History Characters / GreenLantern1941

* TheMole: For the FBI within the Injustice Society.

* GreenThumb: She could control plants, thanks to the sap she was exposed to.

* MayDecemberRomance: After he was youthened to twenty-five, with his wife remaining around sixty-five.

* RetCon: In-universe. After the Crisis on Infinite Earths, he was swapped in for the the now-RetGone Golden Age Superman when it came to previously-documented adventures. (Specifically, the [[PowerCreepPowerSeep later, more powerful version]]. Iron Munro was meant to replace the earlier version).

* RaceLift: In Jimmy's original appearance he had textured black hair and a skin tone similar to Alan's, when he was shown in a comic in 1987 he was depicted as a white man with brown hair, in the ComicBook/PostCrisis continuity he as African American, and in the ComicBook/DCRebirth continutity he's a white man with brown hair again.

Rose Canton was a Golden Age Flash villain with a split personality. Her good side (Rose) was a mild-mannered botanist, but her evil side (Thorn) was a psychotic criminal with the power to control plants. She marry Alan and is the mother of Jade and Osbidian.

->''Solomon Grundy, born on a Monday, Christened on Tuesday, married on Wednesday, took ill on Thursday, worsened on Friday, died on a Saturday, buried on Sunday. Is this the end of Solomon Grundy?''\\

Solomon Grundy is a Creator/DCComics character created by Creator/AlfredBester who debuted as a ComicBook/GreenLantern villain in 1944 and has been fighting pretty much every hero in the DCU ever since, though he remains tied to Slaughter Swamp just outside Gotham. He has long been one of the key members of the Injustice Society, a villain group that opposes the ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica.\\

In life, Grundy was a Gothamite known as Cyrus Gold, who was murdered and dumped in Slaughter Swamp in the late 1800s. For decades his decaying corpse mingled with the other flotsam and debris rotting in the swamp, until it crawled out on a Monday in 1944 and started wreaking havoc. Grundy is a functionally immortal zombie since even if one does manage to put him down, he'll just rise from Slaughter Swamp the following Monday with a tweaked personality and powerset.\\

* AmbiguouslyGay: The ''Green Lantern 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular'' heavily implies that Alan is a [[ArmouredClosetGay closeted gay man]], and that Jimmy, his "friend" who died during the train wreck, was actually his lover. Not so ambiguous after ''ComicBook/DCInfiniteFrontier'', where he came out to his kids.

* MultipleChoicePast: Just ''how'' Cryus Gold has died has varied. His debut stated he was mugged and murdered, ''Batman: Shadow of the Bat'' #39 stated a pimp bludgeoned him to death when Cryus wouldn't give into the pimp's attempts to blackmail him, Creator/GrantMorrison's ''ComicBook/SevenSoldiersOfVictory'' stated he was hanged by a mob who suspected him to be a child molester, and the self-titled miniseries that helped lead into ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'' stated Gold killed himself.

* CivvySpandex: Her costume indcluded a leather jacket.

* TooManyBelts: Wears two belts ovver her LeotardOfPower.

-->''"Knodar's the name -- and crime is my game!"''

