History ComicBook / GreenLanterns

'''''Green Lanterns''''' -- not to be confused with '''''Franchise/GreenLantern''''', which is the franchise as a whole -- is a comic book series published by Creator/DCComics, introduced as part of the 2016 '''ComicBook/DCRebirth''' line-wide relaunch event.

'''Simon Baz:''' No evil shall escape my sight. Blah blah blah. Protect and serve. You know the rest.\\
-- ''Green Lanterns, Issue #1 ({{Internal Monologue}}s)''

In November of 2017, Sam Humphries announced that he would be leaving the series. Tim Seeley (best known for his [[ComicBook/{{Grayson}} Dick]] [[ComicBook/NightwingRebirth Grayson]] works) would be taking over, while Humphries would take over the Rebirth series ''Seeley'' launched, ''[[ComicBook/NightwingRebirth|Nightwing]]''.

In November of 2017, Sam Humphries announced that he would be leaving the series. Tim Seeley (best known for his [[ComicBook/{{Grayson}} Dick]] [[ComicBook/NightwingRebirth Grayson]] works) would be taking over, while Humphries would take over the Rebirth series ''Seeley'' launched, ''Nightwing''.

* AmoralAttorney: Singularity Jain is this trope in the extreme, an alien [[TheBaroness Baroness]] lawyer who is a living black hole. She ropes her clients (usually desperate criminals) into owing her favors, making them kill people for her, and if they don't go through with it it's heavily implied she ''eats'' them, being a living black hole.

'''''Green Lanterns''''' - not to be confused with '''''Franchise/GreenLantern''''', which is the franchise as a whole - is a comic book series published by Creator/DCComics, introduced as part of the 2016 '''ComicBook/DCRebirth''' line-wide relaunch event.

At the start of the series, the central protagonists are rookie Earth-based Lanterns Jessica Cruz and Simon Baz, both of whom were previously introduced during ''New 52'' (albeit in completely different titles; Simon was in other ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'' books starting in 2012, but Jessica was originally introduced in the ''Justice League'' series - as Power Ring - in late 2014). Much like a Buddy Cop film, the two have vastly different personalities ([[RedOniBlueOni cautious vs impulsive]]), which ''hypothetically'' could complement each others'... assuming they [[TeethClenchedTeamwork don't rip each other apart in irritation first]], since they [[HeadbuttingHeroes fail to get along from the moment they meet]], and thus begin to blunder rather spectacularly.

* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Played very, very straight. Not only did previous series show this happened to ''both'' Simon ''and'' Jessica despite their extreme physical isolation (the Call found Jessica hiding in her basement and failed to be fended off even with a ''shotgun'', while Simon was plucked right out of ''Guantanamo Bay''), they also both get nagged by their Rings to respond whenever there's an emergency, making it a Call that not only knows where they live but won't ''stop'' calling, and refuses to leave a message.

** Played Straight: When Simon and Jessica first meet in the "one-shot", there's a crashed and potentially dangerous "unknown spacecraft" that they've both been called to investigate, but their initial conversation consists entirely of Simon wondering [[TakeUpMySword who died]] to make her a Green Lantern too ("[[RunningGag Please tell me it was Guy Gardner]]"), and Jessica being just plain confused as to what the hell he's talking about.
** Played Straight: In Issue 1, Jessica manages to spout a reasonably authoritative-sounding Green Lantern-specific version of "come out with your hands up", Simon smirks and says "Hey, that actually sounded decent. You been ''practicing''?"
** Played Straight and Lampshaded: In Issue 3, when Jessica [[InternalMonologue notes]], while in the middle of a quip, that she "[[InvokedTrope keeps talking]]" to keep herself distracted from her anxiety, she stops to ponder... "wait, is that why the [[ComicBook/TheFlash Flash]] never shuts up?"
* ChekhovsBoomerang: That healing ability Simon discovered back in his initial run in ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'' sure has come in handy, hasn't it? Twice, in fact, within the first 6 issues of the run.
** Subverted in the final issue of the "Rage Planet" arc, though, [[spoiler:as the ability fails to work on Atrocitus, who shrugs it right off and ''scoffs'' at him even trying it]]

* HeroOfAnotherStory: Played very straight. Hal Jordan shows up in the opening "one-shot"... for a few pages. His entire role is to tell the rookies how badly they just screwed up and why, order them to suck it up and learn to work together, fuse their power batteries together to force them to charge their Rings at the same time and place as each other to reinforce that order, and then promptly go off into space. JustifiedTrope, as he's going to off to investigate where all the other several ''thousand'' Green Lanterns have literally ''vanished'' to, which is covered in a separate book, ''ComicBook/HalJordanAndTheGreenLanternCorps''. He leaves Earth in their care because he ''has'' to.

** Played straight, and ''how''. Jessica has [[EnsignNewbie never been properly trained]] in her new powers before being forced to protect the Earth alongside Simon and [[TheMillstone it shows]]. Not only does she struggle to make [[HardLight constructs]] in the early chapters, she actually notes at one point in her InternalMonologue that she had asked her Ring to tell her [[MrExposition everything about itself]], where she learned little tidbits like the "morphology" type and serial number of her Ring and how many other people had it before her. But not how to make constructs, which she apparently needs to learn for herself. Funnily enough, averted with Simon, who is the one who keeps gaining NewPowersAsThePlotDemands and getting confused by them. The reason being Jessica is the cautious planning type who tries to learn as much as possible before she acts, while Simon just hasn't ''thought'' to [[YouNeverAsked ask the Ring these things]] because he's more impulsive.

** Issue #2 - In a weird example (considering his Ring lets him make almost ''anything''), Simon uses a construct of an [[CarFu armored truck]] as a battering ram to get into the store where Jessica is trapped. It worked for that purpose, because, well... [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill armored truck]].

* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: With Simon, first when he gains the prophetic "Emerald Sight" ability out of nowhere, and then when he takes the already BeyondTheImpossible level healing abilities he showed in another book and takes them UpToEleven [[spoiler:by healing a Red Lantern of her Rage ''by himself'' for no other reason than he really wanted to help her.]] The [[SerialEscalation repeated use]] of this trope with Simon (and especially, all that happening within the first three or four issues of the run) has actually garnered some negative criticism from reviewers of the book.

* RealityEnsues: The "Out of Time" has Jessica and Simon go back in time by 10 billion years to meet the first 7 Green Lanterns formed to defeat Volthoom. The 7 Lanterns have power rings with no safeguards, have only just started using them, and are only given basic preliminary training on how to use them by Simon and Jessica, while Volthoom has had years of experience using his and full access to the emotion spectrum. The end result? [[spoiler: One of the Green Lanterns dies when her power ring overloads in her first attempt to use it, and the remainder are quickly slaughtered almost to a man in their first encounter with Volthoom.]]

* BewareTheNiceOnes: When Guy Gardener train Jessica in Issue #23 he is so a DrillSergeantNasty that she snap and punches him followed with a OhCrap moment.
* BeyondTheImpossible: A textbook example in Issue #3, where Simon [[spoiler: manages to severe Bleez's connection with her Red Lantern Power Ring and heal her not only of the Ring's emotional, psychological ''and'' physical effects, but even to heal her body so thoroughly that her wings - previously destroyed ''before'' she was even a Red Lantern - wind up completely intact]]. He does this ''entirely'' on his own, despite the fact that all previously-established in-universe rules for this kind of thing would ''require'' the presence of a [[Characters/GLBlueLanternCorps Blue Lantern]]. Who would have to do the part that Simon actually did. By himself. With a ''Green'' Lantern Power Ring, and ''only'' a Green Lantern Power Ring, did we mention that part? There is no explanation in the book given for how this was possible, leaving the reader only with the implication that his HeroicWillpower is just ''that'' strong.

