History Fanfic / WithThisRing

* UnderworldRiver: The river Lethe is used by Hades to remove the memories of souls who choose reincarnation. However, during one of Paul's visits to Erebos, he finds Hecate and Eris hosting a pool party to celebrate finding a way to purify the water -- with the byproduct being a potent mind-wipe residue.

The first eleven threads were posted on Website/SpaceBattlesDotCom. For [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/with-this-ring-young-justice-si-thread-twelve.25032/ Thread Twelve]] and [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/with-this-ring-young-justice-si-thread-thirteen.49418/ Thread Thirteen]], Mr. Zoat moved the story's updates to another forum, Sandbox/SufficientVelocityDotCom, with [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/with-this-ring-young-justice-si-story-only.25076/ an accompanying story-only thread]]. [[https://forum.questionablequesting.com/threads/with-this-ring-young-justice-si-thread-fourteen.8938/ Thread Fourteen]] and [[https://forum.questionablequesting.com/threads/with-this-ring-young-justice-si-story-only.8961/ the Second Revised Story Only]] onwards are on Questionable Questing, due to him being banned from Sufficient Velocity.

His presence, [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall meta-knowledge]], and [[PersonOfMassDestruction powers]] have increasing [[ForWantOfANail ripple effects]] as time goes on, thoroughly altering or derailing many canon events and exploring the wider DC universe. He works with the Team for a year, setting the Light's plans back and refining his skills, then goes out into space to recover the Orange Central Power Battery, form a [[TheChosenMany Lantern Corps]], and lead a war against [[EvilEmpire the Reach]]. Along the way, he recruits, fights, negotiates and argues with characters from all walks of the DC multiverse, as prominent as the Guardians or as obscure as Lord Manga Khan, and quite a few original characters as well.

The first eleven threads were posted on [[Website/SpacebattlesDotCom Spacebattles]]. For [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/with-this-ring-young-justice-si-thread-twelve.25032/ Thread Twelve]] and [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/with-this-ring-young-justice-si-thread-thirteen.49418/ Thread Thirteen]], Mr. Zoat moved the story's updates to another forum, Sufficient Velocity. [[https://forum.questionablequesting.com/threads/with-this-ring-young-justice-si-thread-fourteen.8938/ Thread Fourteen]] and [[https://forum.questionablequesting.com/threads/with-this-ring-young-justice-si-story-only.8961/ the Second Revised Story Only]] onwards are on Questionable Questing, due to him being banned from Sufficient Velocity.

''[[https://forum.questionablequesting.com/threads/with-this-ring-young-justice-si-story-only.8961/ With This Ring]]'' is a [[SelfInsertFic Self-Insert]] ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' fanfic written by [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/members/mr-zoat.282476/ Mr Zoat]]. It features him as [[{{Greed}} Orange]] [[Franchise/GreenLantern Lantern]] 2814, and a founding member of [[Characters/YoungJustice2010TheTeam The Team]], after he mysteriously appears in near-Earth space wearing a power ring at the beginning of July 2010 (canon season 1). His presence, [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall meta-knowledge]], and [[PersonOfMassDestruction powers]] have increasing [[ForWantOfANail ripple effects]] as time goes on, thoroughly altering or derailing many canon events and exploring the wider DC universe; he works with the Young Justice team for a year, setting the Light's plans back and refining his skills, then goes out into space to recover the Orange Central Power Battery, form a [[TheChosenMany Lantern Corps]], and lead a war against [[EvilEmpire the Reach]].

''To wick what is mine, that is my right!"''

For an in-depth archive/collection of chapters, omakes, etc., try the wiki [[http://wtr.greenmaw.com/wiki/Main_Page/ here.]]

!!''With This Ring'' contains examples of:
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* AccidentalPervert: When Paul was [[spoiler:possessed and]] looking for the League of Shadows, his construct eyes being everywhere accidentally caught Beatriz da Costa in the shower. He didn't originally remember, but [[spoiler:Ophidian did and "helpfully" reminded him]].
* AccidentalPublicConfession: While discussing Paul's candidacy in the League, Wonder Woman puts a call from him on speaker without him knowing. So everyone ended up finding out the harrowing details of the second Cadmus clone and him calling them out on missing it.
* AccompliceByInaction: In both timelines, Orange Lantern is infuriated that the Justice League lets Nabu possess Zatara without concern for Zatara himself. This is made ''especially'' evident when Paul and Zatanna had to find out from the news that Nabu was made a member of the Justice League.
--> '''Paul:''' I don't know [[red:what the rest of you who were there were thinking]]. I-. But I've thought about it. And I haven't been able to come up with anything which [[red:suggests competence or moral probity]]. [[red:Not without being ''very'' charitable]].
* AccusationFic:
** The author really shows what almost all analytical and objective Young Justice fans/viewers really think of the children's show: It was fun to watch during the first season , but the absurdly ridiculous incompetence of the Justice League and the "Team" as a whole just for narrative value was ''almost literally'' painful to watch, character development that should have had a lot more input from their mentors, father figures and real parents, the fact that there are mass tragedies treated as just another day on the job (like a divided world that would obviously cause millions of deaths) and then are immediately forgotten, the absurd levity and submission that the members of the Justice League impose themselves on the shamelessly corrupt government (Even those who are rulers of their nations like Wonder Woman, an ambassador and princess of Themyscira, and Aquaman the KING of Atlantis constantly bowing his head, humbling himself and giving in to the every whim of literally every despicable politician in the US government is absolutely ridiculous), the way they treat a "normal" person with training as being obviously superhumans who need nothing more than their fighting skills to save the world, the absurdity of them finding the justified and legalized use of lethal force an affront to all that is good in the world, etc, etc, etc. This fanfic is perfect for anyone who wants a very logical and serious approach to the DC Universe, basically being a "Fuck You Idiot Plot: The Fanfiction"!
** Calls out the League on how they fumbled with Superboy: while Paul admits that Superman doesn't have to get involved, it doesn't excuse how no one bothered to check up on Superboy. Paul had Miss Martian check his mind for implanted triggers and help integrate his psychically implanted knowledge. It's only through Orange Lantern, Miss Martian and Wonder Woman's efforts that Superboy isn't the maladjusted, angry mess that he was in canon.
** The League gets another massive call-out for their mishandling of the Cadmus investigation.
** Paul and Zatanna lose faith in the League when they have to find out from the '''news''' that Nabu, the creature that kidnapped Zatanna's father, is being allowed into the League.
** In a subversion, however, all of their points of view on these issues are eventually elaborated on (Paul talks to each League member about it one by one), their actions or inaction explained (eg the Hawks were apparently biding their time while coming up with a plan, and Icon didn't realise it was possible to do anything for Giovanni), and blame accepted where it's warranted--though in many cases, the true problems are identified as organizational/operational flaws that, much like in RealLife, tend to happen with new, novel organizations tackling unusual problems.
* AchillesHeel:
** Initially, Orange Lantern (OL) has absolutely no ability to resist magic, meaning spells that others would shrug off were crippling to him. Chaos magic was even worse, as it could ignore his shields. Paragon!OL rectified this with a high-grade defensive magical amulet from Atlantis, but that only protects him from direct magical attacks, leaving magic-users one of his worst match-ups. [[spoiler:He grows out of it thanks to the Ophidian giving him a soul and lending her assistance with her resistance, though some skilled magicians can get around it.]] The Renegade overcomes this weakness by [[spoiler:becoming a New God]].
** Paul initially has a huge weakness to telepathic attacks. In a fight with Miss Martian she easily takes control of him. Paragon!OL combats this with a telepathy baffler he makes with his ring, though it must have been made beforehand. The Renegade rectifies this by getting [[TrainingFromHell training from Manchester Black]].
*** [[spoiler:As Psimon learns the hard way, Paul is extremely strong against mindscape attacks because anyone invading his mind on that level also gets to fight Ophidian.]]
** He also employs clever tactics, advanced constructs, and sophisticated attacks as standard, but as a result he is easily flustered by direct, intense pressure that doesn't give him time to think or plan. This is in contrast to Green Lanterns, who are typically quite adept at simply reacting without thinking in combat.
* AdaptationExpansion: The storyline is considerably more detailed than canon, even before it starts filling in the five-year TimeSkip, and characters on both the heroic and villainous sides are pulled in from across the DC Universe, including some ''remarkably'' obscure parts of it. [[ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}} John Constantine]]? Virtually a main character. Cornwall Boy? Joined the team. The Un-Men? The Martian Womanhunter? Present and accounted for...
* AdaptationalBadass:
** Following in Young Justice tradition, Onomatopoeia. In the comics, a guy with a gimmick. Here? A powerful magic user that uses onomatopoeia as the incantations for his spells.
** And also Dark Druid. In the comics, he was a villain from the U.K. and thus barely even mentioned. [[spoiler:Here, there are hints at him being a herald of the Black Lantern Corps]].
* AdaptationalConsent: InUniverse with the Amazon play "the Foolish Prince." In the earlier variants of the play, the titular prince raped the foreign queen's daughter. In the modern version starring Paul, the most Prince Pavlos does is hold hands with the daughter and stay out all night stargazing before [[SleepCute literally sleeping together.]]
* AdaptationalHeroism:
** Teekl was Klarion's familiar and would help him attack others. As OL's construct, she assists him in fighting and acts as an [[EvilDetectingDog Evil Detecting Cat]].
** Teth Adam was a vicious AntiHero or super villain driven by his DeliberateValuesDissonance and even committed genocide. Teth Adom is far more open minded to modern values due to his 80-year rule as pharaoh, who tries to help Kahndaq by overthrowing its dictator [[spoiler:and is elected Kahndaq's president]].
** Komand'r of Tamaran is [[spoiler: Paul's first Lantern recruit, with her sister Koriand'r being second]]. With her own path to glory clearly laid out and no need to compete with her sister for it, she's much more mellow than canon; still ruthless, but not driven to revenge on her family. Finding a way to fix her solar powers helps still further.
** Ranx the sentient city, it turns out, just wanted a decent crew. [[spoiler: Upon being recruited for the Orange Lantern Corps and turned into a bustling shipyard, he/it is extremely content and helpful.]]
** Prince Ragnar of Betrassus' overarching desire was always to become a Lantern, but in canon, that resulted in him getting a ''[[ThePowerOfHate red]]'' ring. Here, [[spoiler: one of Larfleeze's lost rings is drawn to his desire, and upon learning about it, Paul recruits him into the Corps. Ragnar is initially skeptical about the orange light, but upon seeing Paul's skills and experiencing what his own ring is really capable of, he becomes enthusiastic.]]
** The Ophidian, embodiment of avarice, takes a liking to Paul after he frees her from her imprisonment and proves to be an effective wielder of her light. [[spoiler:They also spend some time [[FusionDance melded together]], which lets them better appreciate each other's points of view.]] As a result, she is much more inclined to be patient and relaxed than in canon; she wants to own everything, but is willing to see the bigger picture, e.g. recognising that it's better to let people be themselves than to change them, because people are unique and damaging what they were means it's something ''you can never have again''. Also, since Paul is ''hers'', she has no problem with letting him access her power; that merely means that what is hers becomes greater.
* AdaptationalVillainy:
** Nabu's actions are not excused as a necessary evil; he is fully portrayed as villainous and needing to be stopped.
** Klarion has always been a villain, but he is by far worse in this version. He's actually a Lord of Chaos, an opposite to Doctor Fate, making him easily one of the most powerful magic users in existence.
* AdaptationalWimp: In canon Young Justice, Wolf is, well, a super-powered wolf, with all that that implies. Here, she's just a wolf pup -- a super-strong one, but a pup nonetheless.
* AesopAmnesia:
** Paul learns that he needs to take off the ring and be himself to distance himself from the ring's influence when it started to negatively impact his mind after he was nearly killed in a home invasion. He stops an episode after when he gets caught off guard, though later text does imply that he kept up the practice.
** Paul and co. find out through various means that the Belle Reve penitentiary is highly likely to be compromised and so a mass-escape is also likely to be brewing there. They still let it happen and have to deal with the fallout. (In fairness, Paul had already considered the possibility and decided that the breakout itself was less of a concern than the forces behind it.)
* AllForNothing: Paul [[spoiler:[[FusionDance merges]] with the Ophidian]] to save his surviving friends and Earth from an AlienInvasion during its DarkestHour, only to find it was never real and no one was in danger.
* AlliterativeName: One of Artemis's grandmothers, Cynthia Crock.
* AllMythsAreTrue: Played with. Just becomes myths are generally true, doesn't mean they are [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/with-this-ring-young-justice-si-thread-twelve.25032/post-6341179 entirely accurate]].
* AllThereInTheManual: Sometimes Zoat's replies to comments in the thread include worldbuilding tidbits, or [[SpoiledByTheManual hints about future events]] such as the Renegade's storyline ending with him "shouting at the Source Wall" and new members of the team being hinted at in zeta-tube designation lists [[spoiler:including [[ComicBook/BlackAdam Osiris]], ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}, [[WesternAnimation/GreenLanternTheAnimatedSeries Ghia'ta]] becoming Star Sapphire, and [[ComicBook/GreenLantern Arisia Rabb]]]].
* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: Satanus does this during ''Undermined'' by attacking virtually every hero's base of operation at once.
* AlternateTimeline: The "Mandated" episode created an alternate timeline where China dominated the world. The local copy of Paul, upon arrival in orbit, was confused to find an apparent DC Comics universe where he didn't recognise anything on Earth.
* AlternateUniverse:
** Justified in that Paul is stranded in a universe where there are [[FantasyKitchenSink superheroes, magic, aliens, and etc.]]. Though there are interesting differences from our world (see DifferentWorldDifferentMovies): there is a Pope Pius XIII; UsefulNotes/RichardDawkins apparently doesn't exist or didn't became very important (likely because of the universe's aforementioned FantasyKitchenSink which makes Dawkins' outspoken skepticism totally irrelevant), and the [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror September 11 attacks]] never happened because the UsefulNotes/SovietInvasionOfAfghanistan was avoided. The 2008 global financial crisis was also averted [[spoiler:by the Greek god Ploutos, posing as a financial advisor]].
** There are apparently two universes the stories take place in - the main one, and a second world where Paul takes more actions that could be termed [[Franchise/MassEffect renegade]], such as turning Sportsmaster into a construct, trying to steal tech from the New Gods, injecting himself with Venom Buster, and eventually calling himself [[Characters/NewGodsApokolips Grayven]].
** More recently, there have been additional "What if Paul had acted differently?" chapters.
*** "Sybarite" never visited Alan Scott, instead recharging the ring by consuming demons. This altered his personality, leaving him basically interested in uplifting humanity, but lazy, greedy, and promiscuous.
*** "Common Sense Paul" made a number of more sensible decisions than Paragon, such as immediately speaking up upon realising that he was being assigned to a team of teenagers. He has averted a number of canon events, such as the Team's memory loss, the doomed training scenario, the split world, and possibly the entire Reach invasion.
** And there is the [[MirrorUniverse Crime Syndicate]] universe (aka Earth -14), which takes place before and after the events of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueCrisisOnTwoEarths''. Here, Paul is a Blue Lantern, who goes by the name of Power Ring and is a Made Man of Ultraman, and is technically babysitting the more adolescent tempered Young Offenders. This Paul has travelled to Earth 16 and met the SI.
** ''Fool's Canon'' brings in other alternate Pauls with different power rings in the wider multiverse.
*** An Anti-Green Lantern Paul, who is a reluctant villain that is [[BlessedWithSuck being controlled by his power ring]], in a version of the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse in which it includes Cyborg being a founding member of the Justice League and a abundance of sidekicks closely participating in the League.
*** A Red Lantern Paul exists in the regular ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' universe.
*** An Indigo Lantern Paul who is in ''ComicBook/TheBoys'' universe.
** Earth's Orangest Hero shows a version of Paul in the WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes universe, where he recharges his ring using a Lantern provided by Hela. He has adopted Rogue (since his ring can protect him from her involuntary life draining touch), and informed Magneto about the existence of microbes that cause people to be [[FantasticRacism biased against mutants]].
** ''Doppelgängered'' includes a Paul who arrived many years earlier on Earth 12, but with no way to recharge the ring, so instead of becoming a superhero, he went into business hiring semi-stable [[MadScientist mad scientists]] to make their technology widely available.
** InUniverse April 1, 2012 has two episodes introducing more crossovers:
*** Paul in Eternia, home of WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse, recharges his orange ring using the Basophil Amulet, and is seen visiting an imprisoned sorceress to offer her power and fame if she'll [[HeelFaceTurn switch sides]].
*** The VideoGame/{{Fallout}} future, where Paul's orange ring has run out of charge, but he first used it to gain access to alien technology that can give humans telepathic and telekinetic powers.
*** The world of TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy constantly recharges Paul's orange ring from the Warp. He has amassed a great army of assimilated Construct-Lanterns, and is gathering allies to help him kill the gods of chaos.
** There are even some crossover segments with alternate universes from [[RecursiveFanfiction other fanfic]]:
*** Episode 97, Duplication, comes to a climax in the universe of ''Fanfic/{{Inviolate}}'', and that version of Lex Luthor is later stranded in the Renegade timeline.
*** An "eight years later" snippet sees Paul visiting a fellow SelfInsert (rather to the displeasure of that character) at the beginning of ''[[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/i-want-to-see-you-smile-yj-lantern-si-non-standard-teal-ring.340678/ I Want To See You Smile]]''.
* AlternateUniverseReedRichardsIsAwesome:
** Paul plans to invoke the trope by using his powers and convincing other people (both heroes and villains) to help improving and advancing Earth. For example he single-handedly cleaned up the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch Great Pacific rubbish patch]] and cleared Earth's orbit of space debris.
** He was also working on a plan to re-ice the poles using appropriated ice villain tech [[spoiler:until the Silver City destroyed his equipment]].
* AndIMustScream: Michael Siskin was one of the psychics used to create Terror Thing, only his soul was trapped inside and couldn't get out again.
* AndroidsArePeopleToo: Despite their friends treating Firebrand and Red Tornado as people, the U.S. government ruled that they're not. This is brought up and fixed by Paul and Lex Luthor by the time of ''Bindings''.
* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing:
** The Renegade gets quite a lot of fan mail for [[spoiler:killing Klarion on live television]]. Even from governments.
** Lantern Xor's efforts cause the Alignment to collapse into civil war. Their neighbours are quite pleased, and Paul makes a note to send him a card.
* AngerBornOfWorry:
** [[MagiciansAreWizards Zatara]] isn't too impressed by Paul's association with [[ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}} John Constantine]], mainly because he knows what happens to people who work with [[DoomMagnet John]] or owe him favors. [[spoiler:When he learns that Paul had John give him magical tattoos that will help him develop a soul he freaks out and rushes to the cave to make sure that Paul isn't about to suffer some horrible fate in the near future.]]
** Becomes something of a BrickJoke when Paul [[spoiler:merges with the [[EldritchAbomination Ophidian]]]] and Zatara assumes that he's been possessed by a demon because of the tattoos. Paul[[spoiler:phidian]] then scans his soul and discovers that his main desire at the time involves strangling Constantine with his bare hands. [[spoiler:Ironically enough, he later ends up slowly becoming a demon ''because'' those tattoos absorb energy from Hell while he's there.]]
* AngerIsHealthyAesop: The series includes occasional snippets from an AlternateUniverse where the protagonist obtained a ''[[ThePowerOfHate red]]'' power ring, instead of orange, and became a bounty hunter/assassin. Despite the inherently violent nature of his powers, he not only remains stable, but achieves [[EnlightenmentSuperpowers a state of enlightenment]], comparable to the main protagonist, and establishes a happy family with Blackfire -- whom he credits with giving him the courage to freely express his anger.
--> '''Red Lantern:''' The point I was making is that I've learned to '''act''' when I'm angry. The things that make me angry are -I '''think'''- things that a right-thinking person would get angry about, but condition themselves to accept.
* AntiMagicalFaction:
** Islam on Earth 16 is [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/with-this-ring-young-justice-si-thread-twelve.25032/post-5949564 very anti-magic]].
*** Some imams are [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/with-this-ring-young-justice-si-thread-twelve.25032/post-5950954 trying to change this]].
*** Being so strictly against magic [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/with-this-ring-young-justice-si-thread-twelve.25032/post-5951110 has some issues]].
** Evangelicals are the same, while Christianity [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/with-this-ring-young-justice-si-thread-twelve.25032/post-5950524 used to be this]].
*** It's later explained that for Christianity, this is due to experience with [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/with-this-ring-young-justice-si-thread-twelve.25032/post-5951622 mostly demonic magic]].
* AnvilOnHead: One of Klarion's minions tries to drop a million-ton weight on John Constantine while the two are wrestling to take control of Klarion's full power. Paul can't just catch that much; he has to use gravity-modifying constructs.
* ApocalypseHow: Being set in a DC Comics universe, naturally these are averted on a regular basis, but there are a few notable examples.
** ApocalypseHow/Class1: The world is not the same after [[spoiler:Klarion divides adults from children, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths]], with everyone taking magic more seriously and governments scrambling to adapt to the new threat. It changes further in the Paragon timeline when [[spoiler:the Sheeda Harrowing causes massive casualties all over the world]].
** ApocalypseHow/Class4: The [[spoiler:Citizenry, a spacefaring nation of cannibalistic warrior women,]] entirely depopulates worlds of sentient life.
** ApocalypseHow/Class5: [[spoiler:The Psion "Wombworld"]] remains in one piece but is completely slagged, leaving nothing alive. It's not clear whether any bacteria survived, leaving open the possibility that it was actually ApocalypseHow/Class6.
** Scope: Stellar, Severity: Species Extinction. Both the Paragon and Renegade pull this on [[spoiler:the Citadel Empire, wiping them out from the Vega Systems]].
** ApocalypseHow/ClassX: Well, [[spoiler:Pluto wasn't officially a planet anyway]], right?
** ApocalypseHow/ClassX2: [[spoiler:The Orrery, an ancient artefact used to create the Vega Systems,]] is capable of this if misused. [[spoiler:Grayven 16 begins smashing suns together, but doesn't finish the job before the Renegade interrupts him.]]
** ApocalypseHow/ClassX4: [[spoiler:Starbreaker consumed not only all the stars and planets in the universe apart from Earth (which he was devouring slowly), but even ''space itself'', with the Source Wall now being a small shell around what's left of the solar system. The Renegade and Artemis are hopeful that the process can be gradually reversed after his death.]]
* TheApprentice: Once the war against the Reach starts getting serious, and Paul's exotic abilities with the orange light take on strategic importance, he offers to make Vran Gozzi his acolyte and try to teach her his skills. As a Coluan, she's already [[SuperIntelligence smarter than most humans]], making her an effective regular Lantern, but he wants to find out whether it's possible to achieve Orange Enlightenment without bonding to the Ophidian.
* ArbitrarilyLargeBankAccount: Paul uses his ring to mine asteroids for gold and platinum, giving him effectively unlimited cash. When he checks how much he could actually make that way, the ring informs him that that much currency doesn't exist, but the total value would make him about 5 times richer than the Earth. He's held back from using it mostly by the fact that with the ring, he doesn't ''need'' to buy things for himself; anything he really wants, he can just create. He does pay well when hiring specialist help, though (usually regarding magic).
