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'''Entity:''' Ion }}

 

[[Holy Hand Grenade|Beware my power]]--[[Light Is Good|Green Lantern's light!]]'' }}

 

The Green Lantern Corps was created by the immortal Guardians of the Universe to empower sentient species with sufficiently noble qualities to police their own sectors of space. Originally numbering 3600 members, this number was increased to 7200 after the Corps was restored. At first, the Green Lanterns were prohibited from killing, but the Guardians amended the Book of Oa during the Sinestro Corps War to allow for the killing of designated enemies. [[Sinestro]], a former Green Lantern, boasts that [[Xanatos Gambit|this was his primary goal in going to war with the Green Lanterns in the first place.]]

A Green Lantern's power ring enables its wearer to create constructs of any shape and size the wearer can imagine and maintain through willpower, as well as flight, a personal automatic force-field with contained native atmosphere, faster-than-light travel, communication with other Lanterns, automatic translation of any language known to the Oans, access to the Oan database, and scanning capabilities. Occasionally, Lanterns have been able to pull off more elaborate usages of the power, such as [[Mind Control]], phasing through solid objects, genetic or biological manipulation, and the creation of permanent objects.

 

 

* [[Badass Creed]]: See above, and they set the trend for every other Corps.

* [[Barrier Warrior]]: Most GLs prefer to fight this way, unless their imagination is particularly active.

* [[Heroic Spirit]]

* [[Order Reborn]]

* [[Space Police]]

== The Earth Lanterns ==

=== Green Lantern 2814.1: Hal Jordan ===

 

Both the most famed and most infamous Green Lantern, Hal Jordan was a California test pilot who was summoned to the site where Green Lantern Abin Sur had crashed. Abin bequeathed his ring and power battery to Jordan before dying. Training under both Kilowog and Sinestro, Jordan went on to become a famed hero on Earth and beyond, helped found the [[Justice League of America]], and rose to the top of the Green Lantern Corps. Sinestro, his traitorous former mentor, became his archnemesis.

* [[Dating Catwoman]]: With Carol Ferris.

* [[Fearless Fool]]: Was one prior to becoming a Lantern, and has his moments since then.

* [[Face Heel Turn]]: [[Brainwashed and Crazy|It wasn't his fault, though]].

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: With [[The Flash]] (the Barry Allen version).

* [[Interspecies Romance]]: With Arisia.

* [[Military Superhero]]: Part of his piloting career was in the Air Force, though that part's less integral to his character than John's history with the Marines. His ''New Frontier'' incarnation fits this the best.

* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: With Oliver Queen.

 

=== Green Lantern 2814.4: Kyle Rayner ===

 

Kyle Rayner, a struggling artist, was just an average young man until Ganthet, the last Guardian of the Universe, appeared to him in a back alley and handed him the last Green Lantern power ring. Kyle was charged with preserving the light of the Green Lantern Corps, and for years was the only Lantern remaining in the universe.

* [[The Determinator]]: Even among an entire group whose power is fueled by Determination, Kyle stands out.

* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Kyle seems to be subject to the most gratuitous and numerous butt-shots in any comic he's in. Considering he's a Lantern, that's a lot.

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: With Guy

* [[Hollywood Nerd]]: Kyle's a pop culture and Anime/Manga nerd, yet he still looks like a movie star.

* [[Interspecies Romance]]: With Soranik Natu.

* [[Jumped At the Call]]: More like performed a triple somersault at the call.

* [[Last of His Kind]]: until the Corps got re-formed.

* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]: Based on some of his constructs, the guy reads a ''lot'' of Shojou.

* [[Screw Destiny]]: Kyle experienced multiple futures over his early career that suggested that the Green Lantern Corps was never reformed. Then he helped to rebuild the Corps.

* [[Sequential Artist]]

* [[Stuffed Into the Fridge]]: [[Trope Namer]] of a sort, as it happened to his girlfriend.

 

=== Green Lantery 2814.2: Guy Gardner/The Warrior ===

 

 

After Jordan, affected by Parallax, destroyed the Green Lantern Corps, Guy briefly sought out the presumed-dead Sinestro's yellow power ring to continue fighting evil. Soon after, however, he learned that he possessed traces of alien DNA from a race of [[Ancient Astronauts]] called the Vuldarians, granting him the ability to form his body into any kind of weapon. During this time, Guy called himself Warrior.

 

 

He currently co-stars ''Green Lantern Corps'' with John Stewart.

