Editing Swamp Thing (section)

=== Past incarnations ===
*'''Allan Hallman''': Alan Hallman was selected by the Parliament of Trees to be the planet's Earth elemental before Alec Holland became the Swamp Thing. He had been a scientist working on a formula to repair damaged crops when the Parliament chose him, and he died in flames, as all Earth elementals must. While traversing the Green, he was captured within a creature of the Grey, which broke him down and converted him into fungus and mold. He was recreated as an emissary of the Grey by Matango, who gathered Hallman's consciousness back together in his Chamber of Dreams. With Matango's return from [[Hell (DC Comics)|Hell]], Alan Hallman was released into the Green to find and capture the Swamp Thing and his daughter Tefé and force them to surrender their individuality to the Grey.

* '''Albert Höllerer''': Albert Hollerer is a German airplane pilot who fought in [[World War II]] and was shot down over a bog in 1942. In the wake of his death in which he was burned alive, he became the Swamp Thing of that era. For years, he walked the Earth, keeping a small airplane toy with him as the only memory of his former life. In 1954, the creature finally found peace among the Parliament of Trees.{{efn|This timeline corresponds with the fictional biography and dates of [[Hillman Periodicals]]' character [[Heap (comics)|The Heap]], published 1942–1953.}}

* '''Calbraith A. H. Rodgers:''' Calbraith A. H. Rodgers was born in England in 1920. Ever since he was a boy, he had heard whispers from the leaves, the flowers and the trees that something great and terrible would be waiting for him on the other side. Afraid of what would be waiting for him on the other side of death, he enlisted in the [[Royal Air Force]] to try and escape the pull of the Green. On May 3, 1942, on his fourth mission as a pilot during [[World War II]], his plane was shot down. Landing in a swamp, the dying Rodgers felt the branches and petals reaching for him, delivering him to his new life as the protector of the Green. By fusing the man with the Green in the final moments of his life, the Swamp Thing was created.

* '''Lady Weeds:''' A predecessor of the Swamp Thing prior to avatars commonly adopting the "Swamp Thing" codename denoting their status. A [[Victorian era]] avatar active in the 1800s, she was known to be a particularly ruthless avatar who slayed all her rivals and managed to convince the Green to cease by first killing their latest rival who originated from Ireland before causing the [[Great Famine (Ireland)|Great Potato Famine]], a symbolic gesture of her power. Recognizing her strength, they cease pitting rivals against her in her time.