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** A Swamp Thing/Poison Ivy story was written in the mid-90s for publication was shelved due to to conflict between Vertigo and Batman editors. The story would have revealed that Alec Holland and Poison Ivy had an affair and that Ivy spent years bleeding Alec Holland dry financially and forcing him to steal chemicals for Ivy to use in her criminal capers, by threatening to out the affair to his wife Linda. Years later, Ivy and Swamp Thing would meet for the first time as Ivy attempts to gain plant-based elemental power and Swamp Thing would unleash unspeakable vengeance against Ivy for the years of torture Alec endured; when she uses her power to turn herself into an elemental, Swamp Thing would use his own powers to override Ivy's usage of her own new power, turning her into a tree THEN stripping her of the ability to turn herself back via destroying the artifact she used to gain her powers, trapping her in an AndIMustScream hell. The story never got published because the Batman editors got tipped off that the Vertigo editors not only would not let them undo the story so Ivy could appear in future Batman stories, but they would attempt to STRIP Batman editors and pretty much ANY OTHER DC WRITER of any chance to use Ivy again, by claiming that since she appeared in a Vertigo book, she was now irreversibly Vertigo property.

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** A Swamp Thing/Poison Ivy story was written in the mid-90s for publication publication, but was shelved due to to conflict between Vertigo and Batman editors. The story would have revealed that Alec Holland and Poison Ivy had an affair and that affair, with Ivy spent spending years bleeding Alec Holland dry financially and forcing him to steal chemicals for Ivy to use in her criminal capers, capers by threatening to out the affair to his wife Linda. Years later, Ivy and Swamp Thing would meet for the first time as Ivy attempts to gain plant-based elemental power and Swamp Thing would unleash unspeakable vengeance against Ivy for the years of torture Alec endured; when she uses her power to turn herself into an elemental, Swamp Thing would use his own powers to override Ivy's usage of her own new power, turning her into a tree THEN then stripping her of the ability to turn herself back via destroying the artifact she used to gain her powers, trapping her in an AndIMustScream hell. The story never got published because the Batman editors got tipped off that the Vertigo editors not only would not let them undo the story so Ivy could appear in future Batman stories, but they would attempt to STRIP strip Batman editors and pretty much ANY OTHER any other DC WRITER writer of any chance to use Ivy again, by claiming that since she appeared in a Vertigo book, she was now irreversibly Vertigo property.
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* ContractualImmortality: After Swamp Thing returns to Earth he exacts revenge on the conspirators that "killed" him... except for Lex Luthor, the mastermind behind it all.

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* ContractualImmortality: After Swamp Thing returns to Earth he exacts revenge on the conspirators that "killed" him... except for Lex Luthor, the mastermind behind it all. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], as Swamp Thing had no idea Lex was even involved.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: Rick Veitch had planned a storyline where Swamp Thing would travel back in time and meet Jesus Christ. The DC brass put the kibosh on that, and Veitch quit the book.

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* RecycledScript: The time travel storyline that ended Rick Veitch's run has the same structure as a Len Wein issue (yes, a single issue) involving time travel. In both cases Swamp Thing would be thrown through time, would meet several of the locals, as well as an immortal that he keeps running into, and would eventually come in contact with an object (a crystal in the first case, the chunk of amber in the second) which would launch him back into the timestream. The big difference is that the Wein story Swamp Thing is moving forward in time, and the Veitch stories he's moving backwards. It's especially strange that Swamp Thing doesn't even {{Lampshade}} this, since time travel is actually a pretty uncommon experience for him.



* TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment: [[Creator/NeilGaiman Neil Gaiman's]] run on Swamp Thing, cancelled after Gaiman withdrew in protest over the controversial censorship of the intended climax of Rick Veitch's previous run.

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* TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment: [[Creator/NeilGaiman Neil Gaiman's]] run on Swamp Thing, Creator/NeilGaiman's run, cancelled after Gaiman withdrew in protest over the controversial censorship of the intended climax of Rick Veitch's previous run.






* ActorSwap: Original plan was to have Ray Wise as both Dr. Holland and Swamp Thing, with Dick Durock as his stunt double. But the two men ended up looking drastically different from each other as Swamp Thing, so Wise plays Holland and Durock plays Swamp Thing.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: An accidental case: the original region-1 DVD release of the first film packaged the unrated cut (with [[FanserviceExtra significantly more nudity]] than the theatrical cut) in a case which still bore the PG rating of the theatrical cut.
** The "unrated" cut was created for European release in an effort to make it HotterAndSexier. This version was never meant to be seen in America due to a contractual clause by Adrienne Barbeau, whose nudity was shown in a bathing scene in the river. Because of this, all American video releases since said DVD are the PG-rated version.

