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Dr. Pamela Isley/Poison Ivy

"I am Nature's arm. Her spirit. Her will. Hell, I am Mother Nature, and the time has come for plants to take back the world so rightfully ours! 'cause it's not nice to fool with Mother Nature."

Played by: Uma Thurman

Voiced by: Keiko Toda (Japanese), Laurence Crouzet (European French), Élise Bertrand (Canadian French)

Appearances: Batman & Robin

"I think I've had a change of heart. Quite literally. The animal-plant toxins had a rather unique effect on me. They replaced my blood with aloe, my skin with chlorophyll, and filled my lips...with vemon. Oh, and Jason? One other thing. I probably should have mentioned this earlier: I'm... poison."

A botanist working in a South American lab under the employ of Wayne Enterprises, Dr. Pamela Isley is seemingly murdered in a Freak Lab Accident when she stumbles upon her eccentric colleague's secret experiments, rebuffs his sexual advances, and threatens to ruin his career. However, after prolonged exposure to the Super Serum known as Venom, she becomes a full-on murderous vamp with a pheromone dust concoction and poisonous lips who seeks to pit Batman and Robin against each other and rid the earth of mankind's toxic influence.

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• Actually Pretty Funny: When she greets Robin to her lair after he has seen it overflowing with beautiful plants, he asks her "Is your thumb the only part of you that's green?" as he slowly approaches her. She recognizes this as an attempt by him to flirt with her, and decides to humor him by playing along with his joke and telling him he will have to find out, while smiling at him and inviting him to come join her on her throne.
• Adaptation Origin Connection: She created the steroid-like Venom that gives Bane his strength.
• Adaptational Villainy: Poison Ivy's personality and motives tend to fluctuate both in the comics and adaptations — she's been depicted as anything from a misguided Well-Intentioned Extremist trying to protect the environment from humans to a bitter misanthrope who views humans as a disease to a garden-variety crook with a plant theme to a borderline alien embodiment of plantlife. Here, she's firmly a sadistic and completely self-serving sociopath.
• Admiring the Abomination: Discussed in the principal screenplay and the official adult novelization by Michael Jan Friedman; She finds herself admiring Bane's penchant for violence and destruction on numerous occasions (even before her villainous transformation), and reveals in exposition that what attracts her to Freeze is his inhuman appearance and powers, even calling him 'fabulously elemental' and good-looking and masculine 'in a grotesque sort of way'.
• Affectionate Gesture to the Nose: Played for Horror; after she and Robin finally share a passionate romantic kiss together under the guise of her wishing him luck against Mr. Freeze, she immediately reveals it was for "bad luck" in a mock sad voice while rubbing noses with him affectionately and gently stoking his chin lovingly with a single finger, continuing to pretend that she loves him and flirting with him even as she condemns him to death.
• All There in the Manual: One of the major plot holes people found in the movie was that Freeze's plan would have killed plant life in the ecosystem. Going along with said plan was in fact a conscious choice on Ivy's part, as in the script and the junior novelization, there is a part where she crushes a flower after proclaiming, "Sorry, hon', this is For Science!." This actually does make some sense to Ivy's characterization since one of her defining traits from the comics is that, for as much as Ivy professes she cares about the environment, she's also a sadist who tends to overlook her own hypocrisy so long as she gets to hurt people. This was especially prominent in Batman: The Animated Series.
• Almost Kiss: She attempts to kiss Robin twice while at Freeze's hideout, but both attempts are thwarted by Batman, the first accidentally and the second due to his warning right as they were leaning in. Averted with the third attempt, where they finally kiss in her lair once they are alone.
• Alternate Self: Has one on Earth-Prime & Earth-66.
• Ambition Is Evil: Goes from vengeful eco-terrorist to genocidal megalomaniac who plans to use Freeze's weapon to wipe out all human (and most plant) life so that she can rule over a race of mutant plants with Freeze by her side. There's definitely a Broken Aesop in there somewhere. Yikes.
• Avoid the Dreaded G Rating: Her numerous (and we mean numerous) sexual references are just about the sole reason for Batman & Robin's PG-13 rating, save a few swear words here and there.
• Awkward Kiss: Zigzagged with Robin and only really awkward on her side. The kiss itself is passionate, but immediately after it she ruins the romantic mood by revealing she was lying about loving Robin and expects him to die. When Robin reveals he won’t die, Ivy is shocked and stunned silent for awhile, realizing she just revealed herself to Robin and kissed him for nothing.
• Backstab Backfire: She finally gets Robin alone in her lair and shares a kiss with him, believing that she has finally poisoned him. But she has actually played right into his hands, and he survived thanks to wearing rubber lips for protection. Therefore not only did her attempt to kill him fail, she revealed the whole plan to him and revealed that she has been deceiving him the whole time.
• Bad Date: This is essentially how her final encounter with Robin goes. Ivy spends a majority of the film seducing Robin, tricking him into believing she loves him and is willing to give up her villainous ways and "turn over a new leaf" just to be with him, all so she can drive a wedge between him and Batman and eventually kill him with a Kiss of Death. She eventually lures him to her lair under the pretense of her love for him and the two meet in the center of her lair, isolated from anymore interruptions and essentially allowing them to finally have a date together. As the two cuddle together on Ivy's throne and flirt with each other, Robin tries to pry information from Ivy to see if she can really be trusted while she continues to try to seduce him and offer him other sexual activities to get him to kiss her. Eventually, Ivy agrees to share what she and Freeze have planned together in exchange for Robin giving her a kiss "for luck". Immediately after they share a passionate kiss though, Ivy reveals her true colors to Robin, condemning him to death in mock sadness while leaning back and shooting him a victorious smirk. However, Robin reveals that he was actually playing Ivy himself and protected himself with rubber lips until he could find out if she really loved him or not, and having just failed her Secret Test of Character, Robin smugly rubs this fact in her face by copying her mock sad voice. The two of them revealing their lies to each other essentially kills the romantic mood between the two "would-be-lovers", and Ivy shoots a dirty glare at Robin in humiliation for outsmarting her and stealing a kiss from her before lunging at him and shoving him into her lily pond, where the plants in it sense her anger towards Robin and attempt to drown him. As she struts away, she turns to Robin as he is struggling and ends their "date" by mockingly waving him goodbye while shouting a taunting "See ya!" to him, officially "breaking up" with him.
• Battle Strip: A downplayed and accidental example happens with her. After shoving Robin into her pond to drown him, she quickly takes off the see-through shawl she was wearing before jumping off her throne and attempting to make her escape. Though she didn't expect to get into a fight directly after this, she ends up capturing Batman and fighting Batgirl as she tries to leave.
• Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: With Freeze (Brains) and Bane (Brawn). Potentially averted in that, while Freeze is clearly a bit of a Genius Bruiser by way of Informed Intelligence, Ivy does the lion's share of the scheming amongst the three.
• Became Their Own Antithesis: Pamela Isley found out her boss Dr. Woodrue was using her research for his own megalomaniacal ends and announced her efforts to get him fired and blacklisted. After becoming Poison Ivy, she seeks to do exactly what Dr. Woodrue planned to do (that is, Take Over the World).
• Big Bad Duumvirate: Acts as one of the main antagonists of Batman & Robin alongside Freeze, and is the dominant member in their partnership. She drives Batman and Robin apart and manipulates Freeze into being her Dragon-in-Chief by claiming Batman killed his wife. However, Freeze was already a prominent threat long before she arrived on the scene, and remains the final enemy after she's defeated.
• The Big Damn Kiss: She purposely sets up her kiss with Robin in her lair to seem like this. She has her plants help set the romantic mood between them as she attempts to seduce him, and urges him to share one kiss with her "for luck" against Freeze. Though it still serves as the climax for their "relationship" when Robin uses it to test if Ivy really loves him.
• Big "NO!": Gives one when Batgirl defeats her and her throne closes up on her.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She acts like a normal beautiful woman during her seductions but is actually luring her victims to their death by convincing them to share a poisoned kiss with her. She drops the act the moment she believes she has won and taunts her victims as they die by her side. In Robin's case, she convinced him she loved him and revealed her plan to him, only to reveal her true colors after their kiss, and then try to drown him after realizing her kiss didn't work on him.
• Bondage Is Bad: She is an evil villainess who traps Batman in her vines.
• Bond Breaker: Her pheromones cause tension between Batman and Robin.
• Bond Villain Stupidity: She crosses into this towards the end of the film. She tells Robin what she and Freeze are planning to convince him to kiss her, believing he won't live to make use of the info. But after Robin reveals he survived the kiss with rubber lips, and removes them while sitting next to her, she angrily shoves him into the pond to drown him instead of grabbing him and forcing a second kiss on him. She also leaves Robin instead of staying to make sure he dies, and mockingly waves him goodbye while shouting "see ya!" to him, treating it more like she's breaking up with him than trying to kill him.
• Bookends: When she first encounters Batman and Robin, after making a grand dynamic entrance with dancing and stripping out of a gorilla suit, the first thing she says to the two of them directly is a quick friendly "Hi there". During her last encounter with them, when she lures Robin to her lair, she once again makes a grand reveal of herself by waiting inside of her giant rose and having it bloom when Robin arrives, revealing her laying seductively on it. While Robin is staring at her in awe, she welcomes him to her lair with a slow seductive "Hi there".
• Brains and Bondage: An evil scientist, who traps Batman in her vines.
• Burlesque: Stripteases in a Blonde Venus-inspired magenta gorilla suit in her Big Entrance at the Rainforest Ball. Also features Shaking the Rump, Supermodel Strut, and a small Three-Point Landing onto a bed of male performers.
• Came Back Wrong: Her death at the hands of Dr. Woodrue early in the movie resulted in her toxic rebirth as Poison Ivy.
• Card-Carrying Villain: She enjoys chewing the scenery and making a big reveal of her evil side once she believes her victims are doomed. She revealed her true colors to Robin after their kiss, believing he would die, not expecting he would have a way to counter her kiss, and openly bragged to Batgirl about killing Freeze's wife. This comes back to bite her when a recording of her confession is given to Freeze, and he takes his revenge on her in prison.
  So many people to kill SO LITTLE TIME!
• Chair Reveal: Zigzagged. She is shown many times before this in the film, but when Robin comes to her lair he makes his way to the center where there is a giant rose. The rose blooms to reveal Ivy sitting in it like a throne, now wearing a brand new outfit and greeting the sidekick seductively.
• Clark Kenting: An extreme case; she wears leafy eye masks to conceal her identity. That's right: eye masks. At least the heroes have the decency to at least wear domino masks. She even loses this "mask" by her last costume, instead wearing heavy eyeshadows that match the color of her hair and new red dress.
• Combat Stilettos: Poison Ivy wear thigh high boots with high heels during her fight with Batgirl.
• Conveniently Cellmates: With Freeze at the end of Batman & Robin.
• Coordinated Clothes: Implied with her final seduction of Robin. Up until that point in the film, her outfits were primarily green, but when she lures Robin to her lair she has drastically changed her appearance to now wearing a red and black outfit, the same primary colors as Robin's costume. Given this is such a drastic change, it is easy to assume this was another tactic of Ivy's to try to seduce Robin and "prove" her love to him.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: She is on both the giving and receiving end of this during the final scene in her lair.
  • She delivers this to both of the Dynamic Duo in quick succession. After her kiss fails to kill Robin, she angrily shoves him off her throne and into her lily-pond, where her plants immediately begin to drown him. As she smugly walks away she runs right into Batman, who ambushes her in his own trap. She immediately defeats him before he can do anything by having her vines ensnare him and begin crushing him. She begins to leave the Dynamic Duo trapped and defeated, and would have escaped if not for Batgirl's arrival. Although both Robin and Batman survive their traps and manage to escape, Ivy would have still managed to escape from them and join Freeze had Batgirl not arrived.
  • She is on the receiving end when Batgirl arrives in her lair before she can leave. Batgirl knocks her around while giving her a "The Reason You Suck" Speech for using her charms to get her way. Batgirl disarms her of every weapon she uses against her and eventually knocks her back on to her own throne. The flower-bed then closes on her, trapping her until she was arrested.
• Dating Catwoman: She invokes this with Robin. She gets him to fall in love with her after just their first meeting, and convinces him that she will even change sides to be with him. She manipulated him and drives him and Batman apart just by flirting with him. Though they officially “break up” after their kiss when Ivy realizes Robin has tricked her and she shoves him into her pond to drown him.
• Death Glare: After Robin reveals he Out-Gambitted her, tricking her into telling her plan and surviving her kiss, she gives him a very dirty glare. She's so angry and humiliated she shoves him from her throne and into the pond to drown him instead of forcing a second kiss on him.
• Designated Girl Fight: With Batgirl. She easily disposed of both Robin and Batman in her lair, but once Batgirl shows up she is the only one to actually put up a fight against Ivy, being immune to her charms and forcing Ivy to get her hands dirty.
• Didn't Think This Through: After Robin survives her kiss and removes his rubber lips, she angrily shoves him into her pond to drown him, when she could have forced a second kiss on him. Then she walks off and taunts the drowning hero instead of staying to finish him, treating it like she's just mocking him by "breaking up with him". As a result Robin survives and knows her plan.
