Friday 29 May 2015

Poison Ivy Origins

Alright! So I had a request to do the origin of Poison Ivy, and I'm a little shaky on her history, although I adore her, so I do apologize if I get anything wrong.

Poison Ivy started out as (yet another) Doctor Pamela Lillian Isley, a bright, young lady who grew up with wealthy but emotionally distant parents and all alone, since she also had no siblings.

In her early twenties, Pamela started at university, studying advanced botanical biochemistry along with Alec Holland (who later became Swamp Thing, but that's a story for another day)

While studying ABB (abbreviation of advanced botanical biochemistry) Pamela had a teacher named Doctor
Jason Woodrue (aka Floronic Man) who, many created The Swamp Thing and wanted to create another like The Swamp Thing. In order to do this, he needed to get a student to trust him, and Pamela seemed perfect, with her shy, insecure personality, she was easy to persuade. Slowly, Jason Woodrue started to seduce Pamela, and to him, that was easy.

Woodrue needed to get a move on with his experiment, and so when Pamela wasn't expecting it, he injected her with several toxins and poisons, then left her. These poisons started to cause her transformation.

Obviously, since Pamela had poisons and toxins in her system, she was incredibly sick, to the point that she almost died twice, and it slowly drives her into insanity, getting her closer and closer to the villain we know. Woodrue found out about this and knew he'd be caught, and so he ran away from the authorities, leaving Isley in the hospital for 6 months and this enraged Isley, which started to affect her mind by giving her incredibly violent mood swings. She could change mood in the click of her fingers.

Not long after, Pamela's boyfriend (who isn't very important right now and so I don't want to bother naming) was in a car accident in very strange circumstances. He had died from a massive fungal overgrowth and when she hears of this, Pamela drops out of school and moves to Gotham City after realising that the one that released the spores that killed him was her. She had killed him.

Later on Pamela finds she has more talents, like toxic kisses, and ability to contact The Green, which is what is used to contact the plant world. Other abilities are having genius level intellectual, immunity to all toxins and amazing hand to hand combat skills. But by this point she had dropped the name of Pamela Isley in order to become Poison Ivy.

So that's Poison Ivy done! I'm so sorry if I or anything wrong, but my knowledge on Poison Ivy isn't as good as I would like it to be. Anyway, let me know what you'd like next and I'll see you around.

1 comment:

  1. Yayyyyyyyyyyy,I love poison ivy such a cool origin story too!
    What is DC trying to say about doctors !?
    Who next? Finish the Gotham City sirens or IRON MAN

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