Warning! Spoilers ahead for DC: Love Is A Battlefield #1, "The Beginning" from Tim Seeley and Rebekah Isaacs
DC Comics has just released their massive 80-page special Valentine's Day anthology issue. Titled DC: Love Is A Battlefield, the issue serves as a collection of stories featuring various notable romances in the DC Universe, including the love shared between Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy. In the story entitled "The Beginning," Harley and Ivy recount the entire scope of their relationship: the past, the present, and even the future. The future of their relationship is of course incredibly interesting, especially when they recall the entire DC Crisis they prevented, as they accidentally saved the world with their shared antics and romance.
Harley and Ivy both share the role of narrator in this story, reminding one another of of all the good times they've had, coming from a point in time far in the future where they've reached old age together. Naturally, their time together began in Arkham Asylum, when Harley's obsession with the Joker had just started to manifest, not having yet turned to full-on mania where she became his girlfriend. As time went on, they would become gal pals, and Poison Ivy was the person Harley went to when she and Joker finally broke up. Eventually, their romance would begin in earnest as has been seen in the present day of the DC Universe, and the pair have gotten into all kinds of trouble (much to the aggravation of Batman).
However, Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn both recount a shared memory together that's very interesting in the story from writer Tim Seeley with art by Rebekah Isaacs. Apparently, an event known as the Ultimate Crisis will occur at some point in DC's near future as a final battle between good and evil, seeing several villains teaming up and calling themselves the Injustice Lords. While Harley and Ivy remember joining them, it was only because Ivy wanted to steal some of Ra's al Ghul's Lazarus Pit water. This is when they saved the world, by completely ruining the Injustice Lords' plans very much by accident thanks to Harley.
The fact that there was an entire DC Crisis that was prevented thanks to Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn is nothing short of hilarious and awesome all at once. If not for them, the Justice League would have had to deal with resurrected versions of Darkseid, Superboy Prime, the Overmonitor, and even The Batman Who Laughs. An alliance of villains like that would have caused untold damage and destruction. Had they been resurrected like they were apparently supposed to, it's safe to say that the heroes of the DC Universe might not have survived the encounter.
Additionally, Harley and Ivy go on to regale readers with more of their future exploits, including Ivy finally forming an alliance with Batman to save the world, as well as some sort of undisclosed interaction they had with Nightwing that made him blush. Eventually, it's revealed that the couple are remembering their life together as Harley is nearing the end of hers, but Ivy reveals that she made seeds that would allow the both of them to be reborn together as plants, allowing their love to endure beyond their deaths. While this is very touching, it shouldn't be lost on Harley/Ivy fans that the fact the pair managed to prevent an entire DC Crisis without meaning to seems like some pretty solid proof that Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn were meant to be together in DC Comics from the start and long into the future.
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