


Ivy managed to organize a trap to capture Tiger Moth, Silken Spider and Dragon Fly, but was stopped by Batman, using willpower to his attraction to her and sent Ivy to jail. During her getaway, she managed to have Batman develop feelings for her, quite possibly through her use of pheromones.

Ivy challenged the three so she could be seen as the number #1 woman criminal in Gotham before making a getaway when Batman and Robin showed up. Poison Ivy's first crime in Gotham City was interrupting an opening at the Gotham Art Museum during a pop-art exhibit revolving around bug-themed woman villains Tiger Moth, Silken Spider and Dragon Fly. FBI eventually found out about those events, but they kept her name incorrectly as Lillian Rose. She survives this murder attempt and discovers she has acquired an immunity to all natural toxins and diseases. Fearing she would implicate him in the theft, he attempts to poison her with the herbs, which are deadly and untraceable. 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. 1.2 Post-Crisis: Life in Seattle and Gotham (New Earth).Ivy has also developed a special relationship with fellow villain Harley Quinn, with the two often being depicted as recurring partners-in-crime, friends and, sometimes, love-interests. A genius scientist and meta-human with hybridized plant DNA, Poison Ivy uses mutant plants, will-bending pheromones and toxins from plants and her own bloodstream for her criminal activities. 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.
