Poison Ivy (comics) - Teams and Alliances

Teams and Alliances

• Poison Ivy joins Two-Face's gang for a short period of time during Batman: Dark Victory, when she murders crime boss Lucia Viti on Two-Face's command. However, she is disliked by Two-Face, who is immune to her charms. She is notably the only member of the gang to be shocked and upset by Two-Face's casual killing of fellow gang member Solomon Grundy, a plant-based entity. The gang is broken up after Two-Face's apparent death at the hands of the Joker.

• Poison Ivy is a member of the original Injustice Gang of the World, which fights the Justice League on several occasions.

• She joins the Secret Society of Super Villains for a mission against the Justice League. She later joins Alexander Luthor, Jr.'s incarnation of the Society.

• She is coerced into being a member of the Suicide Squad. During this time, she uses her abilities to enslave Count Vertigo.

• Her best friend is the Joker's girlfriend Harley Quinn. Unlike most villain team-ups, their partnership seems to be genuinely rooted in friendship, and Ivy sincerely wants to save Harley from her abusive relationship with the Joker. Ivy doesn't exactly care for people as much as she does for plants but she couldn't help but feel sympathy for Harley, as Harley is mistreated by the man she deeply loves, just as Ivy was by Jason Woodrue. She has expressed a small dislike against The Joker and is sometimes even annoyed with Harley when her obsession for him gets out of control. It is said that this is because The Joker perhaps reminds her of Jason Woodrue, therefore making her dislike him intensely. In the final storyline of the Gotham City Sirens series, Harley suggests that Ivy may be in love with her, an accusation that stuns her. The following issue has Poison Ivy acknowledge that she may indeed love Harley, though it is not made clear if her intentions are romantic, or if she merely views Harley as a sister.

• The partnership between Harley and Ivy has also at times included Catwoman, such as in episodes and issues of the Gotham Girls webtoon and comic book series. In the mainstream DC Universe, the three formed an alliance in the pages of Gotham City Sirens.

• Due to having different motivations than the rest of Batman's rogues gallery, aside from having Harley as her ally, Ivy usually works alone and is a "solo villain". With or without Harley, Poison Ivy is adept at committing crimes and is one of The Batman's most lethal enemies thanks to a combination of her intelligence, beauty and power over plants and pheromones.

• Poison Ivy would later be invited to join the Birds of Prey by Black Canary during The New 52. Katana and Starling rejected the idea and even attacked Ivy, but after a brief scuffle, the women began working together as a team.