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Swamp Thing (Comic Book)
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Swamp Thing is a comic book character created in 1972 by Len Wein and famed horror artist Bernie Wrightson. The Swamp Thing first appeared in a one-shot horror tale in House of Secrets #92 (June-July, 1971). He was then reworked as a character suitable for series appearances in Swamp Thing vol. 1 #1 (November, 1972). Both stories were co-created by Wein and Wrightson. He has undergone numerous retcons over the years by various authors looking to rejuvenate the series, but the definitive one came during Alan Moore's run on the series from 1983 through 1987, which was also his first American title, and his first for DC.As an untested author, Moore was given a book slated to be cancelled. However, since no one cared about the title, there was no Executive Meddling, so Moore used the book not to explore inhuman monsters in spandex, but human ones. He introduced mysticism and sexuality into the series, as well as gray moral tones.The book was among the first to abandon the Comics Code, and paved the way for the Darker and Edgier comics of the eighties and nineties, including Moore's own Watchmen and DC's Vertigo imprint, where the series eventually ended up, outside the main DCU. Swamp Thing also showed publishers that holding comics to a higher literary standard did not necessarily mean a drop in sales.Originally, Swamp Thing was a scientist named Alec Holland who gets turned into a monster in the swamps near the town of Houma, Louisiana after his lab equipment is sabotaged and his wife Linda killed. Wes Craven followed this plot with his mildly successful film adaptation, about your standard modern-day Prometheus doing good and lamenting lost love.Moore, however, retconned the character's origin, turning him into Gaia's Vengeance. It was revealed that the Swamp Thing was really a separate entity from Alec Holland, a plant elemental who had taken on his memories during its fiery birth from the ashes of Holland's lab. Holland's ghost even showed up. Moore's experimentation ranged far and wide during his run, and kept the comic from going under. In fact, a number of other notable writers have taken up the pen since (Grant Morrison, Brian K. Vaughan, Mark Millar, Scott Snyder and most recently Charles Soule). The character of John Constantine originated on Swamp Thing during Moore's run and was spun off into his own title, Hellblazer.Eventually, the Swamp Thing and his long-time love Abby Arcane-Cable got together (common law marriage) and they had a daughter named Tefé, after the river in Brazil. John Constantine was the biological father. The first Vertigo revival of Swamp Thing, by Brian K Vaughan, focused on Tefé as the central character; the next series shifted it back to her father again.The climax of Brightest Day controversially saw the death of Swamp Thing (possessed by Nekron) and his replacement with Alec Holland, as Geoff Johns effectively put an end to Alan Moore's famed retcon of Swamp Thing and Alec Holland as separate people and firmly re-established that Holland WAS Swamp Thing... or at least was meant to be. Alec had other ideas. Following the Cosmic Retcon of Flashpoint, Scott Snyder's New 52 run opened with a resurrected Alec on the run from his long-deferred destiny, only to find himself having to accept the transformation to try and save Abby, finally becoming Swamp Thing in truth.Swamp Thing went on to join Justice League Dark, and featured in regular crossovers with Animal Man as new concepts/Parliaments such as the Red (animals) and Grey (rot/decay/death) were introduced, with Anton Arcane returning as a regular villain for the franchise.Besides the comic book series the character has appeared in a few other iterations such as a live action film and its sequel, a live-action TV series and a short-lived Animated Adaptation that had its own toy line and video game tie-in. propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); }); Works this character has appeared in: Brightest Day New 52 Rotworld Justice League Dark | |
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Tefé in Brian K Vaughan's volume, in the author's intent. Apparently some people didn't get this and criticized this volume for not featuring her father enough. | |
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Mistaken for Own Murderer | |
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Mistaken for Own Murderer: Government agent Matthew Cable, encountering the title character for the first time, believes that he's Alec Holland's murderer. Eventually the Swamp Thing manages to convince him that he is Holland - or so he thought, anyway. | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic B.S.O.D.: Swamp Thing undergoes a major one after learning that he is the Tomato in the Mirror. Abby also has one after she realizes the Awful Truth about her husband. Abby's BSOD at one point involved scrubbing herself with steel wool until she passes out due to having just realised she'd been sleeping with, and making love to, a rotten, fly infested corpse that only made itself look normal — and which was possessed by her uncle, to boot. And she'd been doing this for months. | |
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Wicked Cultured | |
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Wicked Cultured: In the cartoon the evil henchmen usually derisively called Swamp Thing "muck man". Arcane tended to go for the more erudite "muck-encrusted mockery of a man". | |
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Reality Ensues | |
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Reality Ensues: Drunk driving at night will kill you, regardless of whether you're trying to make things up to your wife. | |
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Ãœbermensch | |
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Übermensch: Tefé regards herself as one, until she's Brought Down to Normal. | |
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Bloodier and Gorier | |
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Bloodier and Gorier: The New 52 series. Just... so damn much... especially... Abigail's severed head and her spinal column, esophagus, and wind pipe being held by Anton Arcane....] | |
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Deal with the Devil | |
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Deal with the Devil: Matt falls afoul of one, in the same issue Jason Blood tells Abigail about one he made with Etrigan, noting how it backfired - "A bargain with a demon is no bargain at all. Demons cheat. It's in their nature." | |
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With Great Power Comes Great Insanity | |
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With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Matthew Cable. | |
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Make Them Rot | |
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The Rot | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Rotworld, in which the Rot has taken over the Earth, most heroes and villains are dead and the few left alive are dying in resistance,and Anton Arcane controls nearly everything | |
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Aborted Arc | |
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Aborted Arc: Tends to happen when there is a change of writers or creative team. Right before Len Wein left the Swamp Thing had discovered something very important about the swamp where he was born and the biorestorative that he's worked on. The reader is never told what it was (though it somehow related to the chemicals that had been inadvertently dumped into the swamp causing wildlife to mutate), and it's never mentioned again. Alan Moore's arrival on the book and plans for Swamp Thing caused an entire issue of DC Comics Presents to be shelved due to it contradicting his plans for revealing Swamp Thing was always a plant. The story is still mentioned in vague details. | |
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Beast and Beauty | |
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Beast and Beauty | |
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Out, Damned Spot! | |
