Though she recalls little from her first incarnation, the reborn Ivy already has a pre-tee n’s mood swings and a metahuman’s powers.

Batman #181 (April, 1966)

”What is it with you meatsacks and TALKING?! All day it’s ‘give me a quote’ or ‘that hurt’ or ‘help, I’m going into toxic shock!’ Ugh, so annoying!”

FROM THE FILES OF LEX LUTHOR:

Poison Ivy is as much a testament to the power of botanical science as a case study in the benefits of curated child labor. Reviewing her DNA samples, I am beginning to learn more about the anomalous conditions that created this gleefully vicious hybrid of human and plant— twice.

According to her file, this is Ivy’s second life. In her first, she was a powerful scientist-turned-criminal in Gotham’s gallery of rogues, fighting on nature’s behalf until her apparent death in the Cloudburst Incident. And now, she is seemingly reborn from a single cutting left behind by the disintegration of her previous form. Fascinating.

As a subject of study, Ivy is singularly compelling. Memories of her former life trickle back slowly but surely, which has tremendous ramifications: this child is not a new Ivy, she is the same Ivy. If we can even begin to replicate such a process outside of her genetic makeup, we could begin down a path to undoing and redefining death Itself.