hated him for it.
* WomenPreferStrongMen: PlayedWith. Ivy has definitely shown interest in, say, Batman or Comicbook/{{Nightwing}}, whom she considers attractive and not that bad compared to most men. Further, she tends to go for the biggest, strongest man around when looking for a new SlaveMook, such as the times she immediately planted a kiss on the lips of Franchise/{{Superman}} and then over in ''[=WF3:=] World's Finest Three'' Comicbook/{{Superboy}} when she faces off against him and ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}}. How actually interested she is in them sexually is debatable, however.
* {{Yandere}}: Countless cheesy analogies towards flowers (especially roses) have been made about this aspect of her personality.
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[[caption-width-right:350:And you thought "Going Green" would be lame.]]
Poison Ivy (real name [[ThemedAliases Pamela Isley]]) is a Creator/DCComics supervillainess known to be one of Franchise/{{Batman}}'s main adversaries.
Poison Ivy was created by Creator/BobKanigher in 1966 as a villainous {{Expy}} of Creator/BettiePage, as well as a replacement villainess for Comicbook/{{Catwoman}}, who had graduated from an AntiVillain into an AntiHero. She was also meant to be DC's take on the then-recent feminist movement, as she would be an independent villainess not tied to any other villain as their [[TheBaroness Baroness]] or [[UnholyMatrimony lover]]. At her core, however, she is a FemmeFatale and one of the deadliest in all of comics.
Her most consistent origin is that of a botanist named Dr. Pamela Isley who has an obsession/affinity for plants. Following some type of lab accident (which may or may not have been caused by corrupt supervisors/backers), she becomes the eco-terrorist known as Poison Ivy. Though she started out as a BadassNormal only using plants as her gimmick, due to several [[TookALevelInBadass levels taken in badass]] and many {{Retcon}}s, she has gained more and more powerful GreenThumb abilities over time, as well as {{pheromone|s}} [[{{Glamour}} powers]] and [[PoisonousPerson various forms of poisons and toxins]] (usually delivered by {{kiss|OfDeath}}es). She is also sometimes revealed to be [[PlantPerson half plant]] herself. This makes her one of the rare Batman villains that has legitimate superpowers.
She, like Catwoman before her, has become more and more sympathetically portrayed as time goes on. Sometimes, Ivy's [[DatingCatwoman a love interest for Batman]] too, with several stories implying something deeper between them. On the other hand, she has gained a regular {{Love Interest|s}} in ComicBook/HarleyQuinn, whose main portrayal is as the Joker's girlfriend and sidekick. In 2015, [[WordOfGod DC]] editorial [[WordOfGay confirmed that]] Ivy and Quinn are sexual partners, making them one of the most prominent same-sex couples in comics. Both women have also become affiliated with the ComicBook/SuicideSquad and the ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey, making them very ambiguous {{Heel Face Revolving Door}}s.
In 2015, Poison Ivy received her first-ever self-titled comic, in the form of a limited series called ''Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death'', which deals with a reformed Ivy trying her best to make a serious career as a scientist again.
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!!Tropes associated with Poison Ivy:
* AbusiveParents: As of New 52 and on, Ivy's father was extremely abusive towards her mother. He always bought her flowers as an apology. Of course, he eventually killed Ivy's mother and buried her in their beloved garden. Naturally, about a decade later, Ivy killed him.
* AdaptationalHeroism: She gets hit with this in a few continuities:
** ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'': She's portrayed as being more focused on protecting her plants than going on eco-terrorist sprees, and refuses to team up with other villains. In ''Arkham Knight'', [[spoiler:she even helps Batman save Gotham from Scarecrow's Cloudburst, [[HeroicSacrifice though doing so costs her her life]].]]
** ''WebAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls'': She's portrayed as an adorably dorky straight-up superhero.
** ''ComicBook/DCComicsBombshells'': She only ever uses her powers against the German hierarchy.
* AdaptationalVillainy: On the flip side, she gets this treatment in ''VideoGame/Injustice2''; she's a lot colder and more aloof to Harley than usual, [[spoiler: and even almost kills her with her pheromones without a hint of remorse.]] Additionally, her dialogue with ComicBook/SwampThing implies that [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist she isn't even interested in protecting the Green - she just wants its power all to herself]].
* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: She is DC's answer to Marvel's ComicBook/TheEnchantress as they are both FemmeFatale supervillains with seduction based mind-controlling powers that frequently flirt with their [[Franchise/{{Batman}} respective]] [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor heroes]].
** Hilariously enough, Marvel then made an equivalent to ''her'' in their popular ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' series, named Klara Prast. As Klara is only in her preteens, she doesn't copy the sexual nature of Poison Ivy. Instead, she has Poison Ivy's power over plants.
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Sometimes has green skin, especially the versions of her that are part-plant.
* AntagonistAbilities: Ivy is typically a pushover if you can actually get in a solid blow on her. The problem is getting past her plant mooks, resisting her {{Glamour}} and MindManipulation powers, and not letting her poison you. If you can get past all of that, she can't put up much of a fight. But that's a ''big "if"''.
* AntiVillain: She wants to protect plant life and stop humans from polluting the world and deforesting it. The problem is that she views a plant's life as infinitely more valuable than any number of humans' lives (even if it's just a tiny leaf, since that leaf can sprout into a new plant).
* BadassBookworm: She's a very talented and knowledgeable botanist and chemist, but she's also one of the most deadly people on the planet, with powerful control over nature.
* BettyAndVeronica:
** She is the Veronica to Catwoman's Betty and Batman's Archie. Although Catwoman is a criminal also, she's far more sympathetic and has more nice/heroic qualities.
** She is the Betty to Joker's Veronica and Harley's Archie. Compared to the Joker, she is far more loving and affectionate toward Harley. Granted, it's not saying much and she isn't above her own problems.
* BewareTheQuietOnes: Somewhat. Back when she was just Pamela, she was actually pretty shy and demure with the implications of having controlling parents. Then her accident happens, (sometimes because of a college professor, The Floronic Man) and she finally vents out her problems and issues.
* BisexualLoveTriangle: Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn's relationship has primarily been this way since they met in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' (though DC [[HideYourLesbians kept it as subtexty as possible]] for years). Harley is head-over-heels for her boyfriend, ComicBook/TheJoker. The Joker is ''extremely'' [[DomesticAbuse physically and emotionally abusive]] but Harley always goes back to him in the end. Ivy on the other hand has feelings for Harley and the two have a much more stable relationship, but DependingOnTheWriter Harley is either oblivious, knows of Ivy's feeling but ignores her, or has flings with Ivy when she and the Joker are separate. Starting with the ComicBook/New52 reboot, DC revamped Ivy and Harley's relationship to be more obviously romantic and requited. They're either FriendsWithBenefits or a non-monogamous couple.
