

Pamela Lillian Isley, a promising botanist from Seattle, was seduced by her botany professor Marc LeGrande into assisting him with the theft of an Egyptian artifact containing ancient herbs.

First appearing in Batman #181, she is depicted as one of the world's most prominent eco-terrorists, motivated by an obsession with plants, misandry, botany, and extremist environmentalism with a desire to save the world from the evils of man through any means necessary. Pamela Lillian Isley, an eco-terrorist and prominent enemy of Batman. What am I? I am Poison Ivy." ―Poison Ivy You know that? I don't know what he gave me in those college experiments. A symbol of growth in the dark times that are upon us. What am I? I am the Queen of the May, crowned in leaves, and blossom, and thorns. I can make plants behave like animals and make animals into plants.