• Distracted by My Own Sexy: While fighting Batgirl she pulls a knife on her, but upon seeing her reflection in it she briefly stops while in the middle of the fight to straighten her hair.
• Double Entendre: If Mr. Freeze is the King of Puns, then Poison Ivy is the Queen of this trope.
• Dressed All in Rubber: Poison Ivy is dressed in a green latex catsuit when she break Freeze out of Arkham and later at Freeze lair. When she tries to kill Robin at her lair, she wear a red latex catsuit.
• Dressed Like a Dominatrix: Poison Ivy with her thigh high boots and opera gloves.
• Dying Curse: "Curses!" Subverted in that she survives.
• Emotional Powers: In a way, her plants react to how she is and change with her emotions. At her lair they help set the romantic mood when Ivy seduces Robin, slowly closing the exit behind him and opening up to reveal Ivy the way a curtain closes and opens, and raining flowers from the ceiling once the two of them are together. Once Ivy is angered by Robin's trickery, fooling her into revealing her plan and kissing him, they violently turn against Robin and try to drown him when she shoves him into the pond.
• Enemy Mine: With Mr. Freeze.
• Engineered Public Confession: "As I told Lady Freeze when I pulled her plug... this is a one-woman show."
• Even the Girls Want Her: With the aid of her pheromones, if some of the gazes of female partygoers at the Rainforest Ball are any indication.
• Evil Genius: A highly knowledgeable botanist and chemist who turns to using her talents for evil after becoming a supervillain.
• Evil Gloating: She can't help but gloat when she believes she is in control. This has actually worked against her. After kissing Robin she immediately mocks him and his upcoming death instead of waiting for the effects to start. This proves to Robin her love to him is fake, and since he wore rubber lips to protect him from her kiss he wasn't poisoned, which Ivy would have realized if she waited longer before revealing her true colors to him. Then during her fight with Batgirl she brags about how she was the one who tried to kill Freeze's wife, which Batman recorded and presented to Freeze.
• Evil Is Petty: She spends most of the film stringing Robin along, seducing him and making him think she's in love with him. After she finally shares a kiss with him, she immediately reveals her true colors to him to condemn him to death, while still mockingly flirting with him in a fake sad voice, pretending like she still cares about him while doing so. Additionally, after Robin reveals he outsmarted her and made himself immune to her poison via rubber lips, she responds by quietly glaring at him in humiliation before shoving him off her throne and into her pond for her plants to drown him. As he is struggling for air, she struts away and mockingly waves him goodbye as he's drowning, shouting a smug "See ya!" to him to get the last laugh in their "relationship" by "breaking up" with him. All because she felt humiliated that he managed to steal a kiss from her.
• Evil Makeover: One of the more interesting side-effects of Venom is its ability to turn a Shrinking Violet into Ms. Fanservice. Over the course of the film, her costume, hair, and makeup choices become more bold, brazen, crazy, over-the-top, drag queen-flamboyant.
• Exact Words:
  • When Robin reunites with her in her lair and tells her how despite how he loves her and wants them to be together, first he needs to be sure she's serious about her promise to "turn over a new leaf" for him and asks her for a sign. She understands what he means of course, but attempts to seduce him again by jokingly suggesting with a sexual hint in her tone that her sign should read "slippery when wet". Robin ignores her attempts to seduce him though and specifically clarifies he means a sign "of trust".
  • Right as Robin is about to leave her lair, she grabs him and asks him for a kiss "for luck". After the two share a quick passionate kiss, Ivy pulls away and sneers "Bad luck I'm afraid."
• Expy: Poison Ivy is a mixture of Catwoman's rebirth origin story from Returns and The Riddler's Mad Scientist origin story from Forever. Stated by Joel Schumacher that his original intent was to have Nicole Kidman portray Ivy in Batman Forever, hence why (aside from Elliot Goldenthal's recycled score) Ivy and Chase's Sexophone motifs are so similar.
  • While Catwoman and Riddler undergo costume and personality changes, Poison's transformation also changes her physically, much like with Jack Napier/The Joker, and are the result of being double-crossed by a criminal boss. Ivy also uses poison as a deadly weapon like Joker.
• Extreme Close-Up: Poison Ivy often gets a lot of close-up shots to emphasize her beauty. However, she gets two extreme close-ups while seducing Robin in her lair.
  • After Robin promises to kiss her in exchange for her telling him her plans first, the screen immediately cuts to a close-up of Ivy's face as she tells Robin the plan. This also counts as a Staredown Faceoff between them, since they are sitting right next to each other with their faces inches apart, and both can be seen in the foreground of each other's close-up.
  • When she "pleads" with Robin to keep his promise to her and give her just one kiss before leaving to confront Freeze, there is a close-up shot showing nothing but her lips as she whispers "for luck" and lingers for a second as her lips curl into a seductive smile. It is implied this might be a momentary POV shot from Robin's perspective, with him staring longingly at Ivy's lips and wanting to kiss them.
• Fantastic Flora: Poison Ivy has a plethora of killer mutant plants that giggle, sigh, moan, hiss...and kill. They can crush a man, engulf a building in mere minutes, and swallow somebody whole. Audrey II, eat your heart out.
• Fascinating Eyebrow: She lifts her eyebrows in a seductive manner when greeting Robin to her lair.
• Fatal Flaw: Her arrogance; she is completely confident in her planning and abilities that she never even considers something could go wrong, and this causes her to make several mistakes. This is best shown during each of her confrontations with the heroes during the final scene in her lair.
  • She lured Robin to her lair with the "Robin-signal" she previously alluded to in her seductions, but was surprised when Batman and Batgirl showed up too, because she pretty much gave away her location.
  • While trying to seduce Robin for a kiss in her lair, she believes Robin is still completely in love with her and never suspects he might be trying to play her, even when he refuses to kiss her unless she tells him her plan. If she had waited just a few moments after their kiss she would have noticed Robin was unaffected by her poison, but instead she immediately begins mocking him and tells him it is "time to die", thus revealing her deception to him and failing his Secret Test of Character.
  • While fighting Batgirl, she for no reason decides to brag to her that she was the one who pulled Nora Fries's plug, well other than to make a death threat to Batgirl (which of course doesn't intimidate or impress Batgirl in the slightest). Not only does she get her arse handed to her by Batgirl after this, but Batman recorded her confession during the fight and shows it to Mr. Freeze, which earns her Freeze's wrath when they are put in Arkham as cellmates.
• Faux Action Girl: While Catwoman could put up a fight against Batman, she just leaves Bane to do her fighting for her and later has an incredibly one-sided fight with Batgirl.
• Faux Affably Evil: She acts sweet and lovingly around others, but it is all just an act to lure them in for a kiss before revealing her true colors as they slowly die.
