Poison Ivy (DC animated universe)
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Poison Ivy (Pamela Lilian Isley), a DC Comics supervillain and enemy of Batman and consistently appeared in Batman: The Animated Series, and several of the related series created by Bruce Timm and Paul Dini, played by Diane Pershing.
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[edit] Appearances
- Pretty Poison
- Eternal Youth
- Joker's Wild
- Almost Got 'Im
- Harley and Ivy
- Trial
- House and Garden
- Holiday Knights
- Joker's Millions
- Girls' Night Out
- Chemistry
- Hard As Nails (Static Shock)
[edit] Cameos
[edit] DCAU Biography
[edit] Batman: The Animated Series
Her first appearance, in Pretty Poison, involved an assassination attempt on Harvey Dent, as retribution for construction of the Stonegate prison over the last habitat of a rare flower. This episode was her final appearance in the first series. Then in Eternal Youth, she atempted to turn into plants several industrialists who contributed to deforest certain areas of Gotham City by creating a spa recreational center in which they were feed with special chemicals. However, they were all rescued by Batman before their transformation was final.
She later appeared as one of the five villains bragging about their "almost got Batman" stories in Almost Got 'Im. In her story, she plants special pumpkins that spread poisonus gas when lit in order to get Batman's attention. When Batman went to the city pumpkin patch to investigate, Ivy attacked him with the gas, successfully weakened him, and almost unmasked him. However, Batman programmed the Batmobile to run down Ivy, and later pulled a breath mask from the vehicle and captured her.
In Harley and Ivy she teams up with Harley Quinn to commit a succesful wave of crime in Gotham City. The meet as they were atempting to steal a diamond after the Joker twrows Harley to the street, and became friend as they were escaping from the police. Their frienship last throug out the entire series and was even featured in the Gotham Girls web cartoon and a limited series comic book.
[edit] The Adventures of Batman & Robin
In Trial, Harley and her succesfully kidnap Batman and D. A. Janet Van Dorn, as part of a plan by all the Arkham Asylum inmates to put on trial. After Ivy gives her testimony, the questions of Janet Van Dorn made her and everybody notice her crimes are nobody's fault but her own.
In the first season, her meta-human characteristics, such as her immunity to toxins, were stated on many occasions, portraying her as a human with an extreme affinity for plants. However, in "cellulite removal", cellulite exercises she reveals that her unique condition has left her unable to bear children. In the episode, she pretends to have reformed after marrying her parole officer and adopting his kids, but her actual plan was to use the genetic material of his husband to crate clones that would pose as her foster children and then grow to become thieves for her. When Batman apprehended her, she turned out to be another clone while the real Poison Ivy is flying out of the country.
[edit] The New Batman Adventures
In The New Batman Adventures season she first appears in Joker's Millions, giving Harley advise after the Joker replaced her, but the first episode to feature her prominently is [[Girls' Night Out (The New Batman Adventures)|Girls' Night Out]], in which Harley and Hear team up with Live Wire to comit crimes and fight against Batgirl and Supergirl. In the episode they lived in an abandoned park in which she created plants-animal hybrids to guard their lair.
In Chemistry, she creates "perfect" people to infiltrate Gotham City's high society and marry the welthiest industrialists including Veronica Vreeland and Bruce Wayne. Once acomplicshed her goal she gatheresd all of them in a cruise in order to make her people inherit all their fortunes, but her plan was foiled by the Batman family.
[edit] Subsequent spin-offs and appearances
After The New Batman Adventures ended Poison Ivy was featured in several other DC animated universe, including "Static Shock," and the Gotham Girls web-toon, in which she held co-starring role. The character also co-starred in the three-issue comic book miniseries Harley and Ivy, and was given her swan song in the critically acclaimed "Batman Adventures" comic book series, which contains stories about Batman's adventures in Gotham City while he is with the Justice League.
In the Justice League series, she appears only once, in a lobotomized form in an alternate universe. Bruce Timm stated that he turned down pitches for Poison Ivy episodes on Justice League so they could focus on new characters and storylines, only bringing back a minimal amount of villains from previous shows [1].
[edit] Design
The original design was modeled by Lynne Naylor in 1991 after the women of Will Eisner. Her costume is basically an abtraction of the one the character wears in the comics, only without the leaves.
In the second series, she was aesthetically revamped to look less human, with her skin turning grayish-white. As a new artistic interpretation of the character, her face has smaller lips, bigger eyes and a completely different bone structure. Her hair is redder and her costume is smaller and darker with no fishnets. As many other women of the DC animated universe, her head was is considerably bigger in the new design.
[edit] Action figure
Kenner's action figure was the first figure of the character ever made. It comes with a bayonet and a small version of the carnivore plant she has in Pretty poison.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- The World's Finest, a site with a complete guide to the DC animated universe. It's the source of a great deal of the related images in Pop-Cult Guides.
- DCAUResource.com, a very documented site when it comes to DC fictional biographies.
- The Animated Batman, an Unofficial Guide, a site with a complete guide to Bruce Timm's Batman. It's the source of a great deal of the related images in Pop-Cult Guides.
