Sean Akizuki's Fantasy Critic

  I wrote about what could've been done with Batman and Catwoman in Batman Beyond . Should I be glad it never happened or not? Seeing photos of Adam West and Julie Newmar in reunions can inspire ideas. The idea that Batman and Catwoman as an elderly couple was explored in Rebirth . Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker is a fanservice. The OG Joker returns in an elderly Tim Drake's body. There was a cameo of Harley Quinn (now an old woman). However, I'd like to share my nitpicky side on what might be that "unexplored potential" with Poison Ivy . I always thought of Poison Ivy as Batman's conflicted love interest. I reviewed some Batman: The Animated Series episodes. "Pretty Poison" has Poison Ivy kissing Batman and somehow enjoying it. The show could've used a possible ongoing love triangle between Poison Ivy and Catwoman for Batman . There should've been episodes where Batman helps Poison Ivy (and vice versa). My own take on "Harley and Iv...

I read through Screen Rant's overrated characters in Batman: The Animated Series . I'm going to highlight one of my favorite villains -- Poison Ivy! A favorite villain doesn't necessarily have to be Pure Evil. Some of them can be potentially anti-heroic because of their anti-villain status. Pamela Lillian Isley aka Poison Ivy is in that category. Here's something that Screen Rant says about Poison Ivy as a character: Poison Ivy had a fantastic debut in Batman: The Animated Series “Pretty Poison,” establishing her as a vengeful eco-terrorist with a personal vendetta against Harvey Dent. However, as the series progressed, she became more of a one-note character whose motivations rarely evolved or were expounded upon in any great detail. Considering her intentions are fairly noble compared to other Batman: TAS villains, she could have been a far more compelling character. However, Poison Ivy was often reduced to using plant-based gimmicks without much emotional depth. Unli...

After rewatching some episodes of Batman: The Animated Series -- I feel the need to be that annoying nitpicker again. Every company has its own history of bad decisions -- even those that made a lot of beloved franchises anywhere around the world. Warner Bros. was responsible for many DC animated adaptations and owns DC Comics -- explaining why the Joker became an easy guest character in Mortal Kombat 11 . Now, I'd like to think of the RIGHTFULLY SHORT-LIVED The New Batman Adventures . Some changes were made such as Dick Grayson becoming Nightwing and a new Robin was introduced namely Tim Drake. I wonder if that decision was trying something new or what? Unlike its predecessor which had better art -- new art was used presumably to keep it consistent with Superman: The Animated Series . This drop in animation is much more than what G.I. Joe did during the DIC seasons. I may have preferred Sunbow over DiC. Sunbow got the G.I. Joe license and had Toei work on it. DiC's art was way...

All before wokeness got worse -- I'd like to point to the episode "Ivy and Harley" in Batman: The Animated Series . I always had a thing for Joker and Harley (which I believe brought out the best development out of the Joker) or I've always had shipped Batman x Poison Ivy . I even felt that Batman: The Animated Series could've created a  love triangle between Catwoman and Poison Ivy for Batman ! As I rewatched the series on Netflix (which will be there for a limited time) --  I rewatched "Ivy and Harley". Harley has a toxic romantic relationship with the Joker. Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker even hints that Harley and Joker had at least one child decades prior. I was looking at the angle of the two women. Harley had a bad breakup with the Joker. Meanwhile, I feel that Poison Ivy's toxic infatuation with Batman (pun intended) could've been brought up. The episodes "Pretty Poison "and "Eternal Youth" point to Poison Ivy'...

  I can't deny that while Batman x Catwoman is rather popular - I'm still on the unpopular side of things with Batman x Poison Ivy. The Injustice games also had an ending of Catwoman supposedly marrying Batman after Brainiac was beaten. Now, I think about how I have a weird storyline brewed up. This would totally be a weird one so brace for it. I'm really thinking about how my own imagination created. Poison Ivy is more of an anti-villain who, with the right influence, can be reformed. I was wondering if she was created to be the third wheel in the already ongoing Batman vs. Catwoman pairing.  One storyline in The Batman Adventures (which is based on Batman: The Animated Series ) presents an uneasy alliance between Batman and Poison Ivy to save an environmentalist. Both of them work together (for once) even if Batman and Poison Ivy have trust issues. I think about how the comics should've done some sexual tensions between them even more. Poison Ivy did joke about Batman...

I admit that I'm no longer into comics for the reason that there are so many reboots, and retcons, and the stories don't seem to end. Just think about The Twelve storyline in X-Men for one. Though, I think watching some cartoons here and there back then was another. One of my fondest memories was Batman: The Animated Series which the second season's art JUST SUCKED. WTF Warner Bros.? Anyway, there are some shipping battles in which Batman may be Archie while Catwoman is Betty and Poison Ivy is Veronica. I may be an Archie x Betty shipper but I'm a Batman x Poison Ivy shipper . Batman can be put in a real rock-and-hard place situation as Catwoman and Poison Ivy are considered Batman's awkward love interests. The 1966 Batman show starring the late Adam West had Catwoman as an on/off interest for Batman. Catwoman (Julie Newmar, later Eartha Kitt for some reason) makes seductive gestures at Batman either to gain advantage or because she's got a contradictory crush o...

Sime fans kind of like the Batman x Catwoman as an anti-hero x anti-villain pairing. I'm not a comics purist and personally, I'm getting upset at a decline of the whole comic industry. I welcome certain changes if they do good. I remembered watching Batman: The Animated Series and I freaking started a rather weird trend of Batman x Poison Ivy shipping which caused me to think about how I wish Poison Ivy-related episodes were written. I can't forget the way I started to ship them in "Pretty Poison" and "Eternal Youth". I thought about making Poison Ivy have an unhealthy interest in Batman which puts her at odds with the villains. Think about Enchantress' villainous crush on Thor (and I confess, I tend to ship them in spite of their differences). One of my ideas would involve Poison Ivy actually offering Batman more than once a chance to be her ally or even her would-be consort even to the point she may want to get rid of him (but it grieves ...