  • She flirts with Batman in Freeze's hideout after he accidentally interrupts her attempt to seduce Robin. She flirts with him while pinning him down and attempts to lean in for a kiss, before he forces her off him and grabs her by the arm. When Bane saves her though by putting Batman in a headlock, Ivy quickly hugs Batman around the waist and rests her head against his chest as he is restrained, and darkly asks him to try not to make a mess when he dies before leaving him to Bane.
  • The best example is with Robin, who she seduces throughout the film and convinces him she loves him. Once she succeeds in kissing him though, she stops the act and taunts him as she believes he will die shortly and becomes enraged when she discovers he's the one who tricked her.
• Femme Fatale: A beautiful but evil woman, who uses her sexy looks to her full advantage. She had Robin completely in love with her since he first saw her at the Ball, and she had been plotting his and Batman's deaths since she began flirting with them.
• Forceful Kiss: She does this to most of her victims. After seducing them she grabs them and pulls them in close to deliver a fateful kiss, though after overcoming the shock of this they are usually kissing back, only to drop dead moments later.
  • Her only victim that wasn't subject to this was Robin. During her seductions of Robin she never grabs him and forces herself on him. Instead she takes a slower approach and makes him fall in love with her until he willingly leans in for a kiss with her. When Robin confronts her in her lair he willingly kisses her after she tells him what he wants to know. She doesn't even force a second kiss on him after he removes his rubber lips, instead shoving him into her pond to have her plants drown him, apparently enraged that he actually managed to see through her ruse and trick her and humiliated that he stole a kiss from her.
• Fourth-Date Marriage: She invokes this on Robin during her seductions. Robin quickly falls in love with her in the short time they meet and is completely convinced that she loves him too. They have a total of three meetings/dates together: first when they meet at the charity ball where Robin gets into a bidding war for Ivy against Batman and she blows Robin a kiss goodbye, then at Freeze's hideout Ivy ambushes and flirts heavily with Robin when he is supposed to arrest her, only for their flirting to be interrupted by Batman, and finally when Ivy calls Robin to her lair where they admit their "love" for each other and share their first kiss. This last meeting is when Robin tells her he "wants them to be together", despite only being in a "relationship" with her for a few days and neither of them knowing each others real name. However, this is all somewhat justified as Ivy was using her pheromone dust on Robin, which slowly turned his crush on her into blind devoted love and interfered with his judgment, and she herself was purposely rushing things to get him to kiss her faster. Ultimately it is subverted though, as Robin never actually asks Ivy to marry him, nor does she accept any proposals from him. The two only flirt together and say how much they love each other and want to be together. Ivy ultimately ends their "relationship" with only one kiss shared between them.
• Freak Lab Accident: How she became Poison Ivy.
• Gaia's Vengeance: She invokes shades of this trope in an impassioned speech after killing Dr. Woodrue with her poison kiss as she prepares to burn the lab to the ground.
  I am Nature's arm, her spirit, her will. Hell, I am Mother Nature.
• Glamour: Her pheromones can affect entire crowds, as noted at the Rainforest Ball.
• A God Am I: Makes a variety of Blasphemous Boasts and seeks to destroy the world and rebuild it in her own image.
• Gone Horribly Right: One possible reason her human-hating plants turned on her.
  • Her plants were probably waiting to reach maturity before turning on the human who taught them to hate all humans.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Reacts very poorly to the fact that Freeze has a wife ("You never said anything about a wife!"), and pulls the plug on Nora's life support in an attempt to keep Freeze all for herself.
• Green Thumb: Being that, for better or worse, she's still Poison-freaking-Ivy, this trope is practically a given.
• He Knows Too Much: After Robin survives their kiss and now knows what her plan is, ruining her Just Between You and Me, she angrily shoves him into the pond to drown him. Though she doesn't bother to stay and make sure he drowns.
• Held Gaze: She does several of these with Robin while seducing him, all of which are seemingly the usual romantic versions while really hiding her true sinister intentions from him.
  • Ivy sees him staring longingly at her as the Gala is in chaos from Mr. Freeze's attack instead of following Batman to purse Freeze. As they stare at each other from across the room, she notices how he has developed a crush on her and teases him by subtly making a kissing gesture at him and blowing him a kiss. Robin stays as still as a statue staring at her awestruck, forcing Batman to drag him away, but with him now obsessed with Ivy.
  • As she easily seduces him in Freeze's hideout, she wraps her arms around him and pulls him into a hug while staring deeply into his eyes, singing his praises about how to stop living in Batman's shadow and acting like she has fallen in love with him. This causes Robin to completely drop his defenses against her, now completely in love with her as they stare into each other's eyes. She continues to stare at him as she leans in towards him, whispering to let her kiss him, until they are interrupted by Batman shouting at him not to kiss her.
  • She and Robin stare intensely at each other from the moment they reunite in her lair. Once Robin lays beside her on her throne, they continue staring at each other, with their faces constantly lingering only inches apart from each other. After some flirting between them, Robin eventually tells her he'll kiss her if she tells him her plan first, and the two stare each other down in silence for a moment before Ivy gives in to Robin's demand. Shortly after, when Robin tries to leave, Ivy pulls him back to face her and the two stare intensely at each other as Ivy begs him for just one kiss first, with Robin's gaze even dropping to Ivy's lips before she whispers "for luck" to him and smirking seductively at him. After a moment, Robin raises his gaze back up to Ivy's eyes and silently nods in agreement, with Ivy gently placing a hand on his cheek before they both close their eyes and lean in. As she is leaning in, Ivy subtly opens her eyes to gaze at the unsuspecting Robin and shoot him a Psychotic Smirk, only closing her eyes again when her and Robin's lips meet in a kiss. After the kiss, Ivy gazes at Robin again while rubbing noses with him and condemning him to death in mock "sadness" before leaning back in her throne and shooting him a victorious smirk. After Robin reveals he tricked her though and used rubber lips to survive her kiss, she looks on at him in silence with an angry Death Glare, all the romantic atmosphere between them destroyed, until she leaps forward and shoves him away from her.
• High-Heel Power: Poison Ivy wear thigh high boots with high heels during her fight with Batgirl. Since her transformation, all her outfits includes high heels.
• Hoist by Her Own Petard: Batgirl defeats her by knocking her back onto her Rose Throne, which then closes up on her and leaves her trapped. For added irony, she used the throne as part of her seduction of Robin, being part of her Chair Reveal, leaving a space for him to lay next to her, being where they finally shared a kiss and she shoved him from it after learning of his treachery. The symbol of her false love for him was ultimately her own undoing, and she shoved him out of its range of harm in anger. Why she can't just open it again is anybody's guess.