* ArbitrarySkepticism:
** Wonder Woman briefly doubts the existence of a Zombie Green Lantern. Paul responds that there have been ''far'' stranger lanterns, listing off that there have been lanterns who have been a Mathematical Equation, a Robot, a Squirrel, a Plant, and a Planet (and yes, ''[[ShownTheirWork all of those are canon]]'').
** When Kid Flash decides to go on his "Magic isn't real" rant just before the battle with Klarion, Paul points out that not only ''is'' it real, but that several League members and Aqualad are all proficient in its use.
* ArchaicWeaponForAnAdvancedAge: Deconstructed and reconstructed.
** Green Lanterns need to be able to thoroughly visualise their constructs, so simple shapes like swords and shields actually make some sense. Though Paul still considers them signs of a rookie, or of damaged equipment in the case of Alan Scott.
** Orange Lanterns don't have the same limitation as green, so Paul is less understanding of Lantern Ragnar creating a construct sword.
---> '''Paul''': Use a ''gun'' you prat!
** Paul doesn't think highly of Green Arrow and Artemis wielding "a bent stick that fires pointy sticks." Green Arrow explains that a bow is easier to own, conceal, and explain than a gun. Paul still thinks that they could do better, but settles for enhancing Artemis' capabilities in other ways.
** Paul is attacked by a rogue group of Orange Lanterns using Nth Metal cutlasses, which he collects after the fight. He's mostly interested in them for the market value of the metal, but he actually has to pull them out to pierce some types of exotic defences.
---> All that time I spent trying to get the princesses '''not''' to use melee weapons…\\
I take an Nth metal cutlass off my equipment harness and ''charge''.
* ArmorIsUseless:
** Thoroughly [[AvertedTrope averted]] by Orange Lantern, who wears high grade body armor under his Ring-generated armor, which winds up saving his life many times over. He also [[LampshadeHanging points out]] that Robin and Kid Flash have Kevlar incorporated in their costumes, later convinces Kaldur to wear Ocean Master's armor in battle after he claimed it as spoils of war, and arranges for Artemis and Zatanna to acquire proper armor of their own. And Kon, despite the whole "near-invulnerable kryptonian" thing, receives a set of armor made with Nth metal in the Paragon timeline, increasing his durability and allowing him the power of flight. In the Renegade timeline, the whole team gets Apokoliptian armor, giving far better protection than anything Earth can build. On top of all that, when stealth goes out the window, one of the first things Paul usually does is cover the entire team in construct-armor. So far [[VoluntaryShapeshifting M'gann]] is the only one he hasn't convinced to wear extra plating in the field, and that's more of her powerset not being suitable for it than anything else.
** When Zatanna brings up Wonder Woman fighting crime in what is essentially a leotard, Paul points out that not only could Wonder Woman, quote, "Tank anti-armour rounds ''naked''", but her armor was forged by the Greek God of the forge and is actually of higher quality than his own.
** Played with in regards to head covering and hand coverings; Paul deems the loss of awareness and dexterity far more deleterious to his survival than a minor increase in protection. He later produces PoweredArmor that includes a fully covering helmet with 360-degree vision coverage.
** Had Prince Orm worn gauntlets with his Ocean Master armor, he probably wouldn't have lost his hands.
* AssassinationAttempt: The Reach ''really'' want Paul dead.
** The Reach fleet that attacks the Leentniar is rigged with [[spoiler:large amounts of qwa-matter, vaporising Paul's body in a colossal detonation when he destroys them. His soul is able to attach itself to a clone, though, and eventually makes a more-or-less full recovery]].
** When he's visiting Yuna, [[spoiler:a Reach task force fires on the building he's in with a FasterThanLight beam weapon. Fortunately he was already suspicious of their arrival and had raised a shield]].
* AssholeVictim: Several examples.
** Sportsmaster and Bane become the Renegade's constructs.
** Prince Orm loses his hands after he takes the pregnant Queen Mera hostage, and is executed for high treason [[spoiler:only to be brought back from the dead later on]].
** Theodore Adam gets his soul eaten when he loses his trial by Adom's gods.
** According to Adom, his father was so awful that even the Wizard thought he deserved Adom killing him.
** [[spoiler:Wotan, Felix Faust and Wizard are executed by the Chinese government in the Renegade timeline for their part in causing a global genocide of children.]]
** Klarion in the Paragon timeline [[spoiler:has his connection to the Plane of Chaos, and thus his power, hijacked and stolen by John Constantine]]. For extra poetic justice, [[spoiler:the process renders Klarion's body soulless and comatose, at Paul's mercy - just as Paul's lack of a soul originally made him defenseless against Klarion's magic]]. In the Renegade timeline, [[spoiler:Klarion is decapitated with the Sword of the Fallen, which strips him of his power and reincarnates him as a regular mortal man, after which the Renegade visits him in prison and assimilates him to finish the job]]. Since he was the mastermind behind splitting the world and killing hundreds of thousands of children, both versions of Paul consider him an entirely acceptable target.
** The Citadelians have forcibly reduced Tamaran to pre-spaceflight technology, and take many of their people as slaves. Their empire gets decimated by Paul in both timelines.
** The Renegade pauses his assault on the Psion wombworld to question some of the Psions about their attitudes to other species. When it becomes clear that the Psion he's talking to is an unrepentant sadist who likes to dissect other sapients just to prove his dissection skills (and because he doesn't value their lives at all), the Renegade [[KilledMidSentence cuts the conversation short]].
* AstralProjection: A number of magic-users are capable of this, though Paul notes that the Atlanteans have it down to a science compared to surface occultists.
* AttackOnOneIsAnAttackOnAll: The Spider Guild takes this overall philosophy when colonizing the galaxy. They're pretty relaxed about minor scuffles, and not overly friendly to each other, but if someone wipes out an established Nest, they can expect retaliation in force, and the Spiders' total force is considerable.
* AuthorAppeal:
** Wonder Woman's [[AscendedExtra increased presence]] as OL's mentor is due to this as well as Black Canary's [[DemotedToExtra decreased prominence]].
** Paul can't use paper money at first, since his faith in fiat currency was destroyed by the subprime crisis and the ring just keeps destroying it. [[note]]So he uses coins made of precious metals instead.[[/note]] After New Year's, he mentions in the narration that Earth-16 apparently never actually ''had'' that crisis, due to legislation with unusually bipartisan support that he resolves to look into later. [[spoiler:Turns out Ploutus, Roman god of Wealth, is posing as a prominent economist to help steer the global economy away from such things.]]
* AuthorFilibuster: PlayedForLaughs when Paul goes over defending Guy Fawkes Night with Zatanna. He then shortly starts criticizing the American Revolution (as "complete nonsense you lot get taught about British colonial policy") until being interrupted by Kid Flash.
* AvengersAssemble: When the Justice League is mind-controlled by the Light, the Team gathers the Frees, Firebrand, Alan Scott, Hardware, Teth Adom, John Constantine and Brainwave to help them take back the League and fight the Light.
* AwfulTruth: How most Martians with the knowledge regard the matter of being altered by the Guardians.
* AwkwardKiss: [[spoiler:Canis gives Kaldur one, signalling he wanted to be more intimate. The latter respectfully declined.]]

[[folder: B]]
* BackFromTheDead:
** This becomes a problem [[spoiler:once Satanus joins The Light, since he'll go out of his way to bring back dead villains. Likewise, Ocean Master is revived using a Lazarus Pit]].
** It gets even worse [[spoiler:when Paul starts experimenting with a Lazarus Pit to learn how they work, and tries to resurrect a soul from Hell. Satanus hijacks the connection to pull Paul and several of his companions ''into'' Hell]].
** On the other hand, Paul himself is quite interested in methods of preventing and overcoming death, and [[spoiler:has been resurrected multiple times, first by the Silver City, then by attaching his soul to a cloned body]].
* BackupFromOtherworld: When struggling against [[spoiler:Oceanus]] in ''Titanfall'', Paul decides to go and get [[spoiler:Einherjar]] to assist them since they have experience in that sort of thing.
* BadassBoast:
** "Power rings are awesome." Or, to elucidate:
---> '''Orange Lantern:''' Do you see this ring? This is an example of the most powerful tool ever devised by a species that reached the limits of the technology curve, and then used their knowledge to build more curve for themselves. While I am in no sense an expert in its application, I am more than up to the task, of taking down, three baseline Humans, armed with primitive weapons.[[note]]It should be noted that, while the above boast is indeed badass, one of the baseline humans armed with primitive weapons does actually manage to take him down a peg.[[/note]]
** He later gets one on his behalf via Kon.
---> '''Kon:''' ''[to the Justice League]'' Aren't you people supposed to be good at this!? If this had happened to any of us, Paul would already have ten plans by now! (Later, after Paul has [[spoiler:temporarily contained the Ophidian, and is thinking of ways to contain it indefinitely]]) ...See? Ten plans.
** And an earlier if unconventional one from [[spoiler:Paulphidian]] to the aliens in the training scenario.
---> '''[[spoiler:Paulphidian]]:''' [[TranquilFury Your communications are still intact. I know you can understand me.]] And I '''want''' you to understand me when I tell you this. And I want you to relay it to every other unit your people have on Earth and Mars and anywhere else.\\
Are you listening? Yes? What I'm going to do is, I'm going to tell you where you went wrong. This planet? It's called Earth. It's not really all that important to the wider universe, pretty primitive, a bit out of the way, '''but''', it's mine. [[BerserkButton Mine.]] That building is mine. You damaged it and I had to repair it. I could live with that. But what I '''can't''' live with is what you've done to the '''people'''. My '''friends'''. Because, you see...\\
[[LetsGetDangerous Ahem,]] THESE PEOPLE ARE MINE! AND NO ONE TAKES WHAT IS MINE FROM ME! (Proceeds to curbstomp)
** After a wargame that the Justice League won, but with several members "killed":
---> '''Paul:''' The wargame allowed for the villain side to make mistakes as well as the hero side; pressuring someone into making errors is a perfectly viable approach in real life as well. If I'd wanted to throw you up against a flawless opponent you'd have been fighting '''me'''.[[note]]Note that in the above case, Paul thoroughly knows all the members of the Justice League, their powers, their personalities, their vulnerabilities, and their usual strategies/tactics. Thus, he actually ''would'' have made for a flawless opponent, because he would know everything about his opponents and had long ago developed countermeasures for all of them ''and'' fought many of them before, when they had been mind-controlled.[[/note]]
** John Constantine gets one, just before [[spoiler: going toe to toe with Klarion in a contest to become a Lord of Chaos]].
---> [[spoiler:'''Klarion''']]: I'm gunna tear your soul apart, magician.\\
'''John''': Better than you ''tried'', mate. An' the only one ever managed it was ''me''.
* BadassCreed:
** Orange Lantern's initial oath:
---> ''This is my power''\\
''This is my light.''\\
''Be it bright of day or black of night.''\\
''I claim all that lies within my sight.''\\
'''TO TAKE WHAT I WANT, THAT IS MY RIGHT!'''
** Paragon!Orange Lantern's oath [[spoiler:post-Orange Enlightenment.]]
---> ''This is '''my''' cause, this is '''my''' fight!''\\
''Shine through the void with orange light!''\\
''I've claimed all within my sight!''\\
''To keep what is mine, that is my right!''
** Renegade!Orange Lantern's oath
---> ''This is my '''power''', this is my '''might'''!''\\
''I stand alone in darkest night!''\\
''With this ring, my foes I smite!''\\
''I '''conquer all with orange light'''!''
** Paragon!Orange Lantern's oath [[spoiler:when fusing with the Ophidian for the second time.]]
---> ''This is our cause!''\\
''This is our fight!''\\
''Let none who live dispute our right!''\\
''Powered by need, our tireless might''\\
''Guides all souls with orange light!''
** Renegade!Orange Lantern's oath [[spoiler:with Sinestro's ring]]
---> ''In blackest day or brightest night,''\\
''Beware your fears made into light,''\\
''Let those who try and stop what's right,''\\
''Burn with my power, Prince Grayven's might!''
** Lantern Onik's oath:[[note]]It rhymes in his native language. [[/note]]
---> From my mind, a decision.\\
From my decision, an action.\\
From my action, completion.\\
From completion, repose.
** [[spoiler:Raker Qarrigat's oath, revealed by Mr Zoat to be coming in year 5]]:
---> ''[[green:With Will and]] [[red:Rage of crimson red]]''\\
''[[red:Four million years and]] [[green:still not dead]]''\\
''[[green:Today your empire finally falls]]''\\
''[[green:In Oa's name]] [[red:I'll burn you all]]!''
* BadassFamily:
** In addition to the Bat Family (Batman, Robin, etc.), we also have a burgeoning Wonder Woman family, consisting of Cassie Sandsmark (future Wonder Girl), Donna Troy (Troia), Kon-El/Conner Kent (Superboy), and Orange Lantern. In the Renegade timeline, his relationship with Wonder Woman is rockier [[spoiler: but she also adopts the second Kryptonian clone, Match]].
** Teth Adom, his wife, and his brother-in-law are all able to call on divine powers to transform into heavy-hitting superheroes. Adom and Adrianna intend to start having children soon, too (and she's channelling a fertility goddess, so they can make that happen).
* TheBadGuyWins: The Light manages to retrieve a magical artifact from Atlantis during ''Underminded'', kidnaps one of Aquaman's relatives to use it, and steals or wrecks everything in Mount Justice.
* BadPowersGoodPeople:
** The Narrator takes great care to ensure that he stays this trope, as his ring will constantly subtly influence his mind towards avarice; he must continually counter that with meditation on his own desires and a rational breakdown of them, on top of aligning his desires with the desires of other individuals he cares about and the population at large.
** Wonder Woman openly comments that when she first met Paul (Paragon), she thought he was obviously a supervillain- appears out of nowhere, fueled by pure avarice, refuses to tell his name, and attempts to buy Alan Scott's personal battery. His actions, however, have been almost nothing but good (A few Elemental Possessions and Giant Naked Statues aside, of course).
* BatSignal:
** Paul does this with Eris' sigil to summon her when facing [[spoiler: Apollo]].
** Much later, he responds to the original signal when Batman is overseas. It's also [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] when he contemplates that the signal made sense when Batman was first published but a phone or at least a pager would make more sense in the current decade.
* BathroomBreakOut: Among his escape attempts, J'onn J'aarkn tries to escape via the ''toilet'' only to be caught in the act by OL.
* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: Through using magical LSD, Paul facilitates [[spoiler:Theo Adam and Teth Adom's judgement by the gods to determine who gets the gods' blessing and who gets their soul eaten]].
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In ''Contingency'' Paul complains endlessly over the sloppiness of Martian Manhunter's training scenario, that it's uncreative and unrealistic because the Justice League in it act very uncharacteristically. He definitely gets his wish for realism.
* BecomingTheMask: A literal example. In the Renegade timeline, Orange Lantern rolled with the mistaken identification of being Grayven in order to foil several Apokoliptian invasion schemes for earth by 'claiming it as his own'. Disturbingly he has found himself having flashbacks to Grayven's past and is finding difficulty separating his SI past life and Grayven's in his memories. [[spoiler:Since building himself a new soul with the help of a Father Box, there are indications that he may have, metaphysically speaking, genuinely become a second instance of Grayven.]]
* BeepingComputers: Father Boxes and Mother Boxes communicate via a "Ploong." and "Ping." sound effect respectively.
* BefriendingTheEnemy: OL decides to not be antagonistic towards Lex Luthor, as he has the resources to really help humanity. OL encourages him to research the Danner Formula in hopes that Lex could make BioAugmentation more safe and mainstream. OL points to him how magic can be innovative because its many uses are so ill-researched by most people. This is in the hopes that he could convince him to turn a new leaf and stop being a supervillain. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, he is ultimately unable to convince him to commit to a HeelFaceTurn. Lex does, however, invest more of his time in legitimate research and cause very little trouble; he even sends Paul a warning before Oceanus' attack.]]
* BehemothBattle: Swamp Thing and Anton Arcane in part 18 of ''Bindings''. However, Swamp Thing also has Nabu's help, which is effective even though he's not huge.
* BenevolentDictator: The Justice League, [[ItMakesSenseInContext when they take control of Earth]]. While being tyrannical is agreed to be bad, it's less bad than other options [[spoiler:with Earth being affected by Anti-Life]].
* BetterPartnerAssertion: When Zatanna's under the combined influence of the Star Sapphire encouraging her romantic feelings for Paul, ''and'' Karfang's gas attack intensifying her [[{{Greed}} avarice and selfishness]], she attempts to persuade Paul to dump his girlfriend and date her instead, pointing out that Jade doesn't have anything really notable about her except that she was available when Paul was looking. (If Zatanna were several years older and not under clearly visible MindControl at the time, he might even have found her persuasive).
* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler:After restoring his 96-year-old grandfather figure Alan Scott to health, and officially starting a relationship with Jade]], Paragon!OL visits Sportsmaster in prison, and tells him never to become involved with his own family again in any way. When Sportsmaster doesn't take him seriously, OL calmly explains that [[spoiler:since leaving Earth,]] he has personally killed more people than any other human in history, and if Sportsmaster steps out of line, OL will murder him in his sleep without hesitation or remorse.
* {{BFS}}: The Renegade eventually makes himself one.
* BigBad: No sign of one for the majority of the comic. There are certainly recurring enemies, and once Truggs is introduced, we hear about a looming threat that may qualify as the largest conflict in the entire plot...if and when it ever begins to rear its head. However, after roughly four-and-a-quarter years of updates, on story post #1959, at the climax of a plotline involving [[spoiler:the death of the main character--which, being as he's an SI, is rife for a pun]], we come face to [[spoiler:plasticine]] face with none other than [[spoiler:Boss Smiley]]. The implication is that [[spoiler:he's been subtly guiding not just the entire plot, but every form of obstruction to progress and societal incompetence that's ever occurred in the history of this dimension. With the story itself functioning as an answer to the question, "what would it take for the DC universe to start acting rationally?", it makes a beautiful, multi-layered sort of sense that the ultimate obstacle to overcome is none other than the embodiment of bureaucracy and selling out.]] [[spoiler: [[MindScrew Assuming he isn't just a hallucination, of course.]]]]
* BigEgoHiddenDepths:
** Earth's other Green Lanterns initially mock Guy because he's a loud, obnoxious man with a crass attitude and is more than a little reckless. However, he learned how to project constructs without tying them to the ring before either Hal or John, figured out how to use his ring to heal himself based on something he watched Paul do, and helps rehabilitate criminals.
** He also learned how to ''weaponize'' his large ego, or rather, he figured out how to NoSell orange light assimilation because he wills himself to be the best he can be, and since he's already perfect, if he changed he wouldn't be the best, now would he?
* BigNo: After OL's botched attempt at raising the dead, getting himself and several others dragged to Hell and a tough fight just to escape, he expresses his intentions to try again. Jade has to put her foot down.
--> '''Jade:''' '''NO!''' I get you're trying to help. And to start with it was nice… In a weird sort of way. But this needs to stop. If this is what happens when we bring people back from the dead, I'll learn to live with the consequences of what I did the normal way.
* BigShutUp: Swamp Thing (who is in giant form) says this to [[spoiler:Poison Ivy when he is about to cut off her connection to The Green]].
--> '''Swamp Thing:''' Your.. voice. Always.. on the edge of hearing. Whining, screeching, demanding voice! Be.. silenced.
* BigYes: OL says this when he sees the newly-freed Teth Adom in the flesh.
* ABirthdayNotABreak: September 17, OL's birthday is celebrated with the Team stopping a break-out at Belle Reve. To fair, he didn't tell anyone that it was his birthday.
* BizarreSexualDimorphism: Invoked by M'gann in her ShapeshifterDefaultForm. She knows that females aren't allowed to look alien, which is why she goes out of her way to look as human as possible. She slowly grows more comfortable to look more alien and embrace her White Martian side.
--> '''M'gann:''' It's okay for [[DoubleStandard guys to look like ogres but girls need to look like girls.]]
* BlackMarket: Paul turns to an under-the-table arms dealer to obtain samples of the Dominators' plant-based computer technology. So long as he keeps the purchases small and goes for older-generation technology, the Dominators don't care enough to do anything about it.
* BlingBlingBang: After studying the [[WeaponOfXSlaying anti-demon]] Ace of Winchesters, Paul constructs a similar gun for fighting Order magic -- by plating a gun with the gold from one of Eris' apples of discord, a powerful focus of Chaos magic. The bullets go straight through the best Order shields Zatanna can make, plus it's "the blingest weapon I've ever held."
* BlueAndOrangeMorality:
** No pun intended but the Ophidian. It understands the concept of wanting and being possessive of something but doesn't understand emotion outside of it. [[spoiler:Paulphidian literally couldn't understand emotions such as love, hate and anger when he tried recalling what he felt.]]
** Also OL himself, he frequently declares his friends to be his in his narrative but usually it doesn't mean anything romantic.
** Pun almost ''certainly'' intended when Power Ring Blue, Orange Lantern's Antimatter Universe counterpart, is introduced [[spoiler:as the supervisor for the [[EvilCounterpart Young Offenders]]]].
* BodyHorror:
** People modified by Black Power Ring.
** Johnny Sorrow’s encounter with the Subtle Realms disfigured his face to such an extent that almost anyone who looked at it [[BrownNote instantly died]].
** Destroying Johnny’s mask caused the laws of nature to start going haywire in his immediate surroundings. Because of this, several Amazons who were too close to him had their bodies warped and mixed with objects of close proximity (e.g. one Amazon’s hand got stuck inside and mixed with a part of a wall, another’s face got mixed with a mirror she was holding, giving her skin reflective properties).
** Tormented\praying souls that constitute Hell’s background scenery.
* BoldlyComing: The Martian Manwomanhunter, J'onn J'aarkn, loves having sex with humans. So much, that the former biology teacher made a career out of it as an adult film star.
* BoltOfDivineRetribution:
** The Renegade's visit to the island of the Amazons ended up with him getting struck by Zeus. He walked it off.
** Oceanus strikes Paul down with one of these using a storm cloud. He survives as the ring patches him up.
* BondVillainStupidity / JustBetweenYouAndMe: On several occasions Paul’s success was highly dependent on his enemies’ penchant for monologuing. [[spoiler:Nylor Truggs tries to ensure that he has contingencies to prevent heroes from attacking prematurely.]]
* BoringButPractical: When Paul first comes to universe 16, he doesn't try some complex scheme to power up; he simply goes to the original Earth Green Lantern's house, knowing that he's retired from costumed heroics, and offers to buy his lantern.
* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Paul is able to assist the negotiations between Lord Rama Khan, ruler of the sentient magical country of Jarhanpur, Wonder Woman, and Ailani, a woman whose son has been selected by the land as its next ruler. Ailani hates magic and wants nothing to do with Jarhanpur, but was present because Rama Khan gave her sanctuary when she was being pursued by bandits. And without its ruler, the land will change from prosperity to a hostile wasteland. Wonder Woman has to weigh up a mother's right to make decisions for her young son, vs the wellbeing of hundreds of thousands of people.
* BoxingLessonsForSuperman: Played with.
** While it's good for Superboy to learn hand-to-hand combat, Orange Lantern fears that he's being held back by [[FightsLikeANormal Black Canary]]. Black Canary is vulnerable to being torn apart by Superboy if he doesn't hold himself back. If Superboy gets too used to holding himself back, he will not fight at full strength in combat. So OL asks Wonder Woman, who's better trained and far stronger than Superboy, to train him.