* BlackEyesOfEvil: Her New 52 design made her eyes entirely black, save for her glowing green irises.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Redhead to Harley's Blonde and Catwoman's Brunette in the ''Comicbook/GothamCitySirens''.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: What keeps her from being a purely evil character despite her occasional state as a MisanthropeSupreme is her completely alien sense of right and wrong. In short, she considers crimes in terms of their effect on nature, starting with plant life, then animals, with humanity on the lower scale.
** On the other hand, she targets men through seduction before killing them which doesn't advance her goals and seems to be more her way of venting out at being hurt by people (especially Jason Woodrue.)
* BodyOfBodies: Harvest is a creature of sentient vegetation used by Poison Ivy. It was created when a carnivorous plant that Poison Ivy fed her victims to absorbed the personas of the people it ate. In this form it was able to rapidly regenerate and transform itself into any plant-life it chose to, and would manifest itself with the faces and other physical characteristics of Ivy's victims across its surface. Harvest attempted to take revenge on Poison Ivy by attacking her inside Arkham Asylum although Batman intervened and protected her. Harvest was seemingly destroyed in this battle although Batman remarked that its regenerative abilities meant it could come back and attack again at any time
* BoobsAndButtPose: Ivy poses in one of these in almost every appearance. Partly justified in that she isn't completely human and that her powers work by seduction.
* BreakoutVillain: Became one of Batman's most recognized foes since the ''90's'' thanks to ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', even getting featured as a main character in ''Comicbook/GothamCitySirens''. Even if Poison Ivy is a Batman villain, she has become something of a recurring villain in the grand universe like ComicBook/BlackAdam, although she rarely is a BigBad.
* CharmPerson: Ivy's pheromones tend to work like this. She can also use more direct MindControl through toxic kisses (when they don't just kill outright). The scope and effects of these powers are DependingOnTheWriter.
* ClarkKenting: Downplayed in ''Comicbook/GothamCitySirens'', when Ivy goes to work for a lab the only difference between her disguise and her usual look is a pair of glasses and a lab coat. What she does do is use her powers to revert back to her original skin colour, instead of the current green.
* CreateYourOwnVillain:
** A rare example of a villain creating another, hostile-to-them, villain. Ivy herself is usually the creation of a pre-mutation Floronic Man, a minor DC villain with ComicBook/SwampThing style powers. However, the Floronic Man (Jason Woodrue) was not villain when he experimented on Ivy.
** One post-90s storyline involves a ManEatingPlant she overused [[ForTheEvulz for assorted petty reasons]] developing sapience and becoming Harvest, which yearns to kill her.
* CulturedBadass: She is quite versed in being sophisticated and lady-like. However, she mostly uses it as part of her FemmeFatale allure. She also drops obscure botanical knowledge at the drop of a hat, often in the context of explaining that YouAreAlreadyDead to her poisoning victims.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: In her "environmentalist" depiction, Poison Ivy's powers would allow her to influence people far more effectively and acceptably if she'd use them in a sensible fashion. It's generally justified that she fails to realize this because she's a TautologicalTemplar, who either doesn't understand that non-violence can be ''more'' effective at convincing people than violence or simply her demands are too unreasonable to be taken seriously.
** Averting this is at least attempted in "Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death", where she tries to market more legitimate eco-friendly creations of hers as opposed to her traditional methods of just running around turning people into plants or feeding them to mutant carnivorous trees.
** A possible aversion appears in another example: when Harley pointed out that some of her plants (such as vines as strong--or stronger--than steel beams or organisms that produce light) could help humanity, Ivy bitterly responded: "I don't do that, Harley. I don't save people. I'm poison, remember?" It's implied that given the opportunity, she ''would'' like to use her plants for good (or at least legal monetary gain), but [[ThenLetMeBeEvil people don't expect her to, so she doesn't]].
* DarkChick: As said below, she isn't much of a fighter but that doesn't make her any less dangerous.
* DeadpanSnarker: Being around Harley so much gives her a ''lot'' of practice.
* DefrostingIceQueen:
** Upon meeting Harley, Ivy [[CharacterDevelopment softened somewhat towards humans]], but still manages to be [[{{Tsundere}} quite strict]] whenever Harley screws up her plans. [[CuteClumsyGirl Which is frequently]].
** In the New 52 ''Comicbook/BirdsOfPrey'', she is completely unapologetic for her murderous crimes in the past, but is willing to assist Black Canary and company and work as a team. Even if she does mutter complaints along the way.
* DependingOnTheArtist:
** Mainly how clearly she is a PlantPerson. Some artists will show her as someone with basically human skin and hair and green clothes who could easily blend into a crowd; others will have with her obviously green skin and vines growing out of her body. Still others take a more subtle UncannyValley approach, with her appearing mostly human until you look closer and notice the flower patterns all over her.
** Tim Sale's portrayal of Ivy is by far one of the most extreme depictions, giving her a hair style that's literally a giant bush growing out of her head. It gives the impression of her emerging out of a nearby forest or jungle.
** Artist P. Craig Russell illustrated Ivy looking rather demure and somewhat mousy in the two part "Hot House" story arc set after her original arrest in the Post-Crisis era, something virtually no other artist has done barring whenever Ivy's disguised. However, under the effects of her pheromones Batman sees Ivy as more of a PlantPerson, ethereal with green skin and leaves and plants in her hair. This offers the interpretation Ivy's jaw dropping beauty is really the effect of her pheromones altering the way everyone perceives her.
* DependingOnTheWriter:
** Sometimes she is an extremist eco-terrorist bent on protecting Mother Earth from the ravages of humanity; originally and just as often, she is just a glorified superhuman crook and seductress in it for the money. She's even occasionally shown concern for "innocent" human life, children especially, most famously in a particular issue of ''ComicBook/GothamCentral'', and in ''ComicBook/GothamCitySirens''. Some more recent portrayals also verge on HumanoidAbomination, depicting her as a being who, while mostly human in appearance, is of completely alien and inhuman morality and thinks more like a sentient plant with a side of HiveQueen.
