Poison Ivy

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Poison Ivy (毒藤女) 35
Alias(es)	“Welcoming Pine,” Zuo Ci’s nickname for her while she is planted outside his shop 87 89
Species/Race	Plant-altered human; later becomes essentially an avatar of the Green 36 158
Gender	Female 35
Affiliation	Formerly commissioned by the Maroni Family; later bound to Zuo Ci’s service by a three-hundred-year contract 37 107
Occupation/Role	Gotham supervillain; contracted caretaker of greenery around Zuo Ci’s shop; occasional paid emergency medic 71 107
Status	Alive and under restraint. Her captors keep her incapacitated to suppress her plant growth; her sudden awakening raises doubts about who is speaking through her 169
First Appearance	Chapter 35, “Jack Hanma’s Daily Life in Gotham” 35

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Transformation into Poison Ivy	36 37	An earlier, undated transformation gives her plant control, poison immunity, hormone regulation, and a constitution stronger than an ordinary human’s. Its cause is not specified.
Fertilizer-enhanced plant control	62 91	Dave’s fertilizer floods her with power and enlarges her vines enough to restrain multiple Experiments. Later, she is explicitly described as considerably stronger than during her initial appearances and can fight Firefly despite his fire-based equipment.
New plant abilities and giant manifestation	156 157	During her botanical-garden rampage, she displays sharper sensory perception through her vines and forms a plant giant hundreds of meters tall. The acquisition of this new power is not shown in the supplied passages.
Avatar of the Green	158 159	Zuo Ci’s system identifies her as essentially an avatar of the Green. Her connected body extends dozens of kilometers beneath Gotham, she no longer requires a suitable natural environment to grow, and her survival becomes tied to the enormous plant mass.

Background

Before becoming Poison Ivy, she was a shy student, later described as an innocent college girl and a former university top student. She played chess at school and had some experience with Chinese chess 36 37 90.

After her transformation, making the world greener and caring about Harley Quinn become her principal interests. She also joins environmental groups whose disruptive activities repeatedly lead to arrest, according to Catwoman 37 45.

Appearance

• Plant-altered body: Her physiology is substantially removed from ordinary humanity. Dave’s fertilizer visibly makes her skin greener while healing her injuries 35 36.
• Facial paint: Zuo Ci covers her face in difficult-to-remove red paint. Her attempts to conceal it produce patchy, multicolored makeup, which she eventually removes with his special makeup remover 38 60.
• Potted form: During her imprisonment at the shop entrance, her lower half is embedded in a flowerpot 89 102.
• Giant form: Her later vine-covered manifestation towers hundreds of meters above Zuo Ci; its underground extensions span dozens of kilometers 157 158.

Personality

Ivy is fiercely protective of plants, calling them her “children.” Promises of greening Gotham and supporting environmental organizations persuade her to accept the Maroni Family’s commission. Even while trapped in Zuo Ci’s flowerpot, she abandons her attempt to stay out of a fight when Firefly threatens to burn her plants 37 90.

Her confidence frequently exceeds her ability to assess opponents. She initially expects Jack to be an easily defeated brute and later assumes fighting in a park will let her overpower Bane’s Experiments. Both encounters force her to confront the limits of her powers 35 36 62.

Repeated humiliation by Zuo Ci leaves her fearful, resentful, and eager for revenge. She also bargains, deliberately slows unwanted work, and attempts to evade a fertilizer payment promised to the Anti-Aircraft Gunner. Fertilizer can quickly turn her resistance into enthusiastic cooperation 63 66 91 157.

Abilities & Skills

Plant Control and Accelerated Growth

Ivy commands vines and accelerates the development of plants 35 66.

• Restraint and combat: Uses vines to bind opponents, lash enemies, and bury captured Experiments underground 35 62 63.
• Protection: Creates vine nets to catch herself and a small cage to shield herself during flight 35 63 66.
• Construction: Builds a towering vine palace and cages at Gotham’s botanical garden 156.
• Infrastructure repair: Grows Wrapping Waterweed across and inside Gotham Dam, sealing its leaks in less than five minutes. The effort leaves her severely depleted 66.
• Landscaping and cultivation: Plants greenery around repaired streets and can induce her vines to bear fruit 84 107.
• Early environmental dependence: Her effectiveness drops sharply in barren industrial areas. Before her connection to the Green, a prison that denied plants the conditions needed for growth could suppress her abilities 60 158.

