Along with being Poison Ivy's first appearance in animation, this episode marks the debut appearance of new character Renee Montoya.

Tropes:

• Action Prologue: After the exposition-laden opening, the next sequence is Batman fighting his way through a ton of Irony that his friend Harvey Dent is unintentionally laying on as he describes Bruce Wayne's Idle Rich lifestyle.
• Alien Blood: The giant flytrap bleeds chlorophyll.
• Ambiguous Situation: Two examples.
  • It's unclear if Isley's attempted kiss was her trying to kill Bruce or sink her teeth into him early, laying the groundwork to seduce Wayne following Dent's death, then likely moving onto Mayor Hill next, thus eliminating the three main figures involved in Stonegate's construction.
  • Since she isn't depicted as a metahuman (yet) it's not quite apparent how Ivy's able to control her huge, killer mutant flytrap.
• Animation Bump: Pam leaving the Rose Cafe is animated much more fluidly than the rest of the episode.
• Anticipatory Lipstick: A non-comedic case. Upon recomposing herself after a momentary rage out, Poison Ivy applies her special lipstick before sauntering up to a helpless Batman and passionately kissing him.
• Attention Whore: Isley departs from the Rose Cafe with a rock of her hips seemingly just to flaunt her sexiness in front of the appreciative customers.
• Ax-Crazy: Poison Ivy during the climax's second half. Shedding off her sensual vampiness and furiously unloading crossbow arrows at Batman.
• Beauty Is Bad: Poison Ivy, naturally.
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Despite Batman kicking her square in the face Poison Ivy has zero bruises or bloodied anything.
• Big Damn Kiss: Poison Ivy with both Harvey and Batman, though neither is given with the usually intended spirit.
• Big "NO!": Poison Ivy gets several, most notably when she almost loses her rare rose.
• Big "WHAT?!": As part of a brief Running Gag for the episode, Comissioner Gordon keeps giving these in response to some sudden or shocking news relayed to him over the phone. The first is when learning about a jailbreak by air, while the second is after hearing Harvey's in a coma at the hospital.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Pam comes across as Harvey's affectionate girlfriend, and is seemingly reduced to tears when she is denied a chance to visit her dying boyfriend in the hospital. But it's all a ruse to hide a ruthless eco-terrorist who would gladly see Harvey die for his "crime". She even demonstrates her "weeping girlfriend" act to Batman before she bursts into laughter.
• Bittersweet Ending: Ivy's scheme is foiled and Harvey receives the antidote just in time, but this setback doesn't dissuade her from further pursuing her twisted eco-terrorist agenda, swearing revenge instead.
  Pamela Isley: They can bury me in the ground, as deep as they like... but I'll grow back. We always grow back... [bends down to her potted roses] Don't we baby?
• Black Widow: While Harvey Dent was Isley's primary target and focus of her hatred, it seems this vendetta extended to Bruce Wayne and potentially Mayor Hill as well, given their involvement in Stonegate alongside Dent. This is implied when Pam tries to kiss Bruce in the hospital parking garage.
• Blatant Lies: Played with. Poison Ivy claims she was going to share the antidote for her poison with Batman before he "hurt her feelings" by spitting after her kiss. Although, Ivy did seem legitimately offended by Bats following their kiss.
• Bond Villain Stupidity: Poison Ivy sees Batman trapped by her monster plant, but takes the time to explain her motive to him. Then instead of just letting her plant eat him she decides to kill him with her kiss like she did to Dent. After their kiss, Ivy taunts Batman by letting him smell her cure. This is ultimately her undoing as she gets too close to him and he is able to knock her down and break free of her plant. Oddly, her flytrap as well. Should've restrained his legs.
• Captive Date: What Poison Ivy flirting with and kissing Batman as he's ensnared by her vicious monstrous flytrap practically amounts to. She even calls it a "late night rendezvous."
