Green Lantern/Characters/Green Lantern Corps: Difference between revisions

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.

* [[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).

* [[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.

* [[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]]

{{quote|'''''KISS ME YOU RED BITCH!'''''}}

* [[Four-Temperament Ensemble]]: Choleric

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

* [[Hot-Blooded]]: Literally when he had a red lantern ring.

* [[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.

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.

* Graf Toren

* Iolande

** [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]

* Ke'Haan

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.

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 Ganthet, one of the only Guardians to not be a total jerk.

* [[Put on a Bus]]: Sayd voluntarily becomes the Guardian of Larfleeze's "Orange Lantern Corps," and hasn't been seen since, other than a handful of [[The Cameo|cameos.]]

=== Other Guardians ===

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]]