Ivy and Batman share a moment together speaking, watching her plant creations create light, and Batman compliments her on her talent. Upon being cured, he falls, but saves himself, and saves Ivy as Gotham Tower collapses when - assuming Batman dead - Poison Ivy tries to kill herself, once more insinuating that it is more than just lust she feels for him. Batman at first decides to punch her, hesitates, then they embrace and kiss passionately instead. Ivy insists for him to trust her, despite Batman's doubts. Batman warns Ivy that he'll have to knock her out to kiss her to make sure that she doesn't kill him when he passes out after being cured. Ivy went along with it because she did it for everyone who has no light, everyone who lives in grey office cubicles and dark apartments and black prison cells. Ivy and Batman confront each other, where Ivy says that Doctor Wood is the one who sent the flowers out, because he wanted Ivy. Batman chases Ivy to the Gotham Tower, where she has Trimbel tied up with her vines. Batman tells Alfred he must kiss Poison Ivy for the cure, and that if he fails Alfred must kill him. His butler, Alfred Pennyworth, notes that Batman has been poisoned by the flowers. There, he finds a flower posted to Bruce Wayne, thanking him for investing in Gotham Tower. Ivy in the meantime has escaped, and Batman takes a sample from a patient and retreats to the Batcave. He also finds that in the commotion, Ivy has kissed all of the infected patients and they went into sleeps, and a second later, they all woke up cured. Batman rushes to find flowers growing from the Mailman's corpse. Working together to find the solution, Batman puts Ivy in flesh make up so she can seem normal. His boss has also been brought in to hospital complaining of the same problems. ![]() There are other victims, including a man who worked in the mailroom of a skyscraper. Willing to work with him, Ivy aids Batman as he takes the patient to Gotham Hospital where they discover that there is a toxin inside him. Meanwhile, Batman captures a deranged billionaire art collector, and takes him to Arkham, where Doctor Wood gives him the tour, and has him meet with Ivy, who demonstrates some of her creations, and how they might benefit the world. He and Ivy discuss her poison lips, and Ivy tells him that any man who loves her must be insane, or have a death wish. He gives her pills to manage her condition, but she spits them into her chair when he isn't looking. Suddenly, it all goes dark, when industrialist Dan Trimbel's construction of Gotham Tower blocks out the light, much to her grief. Poison Ivy is tending to her window sill garden in Arkham Asylum where she has created a plant that absorbs sunlight, and then gives it off later, freeing Gotham from the electrical grid. The story also depicts the romantic potential between Batman and Ivy. Batman, investigating, discovers they are somehow linked to a new tower that has been blocking out the sunlight to Poison Ivy's cell in Arkham Asylum, as he and Ivy work together to take the killer down. ![]() Cast Shadows follows a mysterious killer, who seems to be carrying out a series of Ivy-like murders. Batman/Poison Ivy: Cast Shadows is a 2004 DC Comics one-shot graphic novel featuring the characters Batman and Poison Ivy written by Ann Nocenti and illustrated by John Van Fleet.
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