Pamela Lillian Isley, better known asPoison Ivy, is adored by fans for her flirtatious manner and powers of seduction. This Gotham City Siren has proven a powerful opponent to Batman and any otherDCheroesthat might cross her path. This temptress, first introduced in Batman #181 back in June 1966, has been around for almost 60 years, praised by comic book readers, gamers and movie fanatics alike.
Fans love her so much, she has been featured ina number of different mediaover the years, including video games. Poison Ivy’s first video game appearance was on Game Boy’sBatman: The Animated Seriesin 1993, and she has since gathered a collection of iconic looks. Some are nods to her original design, while others are much more unique.
9Batman: Dark Tomorrow
Batman: Dark Tomorrowis anaction-adventure gamedeveloped by Kemco for the GameCube and Xbox back in 2003. Poison Ivy is featured as one of the game’s antagonists, alongside other popular villains such as the Joker, Ra’s al Ghul, and Mr. Freeze.
Ivy’s design is much different in this game than in other adaptations, looking much more human. Her skin isn’t green, nor is her hair bright red. Instead, her character has a subtle ginger, almost brown, hair color, along with natural makeup. However, her outfit does remain true to the comics: green leotard, gloves, and boots. It’s a unique take on the Ivy fans know and love, but proved both a great and iconic look.
8The Adventures of Batman & Robin
Released in November 1994,The Adventures of Batman & Robinwas an action-adventure platformer based on the popular showBatman: The Animated Series. The game’s section “Stage 2: No Green Peace” features none other than Poison Ivy as the main villain the player must defeat.
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During the game’s cutscenes, Ivy is depicted in black and white, with only her face being shown. Her design is similar to the comics: voluminous red hair, a green leotard with leaf-like detailing, gloves, and thigh-high boots. This color pallette and style are iconic to Ivy’s character, making for one of her best video game looks.
7Fortnite
Fortnitetook the world by storm upon its release in July 2017 and still remains popular today. The game is known for the collaborations it has with other franchises,including DC back in 2020. The Last Laugh bundle featured several iconic characters, including Poison Ivy.
This Ivy skin is the perfect mixture of familiar yet fresh, certainly inspired by the comics. She wears a green, leaf-like catsuit with vines wrapped around her neck, arms and legs. Players can also choose whether she has her signature green skin or not, though the green is much more true to her character. This look gets bonus points for the awesome ‘back bloom,’ a thorny and venomous looking plant backpack that this skin came with.
6Injustice 2
Injustice 2, released in May 2017, is a fighting game based on the DC universe. It features Poison Ivy as one of itsplayable characters, alongside many others in its star-studded roster.
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Ivy’s design in this game is by far one of the most creative of any adaptation, straying away from anything fans had seen prior. This gorgeous skin features Ivy in her signature leotard, this time in much more intricate detail, with boots to match and plants wrapping around her legs and hands. The best part about this skin, however, is the option to attach two vicious-looking Venus flytraps to her back.
5Batman: Arkham Knight
Batman: Arkham Knight, an action-adventure game developed by Rocksteady, released in June 2015. It is the final game of theArkhamseries, and features Poison Ivy as one of its villains.
Ivy’s look in this game is an expansion of her design inArkham AsylumandCity. Equally, however, there are a lot of differences. Ivy wears her hair up in this game, contrasting the big bouncy hair she usually has. Her skin, especially her arms and torso, has an almost mossy, poisoned look to them which, of course, lines up with her backstory more than other Ivy designs fans had seen before.
4LEGO Batman 2 & 3
LEGO Batman 2, released in June 2012, andLEGO Batman 3, released in November 2014, are both action-adventure platformers developed by Traveller’s Tales, continuing the proud tradition of LEGO games.
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Ivy’sLEGO Batmanlook is particularly high on this list for one reason: it resembles her original design best. She wears a leotard made entirely out of leaves, paired with bright green pantyhose. Again, bonus points are granted for the incredibly cool plant whip she uses.
3Infinite Crisis
Infinite Crisiswas a multiplayer online battle arena game based on the DC Universe released in March 2015, shut down just 6 months later. Despite its very short duration, props have to be given for the game’scharacter design, specifically Ivy’s.
This game’s Poison Ivy has striking yellow eyes and a neon green lip. The leaves on her catsuit travel around her body, and the vines attached to it would whip around frantically as the player moved. This particular design did a fantastic job at highlighting just how dangerous Poison Ivy is.
2DC Legends
DC Legendsis a free-to-play strategyRPG mobile gamefeaturing DC’s most iconic characters. One of those characters is Poison Ivy, and her design in this game is phenomenal.
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Ivy wears a gorgeous dress made of vines, leaves, and other plants, as well as vine-like heels that wrap around her calves. Both her hair and outfit are decorated in flowers that add a bright pop of color to her usual green and red pallette. All in all, this Ivy design feels very nymph-like, which works great with her character.
1Batman: Arkham Asylum
Released in 2009,Batman: Arkham Asylumwas the first of the Arkham series and is an action-adventure game developed byRocksteady. The game itself was an incredibly influential, which alone makes Poison Ivy’s look in it iconic.
LikeArkham Knight, her design is filled with tiny details that perfectly portray aspects of her backstory. Most notably, her green skin is covered head-to-toe in vines. She has neon green eyes, a result of the poison that transformed her into Poison Ivy. Her hair gives her an almost ethereal look with the way its both colored and animated. In the game, she is locked up inArkham Asylumwhich explains the detailing on her jacket, a design feature unique to this title.