• Honey Trap: She uses her beauty to her advantage, seducing others to get what she wants and turning Batman and Robin against each other. When she puts herself up for auction she even claims that some lucky man is about to hit the "honey pot".
• Hurricane of Puns: Just like practically everyone else in the movie her dialogue is filled with puns and double-meanings. If she isn't making a plant-related joke then it's a sexual Double Entendre.
• Hypocrite: She claims she wants to save plant life and undo the damage done to the environment, yet her schemes with Freeze would ultimately end up doing far more damage to Earth's ecosystem than it would save. She also burned her plant-filled laboratory to the ground.
• I Am the Trope: "Hell, I am Mother Nature!"
• I Lied: Played straight mostly, with the final case being more a case of Exact Words. She reveals what she and Freeze have planned to Robin to gain his trust, that much was true, but was also the only truth she told him. After asking for a kiss "for luck" from him, and finally sharing a quick romantic kiss, she mocks him that it was for "bad luck", revealing her entire love story about switching sides so they can be together was a lie.
• I Love You Because I Can't Control You: This is one of the reasons Poison Ivy is interested in Mr. Freeze. Since he is completely immune to her charm and pheromones and cannot be directly manipulated by her.
• Informed Attractiveness: The script actually calls her "the most beautiful woman in the world." Between that and Joel Schumacher's confession that he chose Uma Thurman because he was infatuated with her Venus in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, one could almost be excused for thinking that this film was made by Quentin Tarantino.
• In Love with Your Carnage: A great deal of her attraction to Freeze seems to be his predisposition for chaos.
• Instant Costume Change: Rises from her grave with her garments fashionably tattered in a less-than-practical manner.
• Insult Backfire:
  • A negative remark by Batman on Ivy's personality is received with a seductive smile and an attempt to lean in for a kiss.
    Batman: (pinned down by her) Why are all the gorgeous ones homicidal maniacs— it is me?
    Poison Ivy: Enough sweet talk...
  • Later, during her fight with Batgirl, Batgirl gives her "The Reason You Suck" Speech about how she uses her charms to get her way, which "went out of style a long time ago" and that she gave women a bad name. As she says this, Ivy just smirks at her remarks, being proud and unashamed of her actions.
• Just Between You and Me: She tries this on Robin, luring him to her lair and agreeing to tell him what she and Freeze are planning in exchange for a kiss. Robin gives her her long awaited kiss after one too many flirts. Subverted in that Robin survived their kiss thanks to wearing rubber lips to protect himself.
• Karmic Death: She is trapped in the giant flower she created to seduce Robin. Subverted since she didn't die within.
• Kick the Dog: She spends a majority of the film seducing Robin and making him think she's in love with him. Once they finally share a kiss at her lair, she immediately drops the act and rubs it in his face that he's going to die. Shortly afterwards when she realizes he outsmarted her, she shoves him from the throne they were sharing into her pond to drown him, and as he struggles against her vines she walks off, waves him goodbye and smugly says "see ya!" as if she were breaking up with him.
• Kiss Diss: She is on both the receiving and giving ends of this at various times while seducing someone.
  • When she tries to seduce Batman at Freeze's lair, she lays on top of him and after some flirting starts to lean in for a kiss. To her shock though, Batman shows to be wise to her intentions and resists her advancements, shoving her off of him and quickly getting to his feet, before he grabs her arm and declares she's going to jail.
  • When she seduces Gordon into giving her the keys to the Bat-Signal, she initially leans in to deliver a poison kiss to him after he gives her what she wants. But she stops short and decides that he's "far too old" for her and walks off, leaving him heartbroken.
  • When Robin arrives at her lair to meet with her, the two of them briefly flirt with each other and declare their love for each other before Robin asks her to give him a sign of trust, specifically asking her to tell him her plan. Ivy places a hand on Robin's back, leans forward, and tells Robin she will tell him if he kisses her first, obviously expecting him to jump at the offer. Robin however refuses and instead flips her offer, staring her right in the eyes and telling her to tell him the plan first and then he'll kiss her. After a moment of silence, Ivy gives in to Robin's demands and tells him how Freeze plans to destroy Gotham, figuring it won't matter anyway. Robin initially tries to leave without keeping his end of the deal and kissing Ivy, hurriedly declaring he needs to stop Freeze and turning away from her. But it ends up subverted when Ivy grabs him and pulls him back to face her, "innocently begging" him to share one quick kiss with her "for luck", and the two share a passionate kiss together.
• Kiss of Death: Her lips are filled with poison as a result of her Freak Lab Accident. Rubber lips are immune to her charms, however.
• Kubrick Stare: Uma seems to be a fan of this in photoshoots and promotional materials.
• Lady in Red: Although she wears a green outfit similar to what she wears in the comics for most of the film, she wears a red dress during the final confrontation with her in her lair. She is also seen wearing a slightly different red dress in promos.
• Lady Macbeth: To Mr. Freeze. She lies to him, telling him that Batman has killed his wife, and convinces him to take his vengeance out on Gotham and the rest of the world. Freeze is quick to agree to this plan.
• Large Ham: You can tell Uma Thurman was having the time of her life.
• Leotard of Power: Her leafy costume, comic-book accurate, from her debut in the Rainforest Ball to her entrance in Freeze cell at Arkham Asylum.
• Love Is in the Air: Her pheromones, or love dust, makes men around her more susceptible to her beauty and seductions to the point that Robin falls in love with her even with out her using them on him. Though Mr. Freeze is completely immune to them and those with a strong will like Batman can resist them.
• Love Makes You Crazy: Invokes a bit of this in Robin. She definitely becomes a victim of this herself with Mr. Freeze which leads to her eventual Villain Decay from Not-So-Harmless Villain to a Green-Eyed Monster who winds up rotting away in Arkham while her beloved, now her cellmate, vows to make her life a living hell as retribution for the attempted murder of his ill wife.
• Love Potion: "Pheromone dust: designed to heat a man's blood."
• Love Redeems: She invokes this with her seductions of Robin, promising to guide him into being his own man and "turn over a new leaf." Averted however as she was lying to Robin the whole time and never really loved him.
• Lover, Not a Fighter: She invokes this trope. She mainly relies on her love-dust and seductions to lure others into a Kiss of Death, and keeps Bane around for any heavy lifting that needs to be done. This is zig-zagged during the final scene in her lair though, when Bane is with Freeze she easily defeats Robin and Batman by herself in seconds and fights with Batgirl for a moment before getting curb-stomped by her.
  Poison Ivy: I'm a lover, not a fighter. That's why every Poison Ivy action figure comes complete with him!

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• Mad Scientist: Before her transformation, she was appalled to learn Dr. Woodrue was using her research for his own evil ends, but after becoming Poison Ivy, she aims to eliminate humanity and replace them with plant/animal hybrids.
