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While one wouldn't know from looking, it seems Brian K. Vaughan's series didn't disregard Swamp Thing becoming master of all elements of nature after all.
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** Everything between Len Wein's last issue on the original series and the first issue of Saga of The Swamp Thing. Len Wein literally says this in the letters page: those stories '''did not happen'''.
** Brian K Vaughan's run ignored Mark Millar's finale making Swamp Thing master of all the elemental forces.
** Brian K Vaughan's run ignored Mark Millar's finale making Swamp Thing master of all the elemental forces.
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** Everything between Len Wein's last issue on the original series and Martin Pasko's run on the first issue of Saga of The Swamp Thing. 1982 series has been declared non-canon. Len Wein literally says this in the letters page: those stories '''did not happen'''.
** Brian K Vaughan's run ignored Mark Millar's finale making Swamp Thing master of all the elemental forces.happen'''.
** Brian K Vaughan's run ignored Mark Millar's finale making Swamp Thing master of all the elemental forces.
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* ContinuitySnarl: A flashback in the "Red Harvest" arc of the Brian K. Vaughan series shows Suzy from ''ComicBook/BlackOrchid'' being killed when a trap intended for Tefé was tested on her and shows her to still be a young girl when she is destroyed, disregarding her PlotRelevantAgeUp at the end of the 1993 ''Black Orchid'' series as well as her appearing alive and well prior (in the ''Totems'' one-shot) and afterwards (during ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'').
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Issue four of the original Len Wein series ended with the [=MacCobbs=] outliving their werewolf son Ian when he gave his life to defend his mother from getting crushed by a silver chandelier.
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** Issue four of the originalLen Wein 1972 series ended with the [=MacCobbs=] outliving their werewolf son Ian when he gave his life to defend his mother from getting crushed by a silver chandelier.chandelier.
** A minor character in the 2004 series is Elaine, an old woman who lost her young daughter when she found a gun and accidentally shot herself in the head.
** Issue four of the original
** A minor character in the 2004 series is Elaine, an old woman who lost her young daughter when she found a gun and accidentally shot herself in the head.
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* CosmicHorrorStory: Issue #8 of the original run by Len Wein has an obvious Creator/HPLovecraft homage, featuring Swamp Thing visiting a [[TownWithADarkSecret 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, [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu but he defeated him]] and went on his way, [[TheEndOrIsIt with the story showing one of the town's people possessed by the god.]] M'Nagalah would later show up in ''ComicBook/ChallengersOfTheUnknown'' (where Swampy was guest-starring after his first series was canceled), ''Trenchcoat Brigade'', ''[[Comicbook/TheAtom All-New Atom]]'' and most recently, the New 52's ''Comicbook/SecretSix''.
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* CosmicHorrorStory: Issue #8 of the original run by Len Wein has an obvious Creator/HPLovecraft homage, featuring Swamp Thing visiting a [[TownWithADarkSecret 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, [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu but he defeated him]] and went on his way, [[TheEndOrIsIt with the story showing one of the town's people possessed by the god.]] M'Nagalah would later show up in ''ComicBook/ChallengersOfTheUnknown'' (where Swampy was guest-starring after his first series was canceled), ''Trenchcoat Brigade'', ''[[Comicbook/TheAtom ''[[ComicBook/TheAtom All-New Atom]]'' and most recently, the New 52's ''Comicbook/SecretSix''.''ComicBook/SecretSix''.
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Besides the comic book series the character has appeared in a few other iterations such as a [[Film/SwampThing1982 live action film]] and its [[Film/TheReturnOfSwampThing sequel]], a [[Series/SwampThing1990 live-action TV series]] and a short-lived AnimatedAdaptation that had its own toy line and video game tie-in. In 2019 [[Series/SwampThing2019 a new series]] was launched for Creator/DCUniverse and immediately cancelled after one season. In January 2023, Creator/JamesGunn and Peter Safran announced a new ''Swamp Thing'' film as part of [[https://variety.com/2023/film/news/dc-universe-superman-legacy-batman-green-lantern-supergirl-booster-gold-1235507426/ a slate of films and television shows]] comprising the first phase of their relaunch of the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse, with Creator/JamesMangold being in talks to direct after finishing with ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny'' and his Music/BobDylan biopic ''A Complete Unknown''.
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Besides the comic book series the character has appeared in a few other iterations such as a [[Film/SwampThing1982 live action film]] and its [[Film/TheReturnOfSwampThing sequel]], a [[Series/SwampThing1990 live-action TV series]] and a short-lived AnimatedAdaptation [[WesternAnimation/SwampThing1991 animated TV series]] that had its own toy line and video game tie-in. In 2019 [[Series/SwampThing2019 a new series]] was launched for Creator/DCUniverse and immediately cancelled after one season. In January 2023, Creator/JamesGunn and Peter Safran announced a new ''Swamp Thing'' film as part of [[https://variety.com/2023/film/news/dc-universe-superman-legacy-batman-green-lantern-supergirl-booster-gold-1235507426/ a slate of films and television shows]] comprising the first phase of their relaunch of the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse, with Creator/JamesMangold being in talks to direct after finishing with ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny'' and his Music/BobDylan biopic ''A Complete Unknown''.
