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** {{spoiler|In a recent issue, it is revealed that the Manhunters didn't go bad at all, but were reprogrammed by Krona to commit the massacre}}.

** {{spoiler|The Alpha Lanterns are a bit of a subversion. They never turn evil of their own volition, so far it's only been when under the control of an outside force (such as Cyborg Superman or Krona)}}.

* [[All Your Colors Combined]]: The ultimate objective of ''Blackest Night'' is to get all seven corps of the light of the emotion spectrum together to find their source and get the white light of creation recreated to finish off the Black Lantern Corps.

* [[All Your Colors Combined]]: The ultimate objective of ''[[Blackest Night]]'' is to get all seven corps of the light of the emotion spectrum together to find their source and get the white light of creation recreated to finish off the Black Lantern Corps.

* [[Ancient Astronauts]]: Earth's ''very first'' Green Lantern, a Chinese man named Jong Li, received his Power Ring during the Qin Dynasty (between 221 and 206 BC). Being a Chinese peasant living before the birth of Christ, Jong Li naturally thought the ring was a gift from the gods and his mission as a divine command.

* [[Angry Black Man]]: [[The Bronze Age of Comic Books|Bronze Age]] John Stewart. He cooled off thanks to later writers, becoming more contemplative, but he still has his moments.

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* [[Cats Are Mean]]: Red Lantern Dex-Starr, who's a blue house-cat, and like all of his Red Lantern fellas is full to the brim of murderous rage and red-hot plasma that annihilates everything it touches.

* [[The Cavalry]]: Sometimes things get too bad for one Lantern to handle. When they do, a call for help is made, and just in the nick of time any number of bright green dots will appear in the sky. It makes sense; they're effectively cops, so they would call for backup from time to time.

** Taken to extremes in ''Blackest Night'', where cavalries were called in from several whole Corps.

** Taken to extremes in ''[[Blackest Night]]'', where cavalries were called in from several whole Corps.

* [[Character Shilling]]: Widespread shilling for Kyle Rayner appeared when he replaced Hal Jordan.

* [[Chekhov's Boomerang]]: Sodam Yat was officially created by [[Alan Moore]] as part of a prophecy detailing the end of the Corps. It took around twenty-five years for him to make his official comic book debut. Mogo got a similar deal.

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** John Stewart is NOT dating Fatality, despite her borderline obsession with all things John Stewart; even BEFORE she was in the Star Sapphire Corps and still out to kill him she had no problem with stripping near nude/completely nude and grinding against his lap... while he HAD a girlfriend!

* [[Death by Origin Story]]: Abin Sur, the alien Lantern who gifted Hal with the ring.

* [[Death Is Cheap]]: Deconstructed in ''Blackest Night''. It turns out it was Nekron all along {{spoiler|that has been allowing heroes to return from the dead, which effectively makes them sleeper agents for his cause}}.

* [[Death Is Cheap]]: Deconstructed in ''[[Blackest Night]]''. It turns out it was Nekron all along {{spoiler|that has been allowing heroes to return from the dead, which effectively makes them sleeper agents for his cause}}.

** {{spoiler|But Hal one-ups his claim by affirming that, while Nekron ''did'' allow them another shot at living, it was him and his resurrected friends - like Superman and Green Arrow - who decided to accept a second chance, meaning they could as well refuse to come back and stay dead}}.

* [[Death Seeker]]: The Cyborg Superman was an astronaut named Hank Henshaw, whose consciousness was bonded with technology after a deep space catastrophe. Now, all he wants from life is for it to put him out of his misery.

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* [[Human Alien]]: Green Lanterns Sodom Yat (from Daxam) and Zale (from Bellatrix) look exactly like a Caucasian and African human respectively.

** In fairness this trope is [[Older Than Television]]. The Daxamites are actually the descendants of [[Superman|Kryptonians]], who have been human aliens since [[The Golden Age of Comic Books]].

* [[Humorless Aliens]]: The Guardians, so much that at the end of ''In Blackest Night'' (not [[Blackest Night|that one]]), we get this gem:

* [[Humorless Aliens]]: The Guardians, so much that at the end of ''[[Blackest Night]]'' (not [[Blackest Night|that one]]), we get this gem:

{{quote|...and four cycles later, in the recreation complex, Katma Tui realized that for the first time in many years' service, she had heard a Guardian make a joke. She felt vaguely uneasy for the rest of that day.}}

* [[Iconic Logo]]: It's varied from person to person over the years, but the one used by the Corps itself is the best known.