McFarlane – Poison Ivy (DC Classic) – Collector Edition

Description

The McFarlane Collector Edition: Poison Ivy (DC Classic) is a 7-inch scale figure that brings Dr. Pamela Isley’s classic comic book appearance into McFarlane Toys’ premium McFarlane Collector Edition line.

Designed to capture her iconic Bronze/Modern Age aesthetic before her heavily mutated green-skinned transformations, this release focuses on realistic texturing, vibrant comic colors, and display-ready collector packaging.

🎨 Sculpt, Aesthetics & Comic Accuracy

• Classic Comic Costume: Features her classic leaf-laden one-piece leotard, complete with layered, overlapping ivy leaf sculpts across the torso and hips.

• Classic Flesh Tones & Red Hair: Depicts her classic human skin tone rather than the later bright-green skin, paired with flowing, multi-layered deep crimson red hair and sharp facial makeup detailing.

• Vine Accessories & Arm Detailing: Includes textured green gloves and vine wrap overlays that twist along her arms, capturing her botanical theme.

⚙️ Key Product Features & Articulation

• Ultra Articulation Engineering: Built with McFarlane Toys’ signature Ultra Articulation featuring up to 22 moving parts for full poseability:

  • Double-jointed elbows and knees for dynamic crouching and vine-summoning poses.

  • Ball-jointed waist and chest torso articulation.

  • Ankle rockers and toe-articulation for balanced posing.

• 7-Inch Scale Precision: Perfectly proportioned to scale alongside McFarlane DC Multiverse figures such as Batman, Robin, and Nightwing.

📦 Box Contents & Collector Edition Extras

As part of the higher-tier McFarlane Collector Edition line, this figure comes in window-box packaging with silver foil branding and exclusive accessories:

• Poison Ivy Base Figure

• Botanical Accessories: Includes attachable flexible vine effect pieces to wrap around her arms or other action figures.

• Collector Art Card: Includes a collectible art card featuring character artwork on the front and a character biography on the back.

• Card Display Stand: Includes an acrylic card holder stand alongside the standard black figure display base.

🔍 Technical Specifications

Poison Ivy is more than a simple Super-Villain. She’s a complex creature, often appearing more plant than human. While her objective of saving the planet from mankind’s pollutants and deforestation is a noble one, the means by which she works towards that goal are borderline insane, making her another formidable figure in Batman’s Rogues Gallery.

Product Features:

• Incredibly detailed 7” scale figure based on the DC MULTIVERSE™
• Designed with Ultra Articulation with up to 22 moving parts for full range of posing.
• Includes vines, extra hands and base
• Included collectible art card with character art on the front, and character biography on the back
• Collect all McFARLANE TOYS™ DC MULTIVERSE™ figures

Poison Ivy (Dr. Pamela Lillian Isley), created by writer Robert Kanigher and artist Sheldon Moldoff, debuted in Batman #181 in June 1966. She is one of Batman’s most complex, deadly, and enduring rogues—a brilliant eco-terrorist, botanist, and biochemist driven by an obsession to protect the natural world from human destruction.

Positioned between a ruthless villain and a radical anti-hero, Poison Ivy views humanity as a plague upon Earth, using her botanical mastery and plant-controlling abilities to enforce her will.

🧬 Origin Story: The Birth of a Botanical Terror

While Poison Ivy’s origin has been refined across different comic eras, her definitive Modern Age backstory (established in Secret Origins #36 by Neil Gaiman) grounds her transformation in betrayal and scientific tragedy:

• Dr. Pamela Isley: Pamela grew up as a quiet, brilliant student in Seattle, possessing a deep passion for botany and plant toxicology.

• The Betrayal: While studying advanced botany at university, she fell under the spell of her professor, Dr. Jason Woodrue (who would later become the villain Floronic Man). Woodrue seduced Isley and used her as an unwitting test subject for a series of illegal bio-experiments, injecting her bloodstream with deadly plant toxins and biological compounds.

• The Mutation: The toxins nearly killed her, leaving her in a hospital for months. While her physical appearance remained largely human initially, the experiments permanently altered her cellular structure, granting her total immunity to all poisons and diseases while rendering her blood, saliva, and touch lethal.

• The Eco-Terrorist: Traumatized by the betrayal and finding herself increasingly disconnected from human emotion, Pamela moved to Gotham City. Disgusted by humanity’s industrial destruction of nature, she adopted the moniker Poison Ivy, using her newfound abilities to destroy corporate polluters and protect animal and plant life.

🎨 Visual Aesthetic & Evolutionary Forms

Poison Ivy’s appearance has evolved dramatically across different eras of DC Comics:

• The DC Classic Era (1960s–1990s): Depicted as a alluring fatal woman with fair human skin, long flowing crimson hair, a strapless green leaf leotard, and ivy vines wrapped around her arms and legs.

• The Mutated / Green Skin Era: Following further mutations and exposure to the Green (the elemental force connecting all plant life in the DC Universe), her skin transformed into a vibrant chlorophyllic green. In this state, she often grows thorns directly from her body and manipulates massive sentient vines at will.

• The Queen Ivy / Modern Era: In recent comic runs, Ivy reaches god-like status as an elemental entity, sporting dynamic botanical foliage gowns and commanding sprawling biomechanical plant organisms across entire cities.

⚙️ Powers, Abilities, and Botanical Connection

• Chlorokinesis: Poison Ivy possesses an absolute mental connection to plant life. She can cause seeds to sprout in seconds, grow massive carnivorous plants, and manipulate vines like tentacles to crush metal and overpower foes.

• Pheromone Manipulation: She produces specialized floral pheromones that allow her to hypnotize and mind-control men and women alike—frequently using this power to control high-profile targets (including Superman during the Hush storyline).

• Toxic Touch & Saliva: Her bodily fluids contain lethal plant toxins. Her signature kiss can kill an adult human within seconds or deliver customized mind-altering spores.

• Immunity & Botanical Physiology: She is immune to all known biological pathogens, poisons, and chemical agents.

💚 Key Relationships: Harley Quinn & Batman

• Harley Quinn: One of the most celebrated relationships in DC Comics. What started as an unlikely friendship in Batman: The Animated Series grew into a deep, loving romantic relationship. Ivy serves as Harley’s grounding force, encouraging her independence away from the Joker’s toxic influence.

• Batman: Ivy respects Batman’s intelligence but views his defense of Gotham’s corrupt, polluting institutions as misguided. Batman, conversely, sees her as a tragic figure, often attempting to appeal to her human side rather than treating her as a mindless monster.

📦 Premium Collectible Connection

For 7-inch scale action figure collectors looking to bring her classic comic book appearance onto the display shelf, McFarlane Toys engineered a dedicated release in their premium collector line.

McFarlane – Poison Ivy (DC Classic) – Collector Edition

A 7-inch scale figure capturing her iconic Bronze/Modern Age aesthetic.

• Classic Leaf Leotard Sculpt: Features detailed overlapping ivy leaf textures across her outfit paired with flowing crimson hair and human skin tones.

• Botanical Accessories: Includes flexible vine effect pieces designed to wrap around her limbs or hold other action figures.

• Collector Extras: Packed with an exclusive character art card, acrylic card display stand, and standard base.