The NEW Poison Ivy Has Arrived in DC’s Universe | Screen Rant

Warning: SPOILERS for Harley Quinn & Poison Ivy #5

Batman villain Poison Ivy has been going through some big changes ever since she came back from the dead at the end of Heroes in Crisis. But the latest issue of Harley Quinn & Poison Ivy reveals another change ever when an all-new Poison Ivy emerges from a flower cocoon in the lair of Dr. Jason Woodrue (aka The Floronic Man).

Woodrue has been hinting at having some role for Ivy in his attempt to take over the Parliament of Flowers – and this new version of Poison Ivy looks to play a major part in his plans. The issue sees Harley and Ivy track down Woodrue to Manhattan, where the Floronic Man is holding multiple people hostage with his plant army. The two partner with Batwoman who helps Harley and Ivy make their way past an army of sentient tree giants. As Ivy ventures deeper into Woodrue’s kingdom, however, she senses a new presence... and readers can't possibly be ready for it.

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In a giant rose-shaped cocoon which bursts open before her, the last page reveals an imperious-looking Poison Ivy, clad in an armored gown of grass and petals and slicing her way out of the cocoon with two wicked-looking rapiers. Just how Poison Ivy can exist in two separate forms may relate to Ivy’s plant-based biology. Dr. Pamela Isley has become increasingly plant-like over the years – gaining green skin and aloe blood – and DC’s Swamp Thing has stated Ivy has a connection to the Green, a force connecting all plant life. This allowed Ivy to regrow herself from a rose taken from her original form in Heroes in Crisis #7. Similar to how both Swamp Thing and the Floronic Man have the ability to regrow themselves new bodies from plant life and transfer their consciousness into these forms, Ivy can now construct new forms for her mind to inhabit as well.

Notably, the rose from which the new Poison Ivy emerges bears a strong resemblance to the one which recently 'birthed' Ivy. The version readers know also seems to recognize and share a connection to the new Ivy – warning her other self to leave upon discovering her cocoon. Whether this means Poison Ivy inadvertently played a role in creating her doppelganger is unknown. It’s equally possible that Woodrue cloned this new Ivy from samples of the original (as he fought her in an earlier issue, and later infected her arm). Ivy has also shown difficulties with her new body, complaining that she has problems holding herself together, keeping focus, or managing her memories – hinting this new Poison Ivy may not be a separate entity but a part of Ivy reborn in a different body.

Regardless, fans have plenty to look forward to in the final issue of the Harley Quinn & Poison Ivy miniseries, which promises an “Ivy vs. Ivy” battle. How Poison Ivy’s status quo – not to mention Poison Ivy’s relationship with Harley Quinn – will change in the battle’s aftermath is unknown. However, readers will have plenty to speculate over as they await the arrival of Harley Quinn & Poison Ivy #6, scheduled to be released on February 12.

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