** Similarly, Paul himself learns the basics from Black Canary for the sake of team unity, but feels that it's training him to fight "the stupid way" and that Lanterns need different instincts.
** One of Paul's early actions is to buy a gun and get lessons in using it, in case he gets separated from his ring or it runs out of power.
** Played straight for [[spoiler:Effigy]], who has a lot of raw power, but hasn't stopped and studied his exact limits. Lantern Gardner offers to help him get some proper training.
---> '''Guy''': You even know how your flame-thing works? What it can do?\\
'''[[spoiler:Effigy]]''': Telekinesis? And burn stuff?\\
'''Guy''': '''What''' stuff? How dense stuff? You got any idea how to disable someone without crippling them? Can you make '''tools''' like we do, or is it all burning '''shapes'''? Does your telekinesis ''have'' t'be on fire, or can you do the '''regular''' kind? ... Tell y'what. I need a test dummy, you need training. What's say we meet up tomorrow an' sort something out?
** Discussed and deconstructed when the characters observe that using actual boxing wouldn't make sense if you had SuperStrength and SuperToughness. Grappling, submission holds, slamming their head into your knee, and other such make-sure-they-don't-just-get-pushed-away techniques are more appropriate than punching and kicking.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: In the Renegade timeline, [[spoiler:Kara Zor-El suffers brain damage from her failing life support pod, and the machine used to repair her brain has some... side effects.]]
--> '''[[spoiler:Kara]]''': Great! Let's '''exterminate''' them ''together''!
* BreakingSpeech: This is what Father Mattias' exorcism of [[spoiler:Paulphidian]] consists of, deconstructing their motives so Paul would [[spoiler:kick the Ophidian out.]]
* BreakingTheFourthWall: The fourth wall is finally breached with the introduction of '''Ambush Bug''' in ''Fool's Canon''.
* BreatherEpisode:
** After intense episodes with the League getting mind-controlled, setting the stage for Nabu's capture and fighting back a jailbreak, the Team helps the government deport a Martian porn star and go to Themyscira for a holiday [[spoiler: before the island gets attacked]].
** In the wake of saving the multiverse from being torn apart ForScience, Paul has to deal with a visit from Lord Manga Khan, a ridiculously LargeHam who is basically a galactic used car salesman.
* BrickJoke:
** OL covers up his MaleGaze moment on Wonder Woman by performing an impromptu SherlockScan and saying he was staring at her armor. After discussing the nature of OL's [[HoYay relationship with Superboy]][[note]]InUniverse[[/note]], Donna snarks she understands [[NotDistractedByTheSexy why he was staring at her armor]]...and later still when visiting Themyscira, Paul realises his ''genuine'' inspection of a guard's orichalcum armor is being mistaken.
** In his PowerHigh, [[spoiler:Paulphidian]] mentions after [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking saving his friends and the planet Earth, that he will repaint the signs]] in Happy Harbor to be spelled [[UsefulNotes/BritishEnglish correctly!]] After getting freed from the [[spoiler:Ophidian,]] Paul and the locals notice that all the signs in Happy Harbor are now spelled Happy Harbour.
* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: [[spoiler:Several years before the story proper, [[ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}} John Constantine]] gathered up his friends and allies, and managed to stop an evil cult from summoning an EldritchAbomination, at the cost of one of their number being driven insane, and several of them dying, [[MyGreatestFailure including Zatanna's mother]]. [[HarsherInHindsight Zatara's never forgiven him]] for getting her involved]].
* BroughtDownToNormal: Due the ring being the source of Paul's power, this comes up:
** OL's ring battery runs out of power in the middle of the desert after wasting it because he thought he was in a dream.
** OL is separated from his ring when Red Torpedo and Red Inferno invade Mount Justice.
** OL willingly gives up his ring after being freed [[spoiler:from the Ophidian]]. Batman permits him to take it back when it becomes clear that Paul regained his sanity and his trustworthiness.
** OL's ring is tainted by Klarion in ''Displaced'' [[spoiler:so Klarion could steal the ring's power]]. So he takes it off and uses his pistol to fight him off.
** OL's ring is stolen by [[SmugSnake Truggs]] after getting jumped due to a WoundedGazelleGambit.
** A non-OL example: Swamp Thing cuts off Poison Ivy's connection to the Green, reducing her to a normal woman.
** Paul voluntarily gives up the rings in order to hide the Orange Light from Larfleeze's construct, Blume. To paraphrase Paul, this creature was viewed as a god of hunger, and then it got Lantern powers.
* BrownNote:
** Johnny Sorrow’s face was disfigured to such an extent that [[EldritchAbomination just looking at it kills]].
** Following his exposure to [[spoiler:the Anti-Life Equation by Darkseid]], the Renegade discovers that he can ''project'' it just by ''speaking''. [[spoiler:The fact he discovers this in front of Queen Aga'po and Hal Jordan nearly makes the knowledge entirely moot.]]
** The plan of the Prankster in ''Black Reign'' was, as summarized by OL, to lure Superman in, hit him with a bit of kryptonite, then make him mess his pants. [[spoiler:Naturally OL uses this on the Mooks before the police arrive.]]
* BuyThemOff:
** When OL first meets Alan Scott, he tries to buy his lantern off him.
** On many occasions, he also chooses to buy a potential opponent’s short-term cooperation by giving them something they want (magical lore to Abra, restored face to minor super-villain, etc).
** Artemis accuses [[spoiler:Paulphidian]] of trying this when he proposes to give her asteroid gold in order to give her the funds to go independent.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: C]]
* CallBack: Lots of times.
** During their trip to the Logan Animal Sanctuary, Firebrand asks OL about the offer of making her his Manhunter.
** In the first episode, OL is afraid to use the Zeta Beam in fear of getting {{Telefrag}}ged. In ''Contingency'', OL spoils Kid Flash's HopeSpot by pointing that the alien invaders' Zeta Beams cause Death by {{Telefrag}}ging.
** In ''Dependency Day'', OL comments on how annoying it is that most copies of ''On Liberty'' only have the name of John Stuart Mill when it was co-written with his wife, Harriet Taylor. For Christmas, months later, OL gives Diana a homemade copy with Harriet Taylor's name, as a present.
** In ''Ex Perdition'', a co-worker of Martian adult actor J'aarkn mentions knowing Orange Lantern through his post-''Displaced'' interview with Cat Grant.
** In Zatanna's introduction chapter, Artemis asks her why she can't just say "Erif" when attacking someone. When Mistress Martian attacks them, Zatanna does just that.
** Paul jokingly tries to suggest to Diana that the Grecian Pantheon bring in gods or goddesses from other pantheons to make up for failing ones in their own. She laughs and says that they're not going to do that just so Paul can play "Musical Pantheons." Several months later, when visiting Themyscira, Paul accidentally [[spoiler:causes Hera to divorce Zeus]], causing a huge shakeup in the Grecian Pantheon.
** Robin and Kid Flash start calling Paul "Oh El" since he's an Orange Lantern, but he tells them that that will make people think he's Kryptonian and get confused. [[spoiler:Sure enough, when they recover Kara Zor-El from her escape pod over a year later, the nickname makes her [[HopeSpot assume for a moment]] that another Kryptonian survived.]]
* CallingTheOldManOut: OL does this on Artemis and Jade's behalf to Sportsmaster during the New Year's Breakout.
* CameBackStrong: [[spoiler:Orm]] in ''Titanfall'' is much more dangerous than before.
* TheCameo: Desire of the Endless briefly came to watch [[spoiler:Ophidian-possessed OL]] when the latter is suffering a severe mental withdrawal.
* CampingACrapper:
** Red Torpedo separates OL away from his ring and nearly kills him by flooding the bathroom when Paul took it off to go to use the toilet.
** Backfired (offscreen) in the Renegade timeline, since [[SuperSerum Venom Buster]] made the Renegade strong enough to crush the robots even without the ring.
* CanonImmigrant: Mainstream DC Comics characters that didn't appear or mention in the original ''Young Justice'' show are: Yao Fei from the Great Ten; John Constantine and the recurring cast of ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}''; the casts of ''Comicbook/KnightAndSquire'', including the eponymous duo, Captain Cornwall and Cornwall Boy, and Dark Druid; Arnold Munro from ''Young All-Stars''; ComicBook/SwampThing and Abigail Arcane; Henry King, Jr. of ''Comicbook/InfinityInc''; [[ComicBook/BatmanYearOne Holly Robinson]]; and the ''ComicBook/SuperYoungTeam''. There are also a few cameos from the comic ''{{ComicBook/The Sandman}}'', including Desire of the Endless and Lord Kilderkin; and Nylor Truggs is originally from ''ComicBook/DialHForHero''.
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou:
** Paul debates if taking the opportunity to kill a weakened Nabu is worth it in "Hullevow". He ultimately decides against it.
--> For a moment, I contemplate taking advantage of his momentary weakness. Drug Kaldur with something that would let me blame his loss of consciousness on the Terror Thing, chain Nabu up again and hit his helmet with Mageslayers until he's gone. Might work, but… No. Do the job I'm here to do. He might be useful.
** Paul arranges a meeting with Klarion on this basis, offering to restore Klarion's power in exchange for help in beating Nabu. [[spoiler: Played straight by Klarion, but subverted by Paul, who doesn't actually plan to team up, and instead double-crosses Klarion and transfers his power to John Constantine, leaving Klarion's body as a soulless husk.]]
* CaptainOblivious:
** OL didn't realize the store he went to buy clothes from was a mob-front despite there being guns and cocaine around him.
** It isn't until after he leaves the Amazonian temple of Hera that he realizes that the sobbing woman, inconsolable over the discovery that Zeus had been once again lying about remaining faithful, [[spoiler: who he just convinced that Hera should probably divorce Zeus was, in fact, Hera herself, and not just a very passionate priestess.]]
** OL never notices women hitting on him. This is mostly because he had the ring reduce his testosterone production in order to prevent himself from desiring a woman enough to misuse his power. Ironically, when he turns it up again, he ''can't'' find a girlfriend, even from the women who were hitting on him before.
* CardboardPrison: [[AvertedTrope Not if they can help it.]] They will find a prison needed to deal with prisoners that have powers that allow them to escape. Even if that means sending them to Atlantis, Themyscira, or ''Tartarus''.
* CaretakingIsFeminine: ''Doppelgängered'' reveals that the Zatara Crime Family on Earth -14 believes this, with Don Giovanni Zatara [[SubvertedTrope subverting this belief]] when he decided to raise his daughter by himself after the death of his wife rather than remarry as his own father suggested.
* Catch22Dilemma: When discussing Earth's rate of development in comparison to other species, Paul notes that there are a lot of worlds that simply don't have enough fossil fuels to support a level of societal development that would allow the discovery and development of better energy sources, and are perpetually pre-industrial as a result.
* CharacterDevelopment:
** Paul learns after his fight with Artemis that just because he thinks he's right, it doesn't mean that he should force change on others when they don't want it. If he wants someone to change he has to present it in a way they would benefit from and agree with.
** Artemis is initially distrustful of the Team and belittling of OL. After OL gets her to open up by apologizing to her and healing her mother, she displays a sense of humor and starts spending more time with the Team. She eventually opens up about her past on her own and she becomes [=OL=]'s closest friend.
** Superboy is angry, lost and resentful as he was in canon but due to having a support system in the form of Orange Lantern, Miss Martian and Wonder Woman he gains more confidence, becomes less angry and grows into his own person. He no longer desires the attention of Superman [[spoiler:after he is adopted by Wonder Woman]].
** Miss Martian is initially so ashamed of her true form and how alien it looks that it took a great deal of courage just to reveal her false Green Martian form. After she is accepted by OL even when she accidentally reveals her White Martian true form, she starts to grow more self-confidence. To the point she deliberately makes herself look alien to replace Martian Manhunter as a telepathic specialist for Psimon's trial. When the sleazy J'onn J'aarkn notes their superficial similarities, she deliberately gives herself her White Martian color so she wouldn't be associated with J'aarkn.
* ChekhovsGun:
** Scott was allowed to recharge his ring, despite the ban from the Guardians, to help the Green Lanterns deal with [[spoiler:Paulphidian]]. He and the Lanterns get curb-stomped before they could stop them. Since Alan's ring still has most of its charge, he decides to [[spoiler:help Paul and the Team fight the Light and free the Justice League]].
** Paul jokes that he's not going anywhere near the Greek Pantheon after Father Mattias makes a crack about their unreliability compared to Yahweh. He not only picks Eris, the Greek Goddess of Chaos as a his patron god during his visit to Themyscira, but meets Eris and Hera in person. [[spoiler:And successfully convinces Hera to divorce Zeus.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: Scott and Barda Free, who are initially introduced during an investigation of a Boom Tube sighting. Barda Free and Wonder Woman become fast friends and the possibility of them coming back to action is discussed. In both the Paragon and Renegade timelines, [[spoiler:they are recruited when the Team has to fight the Light and the mind-controlled League.]]
** Yao Fei AKA Accomplished Perfect Physician. He was brought up by Paragon!OL to Batman as a Justice League candidate to have a CombatMedic on board and he does join the Justice League and the Great Ten off-screen. [[spoiler:Guess who the team has to fight when the League gets mind controlled? And manages to beat the Team back into retreating?]]
** James Lockhart and Firebrand are first mentioned when Alan points them out while showing Paul his old photo album. James Lockhart is mentioned to have [[IJustWantToBeNormal retired from superheroics early on to become a doctor]]. While Firebrand is mentioned to have died TakingTheBullet for Jay Garrick.
** Cassie Sandsmark, the future Wonder Girl and illegitimate child by Zeus. It was mentioned that until she was found out, it was thought that Zeus had changed and was faithful to Hera. [[spoiler: She becomes one of the reasons that Hera is successfully convinced to divorce Zeus.]]
* CherryTapping: Paul always expected to win his duel with [[spoiler: Prince Ragnar]], but upon seeing his opponent simply charge at him with a sword, Paul decides to take drastic measures: he dismisses his armour, discards both of his own rings, then summons his opponent's ring right off his hand and knocks him out with that. After specifically stating that he was going to do that very thing.
* TheChosenMany: Reflecting on his long term plans, Paul settles on the idea of recovering the Orange Central Power Battery and building a corps of Orange Lanterns, to use the orange light for good throughout the universe. [[spoiler:He does just that after his year of service ends, which shakes up the political environment on Maltus, and turns the tide of war against the Reach.]]
* CloningBlues: [[spoiler:Helmut Schreiber.]]
* ClosestThingWeGot:
** Paragon!OL goes to Cornwall Boy to get his magic-inflicted wounds healed because Cornwall Boy was the closest thing to a magic healer.
** Paragon!OL and Superboy are forced to keep Cadmus open because it is only place on Earth with understanding of Kryptonian physiology in order to treat Match.
* CodeOfHonour: Lantern Xor uses this as his philosophy for controlling the orange light. Since it's a statement of general principles, it allows him to apply avarice effectively in a wide variety of situations without losing control.
--> '''Xor''': When I fight, I do so to affirm '''my''' nature. '''My''' desires. I am an honourable warrior. I will harm none who have not wronged me. I will leave no slight unavenged. I will repay my debts. I will speak no untruth. This is who I am. This is the proper code of the universe, and I will teach it to others in whatever way I must.
* ColourCodedEmotions: The DC Comics' Emotional Electromagnetic Spectrum. Actions using a power ring are colored by their respective ring-color. The SI's thoughts and speech are often coloured Orange, and on occasion, the other colours of the spectrum. Dialogue in general can colored to represent the respective emotion. [[spoiler: Enlightened]] characters no longer use colored speech, but get colored quotation marks all the time.
* CombatMedic:
** OL's secondary role to the team is a healer; he uses his abilities to immediately heal the team on site. It works because he considers them to be "his" and so injury to them feels like injury to himself.
** OL is also trying to get the League to get a dedicated Superpowered Healer for their team, as it would make life so much easier. He convinces Batman to get Accomplished Perfect Physician on the team.
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: Orange Lantern usually address super-villains by their real names, and generally thinks of everyone by their first name. This could get a bit confusing for the unwary reader were he in a location with, hypothetically, J'onn J'onzz, John Stewart, and John Constantine all present.
* ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike: He's not vocal about it, but Paul finds the whole EMP generator pulse with Red Torpedo and Red Inferno a bit... worrying.
* ConservationOfCompetence: Bane and his henchmen keep asking [[spoiler: Truggs]] to stop monologuing to the downed OL and let them finish him before he calls for back-up. [[spoiler: Truggs]] tells them to shut up. They also question why [[spoiler: Truggs]] is ordering them to give OL a chance to be spared.
* ConvenientlyUnverifiableCoverStory: The Renegade settles on telling people that he really did start as Grayven, but that he deliberately traveled to magic-less Earth Prime in order to destroy all traces of Apokolips from his soul. Father Box accepts the story and patterns his new soul and appearance on Grayven, affecting him to the point where the Renegade himself sometimes has trouble untangling which of his memories are real.
* CorruptedContingency: The repeated attacks on Mount Justice motivate Paul to set up extensive automated defenses. Unfortunately, all that advanced equipment just makes the mountain a more appealing target for technology theft; [[spoiler: Nylor Truggs]] completely trashes and ransacks the place, ''twice'', while the team isn't home.
* CouldSayItBut: After Paul secretly creates a zeta tube account for Zatanna, Mister Zatara is not pleased that she somehow found her way into Mount Justice, and Paul would rather not draw Batman's attention to how easily the ring can subvert Justice League computers. Even Zatanna doesn't realise at first what happened.
--> '''Zatanna''': I opened the door to see if Dad was hiding or something and the next thing I know I’m inside the mountain.\\
'''Paul''': Yes, bit odd that. It’s almost as if someone with a xenotech hypercomputer was maintaining a constant connection to all zeta tube monitoring equipment, then used that access to undetectably create a new user profile and initiate transportation when someone they wanted to talk to stepped into a booth.\\
'''Zatanna''': That’s.. oddly specific.\\
'''Paul''': Yes, it is. Did I mention that I think our team really needs a magic user?
* CrazyPrepared:
** Batman takes the cake. He managed to take down Constantine, when John was under a spell that made him invisible and so that no one wanted to even look at him. Batman noticed that no one was going into a certain part of the room or even looking at that part of the room, so he started attacking it to make sure.
** The Russian Research facility in regards to speedsters. They have cameras that can record at high-speed, shrapnel mines designed to kill and corral speedsters, gas dispensers, walls made of different materials with differing densities and a high-voltage current so you can't just vibrate through them, and a nuclear self-destruct device, just in case.
** Paul's preparations to deal with Nabu include [[spoiler:making an Ace specifically designed to disrupt Order magic, magical ramparts to keep the damage in check, a magician capable of restraining him to prevent him from leaving, John as the new Lord of Chaos, a spare Golem body for negotiation, and Cornwall boy to eat his magic. In the event that they all fall, he also has the exchange being televised.]]
* CuddleBug: Ratchet is from a jellyfish-like species that bans physical contact, but he and his associates crave it. Upon being rescued by the protagonist, he sets about {{Glomp}}ing whomever he can.
* CultureClash:
** Being from Britain, OL had a bit of a shock when he had to adjust to living in America. Supermarkets tend to creep him out.
** Kaldur is disturbed how surface-worlders tend to depict pirates as good guys in their fiction and how rare a negative portrayal is. Especially since pirates are a serious problems for Atlanteans.
** Lantern Stewart isn't accustomed to dealing with soldiers like Lantern Xor.
---> '''Xor''': I am a soldier. Civil policing is new to me. I want clear orders.\\
'''Stewart''': I was a soldier before I was a Lantern. I didn’t need to be told not to brainwash people.\\
'''Xor''': I could apply the rules of my people. I do not think you would like them.
* CurbStompBattle:
** The general result of unpowered humans going up against Orange Lantern. By the time of episode 89, "Guys from Gotham", he's thoroughly bored of it.
** Orange Lantern is also at the receiving end of one, thanks to Klarion. He ends up with two chunks of raw Chaos Magic lodged in his chest and gut, which are shredding and melting his body, all the while triggering his pain receptors. Even worse, thanks to having no resistance to magic due to his lack of a soul, instead of ending after a few seconds, the spell just continues on endlessly. It takes most of his ring's power to keep him alive, and the efforts of ''three'' different magic users to fix him. The rest of the Team fares better, with the worst being M'gann, who suffers a few broken bones.
---> '''Paul:''' ''N''o''t'' ''d''e''a''d ''q''u''i''t''e'' ''y''e''t'', ''M'''g''a''n''n''.
** OL actually breaks the infamous training simulation with the help of Ophidian, and simply starts assimilating all the alien ships. He gets up to ''seventy'' motherships under his control before J'onn manages to snap M'gann out of it.
** Harm vs. Artemis and Zatana. In canon, it was two baseline humans with magic and a bow and arrow, and it played out largely like a for-tv version of one of the Friday the Thirteenth films. Here, [[AdaptationalBadass Artemis was dosed with the Danner Formula, and thus has strength roughly comparable to Wonder Woman.]] According to Orange Lantern, the fight lasted less than a minute and a good portion of Harm's body was dealt crushing damage.
** Poison Ivy vs. Swamp Thing. Given that one is the champion of all plant life on earth and the other has spent a few years in Arkham... it doesn't end well for her.
* CurseCutShort: Lantern Gardner is halfway through swearing about [[spoiler:Lord Malvolio]] destroying his crumbler rounds, when his ring communication cuts out due to him being distracted by the fight.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: OL seeks to subvert this due to his belief that supervillains will make incredible and revolutionary technology and proceed to use it badly. He decides to collect the technology from supervillains and fellow superheroes to improve the lives of the mainstream and superheroes.
** OL discusses this with the TropeNamer and why he doesn't use the advanced technology to actually improve the world and dominate the market.
** He also asks the Terror Twins about using their super-strengths to legitimately earn more income in demolition or ship breaking, or working for the military or CIA to have the permission to kill, which left Tuppence gobsmacked.
** Justified, Clyde Phillips (aka Punch) refuses to sell his invention despite how much money it would make him and his wife because he calls it "selling out" and wants the recognition and fame on ''his'' terms despite OL offering to give him a ton of money to get it patented.
** Also, there is The Crumbler, who found out that OL stole his weapon designs, went [[BerserkButton ballistic]], and threatened to murder him and whoever OL gave the weapons to, despite OL offering him a ton of money to get it patented. This affirms OL's belief that supervillains can't be trusted to make good decisions with their own tech.
** This is averted with Captain Cold, who OL notes has a thorough enough understanding of physics to "make thermodynamics his bitch" and earn a doctorate. OL splits the rewards for a prize based on his Freeze Ray design in the Ice Fortress, giving him eighty seven and a half thousand dollars for no extra work, and gets him to work on his thesis for his mother's contact information. It really depends on the villain in question.
** Doctor Sivana was denied funding early on and eventually turned to Supervillainy, and when he talks to OL about it he reveals that at this point he's basically [[IveComeTooFar come too far to quit or even care]] any more about it and wouldn't change. He and OL wish that they'd met 20 years ago. OL still has hopes of steering Thaddeus Jr and Georgia toward making obscene amounts of money instead of making strangle-broccoli.
