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''Green Lantern: A New Dawn'' are the first issues in 1994 of Kyle Rayner as the new ComicBook/GreenLantern.

At the end of ComicBook/EmeraldTwilight Ganthet gave the last power ring to a random guy coming out of a disco, Kyle Rayner. He tries it, and Shazam! Instant super hero suit! His girlfriend Alex explained to him that it was the suit of the Green Lantern, and he decides to become a super hero. He defeats OHM, a pathetic loser, just by the skin of his teeth. In his second fight he is attacked by Mongul, and defeats him with the help of Superman. But the government, who had discovered what had happened, sent Major Force to kill Rayner and get the ring. He kills Alex and stuffs her in the fridge, and got saved by Federal agents when Rayner was about to kill him. And then, Alan Scott shows up, to recruit him for Zero Hour.

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->''"Oh man... I think my life just got a lot more complicated."''
-->-- Kyle Rayner, after receiving his ring and finding himself in a Green Lantern uniform.

''Green Lantern: A New Dawn'' are the first issues in is a 1994 of ComicBook/GreenLantern storyline written by Creator/RonMarz with art by Darryl Banks. Spanning from ''ComicBook/GreenLantern1990'' #51-54, the storyline is notable for introducing Kyle Rayner as the new ComicBook/GreenLantern.Green Lantern.

At the end of ComicBook/EmeraldTwilight ''ComicBook/EmeraldTwilight'', the Green Lantern Corps had been been destroyed, with Ganthet gave its sole survivor. Desperate to find someone to don the last power ring remaining, he would travel to a random guy coming out Earth, appearing randomly in an alleyway outside of a disco, nightclub where he would encounter Kyle Rayner. He tries it, Out of options, Ganthet would thrust the final ring into Kyle's hand and Shazam! Instant super hero suit! His disappear, leaving Kyle Rayner the sole Green Lantern in the Universe.

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girlfriend Alex explained [=DeWitt=] explaining to him that it was the suit of the Green Lantern, and he Kyle decides to become a super hero. He However, being a Green Lantern turns out to be harder than he thought, as he barely defeats OHM, a pathetic loser, his first supervillain, Ohm, just by the skin of his teeth. In his second fight Things don't get better, as he is soon after attacked by Mongul, and defeats only defeating him with the help of Superman. But Superman.

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the government, who had discovered what had happened, sent sends in Major Force to kill Rayner Kyle and get the ring. He However, Major Force's sadistic tendencies would lead him to kills Alex and stuffs instead, stuffing her in the fridge, fridge just to taunt and got anger Kyle. This infuriates Kyle and leads to him nearly killing Major Force, with him only being saved by Federal agents when Rayner was about to kill him. And then, at the last minute.

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Alan Scott shows up, would appear before Kyle to recruit him for Zero Hour.
to help [[ComicBook/ZeroHourCrisisInTime put an end to Hal's rampage]], giving him the whole backstory of the Green Lantern Crops and Hal Jordan in the process. Grief-stricken, Kyle decides to continue on as Green Lantern while mourning the loss of Alex, and help Alan defeat Hal.
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* StuffedIntoTheFridge: The trope namer. Alex is targeted since her identity is known, in an attempt to get at Green Lantern. She's strangled to death by Major Force and stuffed into the refrigerator for Kyle to find.

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* GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion: In the original comic book, the penultimate page has Kyle Rayner mourning Alex, and deciding to go on with the Green Lantern thing because that's what she would have wanted. In the last page, Superman and Metron show up to recruit him for the Zero Hour crossover. The trade paperback left this last page out, to provide a good "AndTheAdventureContinues" ending to the whole thing.

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* GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion: In the original comic book, the penultimate page has Kyle Rayner mourning Alex, and deciding to go on with the Green Lantern thing because that's what she would have wanted. In the last page, Superman and Metron show up to recruit him for the Zero Hour crossover. The trade paperback left this last page out, to provide a good "AndTheAdventureContinues" ending to the whole thing. The "Kyle Rayner Rising" Compendium also omits these pages, even though that collection continues to the next issue in the series.
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* StuffedIntoTheFridge: TropeCodifier and TropeNamer. Kyle Rayner and Alex were both new characters, with hardly a few issues published so far. Kyle left Alex's house to deal wit a portion of future L.A. that popped up in the middle of L.A., and Major Force shows up then and kills Alex, while Kyle is gone. Then, he [[BlackComedy stuffs her into the fridge, and leaves a note "surprise for you in the fridge" note]].

