The Most Evil Plants Poison Ivy Could Control 

Plants: develops caffeine as a mean of protection Humans: LETS DRINK THAT!

Them: "Kill it with fire!" Me: "No you fool! The smoke is also poison!"

angel: so how much poison did you say you wanted this tree to have? god: yes.

I actually always thought that Ivy was wasting her abilities, too. There are so many brutal plants out there.

I love when people say it's safe because it's natural. My response is "Natural? You mean like Deadly Nighshade or Wolfsbane"

It sounds like the death apple tree only went for “defense” on the evolution skill tree

10:10 "This plant is from Australia because of course it is." 😂 How anyone is alive down under is beyond me.

Giant Hog Weed used to grow all over my uncles huge back yard in southern Scotland, covered in the monstrous things it was. I used to beat the shite out of those big buggers every summer holiday from around age 8 until 14 ("helpin' me clear the ground" my uncle said, but truthfully it was more anger management. I had a selection of clubs, machetes, axes, etc.)... when Scotland had a couple of days of proper sun and I erupted in the most glorious, huge, shocking blisters on my face, neck, hands and all up one arm. Marvelous fun... stung a bit... to put it mildly. Lesson learned... next summer my uncle rented a flamethrower (not a military one, obvs, one of those weed burner things), and we finally cleared 'em all... my revenge, although served hot, was sweet.

Poison Ivy has the ability to control plants at the molecular level, so imagine the damage she could do if she started manipulating pollen. If she gets enough of it in one place, she can just fill your lungs with the stuff. Going even further with this idea, pollen has tons of surface area, with little pits and pockets to help it bind to different substances. She could easily use it as a vector for her various mind-control serums, love potions, and lethal toxins. And she could deliver them invisibly over as wide of an area as she wants, straight into the victims' lungs. Since she has the ability to connect to every plant on earth, at any time, she doesn't even have a limit on the effective range of this ability. Scarecrow, eat your heart out.

I will never complain again now if I’m lightly stung by some stinging nettles. Why does Australia have to be so weird and deadly?

"NOO not down there!" Finally a use for the cut your dongle off plant.....

"WRONG! The smoke is POISON!"

Wonder how many DC writers will mine this for new ideas.

Another tree Poison Ivy could use would be the Sandbox tree. This tree is covered in spikes and when its fruit are ripe, they explode sending seeds out at 70 meters per second, traveling distances of over 40 meters. The seeds penetrate animals and smash windows.

But then that means druids in d&d should be way more powerful, wizards of the coast watch this video

9:55 Missed opportunity. Should have said "this sting would be extremely painful, for you"

I know of a place, where you never get harmed A magical place, with magical charms. Indoors! Indoors! IIIIIINDOOOOOOORRS! TAKE IT AWAY PENNY!

In my D&D game, the players went to the jungle and I made the living tree enemies out of manchineel wood. The players set them on fire... They regretted that decision.

Great video. I've always wished they'd have Ivy take full advantage of what plants can do. She would be a pretty terrifying villain in a movie if done right.

Earth: Has dangerous plants. Humans: *creates nukes* Earth: I'm in danger.

Would phototoxins be bad for Superman, since he needs our Sun for his powers ?

The "cut your dongle off" plant. Definitely make sure to stay away from that one! Maybe it should be renamed to the Lorena Bobbitt...

2:55 "...in the majority of the planet's humans." *"IN THE MAJORITY OF THE PLANET'S HUMANS"*

This deadly plant comes from... The answer is always Australia!

I wish you had included _Hura crepitans_ since it can literally *shoot* you, like a gun. Granted it's not as painful as toxins, but it's very amusing and could easily fit in a comic.

But can any of these plants get through Batman's armor and his one superpower - short-range teleportation during conversation, more commonly know as perpetual rudeness?

Lmao! Of course the nastiest one is in Australia! Who could ever have had any doubt?

I didn't even know Florida had such a dangerous poison tree! I learned something new today! Glad I've never come across one though, if every part of it is poison.

"NO! Not down under!" ....as an Australian I'm ashamed to say this made me laugh out loud.

Manchineel: The definition of *KILL IT WITH FIRE* 𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒕

10:40 I can feel the pain in my ass. But I hope I will never really feel it...