* CuttingTheKnot: Comes up with OL around.
** When the team are fighting Mister Twister and come to the conclusion that it's Red Tornado in disguise, OL uses his ring to confirm Red Tornado's location: in the base.
** OL and the Team were fighting Ocean Master while he's holding Queen Mera hostage. OL's constructs don't work on Ocean Master due to his armor's magical nature. What does he do? Cut off Ocean Master's hands, which were the only things that weren't protected. Renegade!OL went further, sending a construct up his arms into his brain and killing him on the spot.
* CycleOfRevenge: The alternate Paul in the Warhammer Fantasy world has set out to (among other things) actually ''settle'' the centuries-old list of grudges held by the dwarves, potentially ending -- or at least significantly reducing -- their feuds with the elves. (He's also settling the dwarves' grudges with the orcs and goblins, but in their case it's by exterminating them rather than seeking compensation.)
--> '''Teclis''': I would have thought that someone as well-acquainted with dwarfs as you are would understand that centuries of strife do not simply disappear.\\
'''Paul''': '''No''', because with dwarfs they '''do''' if you pay your fines. We might think that they're ''obsessive'' about it, but they apply their irrationality in a perfectly rational way.
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* DamselOutOfDistress: Truggs tries to hold Artemis hostage when the Team foil his ambush. Artemis takes none of this and [[EyeScream stabs him in the eye]] for his trouble. It helps that [[spoiler:OL had given her super strength with the Danner formula]].
* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: The Renegade has [[spoiler: a piece of the Anti-Life Equation embedded in his soul by Darkseid]]. Accessing it has nasty effects on himself and everyone nearby.
* TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget: Downplayed. Paul [[spoiler:merges with the Ophidian]] to save his friends and while [[spoiler:Paulphidian]] is still largely benevolent and supports the good guys, they cannot feel any emotion besides Avarice and so they longer understand why they are so attached to them. They have completely forgotten what feeling emotions is like.
* DatingCatwoman:
** Double Subversion. Renegade!OL invoked the trope to cover up that Cheshire was his informant and [[TheMole mole]] for the League of Shadows. He later admits that he does desire her romantically after he keeps seeing her despite her no longer being useful as a spy. [[spoiler:Cheshire and Renegade!OL nearly become engaged.]]
** Both played straight (metaphorically) and averted (literally) with Batman, who is currently in a relationship with Talia al-Ghul, daughter of Ra's. Both Selina Kyle (Catwoman) and OL think that Catwoman would be better for him.
** Holly later tries to set up Selina and Paul since they're both single. Averted, since Selina (wrongly) thinks he's too young for her.
* DeaderThanDead: Living creatures have souls, made of structured magic, that are drawn to an afterlife when they die. However, it is possible to damage or even destroy the soul.
** The damned souls that [[spoiler: Karrien Excalibris burned]] are gone for good.
** It's not entirely clear what the "Identity Theft" ability does to a soul, but Paul has established that the orange light ''is'' capable of consuming magic. The question is further muddied when assimilated beings are then dispelled with the Sword of the Fallen.
* DeadlyDodging: Paul asks his ring to plan an evasive pattern against Mongul's fleet that improves the chances that missed shots will hit other ships. The ring replies that it was already doing that.
* DeathIsCheap: Paul has died multiple times and found his way back. After thoroughly examining him, experts have concluded that [[spoiler:his non-standard soul is more organised than a normal one and can easily attach itself to a cloned body if he's killed]].
* DeathOfAChild: It's explicitly shown that thousands of children died in ''Displaced'' while the adult side was mostly fine.
--> '''Orange Lantern:''' Tell Batman to imagine a world where in every hospital, every clinic, every doctor's surgery... Doctors: gone. Surgeons: gone. Anesthetists: gone. Critical care nurses: gone. Any child who was undergoing surgery when the separation occurred is most likely already dead. Most children who were in critical care wards will be dying without the constant attention they need. Small babies who were being bathed when their parents disappeared stand a good chance of drowning. And good as autopilots are I don't know how long we've got until planes start falling out of the sky with no pilots. Major roads are covered in crashed cars, the injured and the dead and there aren't enough of us to help. I will be astonished if we keep the death toll to a mere five figures -most of whom will be children- and I will shout the praises of any deity who feels like chipping in, we cannot afford- We can't afford to pay any unessential attention to secondary objectives. Please pass that on.
* DeathOfPersonality: Martians do this to criminals who commit severe crimes, erasing their memories and rewriting their brains.
* DeathRay: After the Renegade obtains a copy of Paula von Gunther's [[HealingShiv purple healing ray]], he experiments on it and finds that it's not hard to make the ray ''disrupt'' life force instead of strengthening it. Wonder Woman is not amused.
--> She puts her hands on her hips and sighs at me. "You made a Purple Death Ray."\\
"I made a '''[--yes--]'''."
* DeathWorld: Aliens who find out about the insanity that happens on Earth on a regular basis consider it one. The fact that Earth has ways to kill Lanterns and Kryptonians doesn't help.
* DeconstructionFic: The story uses the Self-Insert to deconstruct things like why no one is using all the SchizoTech to improve everyday technology, why no one has tried making magic or alchemy mainstream when they're real and documented things that are renewable resources. Why do heroes let horrible supervillains simply go to jail when they cause so much suffering when they're given the authority to do things that regular governments can't do. It's very telling that when Orange Lantern tries to improve things or makes his views known, he is accused of being a VisionaryVillain.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Paul CherryTapping [[spoiler:Lantern Ragnar]] is the first step in gaining his respect and making him a useful member of the Orange Lantern Corps. [[FireForgedFriendship Fighting their way through a planet full of hostile aliens with highly advanced technology]] helps too.
* [[DefrostingIceQueen Defrosting Ice King]]: Vril Dox is famously brilliant-with-no-social-skills. When Paul first meets him, Dox is so tightly controlled that his emotions only colour a single letter of each word, disdains company, and ignores even the basics of social niceties like "please", "thank you", and eye contact (not that he instinctively avoids it in an autistic manner; rather, he can pay attention without looking and therefore sees no point). Paul assigns [[CuddleBug Lantern Ratchet]] to manage Dox, with gradual but promising results. He also puts Dox in contact with Georgia Sivana, who is brilliant enough to keep up with him; their first face to face meeting is so deeply awkward it's cute, but Dox is definitely ''trying''.
--> And.. '''someone''' --I'm going to assume that it wasn't Dox-- has decorated. His minimalistic hologram system is still here, but now it's been joined by… Potted plants. A soft seating area. A wooden desk. Carpet. I'd.. guess.. Brande was responsible, but I don't think that this is something that anyone could sneak by Dox without him noticing. So he's approved it, and the first I'm seeing of it is when Georgia appears.\\
Well paint me pink and call me Star Sapphire.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance:
** Paul gets on the bad side of Lori Lemaris when he comments on the possibility of reversing the grafts of Atlanteans to make them into Purebloods or baseline Humans.
** In turn Lori clashes with Sephtian. Due to being a fish-graft Atlantean, she sees the mentioned comment as racism. Sephtian, being part-of the genetically inbred and slowly dying Manta-graft Atlanteans, sees the possibility of changing or reversing his graft as a positive thing, as his group suffers from many genetic diseases and are incapable of reproducing with anyone outside their group.
** [[spoiler: Teth Adom]] has to wrap his head around the ban of pork in the Islamic Kahndaq and how crippling horrible villains would be considered excessive force.
** What was the act that proved to the wizard Shazam that Teth Adom was abusing his gifts to bring more power to himself and [[FallenHero crossed the line?]] He was attempting to form the ancient equivalent of the ''Justice League!'' Teth Adom is extremely bitter about it, as Captain Marvel's participation in the Justice League proves that he had the right idea. He notes that he and his contemporaries could have brought an age of Enlightenment and peace that no one had seen before, if it wasn't for the [[EtTuBrute wizard's betrayal]] [[PoorCommunicationKills and his refusal to listen to Adom.]] (Although some of the members of his proposed league were...questionable.)
** Kaldur, Garth and Tula are extremely offended when Kaldur's [[EvilTwin Earth -14 counterpart]] Lamprey addresses Aquaman as Arthur Curry instead of his Atlantean name. In Atlantis, people opposed to Aquaman's rule would call him by his land name to imply that he's not Atlantean.
** Once Maxima truly realizes what she wants in a spouse is someone that can complement her abilities and be able to rule alongside her, she has no problems marrying her female adviser. She plainly tells her adviser to congratulate her and that they are getting married.
** One of the Aesops for ShowWithinAShow "The Foolish Prince".
---> '''Prince Pavlos:''' Firstly, I would say that I have learned that no matter what you do or how you live, someone, somewhere will take exception to it, no matter how reasonable the action or unreasonable the exception.
* DemonicPossession:
** How everyone views [[spoiler:the Ophidian's possession of Paul]] to the point of getting an exorcist. The exorcist notes that [[spoiler:the Ophidian]] is not a demon and needs different methods to be driven out.
** [[spoiler:Demon Constantine works to have a demonic speedster possess Max Mercury.]]
* DemonSlaying: The fic involves ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'', it comes with the territory.
* DepletedPhlebotinumShells: Paul's standard attack style involves railguns firing a variety of special ammunition, some mundane (tungsten, cold iron), some high-tech (molecular disassembly aka crumbler), and some magical (mage slayer, angel feather).
* DidntThinkThisThrough: OL realized that shortly after [[spoiler:turning Black Adam back to Teth Adom; Adom started attacking Wotan with near-lethal force by tearing his right arm off, because he was unfamiliar with the heroes' modern rules of engagement.]]
** Blue Lantern points out to Ultraman that this trope is in effect regarding the use of Owlman's planet-buster bomb, pointing out the problems with detonating a planet-killer on your only planet.
* DifferentWorldDifferentMovies: On movie night, Paul finds out the varying and almost familiar movies on [[BlandNameProduct WebFilm]].
** A movie adaptation of ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' directed by Creator/ChristopherNolan.
** Franchise/StarWars exists, but Creator/GeorgeLucas was killed [[ForWantOfANail in a hit and run accident]] before he could make episodes I to III. So Disney bought the Star Wars franchise much earlier and hired Creator/MichaelBay to direct the prequels. Paul's InUniverse opinion: "So, pro, no Jar Jar Binks. [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks Con]], Queen Amidala in a boob tube and hot pants and a [[Film/TransformersFilmSeries thirty foot tall General Grievous]]."
** ''Super Giraffeman Seven'', a low-budget, superhero comedy movie. It has a 2001 sequel, ''[[RecycledINSPACE Super Giraffeman in Space]]''.
* DiplomaticImpunity:
** Following the Injustice League fiasco, diplomatic immunity is what saves Count Vertigo from getting incarcerated right away. OL is extremely peeved about this and does not hold back at all about how stupid it is. Renegade goes further, starting a publicity campaign to hound and harass the bureaucrats who let it happen, leading at least one of them to commit suicide.
** Paul eventually decides that he may as well throw his own weight around with his Themysciran diplomatic passport, using it to avoid prosecution for things like [[spoiler:stealing Kraft's business plans, to prove that they're lying about what they'll do to Cadbury's after they buy it out]].
* DisabilityImmunity: Controller Hannanan believes that part of the reason Paul was able to use the orange light without total insanity before the Central Power Battery was restored was because he had no soul.
* DisconnectedByDeath: In ''Contingency'' OL calls Luthor in hopes of Luthor giving the team back-up. Unfortunately, Luthor's company building is also being attacked and Luthor was making a LastStand by keeping a protective shield to protect fleeing employees. Luthor gives OL his technological database before the call disconnects when the building is annihilated.
* DistractedByTheSexy: OL has his moments...
** OL gets very distracted by Diana's appearance when he first meets her, not that he'll admit it.
** Invoked by Artemis as she tries to use the shirtless Kon to win a fight against OL. She fails at the time, but later succeeds by giving him a kiss so he wouldn't put his shields up when she slapped him.
** Zatanna also gets distracted when OL takes off his top to show his protective tattoos.
** Holly notices Artemis' trim taut and terrific physique during morning exercise. Holly's girlfriend notices her noticing.
* DoingInTheScientist: After intensive study and experimentation on the [[SuperStrength Danner Formula]] and [[SuperSpeed Garrick Formula]], OL, Jay Garrick and Kid Flash conclude that both formulae don't work according to scientific principles. Further study implies that there's something alchemical and magical about them that's making them work.
* DoNotCallMePaul:
** Inverted; Paul ''refuses'' to use the name "The Joker", instead putting his ring to work ferreting out his true identity -- Jack Napier -- and insisting on only calling him by his true name. This is one of the more obvious ways in which he expresses his contempt for the character.
** Played with for the protagonist, whose actual name is Paul, and who would be happy to have people use it, but for reasons he doesn't understand, he cannot say it himself, ''and'' if he thinks about it too hard, he gets knocked unconscious. In the Paragon timeline, Robin is able to deduce his name, but in the Renegade timeline, no one knows it, and he takes on the pseudonym Grayven.
* {{Doorstopper}}: With daily updates averaging over a thousand words, the story is well over 3 million words total as of early 2020. Extrapolating that to the author's stated goal of covering ''Young Justice'' season 2 and the five year interval between seasons, the whole story will likely be over ten million words.
* DramaticIrony:
** OL shuts down Robin and Red Arrow's attempts to find the mole, pointing out that the claim came from a '''criminal''', a claim that was '''unsubstantiated''' after they did multiple background checks and tests for mind control. [[spoiler:The only one he didn't check was Red Arrow, because he wasn't part of the Team]].
** Renegade!OL is considering working with the Light after his disappointment with the Justice League. [[spoiler:Artemis and Miss Martian accuse him of being the mole when he had never worked with the Light before and he is still loyal to the Team]].
** Renegade!OL notes that in a group with an alien and two clones, ''he'' has the most alien morality on the Team.
** One of Zatara's stipulations to allow Zatanna to become a superhero is that she never associate with John Constantine. Guess whom she works with in order to [[spoiler:bring Zatara back]]?
* DruggedLipstick: Orange Lantern falls victim to this after kissing Jade, because he didn't scan her lips. He found the idea of this too implausible (which, in reality, it ''would be'', but he didn't account for the more subtle differences between his universe and YJ's universe).
* DullSurprise: OL's reaction to the death of the Justice League in "Contingency", snarking at the unoriginality of it before his friends tell him to [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor take it more seriously.]]
* DumbassHasAPoint: While J'onn J'aarkn is a huge sleazebag, he does have a point that M'gann would need his notes on human shapeshifting if she wants to improve her capabilities from someone who knows how Martian shapeshifting works. And she'll need it if she ever wants to get physically intimate with humans. M'gann herself says that J'aarkn took really good notes and his knowledge improved her shapeshifting a lot.
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[[folder: E]]
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Since this was Mr Zoat's first foray into fanfiction, the first handful of chapters don't always match up exactly with the more carefully planned later arcs -- such as the need to put on clothing before being able to designate it as a uniform and store it in subspace, which doesn't come up again. The tendency to create constructs as soon as he feels an abstract desire, without having specifically visualised the construct, is also downplayed in later episodes.
* EatingOptional:
** Paul's ring could theoretically take care of all his bodily functions, substituting orange power for food, sleep, and air. In practice, it's not wise to rely on that too heavily, especially regarding sleep, and he does eat regular meals.
** Red Inferno could power herself entirely from her fire elemental core, but after [[spoiler:being rebuilt by the Ophidian]], she explores the sense of taste. Several people [[EroticEating are impressed]].
* EatingTheEyeCandy: Unbeknownst to OL, Zatanna definitely liked what she saw when he took off his shirt and posed to show off his magical tattoos while he was intoxicated on magic.
* EldritchAbomination:
** Klarion the Witch Boy is a Lord of Chaos, who has essentially replaced his original soul with a connection to the plane of elemental chaos. This gives him access to vastly more magical power, but he's no longer really human, his form is malleable, and he can be banished to the plane of chaos if his anchor to the material world is destroyed.
** Johnny Sorrow has been warped by exposure to the extradimensional King of Tears, and now twists the space around him by his mere presence. Seeing his face drives people to madness, and the mask he wears to control that ability is his anchor to the material world.
** Richard Swift looks human and keeps a low profile, but has become a being of shadow, capable of accessing vast power by tapping into the Shadowlands adjacent to the material world. Keen eyes can notice that the shadows cast by his appearance are darker and more solid than they should be. The Renegade considers him to be the most powerful individual in the world.
* EmotionControl: The Medusa Mask can incapacitate or convert opponents by spiking them with fear, hatred, etc. Doesn’t work on [[spoiler:an enlightened OL]] though.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: [[spoiler:Artemis and Robin, after Ophidian-OL gives the Danner formula against their will.]]
* EnemyToAllLivingThings: [[spoiler:Darkseid]], in a ''very literal, metaphysical sense''. [[spoiler:He radiates an aura based on the Anti-Life Equation, and merely being in his presence is implied to have burned out the minds of the genomorphs in the Renegade timeline.]]
* EndlessDaytime: The "land of Summer", billions of years in the future, has no cycle of day and night, it's more of a perpetual twilight, with enough light to see but shaded by fog all around and dark clouds overhead. Without a clock capable of surviving under the Vampire Sun, losing track of time happens very quickly.
--> '''Artemis:''' I've eaten meals, I've slept, and… Everything outside is the same. There aren't any days here and my computer's busted so I've got no idea how much ''time'' has passed. '''How long'''?
* EnlightenedSelfInterest: A main idea of Paul's philosophy for the Orange Lantern Corps. The better an Orange Lantern understands the reasoning behind their desires, the better they can act upon them. Especially in the interest of furthering the Corps' interests, of which an ethical approach to their goals is mandated. Self-actualization and Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs also apply.
--> "As an Orange Lantern, this is something you must be aware of in yourself. An Orange Lantern's ability to use their ring is dependent on understanding and working towards the realisation of your desires." [...] "There are an almost infinite number of approaches a person can take to almost anything. But if you've taken up an orange power ring, you have to proceed in a particular way or you cripple yourself." - Back Door (part 4)
* EnlightenmentSuperpowers: Several characters gain deep insight into a particular emotion, to the point where it influences their whole pattern of thought. When equipped with the matching power ring, they make exceptionally powerful and stable Lanterns, able to continue feeling the full emotional spectrum without losing their connection to the ring's emotion, and able to focus on that emotion without being consumed by it - even to the point of being able to [[FusionDance temporarily bond with the embodiment of that emotion]] for a massive power boost, or NoSell magical attempts to alter their emotions. The text depicts this enlightenment by putting ''all'' of their quotation marks in the appropriate color.
** Paul gains Orange Enlightenment [[spoiler:after bonding with the Ophidian]] in the Paragon timeline. This also gives him empathic vision, allowing him to see into people's souls and trace the emotional connections there. It later allows him to safely access the Honden of Avarice, the nexus of every desire ever felt by any being in the universe.
** Michael Sisken has Yellow Enlightenment as a result of winning against the Terror Thing.
** Mr Zoat explains that Green Lanterns [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/with-this-ring-young-justice-si-thread-twelve.25032/post-6059040 don't get as many benefits]] as other colors.
** [[spoiler:Guy Gardner]] gains Green Enlightenment in the Paragon timeline.
** Nommo Balewa/Dr Mist has White Enlightenment.
** Geoffrey Talbot in the Renegade timeline has Red Enlightenment, and receives a Red Power Ring.
* EternalEnglish: Averted.
** Teth Adom had to be taught English and Kahndaqi Arabic by university students in exchange for teaching them ancient Kahndaqi.
** [[spoiler:Truggs]] mentions spending months learning English when he got to the past, as the language and dialect changed drastically in the future.
* ExpansionPackPast: The Renegade's claimed history implies this. Possibly, unless he's [[UnreliableNarrator lying]] or [[BecomingTheMask confused]]... [[spoiler:While it's always been said that once Paul was just an ordinary British guy who somehow got transported to multiple DC (and at least one Marvel)-based dimensions, the Renegade claims to Queen Aga'po that he is the ''original Grayven'' who ''jumped to "Paul's" home Earth'' to burn out Anti-Life corruption, as that universe's laws "[did] not support souls]", his New God mantle being stripped away as well. And even Darkseid himself has stated that Grayven took a "sojourn into the Bleed" -- the chaotically hostile space between dimensions - when leaving Apokolips.]]
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas:
** Bane was about to tear Paragon!OL's head off when he believed the latter desecrated his mother's grave. Paragon clarifies that he simply scanned through the ground in order to get her DNA.
** Georgia and Thaddeus Jr Sivana have no concern for life, law, or personal property, but their mother is able to make them apologize for robbing Paul's subspace pocket and return what they stole.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Played with in the Renegade timeline. Everyone in the Light is horrified and appalled by Klarion's actions in ''Displaced'' and his idea of a "distraction". The Renegade mocks this as he internally notes that most of the Light are guilty of attempted genocide and that they're not as good as they think they are.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt:
** Everyone can see the chemistry between OL and Superboy, and everyone made jokes about it until Kon hooked up with M'gann. Conner's classmates asked if Paul and Conner were in an "alternative relationship".
** People started joking how Zatanna and OL are together a lot, not knowing they are secretly plotting to rescue Zatanna's father.
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** In the Paragon world, everyone assumes what makes Teth Adom lose his connection to the wizard is that Teth killed his father. Turns out that no, it was for something else; the wizard was totally fine with Teth's father getting killed. Again, the Wizard, who champions the fight against the seven deadly sins of man, says that it was okay to kill this guy. ''Yikes.''
** While J'onn J'aarkn will proudly have sex with AnythingThatMoves, even he stays away from the likes of [[TheSociopath Sonic]] [[TheVamp Sally]].
* EveryoneHatesFruitCakes: Subverted. To the surprise of Cat Grant and Guy Gardner, OL's giant fruit cake is delicious. OL notes that his mother taught him how to make it properly.
* EvilOverlordList: OL has studied it and recommends others do so as well.
* ExactWords:
** Paul takes his time choosing the wording of his oath to Gaia, ensuring that it has suitable exceptions and loopholes, such as not ''willingly'' leaving the system (in case he's forcibly removed) and that he can end all obligations by returning the lantern to Alan. [[spoiler: He relies on the former exception at New Year's, and the Renegade later activates the escape clause as part of his infiltration of the Light.]]
** During Bane's assassination attempt, OL orders the ring to "Find the Missiles." He has to narrow the search parameters once it begins showing him the location of ''every rocket-based weapon in Asia.''
** In ''Contingency'', Paragon!OL gives his lantern back to the then dead Alan. He then takes it back in hopes that he is technically no longer bound to his vow to Gaia as the vow didn't cover him stealing/inheriting it back.
** Renegade!OL is responsible [[spoiler:for the deaths of Felix Faust, Wotan and Blackbriar Thorn. He's not punished by Gaia because he didn't kill them:]] he simply delivered them to the Chinese government to be given trial. The country most likely to give them the death penalty due to their harsher laws on metahumans and the severe child death toll.
* ExplainExplainOhCrap: When OL and Diana are discussing the Greek Pantheon, OL comments that Hera doesn't get much out of being Queen of the Gods to due marrying [[AnythingThatMoves Zeus]]. Diana defends Zeus by saying that he doesn't cheat anymore and he's much more respectful of his marriage to Hera. OL has to tell Diana of the eight-year-old Cassie Sandsmark, one of OL's candidates for future recruitment, who is a genetic match to her half-brother, Ares, and whose mother met Zeus during a cruise on Greek waters.