* [[Alliterative Name]]

* [[Blood Knight]]: His official job is a galactic peacekeeper, but damn if he doesn't love a good fight when he has to get his hands dirty.

* [[Cowboy Cop]]: He's not big on rules.

* [[The Determinator]]

* [[Fiery Redhead]]

* [[Foe Yay]]: A bit with Bleez, of the Red Lantern Corps.

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: With Kyle.

* [[Jerkass]]: His personality in the '80s.

* [[Redheaded Hero]]

* [[Twin Threesome Fantasy]]: Guy tried one with two robot [[Catgirl|Catgirls]], only for them to fall for Salaak, the grumpy-no-fun-at-all guy who runs the Corps in place of the Guardians.

 

=== Green Lantern 2814.3: John Stewart ===

 

When Hal Jordan needed a backup and Guy Gardner was out of commission, the Guardians selected John Stewart, a fearless marine turned activist, to wield the emerald light. John used the ring to shed light on society's ills as well as fight evil across the universe. His light dimmed, however, when he failed to save a planet from destruction due to his own arrogance.

 

* [[Angry Black Man]]: His [[The Bronze Age of Comic Books|Bronze Age]] personality.

* [[Badass Bookworm]]: He's an architect in his day job.

* [[Dating Catwoman]]: With Fatality.

* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: He's able to out-snipe Bedovian.

* [[Interspecies Romance]]: With Katma Tui and, later, Merayn. See a pattern? (and while he may not be interested in Fatality, she certainly likes ''him''.) It carried into the cartoon, too...

* [[My Greatest Failure]]: Failing to prevent the destruction of the planet Xanshi.

* [[Scary Black Man]]: Generally an incredibly nice guy, but piss him off and watch that change.

 

== Other Green Lanterns ==

=== Abin Sur ===

 

Hal Jordan's immediate predecessor as Green Lantern of Space Sector 2814, Abin Sur served with great distinction for all his long years. During a mission to the ruins of the Empire of Tears, on the planet Ysmault, Abin was told the prophecy of the [[Blackest Night]] by the demon Qull of the Five Inversions. Abin took another of the Inversions, Atrocitus, in a spaceship to guide him toward a means to prevent the prophecy, but the demon escaped his bonds and mortally wounded Abin. The dying Green Lantern crashed on Earth, where he summoned Hal Jordan to be his replacement before passing on.

 

* [[Cassandra Truth]]: None of the Corps took his belief in the prophecies seriously.

* [[Paranoia Gambit]]: Used on him by Qull.

* [[Posthumous Character]]

 

=== Arisia Rrab ===

 

A gold-skinned, elf-like alien, Arisia Rrab was an adolescent when she joined the Green Lantern Corps (though due to her species' long lifespan, she was actually over 200 years old). She quickly developed a crush on Hal Jordan and the two started a relationship, which earned them some scorn due to their relative levels of maturity. She fought alongside him in the wars against Krona and Nekron. She moved to Earth to live with him, but broke up due to chaos that was engulfing the Corps at the time. After Hal became Parallax and the Corps disbanded, Arisia, now powerless, became a good friend of Guy Gardner.

 

 

* [[The Chick]]: Pre-resurrection.

** [[Action Girl]]: Post-resurrection. After [[Blackest Night]], she even ''punched a Guardian in the face for their stupidity''.

* [[Healing Factor]]: Only when triggered by massive trauma.

* [[Impossibly Low Neckline]]: Justified in that her costume is a ring construct.

* [[Legacy Hero]]: Uniquely among the Corps, the Green Lantern of her sector is effectively a hereditary title: Her grandfather was a Green Lantern, then her father, then her uncle, and now her. This is not a family to upset.

* [[Naive Newcomer]]

* [[Pointy Ears]]

 

=== Ch'p ===

 

One of the strangest Green Lanterns in the Corps, Ch'p resembled nothing so much as a two-foot-tall, anthropomorphic squirrel with overalls and a bowtie. Ch'p had his share of adventures on his home planet of H'lven, mostly against his archnemesis Doctor Ub'x. Ch'p met his tragic end while aiding John Stewart in protecting the Mosaic planet, when he was run over by a yellow truck. Ch'p is succeeded by his fellow H'lvenite, B'dg.

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Doctor Ub'x eventually gave up his evil ways and became Ch'p's best friend.

* [[Odd Couple]]: With Salaak.