** Of all people, Paul Dini once wrote Ivy straight up cruel and unsympathetic. The story in question depicts her seducing random people (both men and women) off the street, taking them to her lair and feeding them to her carnivorous plants. On top of that, it shows Ivy enjoying and mocking the lengthy suffering of the victims being slowly digested by the plants. Batman was so disgusted by her actions that, for a brief moment, he entertained the idea of ending Pamela's life.
** Is she insane because of a lonely, neglected childhood? Was her turn to villainy the result of chemical and biological alterations affecting her mental stability or cognitive processes, with serious psychological consequences? is she driven by her history of being betrayed by men? Or is it some combination of all of the above plus some [[IncrediblyLamePun garden-variety]] sociopathy? Notably, Creator/NeilGaiman gave her an origin that hints at all of these possibilities, but ultimately suggests the answer is unknowable. Later writers have chosen to emphasize particular angles or thrown in their own ideas.
** Gail Simone's second ''Batgirl'' Annual in the New 52 era offered the idea of Ivy suffering from an extreme form of Seasonal Affective Disorder, explaining her changes in personality and mood a result of the changing seasons.
* DiscontinuityNod: When her Post-Crisis origin was first established, Creator/NeilGaiman briefly mentioned her original backstory involving Marc [=LeGrand=] and the Egyptian herbs. Ivy laughed this off explaining that was all a lie she came up with and was surprised anyone actually believed it.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Will straight up murder all of humanity because they mistreat plants.
* DoesNotLikeMen: As part of her StrawFeminist motif, Ivy is typically portrayed as being disgusted by men. She finds them stupid, smelly, grotesque, ill-mannered, and easy to manipulate. The sole exceptions are Batman and a few other select males whom she feels aren't ''all'' bad. This depiction is [[SocietyMarchesOn falling by the wayside]] in favor of her BlueAndOrangeMorality covering plants. In all of her origin stories, a man royally screwed her over. Silver Age? Her lover and partner in crime betrays her and tries to poison her. Post ''Infinite Crisis''? Her college professor and crush, Jason Woodrue (later the Floronic Man) experimented on her and turned her into an abomination against her will. New 52 dad? Straight up murdered her mom and buried her in their garden.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Some versions of her, such as the one from ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'' and the ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries''.
* DruggedLipstick: Most common explanation for her deadly or mind controlling kiss.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Originally, Ivy was a much more obvious {{Expy}} of Bettie Page, and even had a southern accent much like Page's. She also didn't have any real plant powers and was just a criminal with a serious plant motif going on.
* EarthyBarefootCharacter: As part of her nature gimmick, she is usually shoeless, even when not naked.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
** Usually, her plants are her darlings and she'll even try to sacrifice her own life to save theirs. Later in her publication, she started treating Harley Quinn this way as well, as perhaps the only human being Ivy truly loves.
** Starting around ''ComicBook/BatmanNoMansLand'', Ivy has also taken a protective stance toward children.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: DependingOnTheWriter, she won't harm the sick, elderly or children. More consistently, however, she won't use any villainous methods that do more harm to the environment than necessary.
* EnemyMine: In some iterations she will temporarily assist heroes against villains who threaten greater ecological damage than she attributes to normal humanity.
* EvilSmellsBad: Inverted: she is often described as having a pleasant floral smell, and her MindControl powers usually involve good-smelling pheromones and fragrances.
* EvilRedhead: An evil woman with red hair.
* EvilVersusEvil: Thanks to Having Standards and Loved Ones, she's taken on corrupt, murdering cops, polluting corporations, and (often on behalf of Harley) even the Joker himself.
* {{Expy}}: Of Creator/BettiePage, which was more evident in her original appearances but still remains with her status as a ShamelessFanserviceGirl.
* FemmeFatale: With greater emphasis on the Fatale. Ivy doesn't like Man -- and we mean that in regards to both the species ''and'' the gender. Thus, any sexual enticement or favors she offers are typically just [[TheTease manipulations]] to get a hapless dupe under her control. However, there ''are'' some men she has found worth her interest -- primarily Batman, but occasionally other men who have proven to be sympathetic to her goals or more interesting than others.
* {{Flanderization}}:
** Ivy went from a normal woman who just used plants as a gimmick out of insanity to a half-plant woman with actual power over plants and who, DependingOnTheArtist, even looked plant-like. [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools Many people seem to prefer this latter iteration.]]
** Ivy went from a StrawFeminist to an EcoTerrorist.
* {{Foil}}: Was made to be a replacement for ''ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}'' and has become an antithesis to her in many ways. Catwoman is an animal lover mostly depicted in a skin-tight black outfit, Poison Ivy is a plant lover mostly known for wearing revealing green outfits. Catwoman is a thief who does her own fighting, complete with a whip for her weapon, while Poison Ivy is an eco-terrorist who does little fighting on her own and prefers using her plants do her fighting for her. Catwoman doesn't harm innocents while Poison Ivy has no qualms, though both have an affection for children. Both also share an interest in Batman; Catwoman greatly admires him and works with him, becoming one of the two women he loves and close enough to learn his true identity, while Poison Ivy varies from just having a sexual attraction to possibly being in love with him despite being more willing to harm or kill him if need be, and while Batman has shown some level of sympathy for her, he does not often return her affections.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: A downplayed, villainous example. She does love all plants, and in most incarnations is an AnimalLover as well. Unfortunately, she regards all humans (except for Harley Quinn and ''possibly'' Catwoman) to be [[MisanthropeSupreme worthless scum deserving of death.]]
* FullFrontalAssault: She tends to fight in the nude, often to underscore how alien her thinking is.
* FungiArePlants: The titular character has occasionally controlled fungi with her GreenThumb, despite her powers explicitly drawing from the Green. In DC lore, this is the mystical force with domain over plants, while fungi fall under the domain of the Grey, a different being.
* GaiasVengeance: She sees herself as this and claims to be carrying out the will of MotherNature (or to embody Mother Nature herself). How much of this is true and how much is delusion is up to your interpretation.
* GardenOfEvil: She tends to constantly be making these for bases of operations, which is only logical.
* GardenGarment: She's usually wearing leaves and flowers.
* GlassCannon: Ivy relies mostly on her plants when it comes to physical fights and isn't a very effective hand-to-hand combatant against more highly-trained brawlers like Bats himself or even Catwoman. Random {{Mooks}}, though, she tends to be fine fighting.
* {{Glamour}}: She has {{pheromone|s}} abilities which allow her to control other people, usually men. She can also stimulate hormones and pleasure centers by touch, taste and smell, as well as take more direct control via a kiss.