0:42 "To be clear it would be incorrect to say that a plant was evil...." He's never wrecked a motorcycle into a cholla cactus.

While it's technically not a plant, it's canon that Poison Ivy can spawn and control fungus as well (for example, she uses glowing fungi to light an escape tunnel in Arkham Asylum: Living Hell). Given that fungi fall under the umbrella of her 'plant control', then there's a whole mess of new 'evils' at her beck and call. And it, of course, gives her control over the most villainous life form on Earth: The Cordyceps. I'm positive that you would have mentioned this wonderful mushroom at some point, because how could you not, but in case you haven't, the cordyceps is the stuff of nightmares: The life cycle of the cordyceps begins as a spore (like many fungi), which lands on a host--usually an insect. Once infected, the mycelia invades the hosts' body, slowly replacing its tissue, and literally hijacking the nervous system. The host begins to behave unusually--so much so that social insects such as ants will kill it and drag its body as far away as possible. Which is for the best. Because when infected, an organism gets a sudden, overwhelming urge to climb. And once it's as high as possible, it clamps down onto whatever surface it's found, and it erupts. Stalks burst out of its body (or "pericethia" if ya nasty), which then shed more highly infective spores. Now, cordyceps usually only target one very specific species of insect, so it won't completely wipe out an entire ecosystem--but if Ivy is in control of it, and could have it target humans, the results would essentially be an airborne pathogen that grans Ivy control of its host as their innards are slowly converted into more mind-melting mushrooms which, even if she lost control of them and were left to their own devices, would wipe out a significant swaths of the planet's human population just by its nature. For a final hint about how deadly and horrifying a controllable cordyceps would be, the survival horror game The Last of Us used cordyceps as its 'big bad', but actually had to nerf it to 'zombie physics of contamination' because its natural method of propagation is *way* too deadly. Edit: Also, "Hi, Kyle". Lliam is technically William, so it would be rude not to say hello.

Jesus Christ... Screw horror movies, THIS is true horror

Well, this a pretty insightful and interesting video. I have just one question regarding the last plant you covered. *AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA*

I love the terrifying look on his face while he talks about the Manchineel. If you pay attention he isn’t scared.... he’s exited!

My family has severe allergies to poison ivy, so I’m still scared of normal level villainy from Poison Ivy.

Huh, I was expecting the Sandbox Tree a.k.a the Dynamite Tree. Not only is it covered in poisonous spikes but it grows fruit which are essentially biological versions of Green Goblins Pumpkin bombs.

"Tell lady freeze I said hello" Kyle never change, ur doing great sweetie

This is a lovely episode. Not often we see botany on Because Science xD

Earth. A result of 3.5 billions years of an arms race.

The number of names on the FBI's watchist for suspicious web search activity is about to skyrocket. 😎😏

Could you do a video on what Scarecrow's fear toxin is made of?

What would happen if poison ivy controlled Weed lol. it would turn batman back into adam west

Poison Ivy also made hybrid plants so what sort of hybrids would you create to make the ultimate anti hero plant? Nightshade with any of these plants abilities would be nearly unstoppable to me because it would impede the person from reacting to the secondary effects but that is just me.

Superman: I draw power from the Sun! Poison Ivy: Oh, really...

Lol, a tree so toxic that i even seeks revenge after being burned

10:17 I had heard of this plant before, but I wasn't sure if this was the same one. I Googled "Australian murder plant" and this was the first thing that came up.

hey look, a new set of toxins for ivy's lipstick!

What about mixing plants together and make a very dangerous super plant?

"Aaaah my dermis" 🤣

1:55 The guy's just droning on 1:58 Video ratchets into high gear

But there’s one thing that can counter and succeed over any of Poison Ivy’s plants: Harley Quinn’s puppy-dog face and tears

"If she wanted to get nasty"... She'd probably call harley... (If you know what I mean)

"It can take paint off cars !" yeah, seems kinda bad

Fun fact about the urushiol in poison ivy, it's also in the skin of mangos so if you cut up a mango be sure to wash your hands with soap and warm water right after, also don't touch your face, your eyes can swell shut from the allergic reaction.

