Evolution of Poison Ivy

Poison Ivy or also known as Pamela Lillian Isley made her first appearance in Batman #181 in June 1966. After this appearance she started to appear in more in the Batman comics. Ivy is also portrayed as a love interest of Batman during their interaction throughout the comics and even in the animated series. She was created by Robert Kanigher and Sheldon Moldoff, they orginally based her off Bettie Page giving her the same hair cut and look all together. She is known for the ability to control plants as Marc LeGrande attempted to murder her after she assisted him in stealing an Egyptian herd which was extremely toxic, the attempted murder failed and Ivy woke up being able to control plants and being immune of all toxins and diseases

However in the 2011 in the reboot of DC she was given a new story, in a special issues detective comic she was also given a new origin. In this story Pamela Isley was born with a rare medical condition which stopped her from leaving her home and that the short amount of time she was allowed outside she spend time in her family garden. She also find out a bit about her family and that she has an abusive father who later kills her mother burying her in the back garden. Then when she was in college she sold these pheromone pills to students to study the effects she was soon caught by the police, then used a much more powerful version of the drug, taking control of dean’s mind getting him to drop charges and let her graduate with honour. Then in the origin story it shows that Ivy clearly had it out of her father, so when she goes to visit him in jail and she kissed him and the poison that was given from her lips it killed him.

Then in January 2016 Ivy was given her own comic series called Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and death, this comic shows her in a more professional setting and not as the super villain as she is portrayed in other comics. However she still keeps her villain side in hand as the comic is based of experiments of plant human hybrids which grow at a alarming rate, in just 34 weeks they grow into full grown adults.In the comic you see her team up with another famous villain within Dc known as Cat Woman or Selina Kyle.

Ivy is also brought into some of the Harley solo comics as Harley is another love interest of Ivy’s at the end of the Gotham Sirens Harley states that Ivy is in love with her, but Ivy was stunned not really noticing it herself. The in 2015 Ivy is revealed to be bisexual by the Harley Quinn series stating that she is in a romantic relationship with Harley “without the jealous monogamy”

Ivy then makes several appearances in the animations just like Harley Quinn she appears in Batman adventures series and in the New Batman adventures series both times she was voice by Diane Perishing. She made her first appearance in the episode called ‘pretty poison’.

In the New Batman adventures Series  you see her look changed slightly her giving a more plant like look her skin having a slight green added to it. Her personality is also changed to be much more flirtatious and is shown to have a better friendship with Harley Quinn.

However in Gotham Girls she is a co-starting role as she teams up with Catwoman and Harley Quinn in a series showing more of the girls side of Gotham. She keeps the design of the New Batman Adventures, but her skin and hair change slight and also her outfit. Her hair becomes a lot lighter, her skin more human colour and her outfit a slight brighter green.