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* The Green Man from ''[[Astro City]]''.
* Poison Ivy from'' [[Batman]]'' is a borderline case, depending on the medium. When she first appeared in the comic books, she was merely a murderous seductress with a plant motif. Later on, she took on the persona of an "eco-terrorist" with a little mad scientist thrown in. In current comics continuity, Poison Ivy has been physiologically part-plant since The Floronic Man's initial experiments. Initially, she only had to ability to exude plant-based poisons from her own body and was immune to all poisons. Through the years, she has developed the ability to control plants (size, shape and movement and, occasionally, behavior if one of her hybrids has a level of sentience) and her physiology has changed dramatically so that she now resembles a plant, down to the fact that her costume, once a leafy one-piece bathing suit, now consists of her own leaves]] arranged in an acceptable fashion on her body. She exhibits more or less plant-like qualities depending on the artist, but these qualities are generally constant. In ''[[Swamp Thing]]'', she is described as having a link to a mystical/elemental being called "The May Queen", but this is rarely mentioned. A link to a force (much like the Speed Force in ''[[The Flash]]'') called "The Green" is implied as well, and she can use this to communicate with others over long distances via plants.
** However, in the ''[[Batman: No Man's Land]]'' storyline, the police planned to take Ivy out (after she had seized control of Gotham City Park) with a powerful defoliant that would have killed all plant life in the park, including Ivy's monsters and Ivy herself, suggesting that she wasn't exactly human anymore. Whether it would have worked or not is unknown, because Ivy surrendered to save the children she was protecting. Which caused Batman to answer the question pretty directly, saying that the act proved she was "still more human than plant."
** Ivy is certainly able to ''create'' plant people. In her limited series ''Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death'' she creates three "Sporelings" - Rose, Hazel, and Thorn - plant-human hybrids like herself, but never human to begin with.
* [[Marvel Comics]]' the [[Man-Thing]], now{{when}} a member of the ''[[Thunderbolts]]. ''
* [[DC Comics]]' the ''[[Swamp Thing]].''
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