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Abby's BSOD at one point involved scrubbing herself with steel wool until she passes out due to having just realised she'd been sleeping with, and making love to, a rotten, fly infested corpse that only made itself look normal — and which was possessed by her uncle, to boot. And she'd been doing this for months. | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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Captain Ersatz: For a house. The haunted mansion Swamp Thing visits in the American Gothic arc is clearly meant to be the Winchester Mystery House. Swamp Thing himself is a Captain Ersatz of the Golden Age monster The Heap. | |
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Failure Is the Only Option | |
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Failure Is the Only Option: Originally, Swamp Thing wanted to 'cure' himself'; once he knows he is an Elemental, this is no longer an option. | |
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Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action | |
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Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action: As mentioned, Swamp Thing is captured and raped by a sentient alien island floating through space. | |
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Our Hero Is Dead | |
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Our Hero Is Dead: Swamp Thing was shot. Through the head. Fortunately for Moore, Death Is Cheap. Then subverted: Our hero finds out he was already dead. | |
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SinglePaletteTown | |
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Single-Palette Town: An issue where the protagonist goes to an alien world in blue and remakes it to look more like home... with the worst case of multiple personality disorder ever seen in a comic book. | |
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Tomato in the Mirror | |
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Tomato in the Mirror: Swamp Thing learns that he was never Alec Holland — physically, at least. He still retains Holland's consciousness, and Abby still calls him Alec. And then he meets Alec's soul in Heaven, the final nail in the coffin of the idea that he's anything more than a copy of Holland's memories. | |
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Even Evil Has Standards | |
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Even Evil Has Standards: When the live-action show was airing, the network sometimes showed PSAs where Swampy and Arcane said there's one thing even they can agree on: Drugs Are Bad. | |
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Starfish Aliens | |
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Starfish Aliens: The eponymous hero encounters a sentient biomechanical planetoid, which then rapes him. Did I mention? | |
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Under the Sea | |
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The Clear | |
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Skunk Stripe | |
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Skunk Stripe: Inverted; Abigail has black on white. | |
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The Man Behind the Man | |
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The Man Behind the Man: Once the Monkey King is caged, Etrigan hints to Abigail that someone let it lose. She doesn't suspect, but the readers do. It's Arcane. | |
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StoryWithinAStory | |
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Story Within a Story: Mark Millar wrote an arc entitled River Run, which had Swamp Thing helping the ghost of a writer complete her book of short stories by traveling inside them and acting as the link to tie the stories together and successfully complete them. | |
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Psychopathic Manchild | |
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Psychopathic Manchild: Napalm specialist Paulie Skinner, one of the D. D. I. goons who shot the Swamp Thing with a bioelectrical pattern-jamming device and then napalmed his body in an attempt to permanently kill the group's longtime enemy. The middle-aged Skinner is shown still living with his mom in a boyishly-decorated bedroom, with his mom tucking him into bed and bringing him hot cocoa. His happy dream in that scene shows him as a five-year old (with his balding, mustached, wrinkled head on the dream's toddler body) contentedly waving a rattle on his mother's lap — though the dream suddenly turns into a nightmare of his mother smothering him as the Swamp Thing, newly returned from space and seeking vengeance for being separated for months from his home and wife, suffocates Skinner under a massive pile of peach blossoms. | |
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Reality Warper | |
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Reality Warper: Matt Cable, and later Anton Arcane when he possessed Matt. | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle: Swamp Thing vs Anton Arcane, Swamp Thing vs the Brujera, and Swamp Thing vs Batman. In the Moore run, The Spectre receives one of these from the Original Darkness's thumb. | |
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Elemental Powers | |
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Elemental Powers: Though not the usual classical elemental types The Green The Red The Rot The Metal The Grey The Clear | |
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Evil Sorcerer | |
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Evil Sorcerer: Arcane. | |
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Demon of Human Origin | |
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Demon of Human Origin: Anton Arcane was considered so evil as to be transformed into a demon after he died and went to Hell. | |
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Trope Codifier | |
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Actually the Trope Codifier. During the arc where Swamp Thing holds Gotham City hostage until Abby is freed, enemies from the Sunderland Corporation bring in Luthor as a "consultant" who maps out how to destroy Swamp Thing. Luthor finishes his presentation 10 seconds early, just so the Sunderland people have enough time to write out his check. | |
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Sweet and Sour Grapes | |
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Sweet and Sour Grapes: When Alec Holland relentlessly sought to regain his humanity, he was Cursed with Awesome; a "muck-encrusted mockery of a man" with superhuman strength and invulnerability. When Swamp Thing discovered he was merely a "plant doing its level best to be Alec Holland", he (after a rather gross Heroic B.S.O.D.) discovers his true power as a sapient extension of Earth's ecosystem, with all the powers thereof. | |
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1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_45d22aad | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_4aa3c552 | type |
Animorphism | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_4aa3c552 | comment |
The Red | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_4aa3c552 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_4aa3c552 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_4aa3c552 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_4d070ee3 | type |
Power Perversion Potential | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_4d070ee3 | comment |
Power Perversion Potential: Matt Cable was a Reality Warper, and he used this power mostly for entertainment purposes. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_4d070ee3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_4d070ee3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_4d070ee3 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_4d1a06be | type |
Doing in the Scientist | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_4d1a06be | comment |
Doing In the Scientist: Moore's Retcon of the hero's origin, which was also based on a theory (about planarian flatworms supposedly absorbing the memories of other flatworms which they ate) left behind as Science Marches On. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_4d1a06be | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_4d1a06be | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_4d1a06be | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_4e7c4536 | type |