* ExplainingYourPowerToTheEnemy: Paul seems unconcerned about revealing the extent of his powers to friends and foes alike. Even to the Reach.
* ExtendedDisarming: Power rings make this much easier; when Paul first arrests Jade, he promptly confiscates the knives in her hands, the pistol bow, shuriken and collapsible swords from her back, the explosive pellets from her belt, the extra knives and throwing weapons from inside her tunic... [[spoiler:but he misses her poisoned lipstick.]]
--> '''Paul''': Maybe she really ''doesn't'' need armour with all this stuff in her clothing.\\
Please say she doesn't have a knife up her... No? Fffwww. That's a relief.
* ExtraDimensionalShortcut: As Paul's exotic orange light abilities grow, he discovers that he can travel through the Honden of Avarice, where all usage of the orange light is recorded, to reach anyone in the universe near-instantaneously. Furthermore, it bypasses most forms of anti-teleportation shielding. However, he can't easily bring passengers, since anyone without either excellent self-awareness or magical shielding would be overwhelmed by the Honden. [[spoiler:Vril Dox arranges for a fleet to be magically shielded so that Paul can transport them to a Reach target, and it works, but wrecks the shielding in the process, leaving them to fly back in more mundane fashion.]]
* EyeColourChange[=/=]GlowingEyesOfDoom:
** Paul's eyes will occasionally glow orange, due to augmenting his vision with his ring.
** When he is feeling particularly strong avarice (especially if it is overwhelming his mental stability), his eyes will turn into Orange Lantern Corps symbols. This is consistent with other Lanterns, whose eyes turn into symbols of the emotion they feel strongly (usually their designated corps).
** Paul is capable of summoning the Ophidian's eyes so that he can see people's deepest inner desires.
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[[folder: F]]
* FailedASpotCheck: Upon landing on Earth, Paul goes to the first clothes shop he finds, to replace his pyjamas -- and doesn't pay any mind to the fact that the place is full of bikers carrying guns and trying to conceal bags of white powder.
* FailedAttemptAtScaring: A Sheeda highborn warrior mistakes Paul for Harold Jordan, and tries to weaken him by intimidating him, then throws a magical spear through time and stabs him in the chest with it. However, with his ring keeping him together, Paul isn't seriously hurt, and with his past combat experience, he's not impressed either.
--> '''Aeres:''' Do you fear me ''now''?
--> '''Paul:''' Six months ago an angel shoved a burning sword through my skull, while I was in hell and defended by an army of demons. I'm sorry, but no matter what you do you're not going to get the emotional reaction you're looking for.
* FailsafeFailure: [[spoiler:Kara Zor-El's life-pod]] detects a Power Ring as a safety measure and opens up... while in the vacuum of space.
* FakeDefector: The Renegade stages a dramatic exit from the Team and joins the Light, switching from an orange power ring to a yellow one. However, he's already met with Batman about running it as a deep cover infiltration. What's particularly interesting is that he does genuinely like the Light's goals and independence, to the point where even Batman isn't sure if he's [[BecomingTheMask genuinely switched sides]], it's just that the existing roster are almost all stuck in useless supervillain mindsets. [[spoiler:He eventually gives up on them, sells them out to the US government, and kills all except Lex Luthor.]]
* FalseCrucible: Despite OL knowing at first he was in a training scenario, that goes all out the window when M'gann accidentally hijacks it, making the Team believe it's real.
* FalseFlagOperation: The Thanagarian government infiltrates the Cult of the Seven Devils and deliberately incites them to make very public and doomed-to-fail attacks, in order to arouse public ire against them. Plus, they get to watch how Paul responds to the attacks, and thus gain a better idea of his capabilities.
* FamedInStory: Robin is well-known to be part of the Dynamic Duo and OL becomes known through his various exploits in the Rhelasia Conference, the Injustice League, the Giant Cake and the post-"Displaced" interview. Justified as those events weren't covert ops missions and he is the only one on the Team that is legally an adult.
* FanDisservice:
** OL does a web search on [[ComicBook/SevenSoldiers Sonic Sally]] and it rewards him with a ten second clip of her [[{{Squick}} masturbating with a piece of barbed wire]].
** After Paul's first very public appearance in Rhelasia, Wonder Woman assigns him to go through her fan mail for an hour, as a lesson in what fame is like.
---> '''Paul''': If I ever see a picture of a fat hairy naked guy again, it'll be too soon.
* FantasticallyChallengingPatient: Orange power rings are excellent healing tools in the right hands, but they don't always come with comprehensive medical data on the target species, as Paul discovers when he rescues some injured Darkstars.
--> Okay, ''scanning''. Nothing on the second guy's species but the woman conforms more closely to the standard humanoid template. I still need to copy her body chemistry but at least I know where everything is supposed to go. Huh, and no temptation to 'improve' things. Blackened and roasted organ tissue evaporates and is replaced by fresh brown/green. That looks? About right. Anything obviously toxic in the blood..? No, right, best I can do then. Fat, muscle and skin and I hope her species doesn't have belly buttons.
* FantasticRacism: The social system of Mars is a rigidly enforced caste system, with Red Martians as the aristocracy, Greens as the middle class, and Whites as the underclass. Whites are treated pretty poorly, about as badly as the Untouchables in India. [[spoiler:This system is not natural but the result of the Guardians tampering with the original Martian species, the violent Burning Martians.]] It's interesting to note that there's a good deal of tension between Green and White martians, especially after they begin contact with Earth, but there is never any question about the Reds being in charge; both Whites and Greens unquestioningly see them as their natural leaders.
** In the Renegade timeline, [[spoiler:there is an uncontrolled widespread reveal of knowledge about the Burners and the Guardians' interference. The caste system violently breaks down and is inverted, with White Martians sometimes tolerating Greens but hunting and violently persecuting Reds.]]
** In the Paragon timeline, [[spoiler:the leadership is discreetly alerted to the critical information, and many of them begin rushing legislative changes to improve relations in preparation for a public reveal. There is still some disagreement, but the caste system is removed after the discovery that Karmang, the Martian whom Red Martians revere for starting the magic tradition of Mars, was a White Martian himself.]]
* FantasyKitchenSink: More pronounced than usual for DC Comics, due to the inclusion of all the Hellblazer characters.
* FantasyMetals:
** Themyscira has access to three.
*** Mithril, which is two parts titanium to one silver before being transmuted, and is "about eight times stronger than titanium for a third of the weight", as well as being very receptive to enchantments.
*** Orichalcum, which is ten parts gold to one copper before being transmuted, and is not as light as mithril but is even stronger (to the point where it can't be reshaped after being forged).
*** Jovium, which is tin before being transmuted and is a 100% perfect conductor of heat and electricity, as well as being very ductile.
** Vulcan and Hephaestus later experiment with "gromril", which is very heavy but ''ridiculously'' strong.
* FearIsTheAppropriateResponse: An encounter with "Terror Thing", an artificial Fear Elemental, creates an instinctual sense of fear within those in proximity, and it lingers afterwards. Even Nabu isn't immune.
* FeeFiFauxPas: Paul has several of these. When he, Alan and Diana go to the mountain base for the first time, Alan asks to not be left behind. Paul tells him that he is used to slowing down for his grandfather as the man used to walk slow. Alan asks what his grandfather did to stop walking slow, and Paul replies that his grandfather didn't stop walking slow, he died.
* FictionalCounterpart: Paul comes across many. For example, the Great American Pancake Parlor for the International House of Pancakes. Encarta Populi, the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Twunter, the microblogging service.
* FightingFromTheInside: Part of the Paragon!OL's plan to free [[spoiler:Teth Adom from Black Adam]] was to get him to fight [[spoiler:Black Adam]] from within.
* FingerWag: When Mercy Graves [[DefiantToTheEnd attacks the Renegade]], he makes a point of waving ''her'' cybernetic arm around. Then ''upgrades it'' into something that could theoretically actually hurt him, before [[NotWorthKilling tossing her aside]].
--> '''Renegade:''' No, no, no. This is not a threat to me. ''[replaces with Qwardian cybernetics]'' This is.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater:
** [[spoiler:Teth Adom, the first Black Adam]] who later takes over the body of [[AssholeVictim Theodore Adam]] with help from Paul, finds several things about the modern world strange and confusing, if not outright horrifying. Such as people turning away perfectly good food like bacon because of Religion, men no longer considering kilts fashionable clothing, and a funny, if disturbing, InUniverse misunderstanding related to [[{{Squick}} indoor plumbing and tap water]], and their source.
** Lord Malvolio left Earth four centuries ago and has been imprisoned in his private star system since that time. His attitudes are still a bit feudal, and he's rather behind the times on galactic events, although with a power ring and many loyal followers, he has the means to catch up.
* FixFic: The story tries to fix or address the problematic aspects of canon. For example, due to the team's increased acceptance of M'gann's telepathy, OL had Superboy checked for telepathic suggestions or mental triggers. OL even chides Batman for their lack of follow-up.
* FitnessNut: Kratos is the Greek god of strength, and everyone who attends his gym is serious about body-building. The receptionist takes one look at Paul — whose body is constantly maintained at his ideal self-image by his power ring — and judges that he's too weedy to belong, while curling weights with one arm that for most people would require a two-handed barbell. Walking through the gym, Paul observes that the men there are "beefier than most cattle." They are, however, strict about forbidding steroids.
* FlatEarthAtheist: Notably averted. Paul was an atheist in his own world, but has no problem accepting the various supernatural phenomena that very obviously exist in Earth-16.
* FlatWhat: In ''Skived'', this was OL's reaction to seeing the flying robot monkeys with jetpacks. In his defense, he was seeing ''flying robot monkeys with jetpacks.''
* FlawedPrototype: While dealing with the Reach, Paul comes across an unusual green ring that attempts to alter his mind when he puts it on, and which has previously driven Green Lanterns insane. Controller Hinon later examines it and tells him that it appears to be aimed at Maltusian children, who can cope with much greater exposure to the emotional spectrum, but it's still not properly usable; the Guardian who made it was experimenting.
--> '''Hinon''': There were perfectly good ''reasons'' why we didn't take this approach the first time around, but perhaps he thought that he could do a better job of it.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Lots of it.
** When OL first charges his ring, the ring's AI nearly calls him with Larfleeze's designation, Agent Orange, before giving him his proper designation. [[spoiler:The Ophidian later chooses him as her agent.]]
** When OL first heals Superboy, Superboy asks if OL could make him into a full Kryptonian when the latter was distressed over being a half-clone. OL couldn't, [[spoiler: but the Renegade did once he got his hands on the Father Box, which has an extensive xenobiology database, and hacked Superman's records]].
** When OL is trapped in a cage of fire with head injuries, he is begging his ring to come to him and says, "[[spoiler:Ophidian]] be useful for once!"
** When Doctor Munro says that he got the Danner Formula because his father had it, Orange Lantern mentally interrupts by claiming that that isn't how the Danner Formula works. [[spoiler: He's right -- and it's a clue to the Doctor's true identity as Hugo Danner.]]
** When trying to find the right philosophy to guide his Avarice through, OL picks Maslow's Hierarchy of Need over the song "Invite Them In", concluding that taking desires of others as his own would be benevolent but would weaken him. [[spoiler:The song is pivotal in ''Reordered'' as the song would constantly play on Paulphidian's ring. The song's moral is used to drive the Ophidian out of Paul and the moral helps Paul achieve Orange Enlightenment.]]
** In Part 10 of ''Exaltation'', John and Queen Mera discuss a case where someone used ley lines as a conduit for fear magic against him. Later, during the Injustice League attack, Cornwall Boy and Captain Cornwall complain that someone had sabotaged the standing stones. In ''Hullevow'', [[spoiler:we find that the artificial Fear Elemental, Terror Thing, used in the past case, not only connected to John and Cornwall Boy, but is responsible for the nightmares plaguing the town, and that John was the one who sabotaged the standing stones in an attempt to contain it.]]
* ForWantOfANail: The Renegade sections. In them, OL takes choices that, normally, in the main fic he would have never made.
** Such as turning Sportsmaster into a construct and using the Venom-Blockbuster on himself.
** In the Paragon timeline, OL asked for Alan Scott to come with him for his introduction onto the Team and they have a much closer relationship. Meanwhile in the Renegade timeline, OL didn't ask and he and Alan have a distant relationship. [[spoiler:Alan later dies in the Renegade timeline because he wasn't warned to carefully ration his ring charge, which was keeping him healthy.]]
** Another difference is OL's reaction to M'gann's telepathy. Renegade!OL distrusts telepathy in general and learns how to [[PsychicBlockDefense block her]] while Paragon!OL is the first to accept M'gann's telepathy and sells the team on its usefulness in team cohesiveness.
** There's a major one in ''Contingency'': in the Renegade section, Artemis died first as in canon. Renegade!OL mourns her death but finds it uncharacteristic for Robin and Kid Flash to be so distraught over her when they weren't that close and didn't show any emotion over their mentors' deaths. Renegade figures out that it was a simulation and uses his anti-psychic training to break the simulation. In the Paragon section, Robin died first and OL and the team are lured further and further into the scenario. To the point that Paul [[SummonBiggerFish uses]] [[FusionDance desperate]] [[SymbioticPossession measures]] to save his friends and the remaining survivors.
** The Forever People never show up for Sphere in the Paragon timeline because [[spoiler:Paulphidian]] was running rampant. And considering their reaction to the Renegade's use of the [[spoiler:orange light]] (they think he's Apokoliptian), their reaction to sensing an unleashed [[spoiler:Avarice Elemental]] is (quite properly) to turn around and run away.
*** Given what's seen in the canon episode, and combining it with their admission they fled from [[spoiler:orange light]], what happens next is obvious- they picked a fight with people using Apokoliptian Technology, but without Superboy, were horribly defeated, captured, and brought to Apokolips.
** ''Aberrance'' shows a major one on the mission the Team takes. In the Renegade timeline, the Renegade is able to win brownie points with Dr. Cranius, leading to the doctor's cooperation and the success of the mission. Paul is unable to do this, leading to numerous deaths and injuries because Cranius denied any form of aid the Team offered.
** Due to the Renegade being able to infiltrate the Light, [[spoiler:he eventually helps kill almost all of its members]].
* ForeignLanguageTirade: After Paul reveals the identity of Bane's long-lost father, Bane gives one of these when talking to the man. Especially after Bane finds out how the man used Bane's poor mother and did not care for her in the least.
* ForgivenButNotForgotten: Robin and Artemis forgive Paul for [[spoiler:giving them the Danner Formula without their permission]] because he wasn't in his right mind. That said, they were very uncomfortable being around him because he violated their trust.
* FountainOfYouth: Power rings are able to alter people's bodies, so de-aging or becoming TheAgeless is quite feasible.
** Paul's ring keeps his body constantly in peak condition; as long as he has it, he won't age unless he wants to.
** Paul accidentally de-ages Paula Crock/Nguyen to her prime when he heals her spinal damage so she can walk again.
** Whenever Alan Scott gets exposure to the Green Light, the years get taken off him. When he gives Paul his lantern and his ring runs out of power, he regains his age. [[spoiler: Then he gets a ''blue'' personal lantern, and rejuvenates fully.]]
** The Renegade uses a yellow ring to rejuvenate [[spoiler: Circe, after she ended her bargain with Hecate]], since she was terrified of becoming an old crone and thus the yellow light was the simplest and safest choice.
** He also grants "Divine Awakening" to [[spoiler: Queen Clea of Venturia]], and she begins to gradually shift toward her physical prime.
* FreakOut: Mercury freaks out when she encounters OL due to not being able to sense him with her magic.
* FreezeRay: There are actually [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/with-this-ring-young-justice-si-thread-twelve.25032/post-6030278 different classifications for this kind of technology]]: cold guns, freeze rays, and ice guns.
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: Lia Briggs.
* FunctionalMagic: There are a number of different magics in the setting that OL wants to make public.
** A rant he goes on to Lex Luthor is that scientists will spend years trying -- and failing -- to create some method of altering someone's genes or giving them a super-science drug that will grant a person the ability to throw fireballs around, while a sufficiently determined mage can learn how to throw fireballs in just a few months from absolutely nothing.
** One of his first major projects is Dolmen Gates, magical constructs that create instant transportation between two points. He offers them to London as a trial run, and they make great strides in replacing the Underground. They later become the backbone of Cadbury's distribution network, [[spoiler:which is quite helpful after the Sheeda destroy a lot of Earth's conventional shipping capacity]].
** [[AlchemyIsMagic Alchemy]]: Things like the Garrick and Danner Formulas are thought to be the result of Alchemy, so Kid Flash is studying it and Lex Luthor hires people to research it.
** GeometricMagic: John uses this while helping to deal with the Star Sapphire and summoning.
** RitualMagic: John Constantine is noted to be a specialist when it comes to ritual magic.
** SummonMagic: Summonings such as [[DealWithTheDevil Demons]] are possible for anyone with the proper knowledge.
** SympatheticMagic: Ranging from Voodoo practice to sympathetically linked portals.
* FusionDance:
** In ''Contingency'', [[spoiler:Paul willingly merges with the Ophidian due to wanting the power to save his friends more than he wants to remain himself. Paul gets the power of a PhysicalGod while the Ophidian gets Paul's sanity to guide it. The shock of seeing M'gann die, and finding out that scenario wasn't real, fuses the minds together]].
** Michael Siskin has been stuck with Terror Thing so long that they've merged together.
** Paul and [[spoiler:the Ophidian]] have re-merged -- briefly -- several times since their first encounter with one another, such as when they were trying to find Speedy.
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[[folder: G - H]]
* GenerationXerox: Discussed. Wally points out that if Troia joins the Team, they would have a complete match of the original seven.
* GetOut:
** Mister Schreiber [[spoiler:after OL tells him he's a clone of Hitler]].
** Jade [[spoiler:to the Renegade after he destroys the Light and the League of Shadows without giving her any warning]].
* GiantFood: [[spoiler:Ophidian-infused]] OL made a giant cake over New York City. He later had it stored in the mountains of Switzerland, but the problem is finding a way to bring it out after [[spoiler:OL is separated from the Ophidian]].[[note]]OL and the Green Lanterns finally get it out just in time for Christmas. It's a huge hit and causes a huge boon to the fruitcake industry.[[/note]]
* GlamourFailure:
** J'onn J'aarkn tries escaping from the party using his less common female disguises. It fails as OL's [[TheEmpath empathetic vision]] allows him to track J'aarkn through his spiritual resonance, something J'aarkn cannot change.
** After the Justice League reads OL's report on the entities he encountered in "Fool's Canon," Plastic Man turns into a near-exact copy of Nightmare Moon. It fails because a) the same empathic vision issues mentioned previously, and b) Nightmare Moon was a ''mare.''
* TheGlovesComeOff:
** Doctor Sivana wants to extract the maximum scientific knowledge that he can of [[spoiler:the Sheeda]], so he sticks to probing exploratory attacks at first against [[spoiler:the Sheeda Harrowing]]. But after Paul cuts a deal for [[spoiler:him to be pardoned in exchange for ramping up his efforts]], he quickly slaughters the remaining forces.
** After the Spider Guild [[spoiler:kidnaps Lantern Onik]], Paul teleports immediately to their closest world, starts killing them, and ''then'' delivers an ultimatum.
* GlowingEyes: This tends to happen when a Lantern is closely connected to one of the Embodiments.
** [[spoiler:Lantern Gardner]]'s eyes shine solid green when using his EnlightenmentSuperpowers to resist subtle EmotionControl.
** Paul's eyes turn orange when [[spoiler:he takes the Ophidian inside him for his visit to the Titan seeds]].
* GodGuise: Renegade!OL is mistaken for a god by the Forever People. To be fair, the reasons for this are that the Orange Light "feels" Apokoliptian, and due to the effects of Venom Buster, the Renegade physically resembles Grayven, one of Darkseid's sons.
* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: Discussed and rejected. Although how much they are worshipped affects how much of their power they can use in the mortal realm, it [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/with-this-ring-young-justice-si-thread-eleven.311139/post-17738960 doesn't actually affect how powerful they innately are]]. This is only an issue for "gods", not "New Gods".
* GodWasMyCopilot: While on Themyscira, Paul declares his intention of following Eris, the Grecian Goddess of Discord and Chaos. Shortly after, an amazon named S'''eris''' (emphasis ours) drags him to a temple of Hera, where what Orange Lantern assumes is a high priestess of Hera is going on a bender because [[spoiler:Zeus cheated on Hera... for the zillionth time, producing Cassie Sandsmark. OL points out that Hera should probably break up with Zeus, giving such reasons as "Divorce is part of marriage, even if it's not a ''nice'' part. This makes the "High Priestess" yell out "No more Zeus" and teleport away, Seris slips him her number, and Paul realizes that, "OhCrap, That was Hera and Eris, and I may have just started a huge shakeup in the Grecian Pantheon."]]
* GodzillaThreshold:
** When Earth is falling to an alien invasion with the Justice League and some of their friends dead. OL gets desperate, so desperate that he wanted power more than he wanted to remain himself, which he gets [[spoiler:by summoning the [[PhysicalGod Ophidian]]]]. Unfortunately, it was AllForNothing because the invasion was a simulation that had gone badly wrong -- everyone was still alive.
** OL tells Martian Manhunter, it could have been worse: he has the Grimorium Verum, a guide book for '''extremely powerful''' demons, which he would have used to summon an actual demon if [[spoiler: the Ophidian]] had fallen through.
** When Oceanus awakens, Paul tries nearly everything, up to using a black-hole generating gun. Eventually the Olympian Gods have to step in, and they ''barely'' last long enough to be a distraction, leaving Batman to approve the use of nukes if Superboy didn't call on his patron god for aid.
** When the forces of Heaven come after OL in ''Clarion Call''. he resorts to unifying the forces of Hell to fight back. [[spoiler:He still gets killed.]]
** When trying to free the angels and captured theurgists, the Justice League authorizes the use of [[spoiler:the Spear of Destiny]].
* {{Golem}}: John Constantine made one of both himself and of Timothy, both times to fool demons.
* GondorCallsForAid: OL is quite fond of using this as a solution to various problems -- if there's a problem that neither his ring nor any of his teammates' skills can handle easily, rather than trying to power through and risk failure, OL simply calls in one of the many heroes or neutral parties specializing in/responsible for dealing with the issue in question, whether calling in John Constantine for magical problems, contacting Swamp Thing and Green Lantern 1287 (Medphyll) for help with rampaging plants, or calling up The Shade for help with a monster from the Shadowlands.
* GoneHorriblyRight:
** Orange Lantern summons [[spoiler:the Ophidian]] to help turn the tide against an AlienInvasion in ''Contingency''. Only to succeed with dire and long-lasting consequences.
** Paragon!OL makes the base harder to break into and tries to make the Justice League stronger and more nationally diverse by recommending powerful non-American heroes such as the Accomplished Perfect Physician and has a list of others. This makes the base harder to break out of when [[spoiler: their mind-controlled mentors attack them]] and the Accomplished Perfect Physician [[spoiler: fights the Team into a retreat. Paul fears the list of recommended heroes could be used by the Light to lure others in for brainwashing in the guise of League try-outs]].
