Ivy’s true personality

“Sex expert”????

You’re quoting yourself. She controlled them with primitive pheromones. That’s about as expert as a dog’s ass.

She was not allowed to be actually sexy, which is why they got a gay filmmaker who was instead focused on batnipples.

Backlash after Returns, bigtime.

Thinking back to that film, I liked Pamela better than Poison Ivy. Mainly because I thought Pamela was really funny. I guess Poison Ivy was the other side of her - similar to Stanley Ipkiss and The Mask.

When Ivy was not in character it was all in act. The Dr. Pamela thing was a poor disguise and rouse to try and get her proposal to Bruce.

When that didn't work she started using her pheromone stuff, Bane and manipulating Freeze.

There were two versions of her before and after her transformation... (keep in mind, they're based on this film, not Poison Ivy in the comics)

Before: Pamela Eisley appeared to be a shy, nerdy woman who loved plants, was dedicated to saving the earth, was not very charismatic, and apparently did have some sense of right and wrong...to a degree. She was angry that her boss had stolen her venom samples and had used them for illegal and nefarious purposes, and also kept her in the dark about it. She was planning on turning him into the authorities before he attempted to kill her.

After: Her dark side came out and she used her newfound powers to get revenge on Wayne Enterprises for polluting the planet and screwing her over with an unscrupulous boss. This became the "true Ivy" you speak of. When she was wearing the wig, the glasses, and behaving like a nerd, she was basically play-acting and pretending to be her old self, the powerless nerd that nobody would pay attention to or listen. She knew she wasn't going to convince Bruce to do something about the earth, but she wanted to pretend to "give him a chance" anyway, just to get a feel for her enemy.

I have a feeling the darker part of Ivy had always existed, but she had been unable to give into her urge to get revenge on humanity because she had been shy and powerless in the past. I mean, you saw how people treated her when she was Pamela; she got no respect, nobody listened to her, nobody took her seriously, and people took advantage of her. Once she had the ability to fight back with her plants, her poisoned lips, and her thug, Bane, she became the sadistic misanthrope that had always lurked inside.