Wham Line | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_4e7c4536 | comment |
Wham Line: "But you see, if he read my report, he'll know that just isn't true. He never will be Alec Holland. He isn't Alec Holland. He never was Alec Holland." "You can't kill a vegetable by shooting it in the head." "Just say uncle." | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_4e7c4536 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_4e7c4536 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_4e7c4536 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_4ee5989a | type |
Bizarre Alien Senses | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_4ee5989a | comment |
Bizarre Alien Senses: In the "vegetable sex" scene, Abigail temporarily experiences Swamp Thing's ability to sense life force, and perceives the wetlands as a shimmering field of glowing vegetation, dotted with bright life-sparks of animals. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_4ee5989a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_4ee5989a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_4ee5989a | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_4fba5bf6 | type |
Festering Fungus | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_4fba5bf6 | comment |
The Grey | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_4fba5bf6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_4fba5bf6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_4fba5bf6 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_5009999d | type |
Painting the Medium | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_5009999d | comment |
Painting the Medium: Panels were drawn sideways during the semi-cannibalistic hallucinogenic sweet potato sex scene. Because without a representative artistic mode, you wouldn't realize that something new and different was going on. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_5009999d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_5009999d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_5009999d | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_504a1991 | type |
Body Horror | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_504a1991 | comment |
Body Horror: The Monkey King takes on the shape of its targets fears, but not very well, which just makes it all the more disturbing when it tries to look like Paul's mother. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_504a1991 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_504a1991 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_504a1991 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_50f66629 | type |
Crazy-Prepared | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_50f66629 | comment |
Crazy-Prepared: Subverted. In one issue, Batman shows up to try to take down Swampy. He does his usual thing, sets traps, loads up with plant killer, etc. He still gets his arse handed to him by the titular Thing. In his defense, he was prepared to fight the pre-Moore Swamp Thing, not the incredibly powerful elemental he had become, with the ability to reform from any plant life after his body was destroyed, and even manifest multiple bodies at once. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_50f66629 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_50f66629 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_50f66629 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_56b53152 | type |
Green Aesop | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_56b53152 | comment |
Green Aesop: Though Alan Moore likes his Aesops Subverted, or Double Subverted. Was the order of the day in the short-lived Animated Adaptation, especially with it coming out during the time of Captain Planet and the Planeteers and Widget the World Watcher. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_56b53152 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_56b53152 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_56b53152 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_56c55ed8 | type |
I Am Not Left-Handed | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_56c55ed8 | comment |
I Am Not Left-Handed: Swamp Thing in his battle with Arcane: "No, Arcane... You... Have never... Encountered... Me before... This... is our... first battle..." Cue epic beatdown by Swampy. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_56c55ed8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_56c55ed8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_56c55ed8 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_575fd5e2 | type |
Dark Is Not Evil | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_575fd5e2 | comment |
Dark Is Not Evil: The Rot is the elemental force of Death and Decay, in opposition to The Red (the collective life force of animal life) and The Green (the collective life force of plant life). It's never going to win any popularity contests, but its avatars are not normally evil. They detest the use that Anton Arcane has put the Rot to, and they assist in taking him down at the first opportunity. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_575fd5e2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_575fd5e2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_575fd5e2 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_57c25438 | type |
Green Thumb | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_57c25438 | comment |
The Green | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_57c25438 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_57c25438 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_57c25438 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_58b42f3d | type |
Trickster Mentor | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_58b42f3d | comment |
Trickster Mentor: Constantine. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_58b42f3d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_58b42f3d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_58b42f3d | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_5b351f0d | type |
IntercontinuityCrossover | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_5b351f0d | comment |
Intercontinuity Crossover: It's never directly stated, but there are enough hints to figure out that Matthew the raven from The Sandman was Matthew Cable before he died. Gaiman owes a lot to Moore in getting his career started; there are several nods in Sandman to Moore's work in the DCU. This was confirmed by Gaiman in an interview, and later made explicit in an arc of The Dreaming. Swamp Thing also encounters quite a few well-established DC characters, including Superman, Batman, Etrigan, The Spectre, Deadman and Adam Strange. Arguably only intercontinuity by way of Exiled from Continuity: both Swamp Thing and The Sandman were originally part of the DC universe. However, Swamp Thing ends up reintegrated with the main DCU with Brightest Day and the New 52. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_5b351f0d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_5b351f0d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_5b351f0d | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_5caef4ca | type |
Chainsaw Good | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_5caef4ca | comment |
Chainsaw Good: Subverted, as "Evangeline's" wielder is easily disabled by Woodrue. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_5caef4ca | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_5caef4ca | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_5caef4ca | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_60ea2a89 | type |
Starter Villain | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_60ea2a89 | comment |
Starter Villain: Nathan "Mr E" Ellery and the Conclave, the group who originally tried to extort the Bio-Restorative Formula from Alec Holland. After being The Man Behind the Man for the first eight issues, he fell off a balcony during a crossover with Batman. A few issues later he reappeared, now paralysed, and was Killed Off for Real. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_60ea2a89 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_60ea2a89 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_60ea2a89 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_617f0563 | type |
Heel–Face Turn | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_617f0563 | comment |