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Pretty much how her relationship with Harley is portrayed. As well as their..."extended" friendship with Catwoman, who is also Bi.
* GoodPowersBadPeople: The current image trope. Ivy's control over plant life would have been fairly benevolent on its own. Too bad she is an insane and genocidal misanthrope.
* GreenThumb: The quintessential plant-themed comic book character. How much power she has [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands constantly changes]], but at her full power, she's been shown capable of summoning, growing and manipulating entire forests to demolish city blocks. Neil Gaiman's origin links her to the Green, the elemental force connecting all plant life, and the idea's seen use since, particularly post-''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}'' with ComicBook/SwampThing back in mainstream continuity.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Later depictions of her tend to state that she ''is'' one, with various explanations as to how she got that way.
* HappinessInMindControl: Her mind-control powers occasionally work this way. It's best seen in The Long Halloween, when Carmine Falcone hires Ivy to put Bruce Wayne under her spell and get him to agree to let Gotham Central Bank to launder Falcone's money (Wayne's on the board of directors and the lone holdout in keeping the gangster at bay). While enchanted, Bruce is essentially a passenger in his own mind, but he feels oddly content and calm while connected to "the Green."
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: She has worked alongside heroes in the past, especially the Comicbook/SuicideSquad and the Comicbook/BirdsOfPrey. However, she always has her own agenda, so trusting her is a bad idea. She also tries to reform every now and again, but it never really sticks.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Her relationship with Catwoman. With Harley, [[LoveInterests you can hold the "heterosexual"]].
* HideYourLesbians: There was massive speculation and FlipFlopOfGod regarding whether or not she and Harley Quinn were lovers as far back as their original GirlsNightOutEpisode in ''The Animated Series''. They were always considered a ''little'' bit too close for [=BFFs=]. In 2015, DC finally admitted to the relationship and has ran with it ever since.
* HopelessSuitor:
** Despite her wishes, she doesn't actually stand much of a chance with Batman. His affections are torn almost completely between ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} and ComicBook/TaliaAlGhul. Poison Ivy, though physically tempting to him, doesn't often blip on his emotional radar.
** Pre New 52 she was this for Harley, as no matter how close the two were Harley would always run back to the Joker when he came calling. Averted Post New 52 although, ironically, their relationship changed to be a open one, in which both girls are sexually available to other people.
* HotScientist: She's very attractive, no matter what depiction the creators go with. Even in a labcoat, she's [[https://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/10/107617/4850121-12104974_735160949922497_490994365_n.jpg quite a looker]].
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** In her "eco-terrorist" depiction. Ivy likes to complain about how she is "forced" to do the things she does because humanity won't listen to reason -- when that same complaint can be leveled against Ivy herself!
** Also, it's kind of hypocritical that a woman who claims to want to protect plants from being exploited does so by... manipulating plants to grow in all manner of unnatural ways.
** Lampshaded in one of her possible pre-fight banter routines against ComicBook/SwampThing in ''VideoGame/{{Injustice 2}}'':
--->'''Swamp Thing:''' You claim to serve the Green.\\
'''Poison Ivy:''' The plants are my babies.\\
'''Swamp Thing:''' [[ArmorPiercingResponse So why treat them as slaves?]]
** For all her disdain of humanity and hating using people, a large part of her motivation boils down to payback for her neglected childhood and heartbreak from her college professor, which is a very personal, selfish and petty driving force.
* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: Ivy is used to her looks and pheromones getting people to do anything he wants. However, both Batman (due to his HeroicWillpower) and Harley (because she's crazy and immune) are exceptions and thus both have Ivy's affections.
* ImAHumanitarian: Actually, despite her typical hatred for humanity, her identification with plants, and the fact she is often depicted as ''enjoying'' feeding human victims to her {{Man Eating Plant}}s, the idea that she might eat human flesh herself has been used very, ''very'' rarely, if it's ever been used at all.
* InSeriesNickname: In comics and other media Harley Quinn always uses nicknames for her, which include Pam, Pammy, Ive ("I've"), but most commonly Red.
* KissOfDeath: ''The'' example of this trope in comics to the point that her kissing someone is always a sure OhCrap moment. Her powerful floral toxins are often secreted from her lips and administered via a kiss. She can use her powers through any skin contact, but enjoys doing it by kiss.
%%* LeotardOfPower: Some depictions have this.
%%* LivingAphrodisiac: One of her powers. She is also the page image.
* LovecraftianSuperpower: As Ivy's powers have increased, she has become steadily less and less human. Nowadays she has more in common with Swamp Thing than Catwoman.
* LoveTriangle: She loathes Comicbook/TheJoker due to his abusive control and manipulation of Harley. She also hates the fact that his control over Harley is so tight that [[{{Gaslighting}} Harley is always unsure of herself or her own sanity]] and will often ditch Ivy to run back to her "Puddin'" in an instant. Ivy still cares for her regardless of this, though. Ironically, this means the two are less likely to try to kill each other than most of Batvillain rivals. Ivy wants Harley to leave Joker, and Ivy killing Joker would just drive Harley away. Joker, for his part, thinks it's funny that Ivy can't really touch him.
* MadScientist: Possesses a disturbed and unhinged love for plants, to the point of preferring them to people.
* MaleGaze: Any drawing or rendition of her is likely to focus on her feminine body parts first and foremost.
* MamaBear: Towards the orphans she looked after, as well as her plants, and Harley when the Joker's involved.
* ManEatingPlant: She specializes in siccing these on her enemies. Darker portrayals of the character tend to enjoy using these to "dispose" of people she's become bored with -- something that came back to bite her when the combined pain and anguish of one plant's victims mutated it into the vengeance-seeking Harvest.
* MasterPoisoner: Her main form of attack; it helps that her body makes it on its own, though she can make it in a lab just as well.
* MenAreTheExpendableGender: InUniverse, this is often a key part of her ''modus operandi'', and she has a long history of turning men into her thralls or even into mutated pawns only to dispose of them casually once they have [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness Outlived Their Usefulness]].
* MindManipulation: In addition to her {{Glamour}} powers, she can flat out control a person if she manages to kiss them or induce some other means of control into their system. Not even someone who is strong in will and body like Batman, or flat out immune to poisons, like Comicbook/{{Superman}}, can resist her control.
* MisanthropeSupreme: In many of her depictions, she despises the human race and sees them as a cancer that must be removed so that plants can thrive.
