November 16's is advertised as the finale of the current 'Fear State' crossover event running through the Bat-family titles, but in the ending is a new beginning to a classic duo in DC Comi😼cs.

Spoilers ahead for Batman #117

Although 'Fear State' isn't about Poison Ivy centrally, she has appeared in the crossover event as a villainous version of herself, despite last being seen as relatively heroic in recent issues of Catwoman. Poison Ivy has been fairly unpredictable in recent years, oscillating between hero and💙 villain depending on the storyline - confusing fans of the characters, and comic readers in general.

Although seemingly unplanned at the time, Batman #117 by James Tynion IV and Jorge Jimenez pulls it🐎 all together by saying that there have indeed been multiple Poison Ivies running around the DC Universe for years - even before her death/resurrection in . No, this isn't multiversal variants - it's something more grounded… or planted, rather.

According to Harley, "right before" 2018's when Poison Ivy attacked Gotham the last time, the recently-introduced DC villain the Gardener was worried she may not survive and spliced off "the mos🐻t precious innocent part of you and put it in a seed and planted it safely away." ("Away" being in the caverns underneath Gotham City.) 

. Catwoman and Harley then brought this inꦺnocent Ivy to the more public, more villainous Ivy we've been seeing🔥 in comics recently.

🌺"She's got all of your innocence," Harley says. "The part of you that still sees the best in people. T🦩he part of you I can see is missing. She's great... see?"

The villainous version of Ivy reluctantly agrees to reunite and merge with the innocent Ivy - resulting in the first time Iv𒁏y has apparently been 'all together' since 2018.

One of the first things she notiꦜces is how her plants have insinuated themselves all through Gotham - and that due to the current 'Fear State' event "the people up there are shaking with fear. It's overwhelming. I can do something else with my rea꧋ch..."

Poison Ivy then uses her plants - and their pheromones - to calm down the cit𓆉y.

Realizing this strains even her graduated power, sh🔥e decides to relinquish some of her power - and finds a good place for it: in healing an injured child the Unsa🎐nity Collective had brought to her earlier in the 'Fear State' crossover.

After all that, Ivy has one moဣre thing she'd like to do - with Harley. Harley begins babbling a bit about seeing her former lover back as herself for the first time in three years, but Ivy cuts her off, saying "Harley. Stop talking."

And they kiss.

This series of events would seem to resolve the dissonance surrounding Poison Ivy at DC over the past few years, with her seemingly aimless vacillating between villain and hero and back again, and the low-key dissolution of the Ivy/Harley relationship which was teased as early as 2009 in and then formally c𝓀onfirmed in the 'New 52' 🍬 run as girlfriends.

The Ivy/Harley romance seems to continue in , whic𒉰h goes on sale on November 23. 

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