 

=== Galius Zed ===

 

* [[Cephalothorax]]

 

=== G'nort ===

 

G'nort Esplanade Gneemascher was a doglike alien buffoon who was given a fake Green Lantern ring by the Weaponers of Qward in an attempt to discredit the Corps. However, G'nort showed courage in defeating the Qwardians, so he was nominated for membership in the Green Lantern Corps by Guy Gardner. However, he mainly just hung out on Earth with Justice League International, before getting shipped off to Antarctica by the JLI's leader, Max Lord, to keep him out of their hair. He hasn't been seen much since.

 

=== "Green Man" ===

 

"Green Man" is the name given to Green Lanterns from Uxor; who do not have names themselves because Uxorians frown on individuality. The original Green Man was one who attempted to assert himself as an individual before becoming a Lantern; he was later expelled from the Corps for enlisting help from the Omega Men, and went on to join the Omega Men himself before dying in the line of duty. The second Green Man was recruited in the recent rebuilding of the Corps, and quickly formed a close friendship with the robotic Lantern Stel. He eventually became part of the cyborg Alpha Lantern Corps.

 

=== Hannu ===

 

Hannu hails from a race of rocky warriors who pride themselves on their personal strength, considering it shameful to use weapons. As such, Hannu never uses his ring beyond basic flight and protection; so far, the only enemy threatening enough to have Hannu use it offensively is the Anti-Monitor.

 

=== Isamot Kol ===

 

 

* [[Determinator]]: All GLs are this, but Isamot deserves a special mention from the [[New 52]] series. Long story short: the Corps are fighting enemies who can nullify GL powers and have a penchant for dismembering GLs. Isamot gets stuck on a planet full of them. Alone. He makes it back, [[Handicapped Badass|all four limbs cut off]], fighting off an ENTIRE ARMY OF THEM. With his ring. On his tongue.

* [[Good Thing You Can Heal]]: To the point that when Vath lost his legs in the [[Blackest Night]], Isamot volunteered to have ''his own'' amputated and transplanted.

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: with Rannian Vath Sarn.

 

=== Jack T. Chance ===

 

''Yowza.'' }}

 

Jack was presumed killed by Parallax on his rampage possessing Hal Jordan, but he survived the fight--only to be imprisoned by the Manhunters. Jordan rescued him years later, but Chance was murdered not long after in another fight with Parallax during the [[Sinestro Corps War]].

 

* [[Badass Longcoat]]

* [[Expy]]: Jack was practically [[Lobo]] with a power ring. Of course, he would have to fight the REAL Lobo.

* [[Good Is Not Nice]]

* [[Not Wearing Tights]]: He avoids wearing a Lantern uniform entirely.

* [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]]: Defied. When Jack found out the rings have this limitation, he started using it to soften enemies up for a gunshot.

 

=== Katma Tui ===

 

Sinestro's successor as Green Lantern of Sector 1417, Katma Tui led a rebellion against her tyrannical predecessor and was chosen by the Guardians to be his replacement. However, because the Green Lantern had become a symbol of oppression on Korugar, Tui was shunned by her people, who named her "the Lost".

* [[Interspecies Romance]]: With John Stewart.

* [[La Résistance]]: Leader of, against Sinestro.

* [[Sexy Mentor]]: She trained John. This even made it into the cartoon.

* [[Stuffed Into the Fridge]]

 

=== Kilowog ===

 

 

After the horror he faced in the [[Blackest Night]], Kilowog decided to step down as drill instructor and go back to active duty as a rank-and-file Green Lantern. He passed the DI torch to his old comrade, Stel.

 

* [[Badass]]: Can fight Superman to a draw. ''Without his ring.''

** Don't forget Arkillo, who was able to hold his own against friggin' Mongul II in a fistfight.

 

=== Laira Omoto ===

 

Laira is an extremely skilled martial artist, trained by her father Kentor (himself a Green Lantern) until he went missing and she was named his successor. Tragically, her first mission involved going against her father, who had secretly returned to their home planet and overthrown its government. She continued her training under Lantern Ke'Haan; they would grew close, fueling rumors throughout the Corps, but neither dared act on their affections because Ke'Haan was married.

After Ke'Haan was killed in the [[Sinestro Corps War]], Laira thoroughly embraced her new authorization to use lethal force, ultimately striking down Amon Sur even though he had surrendered. Despite her protests, the other Lanterns and the Guardians denounced it as murder and kicked her out of the Corps. A Red Power Ring soon noticed her fury and made her a Red Lantern; Hal would later try to talk her down during a fight with the Reds, but Sinestro killed her just as Hal started getting through.

