History Characters / GLGreenLanternCorpsEarthLanterns

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: He's a high-ranking member of the corps, has served as its leader and the captain of the honor guard, and is a definite ass-kicker.

* BadassAndBaby: The final arc of the ''Red Lanterns'' ongoing has him carry an oprhaned baby around while using his Red Lantern ring to try and absorb the remaining rage left in people Atrocitus infected with the red light.

* RetCanon: His animated incarnation, a gruff former Marine, proved so popular that his background and personality was retconned to match. Previously he was said to be a civilian architect. It was later established that he ''was'' a Marine, but became an architect.

* InterspeciesRomance: With Katma Tui and, later, Merayn, then eventually Fatality. See a pattern? It carried into the animated series, too, with Hawkgirl.

* DisneyDeath: He seemingly dies during ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'' and almost became a Black Lantern before Munk of the Indigo Tribe did his best to fend off the incoming black rings and Soranik Natu and Star Sapphire Miri Riam succeeded in resuscitating Kyle.

* FieryRedhead: Extremely fiery redhead.

* {{Jerkass}}: His personality in the '80s.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: His current personality, after a few years of CharacterDevelopment. Most prevalent when involving a dire threat to his closest friends, the Corps, or Ice.

* OurAncestorsAreSuperheroes: During the 90s, Guy discovered he was the descendant of a near extinct race of alien warriors called the Vuldarians. After drinking from a chalice meant for him, Guy unlocked the powers of his ancestors, which consists of super strength, flight, accelerated healing and [[ShapeshifterWeapon the ability to morph his body into various weapons]]. These powers went into remission after he became a Green Lantern again.

* RedIsViolent: He's not evil, but he is a FieryRedhead who also is impulsive and sometimes has a violent nature, especially in the beginning. Then for the ''Blackest Night'' event and onwards, he becomes a Red Lantern, first against his will and later controlling it by the ''War of the Green Lanterns'' saga.

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* EvilUncle: His first team up with Connor Hawke had his uncle Zachary [[FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo pose as his missing father Aaron]] to manipulate Kyle into assisting in a domestic terrorism plot. [[DeathbedConfession Zachary Rayner doesn't reveal the truth to his nephew until the scheme is thwarted and he is nearly dead]].

* EvilUncle: His first team up with Connor Hawke had his uncle Zachary [[FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo pose as his missing father Aaron]] to manipulate Kyle into assisting in a domestic terrorism plot. Zachary Rayner doesn't reveal the truth to his nephew until the scheme is thwarted and he is nearly dead.

* LastOfHisKind: His initial gimmick was that he was the last active Green Lantern after Hal decimated the Corps as Parallax. After a few unsuccessful attempts at re-forming the Green Lantern Corps on his terms and giving Jade her own power ring a couple of times during a period where she lost her powers, Kyle would no longer be the last Green Lantern when the Corps was finally re-formed during Geoff Johns' run.

* LastOfHisKind: His initial gimmick was that he was the last active Green Lantern after Hal decimated the Corps as Parallax. After a few unsuccessful attempts at re-forming the Green Lantern Corps on his terms, Kyle would no longer be the last Green Lantern when the Corps was finally re-formed during Geoff Johns' run.

* ItsNotPornItsArt: He used to date [[ComicBook/WonderGirl Donna Troy]]. They broke up when she caught him sketching a woman who lived in his building. Topless.

* LastOfHisKind: Until the Corps got reformed.

* BreakoutCharacter: DownplayedTrope, as most non-comic incarnations of the character change her personality and/or ignore her backstory, but she has appeared in several animated projects and video games since her introduction in the late 2010s, to the point that she's had more such appearances than a number of pre-existing Green Lanterns; especially her canonical partner Simon, who has yet to appear in any adaptation at all.

* BecomingTheMask: During the battle against Magone and his alien cohorts, one of the Green Lanterns fighting the group went down and Hal passed his ring on to Vicker, deputizing him as a temporary Green Lantern. Vicker acquitted himself so well with the ring that the Guardians of the Universe took notice and offered to make his appointment permanent.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHumanoid: Although he did his duties as a Lantern, the aliens of his sector (1200 light-years from Earth) were too strange-looking for him to feel any affection for. The fact that many of them seemed to be isolationist and ungrateful didn't exactly help. But after he saved one insectoid race whose planet was breaking up from internal stresses, the gratitude they showed him--in particular a mother who let him hold the baby he'd saved--make him [[JerkassRealization realize]] what a heel he was being.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Although he did his duties as a Lantern, the aliens of his sector (1200 light-years from Earth) were too strange for him to feel any affection for. The fact that many of them seemed to be isolationist and ungrateful didn't exactly help. But after he saved one race whose planet was breaking up from internal stresses, the gratitude they showed him--in particular a mother who let him hold the baby he'd saved--make him [[JerkassRealization realize]] what a heel he was being.

* ButIPlayOneOnTV: Charles hit it big after taking on the role of Green Lantern on TV. Magone showed up on set under the impression that he was actually the ''real'' Green Lantern and killed his brother (who was standing in for him) instead.

* HeroicSacrifice: Following the destruction of the Green Lantern Corps at the hands of Parallax-Hal Jordan, he joins John Stewarts Darkstars and was killed in battle against Grayven, son of Darkseid.

* BerserkButton: Hal Jordan. There's no one Guy hates more in the JLI comic and that's saying a lot. However, after a few years of CharacterDevelopment to modern times Guy has become a JerkWithAHeartOfGold instead of the {{Jerkass}} he used to be and because of all of the things the Earth Lanterns have gone through, they all consider each other FireForgedFriends. Now Guy's relationship with Hal is more VitriolicBestBuds.

* BreakoutCharacter: DownplayedTrope, but she has appeared in several animated projects and video games since her relatively recent introduction, to the point she's appeared more in animation than some of the previous Green Lanterns, especially compared to her canonical partner Simon, who has yet to appear in any adaptation at all.

* AffirmativeActionLegacy: To two legacies - Power Ring and Green Lantern.