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* StuffedIntoTheFridge: TropeCodifier and TropeNamer. TargetedToHurtTheHero: Kyle Rayner and Alex were both new characters, with hardly a few issues published so far. Kyle left Alex's house to deal wit with a portion of future L.A. that popped up in the middle of L.A., and Major Force shows up then and kills Alex, while Kyle is gone. Then, he [[BlackComedy stuffs her into the fridge, and leaves a note "surprise for you in the fridge" note]].
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* StuffedIntoTheFridge: TropeCodifier. Kyle Rayner and Alex were both new characters, with hardly a few issues published so far. Kyle left Alex's house to deal wit a portion of future L.A. that popped up in the middle of L.A., and Major Force shows up then and kills Alex, while Kyle is gone. Then, he [[BlackComedy stuffs her into the fridge, and leaves a note "surprise for you in the fridge" note]].

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* StuffedIntoTheFridge: TropeCodifier.TropeCodifier and TropeNamer. Kyle Rayner and Alex were both new characters, with hardly a few issues published so far. Kyle left Alex's house to deal wit a portion of future L.A. that popped up in the middle of L.A., and Major Force shows up then and kills Alex, while Kyle is gone. Then, he [[BlackComedy stuffs her into the fridge, and leaves a note "surprise for you in the fridge" note]].
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'''Green Lantern: A New Dawn''' are the first issues in 1994 of Kyle Rayner as the new ComicBook/GreenLantern.

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'''Green ''Green Lantern: A New Dawn''' Dawn'' are the first issues in 1994 of Kyle Rayner as the new ComicBook/GreenLantern.
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* CassandraTruth: Kyle, you have Green Lantern's ring! How did you got it? Oh, sure, of course. [[SarcasmMode A blue midget in a red dress...]]

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* CassandraTruth: Kyle, you have Green Lantern's ring! How did you got get it? Oh, sure, of course. [[SarcasmMode A blue midget in a red dress...]]
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At the end of ComicBook/EmeraldTwilight Ganthet gave the last power ring to a random guy coming out of a disco, Kyle Rayner. He tries it, and Shazam! Instant super hero suit! Her girlfriend Alex explained him that it was the suit of Green Lantern, and he decides to become a super hero. He defeats OHM, a pathetic loser, just by the skin of his teeth. In his second fight he is attacked by Mongul, and defeats him with the help of Superman. But the government, who had discovered what had happened, sent Major Force to kill Rayner and get the ring. He kills Alex and stuffs her in the fridge, and got saved by Federal agents when Rayner was about to kill him. And then, Alan Scott shows up, to recruit him for Zero Hour.

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At the end of ComicBook/EmeraldTwilight Ganthet gave the last power ring to a random guy coming out of a disco, Kyle Rayner. He tries it, and Shazam! Instant super hero suit! Her His girlfriend Alex explained to him that it was the suit of the Green Lantern, and he decides to become a super hero. He defeats OHM, a pathetic loser, just by the skin of his teeth. In his second fight he is attacked by Mongul, and defeats him with the help of Superman. But the government, who had discovered what had happened, sent Major Force to kill Rayner and get the ring. He kills Alex and stuffs her in the fridge, and got saved by Federal agents when Rayner was about to kill him. And then, Alan Scott shows up, to recruit him for Zero Hour.
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* TheMenInBlack: The employers of Major Force. They even leave the lights intentionally low, so that people can not see them clearly.

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* TheMenInBlack: The employers of Major Force.Force (revealed in a later saga to be Guy Gardner's enemies the Quorum). They even leave the lights intentionally low, so that people can not see them clearly.
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* MrExposition: Alan Scott, shows up to provide Kyle with some info about the Green Lantern Corps and what has happened with Hal Jordan. Then he leaves, so that Kyle can mourn Alex a bit, before Superman and Metron recruit him for the action (see "GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion" for details).

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* MrExposition: Alan Scott, shows up to provide Kyle with some info about the Green Lantern Corps and what has happened with Hal Jordan. Then he leaves, so that Kyle can mourn Alex a bit, before Superman and Metron recruit him for the action (see "GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion" for details).action..
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* FakeActionPrologue: First page, Green Lantern flies directly to someone crying out "Stop, I'll shoot!!". Second page: Green Lantern is staying still in the air, as Alex shoots some photos of him.
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* MrExposition: Alan Scott, shows up to provide Kyle with some info about the Green Lantern Corps and what has happened with Hal Jordan. Then he leaves, so that Kyle can mourn Alex a bit, before Superman and Metron recruit him for the action (see "GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion" for details).

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* ChekhovsGunman: Ganthet shows up in a dark alley, and gives the ring to Kyle. There was someone else in there who saw it, a vagrant. This vagrant would become more important later on.