• Carrying the Antidote: Poison Ivy has a bottle with the cure to her poisoned lipstick on her. After she poisons Batman with a kiss, she taunts him by revealing the antidote and letting him smell it. Batman fighting her over it ends up setting Ivy's entire greenhouse on fire.
• Crocodile Tears: Isley pretends to cry over Harvey's impending death, before breaking into an Evil Laugh.
• Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Averted. It's quite easy to extrapolate that Chez Gerard pays well, ergo Pamela's inordinately massive private greenhouse.
• Deadly Dodging: Batman dodging one of Ivy's crossbow arrows kills her venus flytrap.
• Death Glare: Ivy gives Batman a nasty scowl after he kicks her to the ground. She keeps it up as their struggle continues.
• Death Trap: Pamela's greenhouse has two examples.
  • First is the trapdoor obscured cacti pit Bats almost falls into.
  • Second is her giant, killer flytrap with python strength tendrils.
• Defiant Captive: Being seized by Poison Ivy's killer flytrap and given a Kiss of Death from her doesn't impede Batman from fighting for his and Harvey's lives.
• Description Cut: Used multiple times in succession.
  Pamela Isley: Shouldn't we wait for your friend?
  Harvey Dent: Bruce? Nah, he's always late. He probably got hung up on business.
  [Batman hanging onto a helicopter full of escaped convicts]
  Pamela Isley: I hear he's rich.
  Harvey Dent: Yeah, Bruce runs around in a high-class crowd.
  [Batman chasing a convict across rooftops]
  Harvey Dent: But he still manages to get his kicks.
  [Batman kicking the criminal]
  Harvey Dent: There's nothing we don't know about each other.
  [Batman threatening the crook, who responds by asking who Batman is]
• Disproportionate Retribution: Poison Ivy tries to kill Harvey Dent for building a corrections facility on top of a field containing a flower that was endangered. There is no evidence he knew about the endangered flower. She saved the flower before trying to kill him, anyway. Maybe he should've done an ecological survey to check for endangered species and done an environmental impact statement before starting construction, but she could've tried telling him there was an endangered flower before he started building to see if he would alter his plans in response.
• Distracted by the Sexy: Isley's exit from the Rose Cafe leaves all the guys therein watching on in stricken silence.
• Does He Have a Brother?: When Harvey Dent asks Bruce Wayne what he thinks of his girlfriend Pamela Isley, Bruce responds, "Does she have a sister?"
• Do Not Call Me "Paul": When Batman inquires as to why Pamela poisoned Harvey she decides to reveal her villain handle.
  Batman: Why, Isley?
  Pamela Isley: Oh, please. Call me Poison Ivy.
• Donut Mess with a Cop: Twice we see Bullock run back to his desk to quickly scarf down a donut before heading off with the other cops.
• Double Entendre:
  • Ivy referring to Batman's sneaking into her nursery as "a late night rendezvous."
  • When she slinks out to watch her "sweet little flytrap" trying to chomp onto Batman's kicking legs.
    Poison Ivy: Mmmm, a little big for a fly.
• Dreary Half-Lidded Eyes: Poison Ivy, per Femme Fatale tradition.
• Drugged Lipstick: How Ivy applies her poison to Dent and Batman.
• Dude Magnet: Pamela's departure from the Rose Cafe serves to emphasize this. Even Bruce is left slack jawed.
• Dynamic Akimbo: Ivy does this frequently.
• Early Installment Character-Design Difference: Harvey's Lantern Jaw of Justice is massively over-pronounced compared to his usual design.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: Poison Ivy gets sentenced to Stonegate Penitentiary rather than Arkham Asylum like in the later episodes. Her hyper immune system isn't displayed here either. She even requires an antidote for her own lipstick after using it. Later episodes would refer to said immunity as if Poison Ivy had always possessed such an ability.
• Eaten Alive: This almost befalls Batman, courtesy of Ivy's mutant, killer flytrap.
