Alexandra DeWitt
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Alexandra DeWitt | |
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Publication information | |
Publisher | DC Comics |
First appearance | Green Lantern vol. 3, #48 (January 1994) |
Created by | Ron Marz Bill Willingham |
In-story information | |
Full name | Alexandra DeWitt |
Species | Human |
Place of origin | Earth |
Team affiliations | Black Lantern Corps |
Partnerships | Kyle Rayner |
Supporting character of | Kyle Rayner |
Alexandra DeWitt is a fictional character in the
Fictional character history
Time with Kyle Rayner
As a photographer for a newspaper in Los Angeles, Alex is annoyed by Kyle's somewhat immature attitude towards work. When Kyle reveals the new ring he has received, she is at first apprehensive, but she agrees to help Kyle train himself to use his new powers. Alex's time with Kyle is short-lived, however. Kyle returns home to find that Major Force has strangled Alex and stuffed her in the refrigerator. This drives Kyle to attack Major Force. During the battle, he nearly loses the ring when its charge runs out, but Major Force reveals that the 'green rock' in his possession is a power lantern that recharges the ring.[2]
After death
In Kyle's first encounter with
A different version of Alex is found in the story arc "Green Lantern: Circle of Fire", where Kyle summons six different versions of Green Lantern to help him fight off a villain named Oblivion. One of these Green Lanterns is Alexandra DeWitt, who was believed to be from an alternate reality where she rather than Kyle acquired the ring, but she was later revealed to be a sentient construct of Kyle's ring representing Kyle's positive aspect for love.
Another version of Alex appeared by Ion #3, as one of the projections made from Mogo's power and Kyle's own subconscious.
Woman in Refrigerator syndrome
Because of the brutal manner in which Alex is killed, and because of the different 'significant others' of superheroes that are constantly in danger of being killed, women in the series who are killed in a particularly violent manner, to further a male hero's story, are said to have suffered from the
Alexandra was reimagined as Samantha Dean in The Refrigerator Monologues.[6]
See also
References
- ^ The Fanzig Challenge by Michael Condon, October 2002, retrieved January 11, 2006.
- ^ Green Lantern (vol. 3) #54
- ^ Green Lantern Corps (vol. 2) #40 (September 2009)
- ^ Green Lantern Corps (vol. 2) #46 (March 2010)
- ^ The Fanzig Challenge Archived 2011-07-10 at the Wayback Machine by Michael Condon, October 2002. Retrieved January 11, 2006.
- ^ Johnson, Ross (7 June 2017). "A Guide to the Comic Book Wives and Girlfriends Who Inspired the Refrigerator Monologues". Archived from the original on 21 October 2020. Retrieved 7 January 2024.