• Man-Eating Plant: The flower throne that Ivy reclines on in her lair doubles as one. It is also ultimately her downfall, as when Batgirl knocks her on to it during their fight it closes on her, trapping her and apparently doing a number on her beauty.
• Manipulative Bitch: She convinces Mr. Freeze that Batman killed his wife in order to direct his focus onto destroying him, and so she can manipulate him into using his freeze gun as a doomsday device.
• Meaningful Look: As she and Robin are leaning in to share their long awaited kiss, with both of them closing their eyes, Ivy briefly opens her eyes to gaze at Robin unsuspected and gives an evil victorious Psychotic Smirk before closing her eyes again once finally locking lips with him. This is meant to show one final time that despite all her flirting with Robin and declarations that she loves him, she really has just been attempting to kill him all along and can hardly contain herself at seemingly succeeding. Thus also why she immediately reveals her true colors to Robin immediately after the kiss.
• Meet the New Boss: Hmm, a redheaded Evil Genius clad in green who starts off an employee of Wayne Enterprises before becoming a supervillain and forming a partnership with a more muscly character? Sounds a lot like the Riddler in Batman Forever doesn't it?
• Moment Killer: She suffers this constantly during her seductions of Robin.
  • At Freeze's lair, she ambushes Robin and quickly seduces him for a kiss. But right before their lips can meet, Batman accidentally startles them when he lands right in-front of them, being thrown over the side rails by Bane.
  • Later, she manages to make Robin fall completely in love with her and convinces him she will guide him to being his own man and switch sides for him. But right as she leans in for a kiss, Batman shouts at him not to kiss. The ensuring fight between him and an enraged Robin though, allows her to escape unnoticed.
  • At Ivy's lair though, she and Robin actually kill the moment themselves. After gaining Robin's trust and finally sharing a passionate kiss with him, Ivy mockingly reveals her true colors and condemns him to death while mock flirting with him in a fake sad voice. Robin then kills it further by revealing he wore rubber lips, revealing that he didn't actually trust Ivy completely and was immune to her poison, meaning she just exposed herself for nothing. Both of them exposing their lies and deceptions to each other kills the romantic mood between them, and Ivy, enraged that Robin managed to trick her and steal a kiss from her, ends their "relationship" by shoving him off her throne and into her lily pond to drown him, then mockingly waves him goodbye and leaves him to die, just to rub in that she's "breaking up with him."
• Motivational Kiss: Though not in the spirit intended Ivy isn't beneath using this kind of "heartfelt gesture" to manipulate her victims. Especially Batman & Robin. When Robin learns from Ivy that Freeze is going to destroy Gotham he attempts to make a sharp exit, only for her to stop him and tells him to kiss her quickly, "for luck" against Freeze. This ends up being Double Subverted though since even though Ivy was trying to kill Robin, he was actually wearing rubber lips to protect himself from her poison, thus surviving his kiss with her and tricking her into sharing a passionate kiss with him.
  Robin: (turns to leave) I've gotta stop him-!
  Poison Ivy: (pulls him back) One kiss. My love. ... For luck...
  (They lean in and share a kiss, with Robin unaware of Ivy's evil smirk)
  Poison Ivy: (mock sadness as she rubs noses with Robin and strokes his chin) Bad luck I'm afraid.
• Motive Decay: At the beginning of the film she was a Well-Intentioned Extremist who seemed genuinely committed to protecting plants from environmental damage, but it isn't long before she becomes drunk on her superpowers and only uses her environmental concerns as a pretense for her god complex.
• Mouthscreen: The screen focuses entirely on her lips as she whispers "for luck" to Robin when seducing him to give her a kiss and lingers as she curls them into a seductive smile.
• Ms. Fanservice: A very beautiful, curvaceous lady prone to seductive demeanor and wearing quite eye-catching, form fitting outfits.
• Murder the Hypotenuse: She attempts this with Nora Fries. Batman later reveals to Freeze he (Batman) was able to save her.
• The Muse: Joel Schumacher stated that he specifically chose Uma Thurman because of his infatuation with her portrayal of Venus when he was younger.
• Near-Villain Victory: She actually comes close to achieving her plans. Despite Robin surviving their kiss, she quickly immobilizes him by shoving him into her pond to drown him, then has her plants try to crush Batman when he jumps her. She managed to defeat the Dynamic Duo in a matter of seconds and if not for Batgirl's timely arrival, she would have escaped to join Mr.Freeze in his plan to freeze over Gotham.
• Nobody Can Die: Averted. Despite the film's aim to be more family-driven than Batman Forever, Ivy kills three men in a fairly PG-gruesome manner and the audience is informed of a fourth victim as well.
• Not-So-Final Confession: When Robin confronts her in her lair she tells him what she and Freeze have planned to gain his trust, believing he won't live long enough to make any use of it. Then, after finally kissing him, she immediately taunts him by telling him it is time to die. However, Robin survives thanks to his rubber lips, meaning Ivy revealed her plans to him and admitted her love to him was a lie for nothing.
• No Sense of Personal Space: She gets very close and touchy with each of her victims. She pulls in Dr. Woodrue and the Arkham guards by the face to force a kiss on them. She also gets very close to the Dynamic Duo when she first meets them and does it more when she really starts flirting. At Freeze’s hideout she pins Batman down when flirting with him and hugs his chest when Bane has him in a headlock, and later corners Robin on a rail walk, pulling him into a hug before slowly leaning in for a kiss with him. The only scene she flirts where she doesn’t seem to invade personal space is her scene with Robin at her lair, where he willingly walks over and lays next to her and she only leans in for a kiss with him after he finally submits to her, never actually forcing a kiss on him like her other victims.
• Not Good with Rejection: After Batman resists her seduction she focuses all her attention on Robin and has Bane try to kill Batman. After Robin tricks her into revealing her plan and reveals how he survived her kiss, she shoves him into the pond to drown him instead of forcing a second kiss on him.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: Narrowly averted. While Freeze and Bane are presented as the greatest physical threat to Batman and Robin, she's the film's primary schemer and presents a much more serious threat to the heroes' mortality by way of her Kiss of Death. Unfortunately, her Idiot Ball levels of arrogance and Genre Blindness keep her from being able to make good on her threats.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: Claims to want to undo humanity's damage to the environment, but it becomes apparent eventually that she's just a misanthrope who wants to play "mother nature."
• Oh, Crap!: She has this reaction a few times:
  • After realizing Robin tricked her into telling him her plan and survived her kiss with rubber lips, though this quickly changes from shock to anger.
  • When she learns Freeze is her new cellmate at Arkham, and that he's planning to make her life a living hell after learning that she tried to kill his ill wife.