• Eat the Camera: As Batman is being pulled in towards the giant flytrap's snapping maw.
• "Eureka!" Moment: After Bruce walks Isley out to her car and offers her words of comfort about Harvey, Isley tells him he's a good friend to Harvey and leans in to give him a kiss, with Bruce turning it into a friendly hug instead. In this moment though, Bruce suddenly remembers how Isley planted a huge kiss on Harvey previously just before he was poisoned and becomes suspicious of her, deciding to look into her background more.
• Evil Gloating:
  • Ivy takes the time to rub in Harvey - and Batman's - impending fates shortly after her Motive Rant.
  • After their kiss Poison Ivy laughs about Batman's "fear of cooties" and teasingly holds the opened antidote bottle underneath his nose.
• Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: Ivy teasing Batman after he tries to spit out her poison.
  Poison Ivy: Aww, what's wrong? Afraid I have cooties?
• Evil Laugh: Poison Ivy playfully giggles as she reveals herself to Batman and erupts into sinister laughter after showing off her grief stricken girlfriend routine.
• Expressive Hair: Poison Ivy's hairdo near the end. When she's calm/sultry its straight, when she's angry or frightened it becomes wild and unkempt.
• Extreme Close-Up: There is a closeup on Ivy's lips as she applies her lipstick and whispers “with a kiss."
• Eyelash Fluttering: Isley does this at Harvey when he's trying to convince her to stay.
• Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: Pamela Isley is a stunning woman on the surface, while murderously insane underneath.
• Faceplanting into Food: Harvey goes dizzy-eyed and takes a nosedive into his chocolate mousse following the lethal kiss Isley planted on him just before exiting the restaurant. It's Played for Drama, as Harvey is on life support for most of the episode.
• Fake Faint: Batman pretends to be on the verge of passing out after he and Ivy's kiss so that she'll get too close.
• Fanservice: Being Poison Ivy's introductory appearance for the show, it's unsurprising this episode offers us multiple examples.
  • Her Supermodel Strut from the Rose Cafe is probably the most obvious.
  • Ivy's encounter with Batman in her greenhouse plays out similarly to an old film noir flick.
  • Prior to that we're treated to a scene of Pam stepping behind her modesty screen to undress.
• Faux Affably Evil: Poison Ivy (initially) towards Batman. She playfully greets him, talks sweetly to him, massages his shoulders, flirts with him, and even rewards her "date" with a goodnight kiss.
• Femme Fatale: Since this episode provides the show's first true foray into the Film Noir genre, it's fitting Poison Ivy is here, acting as the classic ill-intended yet irresistible temptress archetype, albeit filtered through a sadistic, Mad Scientist and comic-book style monster-making prism.
• Fiery Redhead: Pull back Poison Ivy's seductive layers and you'll find quite the dementedly angry lady.
• Foe Romance Subtext: The first half of Poison Ivy's confrontation with Batman is dripping with this.
• Forceful Kiss: Two examples.
  • Poison Ivy kisses Batman while her monster plant has him restrained and holds his head in place for her.
  • She was also quite insistent with Harvey, suddenly pulling him into a lip lock. The difference is Dent ultimately consented.
• Fourth-Date Marriage: Poison Ivy induces Harvey Dent into proposing to her a week after they first meet.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: When Pamela tacks the Wayne/Dent penitentiary newspaper clipping to her wall we see another headline pertaining to "redwood deforestation" above it, probably hinting that she had many other targets already in mind.
  • Isley's campus ID card lists her home address as "69 Green Street".
• Funny Background Event: Watch Harvey eating his salad during his and Isley's date. He's using a knife and fork.
• Fun with Subtitles: Of the Deadpan Snarker variety. After the flashback ends with the words "to help us built a better, safer Gotham," the scene cuts to an inmate escaping the prison with a helicopter, subtitled "Five years later: A better, safer Gotham."
• Garden of Evil: Poison Ivy's greenhouse in the episode's climax.