** The Phantom Ring arc has [[spoiler:Frank Laminski]], though [[ManBehindTheMan he's being manipulated]] by [[spoiler:[[ComicBook/WrathOfTheFirstLantern Volthoom]]]].

** Played Straight: When in Issue 1 Jessica manages to spout a reasonably authoritative-sounding Green Lantern-specific version of "come out with your hands up", Simon smirks and says "Hey, that actually sounded decent. You been ''practicing''?"

** Subverted in the final issue of the "Rage Planet" arc, though [[spoiler:as the ability fails to work on Atrocitus, who shrugs it right off and ''scoffs'' at him even trying it]]

** The "one-shot" - Hal Jordan fusing their Power Batteries together to force them to charge their Rings at the same time. Meant as a team-building exercise, but of course, this is a Green Lantern story, so several chapters later, one of them [[HourOfPower needs to charge theirs]] and the other is... let's just say definitely unavailable at the time.

* ComicBookTime: Unsurprising for a Creator/DCComics series as the DCU pretty much runs on this, but it's pretty jarring when in the prologue one-shot, Simon Baz - who has been a character in the ''Green Lantern'' books since '''2012''' in RealLife publication times - is referred to as having been a Green Lantern for only a "few weeks" longer than Jessica Cruz. Speaking of which, subtler but still notable is that Jessica Cruz also only "recently" became a Green Lantern, as of the ''Green Lanterns'' books published in 2016. For some perspective, Jessica Cruz herself was introduced to the ''Justice League'' comics in late 2014 (by publication date)... yet it's implied that significantly less than a year has gone by since she was working with them. What happened to most of 2015?

* ContinuityNod: During issue #9, Frank's flashbacks show John Stewart's first appearance as a Lantern, followed by Guy with the ComicBook/NewFiftyTwo version of the Justice League International, then Kyle.

** More than one example, actually, though the most blatant one is ''definitely'' the fact that the ''Green Lanterns: Rebirth'' issue, which was [[BlatantLies described by the publisher as a "one-shot"]] actually includes a normal "issue numbering" circle up top with a "1" in it... ''as does the issue of the series that takes place after it''. Yes, really. Given that fans walked into the ''Rebirth'' event full well knowing there would be a Variant Cover for each issue of each series, ''including'' the "''Rebirth'' one-shots"? This probably caused more than a few people to [[NiceJobBreakingItHero accidentally skip the second issue in the series and go straight to the third one]] (which was, after all, [[ExactWords labeled as]] "Issue 2"). If you're wondering, the surefire way to tell the difference between the "one-shot" and the "real Issue 1" is this: the "one-shot" book that kicked the series off features a small ''Green Lanterns'' logo placed '''above''' a sizable ''Rebirth'' logo, while the issue that continues the story from that one's end has a small ''DC Universe Rebirth'' logo on '''top''', and a much larger ''Green Lanterns'' logo underneath that. Yes, really.
** One of '"Issue 2"'s covers (the one by Emanuela Lupacchino) doesn't illustrate the issue at all. leaving aside that there is at no point a [[RuleOfCool random green explosion of power coming from Jessica Cruz's chest]] within the issue itself, the part that makes it truly BlatantLies is that the ''other'', male Green Lantern on the cover is very definitely ''not'' Simon Baz, as he not only lacks Baz's ''extremely'' distinctive uniform, but also looks nothing like him (even the haircut is different!). If one had to guess based on appearances, he's ''probably'' supposed to be Hal Jordan... who has [[PutOnABus not appeared in the series]] since the end of the ''Green Lanterns: Rebirth'' one-shot.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: As to be expected from a series launched with two protagonists, the most important character isn't consistent for every issue. In the opening "Rage Planet" arc, there's slightly more focus on Simon's half to of the story, but Jessica's story is still a important - to the point of impacting the climax of the arc - thus making her the second most important character in the comic.

* EmotionBomb: Thanks to the Red Lantern Corps, {{Emotion Bomb}}s that instill rage occur in spots all over the Earth in the appropriately-named "Rage Planet" arc, causing an immediate crisis as people start to go full-on berserker and cause violent riots. It's also indicated via one of Simon's psychic visions during that same arc that [[spoiler:something like this will at some future point also be used against the Justice League, turning them ''also'' into angry berserkers that the titular heroes of the book will have to face; given that the rage-infected people in that vision included Superman and Wonder Woman]], and given the arc's ending issue showing [[spoiler: a baby Butcher Entity -aka a universal Embodiment of Rage - growing in the Earth's core]], it is implied this is still going to occur (which would provide a second example of the trope)...and also that it's going to be really ''really'' nasty when it does occur.
* EnsignNewbie: Played straight on two counts, as ''both'' the main characters are rookies, but they're immediately assigned by Hal Jordan to protect the ''entire planet Earth''. [[LampshadeHanging Acknowledged and lampshaded]] in the first issue, when Simon, already annoyed at Jessica's cluelessness when an apparent emergency came up, insists that he should get more say or be in charge over her, because "I have seniority," only for Hal to point out that it's only by "a few weeks". Jessica is a particularly extreme example though, as she never even got to train on Oa like most other Green Lanterns, being immediately put in the field instead. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as ''literally'' only Simon, Jessica and Hal seem to be left out of the Corps, and Hal is explicitly stated to be [[HeroOfAnotherStory going off into space to look for the rest of the Corps]]. Earth is a trouble magnet, so it ''needs'' careful watching, and Hal can't stay to do it.

** And from later in the series, The GrandTheftMe example further down the page was also foreshadowed a few pages before the reveal of it to the reader, though as a reader one might not pick up on it having been that until the last page of the issue as [[spoiler:the book makes it initially look plausible that Rami could have beaten Volthoom...only to reveal in the last page of the book that he didn't, and is trapped in a SoulJar]].

* GreatBigBookOfEverything: A ''weird'' example that is arguably PlayingWith the trope. The Book of Oa is a staple of ''Green Lantern'' books and is a dead-on example of the trope, down to being ''a literal giant book with turn-able pages that show the information''; yet in execution it's somehow [[JustForFun/XMeetsY combined with]] a normal OmniscientDatabase, in that the Green Lantern Corps Power Rings happen to be connected to it long-distance and able to reference most of its information from anywhere in the universe. Again, it's ''literally'' shown to be a giant book, which you can in-person read and turn the pages of... yet the Rings can access it like it was a networked computer database, too. You don't immediately see it in the ''Green Lanterns'' book, it should be noted, particularly since the planet originally housing it got vanished at the end of the preceding comics to this series, however, there hasn't been any apparent interruption in Simon and Jessica's Power Rings' ability to access all the intergalactic laws and Corps history and whatnot listed in it, so it's implied to still exist off-panel, especially considering the previous ''Green Lantern'' title ended on a FlashForward that utilized the Book, with an in-person historian reading from it used as a framing device (they even referred to a particular question being unanswerable because "those pages have been burned out of" the Book! As in, yes, the ''physical pages'' literally store that information). With the recent return of the rest of the Corps over in ComicBook/HalJordanAndTheGreenLanternCorps we'll presumably find out at some point where the heck the actual physical Book has gone.

