14 Times Comic Book Movies Completely F*cked Iconic Villains
7. Poison Ivy (Batman & Robin)
In The Comics
A classic member of Batman's rogues gallery, Poison Ivy has been around since 1966, driven to criminality by ecological anxiety and a desire to protect the planet's flora and fauna. She's been a temptress, a master-criminal and a serious threat, and she has been billed on the very top rungs of the gallery's hierarchy almost since her debut.
On Film
Batman & Robin is basically a potted catalogue of lots of terrible decisions, but even by those standards, it's pretty impressive that the film managed to mess up all three of its classic villains. Ivy wasn't the worst, but she felt a small step away from the worst of the Adam West TV show of the 60s.
Just as Tommy Lee Jones' version of Two Face was effectively just a dressed up clone of The Joker, Ivy's characterisation took an aspect of Michelle Pfeiffer's vastly superior Catwoman and tried to taffy-pull it out into a whole character. She was imagined as a seductive temptress (because, of course, plants are famously sexed up) above all else, and her other powers took a backseat to the sex kitten image.
And rather unfortunately, her plan to take over the world with mutated plants (her babies) is just silly - which is precisely why she needs two muscle bound helpers to even get it off the ground.