Heel–Face Turn: Anton Arcane, of all people. It doesn't last. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_617f0563 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_617f0563 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_617f0563 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_6331ba26 | type |
Plot Hole | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_6331ba26 | comment |
Plot Hole: An important part of Alan Moore's changes to the origin of the character depends on the fact that Alec Holland's bio-restorative doesn't work on animal cells, only plant ones. However when Swamp Thing returns to the swamp where he is born for the first time, he finds it's filled with creatures that have been mutated by the bio-restorative that had been dumped into the swamp by the explosion. (see Aborted Arc). | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_6331ba26 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_6331ba26 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_6331ba26 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_63cf9a3 | type |
Rage Against the Mentor | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_63cf9a3 | comment |
Rage Against the Mentor: Needless to say, Alec and Constantine don't get along very well anymore. Not that they ever really did. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_63cf9a3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_63cf9a3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_63cf9a3 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_6439de78 | type |
Heroic Sacrifice | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_6439de78 | comment |
Also in the Swamp Thing: Future's End tie-in, in which Arcane has usurped control of Avatar of the Rot from Abby and Swamp Thing turns himself into a bomb to destroy him. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_6439de78 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_6439de78 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_6439de78 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_6563a3f2 | type |
Cyberspace | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_6563a3f2 | comment |
The Metal | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_6563a3f2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_6563a3f2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_6563a3f2 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_682c066c | type |
Horrifying Hero | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_682c066c | comment |
Horrifying Hero: Swamp Thing. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_682c066c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_682c066c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_682c066c | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_688afa6a | type |
Evil Uncle | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_688afa6a | comment |
Evil Uncle: Anton Arcane, to Abigail. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_688afa6a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_688afa6a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_688afa6a | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_6a1c2a6 | type |
Cosmic Horror Story | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_6a1c2a6 | comment |
Cosmic Horror Story: Issue #8 of the original run by Len Wein has an obvious H.P. Lovecraft homage, featuring Swamp Thing visiting a mining town whose natural treasures have run out years ago, leading its mayor to commit a dark ritual summoning an evil god M'Nagalah, who absorbed him and started absorbing others to grow, hiding in the town's abandoned mine, claiming to have actually inspired Lovecraft and other horror writers. The town's people tricked Swamp Thing into going to him to be absorbed, but he defeated him and went on his way, with the story showing one of the town's people possessed by the god. M'Nagalah would later show up in Challengers of the Unknown (where Swampy was guest-starring after his first series was canceled), Trenchcoat Brigade, All-New Atom and most recently, the New 52's Secret Six. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_6a1c2a6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_6a1c2a6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_6a1c2a6 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_6bd689ca | type |
Meaningful Echo | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_6bd689ca | comment |
Meaningful Echo: "The night can make a man see himself." [...] "The night can make a man more brave. But not more sober." | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_6bd689ca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_6bd689ca | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_6bd689ca | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_6bda9a30 | type |
Meaningful Name | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: The title of Moore's first issue? "Loose Ends". As in tying up the last plot points of the previous writers. The Sunderland corporation, who were not friends of nature. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_6bda9a30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_6bda9a30 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_6bda9a30 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_71e8a5c5 | type |
Trauma Conga Line | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_71e8a5c5 | comment |
Trauma Conga Line: Anna of the River Run story arc was put through the wringer by the Parliament of Waves in their determination to make her their champion. They manipulated events so that she lost her job, boyfriend, house, and her sister in that order (Anna also had an abortion, but that had nothing to do with them). Finally, after feeling unable to complete her collection short stories, the only thing she had left at that point, she killed herself. The Parliament of Waves was counting on this, unfortunately for them and Anna, her spirit became trapped in the River Run book. The only way she could be freed was if she could complete the stories and find someone else to be the champion of the Parliament. That's where Swamp Thing entered the picture. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_71e8a5c5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_71e8a5c5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_71e8a5c5 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_7286e96d | type |
Idiot Ball | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_7286e96d | comment |
When the Swamp Thing manages to enter Brujera's cave, they seem pretty confident that they can take him, since they are on their home turf. The problem was however that said cave was in the middle of a rain forest, and Swampy proceeds to instantly butcher the lot of them. Actually, the mystics had protected their underground cave to where Swamp Thing couldn't get in as Constantine planned... but the traitor Judith had accidentally brought in a rainforest flower that Swamp Thing could possess. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_7286e96d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_7286e96d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_7286e96d | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_7831b670 | type |
Gaia's Vengeance | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_7831b670 | comment |
Gaia's Vengeance: Has the outline of this but Moore subverts the most basic form even while establishing it. Floronic Man thinking he was and trying to kill humanity saw Swampy point out he was thinking like a human and not even a bit like a vegetable. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_7831b670 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_7831b670 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_7831b670 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_7a2ebcba | type |
Frankenstein's Monster | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_7a2ebcba | comment |
Frankenstein's Monster: Patchwork Man. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_7a2ebcba | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_7a2ebcba | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_7a2ebcba | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_7b6e47a5 | type |
Armor-Piercing Question | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_7b6e47a5 | comment |
Armor-Piercing Question: The Swamp Thing stops Woodrue's rampage by asking what plants will breathe without animals to exhale carbon dioxide. Woodrue has a Villainous B.S.O.D.. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_7b6e47a5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_7b6e47a5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_7b6e47a5 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_7ec94d53 | type |
WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_7ec94d53 | comment |
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: In the New 52, William Arcane. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_7ec94d53 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_7ec94d53 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_7ec94d53 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_7eebe99c | type |
The Alcoholic | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_7eebe99c | comment |
The Alcoholic: Matthew becomes this after he receives his Psychic Powers. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_7eebe99c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_7eebe99c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_7eebe99c | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_81f8731 | type |
Chosen Conception Partner | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_81f8731 | comment |
Chosen Conception Partner: John Constantine has Swamp Thing possess his body so that a child can be conceived with Thing's wife. Swampy did not ask permission first, but John doesn't take it too hard as he'd actually intended to propose it to Swampy before his consciousness was simply forced out of his body. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_81f8731 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_81f8731 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_81f8731 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_8485d41a | type |
Interspecies Romance | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_8485d41a | comment |
Interspecies Romance: Plant/human with Swamp Thing and Abby. When Abby gets jailed for it, the entire legal system still wants to prosecute her for it even as an enraged Swamp Thing threatens to destroy Gotham. It's left to Batman to point out the legal hypocrisy in the DCU when he notes that the courts would have to jail the likes of Starfire, J'onn, and... oh, that guy in Metropolis. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_8485d41a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_8485d41a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_8485d41a | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_86b21114 | type |
Badass Boast | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_86b21114 | comment |
Badass Boast: As Swamp Thing utterly dismantles the Brujeria: | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_86b21114 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_86b21114 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_86b21114 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_86d4f985 | type |
Doing In the Wizard | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_86d4f985 | comment |
Doing In the Wizard: Anton Arcane was a sorcerer in the comics, but multiple adaptations have made him a Mad Scientist instead. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_86d4f985 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_86d4f985 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_86d4f985 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_8774fb47 | type |
Eldritch Abomination | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_8774fb47 | comment |
Eldritch Abomination: The Monkey King, M'Nagalah... Swamp Thing tends to encounter a lot of these. Special mention should go to the Original Darkness, which was so massive that the heroes could only see the tip of its claw and was not even moving under the combined powers of The Phantom Stranger, Doctor Fate and The Spectre. The New 52 series introduces The Rot, which acts as the natural force of death and decay. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_8774fb47 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_8774fb47 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_8774fb47 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_89b8822f | type |
Go Mad from the Revelation | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_89b8822f | comment |
Go Mad from the Revelation: Several characters. Swamp Thing when he realizes he not only can't revert his transformation, there never was one in the first place. Abby, when she realizes who she's actually been sleeping with after she thought she had reconciled with her husband. Arcane, when he finds out how "long" he's been in Hell. Woodrue, after Swamp Thing gives his "Reason You Suck" Speech. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_89b8822f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_89b8822f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_89b8822f | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_8b221a63 | type |
Reed Richards Is Useless | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_8b221a63 | comment |
Reed Richards Is Useless: After discovering that he's an intelligent plant instead of a mutated human, Swamp Thing steadily develops an array of abilities that put him quite comfortably in Physical God territory, Gaia's Vengeance-style. In the penultimate arc of Alan Moore's run, he turns a major city into a rainforest in less than four hours; "two hundred years of civilization reduced to jungle in as many minutes". In the final issue of Alan Moore's run, he considers turning the world into a green version of Miracleman's... but realizes that his predecessors had the opportunity to do the same for themselves, the fish and/or the dinosaurs but decided against it to permit other forms of life to follow them - and because Nemo and Dino really hadn't done anything to justify it... and neither has humanity (not to mention the whole assassination/exile thing he went through for the previous nine issues), so he decides simply to live out Abby's life then retire to the Parliament of Trees. Jason Woodrue tries using the power of the Green to serve human purposes in the New 52 run, but doesn't understand what he's doing with it comes at the expense of another part of the Green, so people still end up suffering. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_8b221a63 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_8b221a63 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_8b221a63 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_8e92e125 | type |
Lawyer-Friendly Cameo | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_8e92e125 | comment |
Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: "Pog", whose title character was Pogo in a spacesuit. Amusingly, Pog had a brief cameo in a later issue by another writer who didn't seem to recognize the reference. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_8e92e125 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_8e92e125 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_8e92e125 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_90965cc7 | type |
Hive Mind | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_90965cc7 | comment |
Hive Mind: The Metal, though individual agents express a certain amounts of individuality. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_90965cc7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_90965cc7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_90965cc7 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_93489cfd | type |
Botanical Abomination | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_93489cfd | comment |
Botanical Abomination: The Green is an elemental force which connects all forms of plant life on Earth in. It is governed by a group of plant elementals known as the Parliament of Trees, and usually selects a specific individual with a connection to the green to act as The Champion to maintain balance on their behalf, Swamp Thing being their most famous champion. The Grey was an elemental force similar to the Green that formed on a far-off grey, alien planet. When such alien planet was destroyed, a fragmented meteor made from the remains of the planet landed on Earth, bringing what would later be known as the Fungal Kingdom with it. While the plants and fungi would live in relative peace, until Matango (a plant elemental and former member of the Parliament of Trees) defected to the Grey and tempted humanity with the Tree of Knowledge and fostered its potential to destroy, leading to hostility between the two forces of nature. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_93489cfd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_93489cfd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_93489cfd | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_970c790a | type |