* HardLight: One of the famous functions of thee Green Lantern Rings is giving them the ability to make "[[SwissArmySuperpower constructs]]" out of this... though Jessica has trouble with making these for a number of issues due to "insufficient Willpower".
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: The character mentioned first in the HeelRealization examples below, from issue #3, had genuinely decided to do good and was already trying to help the heroes... and then that InterruptedCooldownHug happened, and caused the Rage to re-infect them into a Red Lantern all over again. Given how Red Lanterns work, this means the character's newly-healed heart (the physical one, mind) ''literally just got destroyed'', and the character's blood instantly replaced with something that they can only survive with the Red lantern Corps Ring on, forcing them to work once again with Atrocitus. It took a massive, downright miraculous effort to heal them in the first place, and now that maddening "sound" is back in their head, their cardiac system is wrecked again, and they're once again unable to completely control their Rage and dependent on the Ring for survival. ''All because Jessica rejected them''. The character out and out says that they feel ''most'' angry at the fact that a whole new "world" (read: of not being influenced by the Red Lantern Ring) was shown to them and then "taken away". This Door Slam ''might'' not be permanent though, as the Red Lantern in question definitely still wants to be free of Atrocitus. Only time well tell.

* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Frank Laminski is desperately driven by his desire to be somebody, ''anybody'', having focused his attention on becoming a Green Lantern ever since he was saved by Hal Jordan years ago.

** Issue #3 - Jessica can't quite manage to manifest HardLight constructs yet, so at one point in the issue she just uses her Ring to lift a copy machine and ram it into the enemy. The good news is, it worked! The bad news is... [[InterruptedCooldownHug it worked]].
* ImaginationBasedSuperpower: The only real requirement to be ''able'' to use a Green Lantern Corps Power Ring is being able to generate massive levels of HeroicWillpower, but the actual ''way'' the Ring is used is "shaped by your imagination", especially when it comes to the HardLight construct abilities, which because they can be "anything you can imagine", can rapidly turn into a SwissArmySuperpower. In fact, both the SwissArmySuperpower and ImaginationBasedSuperpower articles on this Wiki can now be found listed on a [[GreenLanternRing disambiguation page]] that is named ''after'' the Green Lantern Corps Power Rings, because the ''Green Lantern'' franchise is the iconic former TropeNamer for at least one of them. That said, Simon isn't always ''creative'' about his imagined-up constructs, with one issue (#15) featuring him just making a giant boxing glove to hit the bad guy with... twice. In one scene.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Simon is a short-tempered, impulsive, acts arrogant to the point of being downright abrasive from the moment he and Jessica meet, and even [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking steals a teddy bear from wrecked store in the middle of a crisis]]. But he also shows signs of empathy for others at multiple points, including internally thinking that Jessica's reaction to her sister [[spoiler:being infected with Rage energy in issue #2]] is not unreasonable even if it's ill-timed. In fact, the whole section in issue #3 where he [[spoiler:heals Bleez of her Rage came about in the first place because, when faced with his own pain from her trying to infect him with the Rage too, it instead caused him to ''empathize'' with her and decide to try and help her. And then he outright ''prevents'' her from committing suicide after her Heel Realization, choosing instead to encourage her to move forward with her life, like he once did]]. Oh, and the reason he stole the teddy bear was because he wanted to give it to his young nephew for his birthday.

* PoweredByAForsakenChild: During the opening arc, "Red Dawn", the Red Lantern Corps is revealed to be trying to [[EmotionBomb initiate]] [[MoreThanMindControl stoke]] the humanity's [[TeachHimAnger rage]] to create a new power source for their Rings.

* TokenMinority: Played straight twice, in the sense that Simon Baz is the first Muslim member of the Green Lantern Corps and only the second non-white one (after John Stewart, who is black), while Jessica is [[TwoferTokenMinority both]] the [[RareFemaleExample first official female]] member from Earth and the first Hispanic or Latina one. Gradually averted in the series as a whole, however, as we're introduced to members of both of their families, some of whom, such as Jessica's sister Sara, are recurring characters.
* UnusualChapterNumbers: The "''Rebirth'' one-shot" has a number 1 in the upper right corner of the cover... and yet the following issue does too, because it's considered the ''actual'' "Issue #1" in the series. See "Covers Always Lie" examples, above.

** The final page of the "Rage Planet" arc [[spoiler:which shows that the Red lanterns are succeeding in their plan after all, with the "Rage Seed" hatching, and presumably becoming a baby Butcher entity... which is ''developing inside the Earth's core'']].

* GreatBigBookOfEverything: A ''weird'' example that is arguably PlayingWith the trope. The Book of Oa is a staple of ''Green Lantern'' books and is a dead-on example of the trope, down to being ''a literal giant book with turn-able pages that show the information''; yet in execution it's somehow [[XMeetsY combined with]] a normal OmniscientDatabase, in that the Green Lantern Corps Power Rings happen to be connected to it long-distance and able to reference most of its information from anywhere in the universe. Again, it's ''literally'' shown to be a giant book, which you can in-person read and turn the pages of... yet the Rings can access it like it was a networked computer database, too. You don't immediately see it in the ''Green Lanterns'' book, it should be noted, particularly since the planet originally housing it got vanished at the end of the preceding comics to this series, however, there hasn't been any apparent interruption in Simon and Jessica's Power Rings' ability to access all the intergalactic laws and Corps history and whatnot listed in it, so it's implied to still exist off-panel, especially considering the previous ''Green Lantern'' title ended on a FlashForward that utilized the Book, with an in-person historian reading from it used as a framing device (they even referred to a particular question being unanswerable because "those pages have been burned out of" the Book! As in, yes, the ''physical pages'' literally store that information). With the recent return of the rest of the Corps over in ComicBook/HalJordanAndTheGreenLanternCorps we'll presumably find out at some point where the heck the actual physical Book has gone.

** Played straight... and addressed in an interesting way in Issue #3, where at that point, the only people investigating or handling the invasion of Earth by the Red Lantern Corps have been Simon, Jessica, and a handful of woefully outmatched, mundane police and FBI agents. The fact that there are other superheroes that aren't being put on this case is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] when Jessica outright mentions on the ''first page'' that they "should contact the Justice League, get a plan together, right?" Simon completely ignores the comment, though. [[spoiler:This is only one of several instances in a row where Simon barely listens, if at all, to Jessica, and blows off her instinctive urge to actually think things through and plan ahead. This tendency is something that's been causing tension between them... and which arguably leads to her getting infected with Rage at the end of the issue, seeing as her first post-infection words to him included: ''"This rookie is about to kick your ass!"'' ]]
** The series really likes [[LampshadeHanging bringing this factor up]], actually; Issue #4 has Simon's family members half-joking that when a mysterious alien shows up at their house looking for "Green Lantern" and they're unable to reach either Simon or Jessica, they should "call the Justice League" or pull out a "Bat-signal" or something. In this case, it's basically a JustifiedTrope in the sense that they would very much ''like'' to call the Justice League in to deal with the weird unsettling alien in their house, but don't know ''how''.

* WhatTheHellHero: In issue 16, the Lanterns drop in on Batman to help out with a case, but when Bats catches sight of Simon's gun, he throws a fit - Simon's insistent that his gun is his "Plan B", but Batman knows that one stray bullet will change someone's life. [[spoiler:Seeing as a possessed Alfred is able to take control of the gun and aim it at him at the end, Batman has a valid point.]]