* {{Sidekick}}

* TheBeard: As of the most recent ContinuityReboot, Alan comes out as gay. Fine, but unless he backs the train up a little and [[NoBisexuals remembers bisexuality exists]] this has some rather deep and disturbing implications across his canon:
** Alan being [[RetCon retconned]] into having been 100% gay all along means that '''Every.''' '''Single.''' '''Time.''' over the course of ''eighty years'' of comics whenever Alan had a one-off or short-term female love interest and behaved in a manner which ''seemed'' to all appearances to indicate he reciprocated their feelings--including vocally saying he loved them--Alan ([[RetCon well-aware that he was actually 100% gay all along by his own self-admission but unwilling to admit it out loud]]) was ''lying'' knowing full well that these poor women had feelings for a man that they ''believed'' felt the same passion and warmth as them but was actually stringing them along for his own purposes. [[HandWave This may be partially justified]] by 40's era society [[{{Understatement}} not being exactly embracing of homosexuality]] and Retconned Alan needing to keep up appearances, but exploiting an innocent person's emotions to benefit yourself is still generally considered morally questionable even in the best situations.
** When he comes out as 100% gay, Retconned Alan ''claims'' he loved the two women he married (Rose Canton and Molly Mayne), but not romantically/sexually. With '''Rose''', Alan being [[RetCon retconned]] into having been 100% gay all along means that our deeply-respected living institution of heroism didn't just lead an unaware girl on for a bit to keep himself from being outed, he led Rosie on ''straight to the altar'' under the utterly false pretense that she was going to share her life with a man who was deeply and truly enamored with and devoted to her in every respect of the word, little knowing that every time Retconned Alan said he was in love with her he was telling a lie, every time he said she was the only one for him he was telling a ''lie'', and every time they went to bed together would be another damn '''lie'''! Rose would have ''no'' way of knowing that she'd be sharing her most intimate self with a man who was only ''deceiving'' her into believing he wanted nothing more than to be with her and ''forcing himself'' to have sex with her for the ''sole purpose'' of keeping her from finding out the truth! Retconned Alan's willing to ''lie'' to someone he claims to "love" for potentially ''decades'' to suit himself. Fortunately for ''Alan'', he only had to lie back, close his eyes and think sexy dude thoughts ''once''', since Rose disappeared after the honeymoon. Phew! Later, she came back (oh, no!) with kids (okay...?) as a villainess, so Retconned Alan didn't have to pretend to be interested in her anymore.
** With '''Molly''', Alan being [[RetCon retconned]] into having been 100% gay all along means that after several years of ''appearing'' to be DatingCatwoman, beguiled by her EnigmaticMinion nature and falling more and more in love with her as he grew to know her better, Alan (the superhero seen as a paragon of virtue by all) had ''actually'' been trying to get her on the hook for Fake Marriage 2.0 from the start. This one lasts for '''four''' decades of World Martial Arts Championship-level [[ConsummateLiar deceit]] on Retconned Alan's part as he plays the part of a loving and caring husband who totally doesn't resent being trapped in a fake marriage in a relatively gay-tolerant time with such infernally '''brilliant''' deviousness that Molly Mayne, skilled veteran FBI agent, never picks up on the fact that the man she had shared a home with and looked straight in the eye for forty years, the man to whom she had joyously given every part of her being was actually thinking about Luke Perry in their bedroom two nights a week. When Alan's youthened to the age of twenty-five years old, 65-ish Molly, concerned that this meant he would no longer find her attractive (joke's on her!) sells her soul to Neron in order to become young and beautiful again, Alan (to his credit) plunges into Hell itself and confronts its many horrors to rescue Molly, solving puzzles, setting free trapped souls, which is all quite heroic and stirring and beautiful until you remember that Alan has [[RetCon suddenly been 100% gay all along]] and is rescuing a lady who Neron wanted '''only''' because she was ''married to Alan''. Yes, Molly could have been in a wholly sincere marriage with another man who truly wanted to be with her all this time, and Neron wouldn't even know who she was. But because Retconned Alan deceived her into a sham marriage for forty years the local equivalent of the Devil almost gets her soul. Retconned Alan, I don't think Rose and Molly ''need'' your "love".
** So, to sum up, because Alan has been [[RetCon retconned]] into having been 100% gay all along, the straight relationships he had been in for the last 80 years have been summarily [[RetCon retconned]] into decades of monstrously self-centered manipulation by a sociopathic ConsummateLiar masquerading as a superhero all this time. (Creator/GarthEnnis may or may not have ghostwritten Retconned Alan's ComingOutStory). [[NoBisexuals Alas! There was simply no other way to add representational qualities to him without turning 80 years worth of comics into NightmareFuel!]]

* (1994-2001) ''ComicBook/{{Starman}}'' Vol 2

* (1999-2006) ''ComicBook/{{JSA}}'' Vol 1
* (1999-2001) ''ComicBook/{{JLA}}'' Vol 1 [-intermittent appearances-]

* (2007-2008) ''ComicBook/BlackAdam: The Dark Age'' Vol 1
* (2008-2009) ''Trinity'' Vol 1

* (2009-2009) ''ComicBook/SolomonGrundy'' Vol 1

* ArmouredClosetGay: In the ComicBook/PostCrisis - pre-''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}'' timeline, he told his son Todd that he couldn't accept being gay as normal, yet after Alan was restored in ''ComicBook/DoomsdayClock'', the ''Green Lantern 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular'' implied that Alan was a closeted gay man himself and Jimmy was in fact his lover. He later came out in ''ComicBook/DCInfiniteFrontier''.

* NoBisexuals: Alan had two known successful relationships with women, marrying and siring children with the first and going so far as to to defy the powers of Hell itself to save his second wife and assure her he loves her in spite of being de-aged to 1/3 her age, comes out of the closet in DC Infinite Frontier. No, not as bisexual, which would keep both of these relationships valid and meaningful while opening up the possibility of him having repressed an interest in men all these decades, but simply as gay.

During the ComicBook/{{New 52}}, Alan Scott was reverted in age to be far too young to have adult children, and was also retconned into being gay. As a result, Jade and Obsidian were wiped from existence, but Jade at least makes an appearance in the ''Toys/AmeComiGirls'' universe. As of ComicBook/DoomsdayClock, however, the twins have been reintroduced into continuity.