• Getting Hot in Here: While conversing about Isley, Harvey starts to sweat and asks Bruce if it's getting hot inside the restaurant. Bruce thought Harvey was being bashful from the kiss (which turns out to be a poisonous kiss).
• Girls Have Cooties: Joked about by Poison Ivy when Batman tries to spit out the poison from her kiss.
• Hair Flip: After chatting with her roses, Ivy walks into the boudoir section of her greenhouse then pulls her hair out of its net before shaking it loose. Later, when she has a small Villainous Breakdown after her Motive Rant, she quickly calms herself, straightening herself and fluffing her hair.
• He Knows Too Much: As far as Poison Ivy knows Batman is the only other person aware of her poisoning Harvey, thus necessitating his murder.
• Head-Turning Beauty: Pamela Isley, as the Rose Cafe's predominately male customers can attest.
• Held Gaze: Shorter than most examples, but as she approaches Batman to plant a poisoned kiss on him, Poison Ivy pauses briefly to stare at him. After she breaks the kiss she also gazes at him as she pulls away, though a bit more smugly.
• Hollywood Kiss: Say what you will about Poison Ivy, but the woman knows how to kiss.
• Honey Trap: Isley's seduction of Harvey.
• Hostage Situation: An 'unorthodox' one to say the least. Batman, groggy from Ivy's kiss, dangles from the ledge of her cacti pit trap as she stands over him, aiming her crossbow at him. He then reveals he's got her pot of Wild Thorny Roses, holding it above the pit, threatening to drop it unless she forks over the antidote.
  Batman: The bottle for the weed. What's it gonna be?
• Hypocrite: Poison Ivy labeling Batman a "murderer" when she'd tried to "seal the fates" of him and Harvey.
• I Have You Now, My Pretty: A rare gender swapped example with Batman at Ivy's mercy.
• I'm Your Worst Nightmare: Said by Batman to an escaped convict.
• Impairment Shot: Batman sees Poison Ivy in blurred multiples after she poisons him.
• Implied Death Threat: When Pamela is snipping a petal from her Wild Thorny Roses, she hints at future homicides.
  Pamela Isley: (places potted flowers onto a lamp heated pedestal after cutting a piece) Oh, you've done so well today, sweetheart. Now, get some rest. And don't worry, I won't clip off anymore of your beautiful petals. Unless I need them...
• Interplay of Sex and Violence: Ivy insistently sharing a kiss with Batman to poison him before he's devoured by her pet mutant flytrap is obviously a gratifying experience for her, as indicated by her passionate moaning while they kiss.
• Just Between You and Me: Aware of what's about to happen to him Ivy begins telling Batman why she poisoned Harvey, knowing full well he ain't blabbing anything to another soul.
• Kick the Dog: Poison Ivy seems to cry when she heard that Harvey Dent is dying, which then became an Evil Laugh.
• Kiss Diss: One example, one aversion.
  • Pamela tries to give Bruce a (disingenuously) friendly kiss on the lips after the latter escorts Isley to her parked car, which he quickly deflects by turning it into a hug instead. She does, unknowingly, succeed later on when he's suited up as Batman though.
  • As Poison Ivy approaches Batman to poison him with her kiss, Batman's attempts to resist and avoid it are quickly defied by her monster plant, with it not only turning Batman around to face Ivy, but also using its Vine Tentacles to ensnare his head, forcing him to stay still and allowing Ivy to force a kiss on him.
• Kiss of Death: Twice given, twice failed.
• Lady in Red: Pamela during the French restaurant scenes.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Poison Ivy tries to kill Harvey Dent for building Stonegate Penitentiary over the Wild Thorny Rose's last habitat. At the end of the episode, she ends up as an inmate there with the last Wild Thorny Rose to keep her company.
• Last Kiss: In a twisted, vampish way this is basically what Ivy "offers" to Batman when initially trying to kill him.