-- ''Green Lanterns, Issue 1 ({{Internal Monologue}}s)''

* AscendedExtra: Frank Laminski, the racist, sexist {{Jerkass}} from Geoff John's ''Secret Origin'' storyline, returns as a major character in the Phantom Ring arc.

* BackFromTheDead: Despite having been pretty comprehensively killed back in ComicBook/WrathOfTheFirstLantern, [[spoiler:Volthoom returns in issue 9. Mostly, at least. He's been reduced to a living shade, forced to survive by feeding off emotions.]]
* BeyondTheImpossible: A textbook example in Issue #3, where Simon [[spoiler: manages to severe Bleez's connection with her Red Lantern Power Ring and heal her not only of the Ring's emotional, psychological ''and'' physical effects, but even to heal her body so thoroughly that her wings - previously destroyed ''before'' she was even a Red Lantern - wind up completely intact]]. He does this ''entirely'' on his own, despite the fact that all previously-established in-universe rules for this kind of thing would ''require'' the presence of a [[Characters/GLBlueLanternCorps Blue Lantern]]. Who would have to do the part that Simon actually did. By himself. With a ''Green'' Lantern Power Ring, and ''only'' a Green Lantern Power Ring, did we mention that part? There is no explanation in the book given for how this was possible, leaving the reader only with the implication that his HeroicWillpower is just ''that'' strong.
** In fact [[SerialEscalation at this point]] Simon is just a walking textbook case of this trope. First, there was his being chosen by a Ring that was a combination of Sinestro's Yellow Power Ring and Hal's Green Power Ring (seemingly impossible). Which coincidentally plucked him straight out of his wrongful imprisonment in the (seemingly inescapable) Guantanamo Bay facility and yes, we mean ''that'' facility. And then there's the fact that in one of his previous books, he had used this same Power Ring to heal someone supposedly "beyond" the abilities of a Green Lantern Ring's healing capabilities. In fact, that last incident is why he even thought to ''try'' the above [[TakeTheThirdOption Third Option]] in the first place, which makes one wonder [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands exactly how far this is going to keep escalating]].

** The mention of "Rings" and a "Tower" and a "Blue Lady" by the angry redneck in Issue #1, considering he was ''infected with rage energy'', makes a lot more sense when we see Atrocitus monologueing about the Red Lanterns' plans. The "Tower" is a key component in the plan, the Blue Lady is one of the Red Lanterns, and the Red Lanterns use [[GreenLanternRing Power Rings]].

* ContinuityNod: During issue 9, Frank's flashbacks show John Stewart's first appearance as a Lantern, followed by Guy with the ComicBook/NewFiftyTwo version of the Justice League International, then Kyle.
* CoversAlwaysLie:

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: In Issue #3, Jessica tells Simon she "doesn't feel well" literally only a ''page'' before [[spoiler: the Wham Shot of her attacking him, having been infected by the Rage herself]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Several examples; there's the outright prophecies given by or visualized by both sides in the opening three chapters, there's the reference to the "Tower" and a "Blue Lady" in Issue #1 (who is in fact [[spoiler:later revealed to have been Bleez]])...

* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Bleez is this, as though she's not literally ''green'' it's still definitely not a color humans would come in. Then again, [[BizarreAlienBiology humans don't come with skeletal wings, either]].

* HeelFaceDoorSlam: The character mentioned first in the HeelRealization examples below, from Issue #3, had genuinely decided to do good and was already trying to help the heroes...and then that InterruptedCooldownHug happened, and caused the Rage to re-infect them into a Red Lantern all over again. Given how Red Lanterns work, this means the character's newly-healed heart (the physical one, mind) ''literally just got destroyed'', and the character's blood instantly replaced with something that they can only survive with the Red lantern Corps Ring on, forcing them to work once again with Atrocitus. It took a massive, downright miraculous effort to heal them in the first place, and now that maddening "sound" is back in their head, their cardiac system is wrecked again, and they're once again unable to completely control their Rage and dependent on the Ring for survival. ''All because Jessica rejected them''. The character out and out says that they feel ''most'' angry at the fact that a whole new "world" (read: of not being influenced by the Red Lantern Ring) was shown to them and then "taken away". This Door Slam ''might'' not be permanent though, as the Red Lantern in question definitely still wants to be free of Atrocitus. Only time well tell.

** [[spoiler: Bleez the Red Lantern]] has one of these in Issue #3, when cured of the Rage -- even going so far as to say "I thought I was ''[[AntiHero fighting]]'' injustice...but I was ''[[MyGodWhatHaveIDone perpetuating]]'' it!". The realization is so horrifying to the character in question, that said character tries to ''[[DrivenToSuicide kill]]'' [[spoiler:her]]self before being stopped by one of the heroes, who encourages [[spoiler:her]] to move forward and [[TheAtoner seek redemption]] by trying to be a good person in the future, instead. [[InterruptedCooldownHug A shame it doesn't last for long...]]
** Surprisingly, [[spoiler: Frank Laminski]] of all people, in Issue #14. Being made to feel Compassion by the Indigo Light convinces [[spoiler:him]] to change [[spoiler:his]] ways completely. Ultimately [[spoiler: subverted in that case, though, because he decides he is not worthy when it comes to the Phantom Ring, and takes it off. And as soon as the Ring comes off...the Indigo Light of Compassion stops influencing him, and he immediately becomes the same jerk he always was and is baffled why he'd take it off]]

* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: In Issue #4, between [[spoiler:Simon and Jessica, with Jessica being the one infected with Rage energy and Simon trying desperately to talk her down because he refuses to hurt his partner]].

** Issue #2 - In a weird example (considering his Ring lets him make almost ''anything''), Simon uses a construct of an [[CarFu armored truck]] as a battering ram to get into the store where Jessica is trapped. It worked for that purpose, because, well...[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill armored truck]].

* ImaginationBasedSuperpower: The only real requirement to be ''able'' to use a Green Lantern Corps Power Ring is being able to generate massive levels of HeroicWillpower, but the actual ''way'' the Ring is used is "shaped by your imagination", especially when it comes to the HardLight construct abilities, which because they can be "anything you can imagine", can rapidly turn into a SwissArmySuperpower. In fact, both the SwissArmySuperpower and ImaginationBasedSuperpower articles on this Wiki can now be found listed on a [[GreenLanternRing disambiguation page]] that is named ''after'' the Green Lantern Corps Power Rings, because the ''Green Lantern'' franchise is the iconic former TropeNamer for at least one of them. That said, Simon isn't always ''creative'' about his imagined-up constructs, with one issue (#15) featuring him just making a giant boxing glove to hit the bad guy with...twice. In one scene.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Simon is a short-tempered, impulsive, acts arrogant to the point of being downright abrasive from the moment he and Jessica meet, and even [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking steals a teddy bear from wrecked store in the middle of a crisis]]. But he also shows signs of empathy for others at multiple points, including internally thinking that Jessica's reaction to her sister [[spoiler:being infected with Rage energy in Issue #2]] is not unreasonable even if it's ill-timed. In fact, the whole section in Issue #3 where he [[spoiler:heals Bleez of her Rage came about in the first place because, when faced with his own pain from her trying to infect him with the Rage too, it instead caused him to ''empathize'' with her and decide to try and help her. And then he outright ''prevents'' her from committing suicide after her Heel Realization, choosing instead to encourage her to move forward with her life, like he once did]]. Oh, and the reason he stole the teddy bear was because he wanted to give it to his young nephew for his birthday.