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Ganthet shows up in a dark alley, and gives the ring to Kyle. There was someone else in there who saw it, a vagrant. This vagrant would become more important later on.
** One of the villains seen escaping during Mongul's breakout was Major Force. He would be used immediately afterwards.
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* GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion: In the original comic book, the penultimate page has Kyle Rayner mourning Alex, and deciding to go on with the Green Lantern thing because that's what she would have wanted. In the last page, Superman and Metron show up to recruit him for the Zero Hour crossover. The trade paperback left this last page out, to provide a good "AndTheAdventureContinues" ending to the whole thing.
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* DiscreditedMeme: In-Universe. Alex is lecturing Kyle that, if we wants to be a super hero, he must use his ring for something better than he did against Ohm. A sword and a shield? Come one, try something better. What, a giant boxing glove? "No, definitely not a giant boxing glove".
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* StuffedIntoTheFridge: TropeCodifier.

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* StuffedIntoTheFridge: TropeCodifier. Kyle Rayner and Alex were both new characters, with hardly a few issues published so far. Kyle left Alex's house to deal wit a portion of future L.A. that popped up in the middle of L.A., and Major Force shows up then and kills Alex, while Kyle is gone. Then, he [[BlackComedy stuffs her into the fridge, and leaves a note "surprise for you in the fridge" note]].
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* HowWeGotHere: The second issue starts with Kyle Rayner being beaten to a pulp by a C-class villain. Then we find out what happened after he received the ring and up to that point.
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* TrainingFromHell: Averted. All the new Green Lanterns are supposed to have one, but the main idea with Kyle Rayner was to have him figure out everything by himself, without training or mentors.

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* TrainingFromHell: Averted. All the new Green Lanterns are supposed to have one, but the main idea with Kyle Rayner was to have him figure out everything by himself, without training or mentors.mentors.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Averted. All Green Lantern rings are vulnerable to the yellow color, but Kyle isn't. He didn't even know he was supposed to be vulnerable to that, until Mongul attacked him with yellow light and could not understand how he was shielding against it.
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* ThisLoserIsYou: The main point of replacing Jordan with Rayner was to have a character of this type.

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* ThisLoserIsYou: The main point of replacing Jordan with Rayner was to have a character of this type.type.
* TrainingFromHell: Averted. All the new Green Lanterns are supposed to have one, but the main idea with Kyle Rayner was to have him figure out everything by himself, without training or mentors.
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* CrypticConversation: Kyle Rayner gets out of the disco, and finds a blue midget in a red dress in the dark alley. The conversation did not help him, at all.
-->'''Ganthet:''' This ring. Take it.
-->'''Kyle Rayner:''' Uh... what am I supposed to do with it?
-->'''Ganthet:''' What you must.
-->'''Kyle Rayner:''' But what is supposed to happen?
-->'''Ganthet:''' What must. ([[SmokeOut and goes up and dissapears]])
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* NotInThisForYourRevolution: Mongul created a massive jail breakout when he left, but not because he thought that EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily. It was just to get away more easily in the confusion. A Khund warrior hailed him, in gratitude for his liberation, and Mongul killed him: he does not like the Khund.

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* StuffedIntoTheFridge: TropeCodifier.

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* ThisLoserIsYou: The main point of replacing Jordan with Rayner was to have a character of this type.

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* StuffedIntoTheFridge: TropeCodifier.

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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Kyle's ring run out of power during his fight with Major Force, turning him into a helpless punk in a funny suit against a super-powerful villain. But, before killing him, he showed and asked about a strange green stone that Ganthet left behind. The stone suddenly becomes the battery, and the ring gets recharched. Second round!
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* ChekhovsGunman: Ganthet shows up in a dark alley, and gives the ring to Kyle. There was someone else in there who saw it, a vagrant. This vagrant would become more important later on.
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'''Green Lantern: A New Dawn''' are the first issues in 1994 of Kyle Rayner as the new ComicBook/GreenLantern.

At the end of ComicBook/EmeraldTwilight Ganthet gave the last power ring to a random guy coming out of a disco, Kyle Rayner. He tries it, and Shazam! Instant super hero suit! Her girlfriend Alex explained him that it was the suit of Green Lantern, and he decides to become a super hero. He defeats OHM, a pathetic loser, just by the skin of his teeth. In his second fight he is attacked by Mongul, and defeats him with the help of Superman. But the government, who had discovered what had happened, sent Major Force to kill Rayner and get the ring. He kills Alex and stuffs her in the fridge, and got saved by Federal agents when Rayner was about to kill him. And then, Alan Scott shows up, to recruit him for Zero Hour.

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* CassandraTruth: Kyle, you have Green Lantern's ring! How did you got it? Oh, sure, of course. [[SarcasmMode A blue midget in a red dress...]]
* TheMenInBlack: The employers of Major Force. They even leave the lights intentionally low, so that people can not see them clearly.
* StuffedIntoTheFridge: TropeCodifier.

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