Let’s talk other options that are maybe more dramatic and visual for comics. Dr Pamela Isley was a botanist and even before having super powers had the knowledge and skills to mutate super plants. So let’s say she wants to make giant carnivorous plants. One option for a nice horrific trap for hostages could be a giant pitcher plant. These under appreciated carnivorous plants trap insects, frogs, and sometimes rats in a slick sided pot shaped plant filled with digestive fluid which would trap and slowly dissolve the victim into a giant pitcher of person soup. Alternatively the more famous option is a giant Venus fly trap. Death by fly trap is way more horrifying than you may believe because the inside of a fly trap doesn’t crush its victims but instead the leaves become concave and form a watertight seal then fill with acid which frowns and then slowly dissolved the target. Either of these seem to me like excellent under used time sensitive plot elements for future Poison Ivy stories

Wait, does poison Ivy eat food or absorb sunlight like superman?😅

7:05 takes fruit of the poisonous tree to a whole new level

I'd love to hear your take on Swamp Thing... He's got quite the history and plethora of 'powers."

"Cut your dongle off plant" "Dongle cutter plant" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

heh, just realised that my favorite W40K meme is the best weapon against poison ivy: Brother... Get the Flamethrower... The HEAVY Flamethrower...

Everything said here about the Manchineel tree is rue except the part about touching the tree. I live in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and we have these on some of our beaches. We've sat under them and touched them, hung our bags on the limbs etc. But we all know not to stand underneath it during rain, touch the sap or cut the bark. I love this channel by the way. Awesome content as usual.

I love how enthusiastic he is with his videos and how informative they can be. Cant wait for the next upload!

When I was little I knew some berries nearby were poisonous and could kill you. Watching Justice League animated I always wondered why she didn't just use her vines to shove poisonous berries into people's mouths. My explanations were always lazy writing, non important or unpopular character just there to be eye candy etc. It would have been so cool to see Batman fight those plants in the video.

Ohk Kyle. Love the show. Now, I believe you missed the one way Poison Ivy could legit kill a whole lot of everything in this world. She can do this by acting on a microscopic level and she could literally hold the entire world hostage. Here's how: Phytoplankton. Yea, these hyper important microscopic plants (most phytoplankton are unicellular plants) produce 70% of the planet's oxygen. If Poison Ivy were to get entire populations of phytoplankton to stop reproducing ( i.e., leave the population in limbo or maybe just reduce the numbers of the phytoplankton very much; not telling them to commit suicide, just asking them not to reproduce; that way she doesn't hurt or harm any plant) it would reduce the planet's oxygen level drastically. ( *She wouldn't even have to actually go through with this (since she probably wouldn't want to do so either) but if she could just act like she's totally unhinged and crazy maybe the bluff could fool everyone who knows. But then again all that wouldn't matter coz **_HE'S BATMAN!!!_* )If she got all of the phytoplankton to stop reproducing until just about 5-6 isolated populations remained, the percentage of oxygen in the planet's atmosphere would drop to (30/100 x 21/100=) 6.3%!!!. It would destroy entire food chains in oceans. It would cause absolute chaos in the world because so many people will be choking to death. It could literally destroy the world as we know it and all that power in the hands of Ivy... She could theoretically just rule the planet this way if she wanted to : give me what I want or the plankton stop reproducing!!! Creepy isn't it?

The best part of the suicide bush wasn't even told. A snipping of the plant was taken over 100 years ago. The snipping of that plant is dead but the toxin in the plant is alive and well.

@3:30 Hogweed creates vampires!

Dude, this is the scariest episode you've made IMO. Real life, and real life misery!

I would fund poison ivy to terraform other planets...we know the JLA has starships.

12:01 Rest in peace.

8:05 is it just me, or does this tree just seem like a giant "fuck all you guys" from nature?

Thank you for your help this morning Kyle! I told my kids (7 & 9) they could watch this before school if they were ready in time. It worked a treat.

