uma thurman played poison ivy in batman and robin.
who played poison ivy in batman and robin?
uma thurman
bullet::::- uma thurman played poison ivy in the 1997 film "batman & robin". dr. pamela isley is a botanist, working for wayne enterprises' arboreal preservation project in south america. she is experimenting with venom to create animal-plant cross-breedings capable of fighting back and protecting the world's plants from "the thoughtless ravages of man". however, her senior colleague, dr. jason woodrue, steals some of her venom samples in order to transform a prisoner into bane. isely is outraged that her research has been corrupted, and when she rejects woodrue's advances, he tries to murder her by sending her crashing into shelves lined with beakers containing venom and other animal-plant toxins and chemicals. she is transformed into a poisonous hybrid of human and plant. replacing her blood with aloe, her skin with chlorophyll and filled her lips with venom, making her kiss poisonous. she kills woodrue by kissing him with her poisonous lips, and vows to establish botanical supremacy over the world. she allies herself with bane and mr. freeze, and plans to freeze the earth with a giant freezing cannon, which will destroy the human race and enable poison ivy's mutant plants to "overrun the globe". she ensures freeze's cooperation by pulling the plug on his cryogenically frozen wife, and convincing him that batman had done it. ivy then lures an infatuated robin to her garden hideout and tries to kill him with a venomous kiss; the attempt fails, however, as robin had coated his lips with rubber. a furious ivy throws robin into her lily pond and entangles batman in her vines, but they are able to free themselves when batgirl unexpectedly arrives and traps the villainess in her own floral throne. after batman, robin and batgirl foil the villains' plan, ivy is imprisoned in arkham asylum with a vengeful freeze as her cellmate.
poison ivy (character)
bullet::::- pamela lillian isley (poison ivy): although poison ivy has been historically portrayed as a supervillainess, batman and poison ivy have worked together in achieving common goals and are frequently depicted as having a romantic relationship. while not at the same level as his relationship with catwoman, batman's attraction to ivy is present in some way. in her first appearance, poison ivy is established as having an attraction to batman, and tries to convince batman to join her side and creates love potions that ensnare him. in the 1989 story, "batman: poison ivy", christopher dejardin tries to kill ivy, and batman takes the bullet. batman, who was wearing body armor, knocks him out. ivy considers his saving her from death as proof he loves her, though he responds that that she doesn't know the meaning of the word. in "batman: hothouse" (1992), batman gains an obsession with isley. later, she kisses him. now completely deranged, ivy thinks herself "titania, queen of the may", and batman her oberon - as batman struggles with the hallucinations induced by the kiss, she pins him down and prepares to unmask him. with his last burst of strength, batman kicks the greenhouse's sprinklers on, washing away ivy's pheromones. the sobered batman chases an increasingly desperate ivy onto the greenhouse's catwalks, where he barely manages to save ivy from falling to her death. subsequently, ivy is returned to arkham asylum, her twisted love for batman stronger than ever. in one of the annuals of "", a mutual attraction between poison ivy and the batman is obvious right from the start. ivy considers batman "the perfect man", and in a conversation with his butler, alfred pennyworth, he admits to finding her attractive and more appealing than catwoman. in the 2004 story "", batman and ivy work together to find a killer carrying out a series of ivy-like murders at arkham. batman gets poisoned by the flowers, and he has to kiss poison ivy for the cure. ivy insists for him to trust her, despite batman's doubts. batman at first decides to punch her, hesitates, then willingly shares a kiss with her instead, curing him, but when — assuming batman dead — poison ivy tries to kill herself, once more insinuating that it is more than just lust she feels for him. later, ivy returns to arkham to finish her rehabilitation, but some "anonymous benefactor" makes sure her time there isn't as daunting as it might have been. ivy discovers that batman filled her cell with flowers as a gift. in "gothtopia", batman comes to her rescue when he realizes she was telling him the truth, even though he put her in arkham. first she punches him for not believing her claims, and then she kisses him for coming to her rescue, poisoning him with her mind control toxin. resisting it, he warns that they would be best off helping each other for now. thanks to her own resistance and the kiss he received, both batman and ivy become immune to scarecrow's gas effect.
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