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Moore, however, retconned the character's origin, turning him into GaiasVengeance. 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 (Creator/GrantMorrison, Creator/BrianKVaughan, Creator/MarkMillar, Creator/ScottSnyder and most recently Creator/CharlesSoule). The character of [[Characters/{{Hellblazer}} John Constantine]] originated on ''Swamp Thing'' during Moore's run and was spun off into his own title, ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}''.
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Moore, however, retconned the character's origin, turning him into GaiasVengeance. 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 (Creator/GrantMorrison, Creator/BrianKVaughan, Creator/MarkMillar, Creator/ScottSnyder and most recently Creator/CharlesSoule). The character of [[Characters/{{Hellblazer}} John Constantine]] originated on ''Swamp Thing'' during Moore's run and was spun off into his own title, series, ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}''.
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* BreakoutCharacter: A surly sorcerer by the name of [[Characters/{{Hellblazer}} John Constantine]] made his debut in Swamp Thing's series during Alan Moore's run, proving popular enough to make further appearances after Alan Moore left the book and eventually gaining [[ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}} his own series]].
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* BreakoutCharacter: A surly sorcerer by the name of [[Characters/{{Hellblazer}} John Constantine]] made his debut in Swamp Thing's series during Alan Moore's run, proving popular enough to make further appearances after Alan Moore left the book and eventually gaining [[ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}} his own series]].series, ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}''.
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Moore, however, retconned the character's origin, turning him into GaiasVengeance. 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 (Creator/GrantMorrison, Creator/BrianKVaughan, Creator/MarkMillar, Creator/ScottSnyder and most recently Creator/CharlesSoule). The character of ComicBook/JohnConstantine originated on ''Swamp Thing'' during Moore's run and was spun off into his own title, ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}''.
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Moore, however, retconned the character's origin, turning him into GaiasVengeance. 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 (Creator/GrantMorrison, Creator/BrianKVaughan, Creator/MarkMillar, Creator/ScottSnyder and most recently Creator/CharlesSoule). The character of ComicBook/JohnConstantine [[Characters/{{Hellblazer}} John Constantine]] originated on ''Swamp Thing'' during Moore's run and was spun off into his own title, ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}''.
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* BreakoutCharacter: A surly sorcerer by the name of John Constantine made his debut in Swamp Thing's series during Alan Moore's run, proving popular enough to make further appearances after Alan Moore left the book and eventually gaining [[ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}} his own series]].
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* BreakoutCharacter: A surly sorcerer by the name of [[Characters/{{Hellblazer}} John Constantine Constantine]] made his debut in Swamp Thing's series during Alan Moore's run, proving popular enough to make further appearances after Alan Moore left the book and eventually gaining [[ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}} his own series]].
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** During the ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', [[ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}} John Constantine]] and [[ComicBook/DoomPatrol Mento]] run into ComicBook/{{Batman}} on the street. Batman doesn't know John, and only belatedly recognizes Mento, and when reminded that he attended the latter's wedding to Elasti-Girl, clearly has no memory of the event.
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** During the ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', [[ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}} [[Characters/{{Hellblazer}} John Constantine]] and [[ComicBook/DoomPatrol Mento]] run into ComicBook/{{Batman}} on the street. Batman doesn't know John, and only belatedly recognizes Mento, and when reminded that he attended the latter's wedding to Elasti-Girl, clearly has no memory of the event.
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* ChosenConceptionPartner: [[Comicbook/{{Hellblazer}} 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.
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* ChosenConceptionPartner: [[Comicbook/{{Hellblazer}} [[Characters/{{Hellblazer}} 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.
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* SpinOff: [[ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}} John Constantine]] first appeared during Alan Moore's run and continued to be featured as a recurring character even after Moore left the book before eventually getting his own series.
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* SpinOff: [[ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}} [[Characters/{{Hellblazer}} John Constantine]] first appeared during Alan Moore's run and continued to be featured as a recurring character even after Moore left the book before eventually getting his own series.series, ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}''.
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Besides the comic book series the character has appeared in a few other iterations such as a [[Film/SwampThing live action film]] and its [[Film/TheReturnOfSwampThing sequel]], a [[Series/SwampThing1990 live-action TV series]] and a short-lived AnimatedAdaptation that had its own toy line and video game tie-in. In 2019 [[Series/SwampThing2019 a new series]] was launched for Creator/DCUniverse and immediately cancelled after one season. In January 2023, Creator/JamesGunn and Peter Safran announced a new ''Swamp Thing'' film as part of [[https://variety.com/2023/film/news/dc-universe-superman-legacy-batman-green-lantern-supergirl-booster-gold-1235507426/ a slate of films and television shows]] comprising the first phase of their relaunch of the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse, with Creator/JamesMangold being in talks to direct after finishing with ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny'' and his Music/BobDylan biopic ''A Complete Unknown''.
