Alexandra DeWitt

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character_name =Alex DeWitt
publisher =DC Comics
debut ="Green Lantern" vol. 3, #48
creators =Ron Marz
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full_name =Alexandra DeWitt
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supports=Kyle Rayner
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Alexandra 'Alex' DeWitt is the name of a fictional character in the Green Lantern comic series. She is the girlfriend of Kyle Rayner before he receives the Green Lantern power ring from Ganthet. She is best known, however, as the murder victim whose manner of disposal led Gail Simone to coin the phrase "Women in Refrigerators". [The Fanzig Challenge by Michael Condon, October 2002, retrieved January 11, 2006.] Alex DeWitt first appears with Kyle at the end of "Green Lantern" vol. 3, #48.

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. However, she agrees to help Kyle train himself to use his new powers. Alex's time with Kyle is shortlived, however. In "Green Lantern" vol. 3, #54, 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.

After death

In his first encounter with Hal Jordan as Parallax, Hal offers to resurrect Alex as part of his plan to recreate the universe. When Kyle moves to New York and joins the Titans, he falls asleep while watching the monitors and his ring makes a projection of Alex. Later, when the demon Neron attacks, he attempts to entice Kyle by offering to resurrect Alex. Kyle, having already rejected the same offer from Hal, similarly refuses Neron's offer. Finally, in a "Green Lantern Annual", Kyle and Hal's spirits are switched, so that Kyle's spirit is in Hal's body at the time in which Hal is debuting as Green Lantern, while Hal's spirit is occupying Kyle's body during the time in which Alex is still his girlfriend. Here, Major Force attacks Alex, but Hal is able to prevent him from killing her. However, when Kyle and Hal's souls are eventually returned to their respective bodies and they are back in the present, Alex is once again deceased.

A different version of Alex is found in the mini-series , 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.

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 are said to have suffered from the Woman in Refrigerator syndrome.

ee also

* Portrayal of Women in Comic Books
* Woman in Refrigerator syndrome

External links

* [http://lantern_light.tripod.com/54.htm Summary of Green Lantern #54]