Editing Swamp Thing (section)

== Fictional character biography ==
=== Alexander Olsen ===
The original version of the Swamp Thing, Alexander "Alex" Olsen was a talented young scientist in Louisiana in the early 1900s, married to Linda. Alex's assistant, Damian Ridge, was secretly in love with Linda and plotted the death of his friend. He tampered with Olsen's chemicals, killing him in the explosion, and dumped his body in the nearby swamp. Ridge used Linda's grief to convince her to marry him. However, Ridge was confronted by Alex Olsen, now a risen humanoid pile of vegetable matter. Olsen killed Ridge, but Linda did not recognize him and ran away, leaving Olsen to wander the swamps alone as a monster.

=== Alec Holland ===
{{Main|Alec Holland}}

=== Tefé Holland ===
{{Main|Tefé Holland}}

=== Levi Kamei ===
At a young age, Levi Kamei is unknowingly marked to become the Swamp Thing at during a ritual performed to him and his brother, Jacob, by their mother. A descendant of a community that has watched over [[Kaziranga National Park|Kaziranga]] wetlands, he has differing views and later becomes a scientist working in Prescot Industries.<ref name=":22">{{Cite book |last=V |first=Ram |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CjBNEAAAQBAJ |title=The Swamp Thing Volume 1: Becoming |date=2021-12-07 |publisher=DC Comics |isbn=978-1-77951-649-7 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":022">{{Cite book |last=V |first=Ram |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cVF-EAAAQBAJ |title=The Swamp Thing Volume 2: Conduit |date=2022-08-16 |publisher=DC Comics |isbn=978-1-77951-905-4 |language=en}}</ref> When his employers interest in the Kaziranga wetlands, he attempts to help negotiate a deal to sell the land in return for economic opportunities. The tribunal rejects the deal and protests ensues but Prescot Industries use their political ties to force a deal, resulting in the death of Levi's father. Levi awakens his powers shortly after and attempts to understand his role as Swamp Thing, the name given to those who are known as the Avatar of the Green.<ref name=":22" />

Assisted by his girlfriend and fellow scientist Jennifer Reece to understand his power, various other such as [[Amanda Waller]] and Prescot Industries sought to control him and the power he possess.<ref name=":22" /> Matters are also complicated when his rival in the Green is revealed to be his brother, now known as the Hadera. who believed he should have been the Avatar in place of his brother, having stronger [[environmentalist]] ideals. but falls towards using [[eco-terrorism]] to punish humanity for their crimes against nature.<ref name=":022" /> Conflict later escalates when Prescot Industries' interest in Levi as Swamp Thing results in them hiring Jason Woodrue, whose actions resurrects Levi's initial adversary, the Wanderer.<ref>{{Cite book |last=V |first=Ram |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rtqQEAAAQBAJ |title=The Swamp Thing Volume 3: The Parliament of Gears |date=2023-02-07 |publisher=National Geographic Books |isbn=978-1-77952-025-8 |language=en}}</ref>

Levi and his predecessor (existing as an extension of Levi's power to recall Allec's incarnation) becomes involved in the [[Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths]] storyline, wherein they're among the supernatural-affiliated questioning the Great Darkness's actions, having believed it too grand to meddle with mere mortals and joined [[Justice League Dark]] to assist them.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Williamson |first=Joshua |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ftqQEAAAQBAJ |title=Dark Crisis |date=2023-06-20 |publisher=National Geographic Books |isbn=978-1-77951-853-8 |language=en}}</ref> With a team of superheroes, Levi helps investigate the Great Darkness's "corruption" and later lends his powers to Jon Kent to extract a machine revealed to be responsible for allowing the villain Pariah to manipulate a portion of the Great Darkness's power for his machinations.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Williamson |first1=Joshua |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0gwo0AEACAAJ |title=Tales from Dark Crisis |last2=Various |date=2024-06-18 |publisher=DC Comics |isbn=978-1-77952-519-2 |language=en}}</ref> In the aftermath of Dark Crisis, Levi helps the Titans regrow an area of a rainforest and is recruited into the Titans as a part-time member in order to balance his role as the Avatar of the Green while lending his expertise.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Taylor |first=Tom |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qc8m0AEACAAJ |title=Titans Vol. 1: Out of the Shadows |date=2024 |publisher=DC Comics |isbn=978-1-77952-512-3 |language=en}}</ref>