10 Things Everyone Always Gets Wrong About Green Lantern

[Music] Hal Jordan the most famous of all the Green Lanterns burst onto the scene in the Silver Age of comics back in showcase number 22 in 1959 since then the mythos surrounding him has erupted it into a full cosmic force known as the Green Lantern Corps while the green rings lingers have become one of the biggest DC franchises of all time with over 50 years of history there are plenty of misconceptions that surround the character his villains and his many many allies namely that he isn't CAC thanks 2011's Green Lantern movie but it's not all doom and gloom Green Lantern has a rich and compelling mythos and once you scratch meet the surface and look past all those misconceptions you'll understand why he's lauded as one of DC's greatest heroes so I'm you and this is what culture comics and here are 10 things everyone always gets wrong about Green Lantern number 10 how many human Green Lantern's there have been when the Green Lantern bran was recreative in the Silver Age it opened up a world of possibilities Hal Jordan may have been the one in this new continuity but over the years how would not be the only earthling inducted into the Justice League in the late 1960s Guy garner would become the backup Green Lance and whenever Hal Jordan wasn't able to do the cosmic policing following a power battery exploding in guy's face he was then replaced by Jon Stewart in the early 70s then after the whole Hal murders everybody storyline Carl Reiner became the only Green Lantern to create a new core and save the universe in the process after that there were no new human lanterns from earth until the new 52 which would introduce salmon bars as a new ring bearer finally it wasn't until 2014 that Earth's first female Green Lantern Jessica Cruise would join number nine once there are Lanson there always a lantern with so many lanterns running around it always comes as a shock to people that a few of those main lanterns have taken on different superhero identities over the years without their rings Hal Jordan after sacrificing his life would eventually become the new host for the spectre after the destruction of the Green Lantern Corps Jon Stewart would be I'm a highly decorated member of an offshoot of the London's known as the dark stars Guy Gardner became warrior a morphing supersuit hero after a trip the Amazon where he drank from the chalice of warrior water Karl Rana was even gifted the power of ion which basically has the entirety of the Green Lantern's abilities without needing to channel it through a ring while still tied to the Rings he was not bound by the core and did in fact call himself something different number 8 human lanterns don't have other jobs while becoming a Green Lantern means that the ring bearer becomes the protector for the space second or in many times the new job has very little to do with their chosen profession in life Hal Jordan was famously a test pilot before and during his ring slinging fun die Gardner was a social worker and they teach it for kids with disabilities the new 52 made him a Baltimore City police officer he also opened up warriors which is a superhero themed bother even franchised all the way to our Jon Stewart was a former Marine who was working as an architect before the ring chosen Kyle Rayner was an artist salmon bars was a career petty criminal though when the Green Lantern ring chooses him he's under questioning for possible terrorist acts Jessica Cruz is the odd one out since before being chosen she had locked herself in her house for about four years though we have seen some survivalist shine through in her character since number 7 only Earthlings become lanterns for sector two eight one four since earth is where all the protagonists of the green lands and titles hail from the fact that there have been several extraterrestrials acting as the guardians for that space sector tends to get lost in conversation the most prominent would be Hal Jordans predecessor Abin Sur the pink-skinned historian from the planet of Angora was a decorated member of the Green Lantern Corps before he crashed and died on earth before Abin Sur there were star core who thwarted traitor and his invasion of an Gaara where he would die and his ring would go to the air for mentioned Sur Laham was the spindly Cillian Lanson during the 17th century Yellin ger was a tenth century protector and it was his power battery that would collide with a fragment at the star heart to create Alan Scott's ring finally of note is g'nort who not only has the best Green Lantern main would also become a pretty brilliant comedic foil while trying to pass through his way into the ranks of the Justice League number six only Green Lantern's can wield the power ring outside of elfs world tails there is a natural assumption that once a ring has chosen its wearer no one else can actually use it so naturally here are a couple of examples when the idea was completely shattered Batman has on numerous occasions shown to be able to use his immense willpower to control a power ring the most notable or at least the most heartwarming it's after Hal Jordan returned from the dead and he