Big Bad | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_970c790a | comment |
Big Bad: Anton Arcane. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_970c790a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_970c790a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_970c790a | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_99db72ee | type |
Immune to Bullets | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_99db72ee | comment |
In the first ever issue, the main thug responsible for killing Alec Holland tries to shoot Swamp Thing, not realizing he's Immune to Bullets. "Die! (BLAM) (Swamp Thing approaches) Why won't you DIE! (BLAM BLAM) (Swamp Thing is face-to-face with him) DIE! (Click) Oh... my... God..." | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_99db72ee | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_99db72ee | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_99db72ee | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_9a158325 | type |
Gothic Horror | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_9a158325 | comment |
Gothic Horror: The original Len Wein series was entirely Gothic Horror, to the point you expect to see a Hammer Horror logo up front. To wit: In his second and third issues, he gets kidnapped to the Balkans, where he meets a Dr. Frankenstein expy and his monster, complete with castle, villagers, pitchforks, etc. In his fourth issue, he fights a Scottish werewolf. Issue five, he stumbles into a town where they're about to burn a witch — in 1970s Maine, mind you. And so on. It helped that the original artist was Bernie Wrightson, recognized as one of the greatest horror artists of his generation and a master of the Gothic style. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_9a158325 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_9a158325 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_9a158325 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_9b54d536 | type |
EvilCounterpart | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_9b54d536 | comment |
Evil Counterpart: Jason Woodrue | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_9b54d536 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_9b54d536 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_9b54d536 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_9d12bbc1 | type |
Foreshadowing | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: Before setting out into the night, we see what Matt Cable's watching on the TV - a documentary on flies. After Matt's car accident, Abby notes he's become a lot better, but they've been having a serious problems with flies lately. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_9d12bbc1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_9d12bbc1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_9d12bbc1 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_9e37daa5 | type |
Muck Monster | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_9e37daa5 | comment |
Muck Monster | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_9e37daa5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_9e37daa5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_9e37daa5 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_9f63d4f1 | type |
Our Vampires Are Different | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_9f63d4f1 | comment |
Our Vampires Are Different: During the American Gothic story arc, Swamp Thing fights underwater vampires who have evolved to inhabit a flooded town. Crazy averted when said vampires first show up in the series. Before the flood, the vampires were hurt by crosses and holy water, and many met their end via a stake to the heart. Notable in that rather than simply being unable to cross running water, these vampires were fatally vulnerable to being immersed in it. This proved their undoing when Swamp Thing decided to drain their hometown. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_9f63d4f1 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_9f63d4f1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_9f63d4f1 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_9fbf8969 | type |
Cut Lex Luthor a Check | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_9fbf8969 | comment |
Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Actually the Trope Codifier. During the arc where Swamp Thing holds Gotham City hostage until Abby is freed, enemies from the Sunderland Corporation bring in Luthor as a "consultant" who maps out how to destroy Swamp Thing. Luthor finishes his presentation 10 seconds early, just so the Sunderland people have enough time to write out his check. Before that, the Sunderland corporation hires Jason Woodrue, the Floronic Man, to assist them with examining Swampy's corpse. While they do cut him his check, Sutherland also decides to treat the former supervillain like crap. Not a good idea when the supervillain knows how to operate your computer controlled security system, which you've left unattended... | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_9fbf8969 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_9fbf8969 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_9fbf8969 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_a62dca03 | type |
Year Inside, Hour Outside | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_a62dca03 | comment |
Year Inside, Hour Outside: Swampy visits hell, where he finds Anton Arcane, who died in the last issue. Arcane asks how many years the spiders have been laying eggs in his body and eating their way out. Turns out it's been a day. Arcane screams in horror. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_a62dca03 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_a62dca03 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_a62dca03 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_a68421bb | type |
Animated Adaptation | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_a68421bb | comment |
Was the order of the day in the short-lived Animated Adaptation, especially with it coming out during the time of Captain Planet and the Planeteers and Widget the World Watcher. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_a68421bb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_a68421bb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_a68421bb | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_a8784482 | type |
Primordial Chaos | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_a8784482 | comment |
Primordial Chaos: The "Original Darkness" is summoned up in Moore's run. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_a8784482 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_a8784482 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_a8784482 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_ab5eea65 | type |
Dramatic Irony | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_ab5eea65 | comment |
Dramatic Irony: As Matt is dying in a car crash, Abigail curses "damn you to hell, Matt Cable", for leaving her to deal with a demonic monkey monster on her own. Very poor choice of words, as it transpires. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_ab5eea65 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_ab5eea65 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_ab5eea65 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_ad1db87c | type |
Oh, Crap! | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_ad1db87c | comment |
"You can't kill a vegetable by shooting it in the head." | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_ad1db87c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_ad1db87c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_ad1db87c | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_af19229b | type |
Plant Person | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_af19229b | comment |
Plant Person | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_af19229b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_af19229b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_af19229b | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_b02f21f | type |
Digital Destruction | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_b02f21f | comment |