 

* [[Leotard of Power]]

* [[Planet of Hats]] [[Land of Dragons|Dragons]]: Jayd, making Laira herself a [[Dragon Lady]].

* [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]]

 

=== Mogo ===

 

Without a doubt the most powerful Green Lantern in the entire Corps, Mogo is ancient, wise, and nearly unstoppable in combat. The reason for this is simple: ''Mogo is a planet'' (he uses his foliage to present his Lantern Corps symbol). His history has never been revealed, and if anyone knows how a sentient planet came into being, they're not talking. Alone among Green Lanterns, Mogo can create energy constructs of any color, indistinguishable from "real" objects or people.

 

=== The Puffball Collective ===

 

A collective entity comprised of billions of tiny "puffballs", each wielding the power of a Green Lantern ring. The Collective's sector, 1287, is considered one of the safest in the Galaxy because it is patrolled by billions of individual Green Lanterns, all of whom make up one individual.

 

=== Rond Vidar ===

 

A Green Lantern from the distant future and last member of the Corps in the 31st century. Rond Vidar was the son of the renegade Lantern Universo and even before he was inducted into the Corps, he devoted himself to fighting his father and righting his wrongs. As a teenager, Vidar was a genius inventor of time-travel technology, which he used to aid his century's greatest super-team, the [[Legion of Super-Heroes]]. As a Green Lantern, he joined their number.

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]

* [[The Professor]]: The non-GL version from the '90s Legion.

* [[Teen Genius]]

 

=== Rot Lop Fan/F-Sharp Bell ===

 

''Beware my power--the F-Sharp Bell!'' }}

 

 

=== Salaak ===

 

Salaak is a pessimistic, four-armed alien who serves as the Keeper of the Book of Oa and personal majordomo to the Guardians of the Universe. Despite his ill-tempered nature, Salaak has a heart of gold and always sides with what's right (as long as he can do so without breaking any rules).

* [[Odd Couple]]: He was good friends with Ch'p, a wacky squirrel-like Lantern.

* [[The Other Darrin]]: In-story -- he once got sucked into the role of "Pol Manning", the identity created for a brainwashed Hal Jordan when he was [[Summon Everyman Hero|summoned into the 58th century every now and then]]. The love interest was included -- they brainwashed her so she didn't notice the difference.

* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: The main reason Hal and Guy haven't been drummed out of the Corps could very well be that Salaak keeps smoothing things over with the higher-ups.

 

=== Sodam Yat ===

 

Called by some the ultimate Green Lantern, Sodam Yat combines the power of Ion with the natural abilities of a Daxamite--a splinter race of the [[Superman|Kryptonians]]. Born on Daxam, a planet under a red sun with a xenophobic, fascist government, Sodam was horrified when a stranded alien whom he had befriended was murdered by his people. He built his own spaceship to abandon his world, only to be sought out by a Green Lantern ring as he finished. During the [[Sinestro Corps War]], Sodam was chosen by the Guardians to bond with the Ion Entity, but in a battle with Superboy-Prime, Sodam was fatally poisoned by lead, forcing him to wear his power ring at all times. Soon afterward, he reluctantly returned to Daxam to drive off an invasion by the Sinestro Corps, plunging into its sun and using the Ion power to turn it yellow and empower the Daxamites.

 

* [[Defector From Decadence]]

* [[Messianic Archetype]]

* [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much]]: His people are major xenophobes.

 

=== Soranik Natu ===

 

The latest Lantern from Korugar, succeeding Katma Tui and Sinestro before her. A young surgeon, the ring came to her in the middle of an operation, and desperate to save her patient's life she accepted the ring in spite of Korugar's hatred for the Green Lanterns. After some time to realize that not all Green Lanterns are like Sinestro, she joined the Lanterns permanently and has worked tirelessly in both roles as healer and peacekeeper ever since.

* [[Combat Medic]]

* [[Interspecies Romance]]: With Kyle Rayner.

* [[Messianic Archetype]]: Korugar is starting to see her as one. She tries to fight it at every turn.

* [[Villain Takes an Interest]]

 

=== Stel ===

 

A sentient robot from the planet Granda, Stel may have a heart of cold metal, but his devotion to justice burns as brightly as any other Green Lantern. He's been destroyed at least twice--by the bounty hunter Fatality, then by an Orange Lantern--but each time he's been rebuilt to continue his fight. After Kilowog stepped down as Corps drill instructor, he left the position in Stel's capable hands.

