Swamp Thing

*For the TV series, see Swamp Thing (TV Series).*

* Swamp Thing
* Alec Holland

"*A stranger came to me in the swamp. He wanted me to look more deeply into this, Green that surrounds me. But I don't know how far that would take me away from who I was before... Away from you.*"
―Swamp Thing to Abby Arcane[src]
**Swamp Thing** is an elemental vegetable creature who shares a connection to all plant life on the planet Earth through a network called the Green. The creature took upon the soul and memories of **Alec Holland** following his death. Alec was a brilliant but disgraced scientist who befriended Abby Arcane prior to his death.

During an investigation in the swamps of Marais, Holland created the Bio-Restorative Formula, a formula that causes rapid hormonal growth in plants. He was abruptly assassinated and turned into a mutated plant creature by the surrounding swamp.

## Biography

### Meeting Abby Arcane

Alec Holland broke into the medical center to collect information and met Abby Arcane. Later that day, he broke into an infected man's house, and after talking to Abby, they decide to investigate together.

In his private lab, he shows Abby an entirely new strand of mutagen he discovered, the bio-restorative formula, as it was, called, mutates plant life into a fast regenerative state. Sometime later he met with Avery Sunderland. In another lab, the dead infected man started to mutate and cause chaos in its room. Abby then takes him to meet Liz Tremayne.

### Rebirth

Back in their lab, Alec discovers that the swamp had mutagen accelerators and goes to the swamp to collect the others before getting shot by an unknown assailant, his body was lost to the swamp and was turned into a swamp monster.

Later, he began to experience the massive change in his body.

## Facilities

* **Private lab**: Alec uses a lab sitting atop of the swamps to conduct his scientific experiments.

## Powers and abilities

### Powers

* **Elemental physiology**:
	+ **Self-sustenance**:
	+ **Elemental sontrol**: The Swamp Thing has complete mastery over all forms of plant life and can command vegetative matter to do his bidding. Through this power, he is in constant communication with the very essence of the Earth, and serves as the Plant Elemental for the entire planet.
	+ **Chlorokinesis**: The ability to commune with plant life and to control its growth and form. He can summon forth vines to entangle or snare, and so on. He has threatened on more than one occasion to cause the microscopic flora within his enemies bodies to grow out and kill them from the inside.
	+ **Regeneration**:
	+ **Superhuman strength**:
	+ **Immortality**: Theoretically so long as there is some vestige of plant life anywhere in the universe, the Swamp Thing will always have a vehicle through which to house his consciousness, rendering him effectively immortal, even thriving long after Darkseid's Second Invasion of Earth.

### Abilities

* **Genius-level intellect**:
	+ **Biology**:
	+ **Investigation**:

## Relationships

Allies* Abby Arcane - love interest
* Matt Cable
* Lucilia Cable
* Liz Tremayne
* Phantom Stranger
* Madame Xanadu
* Justice League
	+ Superman
* Justice League Dark
	+ John Constantine
	+ Zatanna
	+ Deadman
	+ Etrigan
* Kamandi
	+ Avery Sunderland
	+ Jason Woodrue/Floronic Man
* Anton Arcane
* Legion of Doom
	+ Lex Luthor
* Parademons

## External links

* Swamp Thing on DC Database
* Swamp Thing on Wikipedia