Swamp Thing is a delusional mangrove. Batman is just as crazy as the Joker. Dorothy Gale is a nymphomaniac.
No - Swamp Thing found out he wasn't Alec Holland, the man he thought he was...and still realized he was human and could love.
No - Batman proved that if one had the very worst of a really bad day, that one could still turn it around and do what was right and noble (and in doing that, realized that even the most broken, delusional genius who wallowed in his insanity, at the root of it all, was just someone who had a very worst bad day as well and couldn't get out from under it.
No - Dorthy Gale enjoys sex like a healthy adult who worked through her incestuous relationship with her father to realize that not every man had to measure up to the "great and powerful" who had a secret identity.
See - it's easy when you're not reductive!
(Kibitzer - re: LOST GIRLS is a bit of a difficult one - hard to love but amazing all the same if one goes along with it. Essentially, you have to accept the fact that Moore is deadly serious about it being pornography - not erotica - first and foremost, and if you can carry along with that there's lots of marvelous things to discover - including Melinda Gebbie's compact erotic art history lessons in the stylistic changes - that being said, it really is best read a chapter at a time, with stretches in between, or even the most wholly prurient soul finds themselves thinking "enough with the f**king already!" That having been said, one of the last lines spoken in German by the soldiers is one of my favorites "summing up of the worldview of the opposition" in any of his works
re: TOM STRONG - yes, it occurred to me that Moore's Tom Strong may be the only character who I could honestly believe would try to figure out how immense, unknowable Lovecraftian entities actually "thought" in an effort to communicate with them and get mankind's viewpoint across, instead of trying (and probably failing) to defeat them through a power struggle. Amazing character.)
"There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse if often closer to the truth.
Stories shape the world. They exist independently of people, and in places quite devoid of man, there may yet be mythologies."
Alan Moore