Dr. Jason Woodrue is an ingenious botanist and bio-chemist who worked with Dr. Pamela Isley in the University of Gotham's Bio-chemistry wing. Through his experiments, he was able to connect to the Green mutated vegetative form allows him to control plants. He would later more prominently become the Floronic Man as an antagonist to Swamp Thing.
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Arkham Origins Incident[]
At this point, Pamela Isley was still a meek botanist who interned under Dr. Woodrue.
Between Arkham Origins and Arkham Shadow Incident[]
Dr. Woodrue and Dr. Isley worked together to submit a grant proposal to the Wayne Foundation's highly-sought Alec Holland Memorial Grant. The proposal was for a new bio-chemistry wing at the University of Gotham. The pair won the grant, and Isley promised to "engineer a plant species that'll scrub the earth clean again". Woodrue was quick to add that these species would "exist in harmony with human life", and commented that "her passion for the natural world gets away with her". Dr. Woodrue also sought to re-centre the limelight on himself, suggesting that Isley would never have achieved anything if not for him.
By July of Batman's third year operating in Gotham, the department had shared a rare plant species to help Dr. Jonathan Crane with his own research.
Between Arkham Shadow and Assault on Arkham Incident[]
Sometime before The Joker's takeover of Arkham Asylum, Dr. Isley was transformed by Dr. Woodrue using a toxic, potentially lethal cocktail of phytohormones that he had forced her to ingest. She spent six months at the Seattle General Intensive Care Unit, where it was predicted that she would die within her first month there. While there she learned to use her newfound connection to plant life, including the lone Glorissa orchid Woodrue had left for her, to gain her strength and then much more, rechristening herself "Poison Ivy" to distance herself from the "timid wallflower" Pamela Isley.
Trivia[]
- Poison Ivy was known to have worked under Dr. Jason Woodrue. In many continuities, Woodrue was a plant-based villain of his own, and operated under the name of "Floronic Man", "Plant Master", "Floro" or "Seeder".