Margot Robbie's wish for a Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy romance can finally do the nature-obsessed Batman villain justice after more than 25 years of absence from the big screen. In both DC Comics and her animated TV show, Harley Quinn breaks free from her toxic relationship with the Joker to find true love with her fellow Batman foe Pamela Isley, a.k.a. Poison Ivy. Margot Robbie's live-action Harley Quinn already achieved the first part, but Poison Ivy has yet to make her DCU debut more than two decades after Uma Thurman first brought her to the big screen in Joel Schumacher's 1997 Batman & Robin.
Despite Poison Ivy's absence in recent live-action DC movies, a Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy romance is still a possibility. In fact, The Suicide Squad.
Batman & Robin's Failures Mean Poison Ivy Has Wrongly Been Ignored
Joel Schumacher's Batman Forever and Batman & Robin caused a great shift in Batman movies and the superhero genre as a whole. Their extremely campy tone led to the rise of grittier comic book adaptations like Batman Begins and X-Men. However, they have also kept DC characters like Robin, Mr. Freeze, and Poison Ivy away from the cinematic landscape to this day. Despite their popularity and relevance to Batman's mythos, they haven't appeared in any of the three big-screen Batman franchises produced so far.
Joel Schumacher's Batman sequel depicted its Batman villains in quite an inaccurate way. In abuse that the Joker inflicted on Harley. Batman & Robin didn't do justice to Poison Ivy's unique motivation and personality, but just like Two-Face, the Riddler, and Bane, a new movie can redeem her with a modernized treatment.
Poison Ivy Would Be Perfect For Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn
Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn already forged her own path away from the Joker and learned to be by herself for the first time since the Joker thew her into that vat of Ace chemicals. She became a great team player (with three different teams) and found her heroic side despite her dark past. While Joker: Folie a Deux, Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn could meet her own love interest in Poison Ivy, and without the toxicity that the Joker's presence entails. A DC movie centered around a healthy relationship between two anti-heroes would be a fresh concept that would also give Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn more material to explore, not to mention the world of creative possibilities it would provide as the DCU's first-ever big-screen queer couple.
