Swamp Thing: Difference between revisions

 

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* [[A God Am I]]: Anton Arcane when he confronted Swamp Thing with Matt's [[Reality Warper]] powers. Swamp Thing was... [[Curb Stomp Battle|not impressed.]]

* [[Alliterative Name]]: Anton Arcane and his niece Abigail.

* [[Anthropomorphic Personification]]

* [[Badass Boast]]: As Swamp Thing [[Curb Stomp Battle|utterly dismantles the Brujeria]]:

* [[Beast and Beauty]]

* [[Beauty Is Never Tarnished]]: Arcane, in hell for a day experiences an eternity of torment. Abby, in for the same time, is untouched.

* [[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 [[Tomato in the Mirror|revelation]].

* [[Breakout Character]]: John Constantine.

* [[Chainsaw Good]]: Subverted, as "Evangeline's" wielder is easily disabled by Woodrue.

* [[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.

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: Swamp Thing vs [[Reality Warper|Anton Arcane]], Swamp Thing vs [[Religion of Evil|the Brujera]], and Swamp Thing vs [[Batman]].

* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: Moore has [[New Gods|Metron]] experience [[Animal Stereotypes|being a lemming and following the herd off a cliff]].

* [[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]].

* [[Elemental Powers]]

* [[Exiled From Continuity]]: with some exceptions. When Swamp Thing officially went to [[Vertigo Comics]], it was no longer considered continuity, for all intents and purposes. Once the series ended, he would make sporadic appearances here and there, often with a [[Shout-Out]] to the series.

** DC has recently announced plans to bring Swamp Thing and other Vertigo characters back into the DCU.

*** To be fair she had just realised she'd been {{spoiler|[[Brain Bleach|sleeping with, and making love to, a rotten, fly infested corpse]] that only made itself look normal}}--and which was {{spoiler|possessed by her uncle,}} to boot. And she'd been doing this for ''months''.

* [[Horrifying Hero]]: [[Swamp Thing]].

* [[Inspector Javert]]: Matthew Cable starts out as one of these.

* [[Intercontinuity Crossover]]: It's never directly stated, but there are enough hints to figure out that {{spoiler|Matthew the raven from [[The Sandman]]}} was {{spoiler|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]].

* [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo]]: "Pog", whose title character was [[Pogo (comic strip)|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.

* [[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.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: The Sunderland corporation, who were not friends of nature.

* [[Muck Monster]]

* [[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 [[Status Quo Is God|left the swamp and returned to villany]]).

* [[Rhymes on a Dime]]: Etrigan

* [[Single Palette Town]]: An issue where the protagonist remakes an alien world in blue.

** It was already blue when he got there, he just remade it to look more like home... {{spoiler|with the worst case of multiple personality disorder ever seen in a comic book.}}

* [[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.

** Why does he care? Forever is a really long time already, and now he's just realized that it's going to feel longer.

** The plotline which immediately follows this revelation also Fails Biology, when the madman causes plant life of Louisiana to speed up its photosynthetic activity, raising oxygen levels to an explosive degree. This completely overlooks the "photo" part of photosynthesis, as this goes on ''at night'' when there's no solar energy to power such a metabolic pathway. Sure, you could [[Hand Wave|write it off]] [[A Wizard Did It|as magic]], except the captions ''specifically'' state that it's photosynthesis that's to blame.

 

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