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Besides the comic book series the character has appeared in a few other iterations such as a [[Film/SwampThing [[Film/SwampThing1982 live action film]] and its [[Film/TheReturnOfSwampThing sequel]], a [[Series/SwampThing1990 live-action TV series]] and a short-lived AnimatedAdaptation that had its own toy line and video game tie-in. In 2019 [[Series/SwampThing2019 a new series]] was launched for Creator/DCUniverse and immediately cancelled after one season. In January 2023, Creator/JamesGunn and Peter Safran announced a new ''Swamp Thing'' film as part of [[https://variety.com/2023/film/news/dc-universe-superman-legacy-batman-green-lantern-supergirl-booster-gold-1235507426/ a slate of films and television shows]] comprising the first phase of their relaunch of the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse, with Creator/JamesMangold being in talks to direct after finishing with ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny'' and his Music/BobDylan biopic ''A Complete Unknown''.
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* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: In the twelfth issue of the 2004 issue, Abigail threatens to eat her uncle Anton's eyes out of his head.
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* BreakoutCharacter: A surly sorcerer by the name of ComicBook/JohnConstantine made his debut in Swamp Thing's series.
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* BreakoutCharacter: A surly sorcerer by the name of ComicBook/JohnConstantine John Constantine made his debut in Swamp Thing's series.series during Alan Moore's run, proving popular enough to make further appearances after Alan Moore left the book and eventually gaining [[ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}} his own series]].
* BringMyBrownPants: In the eleventh issue of the 2004 series, Abigail's lover Jake visibly pees his pants in response to Swamp Thing bursting through the wall.
* BringMyBrownPants: In the eleventh issue of the 2004 series, Abigail's lover Jake visibly pees his pants in response to Swamp Thing bursting through the wall.
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* FanDisservice: The tenth issue of the 2004 series has a disgusting sex scene between Anton Arcane and his demonic lover Josephine possessing an old woman's corpse.
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* FetalPositionRebirth: In the sixth issue of the 2004 series, Swamp Thing immediately regrets killing his daughter Tefé and chooses to resurrect her. In the process, Tefé is revived while naked and curled up in a fetal position.
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** At the end of the "Red Harvest" arc of Brian K. Vaughan's run, Agent Romero derogatively refers to openly gay Agent Orange as a "nancy".
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** At the end of the "Red Harvest" arc of Brian K. Vaughan's run, Agent Romero derogatively refers to openly gay Agent Orange as a "nancy"."nancy" and refers to his deceased colleague Agent Kilroy using the N-word.
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* ShutUpHannibal: At the end of the "Red Harvest" arc of Brian K. Vaughan's run, Agent Romero tries to convince Tefé to spare her on the grounds that her methods aren't so different from hers. Tefé responds that there ''is'' a difference between them.
-->'''Tefé:''' [[PreMortemOneLiner I'm not a corpse]].
-->'''Tefé:''' [[PreMortemOneLiner I'm not a corpse]].
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain:
** At one point in Nancy A. Collins' run, Anton Arcane refers to Ya-Ya, the ghost of an African-American musician, as a "minstrel".
** At the end of the "Red Harvest" arc of Brian K. Vaughan's run, Agent Romero derogatively refers to openly gay Agent Orange as a "nancy".
** At one point in Nancy A. Collins' run, Anton Arcane refers to Ya-Ya, the ghost of an African-American musician, as a "minstrel".
** At the end of the "Red Harvest" arc of Brian K. Vaughan's run, Agent Romero derogatively refers to openly gay Agent Orange as a "nancy".
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* ExcrementStatement: The sixth Annual of the 1982 series has a man get terrorized by some punks who beat the shit out of him before they piss on him and the leader shoots him in the head as he lets his body fall into the water.
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** The sixth Annual of the 1982 series has a man get terrorized by some punks who beat the shit out of him before they piss on him and the leader shoots him in the head as he lets his body fall into thewater.water.
** At the end of the "Red Harvest" arc of Brian K. Vaughan's run, Agent Romero gloats to Tefé that she scalped her acquaintance Georgie and took a dump on her skull.
** The sixth Annual of the 1982 series has a man get terrorized by some punks who beat the shit out of him before they piss on him and the leader shoots him in the head as he lets his body fall into the
** At the end of the "Red Harvest" arc of Brian K. Vaughan's run, Agent Romero gloats to Tefé that she scalped her acquaintance Georgie and took a dump on her skull.