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* ActorSwap: Original plan was to have Ray Wise as both Dr. Holland and Swamp Thing, with ActingForTwo: Dick Durock as his stunt double. But (Swamp Thing) also portrayed the two men ended up looking drastically different from each other as Swamp Thing, so Wise plays Holland agent that was leaving the island when Charlie and Durock plays Swamp Thing.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: An accidental case: the original region-1 DVD release of the
Cable first film packaged the unrated cut (with [[FanserviceExtra significantly more nudity]] than the theatrical cut) in a case which still bore the PG rating of the theatrical cut.
** The "unrated" cut was created for European release in an effort to make it HotterAndSexier. This version was never meant to be seen in America due to a contractual clause by Adrienne Barbeau, whose nudity was shown in a bathing scene
land in the river. Because of this, plane.
* CaliforniaDoubling: Although set in the Louisiana Bayou, filming largely took place in Charleston, South Carolina, and nearby Johns Island.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Creator/WesCraven had nothing kind to say about the completion bond company on this film. "I won't name any names, but they were not friendly, and they were not helpful. They just played the tough guys
all American video releases since said DVD are the PG-rated version.time." They demanded Craven cut scenes from the third act so they could stay on schedule and under budget.
* GodDoesNotOwnThisWorld: Nobody associated with the comic was consulted for the film.
* RomanceOnTheSet: Creator/WesCraven met his wife Mimi (who plays Arcane's secretary) while he was location scouting for the film.
* WagTheDirector: Creator/LouisJourdan would go over the script every day and would sometimes suggest changes to his character and dialogue.
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* ContractualImmortality: After Swamp Thing returns to Earth he exacts revenge on the conspirators that "killed" him... except for Lex Luthor, the mastermind behind it all.

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* ExiledFromContinuity: With some exceptions. When Swamp Thing officially went to Creator/VertigoComics, 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 ShoutOut to the series. He was later welcomed back into official DC continuity during the ComicBook/BlackestNight storyline.

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* ExiledFromContinuity: With some exceptions. When Swamp Thing officially went to Creator/VertigoComics, 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 ShoutOut to the series. He was later welcomed back into official DC continuity during the ComicBook/BlackestNight storyline.''ComicBook/BlackestNight''.




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* ScienceMarchesOn: The famous issue "The Anatomy Lesson" establishes that the Swamp Thing was actually a plant that absorbed Alec Holland's memories, and not Alec Holland somehow turned into a plant. Scientist and fellow plant-person Jason Woodrue, AKA the Floronic Man, came to this conclusion after reading about how a planarian worm was taught to run a maze, then got chopped up and fed to other worms who then ran the maze perfectly as well, implying that knowledge can be passed on as foodstuffs. That was actually a very real experiment -- that was also ''very wrong''. The worms were actually following the slime trail of the first one; a good maze scrubbing later, and the worms' supposed navigating skills evaporated into thin air.

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* ScienceMarchesOn: The famous issue "The Anatomy Lesson" establishes that the Swamp Thing was actually a plant that absorbed Alec Holland's memories, and not Alec Holland somehow turned into a plant. Scientist and fellow plant-person Jason Woodrue, AKA the Floronic Man, came to this conclusion after reading about how a planarian worm was taught to run a maze, then got chopped up and fed to other worms who then ran the maze perfectly as well, implying that knowledge can be passed on as foodstuffs. That was actually a very real experiment -- that was also ''very wrong''. The worms were actually following the slime trail of the first one; a good maze scrubbing later, and the worms' supposed navigating skills assimilated knowledge evaporated into thin air.
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* ScienceMarchesOn: The famous issue "The Anatomy Lesson" establishes that the Swamp Thing was actually a plant that absorbed Alec Holland's memories, and not Alec Holland somehow turned into a plant. Scientist and fellow plant-person Jason Woodrue, AKA the Floronic Man, came to this conclusion after reading about how a planarian worm was taught to run a maze, then got chopped up and fed to other worms who then ran the maze perfectly as well, implying that knowledge can be passed on as foodstuffs. That was actually a very real experiment -- that was also ''very wrong''. The worms were actually following the slime trail of the first one; a good maze scrubbing later, and the worms' supposed navigating skills evaporated into thin air.

