History ComicBook / TheGreenLantern

* RealityEnsues: Hal lets an alien grow to immense size because he knows that he'll eventually collapse under his own weight because of SquareCubeLaw, which he directly namedrops.

[[folder: “Season Two”]]

* RealityEnsues: A political marriage meant to prevent war falls through because the bride and groom admit that they really don't like each other all that much. [[BlackComedy The war happens.]]

** In the penultimate issue, the Young Guardians state that they intend to fire Hal Jordan and replace him with Earth-based Lanterns who have less real self-determination to prevent future individualistic opposition to their collective behavioral authority. These being [[ComicBook/FarSector Sojourner Mullien]], [[ComicBook/GreenLanternLegacy Tai Pham]], and [[ComicBook/GreenLantern2021 Keli Quintela]].

*** In a HypocrisyNod, [[spoiler:Hector Hammond]] reveals that Abin Sur and the Green Lantern Corps saved Athmoora by effectively trapping it in its medieval times, stunting its societal growth so they won't even be able to move to inventing the steam engine. While Hal admits fault for never bothering to rectify Abin Sur's actions, he'll still defend it with all his heart, and Hal's Athmooran allies declare love for Athmoora the way it is. In other words, Grant Morrison admits fault to feeding into the nostalgia and StatusQuoIsGod doctrine of the comics industry but they still admit pride in what they had accompished in their writing career.

* TakeThat: While Morrison has Hal apologetically acknowledge his lack of presence and involvement in ''ComicBook/HeroesInCrisis'' and ''ComicBook/FlashForward'', it's somewhat also in a HereWeGoAgain, "eyes rolling" tone as Hal refers to it as "another meltdown or big crisis". And Barry shrugs that everyone's just waiting for yet another CosmicRetcon to [[ComicBook/DarkNightsDeathmetal sweep the]] [[ComicBook/DCInfiniteFrontier slate clean]].

*** There's also the jab against how Wonder Woman is often portrayed as a bloodthirsty barbarian, a trope that was very prevalent in [[Creator/GeoffJohns Geoff Johns's]] Comicbook/JusticeLeague.

* TakeThat: While Morrison has Hal apologetically acknowledge his lack of presence and involvement in ''ComicBook/HeroesInCrisis'' and ''ComicBook/FlashForward'', it's somewhat also in a HereWeGoAgain, "eyes rolling" tone as Hal refers to it as "another meltdown or big crisis". And Barry shrugs that everyone's just waiting for yet another CosmicRetcon to sweep the slate clean.

* PretenderDiss: [[spoiler:HijackedByGanon Hector Hammond]] wears an insultingly caricatured and transparent Sinestro disguise to remind both Hal and the audience who the modern Green Lantern's true first and oldest enemy is.

* [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl Always Save The Love Interest]]: Reconstructed. While something of a vagabond tomcat, Hal always prioritizes the safety of his various lovers over more pragmatic ways of resolving his missions. [[spoiler:Weaponeer 666]] on the other hand, willingly sacrifices [[spoiler:Sinestro's life]] for the opportunity to bring down Qward. And even that might not have been enough.

* [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl AlwaysSaveTheLoveInterest]]: Reconstructed. While something of a vagabond tomcat, Hal always prioritizes the safety of his various lovers over more pragmatic ways of resolving his missions. [[spoiler:Weaponeer 666]] on the other hand, willingly sacrifices [[spoiler:Sinestro's life]] for the opportunity to bring down Qward. And even that might not have been enough.

* SupermanSubstitute: Horribly subverted with Hyperman. He poses as a heroic figure, but he's actually a [[spoiler:meth-addicted]] serial killer.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Magic Lantern's oath clearly includes "[[PrecisionFStrike shit]]", but it's obscured by Star Sapphire's speech bubble.

* StrangerInAFamiliarLand: Earlier runs have been building towards this. By the time of New 52, Hals 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 and 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.

-->'''Hal''': We just can't cut it! No matter ''how'' hard we ''try''--- with our ethically sourced aftershave and woke credentials! It's the ''bad boy'' you ''really'' want
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: It turns out that Weaponeer 666 is having a secret tryst with the Antimatter Sinestro. [[spoiler:Sinestro dies in his arms and it's retroactively noted that 666 greatly fears [[TheLostLenore losing him]].]]

''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 his last mainstream comic work.

* ShoutOut: Again, a Grant Morrison work