Alexandra DeWitt
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Alexandra 'Alex' DeWitt is the name of a fictional character in the Green Lantern comic series. She was the girlfriend of Kyle Rayner before he receives the Green Lantern power ring from Ganthet. She first appears with Kyle at the end of Green Lantern vol. 3, #48.
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[edit] Fictional character history
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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 Circle Of Fire, where Kyle summons six different versions of Green Lantern to help him fight off Oblivion. One 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 subconcious.
[edit] 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.