Toxins and Hormone Regulation

Her transformation allows her to regulate hormones and produce potent toxins 36.

• Releases a neurotoxin at a distance and delivers a concentrated dose through a thorn 36.
• Adjusts her hormones before making a rapid close-range attack on Jack 36.
• Synthesizes adrenaline inside her body and injects it into critically injured patients to keep them alive 71.
• Limit against Jack: Air currents from his movements disperse her airborne toxin; even a thorn carrying several times her usual secretion barely affects him 36.

Plant Physiology and Recovery

Her altered body is stronger and more resilient than an ordinary human’s 35 36.

• Survives Jack’s blows despite shattered facial bones and serious spinal damage 36.
• Possesses poison immunity and resistance to almost all viruses and drugs; Zuo Ci’s anesthetic does not incapacitate her 36 60.
• Can photosynthesize, though she still asks for food and rejects being treated as an ordinary potted plant 36 89.
• Recovers rapidly from otherwise devastating injuries when treated with Dave’s fertilizer 36 37.
• Herbicide vulnerability: Zuo Ci’s extra-strength weed killer withers her vines despite her efforts to sustain them. He also uses it directly on her to enforce cooperation 37 62.

Communication with Plants

Ivy can understand and converse with plants, including the unusual specimens in Zuo Ci’s shop 91.

• Chats and occasionally plays cards with the shop plants during her confinement 91.
• Recruits the Anti-Aircraft Gunner to shoot down Firefly when her own vines cannot reach him effectively 91.
• Cannot assume those plants will obey without conditions: the gunner expects payment and becomes hostile when she reneges 91 102.

Connection to the Green

As an avatar of the Green, Ivy gains access to growth that no longer depends on ordinary environmental conditions 158.

• Extends her body beneath nearly all of Gotham and manifests a colossal aboveground plant form 157 158.
• Gains increasingly sharp sensory perception through her vines 157.
• Survives injuries that should be fatal to a human. Zuo Ci states that destroying her would require burning both her and the enormous connected plant mass completely away 159.
• Suppression: Rendering her unconscious slows the rampant growth because her own orders are a major driver of it 158.
• Specialized countermeasure: Dave’s Garden Shovel treats her entire connected mass as one plant and uproots it without damaging the ground 157 158.

Equipment / Items

• Dave’s fertilizer — Heals her injuries and enhances her plant powers. Zuo Ci repeatedly uses access to it as an incentive for cooperation 36 62 63 66.
• Waterweed Sprout — A shop product priced at $3,000 per plant that matures into Wrapping Waterweed. Ivy accelerates its growth to seal Gotham Dam 66.
• Landscaping seeds — Supplied for planting greenery around a repaired stretch of Gotham 84.
• Flowerpot restraint — Holds her lower body during her “Welcoming Pine” imprisonment. Hammers, drills, and other tools fail to damage it 89 102.

Relationships

• Zuo Ci — Adversary, creditor, and eventually contractual superior. He heals her but also imposes fabricated charges, humiliates her, and forces her into labor. She later attacks him in revenge after gaining new powers 36 37 60 107 157.
• Jack Hanma — Initial target and overwhelmingly stronger opponent. He defeats her, brings her to Zuo Ci’s shop, and later frees her from the steel-bar restraints at Zuo Ci’s instruction 35 36 38.
• Catwoman / Selina Kyle — Close friend with romantic implications repeatedly voiced by Zuo Ci. Catwoman retaliates over Ivy’s humiliation, but later leaves her with an unpaid bill. During Ivy’s rampage, their relationship deteriorates when Ivy restrains her and makes unwanted advances; Catwoman subsequently helps subdue her 38 45 47 84 156 157 159.
• Harley Quinn — One of Ivy’s principal personal attachments after her transformation. Zuo Ci also alludes to intimacy between them 37 60.
• Batman / Bruce Wayne — Opponent, emergency employer, and romantic interest. Zuo Ci describes her as one of Batman’s lovers; Ivy’s own attraction deepens when she sees his remorse over Man-Bat. Batman later participates in containing her 38 71 85 169.
• Penguin / Oswald Cobblepot — Uneasy companion during the operation against Bane’s hideouts. They travel with Zuo Ci on his three-person bicycle 61 62.
• Anti-Aircraft Gunner — Shop plant acquaintance who helps defeat Firefly. Their rapport sours after Ivy dodges the promised fertilizer settlement 91 102.
• Wonder Woman / Diana — Helps Catwoman beat Ivy into incapacity and later assists with restraining her 159 169.
• Maroni Family — Hires her against Zuo Ci with money, promised landscaping, and donations to environmental organizations 35 37.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Maroni Commission and First Debt

