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DC Universe’sSwamp Thinghas premise the force known as The Rot into the series ' mythology . While not identify by name in " He Speaks " , The Rot is advert in the episode 3 sum-up on the DC Universe website .
Swamp Thingepisode 3 opens with a dream sequence in which Alec Holland , the man who becameSwamp Thing , is confronted by Munson - a hired thug in the employ of industrialist Avery Sunderland , whom Swamp Thing had killed in the former episode . While Holland is apologetic , Munson is enraged by Holland ’s fellow feeling and declares that he is going to come back and obliterate him . We then see Munson ’s corpse in the swampland being surrounded by flies and cockroaches , as his handwriting start to twinge . While the precise meaning of this was lose to some viewer , longtime fans of theSwamp Thingcomics will directly recognize this as a citation to The Rot , which revive corpses into snake god with swarms of vermin .
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The Rot is a relatively newfangled entry into the mythology of theDC Comicsuniverse . First appear inAnimal Man # 1 in November of 2011 as part of theNew 52 resurgence , The Rot is a force play consort with decay and dying , which attempt to destroy all living . The Rot stands oppose to The Red , which colligate all the animal life sentence on Earth together , and The Green , which does the same for plant life . In the comic rill , the hero Animal Man calls upon the world power of The Red to replicate the power of animate being , much as Swamp Thing draw upon The Green to control the animal around him and transubstantiate his body to take on aspects of finical plant life . The two poor boy joined together to fight an uprising in The Rot in a crossover event calledRotworld .
The latter one-half of " He Speaks " get word Swamp Thing saving Dr. Abby Arcane from Munson when the zombi spirit threatens her while she is explore Alec Holland ’s lab . After knocking Munson to the reason , Swamp Thing seems to recall his dreaming vision and , rather than destroying Munson , just recite something within the stiff to " release him . " For some grounds , the revivify force complies , and Munson ’s body resolve into a flock of disgusting dirt ball . With the threat passed , Abby has her first chance to speak to the brute that has relieve her life twice and sustain that he was Dr. Alec Holland .
It is intemperate to say just how The Rot may manifest in futureepisodes ofSwamp Thingor how it may already be connected to the strange dimension of the swamps surrounding Marais , Louisiana . It might have something to do with the dreams Maria Sunderland continues to have about her deceased daughter , Shawna . It could also be connected to the degenerative mentality disease infecting Dr. Jason Woodrue ’s married woman , Caroline , which is pushing his inquiry into the swamp . The only thing that seems certain is that while it may persist hidden for now , The Rot will make itself know again .
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