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And, yeah, there were women (ah, yes, Adrienne Barbeau and Heather Locklear ) in those movies, but they weren't actually transformed into swamp things. And, Rachel's appearance and attire fits the profile of the unkempt environmentalist who gets caught and consumed by the pollution of the environment only to be transformed into its next superhero.



Rachel's situation reminds me of a story written about a woman who got lost in the woods and kept running into a creepy, old man who was the "steward of assisting lost souls," and per the "rules of the forest," he'd provide assistance for an appropriate payment, which in her case was an item of clothing per request. Along the way, she got stuck in quicksand and was slowly sinking to her doom. With her arms stuck and unable to trade an item of clothing for a request of urgent help, she promised him she'd do "anything" just before she went under. The man then pulled out his contract with the forest and did a transfer of duties to her as his replacement, with the fee of the transaction of responsibility being that of the person's soul. Upon tossing the contract into the quicksand and its consumption, the woman arose as the new steward. Well, here we have Rachel as the new Swamp Thing.