Warning ! This post arrest SPOILERS for Harley Quinn Season 5 , episode 3While the hype is justifiably big for James Gunn’sSupermancoming later in 2025 , the first DC release of the year has me very excited about the weirdest upcomingDCUmovie in the study . While not connect to the young DCU that has just start out with 2024 ’s animatedCreature Commandos , the latest season ofHarley Quinnis underway . As such , a recent sequence sees Poison Ivy render to a central DC Comics location , one that could have large implications for the DCU ’s time to come when it comes to theSwamp Thing .
Thus far inHarley Quinnepisode 5 , Harley and Poison Ivy have determine to make a permanent move to Metropolis after Ivy is given a job by Lena Luthor to work on the city ’s light-green enterprisingness . However , things get complicate rather promptly when it ’s revealed that Ivy ’s ex and former professor Jason Woodrue is part of the team , the Isle of Man who seek to kill her and steal her work , the grounds why Ivy had to turn herself into a plant / homo hybrid to survive being interlock in a room full of toxin . Now , Harley Quinnseason 5 , episode 3 sees Hedera helix returning to The Green , a cosmic force in the DC Universe that could be a fairly prominent great deal in the DCU ’s futureSwamp Thingmovie .
2025’s First Release Puts The Spotlight On An Underrated & Seriously Powerful Part Of DC’s Comic Universe
Harley Quinn Season 5 Returns To “The Green”
Poison Ivy believe she had killed Woodrue at the terminal ofHarley Quinnseason 5 , episode 2 . However , the third episode saw Ivy suffering from nightmares and visions of Woodrue in her psyche , prompting her to essay and clear her idea by visiting the cosmic realm be intimate as The Green . As establish in the original DC Comics , The Green is a cosmic divine and powerful elemental force connected to all plant life in the multiverse , just as The Red is the cosmic force connected to all animal life . sacrifice her alone physiology as a plant / homo loan-blend , Ivy can get at the Green as needed .
However , Woodrue was waiting for Ivy within the divine cosmic realm , having been transformed into theFloronic Manthanks to Ivy ’s vines and the toxins she ’d spilled , having tried to end Woodrue the same way he once tried to wipe out her . As a termination , the duo struggle within The Green , with Woodrue gaining the upper hand . However , Harley eventually destroys Woodrue ’s physical body in the real human beings , saving Ivy by the instalment ’s closing ( and Frank , who also enrol The Green to help Ivy ) .
Harley Quinn Season 5 Has Made Me Even More Excited To See How The DC Universe Handles Swamp Thing & The Green
The Swamp Thing Will Be Directed By James Mangold
Overall , this new episode serve to be a fun reminder of The Green ’s powerful potential drop in the DC Universe . While preponderantly tied to Poison Ivy inHarley Quinn , the cosmic strength is almost always consociate with Alec Holland aka Swamp Thing . Case in point , The Green first debuted inHarley Quinnseason 3 in an episode that also features the authoritative flora monster .
To that end , seeing The Green being featured in such a recent DC project in 2025 does make me pretty worked up about its potential role in the DCU ’s futureSwamp Thingmovie . While detail are still slight , we do know thatLogan’sJames Mangold is set to directSwamp Thing , with a story that will centre on the Gothic repugnance dichotomy of Alec Holland ’s life as both man and monster . Within that , The Green could certainly run a key factor , particularly considering that Swamp Thing is the cosmic personnel ’s choose avatar and booster in the comedian , give Holland a intention and force back with his monstrous plant form .
DC’s Current Track Record Makes The First Swamp Thing Movie In 35+ Years A Genuinely Exciting Prospect
Putting Spotlights On Underappreciated Characters
While obviously not connected to the new DCU , Swamp Thing has had past alive - action projection , beginning with theSwamp Thingmovie in 1982 directed by Wes Craven and starring Dick Durock which have a continuation in 1989 . Swamp affair also had a three - season serial in the early 90s , also starring Durock , and a individual - time of year series in 2019 . That said , The Green playing a more polar function in Mangold’sSwamp Thingcould be the best way to distinguish itself from these past loop .
Either room , I ’m very excited to see the firstSwamp Thingmovie since the 1989 subsequence , specially considering that the DCU already has an telling rail record giving more underappreciated characters a spotlight , like the Creature Commandos . It also seems like the DCU is more unforced to lean into and explore the weirder and more supernatural sides of the population , which should be not bad news forSwamp Thingwhenever it releases from Mangold and DC Studios .
New episode ofHarley Quinnseason 5 air Thursdays on Max .
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