made these because my bestfriend and I have been using couple icons for our college acounts, and I didn’t find many old harley/ivy ones, so here is a couple.
I also think I’ll be posting more later, but they will proprably be them on their gayest form from the harley quinn animated series
If I really wanted to write a cheap shot shitpost fanfic
I’d put Poison Ivy’s brand of genocide versus that of Ferrus Manus and the Iron Hands as an evil vs evil scenario.
In the left corner you have Ivy, who believes herself an embodiment of Plant Life and thus all humans are evil and deserve to die along with all herbivores and anything that harms plants. Yes, bees and pollinators 100% count in Ivy-land as to ‘life that needs to die.’ Animals are forbidden to live, only glorious plants (someone SHOULD try to tell Ivy that killing off pollinators will kill off most plants but she’d just mind-whammy them and send them to be a suicide bomber for the effort).
On the right corner you have grimdark Robber Baron Ferrus Manus with his Grimdark Satanic Mills and he, Iron Hands whose Iron Hands gave the name to the Iron Hands symbol of the Iron Hands Legion would seek to be the fist of retribution. The 'all flesh except plant life needs to die’ versus 'the flesh is weak and the machine is strong, humanity is at its best when it’s a machine with a brain and a spinal cord and the rest are gears’.
Both views are completely nonsensical in any outside context, and Ferrus Manus is a guy with a marked habit for losing his head and no different to other superpowered beings in the DCU in one sense, with Ivy canonically established as able to mind-whammy SUPERMAN whenever she wants to have a pet genocidal agent.
Every time I see the “Poison Ivy is a hero” concept on social media I find myself wondering when Ra’s Al-Ghul gets turned into a hero
Pamela Isley as written in the actual Batman comics is a serial rapist who uses mind control powers to try to eradicate the entire human race. Her pheromones literally work like a bad AO3 sex pollen fanfic, and are used for the same results.
Ra’s Al-Ghul leads a twisted cult boosted by his Lazarus Pit-induced immortality in the ambition to eradicate all of humanity. Why is the Arab terrorist the villain and pantsfeels sexy lady the hero, increasingly?
When is the vision to eradicate humanity heroism and when is it villainy?
I have the same feelings on Harley “Beat kids to death for Mistah Jay” Quinn and her becoming a heroic figure in spite of committing deeds beyond the writ of any healthy moral calculus in both fictionland and by almost all real life standards.
![[five what by five what?]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/avatar_649532f054ad_30.png){kind=avatar}