* MoralityPet: Her relationship with Harley is a deconstruction of this trope. Both she and Harley are villains, so neither of them are all that "moral" to begin with. However, Ivy will try and do good when it's for Harley's sake and vice-versa. Further, Ivy tries to help break the abusive control The Joker has over Harley, and Harley tries to convince "Red" that not all humans are so bad. At the same time, Ivy can be controlling and upset with Harley (though not to the abusive extent like the Joker does).
* MoralPragmatist: [[DependingOnTheWriter When portrayed as]] a WellIntentionedExtremist, she typically sides with whomever is most willing/able to help her goals to protect endangered plant and animal life from human neglect and greed. In her 2016 series, she tries to reform and return to being a scientist since the academic community is more than willing to throw money and resources at her project because [[JustThinkOfThePotential of the huge potential it possesses]].
** Averted when it comes to the Joker. Ivy has no problems killing the Joker in theory, it's just that it'd hurt Harley, too.
* MostCommonSuperPower: Her buxom breasts are portrayed as D-cup sized.
* MsFanservice: One of comics' major examples of the trope, and the single best example in all of the Bat-books. Ivy is a very beautiful woman who has a very voluptuous yet athletic body, impressive hour glass figure, buxom breasts, toned broad shoulders, and long toned yet shapely legs. She tends not to wear anything, other than [[GardenGarment leaves]] and vines (along with sexy outfits that she wears with green tights). In the New 52, she got a form-fitting outfit, but even that just amounts to plant spores and leaves hugging up on her body, though she went back to her normal green bathing suit-like outfit. Even when in battle, she usually speaks in a sultry tone, uses sexual innuendos, and takes stock Playboy Playmate poses while her plants fight for her.
* NeverBeHurtAgain: Some portrayals of her emphasize this motivation. She got mutated when she fell for a guy PlayingWithSyringes; now she is obsessed with controlling men.
* {{Nerd}}: Okay... she may be evil, but let's take a moment to really think about her.
* NotGoodWithPeople: By which we mean that she cares little for their lives, with exceptions (like Harley).
** Even before becoming a villainess, she was this, being pretty shy and demure.
* PetTheDog: Will occasionally demonstrate that she's not ''all'' bad, compared to the usual psychopaths Batman deals with. Most notably during the ''No Man's Land'' arc, where she took in several dozen orphans despite her grudge against humanity. Very DependingOnTheWriter, though.
* {{Pheromones}}: Poison Ivy uses these to get men to do her bidding. Depending on the Writer, it can also work on women as well, especially if that woman is a lesbian or bisexual. Since she's a scientist, however, she's able to upgrade her abilities or develop new pheromones that compel a person regardless of sexual orientation or target. For instance, one concoction causes two men (who were previously shown to be attracted to women) to start making out with each other uncontrollably. Said pheromones are usually [[RuleOfPerception represented as green or pink squiggly lines, as the reader obviously can't smell them]], although whether the people in-universe can see them or if it's just for the reader's benefit is often unclear.
* PlantPerson: '''The''' example, in comics. Often, her skin is colored green and she protrudes leaves to cement the fact.
* PoisonousPerson: Her body (and the plants she controls) typically utilize a wide variety of poisons and toxins which can kill in anywhere from seconds to days.
* {{Polyamory}}: DC describes her relationship with Harley as "girlfriends, without the baggage of jealousy".
* PowersDoTheFighting: Ivy isn't a physical fighter. The only powers she directly uses against a person are her good looks, pheromones, and poisons against an enemy. Occasionally, she also can grow CombatTentacles in the form of plant vines. Aside from that, her {{Man Eating Plant}}s always do the dirty work for her while she stands around looking hot.
* RecliningReigner: Typically reclines or {{slouch|OfVillainy}}es on some type of throne or seat while her plant minions and {{Slave Mook}}s carry out her commands.
* RedheadInGreen: Her primary clothing is green, and her skin color has also become green in some depictions, but she is always a red head.
* RetCanon: Her relationship with Harley started in the ''DCAU'' (specifically in ''Batman: The Animated Series'') but became canon the moment Harley joined the comics universe.
** Ivy was originally just a [[ClarkesThirdLaw sufficiently advanced botanist.]] These days, she's probably a plant elemental bound in human flesh.
** Additionally, she was mainly played as TheSociopath in the comics until the animated series gave her much more pronounced ecoterrorist motives.
* ScrewTheRulesImBeautiful: Tends to use her looks to do whatever she wants. In fact, this was her main gimmick (aside from plants) when she first debuted.
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Ivy does not give a crap about whether or not anyone approves of her sexiness or sexuality. She wears as much or as little clothing as she cares to. In fact, when she gains a new job as a scientist in her 2016 series, she makes it clear that the only reason she dresses professionally is so that she can prove she's serious about her fresh start. The second she gets [[HomeNudist home]], off her clothes go.
* ShesGotLegs: She has very long toned yet shapely legs and highlights them through her original costumes (that she wore her trademark green tights with), whenever she is not wearing any clothes, and her skin tight outfit.
* ShrinkingViolet: Pre-transformation.
* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: It's probably the chlorophyll running through her veins.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Surprisingly why she is drawn to Batman. Besides being able to resist her {{Pheromones}} through his beyond human willpower, there's the fact Batman lives up to be a paragon of virtue, which draws Ivy in.
* TheSociopath: This is sometimes presented as more along the lines of wishful thinking on her part since she is shown to have the ability to genuinely care for others, such as the orphans she cared for, Harley, and her plants.
** However, this was her original characterization, running all the way through her appearances in ''Comicbook/SuicideSquad''.
* SoLastSeason: She went from an ordinary woman with a plant fetish and a poisonous kiss to, for all intents and purposes, an immortal nature goddess.
* SouthernBelle: Her earliest appearances depicted her as having a very thick Southern accent.
* StrawFeminist: She was initially created to be DC's answer to feminism back in 1966. She's a powerful, capable, intelligent and independent woman and refuses to play second-fiddle to a male partner. However, she is also a man-hating, tree-hugging (literally), sexually-manipulative villain who doesn't just not need men, but flat out wants them all dead. That's before we get into her lesbian relationship with Harley and passive-aggressive relationship with Batman.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: PlayedWith. She doesn't wear clothes (usually), but when she does, she molds them into bikinis, leotards, lingerie, and other fetishwear. However, she also doesn't [[PowersDoTheFighting do physical fighting]], so she can technically look however she wants while she goes about her business. Also, practical battle clothing would ''arguably'' take away from her seduction abilities.