** Paul makes an EnemyMine deal with Hell to fight against the angels who are attacking him, and together they're able to severely damage the Host's military capability [[spoiler: before Paul gets killed anyway by the Archangel of War]]. After the battle, though, the demon lords aren't satisfied, and press the attack on the Silver City itself. Note that despite Paul not seeing eye to eye with the Silver City, they're still a vastly better afterlife than Hell, plus the worst demons would be likely to gain the most prestige and influence from conquering it.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: In ''Contingency'', the Team were in a training simulation which unbeknownst to them was supposed to be difficult and purposely fail them to give an {{Aesop}} on dealing with failure. When M'gann's subconscious hijacks the simulation, the Team go into comas and something else comes out with them when it ends...
* GoodIsNotNice: The Renegade ''can'' be nice to people, but he just has too much fun trolling them, intimidating them, grandstanding, and occasionally he just feels an itch to solve problems by ramming a giant sword through the bad guy.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Paragon is friendly, diplomatic, caring, and very attached to his special people. When the situation calls for it, he's also capable of cold-bloodedly genociding an entire EvilEmpire without losing sleep over it. That's just part of [[EnlightenmentSuperpowers understanding what he really wants]].
* GoodMorningCrono: The story begins when he wakes up in other space with a ring on his finger.
* GoodPowersBadPeople: In the Crime Syndicate Universe (Earth-14), Paul is this, seeing as how he's a Made Man of Ultraman and part of an evil team, but there, he's a ''Blue'' Lantern. Blue lanterns operate on the power of ''hope'', and are mostly known for their psychological and physical healing powers, as well as the ability to charge Green Lantern Rings by proximity.
* GoshDarnItToHeck: Paul is not above launching a PrecisionFStrike when stressed, but in more cheerful moments, both the Paragon and Renegade have internally declared, "Oh flip the heck yes."
* GrandTheftMe:
** Nabu forces Zatara to wear him so Nabu would possess Zatara's body in exchange for [[SadisticChoice releasing Zatanna.]] Whether Nabu keeps it depends on the timeline.
** [[spoiler:Teth Adom]] wins Black Adam's body as spoils after he wins the blessings of his gods.
* GRatedDrug: Ambient magic makes OL high due to the fact that he has no natural resistance to it.
* {{Greed}}: As an Orange Lantern, he's powered by greed/avarice. He takes great care to channel this into a positive, stable, and sane lifestyle and goals.
* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: OL's earlier adventures and the Team's missions in general aren't known to the public.
* HalfHumanHybrid: As a result of living in a high magic environment, their strong connection to the Dreaming, and possibly because [[spoiler:the Life Entity lives on Earth]], humans can bypass some incompatibility issues, resulting in this trope with aliens species. In one chapter, it's described as the partial result of belief; humans subconsciously associate sex between a man and a woman with procreation, so it sometimes doesn't matter that interbreeding should be physically impossible - sex makes babies, so now there's a baby. Red Lantern Paul mentions a cult in medieval France who somehow managed to impregnate female ''elementals''.
* HalloweenCosplay: The team all dress up for a Halloween party, with OL somehow convincing Artemis to dress up as ''Manga/SailorMoon''. She regrets it when she realizes Sailor Moon's uniform doesn't include pants, though Paul ends up giving her a pair of bike shorts when she complains.
* {{Hammerspace}}: Lanterns have what looks like an infinite amount of subspace storage.
* HappinessInSlavery: Paul is quite opposed to slavery, but does encounter some unusual cases.
** The "Clickers" all spend a period of their lives working for the Controllers, in payment for the Controllers having improved their reproductive biology (they originally had a very complex reproductive cycle that had extremely high mortality rates). The Clicker Paul talks to about it informs him that, "virtually all warrens considered it a fair exchange."
** Felicity the Karnan is so accustomed to existing at another's whim (having been raised as a slave since childhood) that she's quite happy to attach herself to Paul, who treats her well, and do whatever he wants. She even goes so far as to embrace the orange light brand that he puts on her, asking him to strengthen his control in the presence of a [[MadScientist Psion]] so that there will be no doubt she's unavailable. Paul is uncomfortable with the situation, but can't do much except drop her off with people who will ensure she's not exploited.
* HarmfulHealing:
** When the Renegade is shot with a radion weapon, which is poisonous to New Gods, he has to use an AbsurdlySharpBlade to ''cut the damaged tissue out of his own abdomen'' before his HealingFactor can kick in. And, of course, he's [[ImmunityDisability immune to anaesthetic]]. It does eventually work, but leaves a scar (which is unusual for a New God) and becomes his new standard for worst/most painful experience.
** Some of the magic used by the Sheeda causes Paul's attempts at healing the Columbians to merely worsen their injuries. He could fix most of them, but a few had to wait for a magic healer to be available.
* HealingShiv: The purple healing ray can heal injuries, though the Renegade did find a way to [[PlayedWith modify them into purple death rays]].
** However, it [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/with-this-ring-young-justice-si-thread-twelve.25032/post-6345254 isn't capable]] of curing illnesses.
* HeelFaceTurn: Paul goes out of his way to make this happen with supervillains who aren't insane and can [[CutLexLuthorACheck put their abilities to much better use]] if they got proper help instead of being treated like garbage.
** He has shown the Terror Twins legitimate ways to use their SuperStrength and put them in contact with other Danner enhanciles. And people on their level to spar with, like Donna Troy. [[spoiler: Both of them help him to contain the Belle Reve breakout instead of trying to run]].
** Abra Kadabra's main wish is to learn real magic, which is why he started picking fights with superheroes in the first place, hoping to draw out someone who could teach him. Paul has connections in that space, and soon finds Kadabra to be very willing to negotiate.
** Captain Cold is initially skeptical of Paul's help. But when he finds out that Paul is handing him a very large sum of money as a share of the Goldman Environmental Prize earned using his freeze ray technology, he just can't ignore it. He slowly comes around to the idea of seeking legitimate employment after finishing his sentence.
---> '''Leonard:''' Eighty seven and a half thousand dollars. For no extra work.\\
'''Paul:''' Yes.\\
'''Leonard:''' Think I can see why Kadabra likes you.
** Dr Sivana has undergone this on his own. He was thrown into a portal by Captain Marvel some time before OL arrived in that universe, with no one knowing exactly where he ended up. Turns out he was flung into the far future that is occupied by [[ComicBook/SevenSoldiers the Sheeda]], and has spent over a year avoiding the horrors of the Sheeda-controlled Earth, while learning more about exactly what they are. Upon returning to his own time, Sivana has decided to abandon his super villain career and instead focus on building weapons for the eventual Sheeda invasion. He's still not exactly ideologically committed to heroism, but working with the heroes serves his goals for now. [[spoiler:He eventually negotiates a pardon in return for his help fighting off the Sheeda, in hopes of reconciling with his ex-wife.]]
** By becoming a Lantern, Komand'r of Tamaran gains a path to independent renown and personal power, beyond anything that Tamaran could ever offer, without needing to take down her sister. She's still not particularly ''nice'', but she's an effective Lantern and they're not fighting each other. [[spoiler:Finding a cure for the disease that disabled her solar powers]] helps thaw her out, too.
** The Renegade spends less time on it, but has successfully flipped a number of villains by helping them get what they want in a non-villainous way. Circe, for example, wanted [[spoiler:to be free from the prophecy that loomed over her and could have resulted in her losing most of her magic and vitality at any time without warning]]; the Renegade helped her by getting her to [[spoiler:preemptively set aside that portion of her power and instead become a New God with less strings attached]].
* {{Hellgate}}: The Light have set up an arrangement with Satanus to use these to transport villains around the world as needed.
** There used to be an active one beneath London, using the dryad Euanthe as a power source to stay open. Paul shuts it down with the help of Zatanna and Constantine.
* HeroicBSOD: Paul enters one when Kon dies in the AlienInvasion in ''Contingency''. He fully loses it when he finds out the scenario wasn't real after traumatically watching M'gann be murdered by her own mentor [[spoiler:which causes him to lose control of the FusionDance and allow the Ophidian to merge with his mind]].
* HeroicVow:
** Paul makes an oath to Gaia that he'll follow orders, so that Wonder Woman will trust him enough to let him use Alan's personal lantern. The mystical effects of the oath are nullified as a result of Paul bonding with the Ophidian, meaning he's no longer bound by it, but Paul still honors the oath until it's expiration date, as a matter of principle.
** Lantern oaths are meant to be this, a reminder of moral standards and what they're fighting for. Orange oaths, of course, are a bit different from green.
---> '''[[spoiler:Ophidian]]:''' ''Declare our intent to the universe. Make your oath to '''me'''.''
* HeroismWontPayTheBills: Paul is concerned about this particularly affecting Artemis, who has to use up a lot of expensive ammunition. While she's on the Team, Green Arrow covers it, but it means she can't be independent.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: After ''Summer's End'', the Renegade [[spoiler:and Artemis are basically inseparable, although not romantically involved. They have spent an uncertain but very long time together, possibly centuries, with no one else around but Sheeda, and their souls have adapted to that, treating each other as "my other half." When they finally return to their own time, Artemis now trusts him far more than her barely-remembered team mates, and when he travels around the galaxy, he takes her with him.]]
* HijackingCthulhu:
** OL's fusion with [[spoiler:the Ophidian]] goes both ways as he's possessing [[spoiler:the Ophidian]] as much as [[spoiler:the Ophidian]] is possessing him.
** OL wants to help [[spoiler:Mister Siskin take control of the Terror Thing in "Hullevow", making '''him''' into a Fear Elemental]]. It [[HiveMind doesn't work out]] [[PeoplePuppets like he wants it to]] at first, but he's willing to give him another chance.
---> '''Paul:''' I think he could become the mind of it. He wouldn't exactly be him any more, but… That ship's sailed. Once he's got it under control we can stick him in the containment unit until we can work out how to build an arcanotechnological avatar for him. It's not.. an ideal solution...
* HobbesWasRight: Once Paul gets past her layers of acting, this turns out to be Controller Hinon's overarching motivation.
--> '''Paul''': So that's what you want?\\
'''Hinon''': '''Yes'''. Because every time wiser heads have relinquished control, some ''idiot'' brings everything crashing down. I. Want. '''Control'''. ''Not'' because I wish to control people as an exercise in egotism, but because I want to prevent things like… Like ''this''.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard:
** Paul pushed for non-humans to have more rights, such as the genomorphs and androids. However, that also includes demons, like the Demon Constantine, so he can't just interrogate him by unethical means anymore.
---> '''OL:''' Yes. And.. now I'm really wishing we could have held off for a month or two.
** Devilance, New God of the Hunt, tests the Renegade by making him fight a plasma servitor while Devilance fights the rest of the Team. But a plasma servitor is basically a walking sun, and two of the team members are ''Kryptonian''. Cue Devilance getting an absolutely brutal beat-down and his spear claimed as a BattleTrophy.
---> Wait. Brimstone. Walking sun and two Krypt- HAHAHA! He couldn't have known in advance!
* HollywoodExorcism: Lampshaded. [[spoiler:Paulphidian]] wonders why he didn't get any Latin chanting, no calls upon Christ or other trappings when the Inquisitor, Father Mattias attempts to exorcise him. The exorcism itself consists of Father Mattias talking to him. Father Mattias explains that exorcising an elemental like [[spoiler:the Ophidian]] doesn't involve any of the traditional tools or chants; those are for demons.
* HolodeckMalfunction: The alternate Paul in the He-Man universe has Orko cast a spell to make Princess Adora relive her own kidnapping as an infant, so that she'll realise who she is. Unfortunately, she disrupts the spell as it reaches her, ''and'' the pieces hit multiple people (which it wasn't designed for), and the result is a group of soldiers that only those affected by the spell can see, who can run straight through other people without affecting them, but who ''can'' place explosives that cause real damage.
* HolyBurnsEvil: Interestingly enough, Vampires have an innate reaction to religious icons but only if they can recognize them. Lia only has a reaction to unfamiliar icons when Paul explains them to her, including his rings.
* HopeSpot:
** In ''Contingency'', Kid Flash finds out that the [[AlienInvasion alien invaders]] used zeta beams on the things and people they beamed. Kid Flash hoped that meant [[spoiler:Robin was alive]]. OL tells him that it's unlikely as since the outer parts of buildings broke out when they were sucked in, it's probably a Gauss flayer. Which causes death by {{Telefrag}}ing.
** Kara Zor-El [[spoiler: wakes up, sees crystal walls around her, and relaxes, thinking she's on Krypton. Then realises that it's just a Kryptonian building on Earth, Krypton exploded, everyone she knew died and she's been in stasis for thirty years]].
** A downplayed example when Lantern Threllian learns that his species is not entirely exterminated. The situation doesn't immediately go south, but he has to ''stop feeling overwhelming hope'' and focus on greed if he wants to participate in the mission to rescue them; otherwise his ring won't work.
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* ICanLiveWithThat: This is Paul's reaction when Red Arrow points out that protecting the Rhelasian peace conference means they've done Lex Luthor a big favour.
--> '''Paul''': Seventy four million people will be happy with the result. I can live with it being seventy four million and one.
* IdiotBall:
** The whole team getting captured in Homefront ([=S01E12=]) by only two robots.
** Almost the entire Justice League getting infected in Auld Acquaintance ([=S01E26=]) — ''despite'' Paul’s warnings about the potential danger and required caution.
** Belle Reve mass escape [[VillainsActHeroesReact not being prevented despite Paul's and his teammates' suspicions regarding its integrity breach]].
** [[spoiler:During the negotiations following the Kahndaq crisis, Paul’s seeming inaction to prevent both Queen Bee from provoking Teth Adom into doing something stupid and Teth Adom from doing that stupid something. The result was: making an already bad newsbreak even worse, giving grounds for future potential public unrests regarding meta-humans, and losing a valuable source of information on smuggled Apokoliptian technologies. Could probably even count for a LostAesop, since only a chapter before Paul was taking care to convince Adom to not rush and make a blunder.]]
* IfIWantedYouDead: When Red Arrow is busy listing off how various members of the Team could be the mole, Orange Lantern defends himself by pointing out that if he ''was'' the mole, then the week before where he became the [[spoiler:Host of the Ophidian]] and became a PhysicalGod would have been more than an ideal time to not only off the other members of the Team, but accomplish any number of goals for the bad guys.
* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: Inverted by Paul, who goes to visit [[spoiler: Lawrence Crock]] and warns him never to have any contact with his family again.
--> '''Paul''': [[spoiler: Jade]] and I are romantically involved, and ''no'', because I'm sure you're about to make a comment, I'm ''not'' asking your permission or anything stupid like that. You see, I don't really care about you one way or the other, but [[spoiler: Jade]] '''''really hates you'''''. So I thought I'd say from the outset, that if you become involved in the life of your natural family -or with me- in ''any way'', I will kill you.
* IgnoredEpiphany: Father Mattias nearly gets through to [[spoiler:Paulphidian]] that he doesn't need the Ophidian and it's trying to make him believe that he does. It falls apart and then [[spoiler:Paulphidian]] immediately forgets what they're talking about.
--> '''Father Mattias:''' You are stronger than this. You do not truly want this.\\
'''[[spoiler:Paulphidian]]:''' '''But. We. Still. WANT.'''
* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: Paul accidentally destroys Superboy's inner ears with a sonic weapon when fighting Mister Twister.
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight:
** While fighting Black Adam, OL implores Teth Adom to resist his bondage and fight back to prove the wizard Shazam wrong.
** Father Mattias and all of OL's friends do this in hopes of [[spoiler:Paulphidian]] breaking the FusionDance.
* IllKillYou:
** When the Team believes Robin to have died, Wally slips into this trope.
** [[spoiler:Paulphidian]] says this when Martian Manhunter "killed" Miss Martian in a telepathic simulation. Then he makes good on his word (in the simulation).
* ImmortalProcreationClause: Zigzagged for Themyscira. While the Amazons are immortal as long they remain on the island they can still procreate if they wanted to, but since they want nothing to do with men, they won't. Practically speaking, the island does have a limited amount of arable land as well as living space, though this hasn't been an issue for as long as anyone can remember. Socially, this is enforced as some parts believe the desire for motherhood is a mental and moral weakness. To the point that Hippolyta was almost overthrown when she had Diana due to how much controversy it caused, though there were examples of Amazons who did crack mentally due to a desire for motherhood. And then Orange Lantern came along, revealing that the Ring can combine the DNA of two females, allowing the Amazons to breed without men, allowing for the first time in thousands of years that natural birth can happen on the island. Paul points out that this trope is nearly disastrous for a warrior society like the Amazons, since there have only been six new people who live on the island in the past century, which is far outstripped by those who died in the past thousand years, subtly pointing out that like it or not, the Amazons are very slowly dying out.
* ImpossibleTheft: Thaddeus Junior and Georgia managed to steal a device from OL's subspace pocket, right under his nose, since he didn't get basic training on locking his subspace.
* InferredHolocaust: Utterly averted with the events of "Misplaced". In Gotham, OL finds a bridge on fire and many children injured or '''dead''' due to the adults driving their cars disappearing. OL states that the situation will get worse because there are many children without caregivers and many that might die of exposure. By the end of the incident, the official count is somewhere around ''eight hundred thousand'' [[WouldHurtAChild children.]]
* InsistentTerminology: Paul doesn't like letting people just refer to "Green Lantern" or for that matter "Orange Lantern," because there are several Green Lanterns on Earth and he wants the Orange Corps to work similarly someday.
--> '''Tour guide:''' Thank you. Everyone, this is Orange Lantern. He's-. \\
'''Paul:''' Two eight one four. Orange Lantern two eight one four. This is Sector two eight one four, I'm the Orange Lantern assigned to it. Sorry for interrupting you, it's rude of me, but if people just say the job title you get silly situations where people think there's only one Lantern or something.
* InSpiteOfANail: Despite the Renegade and Paragon being very different people, both of them express their contempt for Superman to his face, both of them picking Renegade options to call him out on his treatment of Kon.
* InternalReveal: Due to the DramaticIrony, OL is a bit embarrassed when it turns out there was a mole.
* InterspeciesRomance:
** Ferdinand the minotaur chef at the Themysciran Embassy has a relationship with Leslie Anderson.
** M'gann and Kon, but that was canon already.
** [[PlantPerson Swamp Thing]] and Abigail Cable are married. Unfortunately, since this was before the laws were passed by Orange Lantern and Lex Luthor's campaigning, it counted as [[BestialityIsDepraved Crimes against Nature]] and caused legal issues.
** The Renegade dates [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Luna]], because PowerIsSexy to Apokoliptians, and she certainly has that. It doesn't hurt that Starswirl's Mirror allows them both to shift between pony and human.
* IntoxicationEnsues:
** As long as he doesn't have a soul, Paul is severely affected by ambient magic. He first encounters it when visiting Gaia's temple, which makes him basically high, and then spends hours bedridden after [[spoiler: getting magical tattoos that will help him slowly grow his own soul]].
** Apparently, Euanthe responds to Swamp Thing's fruit like catnip while she's un-adjusted.
** The Titan seeds would never poison a guest, that would be against SacredHospitality, but if the fruit bowl happens to be somewhat alcoholic, that's the guests' own lookout...Aporia doesn't seem to care much, though, and finishes the entire bowl.
* InUniverseCatharsis: After the useful but frustratingly incomplete results of testing the Danner formula on rats, Paul takes out his feelings by smacking the rats around with a baseball bat (which, having been enhanced, they can shrug off).
* InUniverseNickname:
** OL calls the Guardians "Bobbleheads", the Green Lanterns "Greenies" and Artemis' bow a "pointy stick launcher".
** [[spoiler:The Ophidian calls Green Lanterns "Green Men" and constructs "toys" and Larfleeze "the gnat". She also calls Paul "My Agent".]]
** Orange Lantern is referred to by Kid Flash as OL.
** After being [[spoiler: fused with the Ophidian]], Paul is commonly known as "The Cake Man" for the huge cake he made over the skies of New York.
* InVinoVeritas: Alan Scott drunkenly reminisces on his dead comrades, his lost love, OL's sexuality and how OL resparked his hope.
* {{Irony}}: Orange Lantern is mistaken for being a PaletteSwap of Green Lanterns. His natural eye color ''is'' green.
* IstanbulNotConstantinople: As in canon, being a DC Universe, several countries have different names, even when supervillains aren't involved.
** Instead of North and South Korea, the local equivalents are called North and South Rhelasia.
** With [[spoiler:Teth Adom now in control of Black Adam's power]], Kahndaq (the local form of Egypt) is getting more attention.
* IsThisThingStillOn: OL gives Cat Grant an interview detailing the events of "Displaced" and his role in it. He was completely unaware that it was a live telephone interview for the GBS morning news until after the fact.
* ItOnlyWorksOnce: Anything that works against a hero or recurring villain once is often rendered useless by the next encounter. In a nice twist, this is not because (in most cases) the resource is used up, but because both sides work to adapt past that weakness.
** Paul once used his ring to find the League of Shadows. A few hours later, the Light had measures in place to shield themselves from detection. Then it starts becoming widespread.
** Klarion used magic to nearly kill Paul. He immediately looks into getting amulets that can block magic, as well as render him undetectable by magic.
** After learning that the Spell Eaters render magic directly used on its wearer useless, certain foes started just using magic on the area around them to block their senses and so on.
* ItsAllMyFault: Miss Martian blames herself for trapping them in the scenario. Both [=OLs=] point out that she was not truly responsible for it as Martian Manhunter was. He was the one running the scenario, didn't properly assess her and didn't take OL's concern about the training simulation's limitations seriously . Whether she is comforted by this depends on whether it's done by the Renegade or the Paragon.
* ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime: Thana mentions, having just gained immortality, that a thousand-year service to Hades seemed like a good idea. They, however, came to regret spending weeks on end isolated in catacombs. Other than that, it's just boring work for the most part.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Orange Lantern does this to Demon Constantine in ''Zigzag 16''.
--> I take another Mage Slayer out. "It wasn't. I normally don't go in for this whole… Jack Bauer thing. But you disgust me…" I nod. "Just enough, Demon."
* JerkassHasAPoint:
** Hal Jordan says to Paul that even though he understands his powers are limited in usefulness compared to Paul's, he's willing to work within the (restrictive) rules because it allows him to protect his own homeworld from huge threats to it (Alien invasions, demons, mad scientists, etc.)
** Hal Jordan points out that the Green Lanterns' ring restrictions were made so the thousands of users would be less capable of abusing it, something Paul wouldn't understand since there is only one other Orange Lantern.
** [[spoiler:Paulphidian]] and Renegade!OL both point out that it was mostly Martian Manhunter's fault that the training scenario went so horribly for failing to properly assess M'gann's telepathic potential, throwing the team into a high-stress scenario in a technique the team never used before and for his poor methods of ending the scenario. Black Canary couldn't give a counter to that.
** [[spoiler:Paulphidian]] also points out that Black Canary shouldn't really be doing the psychoanalysis stuff to the Team after the Training Scenario went south, since she doesn't have psychiatric training, unlike Lantern Gardner.
** After getting superpowers, Robin admits that OL had a point in the comparative frailty of the BadassNormal.
** Hal Jordan has a point when he points out OL's recklessness when he contacted the Swamp Thing for assistance without any backup plan in case he was hostile.
