What Poison Ivy Being Carnivore, Not Vegan, Would possibly Imply for DC Comics

Of late, DC Comics has depicted Poison Ivy as vegetarian or vegan throughout comedian books, graphic novels, cartoons and TV exhibits. She would not push it on others, however that is her factor. She lets others make their very own selections. Listed here are a bunch (hat tip to some extraordinary analysis from More Bedside Books)

As Bleeding Cool identified final month, at the moment’s Poison Ivy #2 doubles down on her new standing. In at the moment’s Poison Ivy, not solely is Pamela calling herself a carnivore, however she throws disdain on vegans. Earlier than occurring to homicide a diner full of individuals, together with kids, for simply being alive. And planning to kill… everybody. It is why Bleeding Cool has said that for Earth no less than, Poison Ivy is worse than Thanos.

Bleeding Cool has repeatedly lined the dichotomy in how DC Comics portrays Poison Ivy, whether or not a traditional Batman villain, an environmental terrorist with a degree or a queer altruistic superhero attempting to avoid wasting humanity. However can anybody come again from a number of murders, as at the moment dedicated by the character within the first situation alone?

Contemplating how lengthy it took Hank Pym to come back again from being the superhero who hit his spouse, Janet Van Dyne, how lengthy will it take to have Poison Ivy come again from being a child killer?

Ivy visited the Fluronic Man earlier than the story began, and he gave her the mutated fungus. The very best guess is that Poison Ivy, just like the Fluronic Man, has been pushed out of the Inexperienced She could now have been possessed by The Gray the embodiment of the world of fungus within the DC Universe, turned her into an agent of The Gray or The Rot, and that could be used as mitigating circumstances. However useless children are a tough one to get previous…

Oh sure, she is consuming meat now. Certainly, she is defining herself as a carnivore. That carnivores are important for sustaining the world, a justification for what she is doing to humanity. And factors out in that basically annoying method, what number of animals the farming of agave syrup for “wealthy vegans” harms, defining it as “homicide syrup”. As if two wrongs make a proper. And that features killing the youngsters as properly, vegans or in any other case…

Particularly contemplating many vegans don’t use agave syrup. Many – certainly most vegans and vegetarians will not be wealthy, particularly given the preponderance throughout India round 30% of the inhabitants. And the best vacation spot for agave syrup is making up tequila and getting used as biofuel. So quite than concentrate on the capitalist exploitation as gasoline which might have been a traditional Poison Ivy focus, she as a substitute throws vegans underneath the tractor, as a technique to justify not being a vegan however a carnivore.

Poison Ivy is one among DC’s few primary vegetarian/vegan characters, one thing that Superman not is. She has grow to be the DC poster woman for veganism as properly. I’m wondering how it will go down? We made the comparability to Thanos; she does look like behaving like a mad God, an eco-terrorist who has utterly misplaced the plot. She is aware of she is dying and is taking as many different folks down together with her, presumably the entire world.

POISON IVY #2 CVR A JESSICA FONG
(W) G. Willow Wilson (A) Marcio Takara (CA) Jessica Fong
Destroying humanity is a whole lot of work, and a lady’s gotta eat! On her journey to doom humankind, Ivy makes a pit cease at a roadside restaurant, the place she meets a hungry poet who makes her query her motives—no less than till the cops present up. Ivy has left Gotham, however she can not seem to escape the legislation!
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