** Jessica Cruz, when discussing in the narration why she was "shopping for towels", helpfully explains that ''"superheroes need to shower, too,"'' because ''"[[SpyCatsuit these suits don't breathe]]"''

** And then Issue #4 has Simon thinking he is TheMillstone like Jessica did in the issue before, after realizing his arrogance has screwed them both over [[spoiler:by ensuring that Jessica became susceptible to infection from the Rage energy right as his Ring was running out of battery life]].

** Since they're both rookies it shouldn't be surprising that Simon realizes ''he'' has unwittingly become this in Issue #4, though, balancing out poor Jessica's screw-ups, somewhat.
* MoreThanMindControl: The rage-inducing {{Emotion Bomb}}s the Red lanterns seed the Earth with in the "Red Dawn" arc seem at first to make people into mindless berserkers, but are gradually implied to just be [[TeachHimAnger adding Rage]] to the "infected" person, while not necessarily changing their underlying personality/memories; in Issue #2 [[spoiler:Sara makes reference to her past rocky history with Jessica while attacking her]] while in issue #3 [[spoiler:Jessica herself, after a buildup of about oh, the ''entire series so far'', gets infected with the Rage, after presumably getting just ''that'' irritated with Simon not wanting to listen to her or take her seriously. In the latter case, she outright states "This rookie's about to kick your ass!", indicating that she's still somewhat aware of her own identity]].

* PowerIncontinence: Red Lanterns' rage-based power tends to spew from their mouths in the form of corrosive blood the more they get worked up. Particularly notable with Bleez during her attempt to infect Simon with the rage in Issue #3, as it's spewing forth as she ''yells in his face''.
** In the "Phantom Ring" arc, a prototype Power Ring is revealed to exist that can tap into any part of the Emotional Electromagnetic Spectrum, meaning any of the various colors of Lantern Corps' abilities are available to it. The problem? Since it's a ''prototype'', there's absolutely no safety features like there would be on the Green Lantern Corps Rings, and the user shifting emotion even ''slightly'' while using it leads to them switching powers unexpectedly...including, yes, to a Red Lantern's, complete with corrosive blood spewing from the mouth.

* {{Retcon}}: Issue #9 reveals that Simon ''wasn't'' the first choice for Sinestro / Hal's merged ring. It had actually gone to Frank Laminski first... only to change its mind at the last minute.

* TheDragon: Bleez functions as this (with Atrocitus as the connected BigBad) in the first arc, "Rage Planet".
* EmotionBomb: Thanks to the Red Lantern Corps, EmotionBombs for rage occur in spots all over the Earth in the "Rage Planet" arc, causing an immediate crisis as people start to go full-on berserker and cause riots. It's also indicated via one of Simon's psychic visions during the same arc that [[spoiler:something like this will at some future point also be used against the Justice League, turning them ''also'' into angry berserkers that the titular heroes of the book will have to face]].

* GreatBigBookOfEverything: The Book of Oa from that is a staple of ''Franchise/Green Lantern'' books is a dead-on example of the trope, down to being a literal giant book with pages that show the information; in a weird combination with OmniscientDatabase that shows off the Guardians' SufficientlyAdvancedTechnology, the Green Lantern Corps Power Rings happen to be connected to it and able to reference most of its information from anywhere in the universe. With the recent return of the rest of the Corps over in ComicBook/HalJordanAndTheGreenLantern we'll soon find out where the heck the physical book has actually ''gone,'' but the fact that all the intergalactic laws and whatnot listed in it still get referenced successfully by the Rings implies that ''something'' of it still exists somewhere in the universe, and the previous ''Green Lantern'' main title had ended with a flash-forward indicating it's in the same format it's always been.
%% Green Lantern Ring is a disambiguation page now and not a Trope.

* HardLight: One of the famous functions of their literal {{Green Lantern Ring}}s is giving them the ability to make "constructs" out of this... though Jessica has trouble with making these for a number of issues due to "insufficient Willpower".
%%* HeelFaceDoorSlam: For [[spoiler:the Red Lantern Bleez]], in issue #3. Even some of the readers who disliked some aspects of the issue found this section to be well done... and therefore ''heartbreaking''.
* HeelRealization: [[Spoiler:Bleez, the Red Lantern]] has one of these in Issue #3, when cured of the Rage, even going so far as to say "I thought I was ''fighting'' injustice...but I was ''perpetuating'' it".

%%** Poor Jessica gets a few of these throughout the "Rage Planet" arc, while trying to make her first construct.

* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: In Issue #4, between [[spoiler:Simon and Jessica]].

* InternalMonologue: Frequently, and for several different characters; see "MultipleNarrativeModes", below.
* InterruptedCooldownHug: In Issue #3, when Simon attempts and [[BeyondTheImpossible succeeds at triggering]] a HeelFaceTurn in one of the Red Lanterns... until Jessica shows back up to "defend" him against the "enemy", and [[YouWontLikeMeWhenImAngry ticks said Red Lantern off all over again]]. Particularly notable in that the roles of [[RedOniBlueOni who would normally try to talk down an enemy vs impulsively attack without knowing what's going on]] would seem to be reversed from what you'd expect... and particularly ironic, since Simon gets frustrated with Jessica for doing ''exactly'' what he probably would have done had their situations been reversed.

* {{Retcon}}: Issue 9 reveals that Simon ''wasn't'' the first choice for Sinestro / Hal's merged ring. It had actually gone to Frank Laminski first... only to change its mind at the last minute.

* SpicyLatina: Subverted, hard. Jessica herself is as opposite the trope as you could get, being more introverted, cautious, insecure and shy. Even her more confident sister, Sara, is simply calmer and more self-assured, rather than a hot-blooded stereotype. The fact that they're both Latina is obvious from the fact that they have the last name "Cruz" and have [[AmbiguouslyBrown slightly darker skin tones]], but is otherwise ignored, at least within the first few issues.

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Between Simon and Jessica in the first arc, "Rage Planet"; mostly resolved by its end.
* TokenMinority: Played straight twice, in the sense that Simon Baz is the first Muslim member of the Green Lantern Corps and only the second non-white one (after John Stewart, who is black), while Jessica is [[TwoferTokenMinority both]] the [[AlwaysMale first female]] member from Earth and the first Hispanic one. Gradually averted in the series as a whole, however, as we're introduced to members of both of their families, some of whom, such as Jessica's sister Sara, are recurring characters.

* VariantCover: Every individual "floppy" format issue of the series so far has had one, including the so-called "one-shot"; the knowledge that the series would be released with Variant Covers probably only exacerbated the UnusualChapterNumbers-triggered issues noted above.

%%* TheDragon: Bleez (for Atrocitus) in the first arc.
%%* EmotionBomb: For rage, in spots all over the Earth, in the opening arc.

%%* GreatBigBookOfEverything: The Rings function like a non-paperbound version of this (combined with a touch of OmniscientDatabase, though we have yet to see this aspect in play as much as it has been in other Franchise/GreenLantern stories)... assuming one thinks to ask it anything.
%%** Assuming the Book of Oa still exists, it's an even more dead-on example of the trope; the Rings happen to be connected to it...if it still exists.

* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Bleez is this, as though she's not literally ''green'' it's still definitely not a color humans would come in. Then again, [[BizarreAlienBiology humans don't come with skeletal bat wings, either]].

