Poison Ivy's DCAU Redesign Is Hiding a Disturbing Twist
Batman, his allies, and his rogues gallery each got a visual redesign in The New Batman Adventures, but the Batman Adventures comic series has a strange and macabre explanation for Poison Ivy's redesign. Batman: The Animated Series was created to capitalize on the Tim Burton Batman movies, but it eventually grew into its own franchise, initiating the beloved DC Animated Universe. With a new animation style that more closely resembles Superman: The Animated Series, Batman’s second DCAU TV show gave its characters significantly new designs in many cases, but Poison Ivy’s is the only one with an in-universe explanation.
Introduced early on in Batman: The Animated Series, the DCAU’s Poison Ivy lacks superpowers, aside from a “hyperactive immunity,” which renders her unaffected by the lethal toxins she uses against her enemies. While Ivy appeared as an ordinary human in the original TV series, her redesign gave her a pale skin tone that created a plant-like appearance, especially in DCAU spin-off comics, where it gradually became a green hue. Along with her redesign, Ivy also began exhibiting superpowers, such as control over plants, seemingly without explanation.
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The Poison Ivy of The New Batman Adventures seemingly meets her end in the sixteenth issue of Batman Adventures volume 2, by Ty Templeton and Rick Burchett. After being hit with a makeshift weed killer by Batgirl, Poison Ivy stumbles off, escaping the Bat-Family while they battle Joker. Ivy seeks Alec Holland in Bayou County, where she begs him to reverse the scientific experiments that made her more plant than human, but dies before he can treat her. In a shocking twist the human Poison Ivy from
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