• Omnicidal Maniac: Plots to wipe out everyone on Earth save for her and her mutant plants, and maybe Mr. Freeze.
• Orgasmic Combat: Ivy's plants are prone to making rather indelicate noises that often sound like uncontrollable sighing, giggling, hissing and moaning, even when attacking their prey. It has been stated that this is because Ivy's plants are sentient, but they are also primitive creatures with clear predatory behaviors and no social filters who are new to the sights, sounds and pleasures of the world.
• Out-Gambitted: Her charms and seduction ultimately failed to break apart Batman and Robin. When she thought she had Robin wrapped around her finger in her lair she thought all he needed was one more push before they shared a kiss, and willingly told him her plan because she didn't think he'd live to make use of it. She finally got her kiss with Robin, but since he finally listened to Batman and protected his lips it was useless and she revealed herself by bragging too soon. Her tactic to kill Robin by seducing him failed and worked against her when she couldn't tell he was now faking his love the same way she was, and Robin beat her with her own kiss.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: When in her civilian identity of Pamela Isley she wears a blond wig. As Poison Ivy, she hides her identity with beautiful dresses, different hairstyles and wearing ivy leaves on her eyebrows as a "mask." She even loses the "mask" with her last costume change in her lair, instead wearing heavy eyeshadows.
• Parent Service: According to Mr. Schumacher Ivy's vampish behavior was played up "for the dads."
• Pink Is Erotic: The color pink features extensively throughout the film with Poison Ivy's character, almost trumping the color green in it's frequency. Apropos for a villainous seductress.
  • The greenhouse is illuminated in pink light when Ivy appears to Woodrue and seduces him.
  • In the Rainforest Ball where Poison Ivy reveals herself to Batman and Robin she's bathed in a pink spotlight and strips from a pink gorilla costume.
  • Ivy's love-dust takes the form of a hypnotic pink smoke trail.
  • In Ivy's garden lair, amongst other bright colors, pink is recurrent; especially when Robin arrives to answer her call.
  • Pink is common in Ivy's make-up and clothes, primarily as a highlight and a prominent color for her lips in her first and last scenes with Batman and Robin.
• Plant Person: Shockingly enough.
• Pungeon Master: As bad as Freeze, with her puns always including something about plants or a sexual Double Entendre. Though her line about "help(ing) you grab your rocks" was arguably quite funny.
• Perpetual Smiler: Poison Ivy's superhuman sense of self-satisfaction and confidence means she rarely seen without some kind of smile on her face, from her birth right up to her incarceration. She smiles when she talks; she smiles when she plots; she smiles when she fights; she smiles to seduce people- even when she kisses them sometimes she can't help but flash a little smirk. The few times she doesn't have a smirk on her face are when Robin reveals he tricked her and stole a kiss from her, when she is defeated by Batgirl and trapped in her own throne, and when Freeze reveals himself as her cellmate and declares he'll make her life a living hell; all situations where her ego takes a massive blow and she realizes things aren't working out the way she expected.
• Pragmatic Villainy: She decides not to use her Kiss of Death on Commissioner Gordon after getting the location of the Bat-Signal out of him. Not for any moral reasons, but because he's too old for her.
• Pre-Final Boss: She goes down right before Mr. Freeze and Bane, leaving Freeze as the Final Boss.
• Psychotic Smirk: She does this usually after having manipulated someone or killing them with her kiss. She can be seen with a nasty one while leaning in to kiss Robin.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: She gives one to Robin after her failed kiss in the May 1996 draft of the script. It was deleted from the final product, but is featured in several tie-in-media:
  Poison Ivy: You should have heeded your pointy eared pal. These lips can be murder.
  Robin: Then you never loved me?
  Poison Ivy: Love you? I loathe your bipedal arrogance, your animal superiority. My only joy is knowing that even now my poison kiss is sucking the life from your ape-like face.
• Restart the World: Her plan is to wipe the world clean of humans so she and Mr. Freeze can play (as he puts it) "Adam and Evil."
• Revenge: The first thing Pamela Isley does after being reborn as Poison Ivy is take her revenge on Woodrue for corrupting her research and trying to kill her. She seduces him before pulling him into a poisonous kiss before mocking him for not mentioning she's poison until then, and then burning the whole lab down with his body inside.
• Sadist: After she's reborn as Poison Ivy, most of the crimes she's responsible for have little to do with the Earth and stem more jealousy and bloodlust. This fits with Ivy's comic characterization, as she's more prone to using ecoterrorism as a front to kill whoever displeases her or just for the fun of it even if she does care about saving plants.
• Same Language Dub: Although still portrayed by Uma Thurman, she re-dubbed all of her lines for the final theatrical release, as evidenced by the slightly higher-pitched, breathier intonations of her speech in trailers. According to the director, this was to give her a more sultry baritone as well as a more visibly-pronounced drawl. She has stated that she worked with a vocal coach on the voice, and that the original voice was 'less Mae West, more Marilyn'.
• Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains: She is way more skimpy than Batman, Robin, and even Batgirl.
• Sexophone: Poison Ivy's recurring leitmotif is built around this, usually when she appears in the room and goes into seduction mode. It starts off bold, sultry, and alluring before trailing off into eerie, dark territory and rising to a crescendo at the end. The music reflects the actions on screen; the hapless victim becomes seduced by Ivy's charms (sax) and they share a kiss (foreboding drone), whereupon the poison slowly works its way through the body and kills him (crescendo).
• Sex Sells: In the Blu-Ray commentary, Joel Schumacher admits that much of Ivy's character was written "for the dads."
• Ship Tease: She spends most of the movie seducing Robin and making him fall completely in love with her.
• Ship Sinking: She ends up with neither of her would-be-love-interests by the end of the film, all because of her own lies and manipulations.
  • Her efforts to have Mr. Freeze for herself fail when Batman saves his wife and shows him a confession of her attempted murder.
  • Despite her romantic flirting with Robin, she "breaks up" with him after they finally share a kiss. Robin protected himself from her poison and she shoved him into the pond to drown him, angered by his trickery and betrayal of her trust.
• Shut Up, Kirk!: She does these while seducing Robin.
  • At Freeze's hideout she ambushes Robin after Bane knocks him aside. When Robin tries to place her under arrest, telling her to surrender, she interrupts him, completely unintimidated by him, with a mocking "To you?" and blows her love dust in his face and offers him a kiss.
