Greetings nerdy lost aficionados and welcome back to top 10 nerd and we’re still in hook
up territory today we’re looking at another villain today Poison Ivy. Now Poison Ivy despite
her persona is not actually someone who hooks up with many people because well she can’t
stand most of them and that includes some of the ones she hooks up with except for Harley
she likes her most of the time definitely post new 52. I’m Sasha and these are the
top 10 people Poison Ivy has hooked up with and in some cases kissed to control. Let’s
get started.
Number 10 - Poison Ivy Catwoman – Poison Ivy and Catwoman have worked together on more
than one occasion most notably during the Gotham City Sirens run. While most gravitated
towards ivy and Harley there despite some intense emotional manipulation of Ivy on Harley’s
part there were some who felt there was more of a pull between these two. The Hush animated
adaptation upped her control of Selina to include a kiss, and well to go back to the
sirens there was the road trip issue. And well all the thrupling that happened there.
Some feel that well Catwoman is more fun when she is fully villainous and you don’t get
that with Batman. Still this one stays more in the realm of fandom and even there it can
be pretty rare.
Number 9 - Poison Ivy Superman Speaking of Batman Hush, Poison Ivy kissed more than Catwoman
there she was exerting maximum control over Superman aka Clark Kent to turn him into her
personal servant with her usually pheromone mix plus kryptonite cause that works don’t
think about it. This led to some of those famous panels of Poison Ivy coiled around
Superman the type of panels that are pretty enticing even just on a curiosity level, like
these two don’t normally move in the same circles what is going on. This whole encounter
flirts with the concept of an evil superman and as sales and public discourse indicate
most people are down for that. This would be quite the evil power couple no one would
kill a plant again.
Number 8 – Poison Ivy and Supergirl. So Poison Ivy was actually supergirl’s first
kiss. So that’s a thing. This occurred in 2005 in Supergirl vol 5 issue 0 which 0 is
just an annoying issue number but there you have it. Supergirl encounters poison ivy when
she teams up with Batgirl who has Ivy and Harley under surveillance and when the two
swoop In to stop their heist Poison ivy attempts the same technique she used to control her
kryptonian cousin namely a kiss laced with synthetic kryptonite. This issue is actually
pretty good there’s a solid clayface reveal that plays with who knows whos’s identity
and why it matters. This garnered some attention cause well two ladies kissing woo!
Number 7 – Poison Ivy and Superboy let’s just go through the whole super family next
up Krypto this this right here is part of why crisis on infinite earths happened. Poison
ivy has locked lips with both 90s superbody and well updated hipster superman shirt superboy
who are really the same person minus a retcon or two. Also Connor is back to his 90s persona
which now seems disturbingly trendy and retro I’m not ready for the 90s to be retro yet.
Also yeah this whole thing is pretty uncomfortable and speaks to a lot of double standards the
covers and the panels if you flipped this well people would flip tables. The hipster
Connor arc was done by Jeff Lemire though so if you want to read some earlier Lemire
work there you go, you’re welcome. How you like your poison ivy do you like her having
to kiss them or do you like she can just work on them with her pheromones. Let me know down
below.
Number 6 – Poison Ivy Floronic Man, so Poison Ivy like all characters has gone through some
character shifts and that includes how exactly she is connected to plants in modern iterations
it has come to be tied to the swamp man mythos and the green. So this has brought her into
contact with other members of that ethos which includes the Floronic man with whom poison
ivy has a bit of a convoluted history he is indeed tied to her post crisis origin wherein
he is one of the professors she studied under. In fact he seduces her and experiments on
her injecting her with toxins and commencing her transformation into Poison Ivy. Years
later and some retcons in between them the two would find themselves teaming up for the
sake of the green and world domination and this would lead to a bit of a romantic fling
fueled by old conflicted feelings and the pull of the green. It makes sense but do you
want it that is the question!
Number 5 – Harley Quinn I know only at number 5 blasphemy call the coast guard. However
is Harley a superhero some say she is while others say she isn’t and some will assign
her antihero status, however you classify her her relationship with ivy is significant.
Her and Harley have a long history dating back to the batman animated series and their
relationship was always hinted at as more than friends but would become overtly so in
the comics especially post new 52. They are often depicted in the modern era with an idealized
conflict free relationship and heralded as bastions of positivity just don’t think
about the body count. Harley and Ivy have been adapted into many different forms from
elseworlds stories to video games and will most likely stick around for some time, there
is much more to explore with these two including the dark seeds that were sown not only when
they met but in Gotham city sirens and I for one would love to see them.
Number 4 – Harvey Dent – This comes to us from Batman the animated series and is
actually the episode wherein we first meet Poison Ivy Pretty Poison. In this episode
Pamela sets up a relationship with district attorney Harvey dent pre two face so that
she can poison him as revenge for developing the land where a rare plant species grew.
She would poison him with of course poison lipstick ironically she would end up imprisoned
in the prison built where the land had been developed. Harvey was in deep he wanted to
marry here this of course would lead to Poison Ivy and Two face having a more antagonistic
relationship than they may have otherwise.
Number 3 – Bruce Wayne – Yes he’s getting a separate number than his caped counter part
no not cause they’re two separate people but because Poison Ivy doesn’t know Bruce
Wayne is Batman so these are separate instances. Bruce Wayne has found himself kidnaped by
poison ivy and Harley quinn wherein the two control him for his money with you guessed
it lipstick. They use his money to go on a shopping spree and make him carry what they
buy. Bruce seems mostly annoyed by this occurrence more than anything he has real crimes to stop
and he likes to spend his money on themed gadgets they’re cramping his style.
Number 2 – Poison Ivy and Robin, Poison Ivy has found herself crossing paths with
Robin on multiple occasions and this has led to her controlling the boy wonder more than
once. We of course have the batman tas occurrences and then the comic panel ones. It tends to
be dick grayson this happens to, and this plot point was even picked up in the much
maligned camp fest Batman and Robin where he manages to defeat the technique by putting
latex on his lips. Truly batman has all the tech. Poison ivy is just working her way closer
and closer to Batman with each person she controls isn’t she which of course leads
us in to #1.
Number 1 – Batman when Poison Ivy first debuted back in Batman #181 in 1966 she was
initially introduced as a femme fatale type with a Bettie page haircut and she was a love
interest for Batman a temptress who was there to potentially throw him off the path of good,
didn’t he already have catwoman you say shhh shh you can have more than one variety
is the spice of life. However over time this attraction she had to him would become something
else it would become more malicious as she became more misanthropic and it would be a
manipulation and the fact that he can resist her most of the time frustrates rather than
intrigues her. They’re relationship has evoilved and shifted but this is still an
angle that some people can and choose to play with.