* SuddenNameChange: While her civilian name was initially established as Pamela Isley, Gerry Conway inexplicably gave her the name of "Lillian Rose" when he wrote her origin in World's Finest #252. Post-Crisis, Neil Gaiman would re-establish the Pamela Isley name (along with overhauling her origin).
* TautologicalTemplar: This is her ongoing problem with convincing people to be more eco-friendly during her "enviro-terrorist" depictions; Pamela is either adamant that people adopt more "Green" technologies '''right now''' and uses violence to try and terrorize people into submitting, makes demands that are so unfairly slanted against human life that there's no way anybody can take her seriously, or both.
** A perfect example of the "makes unreasonable demands" aspect comes from ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'', where she responds to Bruce Wayne pointing out that her suggestions to have Wayne Enterprises cease "toxifying the environment" by abandoning the use of diesel fuel and coolants would cause the deaths of millions of people due to cold and hunger alone by bemusedly declaring that those deaths would be "acceptable losses" to protect the planet.
* TheTease: She has no problem leading men on, but for the most part she's not actually interested in granting their desires.
* TokenEvilTeammate: During her stint on the Birds Of Prey. Also plays this role in storylines where she teams up with Harley and/or Catwoman - of the three of them, Ivy is always the most overtly sadistic.
* TokenSuper: She serves as this for the ''ComicBook/GothamCitySirens'', possessing her trademark GreenThumb powers while Harley Quinn and Catwoman have no superpowers.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The Girly-girl to Harley's Tomboy. Harley is more physically capable, more of a BloodKnight, and much more aggressive. Ivy is much more feminine, passive-aggressive, demure, and can't do much fighting without her abilities.
* TortureTechnician: Almost as much as the Scarecrow, she's a dedicated misanthrope who loves making people suffer.
* TrulySingleParent: Some storylines demonstrate her ability to engineer fully functioning plant "children" that can almost pass as real humans. They rarely last long, however. In "No Man's Land", she creates a whole species of mutant plant people called "Feraks" and "Cycle of Life and Death" focuses on a group of children she grows and tries to protect.
* UnholyMatrimony:
** With Clayface briefly in the New 52. It was just a ploy to keep him under her sway, and lasted almost no time at all.
** More sincerely and stably in the New 52 and Rebirth era with Harley Quinn -- her genuine love for Harley is one of the most positive things about her.
* TheVamp: The current trope image. Started out as this, but eventually became an eco-terrorist. She still has shades of it though.
* VillainessesWantHeroes: Ivy considers Batman "the perfect man" and wants him for herself. She also has a twisted interpretation of their relationship as Batman being her KnightInShiningArmor while she's locked up in Arkham, and at times has been frustrated and confused by why he would ever reject an offer to be with her forever. Going so far in a story to cause havoc on Gotham from her cell in Arkham, and relenting only when Batman visits and kisses her.
* VillainousBSOD: When she accidentally poisoned one of the children under her care in ''No Man's Land''. It ultimately causes her to give them up.
* VillainousCrush: DependingOnTheWriter, she could have an attraction to Batman that ranges from either a minor attraction to either lust or genuine affection. While not at the same level as his [[DatingCatwoman relationship with Catwoman]] Batman could return her affection in some way, also depending on the writer.
** In one such issue, she mistook his saving her from death as proof he loves her, though he responds that she doesn't know the meaning of love.
* VillainousFriendship: Her friendship with Harley is genuine on both sides. She also has shown to be on friendly terms with Catwoman, though not nearly to the extant she is with Harley.
* VillainsOutShopping: She is often depicted just going out shopping or having fun with her girlfriend, Harley.
* VitriolicBestBuds: She may be best friends with Harley, but she sometimes shows a very low opinion of her intelligence and common sense. This is played more seriously as this is one of the factors that keep Ivy and Harley from having a long-lasting relationship.
* WeCanRuleTogether: More with Batman than Harley. Ivy really wants Batman to stay with her forever in her garden paradise of pleasure, and has actually suggested at least once that she'd give up crime forever if he did it.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: She wants to protect plants from the humans that abuse and massacre them. She'll go to any extremes to do this, and sees human life as meaningless by comparison.
* WesternTerrorists: Of the "Fanatical Eco-Terrorist" sub-variety. Her fixation on the health of plants often leads to her committing atrocities to protect nature at the expense of human life.
* WhenTreesAttack: She can summon or grow entire trees to attack her enemies, and she can even get them to walk around.
* WickedCultured: As part of her FemmeFatale allure, she can behave like a sophisticated and charming lady when she wants.
* WomanScorned: Her original motivation was that only Batman had resisted her seductions, and that she hated him for it.
* WomenPreferStrongMen: PlayedWith. Ivy has definitely shown interest in, say, Batman or Comicbook/{{Nightwing}}, whom she considers attractive and not that bad compared to most men. Further, she tends to go for the biggest, strongest man around when looking for a new SlaveMook, such as the times she immediately planted a kiss on the lips of Franchise/{{Superman}} and then over in ''[=WF3:=] World's Finest Three'' Comicbook/{{Superboy}} when she faces off against him and ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}}. How actually interested she is in them sexually is debatable, however.
* {{Yandere}}: Countless cheesy analogies towards flowers (especially roses) have been made about this aspect of her personality.
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* DoesNotLikeMen: As part of her StrawFeminist motif, Ivy is typically portrayed as being disgusted by men. She finds them stupid, smelly, grotesque, ill-mannered, and easy to manipulate. The sole exceptions are Batman and a few other select males whom she feels aren't ''all'' bad. This depiction is [[SocietyMarchesOn falling by the wayside]] in favor of her BlueAndOrangeMorality covering plants. It's worth noting that, in all of her origin stories, a man has royally screwed her over. Silver Age? Her lover and partner in crime betrays her and tries to poison her. Post ''Infinite Crisis''? Her college professor and crush, Jason Woodrue (later the Floronic Man) experimented on her and turned her into an abomination against her will. New 52 dad? Straight up murdered her mom and buried her in their garden.