* RetGone: As of the ComicBook/{{New 52}}, he doesn't exist in the new universe, as his father isn't married. And now a gay man himself (in fact, WordOfGod is that Alan was made gay at least in part to make up for the loss of Obsidian). [[spoiler: It later turned out this implicitly refers to the main version of Obsidian and not just any counterpart of his on the new Earth-2, as Doctor Manhattan murdered Alan before he became Green Lantern and this nullified Obsidian's existence alongside Jade's.]]

Steven Sharpe was once an honest man, but a string of unlucky incidents convinced him that the only way to win at life was to cheat. He became the Gambler, a notorious bank robber who clashed with Alan Scott, the first Green Lantern. He also fought Comicbook/{{Starman}} and the Sandman, and was one of the founders of the Injustice Society. While having no superpowers, he instead used a wide variety of skills he learned as part of a traveling circus, such as fencing, illusions, disguises and sharpshooting. Years later, after losing everything he had to his gambling addiction, he committed suicide. He is survived by his granddaughter, Hazard, and his grandson, the new Gambler.

->See [[Characters/JusticeSocietyOfAmericaVillains JSA villains]].

* ''ComicBook/{{Starman}}'' Vol 2, issues 10-71, (1995 - 2000)
* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}: ComicBook/TheLongHalloween'', multiple issues, (1997-1997)

* ''ComicBook/{{JSA}}'' Vol 1, multiple issues, (2001 - 2004)

* ''Trinity'' Vol 1, multiple issues, (2008-2009)

* ''ComicBook/BlackestNight: ComicBook/{{JSA}}'' (2010-2010)

* HeroKiller: Grundy is a dangerous foe, and many heroes have been out of their weight class in their fights with him. His most prominent kill is Skyman, who was known as the Star-Spangled Kid as a KidHero and is part of the ComicBook/{{Starman}} and ComicBook/{{Stargirl|DCComics}} legacies.

* AlliterativeName: '''M'''olly '''Mayne'''.

* RetCon: In-universe. After the Crisis on Infinite Earths, he was swapped in for the the now-RetGone Golden Age Superman when it came to previously-documented adventures.

** With '''Molly''', Alan being [[RetCon retconned]] into having been 100% gay all along means that after several years of ''appearing'' to be DatingCatwoman, beguiled by her EnigmaticMinion nature and falling more and more in love with her as he grew to know her better, Alan (the superhero seen as a paragon of virtue by all) had ''actually'' been trying to get her on the hook for Fake Marriage 2.0 from the start. This one lasts for '''four''' decades of World Martial Arts Championship-level [[ConsummateLiar deceit]] on Retconned Alan's part as he plays the part of a loving and caring husband who totally doesn't resent being trapped in a fake marriage in a relatively gay-tolerant time with such infernally '''brilliant''' deviousness that Molly Mayne, skilled veteran FBI agent, never picks up on the fact that the man she had shared a home with and looked straight in the eye for forty years, the man to whom she had joyously given every part of her being was actually thinking about Luke Perry in their bedroom two nights a week. When Alan's youthened to the age of twenty-five years old, 65-ish Molly, concerned that this meant he would no longer find her attractive (joke's on her!) sells her soul to Neron in order to become young and beautiful again, Alan (to his credit) plunges into Hell itself and confronts its many horrors to rescue Molly, solving puzzles, setting free trapped souls, which is all quite heroic and stirring and beautiful until you remember that Alan has [[RetCon suddenly been 100% gay all along]] is rescuing a lady who Neron wanted '''only''' because she was ''married to Alan''. Yes, Molly could have been in a wholly sincere marriage with another man who truly wanted to be with her all this time, and Neron wouldn't even know who she was. But because Retconned Alan deceived her into a sham marriage for forty years the local equivalent of the Devil almost gets her soul. Retconned Alan, I don't think Rose and Molly ''need'' your "love".

* SuddenlySexuality: The recent retcons to his sexual orientation, influenced by that of his own son Obsidian and his own younger New 52 Earth-2 counterpart who absorbed the trait in Obsidian's absence.

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Falls under "Type V" (Voodoo). He was created by uncontrolled supernatural forces.

* MsFanservice: She has the MostCommonSuperpower and even had one {{Stripperiffic}} uniform that showed off her [[BareYourMidriff midriff]] and her legs.

Alan Wellington Scott is the original Green Lantern. Bill Finger and Martin Nodell created the character in 1940, long before Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps were a twinkle in John Broome's eye.\\