Swamp Thing: Difference between revisions

**** Who was now killed, and is now the Warrior King of the Parliament of Trees as Swamp Thing.

* [[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.

* [[Gaias Vengeance]]: Swamp Thing can be this sometimes. The Floronic Man ''thought'' he was Gaia's vengeance, but he was quite insane.

* [[Gothic Horror]]: The original Len Wein series was entirely [[Gothic Horror]], to the point you expect to see a [[Hammer Films]] 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.

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Anton Arcane, of all people. [[Status Quo Is God|It doesn't last]].

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: 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.

*** 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]].

** When Abby gets jailed for it, the entire legal system still wants to prosecute her for it even as an enraged Swamp Things 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, [[Superman|that guy in Metropolis]].

* [[Jury of the Damned]]

* [[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 [[Oh Crap|to finish]] his [[Anti Life Equation]]...

** 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.}}

* [[Skunk Stripe]]: Inverted; Abigail has black on white.

* [[Starfish Aliens]]: The eponymous hero encounters a sentient biomechanical planetoid, which then rapes him. Did I mention ?

* [[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.

** "You [[Oh Crap|can't kill a vegetable by shooting it]] in the head."

* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]: Matthew Cable.

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

** Because there's a difference between intellectual understanding, and true realization. It's the difference between 'it hurts to get your arm chopped off', and ACTUALLY having it happen.