When Gotham City is destroyed in an earthquake, rather than fight over territory like most of Batman's enemies, she holds dominion over Robinson Park and turns it into a tropical paradise. In the end, Batman decapitates the Floronic Man and Ivy escapes with her money. However, Ivy turns on Floronic Man and lets Batman go to fight the intoxicated maniac. Batman intervenes, but is overcome by Woodrue's henchwomen. The purpose of this is to create a world economy run on hemp and to have their offspring control it. Woodrue intends to combine their DNA to create a "child", all while flooding the streets of Gotham with high-powered marijuana. After striking a deal with him in the underground tunnels of Gotham, Ivy receives a trunk full of money in return for samples of her DNA. Jason Woodrue, her former college professor that conducted the experiments on her. She is less than happy to discover that it is the Floronic Man, formerly known as Dr. That night, two women, successfully break Ivy out and bring her back to their employer. While in Arkham, Poison Ivy receives a message through flowers that someone is to help her escape. Over the years, she develops plant-like superpowers, the most noticeable being a lethal toxin in her lips: she is able to literally kill with a kiss. From this point on, she has a kind of obsession with Batman, he being the only person she could not control. Batman, who appears in Gotham that very same year, thwarts her scheme, as well as she is incarcerated in Arkham Asylum. She begins her criminal career by threatening to release her suffocating spores into the air unless the city meets her demands. When her boyfriend has a car accident after mysteriously suffering from a massive fungal overgrowth, Isley drops out of school and leaves Seattle, eventually settling in Gotham City. Enraged at the betrayal, she suffers from violent mood swings, being sweet one moment and evil the next. Later, Woodrue flees from the authorities leaving Isley in the hospital for six months. She nearly dies twice as a result of these poisonings, driving her insane. Woodrue injects Isley with poisons and toxins as an experiment, causing her transformation. Isley, a timid shy girl, is easily seduced by her professor. She later studies advanced botanical biochemistry at a university with Alec Holland under Dr. Pamela Lillian Isley grows up wealthy with emotionally distant parents. That was the birth of Poison Ivy.įollowing the events of Crisis on Infinite Earths, which massively retconned DC Universe history and continuity, Poison Ivy's origins were revised in Secret Origins #36. She survives this murder attempt and discovers she has acquired an immunity to all natural toxins and diseases. Fearing she would implicate him in the theft, he attempts to poison her with the herbs, which are deadly and untraceable. She was seduced by Marc LeGrande into assisting him with the theft of an Egyptian artifact containing ancient herbs. Lillian Rose, a promising botanist from Seattle. Pre-Crisis, Poison Ivy's real name was Dr. Parallax suddenly appears behind Superman, having John Stewart under his control.Įmil Hamilton succeeds into finding a way to reboot the rings so when he does all the Yellow Lanterns, including Poison Ivy, are released from the influence of fear and lose their powers with the rings turning black.Īfter their rings get rebooted and they lose their powers, the inmates of Arkham fall from the sky unable to do anything to escape from their eventual death but fortunately Superman manages to save them all.Īfter Parallax's defeat, all the now depowered criminals return to Arkham Asylum. After this, the Yellow Lanterns stand still and kneel before him. Freeze, Batman tells Superman that the ring is not doing either of them any bit of good. After been attacked by Bane, Poison Ivy and Mr. Luckily, Superman arrives just in time to offer assistance to Batman and Nightwing.īatman and Nightwing find it difficult to defeat the super-powered inmates, as Poison Ivy has captured them in her vines. There, Batman and Nightwing are doing their best to contain the newly powered inmates of Arkham, including Poison Ivy, who have already been transformed into Yellow Lanterns. In Gotham City, the yellow rings of Parallax head to Arkham Asylum. Pamela Isley, also known as Poison Ivy is a criminal and a patient at Arkham Asylum.
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