%%* HeelFaceDoorSlam: For [[spoiler:the Red Lantern Bleez]], in issue #3. Even some of the readers who disliked some aspects of the issue found this section to be well done... and therefore ''heartbreaking''.
%%* HeelRealization: See "HeelFaceDoorSlam" example above, as it happens ''right'' before it.

%%* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: In Issue #4.

%%* InternalMonologue: Frequently, and for several different characters; see "MultipleNarrativeModes", below.

* SpicyLatina: Jessica herself is as opposite the trope as you could get, being more introverted, cautious, insecure and shy. Even her more confident sister, Sara, is simply calmer and more self-assured, rather than a hot-blooded stereotype. The fact that they're both Latina is obvious from the fact that they have the last name "Cruz" and have [[AmbiguouslyBrown slightly darker skin tones]], but is otherwise ignored, at least within the first few issues.

%%* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Between Simon and Jessica.

%%* VariantCover: For every issue including the "one-shot", which has probably only exacerbated the UnusualChapterNumbers-triggered issues noted above.

* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Frank Laminski is desperately driven by his desire to be somebody, ''anybody'', having focused his attention on becoming a Green Lantern ever since he was saved by Hal Jordan years ago. The problem is, he's a major-league {{Jerkass}} who'd never be suitable for Green Lantern membership.

** [[spoiler:The Phantom Ring arc has Frank Laminski.]]

This prompts Hal, in the opening "one-shot" chapter, to fuse their Power Batteries together so that they're forced to charge their [[GreenLanternRing Power Rings]] at the same time and place, ''forcing'' them to [[ThePowerOfFriendship learn to work together]]. Hal then [[HeroOfAnotherStory goes off to space on his own mission]], leaving [[YouAreInCommandNow Earth in their care]].

* BigBad: The [[Characters/GLRedLanternCorps Red Lantern Corps]], and most especially their leader Atrocitus, are responsible for the threats of the series' first arc.

At the start of the series, the central protagonists are rookie Earth-based Lanterns Jessica Cruz and Simon Baz, both of whom were previously introduced during ''New 52'' (albeit in completely different titles; Simon was in other ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'' books starting in 2012, but Jessica was originally introduced in the ''Justice League'' series - as Power Ring - in late 2014). Much like a Buddy Cop film, the two have vastly different personalities ([[RedOniBlueOni cautious vs impulsive]]), which ''hypothetically'' could complement each others'...assuming they [[TeethClenchedTeamwork don't rip each other apart in irritation first]], since they [[HeadbuttingHeroes fail to get along from the moment they meet]], and thus begin to blunder rather spectacularly.

* ActionDuo: With Jessica being the ActionSurvivor half and Simon being ActionHero half.

* BigBad: The [[Characters/GLRedLanternCorps Red Lantern Corps]], and most especially their leader Atrocitus, is this in the first arc.

** The "one-shot" - Hal Jordan fusing their Power Batteries together to force them to charge their Rings at the same time. Meant as a team-building exercise, but of course, this is a Green Lantern story, so several chapters later, one of them [[HourOfPower needs to charge theirs]] and the other is ...let's just say definitely unavailable at the time.
** Issue #1: The mention of "Rings" and a "Tower" and a "Blue Lady" by the angry redneck in Issue #1, considering he was ''infected with rage energy'', makes a lot more sense when we see Atrocitus monologueing about the Red Lanterns' plans. The "Tower" is a key component in the plan, the Blue Lady is one of the Red Lanterns, and the Red Lanterns use [[GreenLanternRing Power Rings]].
** An ironic ''subversion'' towards the end of the first arc: It's mentioned fairly early in the series that Simon carries a loaded handgun as a "backup" in case the Ring runs out on him, and Jessica calls him out on this, saying he's a hypocrite and calling him insecure for relying on it instead of his Ring. You would think, therefore, that when Simon's Ring begins to run out of charge, that he'd wind up using it...[[spoiler:he doesn't, though, because the person he'd have to use it on is ''his own partner'' and he's unwilling to do it]].
* ComicBookTime: Unsurprising for a Creator/DCComics series as the DCU pretty much runs on this, but it's pretty jarring when in the prologue one-shot, Simon Baz - who has been a character in the ''Green Lantern'' books since '''2012''' in RealLife publication times - is referred to as having been a Green Lantern for only a "few weeks" longer than Jessica Cruz. Speaking of which, subtler but still notable is that Jessica Cruz also only "recently" became a Green Lantern, as of the ''Green Lanterns'' books published in 2016. For some perspective, Jessica Cruz herself was introduced to the ''Justice League'' comics in late 2014 (by publication date)...yet it's implied that significantly less than a year has gone by since she was working with them. What happened to most of 2015?

* CoversAlwaysLie: More than one example, actually, though the worst one is ''definitely'' the fact that the ''Green Lanterns: Rebirth'' issue, which was [[BlatantLies described by the publisher as a "one-shot"]] actually includes a normal "issue numbering" circle up top with a "1" in it... ''as does the issue of the series that takes place after it''. Yes, really. Given that fans walked into the ''Rebirth'' event full well knowing there would be a Variant Cover for each issue of each series, ''including'' the "''Rebirth'' one-shots"? This probably caused more than a few people to [[NiceJobBreakingItHero accidentally skip the second issue in the series and go straight to the third one]] (which was, after all, [[ExactWords labeled as]] "Issue 2"). If you're wondering, the surefire way to tell the difference between the "one-shot" and the "real Issue 1" is this: the "one-shot" book that kicked the series off features a small ''Green Lanterns'' logo placed '''above''' a sizable ''Rebirth'' logo, while the issue that continues the story from that one's end has a small ''DC Universe Rebirth'' logo on '''top''', and a much larger ''Green Lanterns'' logo underneath that. Yes, really.
** Speaking of "Issue 2", a milder but equally perfect example comes with one of that one's covers (the one by Emanuela Lupacchino): leaving aside that there is at no point a [[RuleOfCool random green explosion of power coming from Jessica Cruz's chest]] within the issue itself, the part that makes it truly BlatantLies is that the ''other'', male Green Lantern on the cover is very definitely ''not'' Simon Baz, as he not only lacks Baz's ''extremely'' distinctive uniform, but also looks nothing like him (even the haircut is different!). If one had to guess based on appearances, he's ''probably'' supposed to be Hal Jordan...who has [[PutOnABus not appeared in the series]] since the end of the ''Green Lanterns: Rebirth'' one-shot.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: As to be expected from a series launched with two protagonists, natch. In the opening "Rage Planet" arc, there's slightly more focus on Simon's half to of the story, but Jessica's story is still a important - to the point of impacting the climax of the arc - thus making her this trope.

* TheDragon: Bleez (for Atrocitus) in the first arc.
* EmotionBomb: For rage, in spots all over the Earth, in the opening arc.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Several examples; there's the outright prophecies given by or visualized by both sides in the opening three chapters, there's the reference to the "Tower" and a "Blue Lady" in Issue #1 (who is in fact [[spoiler:later revealed to have been Bleez]])...and then there's the FiveSecondForeshadowing variation in Issue #3, with Jessica telling Simon she "doesn't feel well" literally only a ''page'' before [[spoiler: the Wham Shot of her attacking him, having been infected by the Rage herself. Should've listened to your partner, Simon...]].

