Editing Swamp Thing (section)

== Powers and abilities ==

=== Alec Holland's powers and abilities ===
{{See also|Alec Holland}}
An Avatar of the Green, Alec as Swamp Thing possess the power to control the aforementioned "Green", cosmic energies in which animates all plant life in the known universe and is often the living embodiment of it, possesses various powers: being capable of inhabiting and animating vegetable matter at will, including those with alien origin,<ref>{{cite comic |date=September 1985 |title=[[DC Comics Presents]] |story=The Jungle Line |issue=#85 |writer=[[Alan Moore|Moore, Alan]] |penciller=[[Rick Veitch|Veitch, Rick]] |inker=[[Al Williamson|Williamson, Al]]}}</ref> and move towards places wherever there's life.<ref name=":1" /> Swamp Thing also possesses various esoteric abilities, including able to change size and shape with control over the vegetable matter within their given body and can even travel through time,<ref name=":1" /> superhuman strength,<ref name=":1" /> and other attributes capable of contending with powerful adversaries of great strength and also possesses regenerative powers.<ref name=":1" />

=== Levi Kamei's powers and abilities ===
Levi possess all the powers of the original Swamp Thing, with his body composed of vegetable matter and possessing superhuman strength, size changing abilities, and possess control over plant-life, in which also enables him to transfer his consciousness and become functionally immortal.<ref name=":12">{{Cite book |last=DK |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3-sEEQAAQBAJ |title=DC Ultimate Character Guide New Edition |date=2024-11-05 |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-593-96469-9 |language=en}}</ref> Like other past versions of the character, these abilities stem from his status as Avatar of the Green and controlling the cosmic force that animates all plant-life known also as the "Green".<ref name=":13">{{Cite book |last1=Manning |first1=Matthew K. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q2k0EAAAQBAJ |title=The DC Comics Encyclopedia New Edition |last2=Wiacek |first2=Stephen |last3=Scott |first3=Melanie |last4=Jones |first4=Nick |last5=Walker |first5=Landry Q. |date=2021-07-06 |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-7440-5301-2 |language=en}}</ref> Unique to him, he can shift between both his human form and Swamp Thing form.<ref name=":12" /> 

Kamei is also a gifted scientist knowledgeable in biology and botany; his abilities coupled with his advance knowledge enables him to adopt various chemical compositions of other flora for an advantage (i.e having resistance against heavy metal toxicity  by adapting chemical compositions from [[pycnandra acuminata]]).<ref name=":03">{{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>

=== Weaknesses ===
Swamp Thing is susceptible to chemical compounds which typically prove disastrous to plant-life, making him capable of being poisoned. His powers can be impaired or completely disrupted if his connection to the Green is also cut off by mystical or scientific applications.