 

=== Tomar-Re ===

 

 

* [[Badass Bookworm]]: He's the Keeper of the Book of Oa - in essence, the Corps librarian.

* Graf Toren

* Iolande

** [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]

* Ke'Haan

 

== The Guardians Of The Universe ==

 

The founders and upper management of the Green Lantern Corps. Originally from the planet Maltus, one of their scientists performed an experiment to observe the beginning of creation, which had dire consequences for the universe (just ''which'' consequences depends on which [[Cosmic Retcon|Cosmic Retcons]] have occurred). In atonement, the Maltusians swore to fight evil, and moved to the planet Oa at the geographical (cosmographical?) center of the universe. In studying energy sources for their new police corps, they began harnessing emotional energies, before settling on the green light of willpower as it was least likely to drop an [[Emotion Bomb]] on its users.

 

 

* [[All Powerful Bystander]]

* [[Enigmatic Empowering Entity]]

** [[Faux Empowering Entity]]: Accused of this in-universe and out.

* [[Humorless Aliens]]

* [[Knight Templar]]: They edged closer and closer to this since the Corps' rebirth before fully embracing it in the [[New 52]].

* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: The males of the species all look remarkably like midget blue versions of David Ben Gurion, first prime minister of Israel.

* [[Not So Stoic]]: Sometimes their facade of emotionlessness cracks, if only briefly.

* [[Planet of Hats]]

* [[Proud Scholar Race Guy]]

* [[Space Elves]]

* [[The Spock]]

* [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien]]

Ganthet was the only Guardian of the Universe to survive Hal Jordan's rampage as Parallax, but even before then, he began to assert his individuality by giving himself a name, something forbidden among the Guardians. Ganthet continued the Corps' legacy by recruiting Kyle Rayner, but after the Corps was reformed, he found himself shunned by the rest of the now-revived Guardians for embracing emotion. Ganthet and another renegade Guardian, Sayd, left the Guardians to form the Blue Lantern Corps, but in the wake of the [[Blackest Night]], Ganthet has returned to the Corps--not as a Guardian but as a Green Lantern himself--with the aim of bringing humility to the rest of the Oans. Sadly, the other Guardians eventually got sick of this and lobotomized him to bring him in line.

 

** He was around when the Green Lantern Corps was formed. That was ''billions'' of years ago.

* [[Cool Old Guy]]

* [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much]]: Along with Sayd, one of the only Guardians to not be a total jerk.

** To the point that it borders on [[Only Sane Man]].

* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]

 

 

* [[Distaff Counterpart]]: To Ganthet.

* [[I Gave My Word]]: Keeps her promise to become Larfleeze's Guardian, despite everyone's protests.

* [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much]]: Along with Ganthet, one of the only Guardians to not be a total jerk.

 

=== Other Guardians ===

* Appa Ali Apsa, aka "The Mad Guardian"

* Pazu Pinder Pol

 

 

== The Green Light ==

 

=== The Emerald Eye of Ekron ===

 

The origins of the mystic artifact known as the Emerald Eye are shrouded in mystery. It appears to be the right eye of a [[Cosmic Entity]] named Ekron, whose decapitated head eventually served a member of the Green Lantern Corps as a spacecraft. The Eye itself was removed from the Head of Ekron ages ago and kept locked up on Oa for an unknown period of time. The green energy it uses appears to be similar to that wielded by the Green Lanterns; some sources claim it is an early design of the green power rings.

The Eye has had countless wielders over the ages (and in various timelines), including Gavyn Bek of L.E.G.I.O.N., [[Lobo]], Leland McCauley, Sarya of Venegar, Cera Kesh, Ingria Olav, and Salu Digby of the [[Legion of Super-Heroes]]; the last four each took the title of "Emerald Empress". In most cases, the Eye subverts its wielder's mind, turning her into a power-mad despot. The Eye grants almost limitless power, even more than the power rings--almost on par with the Guardians themselves.

 

* [[Evil Eye]]

* [[Eye Beams]]

 

=== Ion ===

 

The Willpower Entity--the living embodiment of the Green Light, given life and strength from the willpower of every sentient being. Ion was the very first living creature in all the universe, whose will to live kindled the emotional spectrum, propelling the humble creature into near-godhood. Billions of years later, the Guardians of the Universe learned to tap into Ion's power, and the Green Lantern Corps was born.

 

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