The Hogweed (Heracleum Sosnowskyi) comes from the Caucasus and was imported to Central and Eastern Europe in '50 - '70 because it grew like crazy, and the amount of green mass and high acidity were perfectly suited for the production of cattle silage. It could not be eradicated. Even cut to the ground, it was able to grow. After the first euphoria, however, came a reflection. Acidity has begun to be a problem, as it has corroded agricultural equipment at an alarming rate. The cows did not want to eat it, and even if they ate it for unexplained reasons, the milk tasted of anise ... It was tried many times to eradicate it, but to no avail. He spread everywhere and at some time he took practically all of Europe. Now wherever someone sees it, it is removed immediately, but it's hard to kill it. The amount of herbicide needed to get rid of this hogweed was so great that all other plants in the area died, and the zone was no longer suitable for cultivation, and the hogweed had the chance to survive anyway. Kyle - I love the show. Seen ALL of the episodes (even back when it was on Nerdist). Keep it up!

The gimpy gimpy plant from Australia ( the last one mentioned) is so painful that some patients are strapped down to hospitals beds to prevent them from tearing their skins off. And some prolly have compared the pain to being set on fire and having acid poured on the affected area

I think there's even a tree in jungles that uses fruits with extremely tight and strong fibers that build up energy, and when the pressure builds up enough, it explodes like a grenade to send it's seeds a football field away from the initial tree.

When I was a kid, hogweed used to grow just outside of town in a field where I liked to play. I knew that these plants were dangerous, so I stayed away from them. One day I wasn't careful enough apparently, so when I woke up the next morning, my left hand was covered in these ugly blisters. Strange thing though - I don't remember any pain.

0:49 check mate vegans. What're you gonna eat now?

When Myth-busters tried to test 'cures' for Poison ivy (one was highly allergic and could not participate) but all the rest didn't have a reaction. They had to go to the film crew before they found someone who was allergic to do the test (for reference about 1 in 10 people will not have a reaction)

@6:50 There are people that will interpret the "red X" as either "X marks the spot" or as a "dare" to touch it there. They're commonly known as idiots.

Hey Kyle. How would Batman deal with those plants? I know he’s the worlds best problem solver, so what would he have to do to protect himself and Robin from Poison Ivey? Honestly I don’t think it would be that hard. Every thing you described in the video has to do with touching the plants or possibly inhaling them. A full body suit would keep you from touching anything, and a helmet would stop any potential air hazards for the Dark Knight. It’s not the coolest of solutions but, it’s seems to be a simple one. After the battle or apprehension, Alfred turns on the bat-decontamination shower and everything would wash off. I guess if you wanted to get cooler with it, Batman could use some kind of gas bomb that renders the plants useless...

"Cut-Your-Dongle-off plant" is the actual scientific term. 🤓

DC Comic book writers watching this: WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN!

"plants are earths dominate life form" And right off the bat the plane has crashed before it took off. The correct answer is Bacteria. but thank you for playing. :P

Kyle with you being in the void, would a phototoxic touch really be that bad for you?

In batman Arkham city game ,poison ivy literally made some criminal and police officer to Zombie like creatures my making a pod like plant.

I live in florida I know the Machneil tree it's like the whole tree is made of poison! Ugh it gives me shivers just thinking about them!

There needs to be a lot more content regarding plants on RU-vid or the internet in general! As an aspiring botanist and hobby content creator myself, I really appreciate it whenever I find someone else finally giving plants some attention!

PLEASE make why Earth's firearms are WAY more deadly than Star Wars blasters during any battle or war Because Science?!

Would be hilarious if a plant just got up and walked away.

Also Hashirama Senju or the druids from World of warcraft would get a hundred times scarier if they used plants like these :[

3:45 Light does not curve! Get it right Kyle!

At 5:55 who looked up pictures of bloodroot injuries? I know I did and I know I regret it.

How exactly do Poison Ivy's plants move so fast. They are plants they don't have muscles.

Thanks for the terrifying biology lesson. Pure nightmare fuel. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go curl up under a blanket and try to forget this litany of horror and agony.

I just knew the gimpy gimpy would be on this list

Can we please have Because Science: Basics???

Gotta love me a new because science vid!

If there would be a hell, than that is where i would go. I laughed way to hard at the soldier using the plant as toilet paper. Just the imagery of how the situation went in my head when he said that😂

Military officer:Oh no i have toilet paper guess i just use this leav aaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH