I've been a DC Comics fan since I was eight years old. My dad had a box of old comics in the attic — Batman, mostly, with a few Superman and Wonder Woman issues mixed in — and I worked my way through all of them one rainy half-term and never quite recovered. The characters, the stories, the moral complexity dressed up in capes and cowls. I was hooked immediately and permanently.
Poison Ivy was always my favourite. Not the hero, not the straightforward villain — the complicated one. The one whose motivations made a kind of terrible sense. The one who loved something so completely she'd burn everything else down to protect it. As a child I found her frightening. As an adult I find her fascinating.
When I found her as a Funko Pop, I didn't hesitate for a single second.
The Desk That Needed Something
I work from home three days a week. My desk is where I spend a significant portion of my life, and for a long time it was purely functional — laptop, notebook, a lamp, a plant that I was slowly killing. Nothing that said anything about who I was or what I cared about.
I'd been thinking about adding something personal to the space. Not a photograph — I have those elsewhere — but something that reflected the parts of me that don't show up in a work context. The reader. The comics fan. The person who has strong opinions about fictional botanists.
I found the Funko Pop! Heroes: DC Comics Poison Ivy Vinyl Figure at £10.99 (reduced from £12.99) and it was the easiest decision I've made all year. Nine centimetres of classic Poison Ivy, officially licensed, high-quality sculpting, arriving in a window display box that protects the figure while keeping it fully visible. Perfect for a desk. Perfect for a shelf. Perfect, frankly, for anywhere.
When She Arrived
The window display box is genuinely part of the appeal. You can see the figure clearly through the front panel — the sculpting, the colours, the characteristic Poison Ivy pose — without opening it. I keep mine in the box, displayed on the corner of my desk where the light catches it in the afternoon.
The figure itself is everything a Funko Pop should be: immediately recognisable, characterful, compact enough to fit anywhere without dominating the space. The classic Poison Ivy look is captured with the kind of clean, confident design that makes Funko figures so satisfying to collect. She looks exactly right. She looks exactly like herself.
I put her on the desk and sat back and looked at the space for the first time in months and thought: yes. That's better.
What Changed
It sounds like a small thing. A 9cm vinyl figure on a desk. But the effect was disproportionate. The desk stopped feeling like a generic workspace and started feeling like my workspace. A place that reflected something real about who I am, not just what I do.
Video calls improved, in a small but genuine way — people noticed her in the background and asked about her, which led to conversations I wouldn't otherwise have had. A colleague I'd worked with for two years turned out to be a lifelong DC fan. We've been recommending comics to each other ever since.
And I started collecting properly. Poison Ivy was the first. She's been joined since by Catwoman, Harley Quinn, and a Batman that I bought somewhat reluctantly but have come to appreciate. The desk has a personality now. It has a story. It has, in the corner where the afternoon light falls, a small green figure who started all of it.
Who This Is For
DC Comics fans, obviously. Funko collectors building out a villain or hero display. Anyone who wants to add personality to a desk, shelf, or workspace without spending a fortune. And anyone who has ever loved Poison Ivy — the complicated, brilliant, terrifying, fascinating Poison Ivy — and wanted her watching over their day.
The Funko Pop! DC Comics Poison Ivy is £10.99, reduced from £12.99. Nine centimetres of botanical villainy, officially licensed, beautifully sculpted, and ready to make your desk considerably more interesting.
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