History ComicBook / TheGreenLantern

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: [[spoiler:The GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Pengowirr is revealed to be the ArtificialIntelligence of Hal's power ring.]]
** Admittedly, there was some {{Foreshadowing}}. [[spoiler: "Pengowirr" is a SignificantAnagram of "power ring".]]

** Several to Creator/GeoffJohns's run:
*** A repeated BadassBoast that the Green Lantern Corps enjoys dishing out is about how [[ComicBook/BlackestNight they fought and exiled death itself]] and [[ComicBook/SinestroCorpsWar literally conquered fear]].

** While Morrison upfront states Issue #2 is [[TakeThat "almost a roast of modern comics"]], particularly ''ComicBook/BatmanTomKing'', ''ComicBook/SupermanBrianMichaelBendis'', ''ComicBook/HeroesInCrisis'', ''ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal'', and ''ComicBook/DarkNightsDeathMetal'', they also admit they're including their ''own'' contributions in that category. The "ever more gargantuan, more primordial, and above all, more reliably anthropomorphic supernonentities" the League has been facing a lot of recently can just as equally apply to Mandrakk, Monitor-Mind the Overvoid, true form Darkseid, and the Gentry as it applies to Barbatos, the World Forger, and Perpetua.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Everywhere Chriselon to Chaselon.

* UndercoverCopReveal: [[spoiler: Jordan's infiltration of the Blackstars is uncovered almost immediately.]]

[[folder: “Season Two”]]

** In Green Lantern: Blackstars on Vorr, planet of vampires, Belzebeth is getting married. Those in attendance include cameos from some famous vampires like [[ComicBook/IVampire Andrew Bennett]], ComicBook/{{Blade}}, ComicBook/{{Morbius}}, ComicBook/{{Vampirella}}, [[Film/WhatWeDoInTheShadows Viago, Vlad, Deacon,]] [[Film/InterviewWithTheVampire Lestat de Lioncourt, Louis de Pointe du Lac,]] [[Film/DarkShadows Barnabas Collins]], [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Edward Cullen]], Cassidy from Preacher, and course Belzebeth's father [[Characters/JusticeLeagueOfAmericaAntagonist Starbreaker]], with lip service paid to Film/CountYorga, Film/{{Martin}}, and [[ComicBook/FinalCrisis Mandrakk]].

* AllianceOfAlternates: The penultimate arc has Hal Jordan team up with multiple Lanterns from throughout the universe, including Leonard Lewis from the ''[[ComicBook/JustImagineStanLeeCreatingTheDCUniverse Just Imagine]]'' continuity, the Green Lantern of [[Creator/TangentComics Earth-9]], John Stewart's counterpart from Earth-23 (where the superheroes are predominantly black and Superman is President of the United States), the [[TwoFistedTales Earth-20]] counterpart of Abin Sur, Kai-Ro from the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse's [[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond future timeline]], Magic Lantern from Grant Morrison's run on ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'' and an original character named Spectra, who is likely a [[GenderFlip female version]] of Doctor Spectrum, the Green Lantern ersatz from Creator/MarvelComics' Justice League AlternateCompanyEquivalent the ComicBook/SquadronSupreme.

* AllianceOfAlternates: The penultimate arc has Hal Jordan team up with multiple Lanterns from throughout the universe, including Leonard Lewis from the ''[[ComicBook/JustImagineStanLeeCreatingTheDCUniverse Just Imagine]]'' continuity, the Green Lantern of [[Creator/TangentComics Earth-9]], John Stewart's counterpart from Earth-23 (where the superheroes are predominantly black and Superman is President of the United States), the [[TwoFistedTales Earth-20]] counterpart of Abin Sur, Kai-Ro from the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse's [[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond future timeline]], Magic Lantern from Grant Morrison's run on ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'' and an original character named Spectra, who is likely a [[GenderFlip female version]] of Doctor Spectrum, the Green Lantern equivalent from Creator/MarvelComics' Justice League AlternateCompanyEquivalent the ComicBook/SquadronSupreme.

* LawyerFriendlyCameo: Crowd shots on the vampire planet Vorr includes cameos by vampire characters not owned by DC, most notably Marvel Comics' ComicBook/{{Blade}} and ComicBook/{{Morbius}} the Living Vampire.

** In Green Lantern: Blackstars on Vorr, planet of vampires, Belzebeth is getting married. Those in attendance include cameos from some famous vampires like [[ComicBook/IVampire Andrew Bennett]], ComicBook/{{Blade}}, ComicBook/{{Morbius}}, ComicBook/{{Vampirella}}, [[Film/WhatWeDoInTheShadows Viago, Vlad, Deacon,]] [[Film/InterviewWithTheVampire Lestat de Lioncourt, Louis de Pointe du Lac,]] [[Film/DarkShadows Barnabas Collins]], [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Edward Cullen]], Cassidy from Preacher, and course Belzebeth's father [[Characters/JusticeLeagueOfAmericaAntagonist Starbreaker]], with lip service paid to Film/CountYorga, Film/{{Martin}}, and [[ComicBook/FinalCrisis Mandrakk]].

