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| “ | I can make her bark harder than steel. But I need time. | „ |
| ~ Poison Ivy. |
| “ | You need to protect it. I don't know how much longer I can hold on. | „ |
| ~ Poison Ivy to Batman about Aiyana. |
| “ | Nature always wins. | „ |
| ~ Poison Ivy's most famous quote, and her last words to Batman before her sacrifice. |
Pamela Lillian Isley, better known as Poison Ivy, is a major character in the Batman: Arkham videogame series.
She intended to protect plants and trees from all over the world and as we saw in the first two chapters, she would do anything to protect them, even killing innocent citizens. In Batman: Arkham Knight, she starts as a minor antagonist, but soon, she will join Batman to defeat the Scarecrow and to protect plants from Gotham, finally, Poison Ivy will sacrifice herself to cleanse the city of the Scarecrow's toxin.
She was voiced by Tasia Valenza, who also voiced her in Injustice, and (who also voiced Myra Hanson in The Evil Within), and by Amy J. Carle (who also voiced Shaak Ti in Star Wars: The Clone Wars) in Batman: Arkham City Lockdown.
Biography[]
Background[]
Not much is known about Isley's background, but she would become a botanist situated in Gotham City and run her own store.
Batman: Arkham Origins[]
Pamela Isley is mentioned in Arkham Origins, as her store is advertised and her I.D. page can be seen in the DLC Cold, Cold Heart.
Becoming Poison Ivy[]
At some point, Pamela's colleague, Dr. Jason Woodue, would cause an accident that transformed her into murderous eco-terrorist called Poison Ivy with the abilities to control and communicate with plant-life. She used her influence on the plants to attack Gotham City but was stopped by Batman and sent to Arkham Asylum.
Batman: Arkham Asylum[]
Inside the green mile at Arkham, Ivy encounters Batman during his search for Asylum Warden Quincy Sharp and pleads to be released as she believed her plants to be suffering, but to no avail. However, Harley Quinn arrives, and after pleading once again, is freed from her cell alongside the crazed inmates inside the penitentiary. Traveling to the Botanical Gardens to help the plants, she is confronted by Batman, asking for her assistance to find a cure for a strength-inducing chemical compound called TITAN. Despite not wanting to help the Dark Knight, she reluctantly agrees when he hurts one of her plants, explaining that the cure is within Killer Croc's lair.
Afterward, the Joker arrives and injects Ivy with TITAN, enhancing her powers and causing the plants around the island to grow monstrously in size.
Now believing that her plants were evolving instead of being in pain, Ivy plans on taking over Gotham and intends on killing Batman and the Joker. After Batman creates the cure, he travels back to the gardens to stop Ivy, whom proceeds to fight him inside of a giant plant. However, she is defeated by the Dark Knight, and is later brought back to her cell after the Joker's defeat.
Batman: Arkham City[]
Having taken control of a building in Arkham City, Ivy encountered Catwoman and proceeded to send her mind-controlled thugs after her. After her thugs were defeated, Ivy hangs Catwoman with her plants, but decides to help the thief in her plant to enter Hugo Strange's vault. Inside the vault, Catwoman found Ivy's plant, but killed it to get revenge against Ivy, intending to tell the supervillain that Strange was one who did it.
Batman: Arkham Knight[]
Scarecrow and Arkham Knight contact Poison Ivy and other members of Batman's rogues gallery to take down the Dark Knight for good, but was taken to a safe house to be tested for fear toxin when she wasn't interested. When Batman asks for her assistance in stopping Scarecrow, Ivy reluctantly agrees sine the gas will harm the plants of Gotham. With Scarecrow's cloudburst is released, Ivy works with Batman to find a plant that can dissipate the gas. She later helps Batman when he is confronted by TYGER tanks, but returns to heal her plants while the Dark Knight works on destroying the cloudburst.