Digital Destruction: A 2009 hardcover collection cuts short the last sentence of issue #24, changing "I want to be alive and meet the sun", to, "I want to be alive..." | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_b02f21f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_b02f21f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_b02f21f | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_b58b4e3c | type |
Too Dumb to Live | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_b58b4e3c | comment |
Too Dumb to Live: When the Swamp Thing manages to enter Brujera's cave, they seem pretty confident that they can take him, since they are on their home turf. The problem was however that said cave was in the middle of a rain forest, and Swampy proceeds to instantly butcher the lot of them. Actually, the mystics had protected their underground cave to where Swamp Thing couldn't get in as Constantine planned... but the traitor Judith had accidentally brought in a rainforest flower that Swamp Thing could possess. Also applies to the escaped convict in Issue 10, who sees Swamp Thing coming when he's caught attempting to strangle an old black woman, so he can steal her soup, and immediately thinks he can take him. Swamp Thing is over seven feet tall, weighs 547 lbs, and it is all "muscle." | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_b58b4e3c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_b58b4e3c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_b58b4e3c | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_bc74ef27 | type |
Berserk Button | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_bc74ef27 | comment |
Berserk Button: Don't touch Abby. Really, just don't. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_bc74ef27 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_bc74ef27 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_bc74ef27 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_be009bbc | type |
Alliterative Name | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_be009bbc | comment |
Alliterative Name: Anton Arcane and his niece Abigail. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_be009bbc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_be009bbc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_be009bbc | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_bec0417c | type |
Happily Married | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_bec0417c | comment |
Happily Married: Swamp Thing and Abby, though not legally married, consider themselves this, and have a really touching and loving relationship. Later runs did have them go through a rough patch or two which led to a Heroic B.S.O.D. for Alec where he joined forces to merge all elemental powers... and destroy the world. During the New 52 series, however, they end up as Star-Crossed Lovers, being avatars of the Green and the Rot respectively. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_bec0417c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_bec0417c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_bec0417c | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_c3c18143 | type |
Hope Spot | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_c3c18143 | comment |
Hope Spot: In "A Time of Running...", Matt overcomes his guilt, gets in his car and prepares to go help Abby. But he's also blind drunk, and promptly crashes the car. It gets worse from there. So very worse. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_c3c18143 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_c3c18143 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_c3c18143 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_c6aca700 | type |
Jury of the Damned | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_c6aca700 | comment |
Jury of the Damned | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_c6aca700 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_c6aca700 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_c6aca700 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_c9e5a0db | type |
Legacy Character | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_c9e5a0db | comment |
Legacy Character: Tefé in Brian K Vaughan's volume, in the author's intent. Apparently some people didn't get this and criticized this volume for not featuring her father enough. Alec himself in the New 52, taking over for his replica. A few previous Swamp Things also play a part in the series. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_c9e5a0db | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_c9e5a0db | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_c9e5a0db | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_ceec4df5 | type |
Roaring Rampage of Revenge | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_ceec4df5 | comment |
Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Volume 2, Issue 63. During Moore's run, Swamp Thing returns to Earth after planet hopping using the Green. Despite missing his lover terribly the entire time, he starts things off by killing four executives of the Sunderland Corporation, the company responsible for sending him off planet to begin with, and the source of a great deal of grief the entire comic's run. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_ceec4df5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_ceec4df5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_ceec4df5 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_d2ddb362 | type |
ReasonYouSuckSpeech | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_d2ddb362 | comment |
Woodrue, after Swamp Thing gives his "Reason You Suck" Speech. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_d2ddb362 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_d2ddb362 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_d2ddb362 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_d9ee7048 | type |
Spin-Off | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_d9ee7048 | comment |
Spin-Off: John Constantine first appeared during Alan Moore's run. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_d9ee7048 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_d9ee7048 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_d9ee7048 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_da0eeab5 | type |
Breakout Character | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_da0eeab5 | comment |
Breakout Character: John Constantine. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_da0eeab5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_da0eeab5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_da0eeab5 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_dc1761bd | type |
A God Am I | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_dc1761bd | comment |
A God Am I: Anton Arcane when he confronted Swamp Thing with Matt's Reality Warper powers. Swamp Thing was... not impressed. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_dc1761bd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_dc1761bd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_dc1761bd | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_de1cb800 | type |
PinocchioSyndrome | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_de1cb800 | comment |
Pinocchio Syndrome: Like everything else, subverted by Moore's run. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_de1cb800 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_de1cb800 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_de1cb800 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_deb39de3 | type |
Bad Future | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_deb39de3 | comment |
Bad Future: Rotworld, in which the Rot has taken over the Earth, most heroes and villains are dead and the few left alive are dying in resistance,and Anton Arcane controls nearly everything Also in the Swamp Thing: Future's End tie-in, in which Arcane has usurped control of Avatar of the Rot from Abby and Swamp Thing turns himself into a bomb to destroy him. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_deb39de3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_deb39de3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_deb39de3 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_e0207930 | type |
Humans Are Special | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_e0207930 | comment |
