ABSTRACT
The seductress and fervent environmentalist Poison Ivy has been an integral part of the DC Universe. In comics, television shows, films, video games, and various other media forms, Poison Ivy is constantly subjugated by men, becoming a straw ecofeminist who is employed to mock, refute, and derail the very ideologies. Poison Ivy endeavours to save Gotham from environmental degradation: a looming threat that Wayne Enterprises inadvertently exacerbates. Despite investing in the security of the city, Batman is largely disinterested in environmental sustainability. Ivy’s ecocentric ideologies are routinely undermined by Batman who is representative of “humanity’s anthropocentrism and eco-phobic stance”. Poison Ivy is made demonic, rendered sexually deviant, and deemed a madwoman in an effort to undermine her ecocentric ideologies. Moreover, she is a biological monster, a transgression against natural law, and a symbol of the radical other.
