28 Facts About Swamp Thing

Swamp Thing is a superhero in American comic books published by DC Comics.

Swamp Thing would go on to become one of the staples of the Justice League Dark team of magical superheroes.

The Swamp Thing was played by Derek Mears with Andy Bean playing Alec Holland in the television series Swamp Thing .

The Swamp Thing fought against evil as he sought the men who murdered his wife and caused his monstrous transformation, as well as searching for a means to transform back into his human form.

Matthew Joseph Cable, a federal agent whooriginally mistakenly believed the Swamp Thing to be responsible for the deaths of Alec and Linda Holland.

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In 1982, DC Comics revived the Swamp Thing series, attempting to capitalize on the summer 1982 release of the Wes Craven film of the same name.

The new series called, The Saga of the Swamp Thing, featured an adaptation of the Craven movie in its first annual.

The subsequent investigation revealed that the Swamp Thing was not Alec Holland transformed into a plant, but actually a wholly plant-based entity created upon the death of Alec Holland, having somehow absorbed duplicates of Holland's consciousness and memories into himself.

Swamp Thing is described as "a plant that thought it was Alec Holland, a plant that was trying its level best to be Alec Holland".

Moore's Swamp Thing broadened the scope of the series to include ecological and spiritual concerns while retaining its horror-fantasy roots.

Saga of the Swamp Thing was the first mainstream comic book series to completely abandon the Comics Code Authority's approval.

Conclusion of the crossover event Brightest Day revealed that the Swamp Thing had become corrupted by the personality of the villain Nekron in the wake of the Blackest Night crossover event.

The Swamp Thing now believed himself to be Nekron, similar to how he had once believed himself to be Alec Holland.

The Swamp Thing went on a rampage in Star City, ultimately seeking to destroy all life on Earth.

The Swamp Thing then restored life to natural areas around the world and declared that those who hurt the Green would face his wrath.

Swamp Thing restored Aquaman, Firestorm, Hawkman, and the Martian Manhunter to normal.

The book ended with the Swamp Thing killing several businessmen who engaged in deliberate, illegal polluting activities.

Swamp Thing had been a scientist working on a formula to repair damaged crops when the Parliament chose him, and he died in flames, as all Earth elementals must.

Swamp Thing was recreated as an emissary of the Grey by Matango, who gathered Hallman's consciousness back together in his Chamber of Dreams.

Rodgers served a number of years as the Swamp Thing before taking his place in the Parliament of Trees, the final resting place of his predecessors, where his consciousness would live on as the flesh of his body died.

Rodgers would later leave the Parliament of Trees to become the Swamp Thing in order to warn Alec Holland of the coming of both the Rot and Sethe, the enemy that the Swamp Thing was born to defend the Green against.

In physical form, the Swamp Thing is a chlorokinetic-transmorphic elemental entity, an Avatar of "The Green" .

Swamp Thing even grew himself a form out of John Constantine's meager tobacco supply on one occasion.

Swamp Thing is normally human-sized or slightly larger than average, but he can grow bodies much larger.

Swamp Thing once used Sequoioideae to grow a body the size of an office block.

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Swamp Thing possesses superhuman strength; the Swamp Thing's strength has never been portrayed as prominently as many of his other abilities.

Swamp Thing has demonstrated sufficient strength to rip large trees out of the ground with ease and trade blows with the likes of Etrigan the Demon.

New Swamp Thing has no power over a White Lantern Power Ring, but he can control all forms of plant life and even grow every kind even if it is unknown to him; he can grow from any plant life anywhere, dead or alive; this is seen when the Seeder creates a portal to the Moon and banishes him there.