* GreatBigBookOfEverything: The Rings function like a non-paperbound version of this (combined with a touch of OmniscientDatabase, though we have yet to see this aspect in play as much as it has been in other Franchise/GreenLantern stories)...assuming you think to ask it anything.
** Assuming the Book of Oa still exists, it's an even more dead-on example of the trope; the Rings happen to be connected to it...if it still exists.
* GreenLanternRing: Literally (and twice-over, since each of the central characters has one). To be expected, since it's a spin-off of the Trope Namer.

* HardLight: One of the famous functions of their literal {{Green Lantern Ring}}s is giving them the ability to make "constructs" out of this...though Jessica has trouble with making these for a number of issues due to "insufficient Willpower".
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: For [[spoiler:the Red Lantern Bleez]], in issue #3. Even some of the readers who disliked some aspects of the issue found this section to be well done...and therefore ''heartbreaking''.
* HeelRealization: See "HeelFaceDoorSlam" example above, as it happens ''right'' before it.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Played very straight. Hal Jordan shows up in the opening "one-shot"...for a few pages. His entire role is to tell the rookies how badly they just screwed up and why, order them to suck it up and learn to work together, fuse their power batteries together to force them to charge their Rings at the same time and place as each other to reinforce that order, and then promptly go off into space. JustifiedTrope, as he's going to off to investigate where all the other several ''thousand'' Green Lanterns have literally ''vanished'' to, which is covered in a separate book, ''ComicBook/HalJordanAndTheGreenLanternCorps''. He leaves Earth in their care because he ''has'' to.

** Poor Jessica gets a few of these throughout the "Rage Planet" arc, while trying to make her first construct.
** A certain Red Lantern gets one of these in Issue #3. (See below, in the InterruptedCooldownHug example, and above, in HeelFaceDoorSlam example)
** Simon gets one, too, towards the end of "Rage Planet", when he tries to [[spoiler:heal Atrocitus with the same power that let him cure both Jessica and Bleez of their Rage infections, and realizes that he can only go Beyond the Impossible so many times before he meets something ''actually'' Impossible - because it turns out Atrocitus' eons-old Rage is incurable by that method.]]

** PlayedForLaughs when we see Jessica showing off her new abilities to her sister. She asks the Ring to make her fly, which it does. She then asks it to put her [[ExactWords back on the ground]], which it also does...if you count "ramming her into the ground hard enough to make a small crater" as "putting her back on the ground" (which [[LiteralGenie apparently the Ring does]]).
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: In Issue #4.

** Issue #3 - Jessica can't quite manage to manifest HardLight constructs yet, so at one point in the issue she just uses her Ring to lift a copy machine and ram it into the enemy. The good news is, it worked! The bad news is...[[InterruptedCooldownHug it worked]].
* InternalMonologue: Frequently, and for several different characters; see "MultipleNarrativeModes", below.
* InterruptedCooldownHug: In Issue #3, when Simon attempts and [[BeyondTheImpossible succeeds at triggering]] a HeelFaceTurn in one of the Red Lanterns...until Jessica shows back up to "defend" him against the "enemy", and [[YouWontLikeMeWhenImAngry ticks said Red Lantern off all over again]] (See: HeelFaceDoorSlam example, above). Particularly notable in that the roles of [[RedOniBlueOni who would normally try to talk down an enemy vs impulsively attack without knowing what's going on]] would seem to be reversed from what you'd expect...and particularly ironic, since Simon gets frustrated with Jessica for doing ''exactly'' what he probably would have done had their situations been reversed.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Simon's characterization is ''exactly'' this trope. He's short-tempered, impulsive, acts arrogant to the point of being downright abrasive from the moment he and Jessica meet, and even [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking steals a teddy bear from wrecked store in the middle of a crisis]]. But he also shows signs of empathy for others at multiple points, including internally thinking that Jessica's reaction to her sister [[spoiler:being infected with Rage energy in Issue #2]] is not unreasonable even if it's ill-timed. In fact, the whole section in Issue #3 where he [[spoiler:heals Bleez of her Rage came about in the first place because, when faced with his own pain from her trying to infect him with the Rage too, it instead caused him to ''empathize'' with her and decide to try and help her. And then he outright ''prevents'' her from committing suicide after her Heel Realization, choosing instead to encourage her to move forward with her life, like he once did]]. Oh, and the reason he stole the teddy bear was because he wanted to give it to his young nephew for his birthday.

*** And then Issue #4 has Simon thinking almost literally ''the exact same thing'', after realizing his arrogance has screwed them both over [[spoiler:by ensuring that Jessica became susceptible to infection from the Rage energy right as his Ring was running out of battery life]].
* TheMillstone: Unfortunately, Jessica's lack of experience, lack of formal training, and insecurities lead to her being this fairly often in the opening issues. Issue #3 sports a particularly egregious case though, as she's [[spoiler:responsible for causing Bleez's Heel Face Turn to reverse itself, by attacking her ''after'' Simon has healed her...causing Bleez to get ticked off all over again and become consumed by the Red Power Ring-induced rage energy worse than ever. Considering that Bleez was already giving Simon valuable intel on how to stop Atrocitus' evil master plan for the Earth, this was a ''monumental'' screw-up on her part, and the fact that she was completely certain she was "protecting" her partner didn't help much, when their first real ally in the crisis was flying off vowing revenge for the perceived HeelFaceDoorSlam]]

* PoweredByAForsakenChild: During the opening arc, "Red Dawn", the Red Lantern Corps is revealed to be trying to [[EmotionBomb initiate]] a variant of this on Earth, by [[MoreThanMindControl stoking]] the native inhabitants' [[TeachHimAnger rage]] to create a new power source for their Rings.

* SpicyLatina: Completely and notably '''subverted/averted'''. Jessica herself is as opposite the trope as you could get, being more introverted, cautious, insecure and shy. Even her more confident sister, Sara, is simply calmer and more self-assured, rather than a hot-blooded stereotype. The fact that they're both Latina is obvious from the fact that they have the last name "Cruz" and have [[AmbiguouslyBrown slightly darker skin tones]], but is otherwise ignored, at least within the first few issues.
* SpinOff: Of ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'', with Jessica additionally being spun off from her tenure as a different hero in ''ComicBook/JusticeLeague''.

* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: Played straight...and addressed in an interesting way in Issue #3, where at that point, the only people investigating or handling the invasion of Earth by the Red Lantern Corps have been Simon, Jessica, and a handful of woefully outmatched, mundane police and FBI agents. The fact that there are other superheroes that aren't being put on this case is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] when Jessica outright mentions on the ''first page'' that they "should contact the Justice League, get a plan together, right?" Simon completely ignores the comment, though. [[spoiler:This is only one of several instances in a row where Simon barely listens, if at all, to Jessica, and blows off her instinctive urge to actually think things through and plan ahead. This tendency is something that's been causing tension between them...and which arguably leads to her getting infected with Rage at the end of the issue, seeing as her first post-infection words to him included: ''"This rookie is about to kick your ass!"'' ]]

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Between Simon and Jessica.

* UnusualChapterNumbers: The "''Rebirth'' one-shot" has a number 1 in the upper right corner of the cover...and yet the following issue does too, because it's considered the ''actual'' "Issue #1" in the series. See "Covers Always Lie" examples, above.
* VariantCover: For every issue including the "one-shot", which has probably only exacerbated the UnusualChapterNumbers-triggered issues noted above.

** The sight of the red light from the "rage spikes" as seen from space...which recognizably form [[BigBad the Red Lantern Corps emblem]]. Which, again, ''was visible from space''. This is accompanied by Jessica and Simon's Rings giving them a steadily increasing count of how many humans are "infected with rage"...

** The final page of the "Rage Planet" arc [[spoiler:which shows that the Red lanterns are succeeding in their plan after all, with the "Rage Seed" hatching, and presumably becoming a baby Butcher entity...which is ''developing inside the Earth's core'']].

->'''Jessica Cruz:''' [[HeroicWillpower Courage over fear]]. [[LightIsGood Light over darkness]]. [[SurvivalMantra I keep repeating these to myself so I don't feel so afraid]]. In Brightest Day, in Blackest Night.\\
'''Simon Baz:''' No evil shall escape my sight. [[SubvertedTrope Blah blah blah]]. Protect and serve. [[DeadpanSnarker You know the rest]].\\

* AssimilationBackfire: A rather spectacular example occurs in Issue #3, when a Red Lantern attempts to convert [[spoiler:Simon Baz by infecting him with Rage. Instead, he [[HeroicResolve fights back]] against it, [[TameHisAnger controls his anger]], and winds up choosing to try curing ''her'' of ''her'' Rage instead! ''[[BeyondTheImpossible Successfully]]''.]]

** An ironic ''subversion'' towards the end of the first arc: It's mentioned fairly early in the series that Simon carries a loaded handgun as a "backup" in case the Ring runs out on him, and Jessica calls him out on this, saying he's a hypocrite and calling him insecure for relying on it instead of his Ring. You would think, therefore, that when Simon's Ring begins to run out of charge, that he'd wind up using it...[[spoiler:he doesn't, though, because the person he'd have to use it on is ''his own partner'' and he's [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold unwilling to do it]].]]

* HeelFaceDoorSlam: For [[spoiler:the Red Lantern Bleez]], in issue #3. Even some of the readers who disliked some aspects of the issue found this section to be well done...and therefore ''[[TearJerker heartbreaking]]''.

** Simon gets one, too, towards the end of "Rage Planet", when he tries to [[spoiler:heal Atrocitus with the same power that let him cure both Jessica and Bleez of their Rage infections, and realizes that he can only go BeyondTheImpossible so many times before he meets something ''actually'' Impossible - because it turns out Atrocitus' eons-old Rage is [[OhCrap incurable by that method]].]]
* HowDoIShotWeb: Played straight, and ''how''. Jessica has [[EnsignNewbie never been properly trained]] in her new powers before being forced to protect the Earth alongside Simon and [[TheMillstone it shows]]. Not only does she struggle to make [[HardLight constructs]] in the early chapters, she actually notes at one point in her InternalMonologue that she had asked her Ring to tell her [[MrExposition everything about itself]], where she learned little tidbits like the "morphology" type and serial number of her Ring and how many other people had it before her. But not how to make constructs, which she apparently needs to learn for herself. Funnily enough, averted with Simon, who is the one who keeps gaining NewPowersAsThePlotDemands and getting confused by them. The reason being Jessica is the cautious planning type who tries to learn as much as possible before she acts, while Simon just hasn't ''thought'' to [[YouNeverAsked ask the Ring these things]] because he's more impulsive.
** [[RuleOfFunny Played for humor]] when we see Jessica showing off her new abilities to her sister. She asks the Ring to make her fly, which it does. She then asks it to put her [[ExactWords back on the ground]], which it also does...if you count "ramming her into the ground hard enough to make a small crater" as "putting her back on the ground" (which [[LiteralGenie apparently the Ring does]]).

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Simon's characterization is ''exactly'' this trope. He's short-tempered, impulsive, acts arrogant to the point of being downright abrasive from the moment he and Jessica meet, and even [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking steals a teddy bear from wrecked store in the middle of a crisis]]. But he also shows signs of empathy for others at multiple points, including internally thinking that Jessica's reaction to her sister [[spoiler:being infected with Rage energy in Issue #2]] is not unreasonable even if it's ill-timed. In fact, the whole section in Issue #3 where he [[spoiler: heals Bleez of her Rage came about in the first place because, when faced with his own pain [[AssimilationBackfire from her trying to infect him with the Rage too]], it instead caused him to ''empathize'' with her and decide to try and help her. And then he outright ''prevents'' her from committing suicide after her Heel Realization, choosing instead to [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming encourage her to move forward with her life, like he once did]].]] Oh, and the reason he stole the teddy bear was because he wanted to give it to his young nephew for his birthday.

*** And then Issue #4 has Simon thinking almost literally ''the exact same thing'', after realizing his arrogance has screwed them both over [[spoiler:by ensuring that Jessica became susceptible to infection from the Rage energy [[OhCrap right as his Ring]] was running out of battery life]].

* SpacePolice: Hal, Simon and Jessica all are members of the Green Lantern Corps, one of the Trope Codifiers. The series isn't so heavy in its early chapters on the "space" part since it's [[EarthIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse centered on Earth]], but both aspects get some play, with things like the Rings giving alerts and announcements in the form of "Codes" ("Code Red-12" is a spike of red-light-based Rage energy for instance), and often defining those Codes for their users in lawyer-speak (such as "Code Six Zero Three: Unlawful Execution" for a murder). The "Space" part comes into play more when they realize the Earth is being invaded, though, and Simon drags Jessica out to space to see [[spoiler:the massive number of Rage Spikes producing the Red Lantern Corps emblem across the face of the Earth]], as well as in the opening "one-shot" where Simon and Jessica are simultaneously called to see to a crashed alien ship [[spoiler:which turns out to be carrying a Manhunter robot. And also turns out to be a secret test, which they flunked by [[TheMillstone not figuring out how to work together]]. Oops]].

** The final page of Issue #3 [[spoiler: where Jessica is revealed to have just attacked Simon, having been infected with the Rage from the Red Lanterns' EmotionBomb]]
** The final page of the "Rage Planet" arc [[spoiler:which shows that the Red lanterns are succeeding in their plan after all, with the "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Rage Seed]]" hatching, and presumably becoming a baby Butcher entity...which is ''developing inside the Earth's core'']].

* FromBadToWorse: Though only loosely-referenced (and referenced more so in the other GL book, ''Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps''), most of the original Green Lantern Corps members have recently and suddenly vanished and the Central Precinct on Oa has apparently been ''destroyed'', leaving pretty much just Hal, Jessica and Simon. While Hal deals with/investigates that [[HeroOfAnotherStory off in his own book]], he leaves Earth with the two ''rookies'', both of whom already barely get along with each other...only for there to be an almost immediate invasion by the Red Lantern Corps, who want to turn the Earth into their new [[PoweredByAForsakenChild base/power source]].

* HeroOfAnotherStory: Played very straight. Hal Jordan shows up in the opening "one-shot"...for a few pages. His entire role is to tell the rookies how badly they just screwed up and why, order them to suck it up and learn to work together, fuse their power batteries together to force them to charge their Rings at the same time and place as each other to reinforce that order, and then promptly go off into space. JustifiedTrope, as he's going to off to investigate where all the other several ''thousand'' Green Lanterns have literally ''vanished'' to, which is covered in a separate book, ''Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps''. He leaves Earth in their care because he ''has'' to.

Of course, the moment he leaves, [[FromBadToWorse the rookie-protected planet gets invaded]] by the [[Characters/GLRedLanternCorps Red Lantern Corps]], because [[JurisdictionFriction they still are technically in charge of its sector]], and Hal broke [[ComicBook/LightsOut their agreement to have no active Green Lanterns]] in said sector.