• Love at First Sight: Dent claims this is what happened with him and Pamela. Well, on his end at any rate.
• Madonna-Whore Complex: An interesting spin on this because Isley pretends to be the former while secretly being the latter. Publicly she's Pamela Isley, a sweet, caring woman. Behind closed doors she's Poison Ivy, an unhinged seductress.
• Makeup Is Evil: and deadly.
• Male Gaze: It's a Poison Ivy centric story. Comes with the territory.
  • A few male patrons stare at Ivy as she leaves.
  • Later, we get an extended sequence of her changing out of her gardening clothes and into her Poison Ivy outfit from behind a screen.
• Mama Bear: All bets are off when Batman wounds Ivy's flytrap.
• Man-Eating Plant: Poison Ivy's greenhouse has a giant Venus Flytrap, complete with tentacles which can grab any passing Batmen and pull them in.
• Massage of Love: While discussing Harvey with Bats we see Poison Ivy glide behind him, lean in and tenderly trace his shoulders with her index fingers.
• Meaningful Name: Poison Ivy christens her antidote "Rose From The Dead."
• Moment Killer: Batman suddenly kicking Ivy's face ruins their "late night rendezvous." Up until that moment, Ivy had been playing their encounter like a Captive Date, with her flirting with him and forcing a poisonous kiss on him. But after that she drops her flrty and seductive attitude and just tries to outright kill him.
• Monochrome Past: The opening flashback uses sepia tones.
• Mood-Swinger: Ivy can switch from seductive to pissed off and back again within seconds, as demonstrated during her Motive Rant.
• Mook Horror Show: The Action Prologue of this episode is a good example of Batman putting the fear of God into a nameless thug.
• Moral Myopia: Ivy's furious speech about how Dent needed to pay for "murder" is immediately followed by her applying tainted lipstick and pulling Batman in for a Kiss of Death to "seal his fate" as well.
• Motherly Scientist: Ivy towards plants, natch.
  • She refers to her giant, shark fanged plant creature as a "sweet little flytrap" in the same affectionate tone of voice one might expect a mom to use towards her toddler.
  • The Wild Thorny Roses are fawned over with loving attention, even placed them on a special, sun lamp pedestal of honor.
• Motive Rant: Before sharing a parting kiss with her tangled up "date" Poison Ivy opts to tell Batman why she targeted Harvey Dent.
  Poison Ivy: You see, Harvey had to pay for his crime.
  Batman: What crime?
  Poison Ivy: Why, murder of course. Plowing up a field of beautiful wild flowers for that silly penitentiary of his. This little rose would be extinct today if I hadn't saved my precious from those horrible bulldozers! The blood of those flowers are on his hands!
• Mouthscreen: There's a closeup of Poison Ivy's lips as she applies her lipstick.
• Ms. Fanservice: Two examples.
  • Poison Ivy is, as this episode's script described, "a stone-cold knockout. The face, the lips, the eyes, the hair, the figure. A ten on all counts."
  • The model featured in the Nightshade perfume commercial Alfred pulls up on the Bat Computer.
• Mythology Gag: Several examples.
  • Mayor Hill's line "Our new district attorney, Harvey Dent", is identical to Mayor Borg's line in the 1989 movie.
  • Batman and Poison Ivy's kiss might be a nod to the one they shared in her first '60s comic appearance. Silver Age Ivy even used tainted lipstick, although hers was laced with comparatively harmless chloroform.
  • When a scene cuts to Bruce in the middle of telling Pamela a humorous story about Harvey, the first line we get is, "You should've seen Harvey's face!"
• Near-Villain Victory: Ivy almost succeeded in murdering Batman but a number of choices ended up shooting her in the foot.
• Never My Fault: Poison Ivy blames Harvey Dent for the Wild Thorny Rose going extinct because of the construction project he spearheaded. However, Ivy saved one and kept it for years with no one knowing, and all she does with it is use it to make a poison to kill Harvey. If anyone is responsible for the plant's near-extinction, it's her.