Humans Are Special: The New 52 title brings up the idea that what human avatars bring to the Green is restraint, because humans have a conscience and thus can make decisions that the rest of the Green cannot. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_e0207930 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_e0207930 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_e0207930 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_e24d2d5c | type |
Reptiles Are Abhorrent | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_e24d2d5c | comment |
Reptiles Are Abhorrent: Subverted when Killer Croc moves in with Swamp Thing, and lives Happily Ever After (well, until the next time Croc appeared in an issue of Batman where he left the swamp and returned to villany). | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_e24d2d5c | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_e24d2d5c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_e24d2d5c | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_e2ccee25 | type |
Animal Motifs | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_e2ccee25 | comment |
Animal Motifs: Flies, and Anton Arcane. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_e2ccee25 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_e2ccee25 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_e2ccee25 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_e596f27b | type |
Star-Crossed Lovers | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_e596f27b | comment |
During the New 52 series, however, they end up as Star-Crossed Lovers, being avatars of the Green and the Rot respectively. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_e596f27b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_e596f27b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_e596f27b | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_e8967758 | type |
No Such Thing as Wizard Jesus | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_e8967758 | comment |
No Such Thing as Wizard Jesus: One of Rick Veitch's scripts would have averted this, by portraying Jesus as a White Magician; quoth the executives: "No." The Creative Differences resulted in Veitch not working with DC for about fifteen years following. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_e8967758 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_e8967758 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_e8967758 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_eb81c601 | type |
Big Damn Heroes | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_eb81c601 | comment |
Big Damn Heroes: Swampy is the one to thwart Woodrue's planned destruction of all animal life, after spending days in a catatonic state thanks to Woodrue's revelation. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_eb81c601 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_eb81c601 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_ee30ce4b | type |
Popularity Power | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_ee30ce4b | comment |
Popularity Power: Subverted; when Batman takes on Swamp Thing, he gets demolished. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_ee30ce4b | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_ee30ce4b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_ee30ce4b | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_f178203a | type |
Inspector Javert | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_f178203a | comment |
Inspector Javert: Matthew Cable starts out as one of these. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_f178203a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_f178203a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_f178203a | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_f76b8969 | type |
Anthropomorphic Personification | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_f76b8969 | comment |
Anthropomorphic Personification: Swamp Thing, for plant life. The New 52 storylines add representatives for animal life, decay, machine life, writing... | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_f76b8969 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_f76b8969 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_f76b8969 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_f88600be | type |
Higher Understanding Through Drugs | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_f88600be | comment |
Higher Understanding Through Drugs: Swamp Thing shares his point of view with Abby (as well as G-Rated Sex) by giving her a hallucinogenic fruit spawned from his "body". | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_f88600be | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_f88600be | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_f88600be | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_f8b3fa5d | type |
Our Werewolves Are Different | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_f8b3fa5d | comment |
Our Werewolves Are Different: The werewolf in "The Curse" is an expression of feminist rage. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_f8b3fa5d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_f8b3fa5d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_f8b3fa5d | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_f96f8980 | type |
Love Makes You Crazy | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_f96f8980 | comment |
Love Makes You Crazy: During the time that Swamp Thing was exiled from Earth, he first lands on a blue-tinted world (the acclaimed issue "My Blue Heaven"). At first marooned there, he begins making clones of himself to keep company... and then creates his love Abby. By issue's end, his multiple-personality disorder drives him to madness, and he forces himself to flee to another world. During that same story arc, Swamp Thing runs into Metron and the New Gods. Later, Metron barters with Darkseid using memories he acquired from Swamp Thing. Darkseid watches the lonely despair Alec feels being separated from Abby... and learns that "love" is something he needs to learn to finish his Anti-Life Equation... | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_f96f8980 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_f96f8980 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_f96f8980 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_fb17af62 | type |
Rhymes on a Dime | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_fb17af62 | comment |
Rhymes on a Dime: Etrigan | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_fb17af62 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_fb17af62 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_fb17af62 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_fbe24ca5 | type |
Discovering Your Own Dead Body | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_fbe24ca5 | comment |
Discovering Your Own Dead Body: Swampy eventually retrieves the skeleton of the real Alec Holland from the swamp, guided by the spirit of Alec himself and proving once and for all he's not really Alec. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_fbe24ca5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_fbe24ca5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_fbe24ca5 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_fccd06b6 | type |
Beware the Nice Ones | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_fccd06b6 | comment |
Beware the Nice Ones: Swampy is one of the kindest and most peaceful beings you could ever meet. But don't piss him off, if you don't want to have a tree grow inside your intestines. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_fccd06b6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_fccd06b6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_fccd06b6 | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_fe614133 | type |
Beauty Is Never Tarnished | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_fe614133 | comment |
Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Arcane, in hell for a day, experiences an eternity of torment. Abby, in for the same time, is untouched. Possibly justified in that he's evil — i.e., Hell's rightful prey — while she's an innocent. Even so, she's pretty traumatized. | |
| Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_fe614133 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Swamp Thing (Comic Book) / int_fe614133 | |
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ItemName | |
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