Poster: Batman: Arkham Knight
CHARACTER · BATMAN: ARKHAM KNIGHT
Poison Ivy
- Appears in
- Batman: Arkham Knight (2015)
- Played by
- Uma Thurman
11 archived facts 4 topics
Poison Ivy is a character in the video game Batman: Arkham Knight (2015), portrayed by Uma Thurman.
11 Interesting Facts About Poison Ivy
Interesting Facts (5)
- #001
An unproduced episode would have followed Batman and Robin as they investigated a string of crimes tied to Poison Ivy. Ivy poisons Batman, leaving the duo just 24 hours to find an antidote. Growing weaker in his final hours, Batman's life rests in Robin's hands, forcing Robin to take on more responsibility and act alone to save him.
- #002
Poison Ivy's origin was told in greater detail: as a girl, the plants in the greenhouse were her only companions, and she was a rather plain wallflower who grew into the beauty she is known as today, though the attention and clumsy courtship of would-be boyfriends only made her shyer. A gang of hoodlums then ambushed her in her greenhouse and accidentally set it alight, and she swore revenge on all men.
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Production Story (2)
- #006
Paul Dini proposed an episode in which Poison Ivy seduces Swamp Thing and turns him against Batman. The pairing seemed a natural fit, given the two characters' shared plant motifs and the occasional Batman–Swamp Thing crossovers in the comics. The team could not secure the rights to Swamp Thing, however. Years later, Dini reworked the core idea into Garden of Evil (2017), in which Ivy does seduce Swamp Thing.
- #007
Deeper Meaning (1)
- #008
Harley Quinn is said to have been created to dispel any worry that the Joker might harbor a crush on Batman. His complete indifference to the attractive woman throwing herself at him, in favor of his fixation on "Batsy-poo," along with the implied subtext between Harley and Poison Ivy, actually left things more ambiguous. Paul Dini and Bruce Timm later clarified the matter. Harley originated in a plot that had the Joker attacking a police gathering by jumping out of a cake. Believing the network would object to the scene, given the sexual connotations of the "girl jumping out of the cake" trope in real life, the writers decided to give the Joker a female sidekick who could replace and impersonate the real dancer inside the cake. In the end it was all moot, since the network approved the original idea of the Joker himself leaping out.