• Never Trust a Trailer: The TV commercial for this episode asked if Batman would "fall under Ivy's deadly spell"? Implying that there's a scene of her heavily laying on the charm, seducing him like she did Harvey. While she does exhibit vampish behavior during the first half of their encounter, it's less her trying to trick Batman and more just toying with him before he dies.
• Noodle Incident: "What has my sweet little flytrap caught this time?" Evidently Batman wasn't its first prey...
• No Sense of Personal Space: Ivy clearly has none if her initial interactions with Batman are anything to go by.
• Not Distracted by the Sexy: Poison Ivy's sexy costume and flirty behavior aren't something Batman is too keen to focus on.
• Not Good with Rejection: Poison Ivy plays with this towards Batman after their kiss, cooing that he "hurt her feelings" by spitting and now she won't share the antidote like she was planning to.
• Not So Above It All: The surprised faces Bruce makes when Pamela ambushes Harvey with a deep, romantic smooch and her Supermodel Strut from the restaurant don't appear to be part of his usual playboy persona acting.
• Not So Stoic: It's rare to see Batman startled, but the vine he used to swing out of Ivy's trapdoor cacti pit suddenly coming alive and wrapping itself around his wrist, revealing sharp, chomping fangs too, does the trick.
• Nothing Personal: Although this is never stated by Poison Ivy, her trying to murder Batman clearly isn't. It's his alter ego Bruce Wayne who’s within her crosshairs, same as Harvey Dent. Batman wounding her flytrap and accidentally setting the nursery on fire however does make it personal in the end.
• Nothing Up My Sleeve: Two examples.
  • Ivy fetches the rose antidote bottle from her glove.
  • Batman later uses a knife stored in his to cut/stab at her flytrap's vines.
• Now-or-Never Kiss: A rare villainous example. Batman was about to be consumed by her giant, mutant flytrap until Pam paused things to "set the mood" for their kiss.
• Oddly Small Organisation: In this episode, Gotham seems to only employ 10 cops, including Gordon, Bullock and Montoya.
• Oh, Crap!: A few examples.
  • The face Batman makes when the killer flytrap ensnares and then drags him towards its maw.
  • Poison Ivy, briefly, after Bats suddenly leaps up to kick her down and again when she's almost flattened/burnt by a falling tree.
• Parent Service: Nearly everything Poison Ivy says and does is this, with her Supermodel Strut being the most noteworthy.
• Pink Is Erotic: Poison Ivy's tainted lipstick is pink and applying it precedes her passionately making out with Batman.
• Playing Possum: How Batman escapes Pamela's flytrap, pretending to be on the verge of passing out to ambush her with a sudden kick after she gets too close, hooking his legs around the overhead sprinklers, using them as leverage to evade its snapping jaws so he could then finally cut himself free.
• Post-Kiss Catatonia: Harvey is left dazed for a couple seconds after Pamela surprises him with a Big Damn Kiss.
• Post-Rape Taunt: Played with. More broadly sexual assault than outright rape, but Ivy wastes no time in mockingly laughing at Batman's "fear of cooties" right after she'd forcibly made out with him.
• Properly Paranoid: Isley's cacti pit seems to hint at her anticipating Batman.
• Proud Beauty: Given the upset, insulted face Ivy makes when Batman spits after their Last Kiss it's clear she isn't accustomed to men having that reaction to getting kissed by her.
• Psychotic Smirk: While Ivy primarily gives sly grins during the greenhouse climax's first half she ends her crocodile tear heavy "sobbing" over Dent with a burst of sinister laughter, it in turn capped off by a wicked/insane smile.
• Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Played with. Again, while categorically speaking what she does hews far closer to broad sexual assault than outright rape, Poison Ivy's actions towards Batman can't help but evoke this.
• Running Gag: Twice in the episode, Bullock grabs a donut before leaving for an emergency.