However, Ivy returned and helped Batman by clearing the gas in the area, thus allowing him to destroy the cloudburst. Weakened from the cloudburst's toxin, Ivy uses her remaining strength to clear the toxin from the area, thus saving Gotham from Scarecrow. She then dissolves into pollen with Batman's arms, but tells the Dark Knight that nature always wins.
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League[]
Poison Ivy returned to life, but in the form of child without any of her memories. Lex Luthor imprisons her for experimentation, but is rescued by the Suicide Squad. She works at making formulas and gear to help fight back Brainiac's invasion.
Personality[]
Dr. Pamela Isley was always a genius botanist, but after being reborn as Poison Ivy, she loses all moral restraint with her new abilities allowing her to manipulate and understand plant-life, which she begins to relate to much more than humanity. She loses most regard for human life in general, with exceptions for Catwoman and Harley Quinn, who are situationally friends and colleagues, though still values them far less than flora; while despising Batman due to his foiling of her foliage schemes, she eventually grows a sense of begrudging admiration for him. While her disdain is usually impersonal, there are exceptions in which she despises people for who they are, such as the Joker, Quincy Sharp, Hugo Strange, and Scarecrow.
Ivy exudes confidence and is generally cool and calculated; while she can erupt in temper, it takes time for it to happen, and she is able to shortly recover equilibrium. Her confidence, combined with her pheromone influence, allow her to be a near impossible to resist seductress. Despite her contempt for humanity, she is able to gracefully seduce just about any man, emphasised by pheromone control, making them feel special and loved, thereby enabling her to manipulate them into doing favours for her, even when those tasks conflict with his own ethics.
When the Joker injects her with the Titan formula, her underlying misanthropy bursts to the surface and she enters a maniacal state, boasting about her own superiority while insulting humans. The Titan makes her lose composure as the surge of power and inherent instability in the concoction, impelling her to violently attack any enemy. When Batman defeats her, the manic state is broken; thanks to her planet-human hybrid nature and control of her own biology, she is able to purge the remaining Titan, returning to her prior personality.
Ivy has a strong sense of pride, as she refuses to ally with other Batman villains; despite her penchant to hold grudges, she puts them aside when something else seems more imperative. She rejects Scarecrow's offer of alliance, as pursuing Batman was of no interest to her; in spite of Scarecrow imprisoning her in response, she reacted with only mild annoyance. When saved by Batman, she feels no gratitude, attempting to disable him, although when finding she couldn't succeed at the moment, she calmly surrendered to custody. Her pride and patience causes her to feel no fear when captured, as she has the certainty that she can escape eventually; with the exception being when she becomes distressed by the suffering of nearby plants.
When Batman turns to enlisting Ivy in the fight against Scarecrow, she is perplexed, but swiftly realises the gravity of the situation if she is being depended upon. While apathetic to the human cost, she does agree to help since the new fear toxin also acts as a herbicide. Despite her hate for humanity, her realism made her cooperative in the fight against Scarecrow. By controlling powerful vines, she actively participated in battles against the Arkham Knight's tanks, coordinating well with Batman. Eventually, the only way to dispel the cloud of fear toxin from Gotham was for Ivy to use all of her strength to boost the counteragent trees, which she realised would cause her own death, thus showing in spite of her misanthropy, she was willing to sacrifice herself to save the world; she showed no fear, though it wasn't clear if she knew for certain that she would be reborn.
After her rebirth, Ivy lacked the maturity and composure that she once had, becoming prone to sobbing and tantrums; also, being in the form of a child, she had lost her talents for seduction, even being repulsed by the concept. Perhaps due to Luthor, she held an even greater hatred for humanity, becoming unwilling to reconsider negative opinions, and refused to cooperate, until it was revealed she had a micro-bomb in her head, thus forcing her to obey. She did warm up to the Suicide Squad over time, but still hated humanity and simply hated Brainiac more, thus indicating a sense of her old self who would help if there was a greater threat.
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Trivia[]
- According to audio recordings in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, Ivy loves corn dogs.
