Ivy

Similar 🠚 Poison Ivy, from the Batman: Arkham Series

Ivy
Biographical Information
Full Name	Pamela Lillian Isley
Aliases	Poison Ivy Junior (by Marcus Lo)
Base of Operations	Metropolis
Affiliations	Suicide Squad Poison Ivy (previous incarnation)
Physical Description
Hair	Red
Eyes	Green
Game Information
Voice Actor	Darcy Rose Byrnes
First Appearance	Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League

Ivy is the second incarnation of Pamela Isley. During the City of Fear incident, after Poison Ivy gave her life to save Gotham City a plant sprouted where she had died, and five years later would become this second incarnation.

Incident Reports

Before Kill The Justice League Incident

At some point after Batman: Arkham Knight, Lex Luthor retrieved the plant that grew from Poison Ivy's shirt at Our Lady of the Bowery, in the Sister Magdalena Orphanage, having received information on this from an unknown individual with ties to Riddler and took it back with him to LexCorp in Metropolis. Through unknown experimentation over the next five years, the plant grew into a second incarnation of Ivy. She had all the same brilliance as her original self, though lacked all memory of her previous life. Lex gave her one hour of sunlight a day, to ensure she couldn't get too powerful. When Brainiac invaded, Lex left in his War suit to fight the Justice League. Ivy escaped soon after, with her plant friend Daphne, stealing a LexCorp jumpsuit and a red cape to cover herself up.

Kill The Justice League Incident

The Suicide Squad are notified of Ivy's presence in Metropolis and track her down using Batman's pheromone detector. Harley Quinn is taken aback to see Ivy in the form of a child and saddened to see that this new incarnation of Ivy doesn't remember her from memory, however her pheromones remember Harley, confusing the young Ivy.

Vowing to get back at Brainiac for what his invasion was doing to the plant life in Metropolis, the Suicide Squad aid Ivy in protecting Daphne from Brainiac's forces, allowing her to create an affliction through her plant that would freeze her enemies solid.

When Amanda Waller orders the team to inject Ivy with the same nano bombs they had, both Deadshot and especially Harley are shown to be very reluctant to do so, considering this Ivy was just a child, while King Shark reasoned that she should be able to live freely and not be under Waller's control like they are, as such all three members decide not to inject Ivy with the bombs. Ivy, however, only overhears the team talking about injecting her with nano bombs and decides to kill the four of them before that can happen. Just as they're about to get eaten by Daphne, Captain Boomerang reveals that, at some point during the chaos, he had already injected her with the nano bomb ages ago, thinking the rest of the team would thank him for it later, much to their anger.

Harley promises to make it up to the distraught Ivy, saying that the two of them have been through a lot together, including knowing Harley's ex-boyfriend. Feeling defeated, and knowing she has no choice but to comply, Ivy releases the team from her plant's grip and can only cry as Rick Flag arrives to pick her up, showing a considerable amount of kindness to Ivy as he leads her to the transport vehicle. Meanwhile Boomerang, rather than getting thanked like he thought he would, instead gets punched in the arms by Harley and Deadshot before being punched hard in the chest and knocked onto the floor by King Shark, his three team members angered by him implanting the nano-bombs into a child.

After calming down and slowly getting relaxed in the Hall of Justice, Ivy would begin aiding the team by splicing different villain's elemental powers and scientific chemicals in order to create different afflictions each member of the Suicide Squad could apply to their firearms and melee weapons.

During her time there, she would “Interview” others, which often led to conversations between them, some ending with the formation of potentially lasting friendships, others ending badly. During her conversation with Hack, they became friends. During her conversation with Rick Flag, she used psycho-suggestive pheromones to manipulate him into revealing his traumatic past experiences. During her conversation with Harley Quinn, she and Harley would discuss Ivy’s past life as Poison Ivy. During her conversation with Penguin, Ivy would learn quite a bit about villainy from him, resulting in her forming a mentor-mentee bond with him, albeit a begrudging one. Her conversation with the Earth-2 Lex Luthor would start out as a discussion about Lex’s personal philosophies, only for it to turn into an argument about her captivity at the hands of Earth-1 Lex Luthor. Later, she discovered what Waller planned to do with the Justice League after Flash and Green Lantern had been rescued. Following a heated argument with Toyman about the Justice League’s ostensible harm to the environment, she confronted him with his unknowingly aiding Waller in helping her replace the Justice League, much to his shock. Some time after, she managed to get in contact with Riddler, they came to see one another as intellectual peers, only for him to realize that her reason for contacting him was to find out his involvement with Lex Luthor having her imprisoned at LexCorp, to which he reveals he did not sell her out. During an “interview” with Deathstroke, they became friends.

Codex

From the Files of Lex Luthor

Poison Ivy is as much a testament to the power of botanical science as a case study in the benefits of curated child labor. Reviewing her DNA samples, I am beginning to learn more about the anomalous conditions that created this gleefully vicious hybrid of human and plant – twice.

According to her file, this is Ivy’s second life. In her first, she was a powerful scientist-turned-criminal in Gotham’s gallery of rogues, fighting on nature’s behalf until her apparent death in the Cloudburst Incident. And now, she is seemingly reborn from a single cutting left behind by the disintegration of her previous form. Fascinating.

As a subject of study, Ivy is singularly compelling. Memories of her former life trickle back slowly but surely, which has tremendous ramifications: this child is not a new Ivy, she is the same Ivy. If we can even begin to replicate such a process outside of her genetic makeup, we could begin down a path to undoing and redefining death itself.  

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Trivia

• This incarnation of Ivy is based on the comic story Heroes in Crisis; in said story, Poison Ivy is killed and is shown coming back to life after growing from a plant. Her body is composed of plant-like matter as opposed to skin, which is referenced with this Ivy's hair shown looking like red leaves or petals, as well as King Shark confirming through her scent that her body wasn't composed of human flesh.
  • Their main difference is that Ivy retained her adulthood in the comic, while this Ivy is a child. With Ivy mentioning Lex had kept her away from sunlight for five years, it's possible that, much like a plant in real life, more exposure to the sun would rapidly age Ivy back into an adult.
  • Similar to Heroes in Crisis, Poison Ivy's reincarnated self appears more plantlike than her previous form, which is shown by the sclera of her eyes being black instead of white and her hair consisting of red leaves as opposed to actual hair.
  • Despite King Shark confirming this Ivy's body wasn't entirely human, Ivy herself confirms she is able to eat human food, as she mentions that she likes eating corn dogs.
• Lex's research suggests that, as Ivy retains the intelligence of her previous adult incarnation, over time her memories of her past life would slowly start to return in full.
  • Because of the lack of her past memories, Ivy is initially unfamiliar with Harley Quinn, however it's revealed that Poison Ivy's pheromones are able to recall anyone she was previously familiar with. Because of this, Ivy and Harley become more friendly as the game goes on and they slowly rebuild their friendship resulting in Ivy being the most co-optative and friendly with her of Task Force X.
• Despite never calling herself Poison Ivy, Ivy is referred to as such when first noticed in Metropolis, as well as in her character bio and the game's subtitles.
• Ivy talks to Hack, Rick and Harley about her identity in the interview tapes.
  • Harley encouraged her to not see herself as Pamela Isley reborn, Even indirectly admitting that she didn't like the whole leaf panties thing Pamela did.