decided to mend the troubled bridges between him and Bruce by letting the Dark Knight use his ring for a short period of time Green Arrow famously used the green ring too during green lantern rebirth to shoot an arrow construct at Sinestro to save Carl Reiner's life after Hal Jordan had given in to his fear finally we have Harley Quinn who took the ring from a knocked out how to save the earth from an alien invasion in the Holly team-up series little black book number 5 Hal Jordan was the first chronological Green Lantern the DC Universe has a strange timeline without Jordan being the first published member of the Green Lantern Corps from Earth but in his long history there have been stories about previous ring bearers from Earth the very first Green Lantern from Earth is John Lee a monk from China in 660 ad who is found worthy and then takes on some Chinese warlords in the three-issue storyline Green Lantern Dragon Lord then there was Waverly Seiya introduced in green lands and coarsely number 2 it was a pioneer during the westward expansion of the u.s. a broken man he would revitalize his own life with adventures as the Green Lantern finally there is Daniel young an ancestor to Hal Jordan who was a sheriff in the Old West during 1873 Abin Sur gave Daniel young the ring briefly as he healed after a particularly grueling battle Jung then used the ones in power to do some more enforcing before it returned to abadeer even if the stories are short and sweet they show that Howe was not the first core logical earth-based Lantern now before the powers of the ring the main power of the Green Lantern ring is to summon constructs that are only limited by the creator's willpower and imagination is another known power but there are so many more uses for the Rings that most fans won't be familiar with the everyday uses of the Ring include life support and personal shields to travel through space acting as a universal translator and as a vast encyclopedia of the entire galaxy the ring has also been able to create hard light versions of minerals such as kryptonite to stop rampage in Kryptonians number three Alan Scott isn't a member of the Green Lantern Corps pal Jordan was a legacy character in name only Alan Scott was a golden age character not linked in any sort to the space cob but then the grand multiverse began to take shape in Green Lantern vol 2 number 40 Alan Scott travels to earth once again answers from Hal Jordan when his own dream begins to act in a similar manner to house this is when the massive exposition about the origins of the garden to the universe comes about and how one of them Crona caused all the evils of the universe by viewing the beginning of creation by the end of the issue Alan Scott was given honorary status as a member of the Green Lantern Corps the link between Scott and the Corps doesn't end there however Scott's ring is a special fusion of the mysterious star heart and the Green Lantern ring of your Lander this means that while his green flame may be unique and that it can't work on wood it is still a part of the Lantern mythos number 2 Karl Raina was the only GL with a traumatic love life Hal Jordans primary love interest Carol Farris has been a constant flux of love and hate with her position as a star sapphire similarly Jillian Pearlman a fellow pilots would become a star sapphire and battle with Hal on numerous occasions then there's a riskier Rob an alien girl who was a 14 year old and an 18 year olds body that Hal dated for a time sorry about that just my brain undergo five different aneurysms at once because holy crap that is bad anyhow guy gardeners first love Kari limbo would actually become engaged to Hal Jordan while guy was presumed dead that is until she was killed in the decimation of Coast City Jon Stewart would then marry Kat Mar to a green lantern from Caraga until she was killed by Star Sapphire to prove a point to Hal Jordan death everywhere why number one Green Lantern cannot affect the color yellow this silvery tip bit is still passed around as though it is common knowledge despite it being somewhat outdated while the Silver Age did create a full can't work on yellow limitation as a means to nerve that you the power that comes of being able to create constructs and very little limits it changed with the times the first change was the cause of this limitation being a yellow flaw in the central battery on our meaning every ring that drew from the main power source would have that issue the gradual shift away from that absolute rule began with Hal Jordan overcoming the yellow barrier by true show of willpower it then became an almost rite of graduation that Lanson couldn't become a fully fledged member until they proved they could overcome it this rule was outright eliminated when Hal Jordan went insane killing most of the Green Lantern's and absorbing the central power battery into himself freeing the fear entity known as parallax it was a bit convoluted due to the story at the time but without the evil entity trout in the battery it totally erased the yellow limitation from the Green Lantern Corps

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Published: Thu Apr 11 2019