Poison Ivy's New Powers Break a Major Rule of DC Lore
Warning! Spoilers ahead for Poison Ivy #1
In the DC Universe, Poison Ivy just received a nasty and deadly power boost. Unfortunately, it goes against everything readers know about how her powers work.
Poison Ivy has been undergoing a bit of a transformation lately. Poison Ivy was split into two different parts of herself. One being an immensely powerful being calling herself Queen Ivy. The other, just going by the name Ivy, was a bit more troubled by her identity crisis. When the two halves reunited, the Poison Ivy that remained was so much different than the powerful being she was used to. She still had a connection to the Green life force behind all plant life, but it was twisted and much weaker. Ivy was unhappy and sought out a means to regain her former strength and be one with the Green again.
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In Poison Ivy #1 by G. Willow Wilson and Marcio Takara, Ivy imbued herself with a specific fungal spore that allows her to infect others. Poison Ivy's new powers lead to a horrific, hallucinatory way to die. Ivy claims that it is a way to strengthen her connection to the Green, but DC lore contradicts this notion. Fungi, such as the mushrooms that Ivy uses to kill people with, aren't a part of the Green at all. They are actually part of an entirely different domain called the Grey. Together with the Green, the Grey is a part of the life forces on Earth that include the Red, the Rot, and newly birthed Metal, which represents machine life on earth.
It's unclear if this contradiction plays into a greater storyline involving Ivy, which it should. The fact that Poison vy feels betrayed by the Green and instead tries to embrace the Grey would be an awesome arc for her
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