  • At her lair, she and Robin declare their love for each other and she gains his trust by revealing what she and Freeze planned. Before Robin leaves, she finally succeeds in seducing him and plants a passionate kiss on his lips with a smile. After the kiss, she mocks Robin that it was for "bad luck" and condemns him to death with a smirk. When Robin reveals he was wearing rubber lips that protected him from her poison, she glares at him for outsmarting her and stealing a kiss from her and quickly shoves him into her plant-infested lily pond to drown. As Robin struggles for air, Ivy watches for a moment with a smile before walking away, leaving him to his fate. Just to add insult to injury, she officially "breaks up" with him by quickly waving goodbye and mockingly shouting a final "see ya!" to him.
• Slouch of Villainy: Decides to kick her feet up when she discovers the Turkish Baths. By the time Robin discovers them, it's a little different.
• Smug Smiler: She always has a smug confident smirk on her face, showing she always feels she is in control of any situation. Even during her fight with Batgirl, when Batgirl knocks her down and gives her a "The Reason You Suck" Speech about using her beauty and charms to get her way, all she can do is smirk in response, finding no shame in these accusations.
• Statuesque Stunner: Uma Thurman is six feet tall all by herself; add heels to the mix and she's taller than both George and Chris, who had to be stood on pedestals for the rainforest ball scene. In fact, in heels she stands at almost the same height as 6'2" costar Arnold Schwarzenegger.
• Straw Feminist: Poison Ivy despises men, as she showed just before killing Arkham guards.
  Poison Ivy: Men, the most absurd of God's creatures. We give you life... and we can take it away just as easily.
• Stripperiffic: Poison Ivy with her thigh high boots and opera gloves.
• Stunned Silence: Part of her Oh, Crap! moment to discovering Robin outsmarted her into revealing her plan to him and managed to steal a kiss from her, is to stare in shock at his rubber lips before glaring at him.
• Supervillain Lair: Runs out a gang of violent squatters to take over an abandoned Turkish bathhouse and make it over into her own private paradise.
• Tainted Veins: Her victims show this after ingesting the Venom from her poison kisses. As shown with Woodrue, the tongue also becomes a discolored shade of green.
• Take Over the World: Aims to do this with Freeze.
• "Take That!" Kiss:
  • When she first becomes Poison Ivy the first thing she does is take revenge on Woodrue for trying to kill her. She gives him a big kiss on the lips and taunts him immediately that she's poison, pushing him backwards as he dies.
  • Once she finally kisses Robin she reveals her true colors and taunts it is time for him to die. However, it turns out she was the one who received this, not Robin. Robin was pretending to still be in love with her until he knew if she could be trusted and tricked her into revealing her plan to him first. He just stayed long enough to share a kiss with his crush like he wanted. Ivy was pissed once she discovered not only had Robin outsmarted her, he stole a kiss from her.
• A Taste of Their Own Medicine: She uses her beauty and charms to flirt with different men and lure them to their deaths all to get what she wants. She spends a majority of the film seducing Robin, tricking him into thinking she loves him and manipulating him romantically, all just to lure him to his death and break him and Batman apart. She however becomes angered once she discovers Robin has betrayed her trust, tricking her into revealing what she and Freeze are planning and stealing a kiss from her while his lips are protected. For once she was the one being romantically manipulated, and she didn't take too kindly to it.
• Terms of Endangerment: She has several pet names for Robin when flirting with him, calling him "Pretty Birdie", "Polly", "My Love" and "Little Robin".
• Tranquil Fury: After Robin reveals that he tricked her and survived her kiss thanks to his rubber lips, Ivy doesn't say a word as she stares on in shock. When he taunts her over this though, she turns her gaze to him and it changes from a shocked look to a heated Death Glare. After a moment of silence between them with Ivy just glaring at Robin, she suddenly lunges forward at him, catching him off-guard, and shoving him off her throne.
• The Vamp: She sweet talks any man she can and lures them in for her deadly kiss.
• Viler New Villain: Much worse than the villains of the previous two movies. Whereas Penguin was a Tragic Villain and the Riddler and Two-Face were too Laughably Evil to take all that seriously, Poison Ivy is a sadistic megalomaniac.
• Villain Decay: By the end of the film, she's literally wilting away in a prison cell as she picks away the petals of a dead flower and pines over Freeze.
• Villainous Crush: She becomes attracted to Mr. Freeze after meeting him and breaks him out of Arkham to achieve their plans together, even trying to murder his wife so she can have him to herself.
  • She plays with this during her seductions of Batman and Robin, flirting with them to drive them apart and lure them in for a kiss. It works better on Robin, who falls completely in love with her and convinces him she feels the same way about him.
• Villain: Exit, Stage Left:
  • At Freeze's lair she escapes while Batman and Robin are distracted fighting over her (or more specifically Robin fighting Batman over her) and laughs at them as she gets away.
  • She attempts this again at her lair. After Robin survives her kiss she shoves him into the pond to have her vines drown him and she waves goodbye as she attempts to leave. This attempt is stopped by Batman and Batgirl though.
• Villainesses Want Heroes: With Robin. Though subverted. She only pretends to be in love with Robin to drive him and Batman apart. After Robin survives her kiss, she shoves "her love" off the romantic rose throne they were sharing and into the pond, essentially breaking up with him.
• Villainous Face Hold: She does these during her seductions, disguising them as romantic gestures as she pulls her intended victim in for a Kiss of Death.
  • She cups Woodrue's face while he was on his knees in awe at her, and pulls him into a kiss.
  • She gently places her hand on an Arkham guard's face as she kisses him, and when he drops to the floor choking on her poison she quickly grabs the other guard's face before he can react and forcefully pulls him into a kiss too.
  • When she flirts with Robin in Freeze's lair, she grabs him by the chin as she attempts to lean in for a kiss. Later after she has successfully seduced him for a kiss at her lair, she gently places a hand on his face as they begin leaning in, and strokes his chin in mock sadness after the kiss while condemning him to death.
• Vine Tentacles: The only confirmed florakinetic ability seen is when she has vines attack Batman.
• We Can Rule Together: Her idea of a big, romantic gesture with Mr. Freeze, complete with killer plants and vengeance.
  • Part of Ivy's machinations to turn Robin against Batman was inviting him to join up with her instead. Robin buys it, at first.
  Poison Ivy: Living in the shadow of the big, bad Bat... You don't need him. You're the star! I can see it now- you're own big, bright signal in the sky...! Let me ''guide'' you... Let me kiss you...
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: She starts this way, at the very least; although it doesn't take long before this ends up as a major subversion. Bruce even notes this when she, in her guise as Dr. Isley, tries to talk to him about how humanity is destroying the planet.
• Whip of Dominance: During her fight with Batgirl, she uses her vines as whips.
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Her rebirth as Poison Ivy made Pamela Isley a homicidal maniac.
• World's Most Beautiful Woman: Stated word-for-word in-script; invoked via the magic of Informed Attractiveness.

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"He loves me. He loves me not. He loves me..."