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* ExiledFromContinuity: With some exceptions. When Swamp Thing officially went to Creator/VertigoComics, 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 ShoutOut to the series.
** DC has recently announced plans to bring Swamp Thing and other Vertigo characters back into the DCU.
*** [[ComicBook/BrightestDay And now he's back]], [[spoiler: [[OhCrap as the Avatar of Death]].]]
*** [[spoiler: And then he was killed. By Alec Holland, now the Avatar of Life and the new Swamp Thing.]]
*** Who was now killed, and is now the Warrior King of the Parliament of Trees as Swamp Thing.

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* ExiledFromContinuity: With some exceptions. When Swamp Thing officially went to Creator/VertigoComics, 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 ShoutOut to the series.
** DC has recently announced plans to bring Swamp Thing and other Vertigo characters
series. He was later welcomed back into official DC continuity during the DCU.
*** [[ComicBook/BrightestDay And now he's back]], [[spoiler: [[OhCrap as the Avatar of Death]].]]
*** [[spoiler: And then he was killed. By Alec Holland, now the Avatar of Life and the new Swamp Thing.]]
*** Who was now killed, and is now the Warrior King of the Parliament of Trees as Swamp Thing.
ComicBook/BlackestNight storyline.
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** The "unrated" cut was created for European release in an effort to make it HotterAndSexier. This version was never meant to be seen in America due to a contractual clause by Adrienne Barbeau, whose nudity was shown in a bathing scene in the river. Because of this, all American video releases since said DVD are the PG-rated version.
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** Creator/ChinaMieville's aborted [[http://www.swampthingroots.com/news_06-03-10_china-mieville-hints-at-his-swamp-thing-run.html run]]

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** Creator/ChinaMieville's aborted [[http://www.swampthingroots.com/news_06-03-10_china-mieville-hints-at-his-swamp-thing-run.html run]] run]], which got nixed because Creator/GeoffJohns wanted Swampie back in the main DCU. Five scripts were even written when it was cancelled.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: An accidental case: the original region-1 DVD release packaged the unrated cut with [[FanserviceExtra significantly more nudity]] than the theatrical cut in a case which still bore the PG rating of the theatrical cut.

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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: An accidental case: the original region-1 DVD release of the first film packaged the unrated cut with (with [[FanserviceExtra significantly more nudity]] than the theatrical cut cut) in a case which still bore the PG rating of the theatrical cut.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: An accidental case: the original region-1 DVD release packaged the unrated cut with [[FanserviceExtra significantly more nudity]] than the theatrical cut in a case which still bore the PG rating of the theatrical cut.
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* ExiledFromContinuity: With some exceptions. When Swamp Thing officially went to VertigoComics, 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 ShoutOut to the series.

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* ExiledFromContinuity: With some exceptions. When Swamp Thing officially went to VertigoComics, Creator/VertigoComics, 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 ShoutOut to the series.

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* TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment: [[Creator/NeilGaiman Neil Gaiman's]] run on Swamp Thing, cancelled after Gaiman withdrew in protest over the controversial censorship of the intended climax of Rick Veitch's previous run.



* ZeroEpisodeWonder: [[Creator/NeilGaiman Neil Gaiman's]] run on Swamp Thing, cancelled after Gaiman withdrew in protest over the controversial censorship of the intended climax of Rick Veitch's previous run.
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* ZeroEpisodeWonder: [[Creator/NeilGaiman Neil Gaiman's]] run on Swamp Thing, cancelled after Gaiman withdrew in protest over the controversial censorship of the intended climax of Rick Veitch's previous run.
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** ChinaMieville's aborted [[http://www.swampthingroots.com/news_06-03-10_china-mieville-hints-at-his-swamp-thing-run.html run]]

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** ChinaMieville's Creator/ChinaMieville's aborted [[http://www.swampthingroots.com/news_06-03-10_china-mieville-hints-at-his-swamp-thing-run.html run]]

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* HeyItsThatGuy: Heather Locklear as Abby in the second film.

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* HeyItsThatVoice: Abby was voiced by Creator/TabithaStGermain, under the alias "Paulina Gillis".

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* HeyItsThatGuy: Heather Locklear as Abby in the second film.


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* HeyItsThatVoice: Abby was voiced by Creator/TabithaStGermain, under the alias "Paulina Gillis".
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Heather Locklear as Abby in the second film.

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* HeyItsThatGuy: Heather Locklear as Abby in the second film.film.

