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Were Ivy and Bane married?


Ivy constantly calls Bane “Dear” and “darling,” and the two may have had to get legally wed in order to leave the country/enter the US, since Bane isn’t a US citizen. We’re they married? Also does Ivy have sex with Bane, possibly to tame him and potentially to impregnate herself with seeds she births into her plant “babies?”

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No! Never! Ivy didn't even know the guy before she witnessed him being transformed in the lab.

After her own transformation, Ivy treated him like a pet, a sort of trained attack dog who would do her bidding. That's what all those creepy endearments were about. I have a feeling he followed her around because he recognized her as another plant person like himself, and she had the commanding presence he lacked. She took advantage of his "dumb super-soldier in need of orders" psyche in order to get a special thug to do her bidding.

Judging by the fact that Ivy and Bane are both criminals who don't care about the law, chances are, they didn't bother with papers to get into the country, and Ivy used her feminine wiles and poisonous lips to get transportation the two of them needed.

I sincerely doubt she touched him much, considering how repulsive Bane was. She wasn't the type to get close to people physically unless it involved killing them. Ivy would not have gotten the seeds from Bane at all. I have a feeling she remembered many of her plant mutation formulas, and came up with new ones to use later, and she could easily rob tropical plant nurseries in Gotham to get the seeds she wanted for her twisted experiments.

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How do you think Ivy impregnates herself to create the seeds to which she gives birth and grow into her “babies?” Does she inject her womb with pollen or possibly have sex with her plants (i.e. vines going into her “v”)?

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No, not at all. She called the seeds her babies because she loves plants and considers them her "children." It's part of her twisted mindset of how she loves plants more than humanity, and sees humanity as the scourge of mother earth. Ivy is something like a sociopathic, extreme bio-terrorist. Kinda like a murderous "greenie" if you catch my drift.

She never had to use her own body to fertilize the seeds and plants she needed for her evil plans to work. Talk to anyone who has done gardening and plant cross-breeding, and you'll find that it never involved one's own reproductive organs.

However, in later DC comics, she was able to succeed in turning herself into the human/plant hybrid she always wanted to be, and the comic that took place in featured her with green skin.

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Interesting! I just always assumed Ivy was the biological mother of the plants since the seeds she uses to grow her garden lair do not appear until she squats down and places her hand near her crotch. It seems like she may have given birth to them at that moment.

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She was wearing a pouch on her belt that had the seeds in it.

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True, she wears a belt with the green latex suit, but the moment I’m referring to is when she is at the Turkish Bath with Bane while she is still wearing the green leafy leotard outfit.

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This is the scene: https://youtu.be/YGix73dqF0I

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They don't actually show where she was reaching for the seeds. She could have easily gotten them from her other hand. And by the way, she's wearing too many clothes to do what you're suggesting.

You seem really obsessed with her reproductive parts.

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Haha. Who wouldn’t be?

Part of it is too that there is a similar character to Poison Ivy in the TV show Stargate SG-1. In that show, the character Hathor (who like Ivy has red hair and breathes pheromone dust) has sex in order to conceive and give birth to “children” in order to take over the world as these scenes highlight:

https://youtu.be/oQqEcOuxKsA

https://youtu.be/GQT6tVkzld8

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Now that I'd believe, however, I think it was dumb for her to be played by a white woman with red hair. Hathor was an Egyptian goddess, so it seems to make more sense if she resembled an Egyptian woman. However, the Gou'ld were known to take any host they wanted, so it's possible some poor red-haired woman was forced to be a host.

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Yes, maybe the goauld chose the red-haired white woman as host since she was seen as more sexual than the women of ancient Egypt and be a better host for reproductive purposes.

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What do you think the goauld do to her reproductive system in order that she may conceive and birth larva?

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Probably the Gou'ld itself would be reproducing, rather than its host. While human women do have uterus's, I'm not sure they would be right for growing silver alien snakes.

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LMAO!

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