** While Paul admits he thinks Superman was cruel for rejecting Kon, he does have a point that it's unfair to expect of Superman to take on someone who was made without his consent and has no true obligation to.
* KickTheDog: OL goads Artemis in a fight when he tries to get her to supplement archery with something he sees as more effective. When Artemis tries to [[DistractedByTheSexy distract him with a shirtless Superboy]], OL makes an off-color comment that ''Artemis'' should flash him if she wants to distract him. Everyone is angry at him for that comment and OL does make amends with Artemis.
* KillTheGod:
** [[spoiler:Lord Kilderkin of Order will consider setting Giovanni Zatara free from Nabu if Paul, Zatanna, and John Constantine kill Klarion. Paul figures that if he has to kill one Lord of Entropy, he may as well kill the other too.]]
** [[spoiler:He also kills [[http://hellblazer.wikia.com/wiki/The_First_of_the_Fallen The First of the Fallen]] (Hellblazer).]]
** [[spoiler:Renegade!OL assimilates Nabu's helmet and brutally kills Klarion with a demon slayer sword.]]
* KiManipulation: On Earth 16, chi is a spiritual power that everyone uses, [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/with-this-ring-young-justice-si-thread-twelve.25032/post-6033864 but only in minute amounts]].
** Mr Zoat later says that learning mystical kung-fu is [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/with-this-ring-young-justice-si-thread-twelve.25032/post-6033979 complicated]], as even the ones teaching it aren't entirely sure of how it works.
** Studying chi can [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/with-this-ring-young-justice-si-thread-twelve.25032/post-6034269 interfere with a metaphysique's development]].
* KlingonPromotion: The Citizenry chooses its leader this way. Since they're a race that considers Spartans to be wimps and eats nothing except a porridge made from the species they've genocided, this fits right in.
* KnockoutGas: [[spoiler:OL ends up having to basically gas the entire town of Minions when Terror Thing tries to make them kill themselves in fear... and then it starts using them as PeoplePuppets.]]
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Fabiao, one of Bane's henchmen, surrenders to the police after [[spoiler:Ghost Fox Killer kills his former boss]]. In exchange, Paul heals the tears in his skin from the Blockbuster serum and he'll do 8 years hard labor before he may get brought into China's Great 10 or sent back to Brazil.
* KryptoniteFactor: New Gods' SuperToughness is vulnerable to radion weapons. The Renegade has regenerated his body even from a nuclear explosion at close range, but still has scars from a radion injury. (Radion weapons also work on other species, but are relatively slow and cumbersome, so aren't normally the first choice.)
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[[folder: L - M]]
* LackOfEmpathy: [[spoiler:Paulphidian]] cannot understand why his friends are so upset about their merging and seem so listless after seeing themselves die in a horrible scenario.
* LampshadeHanging: When asked why she has Wildebeasts- which are native to Africa- in the wildlife preserve (which is in the local equivalent of Iraq)- Marie Logan starts to explain, only for the author to end the section there. [[note]]It is explained in full a few chapters later.[[/note]]
* TheLawOfConservationOfDetail: Many times in the story, something minor is mentioned, only for it to become much more important later on when no one expects it.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall:
** When OL uses his powers or shows great avarice, his text turns orange. When others or himself show great feelings of any of the other colors of the emotional spectrum, their text also turns that color [[note]]Red, Rage. Orange, Avarice (this one shows up a lot for fairly obvious reasons). Yellow, Fear. Green, Will. Blue, Hope. Indigo, Compassion. Violet, Love[[/note]]. When they're ''overwhelmed'' by the emotion, the punctuation changes color too. When angels speak on behalf of the Silver City, they get chapter and verse numbering on each paragraph - but if they [[FallenAngel fall]], that goes away. In addition, when OL is under the effects of a drug trip or magic, the font of the text changes.
** When Paragon!OL reaches Avarice enlightenment his quote marks when speaking are orange.
** New Gods have their unique way of communication between each other that is undetectable to regular people. Dialogues in godspeak are rendered with invisible text in the story — you have to highlight the whole body of text to see it.
** M'gann asks "Who would write fanfictions about a show several years off the air?" OL responds that "You'd be surprised."
** When he was held hostage with no access to his ring, OL wonders his likelihood for resurrection given that he's a DC hero. He concludes it’s unlikely given that he's not a long established character.
* LeyLine: Ley lines are used for certain rituals and magic, with John mentioning that he'd been attacked by someone using one as a conduit for fear magic. Mercury follows up by explaining they are artificial. Ancient {{Druid}}s used them to force natural energy into straight lines.
* LikeASonToMe:
** OL is like a grandson to Alan Scott.
** Kon is one to Diana. [[spoiler:The latter eventually decides to adopt Kon.]]
** Jay Garrick mentions that he and his wife Joan think of Barry as their son.
* LikeBrotherAndSister: While Artemis and Paul do have their ShipTease, both keep their relationship platonic and give each other emotional support.
* LittleNo: OL lets out one when [[spoiler:while under Helios' blessing, Kon's presence causes Kara to develop heat vision that she can't control inside of an asteroid of krytonite and limited air.]]
* LivingBattery: [[spoiler:The Citadelians were using Adam Blake, aka Captain Comet, as one.]]
* LivingLieDetector:
** Wonder Woman can tell when someone directly lies to her. Evasion and half-truths can get past her, though.
** Paul's empathic vision isn't a direct lie detector, but it can often serve the purpose, because any significant lie will have emotional associations that he can see and trace. (It doesn't work as well on species with very different patterns of thought and association, but quite a lot of DC species are humanoid.)
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Paul keeps everyone but a select few unaware of [[spoiler:his plan to gather arcane power to combat Nabu]]. This comes back to bite him when [[spoiler:Beryl ends up calling Nabu for reinforcements when his plans with Terror Thing go slightly off the rails]].
* TheLostLenore: Alan Scott reminisces with OL how he permanently lost his love, Rose Canton to her evil personality, Thorn.
* LoyalPhlebotinum: Something about [[RidiculouslyPotentExplosive qwa-matter]] causes it to explode when handled by someone other than a Qwardian. It's perhaps not surprising that qwa-matter and qwa-energy feature heavily in their religion, as a sign that they are marked out as the Anti-Monitor's chosen servants. Weaponer Kalmin is astounded when [[spoiler:Paul is able to manipulate qwa-energy with the Ophidian's help]].
--> '''Lysis:''' [-Anti-Monitor judge my worth-. Me worthy.-]
* LuredIntoATrap: [[spoiler:Paul lures Klarion into this by proposing an EnemyMine against Nabu. Mind you, he didn't exactly lie. He fully intends to have a Lord of Chaos help get rid of Nabu; he just intends for that lord to be John Constantine.]]
* MacrossMissileMassacre: "HOW THE HELL DID BANE GET MISSILE TRUCKS INTO TAIPEI?!" There are actually only ten missiles, but their anti-scry warding means that Paul can only find them indirectly, detecting the thermal signatures of their launches and checking visually, so he has to deal with all of them in ''very'' quick succession.
* MadGod: [[spoiler:Paulphidian]] has pretty much lost his sanity and has the power to ''move celestial bodies!'' The good news is that he's not malicious. The bad news is that while they're not actively harmful, he has little impulse control and can't understand why people wouldn't want the things they're giving them, such as Artemis and Robin getting super powers, or them turning the moon around because they thought it was a shame no one ever saw the back side.
* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter:
** Beautia Sivana, the good-aligned daughter of Dr Sivana. She takes Paul to an annual family get-together in order to fend off her mother asking questions about her love life, and they work together on testing and mass-producing the purple healing ray, but don't end up going any further than that.
** Technically, Magnificus Sivana is a male example of this, being both handsome and law-abiding. However, he is a huge jerk, even though he isn't really a criminal.
* MagicVersusScience: OL is working hard to avert this, pointing out that magic is a freely available resource with many practitioners and many benefits, but no one is willing to examine the industrial or scientific potential of such resources. He uses as an example that people have made ''many'' attempts to clone Superman (pointing to Kon as one example), but no one has ever tried to copy the spellwork that allows Billy Batson to turn into Captain Marvel, whose power is at least as effective as Superman's. Following the "World Without Children" storyline, it looks like some headway is being made in that department. Both Lex Luthor and members of the Justice League are looking hard at alchemical sciences (such as the Garrick and Danner formulas). The world governments opened communication with Atlantis to find someway to get magical defenses. At the same time, he's also investigating ways to improve Earth's scientific knowledge and technological capabilities.
* MagneticWeapons: OL's favored firearm is a railgun he uses to fire [[AntiMagic Mageslayer]] or Crumbler rounds.
* MagicMustDefeatMagic: Power rings are the greatest tool in the galaxy — when it comes to technology, at least. Magic, though, breaks the rules, consistently able to bypass Paul's shields, evade his detection, and generally bring him down to normal. He can fight space fleets from interstellar empires with just his orange ring, but in order to fight magic users, he has to commission special AntiMagic ammunition and warding pendants from Atlantis.
* MagicPants: During Paul's week as a PhysicalGod, he destroyed Superman's external underwear because he considered them to be ridiculous. Batman later gives Superman a pair of super-tough underwear as a joke gift. [[spoiler:They're the only part of his clothing that survives when the League fights Mister Atom.]]
* MagicalSociety: Atlantis, and London's Tate Club.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Justified for Paul, since his ring can both alleviate pain and restore his body near-instantly. He shrugs off getting stabbed in the chest by [[spoiler:Lady Aeres]], and even rapidly recovers from having both arms cut off, since he can call the rings back.
--> '''Paul''': Six months ago [[spoiler:an angel shoved a burning sword through my skull, while I was in hell and defended by an army of demons]]. I'm sorry, but no matter what you do you're not going to get the emotional reaction you're looking for.
* MakeAnExampleOfThem:
** The Renegade brands an Intergang member and makes her sing against her will, to intimidate her into cooperating -- and also to persuade the watching Forever People that he really is Grayven, since the results make them think he's used the Anti-Life Equation to break her will.
** An assassin tries to kill the Spider Queen, whom Paul has been hired to protect. He brands her in front of everyone and makes her follow him, demonstrating what will happen to anyone else who does so, and they quickly scatter.[[note]]The onlookers don't realise that branding is actually quite a mild way of putting someone down, painless and entirely reversible.[[/note]]
** In the Renegade timeline, the First Citadelian is brought to Tamaran and publicly executed.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Paul bluntly asks during a trip to Gotham why the Joker hadn't "fallen down some stairs" in prison. The cop who answers tells him it’s because he wasn't on duty when the Joker was brought in.
* MaleGaze: OL has a couple of moments.
** He checks out Wonder Woman when he first meets her, noting that he's never before seen a woman so muscular.
** He accidentally sends a mental picture of M'gann in a bikini when telepathically communicating with her.
* ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex:
** Averted for the Man of Steel himself in the Paragon timeline, when [[spoiler:the SI enhances Lois Lane with the [[SuperSerum Danner Formula]]]]. The SI later notices that Superman is being particularly helpful and cooperative.
** Both played straight and averted in the Renegade timeline.
*** The Renegade, after using Kobra Venom to become huge and muscular, briefly runs an off-screen ogre sex cult, at which one woman apparently attempted more than she should have, and suffered unfortunate consequences.
*** When Komand'r and Koriand'r get frisky in the wake of [[spoiler:the destruction of the Citadel Empire]], the Renegade is their partner of choice because they would be less likely to injure him.
* TheMatchmaker:
** Paul triggers some raised eyebrows when he suggests that Athena marry the Kahndaqi (Egyptian) goddess Sekhmet, to give the Amazons an alternative war deity to Ares. However, Sekhmet sends a message via Teth Adom to let Paul know that she doesn't think of Athena that way.
** Paul is more successful [[spoiler:despite being fused with the Ophidian when he suggested it]] in accelerating the start of the canon relationship between Guy Gardner and [[AnIcePerson Tora Olafsdotter]], especially with Guy's personality no longer swapping every time he hits his head. Paul is even able to provide them with a long-distance communicator (at Guy's request; Green Lanterns aren't allowed to use their rings for purely self-interested reasons) so they can stay in touch while Guy is away from Earth, helping their relationship to last much longer than canon.
** The Renegade ends up playing one to Maxima, by pointing out the flaw in her methods for finding a mate. Since she wants someone to rule by her side, she'd need someone who complements her abilities rather than just having the same ones. She also forgot to take into account that any children would have to be grown in a lab, since she wouldn't be able to reproduce with another species. In the end, she decides to marry her advisor back on her home planet, because she's already a capable strategist and civil planner. Among the telepathic males the Renegade shows her are Manchester Black (not a good leader and doesn't like kids), Brainwave II (too old), and Dr Psycho (a stunted, ugly psychopath).
** Adam Blake (Captain Comet) mentions wanting someone to travel the universe with, and Paul suggests ''Hera''. Who is actually open to the idea. (Paul's first suggestion was Mother of Mercy, but Adam would prefer a humanoid.)
* MayflyDecemberRomance: Discussed in regards to Lois and Superman (and Kon and M'gann) during ''Jungle Gym''. Kon's genetic makeup along with everything else means its complicated while M'gann being Martian means she'll have a longer lifespan by default. Lois, on the other hand, is a pure human and so she'll have a far shorter lifespan. [[spoiler:OL convinces her to take the Danner Formula, as it will extend her life by quite a bit and it also solves the ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex issue.]]
* MemoryGambit: When transferring Psimon for his trial in Qurac, Orange Lantern and Miss Martian want to find out why Psimon wanted to go be extradited and go to Belle Reve when he has no ties in the U.S. Miss Martian suppresses both their memories and gives Firebrand a memory trigger, so they won't trigger any suspicion from Psimon.
* MercyKill: After the Renegade reveals that Amazing Grace is actually an agent of Darkseid, Barda exposes her and immediately kills her. The Renegade takes the fact that Barda didn't leave Grace to the mob as a sign of how much she's been hanging around superheroes lately.
--> There's no way the ''old'' her would have been anything like that merciful.
* MetaphoricallyTrue:
** OL says a number of things that are ''technically'' true, such as that he works for the Controllers rather than the Guardians - he certainly ''plans'' on working for them, and would submit to their authority if they asked, but they don't actually know he exists yet.
** OL tells Karen that M'gann and Kon can't donate blood due to having non-standard biology. Karen believes that he, M'gann and Kon are all metahumans, which OL doesn't actually say but lets her draw her own conclusions.
* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: Reducing his testosterone levels with the ring makes Paul start to miss certain social clues and think differently, without even realising that it’s affecting him so much. Several people call him out on this, pointing out that basically turning off his sex drive has consequences
* MindManipulation: Both through personal powers and artifacts, in this universe.
** Lynne is a powerful telepath, able to puppet anyone who doesn't have serious resistance. The Renegade internally reflects that J'onn J'onzz, a Martian and therefore a telepath in his own right, nevertheless avoids her because she "could make him think that Apokolips was a liberal democracy."
** Powerful Lanterns can influence the thinking of those around them, simply by their presence and their connection to the associated emotional light. Even [[spoiler:Lantern Gardner]] is not immune to being subtly affected, without immediately noticing.
* MindOverMatter: Several people in the series, like Martians and Psimon, have this power. The Thinking Cap gives Bobo the Chimp telekinesis.
* MindVirus: The Anti-Life Equation has similar characteristics.
* MirrorUniverse: There is one that is based on ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueCrisisOnTwoEarths''.
* MischiefMakingMonkey: Bobo the Chimp gets an unexpected intelligence upgrade from the Thinking Cap, along with its usual {{telekinesis}}, and someone had built him a suit of PoweredArmor with an invisibility feature. Paul has a surprising amount of difficulty chasing him all over [=KordTech=] and subduing him, as he flips tables, raids vending machines, and otherwise causes havoc.
* MistakenForCheating: Some of Conner's schoolfriends see an attractive girl who ''isn't'' Megan Morse hug him and then kiss him on the forehead just before school starts. [[spoiler: It was his adoptive mother, Wonder Woman.]]
* MonumentOfHumiliationAndDefeat: OL built a giant, indestructible nude statue of himself on the borders of Bialya. Queen Bee tried having it destroyed, but ended up covering the nude parts with tarp when she couldn't get rid of it.
* MoodWhiplash:
** Paul having a fun time at dinner with Artemis and Paula is interspersed with the utter disaster that was the scenario with his friends dying and OL becoming more desperate.
** Paul and Zatanna talking about the "Cake Incident" in ''Black Reign'' eventually spirals into dealing with a terrorist attack on Teth Adom's people while he was a at a peace conference.
* MorallySuperiorCopy: In the story arc ''Triumph Of the Will'' when the Justice League are tracking Nazi supervillains Wolf Krieger and Captain Nazi, Orange Lantern comes across a man named Helmut Schreiber, a Brazilian citizen who turns out to be the only survivor of a post-[=WW2=] project to [[YouClonedHitler clone Hitler]]. However, the project had fallen apart and Schreiber had simply been raised in a normal orphanage completely unaware that he was in any way out of the ordinary, and would go on to become a successful architect and marry a black woman with whom he has three children. [[spoiler:Krieger eventually hunts him down, planning to use him as a focus to pull the remains of Hitler's soul out of Hell and create a magical embodiment of fascism, but he is stopped by Orange Lantern and Rocket.]] [[ClonesArePeopleToo Schreiber is portrayed as just a normal man with nothing in common with the original aside from genetics.]]
* MoreDakka: The Flash bypasses [[spoiler:Queen Gloriana]]'s defensive magic by ''filling the room'' with relativistic projectiles, leaving no safe spot to teleport into.
* MotiveRant: [[spoiler:Truggs]] goes on one, telling OL his reasons for becoming a supervillain despite Bane trying to get him to stop.
* MuggingTheMonster: Invoked by OL during his trip to Gotham; with his power ring it doesn't matter if his presence provokes some gang-bangers. Sure enough, the gang-bangers try picking a fight with him. They immediately back off when one of them notices OL's [[GlowingEyesOfDoom eyes]], and practically fill their pants when OL shows off a little bit.
* TheMultiverse: Directly showcased in this story are two universes for “Paragon” and “Renegade” walkthroughs. This later expands as other {{Alternate Timeline}}s and {{Alternate Universe}}s are shown.
* MundaneUtility:
** The Sword of Beowulf, a powerful magical sword capable of launching blasts of magic, wielded only by those of pure heart... and Cornwall Boy is capable of using it as a recharger for his power, since if anyone who ''isn't'' pure (read: most people) attempts to pull the sword from its scabbard, it throws a powerful pulse of magic at them. Considering his power works by ''[[MagicEater absorbing]]'' magical energy...
** OL tends to use his super-powered ring for mundane tasks, like cooking or making chairs. He's hardly the only one to do that with a ring, though. This tendency does bite him in the butt when he gives up his ring and now needs to get some basic toiletries.
** Canis Minor uses his SuperStrength to carve statues with just a chisel, using his hand to smooth it.
** Hephaestus owns a magical hammer that controls heat, able to absorb and release it at will -- which apparently is not all that useful in combat, but very helpful in a forge.
* {{Mundangerous}}: Prior to OL's arrival, Guy Gardner was in a coma after he got run over by a bus crossing the street.
* MusclesAreMeaningless: Not ''entirely'' true, eg Superboy is noted to have much larger muscles than Paul, but there are multiple forms of SuperStrength available that are not reflected in muscle mass. The Danner formula, for example, makes recipients slightly more muscular, but allows a teenager to lift and throw a logging truck.
* MushroomSamba: No less than seven times; thrice from magic, once from the above drugged lipstick, once from magical LSD (yes, that's counted as separate from the other three magical sambas), once from believing he was dreaming, and a mild samba ensued once from a mild concussion. He has done this so many times, the MushroomSamba state occurring during a mission is more of a rule than an exception.
* MyGrandmaCanDoBetterThanYou: The owner of the West Side pistol and rifle range is not impressed with Paul's initial efforts to learn marksmanship.
--> '''Paul (internally)''': Better this time? Oh? Well, your ten year old probably has more experience than me.
* MySecretPregnancy: [[spoiler:An Inuit woman Aquaman had an affair with years ago (before meeting Mera) has his child.]]
* MythologyGag:
** In this world, ''Street Sharks'' out-competed the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and are now the dominant "Mutant-man-like-teenage-good-guy-cartoon-franchise" for kids... because in this universe, Greg Weisman was the one who made one of the reboots and is credited for its massive success. In our universe, Greg Weisman (in addition to other shows) created ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'', which this fic is based on.
** OL believes that Kon would have taken in by someone else even if he hadn't been around.
** Since the Host of Ion was called Ion, [[spoiler:Paulphidian thinks that the Host of the Ophidian should be called Ophidian.]]
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[[folder: N - O]]
* NarniaTime: Things like visiting the Honden of Avarice, deep-scanning his surroundings, and communicating with a soul trapped inside a Fear Elemental objectively take much more time than Paul would estimate.
* NaziGold: Lex Luthor kept a surviving pre-war painting made by Adolf Hitler [[AdmiringTheAbomination for curiosity]].
* {{Necromancer}}:
** Thana of the Amazons, though she mentions explicitly that she can't create TheUndead. She can merely speak to them and, should the Old City be attacked, Lord Hades would call upon her fallen sisters to aid her. She can also commune with the other Death Gods, but she mentioned that the Silver City guards its flock jealously.
** To absolutely no one's surprise, John Constantine dabbles with this sort of magic enough that he's the go-to guy for the team when they need someone raised from the dead for a little talk.
* NegativesAsAPositive: The story is all about an Orange Lantern finding ways to turn [[{{Greed}} avarice]] to good purposes. He builds a Lantern Corps full of people who love killing and points them at an EvilEmpire. He welcomes those who are planning on a KlingonPromotion over his dead body because they are among the most motivated to improve. When he participates in a BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind between the personalities of Teth Adom and Theodore Adam, spectated by the seven gods of Kahndaq and the seven Enemies of Man, he is sitting on the head of the statue representing Greed -- but his presence and advice about understanding and asserting oneself helps Teth Adom to gain the upper hand and emerge as a hero. At one point, he expresses disappointment that Lex Luthor isn't avaricious ''enough''; Lex is too paranoid to act in his own self interest when the stakes are high. Even the Guardians of the Universe, with billions of years of experience, consider the orange light of avarice to be too unstable and dangerous to use, but Paul's steadily proving them wrong, with his recruits tackling enemies that the Green Lantern Corps hasn't been able to handle.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** When M'gann accidentally traps the teams in a training simulation. Martian Manhunter has to shock M'gann to end it. He kills M'gann to end the simulation...right in front of the [[SymbioticPossession Ophidian-infused Paul]]. Watching M'gann die in front of him, after he already failed to save his friends, traumatizes him and causes [[spoiler: Paul and the Ophidian's minds to [[FusionDance fuse]].]]
** OL makes sure that Miss Martian knows that the training simulation was all Martian Manhunter's fault since he didn't take OL's concerns about simulation's safety or the effect OL's powers would have on it, giving them such a dangerous scenario in the first place when the Team had never used it and failing to make sure how M'gann would react to it and failing to keep track off her strength. As a result, OL forces Martian Manhunter to resign as M'gann's telepathy teacher and reassigns her Brainwave II.
