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DC’sPoisonIvyandHarley Quinnmay be a fan - preferred couple , but villains are n’t known for have the healthiest kinship . Although the love between the two of them is genuine , with each of them looking out for the other ’s well - being , their destructive tendency magnify any faults or crack to grave levels . Although Poison Ivy seems to be the more composed of the two , she is falling fair game to a classic human relationship problem that imperil her future with Harley .
Poison Ivy had her index kick upstairs to the point of near godhood during DC’sFear Stateevent , but had her power diminished back to their original levels by her booster and loved ones in Holy Order to save her soul . Traumatized by no longer being able to connect to The Green ( DC ’s metaphysical kingdom of all plant life ) , the personnel casualty of her powers , and touch betrayed by those closest to her , Ivy has turn off ties with Gotham . infest her trunk with the lethalophicordyceps lamiafungus , she now travels America seek to spread as much of the sponger as she can in a desperate play to finally pass over out humanity before she too succumbs to the spore inside her .
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Poison Ivy # 3by G. Willow Wilson , Marcio Takara , and Arif Prianto begins with a pipe dream chronological succession in which Poison Ivy envisions herself floating down a river with Harley by her side . Although Harley secernate her it ’s not too late to twist back and desperately entreats her to stop her violent disorder , Ivy tearfully refuses . Still anguish from being cut off from The Green , she tells Harley that " maybe [ she ] did n’t desire to [ survive without it ] , " revealing just how depressed she truly is before waking up .
The vision of Harley in Ivy ’s dream articulate so much about their kinship . Not only isHarley wearing a newfangled version of her buffoon costumeagain , but this version of her old attire is refined and graceful and calls to beware the traditional Venetian harlequin : a tricksome character known for speaking verity to power and facilitate buff to find their happy ending together . Through Harley , Ivy ’s subconscious tells her what she already knows : that it ’s not too late to move around back , that she has those who give care about her waiting for her back dwelling house .
The tragedy of this imaginativeness is that it amount to common ivy couch Harley on a pedestal . She wants Harley to be someone who will reach out to her and curb her defective impulses , someone who will tell her what she needs to hear , but Harley is n’t the gentle clown of her fantasies : she ’s cheeky and boldand loves Poison Ivy in her own elbow room . She does n’t even resemble the idealized clown in Ivy ’s pipe dream anymore , take long since raiment down in more casual attire with only her makeup and adamant motif hearkening back to her original getup . Poison Ivyhas to learn to loveHarley Quinnas she is now and not the idealise version of her she has in her straits , or this defect may destroy them both - and the world .
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Poison Ivy # 3is now available from DC Comics .