I always had my fetish for a Batman/Poison Ivy fan pairing of sorts where Batman must struggle against a lust on Poison Ivy. Batman is no self-righteous villain like Dom Claude Frollo. The whole setting would have Batman struggling with his role as a punisher of the wicked while Poison Ivy has truly cast a spell upon him. So it had me thinking what if Poison Ivy's kiss on Batman actually had cast a spell so dangerous, Batman fears the end of him has come because he's now lusting after Poison Ivy? Batman is a vigilante and anti-hero. He keeps the city safe. He would be a righteous version of Dom Claude Frollo, but a much younger version of the villain. Like Frollo, he has fallen into the dilemma of falling for a woman he believes would bring to his doom. He is now in a dilemma unlike any before and it's Poison Ivy. Just one kiss was enough to bring Batman to a serious psychological dilemma. I can view Poison Ivy as a twisted version of Esmeralda. Esmeralda in the novel...

Most incarnations of Poison Ivy are basically disappointing, even later ones just make her more ugly than gorgeous, season one of BTAS.  Just what you needed a really hot redhead that makes you really see a seductively dangerous villain.  I'll just be honest I'm pretty much a Batman/Poison Ivy fan shipper or should I call it crack pairing because a relationship can never work between them. So her premiere was in "Pretty Poison" where she seduced Harvey Dent and had the intention to murder him, which later developed an enmity with Two-Face who used to be Harvey Dent.  I just thought her relationship to Batman there was something when she flirted with him.  I guess she really had a crush on him but too bad it wasn't explored quite well.  I thought she was really attractive but deadly. In "Eternal Youth" I thought it was another of her schemes that was pretty much having noble intentions but done extremely.  The episode presented her more as a noble vil...

I am pretty disappointed with Poison Ivy's later characterizations or even designs.  For how do I redesign her story? For my reimagining of the character, what if she actually knew Bruce Wayne and was his frequent infatuation instead of Selina Kyle who becomes Catwoman?  I had my thoughts that I'm a guilty Batman/Poison Ivy fan shipper even if it's just totally crack and incompatible.  But I could tone down some of her personalities making her more of a misguided vigilante, an anti-heroine and has a hard time getting along other villains except Harley for some time out of real, genuine sympathy.  And in the whole duration of her character, I just imagining her as an anti hero. Which in my fic, Poison Ivy doesn't join any of the Injustice Gang or related ones, she rather works alone with her crusade to bring nature back to its course as well as "save humanity".  She has become a vigilante that actually has taken care of those who recklessly destroy natur...

If there's one Batman villain I would like to talk about, it's of Poison Ivy. What makes her unique? Unlike most criminals that are just after for the money, she was more of the noble villain with intentions to fight pollution but she's an extreme vigilante who uses unorthodox methods in contrast to the Batman. She sought to see evildoers punished and at some point, she is viewed to be a nuisance to most of the Batman criminals. As said, she is pretty as a rose and deadly as her name. Unlike most villains that don't appear to be harmless, she does. She has her really pretty face, sexy body and that it's an edge to her being lethal. Even without her powers, Poison Ivy can drive a man wild. But it seems she reserves her sexiest schemes for Batman though. What I liked about existence is her love/hate relationship to Batman. How? She has feelings for him yet at at times, she wants to get rid of him. However when she gets the chance, she doesn't. And ti...

I kind of thought about it that because I met some girl who's really hot and a nature lover, well I kind of thought of this crazy idea of what ifs between them: What if Batman and Poison Ivy knew each other in College? What if Poison Ivy knew Batman's secret identity but won't reveal it to anybody out of love for him? What if Batman had a crush on Poison Ivy in College and later figures out he's in a love/hate relationship with her? What if Batman was jealous of Dr. Woodroe and later Poison Ivy falls for him but they're always in a conflict? What if Poison Ivy becomes good for real and settles down with him eventually having a family she never expected? Just weird really. Just love the Poison Ivy and Batman shipping.

Poison Ivy and Batman unfortunately share a hot love/hate relationship but maybe Catwoman was more popular, that's why hers wasn't so focused. I kind of thought that the two of them were actually meant to be a couple only if Poison Ivy stops being so fanatical and adopt Batman's views, I think the two can get along. :-P Poison Ivy is a nature-caring person but she does everything to the extreme. In her crusades, she seems to suffer from passion burns for him. Poison Ivy will always use her charms at him which however, Batman doesn't return them. She of course can't take no for an answer from him so she gives him a kiss. Okay in the Animated Series, he kissed him. I don't think she wanted to poison him. I think she wanted more of him so she teased him with the antidote, if it's an adult angle, I think she wants a night with him. While she seduced Harley Dent for revenge, it seems she lusts after the Batman. In the comics, they've kissed more t...

From all the times when I had crushes on fictional babes, Poison Ivy was whom I had an admiration of physical beauty. She was just simply the hottest animated babe in the 90s. This was her in season one and so far, she has a lot of cleavage which makes her more tempting. She was introduced as Harley Dent's "fiance" but she was cheating on him and tried to kill him. She had developed a love-hate relationship with Batman. Sadly the authors focused the relationship on her. The kiss between her and Batman was just epic. I mean, I felt like that despite their differences, the two have that chemistry. Flirting with the Batman is just epic for me. FTW. She's been the goddess of beauty in the first season. I always was wishing she and Batman would have more interaction and flirtation along the way. Sadly when the second season came, she was being "murdered" several times like how comic book artists did. In fact, I felt like that she would have been...