Alexandra DeWitt

Alexandra DeWitt is introduced in Green Lantern vol. 3, #48 (January 1994) as Kyle Rayner's girlfriend and a newspaper photographer. In that issue Kyle returns home to find that Major Force has strangled Alex and stuffed her corpse in the refrigerator; her murder is presented as a domestic, plot-driven event rather than a supernatural origin. After her death, the character's image and remains are reused within DC continuity by various supernatural and narrative mechanisms (ring projections, alternate-reality constructs, and Black Lantern reanimation). The character and the manner of her disposal became a focal point in real-world critical discourse, inspiring the phrase "women in refrigerators" to describe a recurring narrative pattern where female characters are harmed to motivate male protagonists.

As presented in primary sources Alex is a living, non-powered human: Kyle Rayner's girlfriend and a photographer for a Los Angeles newspaper; no detailed physical description is provided in the supplied materials. Later on-panel presentations include: ring-created projections or constructs that portray her likeness (including an Alexandra-like Green Lantern construct in Green Lantern: Circle of Fire and a projection in Ion #3 linked to Mogo's power and Kyle's subconscious) and a Black Lantern form during the Blackest Night event, depicted as a reanimated corpse/black energy construct fashioned in her image. Visual specifics beyond these functional descriptions are not provided in the supplied notes.

As a living human, Alex possesses no superhuman abilities; she is an ordinary civilian and professional photographer. Abilities attributed to later manifestations are properties of the mechanisms that recreate her image rather than of Alex herself: ring-created constructs/projections can act with varying degrees of sentience depending on their source (e.g., a ring-created construct in Circle of Fire acting as a representation of Kyle's love), and the Black Lantern reanimation of her remains wielded Black Lantern powers—creating black-energy constructs (notably a refrigerator construct that trapped Kyle), attempting mental/psychic manipulation, and briefly taking control of Kyle's body to force traumatic reliving of her death. Those undead/construct behaviors are presented as powers of the Black Lantern/constructing forces rather than intrinsic powers of the original Alexandra.