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** And according to the modern take on the [[Legion of Super Heroes]], {{spoiler|Sodom Yat will be the last Green Lantern in the 31st Century}}.

* [[Lawful Stupid]]: The Guardians occasionally cross into this realm.

* [[Light Is Not Good]]: Played straight with the Red Lantern Corps, Agent Orange, and the Sinestro Corps, who are all part of the light of the emotional spectrum.

** Almost ''none'' of the Corps are straight-up good guys. The Green Light is held by the Guardians, who have a reputation of causing as many problems as they solve. The Star Sapphires are getting better, but have a history of [[Love Makes You Crazy]]. The Indigo Tribe is believed to be largely made up of sociopaths who have to have emotions ''forced'' on them by the Indigo Light (and even if they're not they're creepily detached anyway). Only the Blue Lanterns haven't made any dick moves so far, but they're also shown to be utterly ineffectual without piggybacking on another light.

* [[New Powers As the Plot Demands]]: In [[The Silver Age of Comic Books]].

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: To quote [[The Spoony Experiment (Web Video)|Spoony]], so much of the Corps' problems can actually be pinned as the Guardians's fault.

** Also, Jack T. Chance, whom Hal describes as "being reprimanded more than Guy Gardner".

* [[Non-Mammal Mammaries]]: Occurs with a considerable frequency and in many alien races. Particularly notable in the case of the Guardians and the Zamarons. Both are descended from the Maltusian race, which may have been the first sentient organic race in the universe. The Guardians were originally the males of the race, and the Zamarons the females (although this has since been retconned somewhat). The [[One-Gender Race|two split up billions of years ago]]. In that time, both have individually diverged physically. The Guardians, who pretty much fly at all times, have become small and possess very short legs, much as one would expect. But the Zamarons, who have not borne any children in aeons, still have fairly impressive cleavage. This is all the more striking when one considers that the new female Guardians are barely distinguishable from the males.

* [[The Paragon Always Rebels]]: Sinestro. Hal pre [[Retcon]].

* [[Phlebotinum Battery]]: A Green Lantern ring is charged by a lantern connected to the central battery on Oa. The ring has a limited power life span and they have to recharge it every so often (the exact time changes based on the continuity).

* [[Psychic Surgery]]: Star Sapphires can heal two lovers this way.

* [[The Psycho Rangers]]: The Sinestro Corps.

* [[Shell-Shocked Veteran]]: The Green Lantern Vath Sarn seems to show some signs of PTSD, more-so than his partner, and fellow veteran from the Rann-Thanagar War, Isamot Kol.

** Vath discovered his greatest fear through Mother Mercy: the planet Rann without war or strife, rendering soldiers like Vath redundant. He was drawn holding a gun to his head, about to kill himself because he felt he had no other use.

** During Kyle's tenure on the Green Lantern series, a lot of his constructions were shout outs to Anime, video games, and cartoons. He enjoyed making Mecha and on at least one occasion he made a [[Street Fighter|Chun Li]] [[Expy]].

** At one point in the DTV movie ''[[Green Lantern First Flight (Animation)|Green Lantern First Flight]]'', Hal performs an attack suspiciously similar to the [[Lensman]] [[Earthshattering Kaboom|"Nutcracker" maneuver]].

* [[Starfish Aliens]]: A few members of the Corps, most notably Dkrtzy RRR, a sentient ''mathematical equation''.

** One of the Sinestro Corps recruits was a literal one of these, a spawn of Starro. [[Word of God]] says Starro was not happy about this.

* [[The Starscream]]: Mongul of the Sinestro Corps. Subverted in that Sinestro had a backup plan in case of an insurrection or attempted leadership coup. It doesn't end well for Mongul.

** Sinestro himself has shades of this, claiming The Guardians were doing an insufficient job policing the universe.

* [[Stripperiffic]]: The uniforms of the Star Sapphire Corps. This applies across [[Non-Mammal Mammaries|all member species]].

** Carol herself finds this irritating. She may wonder why some of the others in her corps wear comparatively conservative Silver Age versions of the outfit. For example, Miri Riam wears a distinctly [[Raygun Gothic|"50's space girl"]] style costume, thus averting the [[All Women Are Lustful|somewhat naughty]] implications regarding Zamaron attitudes about the role of women in the universe. Unfortunately, and perhaps validated by their past histories, this may suggest something about the relationships that certain Star Sapphires such as [[Be a Whore To Get Your Man|Carol and Fatality]] have with the men in their lives.

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: The Guardians tend to dip into this trope more often than not.

** Thanks to Geoff Johns, Sinestro counts big time

* [[Women Are Wiser]]: The author's reason why the Star Sapphires are all female. Then again, the Sapphires use energies at the far end of the spectrum and are more likely to act crazy as a result.

* [[The Worf Effect]]: In [[Green Lantern]] Rebirth and The Sinestro Corp war, the first thing Sinestro does upon showing up is beat the hell out of Kyle Rayner, even on the latter occasion when Kyle has a huge power boost. This is done just to make Sinestro look badass.