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Contains spoilers forTheSwamp Thing # 16 !
For age , Alec Holland has been the definitiveSwamp Thing , DC ’s godlike guardians of all the major planet ’s plantlife . But asLevi Kamei take overthe part , his new powers are changing the fictitious character constantly .
Alec Holland to begin with win his power as Swamp Thing by accident . He was souse in chemicals , falling into a nearby swamp consequence by and by . His consciousness was then take in by the swampland itself and this allowed him to become the new avatar of the Green . Over many , many years , Alec discovered this had been pre - designate , and he has been chosen as theelemental guardian of the Green . Levi Kamei had a much unlike journeying . His connexion to the Green started untested because of rituals that were execute on him and his brother as minor . These rituals caused the Green to choose Levi as its next embodiment , but with an immediate sense of intent that take so long for Alec to discover .
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In the season 2 climax ofTheSwamp affair # 16- by Ram V and Mike Perkins - Levi faces off against an exotic foeman of appurtenance and plant life . He eventually inhibit the foeman and admit a timber to pullulate up on the battle site . Later , Levi returns to his human descriptor and revisit the site with his girlfriend Jen . This moment of loving compassionateness is unplumbed , as Alec Holland ’s lose humanity was a major aspect of his clock time as the Swamp Thing . In line , Levi is able-bodied to return to a human mannikin - while he carries theresponsibility of the Swamp Thing , he does n’t have to sacrifice his former identity to honour them .
One of the key aspects of Swamp Thing ’s original horror roots was that he was stuck as a lusus naturae . The interrogative often arose of whether or not he was a man cling as a teras or a behemoth pretending to be a man . Indeed , one of Swamp Thing ’s most haunting second was when he learned he was not truly Alec Holland , but rather a construct based on the deadened man ’s memories . However , a newfangled Swamp Thing deserves novel themes and new experiential crises , and Levi has had to deal with different question of identity , peculiarly in regards to his human relationship with his kinsfolk and the traditions he rejected as a young man , but now understand in young way .
Levi ’s inner tumult does n’t of necessity come from his role as the new Swamp Thing , but from the dynamics of his personal sprightliness . Specifically , he had to grapple with the unresolved play between his father and his sidekick . The fact that he is able-bodied to switch back and forth between his human and Swamp Thing form totally differentiates him from Alec Holland , have his payoff one of remainder , rather than longing for humanity . Even when he plough back to being human , Levi ’s true problems continue . It ’s unreadable whether or not this newSwamp matter will play a larger rolein the DC Universe , but if he is able to walk amongst civilians as a homo , then it will by all odds change the heroics ofSwamp Thingand the dynamics of his characterisation .
Swamp Thing # 16is now available from DC Comics .
