
Sadly for her, Sharp refused to bow to blackmail and Ivy was locked in solitary confinement in the Penitentiary for her efforts. Young proved immune to her abilities (her powers only affected males) so she turned her attention to Doctor Kellerman and threatened to kill him if the asylum Warden, Quincy Sharp, didn't release her.

Years later, Ivy would try to escape by using her mind control pheromones on her doctors. In retaliation, the guards used smokes grenades to thin out the rabid crowd as well as send Ivy back into the vicinity of Arkham Asylum, where she was presumably apprehended and sent back to her cell. During the attempted breach on the bridge, Ivy would take command of one of her Venus plants and attempt to push through the final line of defense on the bridge. Later on, several vines grabbed unsuspecting guards and inmates, and took them to Ivy, where she would brainwash them with her pheromones, and rendered them into her infatuated muscle. First glimpsed when the Arkham staff had infiltrated the Botanical Gardens, Ivy would be reunited with her plants and would easily lay waste to the guards.
#BATMAN ARKHAM ASYLUM POISON IVY FREE#
In the timespan between the events of Batman: Arkham Origins and Batman: Arkham Asylum, Poison Ivy could be seen during the climax of Assault on Arkham as one of the many prison inmates that were set free by the Joker. Sadly, her mental condition deteriorated further, and she became convinced that, far from being mutated, she was now the incarnation of Mother Nature herself. Deemed insane, Ivy was then incarcerated into Arkham Asylum. It was presumably during this rampage that she had first made the acquaintance of another former doctor-turned-terrorist by the name of Harley Quinn.Įventually, she was defeated and captured. She then forcibly planted a deadly kiss on a specialist who checked up on her, thus claiming her first victim.Īllying herself with plant life, which she viewed as far less treacherous than humanity, she released poisonous plant spores into Gotham City in an act of revenge, killing hundreds. 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. She spent six months at the Seattle General Intensive Care Unit, where it was predicted that she would die within her first month there. Woodrue, by a toxic, potentially lethal cocktail of phytohormones that he had forced her to ingest. Sometime before The Joker's takeover of Arkham Asylum, Pamela Isley was transformed by her mentor, Dr. badge could be found at the reception area.īetween Arkham Origins and Assault on Arkham Incident Freeze's assault on GothCorp, Pamela's I.D. Later on New Years Eve, Pamela had presumably graduated from her university and was invited by Ferris Boyle to be a visiting specialist at GothCorp, by helping his company to develop strains of freeze resistant food plants for farming in cold climates and the possible colonization of Mars.ĭuring Mr. badge on the security desk in the Lobby at GothCorp. At North Gotham, her store, Baudelaire's advertised her as the current proprietor.

After she took refuge in a vine-covered stronghold, Ivy kept humanity away rather than participated in the gang wars of Arkham City. Since her encounter with the Dark Knight on Arkham Island, Ivy had been transferred to Arkham City. Her unique brand of eco-terrorism often put her into conflict with Batman, whose iron will usually protected him from her seductive powers. Her crimes became more ecologically focused as she had increasingly abandoned her human side and identified more with the natural world. With chlorophyll flowing through her veins instead of blood, she developed a toxic touch and a pheromone-fueled talent for seduction. Pamela Lillian Isley was transformed into a plant-human hybrid by a science experiment gone wrong. "Nature always wins." -Poison Ivy's final words īotanist Dr.