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* DoesNotLikeMen: As part of her StrawFeminist motif, Ivy is typically portrayed as being disgusted by men. She finds them stupid, smelly, grotesque, ill-mannered, and easy to manipulate. The sole exceptions are Batman and a few other select males whom she feels aren't ''all'' bad. This depiction is [[SocietyMarchesOn falling by the wayside]] in favor of her BlueAndOrangeMorality covering plants. It's worth noting that, in In all of her origin stories, a man has royally screwed her over. Silver Age? Her lover and partner in crime betrays her and tries to poison her. Post ''Infinite Crisis''? Her college professor and crush, Jason Woodrue (later the Floronic Man) experimented on her and turned her into an abomination against her will. New 52 dad? Straight up murdered her mom and buried her in their garden.
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* DoesNotLikeMen: As part of her StrawFeminist motif, Ivy is typically portrayed as being disgusted by men. She finds them stupid, smelly, grotesque, ill-mannered, and easy to manipulate. The sole exceptions are Batman and a few other select males whom she feels aren't ''all'' bad. This depiction is [[SocietyMarchesOn falling by the wayside]] in favor of her BlueAndOrangeMorality covering plants.
** It's worth noting that, in all of her origin stories, a man has royally screwed her over. Silver Age? Her lover and partner in crime betrays her and tries to poison her. Post ''Infinite Crisis''? Her college professor and crush, Jason Woodrue (later the Floronic Man) experimented on her and turned her into an abomination against her will. New 52 dad? Straight up murdered her mom and buried her in their garden.
** It's worth noting that, in all of her origin stories, a man has royally screwed her over. Silver Age? Her lover and partner in crime betrays her and tries to poison her. Post ''Infinite Crisis''? Her college professor and crush, Jason Woodrue (later the Floronic Man) experimented on her and turned her into an abomination against her will. New 52 dad? Straight up murdered her mom and buried her in their garden.
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* DoesNotLikeMen: As part of her StrawFeminist motif, Ivy is typically portrayed as being disgusted by men. She finds them stupid, smelly, grotesque, ill-mannered, and easy to manipulate. The sole exceptions are Batman and a few other select males whom she feels aren't ''all'' bad. This depiction is [[SocietyMarchesOn falling by the wayside]] in favor of her BlueAndOrangeMorality covering plants.
**plants. It's worth noting that, in all of her origin stories, a man has royally screwed her over. Silver Age? Her lover and partner in crime betrays her and tries to poison her. Post ''Infinite Crisis''? Her college professor and crush, Jason Woodrue (later the Floronic Man) experimented on her and turned her into an abomination against her will. New 52 dad? Straight up murdered her mom and buried her in their garden.
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** Ivy also went from a StrawFeminist to an EcoTerrorist.
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** Ivy also went from a StrawFeminist to an EcoTerrorist.
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* KissOfDeath: Once again, '''the''' example of this trope in comics to the point that her kissing someone is always a sure OhCrap moment. Her powerful floral toxins are often secreted from her lips and administered via a kiss. She can use her powers through any skin contact, but enjoys doing it by kiss.
* LeotardOfPower: Some depictions have this.
* LivingAphrodisiac: One of her powers. She is also the page image.
* LeotardOfPower: Some depictions have this.
* LivingAphrodisiac: One of her powers. She is also the page image.
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* KissOfDeath: Once again, '''the''' ''The'' example of this trope in comics to the point that her kissing someone is always a sure OhCrap moment. Her powerful floral toxins are often secreted from her lips and administered via a kiss. She can use her powers through any skin contact, but enjoys doing it by kiss.
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* TrulySingleParent: Some storylines demonstrate her ability to engineer fully functioning plant "children" that can almost pass as real humans. They rarely last long, however. In "No Man's Land", she creates a whole species of mutant plant people called "Feraks" and "Cycle of Life and Death" focuses on a group of children she grows and tries to protect.
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She, like Catwoman before her, has become more and more sympathetically portrayed as time goes on, although unlike Catwoman, she isn't always [[DatingCatwoman a love interest for Batman]], though there have been stories implying something deeper between them. However, she has gained a regular {{Love Interest|s}} in ComicBook/HarleyQuinn, who is better known as the Joker's girlfriend and sidekick. In 2015, [[WordOfGod DC]] editorial [[WordOfGay confirmed that]] Ivy and Quinn are sexual partners, making them one of the most prominent same-sex couples in comics. Both women have also become affiliated with the ComicBook/SuicideSquad and the ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey, making them very ambiguous {{Heel Face Revolving Door}}s.
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She, like Catwoman before her, has become more and more sympathetically portrayed as time goes on, although unlike Catwoman, she isn't always on. Sometimes, Ivy's [[DatingCatwoman a love interest for Batman]], though there have been Batman]] too, with several stories implying something deeper between them. However, On the other hand, she has gained a regular {{Love Interest|s}} in ComicBook/HarleyQuinn, who whose main portrayal is better known as the Joker's girlfriend and sidekick. In 2015, [[WordOfGod DC]] editorial [[WordOfGay confirmed that]] Ivy and Quinn are sexual partners, making them one of the most prominent same-sex couples in comics. Both women have also become affiliated with the ComicBook/SuicideSquad and the ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey, making them very ambiguous {{Heel Face Revolving Door}}s.
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* FullFrontalAssault: How she often appears in combat, often to underscore how alien her thinking is.
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* FullFrontalAssault: How she often appears She tends to fight in combat, the nude, often to underscore how alien her thinking is.is.
* FungiArePlants: The titular character has occasionally controlled fungi with her GreenThumb, despite her powers explicitly drawing from the Green. In DC lore, this is the mystical force with domain over plants, while fungi fall under the domain of the Grey, a different being.
* FungiArePlants: The titular character has occasionally controlled fungi with her GreenThumb, despite her powers explicitly drawing from the Green. In DC lore, this is the mystical force with domain over plants, while fungi fall under the domain of the Grey, a different being.
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* StrawFeminist: She was initially created to be DC's answer to feminism back in 1966. She's a powerful, capable, intelligent and independent woman and refuses to play second-fiddle to a male partner. However, she is also a man-hating, tree-hugging (literally), sexually-manipulative villain who doesn't just not need men, but flat out wants them all dead. That's before we get into her lesbian relationship and passive-aggressive relationship with Batman.
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* StrawFeminist: She was initially created to be DC's answer to feminism back in 1966. She's a powerful, capable, intelligent and independent woman and refuses to play second-fiddle to a male partner. However, she is also a man-hating, tree-hugging (literally), sexually-manipulative villain who doesn't just not need men, but flat out wants them all dead. That's before we get into her lesbian relationship with Harley and passive-aggressive relationship with Batman.
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* Main/MostCommonSuperPower: Her buxom breasts are portrayed as D-cup sized.