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* HeyItsThatVoice: Abby was voiced by Creator/TabithaStGermain, under the alias "Paulina Gillis".
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* ExiledFromContinuity: With some exceptions. When Swamp Thing officially went to VertigoComics, 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 ShoutOut to the series.
** DC has recently announced plans to bring Swamp Thing and other Vertigo characters back into the DCU.
*** [[ComicBook/BrightestDay And now he's back]], [[spoiler: [[OhCrap as the Avatar of Death]].]]
*** [[spoiler: And then he was killed. By Alec Holland, now the Avatar of Life and the new Swamp Thing.]]
**** Who was now killed, and is now the Warrior King of the Parliament of Trees as Swamp Thing.
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** Mark Millar's run was supposed to have climaxed with Swamp Thing #175 but he ran out of Grant Morrison written scripts to slap his name on, forcing the massive storyline he wrote to be prematurely ended and the series cancelled with issue #171.

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** Mark Millar's Creator/MarkMillar's run was supposed to have climaxed with Swamp Thing #175 ''Swamp Thing'' #175, but he ran out of Grant Morrison written Creator/GrantMorrison-written scripts to slap his name on, forcing the massive storyline he wrote to be prematurely ended and the series cancelled with issue #171.

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** Mark Millar's run was supposed to have climaxed with Swamp Thing #175 but he ran out of Grant Morrison written scripts to slap his name on, forcing the massive storyline he wrote to be prematurely ended and the series cancelled with issue #171.
** A Swamp Thing/Poison Ivy story was written in the mid-90s for publication was shelved due to to conflict between Vertigo and Batman editors. The story would have revealed that Alec Holland and Poison Ivy had an affair and that Ivy spent years bleeding Alec Holland dry financially and forcing him to steal chemicals for Ivy to use in her criminal capers, by threatening to out the affair to his wife Linda. Years later, Ivy and Swamp Thing would meet for the first time as Ivy attempts to gain plant-based elemental power and Swamp Thing would unleash unspeakable vengeance against Ivy for the years of torture Alec endured; when she uses her power to turn herself into an elemental, Swamp Thing would use his own powers to override Ivy's usage of her own new power, turning her into a tree THEN stripping her of the ability to turn herself back via destroying the artifact she used to gain her powers, trapping her in an AndIMustScream hell. The story never got published because the Batman editors got tipped off that the Vertigo editors not only would not let them undo the story so Ivy could appear in future Batman stories, but they would attempt to STRIP Batman editors and pretty much ANY OTHER DC WRITER of any chance to use Ivy again, by claiming that since she appeared in a Vertigo book, she was now irreversibly Vertigo property.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: ChinaMieville's aborted [[http://www.swampthingroots.com/news_06-03-10_china-mieville-hints-at-his-swamp-thing-run.html run]]

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ChinaMieville's aborted [[http://www.swampthingroots.com/news_06-03-10_china-mieville-hints-at-his-swamp-thing-run.html run]]
** Also Creator/NeilGaiman's run, which would have followed Veitch's. He pulled out of in protest after Veitch's "Jesus" idea was vetoed, but he's said that it would have built up into a crossover of all DC's plant-themed characters.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Heather Locklear as Abby in the second film.
* StockScream: Wilhelm Scream is used on one occasion in the first film.

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* ActorSwap: Original plan was to have Ray Wise as both Dr. Holland and Swamp Thing, with Dick Durock as his stunt double. But the two men ended up looking drastically different from each other as Swamp Thing, so Wise plays Holland and Durock plays Swamp Thing.
* HeyItsThatGuy: Heather Locklear as Abby in the second film.
* StockScream: Wilhelm Scream is used on one occasion in the first
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[{{Ptitlen9ir3dhv}} China Miéville's]] aborted [[http://www.swampthingroots.com/news_06-03-10_china-mieville-hints-at-his-swamp-thing-run.html run]]

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[{{Ptitlen9ir3dhv}} China Miéville's]] ChinaMieville's aborted [[http://www.swampthingroots.com/news_06-03-10_china-mieville-hints-at-his-swamp-thing-run.html run]]
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[{{Ptitlen9ir3dhv}} China Miéville's]] aborted [[http://www.swampthingroots.com/news_06-03-10_china-mieville-hints-at-his-swamp-thing-run.html run]]
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* [=~Hey, It's That Guy!~=]: Heather Locklear as Abby in the second film.

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* [=~Hey, It's That Guy!~=]: HeyItsThatGuy: Heather Locklear as Abby in the second film.

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