• Sanity Has Advantages: The key to Batman's victory over Ivy, exploiting her insane obsession with plants by threatening to drop her pot of Wild Thorny Roses into the pit he's dangling from unless she surrenders her lipstick antidote. By the time Batman leads them out of the burning greenhouse Pamela is too busy clinging to her flowers, caressing them like a newborn, to care that she's just been apprehended.
• Sealed with a Kiss: A sinisterly subversive application of it. Poison Ivy quotes this directly, stating she did it to Harvey and plans to do it to Batman now too.
  Poison Ivy: So his fate was sealed... [applies her lipstick] With a kiss. And now, so is yours.
• Secret Identity: And not just Batman. Since this is her very first appearance the public at large haven't a clue that sweet, charming Dr. Pamela Isley secretly operates as the ruthless eco-terrorist Poison Ivy, let alone said alternate persona even exists. Of course, by the end, Isley's villainous alter ego is brought into the light and she's sentenced to Stonegate Penitentiary.
• Sexy Backless Outfit: Pam's red cocktail dress and Poison Ivy outfit.
• Sexy Silhouette: When we first see Ivy in costume she's shaded, framed from behind, hands on hips, watching Batman struggling with her killer flytrap.
• "Shut Up" Kiss: Downplayed example. Batman never says anything as Poison Ivy saunters towards him, but his defiant grunting is quickly silenced by her capturing his lips in a kiss.
• Slip into Something More Comfortable: Although the line itself is never spoken by Ivy, the way she slinks behind her modesty screen to undress then slips into her Poison Ivy costume upon noticing Batman's nightly intrusion evokes this.
• Smug Smiler: Poison Ivy during the climax's first half, especially after she forcibly makes out with Batman. Her confidence dissolves away completely upon getting kicked to the face.
• Smug Snake: Ivy behaves so arrogantly during the greenhouse climax's first half, convinced she'll not only get away with assassinating Harvey but also eliminating a nosy Batman too, with no one else ever learning about either.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: Poison Ivy maintains a sensuous, breathy tone throughout most of her and Batman's "late night rendezvous" as she goes about discussing Harvey's assassination and then informing Bats that he too is about to be given the same treatment.
• Spiteful Spit: Downplayed; Batman starts spitting after Poison Ivy forces a deep kiss on him. Though he has a good reason for doing so, trying to spit out the poison. Ivy still pretends to be insulted by this action though, claiming he's "hurt her feelings".
• Spit Take: Bruce's reaction to learning about the Fourth-Date Marriage above.
• Stalker Shot: Our first scenes with who, we'll later learn, is Poison Ivy. She appears in this episode's opening, scooping up a specimen of the Wild Thorny Rose from atop a hill which overlooks Harvey Dent's platformed speech on Stonegate Penitentiary, slinking off as he starts. Next we see she's taped a headline of him and Bruce Wayne to her greenhouse wall. Neither scene reveals her face.
• Stalker Without a Crush: Ivy kept a Wayne/Dent penitentiary headline hung up in her greenhouse for 5 years before seeking out and seducing Harvey.
• Stock Sound Effects: The toothy ended tendrils of Pam's flytrap sound like timber wolves, the main body roars like a lion and it makes a few elephant noises after Batman cuts it.
• Supermodel Strut: The scene with Pam's hip-swaying walk out of the restaurant (in a red dress inspired by Jessica Rabbit), which catches the eyes of several men.
• Sure, Let's Go with That:
  Escaped convict: [being taken by the police] B-b-big wings!
  Renee Montoya: Yeah, yeah. Big wings. Move it along, pal.
• "Take That!" Kiss: After Poison Ivy finishes explaining her motive for poisoning Harvey to Batman, she forces a kiss on Batman after applying the same poisoned lipstick she used on Harvey while he is restrained to "seal his fate with a kiss". After she breaks their kiss, she taunts Batman when he tries to spit out the poison by mockingly asking him if he is afraid she has cooties.
