Poison Ivy

## Pam Isley

* Pam Isley
* Poison Ivy

**Pamela "Pam" Isley**, also known as **Poison Ivy**, is an antagonist in the series *DC Super Hero Girls*. She is voiced by Cristina Milizia. She was first featured in the short *Hashtag Frowny Face* fighting Batgirl on top of the Metropolis High School using a giant plant.

## Development

Lauren Faust wrote Poison Ivy with the main motivation of hate.

## Depiction

### Cartoons

Poison Ivy is first featured in the short *Hashtag Frowny Face*. She stands atop the Metropolis High School while the limbs of a giant plant surround it and attack Batgirl. Batgirl tries to communicate her situation to the team with emoji text messages but fails to be understood. As Ivy laughs maniacally standing at the top of a spire with the vines growing around the school, she receives an emoji text message and asks herself, annoyed, why can't Harley Quinn "write like a normal person."

Poison Ivy assists Harley Quinn in the episode *Beeline* in her attempt to blow up a bridge and make her teacher get stuck in a traffic jam so he can't give her a math test. They fight over the television remote control in the short *Remote Uncontrolled*.

   Poison Ivy arrives in Metropolis in the episode *From Bat to Worse* after leaving Gotham. Batman calls Commissioner Gordon, though Babs answers the Bat-phone instead, and Batman tries to tell her, mediated by Robin, that a Gotham villain is at the Metropolis pesticide plant. Batgirl arrives at the plant and finds Poison Ivy. Ivy tells her:

> "*I tried to save that toxic cesspool but Gotham is lost. Nothing green will ever grow there again. I can still save Metropolis though. Return it to the glorious forest it once was. Would you like to know how? By destroying all the pests! Humans are vermin in the garden of life; locusts, termites, cockroaches! I'll exterminate them all!*"
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Batgirl manages to subdue Ivy by throwing her Bat-mite bomb into a vat of pesticide. Ivy's vines wither and she's dragged out by Batgirl. Commissioner Gordon arrives at the plant and puts Ivy in his car, but while he's conversing with Batgirl, Ivy disappears, leaving behind thorny vines.

Pam is prominently featured in the episode *Misgiving Tree*. Jessica wants to befriend her even though Babs tells Jess that Pam wants to be alone, and the rest of the team concurs. Jess insists on befriending her, with Pam rejecting her repeatedly. Eventually, Pam finds out that Jess is protesting the cutting of an ancient tree, and joins her. They chain themselves to the tree, and at night Pam tells the story of the tree who "speaks" to her by rustling in the wind. Pam grows angry over the imminent destruction of the tree. She clenches her fist in the soil, and vines grow around it. When the working crew arrives, Pam vanishes and Poison Ivy attacks the crew with her vines, flipping cars, tearing the road, and coiling the vines around the workers. She throws a bulldozer at the crew, and Green Lantern deflects it back, felling the ancient tree. Poison Ivy falls to her knees, in tears and a fit of rage. She retreats into the ground with her vines and tells Green Lantern that she will pay. In the next scene, Pam and Jess find an acorn by the stump of the ancient tree. They plant it, and the episode ends with a shot of the acorn growing into a sapling as Jess and Pam walk away. Earlier in the episode, Pam's full first name, Pamela, is mentioned by Diana when speaking to Jess. This is the only instance the name is used in the series.

    Pam is prominently featured in the episode *Retreat*. She is taken on a forest cabin retreat by Jess along with Karen, Babs, Garth, and Hal. She witnesses the other campers break off branches, whittle wood, chop wood, and start a campfire, which horrifies her, and she whispers under her breath "Monsters!" When Jess offers her a veggie-kebab she runs off into the forest, where she turns into Poison Ivy and raises zombie-like plants from the ground. The plants attack the other campers, one of them growing all over Hal's body, and others swallowing the other campers whole. When all the campers are swallowed up, she says "now *this* is the glory of nature", and walks away. Jess manages to get to her power ring and creates a chainsaw, and the other campers emerge out of the plants. The next morning Jess, Karen, Babs, and Garth drive away, and see Pam walking down the road. Jess says "Pam! You're alive!" and Pam responds quizzically "Hey... you're alive too...? Yay."

Pam transforms on-screen in the episode *Anger Management*. While Pam is playing with algae in a park pond, a man wearing an orange hardhad and vest erects a sign. Pam reads it: "Coming soon: Ode to Concrete. A concrete statue celebrating concrete." She transforms into Poison Ivy, her face turns green, her hair turns brilliant red, and the sky turns hot pink. She tells herself "let it drop" and everything turns back to normal, but then screams and turns into Poison Ivy again, and tosses some algae-like creature into the pond, watching it grow to gigantic proportions. Later, the creature attacks Metropolis, and after Supergirl defeats it, Ivy screams.

### Comics

Ivy is depicted in the comic *Teenage Crisis*, stealing the largest diamond in the world from the Metropolis Museum along with Harley and Catwoman. They are foiled by the team and the diamond is returned to the museum, but the thieves escape.

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## Merchandise

An eleven-and-a-half inch Poison Ivy figure was sold exclusively at Target in 2019, and later sold through other retailers.

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Target-exclusive Poison Ivy doll
Toy Fair 2020
Toy Fair 2020

Target-exclusive Poison Ivy doll

Toy Fair 2020

Toy Fair 2020

The promotional copy of the Poison Ivy doll reads: "Poison Ivy a.k.a Pam Isley / Shy and a bit of a loner, Poison Ivy feels more comfortable around her plant friends than humans. With chlorophyll in her veins and the ability to communicate and control plants in a way no one else can -- she'll do whatever it takes to protect plants from the evils of humanity! / Swoop into Adventures with Style! / Poison Ivy doll comes dressed in her shimmery green suit, gloves, knee-high boots, and vine power piece. Fans will love her true-to-show look and iconic outfit designed with a super stylish twist. Plus, the clothing and accessories are removable for fashion fun!"

## References

1. ↑ Lauren Faust (July 24, 2020), "When writing the #DCSHG villains we associated them with Six Deadly Motivations in mind: / Catwoman: Greed / Giganta: Violence / Star Sapphire: Envy / Livewire: Sadism / Poison Ivy: Hate / Harley Quinn: Chaos / Not quite the 7 sins, but it did the trick / (early development art)". Twitter