Source: dccomics.com

7. Poison Ivy

I love Ivy, but there haven’t been that many seminal Ivy stories.

House and Garden from the Animated Series is pretty great. Nature (the Gotham Central issue) is neat as well, but most Pamela Isely stories are more about someone else. As good as they are, all those Harley and Ivy stories are really Harley stories first; Ivy stories to be determined at a later date.

She also got completely wasted in Batman and Robin, a famously bad movie that damaged the character to a serious degree. Ivy is such a great character. She truly feels and cares for what she does. She likes plants; not so hot on people. She’s a sympathetic villain. A good one. A character whose inhumanity makes her tragic, but also terrifying.

She’s a good Batman villain, my personal favorite femme fatale for the Dark Knight (Catwoman’s fine), and one of the all-time great villains.