• The Tease: Who else?
  • Ivy toys with Batman a little bit while trying to kill him, treating his nighttime arrival as though he were a gentleman caller she's all too happy to flirt with and steal a kiss from.
  • Her stringing along Harvey for a week, making him fall hard for her, before "sealing his fate."
• Tentacle Rope: How Ivy's giant flytrap ensnares Batman, coiling several around his wrists and abdomen.
• That's No Moon: Batman is initally able to save himself from a cacti pit trap with a conveniently placed vine he uses to pull himself out. But the vine turns out to be alive and it and several others ensnare Batman, before he realizes that they're all Vine Tentacles part of a huge monsterous Man-Eating Plant.
• Tonight, Someone Kisses: The promo for this episode opens with Pamela and Harvey's kiss.
• Too Good to Be True: Pamela Isley seems like the perfect, loving sweetheart any man would be lucky to have in their life. As we learn however, Pam's loving behavior is anything but genuine.
• Trap Door: Poison Ivy's greenhouse is outfitted with one. Along the stoney pathway, right near her boudoir section. Underneath lies a pit of jumbo, mutant cacti with razor sharp, twitching quills.
• Trap-Door Fail: Before Batman winds up skewered on the cacti quills below he grabs onto a nearby vine, swinging himself to safety. Unfortunately, the vine comes alive and constricts around his wrist.
• Trespassing to Talk: Batman infiltrating Pamela's private greenhouse, aiming to get the antidote and answers results in him winding up in the tight embrace of her overgrown flytrap.
• Troubled Fetal Position: Ivy huddles herself in one and nervously rocks back-and-forth on the bed of her cell as she asserts to her rose that she'll be back.
• Ungrateful Bitch: As her greenhouse erupts into flames Ivy tries fleeing with her roses in tow only to be blocked by burning debris and then nearly gets struck by a falling tree that'd caught on fire. Batman pushes her out of the way in time, saving her. Unfortunately for him, this doesn't quell her murderous rage.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Pamela's serenely calm reaction to seeing Batman entangled in her giant, killer flytrap's many vines, offering the commentary that's he's "a little big for a fly" gives you the sense this isn't the first time she's had some unfortunate "guest" in that greenhouse.
• Vagina Dentata: The commentary on the DVD confirms that Ivy's monster plant is meant to resemble part of the female anatomy. Or rather, it wasn't originally, but they noticed the similarity and ran with it.
• The Vamp: Three guesses who.
• Victoria's Secret Compartment: Poison Ivy pulls out her poison lipstick from the cleavage of her costume.
• Villainous Breakdown: Two examples.
  • Poison Ivy after Batman cuts himself free from her flytrap. She stops her teasing and flirting and starts screaming at Batman, calling him a "murderer" and trying to kill him herself with her wrist-mounted crossbow.
  • She has a smaller one during her Motive Rant before quickly calming down.
• Villainous Crush: Implied. Poison Ivy's efforts to coyly reveal herself to Batman and caress his shoulders, while par for the course in Femme Fatale etiquette, can't help but also come across as signs of infatuation.
• Villainous Face Hold: Two examples.
  • When Poison Ivy approaches Batman to kiss him she lays one hand on his face whilst snaking the other around his neck, using that to pull him in close to her lips, as well as deepen their kiss halfway through.
  • Her earlier kiss with Harvey went similarly, minus the flytrap bondage.
• Villainous Rescue: Subverted. Ivy hitting the overhead lights and monologuing about why Harvey had to pay (temporarily) halts her mutant flytrap's midnight Bat snack, but ultimately it's just buildup to her giving Batman a Kiss of Death.
• Vine Tentacles: Ivy's plant monster has several, which it uses to restrain Batman for her.
• Wait for Your Date: A variant when Isley and Harvey were waiting for Bruce at the Rose Cafe, which you could call "waiting for the third wheel."