Ivy approaches Jack disguised as a sex worker while carrying out the Maroni Family’s commission against Zuo Ci. Jack recognizes her, defeats her vines and toxins, and knocks her unconscious. At the shop, Zuo Ci revives her with fertilizer, restrains her with green-painted steel bars, and forces her to reveal her employer 35 36 37.

Zuo Ci presents a claimed $108,000 bill, “rounds” it up to $120,000, and threatens to plant her outside the shop until she earns it back one cent at a time. She agrees to repay him after further intimidation. He stamps her red-painted face onto a contract and releases her; Catwoman finds her fleeing in tears 37 38.

The paint leaves Ivy hiding in the botanical garden for half a month. Catwoman’s attempt to retaliate by stealing Jack’s wallet leads to her own confrontation with Zuo Ci 45 56.

Bane’s Experiments and Gotham Dam

While brooding in a park, Ivy confronts people capturing homeless residents and damaging the gardens. She loses and is taken away as an ornamental plant. Zuo Ci later encounters her in Bane’s hideout, removes her facial paint, and adds another $10,000 to her debt 60 61.

Forced to accompany Zuo Ci and Penguin, she fights escaped Experiments with fertilizer-enhanced vines. She bargains for three bags of fertilizer before burying the captives, then travels toward the dam by air. A collision with a seagull knocks her unconscious en route 62 63.

At Gotham Dam, she accelerates a Waterweed Sprout until it seals the damaged structure. Afterward, Batman hires her to keep critically injured survivors alive. By the following chapter, she is free of debt and awaiting the remaining payment 66 71 72.

Landscaping, Imprisonment, and Service Contract

Ivy accompanies Catwoman to have Zuo Ci remove her lingering smell-related affliction. When Catwoman leaves without paying, Ivy must landscape nearby repaired streets in her place 84.

Zuo Ci subsequently plants her outside the shop as a “Welcoming Pine,” with their dispute partly driven by her criticism of his dipping sauce. While confined, she defends the plants from Firefly and recruits the Anti-Aircraft Gunner to finish the fight 87 89 90 91.

Unable to break the unusually sturdy flowerpot, she eventually signs a three-hundred-year service contract in exchange for release and restoration of her legs. Her assigned work is maintaining greenery in the surrounding blocks 102 107.

Botanical-Garden Rampage and Containment

During Gotham’s later plant crisis, Ivy establishes a vine palace in the botanical garden and imprisons Catwoman. Selina suspects an outside influence, while Ivy insists that she is clearheaded. Zuo Ci intervenes when Ivy’s advances become coercive, prompting Ivy to attack him as a towering plant giant 156 157.

Dave’s Garden Shovel uproots her entire connected body. Ordinary plant-suppressing imprisonment is no longer sufficient because of her bond with the Green, so Zuo Ci recommends keeping her unconscious to slow the vegetation. Diana and Catwoman severely injure her while sparing her face 158 159.

Her captors later move her and all attached greenery to an environment intended to weaken her and continue incapacitating her every five minutes. She suddenly awakens screaming apologies, but Batman stops Diana from striking her again because he doubts Ivy herself is speaking 169.

Notable Quotes

“What did you do to my children?!” 37

“Hahaha! See that? This is the power of nature! Die, you bastards!” 62

“If you want to kill me, could you just say so?” 90