Hera Venenosa.

Super-vilãs; post 2;

A Hera venenosa é a melhor amiga da Arlequina. Resolvi fazer um post em homenagem a ela, se me permitem uma certa fuga temática calculada. Ela é ruiva, linda, mimada e seus lábios são venenosos. Uma vingadora que alega matar "apenas os que merecem morrer". O que a torna interessante é que seus valores absolutos justificam suas ações para si própria. Ela também é conhecida como a "princesa de maio" e lança feromônios pelo ar como forma de hipnotizar homens que poderiam lhe fazer algum mal.
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Curiosamente essa vilã de Batman também parece ter relações com o BDSM. Pra começar, ela foi inspirada em Bettie Page. Hera sente-se poderosamente atraída por homens que abusam de sua boa vontade embora ela negue ser traumatizada. Ela se torna uma vilã implacável depois de ter sido traída em suas expectativas pelo homem que amava. Ele tentou matá-la.
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Sua parceria com a Arlequina é um dos mais estranhos encontros dos quadrinhos, Hera parece sempre muito crítica a todas as supostas liberalidades e descompromissos da Arlequina. Sisuda e séria em um momento, generosa e paciente com a amiga em outros. A convivência entre as duas é tensa, competitiva e deliciosamente divertida. Nos quadrinhos tudo é possível, tenhamos liberdade poética.
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Ela pode controlar plantas e acelerar ou desacelerar o crescimento das mesmas. É também virtualmente imune a qualquer coisa que os humanos possam considerar letal, incluindo bactérias, vírus, fungos e todos os formulários de venenos. Hera é especialista em plantas e nos venenos derivados delas. Além disso, tem o poder de expelir feromônios do amor e lábios venenosos.

. http://www.azundris.com : (...) Ivy can seem complex and ambivalent, or the simplest creature in the world, depending on one's frame of reference. By human standards, she is a ruthless killer ("of the second order," she might add, "I kill only killers"), a worldly-wise seductress, and a painfully naive child, all at the same time. This may also be the reason why she stopped thinking of herself in human terms — they just don't seem to form a coherent frame of reference... after her personal vendetta of seducing and ultimately betraying and hurting men just as she was seduced and hurt, Ivy finally moved on to deeper meaning. By denying all that is human inside her, she was able to negate the part of her she perceives as weak, as vulnerable, naive. The part of her that was betrayed, hurt, and abused. The new part that had risen from the ashes of her former self like the phoenix of yore was something else. Beautiful, enticing and lethal, it was predator rather than prey, the shape of revenge — revenge for her former, weaker self as well as her more stationary brethren. (...)
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(...) Pamela Isley grew up isolated. With her wealthy parents inattentive at best, she had but plants for company of which she cultivated many, vegetables and flowers alike. Time came, and she went to college — to study botany, naturally — and fell in love.
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The object of her desire was her professor, Jason Woodrue, who would later become the Floronic Man. Much more intuitive with plants than with people, the romantic Pamela began to trust him — enough at last for her to volunteer as a test subject for his experiments. They were a terrible success — the toxins Woodrue injected into her bloodstream fused with the student's cells, giving her a resistance to poisons — after nearly killing her first. However, they also made her skin poisonous to touch. Even if she were to trust again, she would never again caress nor be caressed.
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The massive changes in her body left Pamela in hospital for six months after the experiment. She came back emotionally volatile — one moment sweet, the next destructive —, but also irresistable. She quit school soon after, after her boyfriend totalled his car after a fight.
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She changed her name to Poison Ivy — like the plant, she was dangerous to touch — and came to Gotham to start a new life where she would be the ruthless one. She would no longer be on the receiving end of betrayal. She had tried to play nice; they had violated her. Now, she would get even, with interest. She would beat them at their own game. (...)

. (...) Ivy's skin is sometimes toxic. And then sometimes, it isn't. Sometimes, she touches people with no noticeable effects at all, sometimes she produces an effect of her choice, and then in A walk in the park, she inadvertantly poisons one of her loved ones. (...)
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(...) Given the blatant imagery of dominance and submission we are treated to, an attraction to "abusive men" even before she becomes Poison Ivy and a pervasive preoccupation with control (not to mention the fact that the character is based on BDSM-model Bettie Page), it is anybody's guess whether that intimacy takes the (oft ritualised) form of BDSM, but in the BatVerse, it's certainly possible. (...)
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Comentário: As amizades surgem tão desprositadamente quanto os ódios. De fato, Hera e Arlequina tinham tudo para se odiar. Só nos quadrinhos mesmo.