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It's intentionally unclear what actually ''happened'' in the Annual. The story itself is about radio-wave entities affecting the brains of the adult Jordans, causing them to pass out, attack Hal, and drop long-suppressed truth bombs, with only Hal, Harold and the kids unaffected. It turns out this is what Hal is telling them about why they don't remember the previous night (or possibly remember parts of it and would prefer not to), and he then demands the kids tell him what ''actually'' happened, since the adults have bought the cover story. It turns out that the black sheep of the family, Doug "Hip" Jordan, convinced them to spike the punch with something, for his own amusement. And then the final panels show a radio-wave entity on Hip's phone.

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It's intentionally unclear what actually ''happened'' in the Annual. The story itself is about radio-wave entities affecting the brains of the adult Jordans, causing them to pass out, attack Hal, and drop long-suppressed truth bombs, with only Hal, Harold and the kids unaffected. It turns out this is what Hal is telling them about why they don't remember the previous night, and he then demands the kids tell him what ''actually'' happened, since the adults have bought the cover story. It turns out that the black sheep of the family, Doug "Hip" Jordan, convinced them to spike the punch with something, for his own amusement. And then the final panels show a radio-wave entity on Hip's phone.

* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Pengowirr. She is a green-skinned alien with long black hair, a voluptuous body and {{Stripperiffic}} clothing that is [[FashionableAsymmetry asymmetrical]].

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: [[spoiler:The GreenSkinnedAlienBabe Pengowirr is revealed to be the ArtificialIntelligence of Hal's power ring.]]

** In Green Lantern: Blackstars on Vorr, planet of vampires, Belzebeth is getting married. Those in attendance include cameos from some famous vampires like [[ComicBook/IVampire Andrew Bennett]], ComicBook/{{Blade}} ComicBook/{{Morbius}}, ComicBook/{{Vampirella}}, [[Film/WhatWeDoInTheShadows Viago, Vlad, Deacon,]] [[Film/InterviewWithTheVampire Lestat de Lioncourt, Louis de Pointe du Lac,]] [[Film/DarkShadows Barnabas Collins]], Edward Cullen, and Cassidy from Preacher. Of course Belzebeth's father [[Characters/JusticeLeagueOfAmericaAntagonist Starbreaker]]

* SelfDeprecation: In his encounter with Zundernell, Hal complains about his shouting unintelligible exposition, a common criticism of some of Morrison's works.

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* TheCameo: Several figures bidding in the planetary auction are established criminals from the DC cosmos. The two primary bidders [[spoiler: before the Shepherd outbids everyone]] are the [[ComicBook/{{Invasion}} Dominators]] and [[ComicBook/NewGods Steppenwolf]], who both have [[SarcasmMode nothing but pleasant things in store for the human race]] [[spoiler: once they've gotten their hands on the planet Earth.]]

* SpellMyNameWithAThe: Morrison is insistent that the book be referred to as '''''The''' Green Lantern''.

* StrangerInAFamiliarLand: Earlier runs have been building towards this. By the time of New 52, Hal's personal life on Earth has pretty much fallen apart to the point that, when he's kicked out of the Corps, he finds he is this trope. He loses his job, his apartment, and he overall feels stranded on Earth, to the point that he jumps to the opportunity to work with Sinestro. A lot of stories since then have shown him leaving his responsibilities on earth and his position on the League to John, Simon or Jessica, as he feels more at home on Mogo. In the first issue of Season Two, John asks him when he's coming back to say hi to his friends on Earth, and he compares Earth to his childhood backyard when he didn't know there was a whole world out there. Later on in that issue, he shows a frown when he is given an assignment on Earth.

*** Then ComicBook/SupermanBrianMichaelBendis comments on what seems to be [[MametSpeak jabbering, snappy, quirky dialogue that takes a while to get to the point]] [[Creator/BrianMichaelBendis that's prevalent with him recently]].

*** It's noted how [[ComicBook/{{Batman|TomKing}} no longer seems to actually fight any crime but rather direct assaults to his personal well-being, with a direct reference to Creator/TomKing's tendency to repeat the phrase "breaking the bat" to emphasize how derivative and repetitive the whole shebang is at this point. And with Gotham plunged into yet another climactic chaos, Batman only has this to say:

** The Blackstars reveal to Hal that they have built the Miracle Machine from ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'', which itself is revealed to be the Genesis Box that Orion used to defeat Darkseid in the "Rock of Ages" arc of ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsJLA.

*** Then [[ComicBook/BrianMichaelBendisSuperman Superman]] comments on what seems to be [[MametSpeak jabbering, snappy, quirky dialogue that takes a while to get to the point]] [[Creator/BrianMichaelBendis that's prevalent with him recently]].

*** It's noted how [[ComicBook/BatmanRebirth Batman]] no longer seems to actually fight any crime but rather direct assaults to his personal well-being, with a direct reference to Creator/TomKing's tendency to repeat the phrase "breaking the bat" to emphasize how derivative and repetitive the whole shebang is at this point. And with Gotham plunged into yet another climactic chaos, Batman only has this to say:

''The Green Lantern'' is a comic book series published by Creator/DCComics, launched in 2018 and written by Creator/GrantMorrison and art by Liam Sharp. It's also been touted by Morrison as their last mainstream comic work.

* GenreThrowback: To TheSeventies Denny O'Neill and Neal Adams Green Lantern/Green Arrow comics and TheEighties Creator/VertigoComics era based on the likes of Creator/AlanMoore.

* GenreThrowback: To TheSeventies Denny O'Neill and Neal Adams Green Lantern/Green Arrow comics and TheEighties Creator/{{Vertigo}} era based on the likes of Creator/AlanMoore.