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* Main/MostCommonSuperPower: MostCommonSuperPower: Her buxom breasts are portrayed as D-cup sized.
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** ''WebAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls'': She's portrayed as an {{Adorkable}} straight-up superhero.
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** ''WebAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls'': She's portrayed as an {{Adorkable}} adorably dorky straight-up superhero.
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* InSeriesNickname: In comics and other media Harley Quinn always uses nicknames for her, which include Pam, Pammy, Ive, but most commonly Red.
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* InSeriesNickname: In comics and other media Harley Quinn always uses nicknames for her, which include Pam, Pammy, Ive, Ive ("I've"), but most commonly Red.
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* InSeriesNickname: In comics and other media Harley Quinn always uses nicknames for her, which include Pam, Pammy, Ive, but most commonly Red.
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* TheVamp: Started out this way, but eventually became an eco-terrorist. She still has shades of it though.
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* TheVamp: The current trope image. Started out this way, as this, but eventually became an eco-terrorist. She still has shades of it though.
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* {{Pheromones}}: Poison Ivy uses these to get men to do her bidding. Depending on the Writer, it can also work on women as well, especially if that woman is a lesbian or bisexual. Since she's a scientist, however, she's able to upgrade her abilities or develop new pheromones that compel a person regardless of sexual orientation or target. For instance, one concoction causes two men (who were previously shown to be attracted to women) to start making out with each other uncontrollably.
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* {{Pheromones}}: Poison Ivy uses these to get men to do her bidding. Depending on the Writer, it can also work on women as well, especially if that woman is a lesbian or bisexual. Since she's a scientist, however, she's able to upgrade her abilities or develop new pheromones that compel a person regardless of sexual orientation or target. For instance, one concoction causes two men (who were previously shown to be attracted to women) to start making out with each other uncontrollably. Said pheromones are usually [[RuleOfPerception represented as green or pink squiggly lines, as the reader obviously can't smell them]], although whether the people in-universe can see them or if it's just for the reader's benefit is often unclear.
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Her most consistent origin is that of a botanist named Dr. Pamela Isley who has an obsession/affinity for plants. Following some type of lab accident (which may or may not have been caused by corrupt supervisors/backers), she becomes the eco-terrorist known as Poison Ivy. Though she started out as a BadassNormal only using plants as her gimmick, due to several [[TookALevelInBadass levels taken in badass]] and many {{Retcon}}s, she has gained more and more powerful GreenThumb abilities over time, as well as [[{{Glamour}} pheromone powers]] and [[PoisonousPerson various forms of poisons and toxins]] (usually delivered by {{kiss|OfDeath}}es). She is also sometimes revealed to be [[PlantPerson half plant]] herself. This makes her one of the rare Batman villains that has legitimate superpowers.
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Her most consistent origin is that of a botanist named Dr. Pamela Isley who has an obsession/affinity for plants. Following some type of lab accident (which may or may not have been caused by corrupt supervisors/backers), she becomes the eco-terrorist known as Poison Ivy. Though she started out as a BadassNormal only using plants as her gimmick, due to several [[TookALevelInBadass levels taken in badass]] and many {{Retcon}}s, she has gained more and more powerful GreenThumb abilities over time, as well as {{pheromone|s}} [[{{Glamour}} pheromone powers]] and [[PoisonousPerson various forms of poisons and toxins]] (usually delivered by {{kiss|OfDeath}}es). She is also sometimes revealed to be [[PlantPerson half plant]] herself. This makes her one of the rare Batman villains that has legitimate superpowers.
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* {{Glamour}}: She has pheromone abilities which allow her to control other people, usually men. She can also stimulate hormones and pleasure centers by touch, taste and smell, as well as take more direct control via a kiss.
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* {{Glamour}}: She has pheromone {{pheromone|s}} abilities which allow her to control other people, usually men. She can also stimulate hormones and pleasure centers by touch, taste and smell, as well as take more direct control via a kiss.
* {{Pheromones}}: Poison Ivy uses these to get men to do her bidding. Depending on the Writer, it can also work on women as well, especially if that woman is a lesbian or bisexual. Since she's a scientist, however, she's able to upgrade her abilities or develop new pheromones that compel a person regardless of sexual orientation or target. For instance, one concoction causes two men (who were previously shown to be attracted to women) to start making out with each other uncontrollably.
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* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Surprisingly why she is drawn to Batman. Besides being able to resist her pheromones through his beyond human willpower, there's the fact Batman lives up to be a paragon of virtue, which draws Ivy in.
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* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Surprisingly why she is drawn to Batman. Besides being able to resist her pheromones {{Pheromones}} through his beyond human willpower, there's the fact Batman lives up to be a paragon of virtue, which draws Ivy in.
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* BiTheWay: Depends who's writing. At the least she's very flirty with her male targets (and Batman) when it suits her purposes and has a vaguely defined "thing" with Harley Quinn whenever Harley's not working for Joker (most influenced by the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' television series in the 1990s). As of the New 52 it seems to have solidified into a sexually open relationship, with the two loving each other, but both of them also casually having sex with other people as they choose. She has been confirmed as bisexual.
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She, like Catwoman before her, has become more and more sympathetically portrayed as time goes on, although unlike Catwoman, she isn't always [[DatingCatwoman a love interest for Batman]], though there have been stories implying something deeper between them. However, she has gained a regular {{Love Interest|s}} in ComicBook/HarleyQuinn, who is better known as the Joker's girlfriend and sidekick. In 2015, [[WordOfGod DC fully]] [[WordOfGay confirmed that]] Ivy and Quinn are sexual partners, making them one of the most prominent same-sex couples in comics. Both women have also become affiliated with the ComicBook/SuicideSquad and the ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey, making their HeelFaceRevolvingDoor statuses more ambiguous by the moment.
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She, like Catwoman before her, has become more and more sympathetically portrayed as time goes on, although unlike Catwoman, she isn't always [[DatingCatwoman a love interest for Batman]], though there have been stories implying something deeper between them. However, she has gained a regular {{Love Interest|s}} in ComicBook/HarleyQuinn, who is better known as the Joker's girlfriend and sidekick. In 2015, [[WordOfGod DC fully]] DC]] editorial [[WordOfGay confirmed that]] Ivy and Quinn are sexual partners, making them one of the most prominent same-sex couples in comics. Both women have also become affiliated with the ComicBook/SuicideSquad and the ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey, making their HeelFaceRevolvingDoor statuses more them very ambiguous by the moment.
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