* NoConservationOfEnergy:
** It's noted how Kid Flash violates this. If the Garrick formula was applied correctly, he would play this straight but not be a BigEater. The fact that he needs to constantly eat but doesn't need to constantly go to the bathroom means that something is up.
** Exploited by Bleed Membrane Instability Generators, which take advantage of the raw chaos between universes where physical laws don't apply; they are explicitly designed to create energy from nothing. Paul makes limited use of them, but doesn't flood the Earth with them, because he wants humanity to build its own power generation solutions that don't depend on him.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Lords of Chaos can't be truly harmed by damage to their physical bodies, but Teth Adom once beat up Oggar so hard that Oggar retreated. Circe, who has history with Oggar, is most impressed.
--> '''Circe:''' He is a Lord of Chaos. Could he ''really'' die from mere physical injury?\\
'''Adom:''' No. But he could feel ''pain''.\\
'''Circe:''' You hurt him so much that he ''fled''?\\
'''Adom:''' In a manner of speaking. I broke his body, and then waited for his magic to repair it. And then I broke it again. And again. And again, until he abandoned this world and returned to the Realm of Chaos.\\
'''Circe:''' How long did that take?\\
'''Adom:''' Perhaps twenty days of constant activity.
* NoKillLikeOverkill:
** OL tends to lean towards this, favoring more permanent solutions to problems than the standard "Capture Villain, wait for him to escape and cause death and havoc, capture again, repeat." Just for one example, when he found out where the Injustice League's headquarters were, his first thought was to ''orbitally bombard the place until it resembled the moon.''
** A hit from the Sword of the Fallen is enough to disable the target's magical abilities, making them easy to kill. But when using it against the First of the Fallen, Paul didn't want to leave anything to chance; after decapitating the First, he slices up every part of his body like a salami.
* NoMereWindmill:
** Senator Henry Knight is dismissed by the public and made a laughingstock when he made an ill-informed bid to make a law [[BanOnMagic banning magic]] after Orange Lantern mocks him in an interview informing the public on the events in ''Displaced''. But Senator Knight was acting in response to an event caused by evil magicians '''that killed thousands of children''' when no politician dared to touch the topic.
** Senator Knight later redeems himself politically after accidentally meeting Orange Lantern in a very informative talk. Orange Lantern gave him the most recent information explaining magic to non-magic users and ways to boost America's magical defenses. Which is to initiate talks and trade with Atlantis, a magical-based country trying to establish relations with surface world countries.
* NoodleIncident:
** At some point in the future, [[spoiler:the Orange Lantern Corps are responsible for an event so horrible, so nightmarish, that Abra Kadabra ''specifically'' checked for signs of them before time-traveling, and just the sight of Orange Lantern causes him to start ''[[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes gibbering in terror]]''.]]
** In Earth -14, the events of ''Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths'' resulted in [[spoiler:the deaths of the 'Crime Syndicate's Management]], referred to as the [[DecapitatedArmy "Decapitation"]], which caused [[EnemyCivilWar numerous turf wars between the Made Men]] that are being taken advantage by President Slade Wilson.
** Apparently, the reason that the Frees had to move from New York was because of something Barda did, and it involved a "Five Items or Less" line.
* NoSell: Power Rings are unable to scan [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/with-this-ring-young-justice-si-thread-twelve.25032/post-5429310 some of the things]] magic can do.
* NotHisSled: In the Renegade timeline, [[spoiler:Zatara doesn't get possessed by Nabu]].
* NotSoDifferentRemark: Paul to Lex Luthor. Both are people seeking the improvement of humanity and hope for people to stop relying on superheroes to make their own defenses. [[spoiler:Paul points this out in order to convince Lex to leave the Light. It fails.]]
* NotSoExtinct: Thanks to cloning facilities that the Renegade took from the Psions, the Kryptonian species will be brought back from near extinction.
* NotSoSimilar:
** Paul to Truggs. Both are outsiders seeking to change the world for the better and use fantastical methods of doing so. However Paul is working with the heroes as InternalReformist and does it because GoodFeelsGood while Truggs does it out of a sense of entitlement and resorts to villainy because VillainsActHeroesReact.
** While having similar powersets and a desire for power, [[spoiler:Teth Adom]] and Black Adam couldn't be more different. [[spoiler:Teth Adom]] is TheGoodKing seeking to help his people despite how much things have changed and is willing to let go of his hatred if he has to. Black Adam is a petty, sadistic bully that enjoys how he can make people suffer.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Paul helps Artemis try on a power-suppression collar when they were discussing the pros and cons of giving Artemis the Danner Formula. It's not until Artemis's mother, Paula walks on that Paul realizes that ''he's putting a collar on Artemis.''
* NuclearOption: Canis suggests this to deal with where Black Manta's island is. Paul actually considers it, but decides against it because it wouldn't affect an enemy if they were phased. Note that this is his ''only'' reason, and near the end of ''Titanfall'' even Batman was agreeing to this to deal with Oceanus.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: The Mayor of Gotham refuses to let Swamp Thing's wife from prison in ''Bindings'', despite the new law being passed and OL's insistence.
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse:
** Paul visits Chantinelle the succubus and bribes her to stay out of the way when he [[spoiler: ambushes Nabu]].
---> '''Chantinelle''': Now I'm curious. What exactly happens if I say 'no'?\\
'''Paul''': I shoot you dead with the [[WeaponOfXSlaying Ace of Winchesters]]. Though I would really rather not do that.
** [[spoiler: After dismantling the Light and killing every other member,]] Renegade Paul visits Lex Luthor and makes it clear that Lex can either do exactly as he's told from now on, or he won't live to see a courtroom.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome:
** In the Paragon timeline the League of Shadows is completely dismantled with most of the leaders and minions arrested, their allies and victims turned on them. This was all done [[spoiler:by Paulphidian who wanted a chance to cheer up their friends.]]
** [[spoiler:During the New-Years Eve Battle on the Watchtower to free the Justice League from The Light's mind control, we see Orange Lantern and Teth Adom fight Vandal Savage, Captain Nazi, Wolf Krieger, and Klarion, all the while [[GondorCallsForAid everyone else]] fights their way through the Nazi infested Watchtower, freeing any superhero that they come across.]]
** At the end of [[spoiler:Episode 33]] a news report mentions that Queen Bee has been absent from public events for several weeks. Paul starts to theorize what may be the cause, only for [[spoiler:[[PlayingWithFire Danni]]]] to offhandedly mention that she's probably [[spoiler:[[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlFriend waiting for her burns to heal]]]].
* OhCrap:
** This is OL's reaction to Bane's [[MacrossMissileMassacre chosen method of attack]] on a peace conference.
** Paul gets this ''big time'' when he learns that the man who will be teaching him about ringslinging (Guy Gardner) ''really likes'' Lantern Kilowog, who is not only Guy's friend, but also the one who taught Guy everything he knows... and whom Paul had previously described as "A muscle brained idiot"; and Guy knows that Paul said this.
** Martian Manhunter and Batman get one in Part 22 of ''Contingency'', where they meet [[spoiler:Ophidian-infused OL]].
** The Renegade gets this ''big time'' when he finds out that the mark he placed on Desaad is being ''personally examined by Darkseid.'' It takes all of his avarice ''and'' the aid of Father Box to break the connection.
** Zatanna and Paul get one when they find out that the Justice League [[spoiler:let Nabu join despite him blackmailing and kidnapping Zatara]].
** Tia Sivana gets one when she finds out that the tall, muscular, handsome, kind man that she fell in love with -- Captain Marvel -- is actually a ten year old boy. The words "Oh god I'm a pedophile," are uttered by her and she renounces romantic love for him for the foreseeable future.
** The Renegade gets the mother of all Oh Craps when [[spoiler:Darkseid himself decides to make a personal appearance]], to the point where every word he speaks is tinged with ''utter terror''.
** Lantern Gardner arrives at Ranx the sentient battle station to assist Paul -- and then Ranx activates its massive arrays of gravity disruptor weapons and point defence lasers, enough to fill space around it.
** Paul gets one when [[spoiler:Karrien Excalibris, the Archangel of War,]] declares that he is here to execute Paul and all who stand with him.
** The system controller at the Yuna system is cheerful and helpful, arranging a routine pilot to lead the ship in-system -- and then he learns that the Illustres of the Orange Lantern Corps is a passenger, making him turn green.
---> '''Controller''': I will refer that upwards at once. Excuse me.
** Paul is highly alarmed when he learns that [[spoiler:the Reach have gained access to a weapon that destroys constructs in a single shot]]. Lantern Jordan is initially blasé about the news, then Paul explains the implications and he gets it too.
** Paul's ring alerts him to the arrival of a Green Lantern, and Lantern Toren tells him that the incoming ships hail from sector 1634 -- but there's no sign of Lantern Priest. Meaning that [[spoiler:it's Lord Malvolio]].
* OlderThanTheyLook:
** OL, thanks to the ring, obtains a "perfect" body (or rather, the "most perfect form of 'me'"), as per his desires. Unfortunately, this makes him look much younger than he is, causing people to think he's a teenager instead of an adult. He doesn't find this out until much later, much to his horror.
** His mentor, Alan Scott, also appears far younger then he actually is. [[spoiler:It is the result of years of direct exposure to the Emotional Spectrum Light via his damaged ring.]]
** Miss Martian is forty-eight years old according to Earth years. When OL reveals this to Kid Flash, the latter's response was a FlatWhat. Of course, she's still the equivalent of a teenage girl due to how slowly Martians develop.
** This is explicitly a symptom of the Danner Formula; they age much slower than baseline humans do [[spoiler: as Hugo Danner can attest]].
* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: OL has a habit of doing things while in a MushroomSamba that nobody will let him forget.
** Such as the mile-high indestructible naked statue of himself in the middle of the Bialyan desert.
** Paul will never live down the cake incident where as Paulphidian, he made a giant cake directly on top of New York City. It doesn't help he did a live interview during it using a literal song and dance number.
** He can't really blame anyone else for the Spider Queen incident; the fact that moisturising her with anti-chaffing cream became rather more ''intimate'' than intended was a true accident and a result of PoorCommunicationKills, but it was his own fault that the story spread.
---> '''Paul''': She said it was a spiracle!
* OneHitKill: Both The Ace of Winchesters and The Sword of the Fallen are capable of killing powerful entities if used correctly.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted. Several characters share a first name or a nickname, meaning people sometimes have to specify who they're talking to/about.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: The Free Lancers are happy to do business with [[EvilEmpire the Reach]], and then happy to pause that while waiting to see if Paul can outbid them. It's all just business to them.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
** When Paul stops taking his ring off to meditate and starts getting more and more violently protective after the attack on the base by Red Torpedo and Red Inferno, Diana and Guy figure out that something is wrong and stage an intervention to let him know that he was being [[GlowingEyesOfDoom influenced by the]] [[OhCrap Orange Light]].
** Renegade!OL realized something was off when Kid Flash and Robin are distraught over Artemis' death when they weren't moved at all at the death of their mentors. He realized that they were mentally tampered with and realized the scenario wasn't real.
** Paul, the first one of the team to accept M'gann's telepathy, starts blocking her and asks to not include him on the PsychicLink after he resolves to kill Nabu and doesn't want her finding out.
* OpenHeartDentistry: Averted. When Paul is debating with Wonder Woman on how to treat Match's chemical imbalances, he tells her he '''can't''' help. While he is a CombatMedic, he is not a brain surgeon and doesn't know how to heal a full-blooded Kryptonian without causing them pain to get through their invincibility.
* OpenMouthInsertFoot: OL has several cases of this.
* OrderVersusChaos: An ongoing theme with several variations.
** The Team v. Klarion: The Team is order, trying to protect everyone while Klarion causes a lot of destructive chaos.
** Orange Lantern v. Klarion: Orange Lantern's positive chaos of change and innovation while Klarion's destructive chaos of destruction and confusion.
** Orange Lantern and John Constantine v. Nabu
** Orange Lantern v. Themyscira: Orange Lantern is trying to bring change and modernize his new country while the Amazons are conservative and want nothing to do with Man's World. It's not helped that the last people who tried to change things were worshipers of Chaos, and caused a lot of problems.
** The Renegade v. Darkseid
** The Renegade v. the Justice League
* OrganicTechnology: Paul encounters several variants.
** Planet J reverses the roles of plants and animals, with intelligent plants having gardens of mostly immobile lizards and crab "grasses". Some of its inhabitants are able to magically manipulate plants -- which is what brings Paul to visit, when he wants Lantern Medphyll's help -- although the planet is mystically not very strong.
** Alstair is similarly inhabited by plants, but further from human norms and with stronger magic. Paul puts them in contact with J, leading to a blossoming of trade between them.
** The Sheeda, from Earth's far future, use ''exclusively'' organic technology, built and controlled with magic: rocket beetles, living houses, eye-stalk arrows, chitin data archives, with the materials collected by harvester zombies. Even their ''clothes'' plug into the wearer's arteries. [[spoiler: It turns out that the Vampire Sun, aka Starbreaker, consumes and destroys anything not containing Sheeda DNA.]]
* OurSoulsAreDifferent: Souls are structured collections of magic that basically stick to everything, and then move on to an afterlife when the body dies. Paul initially doesn't have one at all, but eventually gets a ''very'' different one, made mostly out of orange light instead of the usual earthly magic.
** One's metaphysique has a natural limit on how powerful it can become. However, there are [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/with-this-ring-young-justice-si-thread-twelve.25032/post-6034269 ways to get around this]].
* OverusedRunningGag: OL, M'gann, Artemis, and Superboy are so sick of the mole rumor. [[spoiler: The mole was Roy Harper, the loudest proponent of the mole rumor, as he was actually a brainwashed clone of the original Roy. OL eventually exposes and frees him.]]
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[[folder: P - R]]
* PaintingTheMedium: People's emotions literally color the text depending on the Emotional Spectrum.
** [[spoiler:When Paul initially {{Fusion Dance}}s with the Ophidian, the text is entirely orange except when other people speak. Paul has large orange paragraphs indicating his internal monologue and he refers himself in the first person while the Ophidian makes the occasional comment in orange italics. Once Paul goes through a HeroicBSOD and his mind merges with the Ophidian, Paulphidian then refers themselves in the first person plural. Paulphidian uses third person to indicate differing memories belonging to either Paul or Ophidian. Since Paulphidian is observing his friends, he tends to smaller paragraphs.]]
** When Paul reaches Orange Enlightenment, his quote marks are orange. We later see that this is a trait shared by others who have reached emotional enlightenment- the Queen of The Zamorans has violet quotes, while Guy gets green quotes.
** When subliminal Godspeak is used, the text is invisible unless high-lighted. Hera gets a special case, with her god powers resulting in visible text surrounded by hearts that are invisible unless highlighted.
** [[EldritchAbomination Johnny Sorrow]] uses {{WebOriginal/Zalgo}}-speech.
** Shivering Jemmy uses the same speech as Johnny Sorrow.
** The text switches fonts when OL is in an altered mental state, such as his first visit to Gaea's temple or when he was drugged by Cheshire.
* PaletteSwap: Subverted. Everyone thought Orange Lanterns were basically Green Lanterns with a color swap, but he proves them wrong when he [[spoiler:temporarily kills Ra's al Ghul]].
* PeoplePuppets:
** [[spoiler:Terror Thing eventually takes over everyone whom it haunted with fear after they were unconscious.]]
** [[spoiler:The Starro in ''A Star Reborn'' do this to everyone they get their hands on.]]
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Any competent Lantern has the power to be this, but since Green Lanterns are ordinarily forbidden to kill, Paul shows many people a new perspective on what Lanterns can do.
** He destroys the entire [[spoiler:Citadel Complex, with casualties possibly approaching a million]]. Note that he did bring two other Lanterns to help, but that was primarily for ''their'' sakes (training, prestige, etc); given the level of difficulty they faced, it's very likely that he could have done it alone.
** He doesn't usually use them because they're power hogs, but when the situation calls for it, he generates beam singularity projectors, which basically collapse everything in their line of fire into black hole material.
** When [[spoiler:joined with the Ophidian,]] he would be capable of assimilating the entire population of the world.
* PetTheDog: OL apologizes to Artemis for his distraction comments by giving her arrows strong enough to destroy his shields. Artemis takes great pleasure in testing their effectiveness.
* PhotographicMemory: While wearing the ring, Paul has perfect recall. Without it, his memory is still better than it used to be, the ring apparently having made small improvements because he (perhaps subconsciously) wanted them.
* PlausibleDeniability:
** When Director Armstrong wants to get Misa Amane registered and certified as an active superhero, the Renegade points out that it might be better if the US government didn't have paperwork that could suggest they support her activities (which include stopping civil wars by killing selected perpetrators, and other such messy business).
---> '''Renegade:''' If it became more widely known, and people saw that she had a licence from ''you''… I mean, obviously '''we''' know that it's not an endorsement or a sign that she's acting on America's behalf, but it may be more convenient for you to not have anything written down that says otherwise.\\
'''Director Armstrong:''' And what did General Lane say about that?\\
'''Renegade:''' He hasn't ''said''.. anything..? I'm not sure if that's because he genuinely doesn't know, or if he's ''officially'' not knowing.
** Unfortunately for Von Daggle, part of joining the black-ops Green Lantern Corpse is that the Guardians will officially disavow any knowledge of your activities or even the ''existence'' of the Corpse. [[spoiler:So when his assassination attempt on Grayven fails, he doesn't get ransomed back.]]
* PoorCommunicationKills:
** Averted. When OL learns of his weakness to magic he immediately informs Kaldur, so as not to endanger himself on the mission.
** Played straight when OL deferred to Kaldur thinking he was already leader while everyone was making a power grab before the team dynamic was established.
** Averted again when the unnatural extent of Paul’s knowledge about Constantine’s life makes the latter suspicious. Paul chooses to reveal the source of his knowledge. Had he chosen otherwise, Constantine may have not trusted him on the Beast/Shadow Dog warning.
** Played tragically straight in Teth Adom's backstory: Teth Adom was trying to form a team with other powerful heroes of his time to combat greater growing threats. Shazam saw this as a horrific abuse of power and did not let Teth Adom explain himself before he was [[AndIMustScream horrifically punished]].
** Konvikt attacked after being attacked first because no one could communicate with him.
* ThePowerOfRock: The team help exorcise Paul by singing the song "Invite Them In".
* PowerPerversionPotential: Unlike Green Lanterns, Paul can use his power ring in the bedroom, [[spoiler:as Jade finds out firsthand]].
* PowersDoTheFighting: Paul believes that Black Canary's unarmed combat lessons are actively harmful for a Lantern, since they train the wrong instincts, and he struggles to respect any experienced Lantern who still projects constructs directly from the ring, since gestures are unnecessary and limiting.
* PrimeTimeline: {{Zigzagged}}. Paul thinks of his home dimension as the "Prime Timeline," even though just about any other DCU character might disagree. (And this story doesn't even take place ''in'' the DCU's Prime Timeline, it's on Earth-16!) Their insistence that Paul use the same numbering system they do is hampered by the fact that Paul doesn't ''know'' his home dimension's number.
* PsychicSurgery:
** Power rings can heal or alter someone's body quite easily and painlessly, depending on the type of ring and the motivation of the Lantern; all that will happen to the patient is that they'll glow for a moment. Paul particularly uses this to heal himself, resetting his body to peak condition after any injury.
** Inverted by Lantern Nax, who practises psychic ''vivisection'', splitting the patient into floating pieces to allow easier study. The process is apparently harmless, yet extremely painful.
* PsychoactivePowers:
** In general, since his constructs' strength is determined by avarice, Paul has difficulty making strong constructs in situations where he lacks strong desire. In effect, this means that a shield over a random stranger is not going to be nearly as strong as a shield over a friend, and making a construct strong enough to harm a random villain he doesn't want to fight is basically impossible. He works around this by training himself to see the connections between his actions and his goals, eg he wants universal peace and justice, therefore he wants a strong Orange Lantern Corps, therefore he wants to advance his recruits' education, therefore he can make a vase of flowers as a training aid -- and make it strong enough that a student lacking similar motivation can't easily break it.
** Also since the ring is powered by greed, he can't use any other emotion. He can't call upon his ring when he's afraid, he can't help or heal people when he's feeling too compassionate, etc. [[spoiler:This is no longer the case after he achieves [[EnlightenmentSuperpowers enlightenment]].]]
** All lanterns work like this for their respective emotion.
* PsychoSerum: One of the AlternateUniverse versions of Paul found a SuperSerum that worked well in animal testing, but turns out to essentially remove the instinctive capability for morality and compassion. He still achieves some broadly good changes in the world, but mixed with some casual murder, MindRape and {{Sex Slave}}ry of people who were in his way.
* PullingTheThread: OL hazes Artemis in her introduction by poking holes in her cover story. All he does is ask her, as an Arrow, what she thinks of his chili.
* PuppetKing: Downplayed with [[spoiler:Xalitan Xor]], who seizes power because his girlfriend advises him to, and who will then likely rule however she wants. It's not entirely played straight because he is far from helpless, and has already learned to think for himself about whether those who give him orders are worthy to do it; he just recognizes that she's a better planner than him.
* PyrrhicVictory:
** [[spoiler:Paulphidian]] wins the UnwinnableTrainingSimulation by overwhelming the scenario, only to find out that it wasn't real and he is stuck with the [[FusionDance con]][[DemonicPossession seq]][[SymbioticPossession uences]].
** Canis reveals that Apokolips embraces ''any'' kind of victory; it doesn't matter if you lose roughly 90% of your population.
* {{Qurac}}:
** Kahndaq. OL describes it as 'Saddam's Iraq, without his noble self restraint and fair-mindedness' and it's ruled by PresidentForLife Asim Muhunnad, who is condemned at international conventions and the country gets repeatedly sanctioned.
** The Team also does actually go to the real Qurac a few times.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech:
** Swamp Thing gives a short but poignant one to Poison Ivy, effectively refuting everything she has ever claimed about being the plant world's chosen champion in a few terse lines.
---> ”You.”\\
”Your.. voice. Always.. on the edge of hearing. Whining, screeching, demanding voice! Be... silenced."\\
“The Green is... not your playground. We care not for your causes, your pettiness.”\\
”By command of the... Parliament of Trees... I cast you out.”
** Father Mattias gives a well-meaning one to [[spoiler:Paulphidian in an attempt to help Paul to expel the Ophidian.]] It deconstructs Paul's reasoning to why he summoned the [[spoiler:Ophidian]], detailing while he had a good reason in the scenario it was made pointless because it wasn't real. [[spoiler:The Ophidian]] is trying to convince Paul to keep it but it's using its power in very petty ways.
---> '''Father Mattias:''' You have the power of a pagan god and you spent the morning making ice cream. Paul, is that gain proportionate to what you gave up? Would you make the decision that you made in the training scenario if all that was at stake was ice cream?
** [[spoiler:Paulphidian]], the Renegade and [[RuleOfThree Paragon]] all give Martian Manhunter one on M'gann's behalf on how it was his fault that the scenario went so badly, calling him a terrible teacher.
** [[spoiler:Paulphidian]] gives one to Black Canary when she tries to counsel them, pointing out that she's no way qualified to do so.
---> [[spoiler:'''Paulphidian:''']] Why are we even talking to you?\\
'''Black Canary:''' The League felt that it might help if the team had someone to talk-\\
[[spoiler:'''Paulphidian:''']] Counselling? From you? Guy Gardner is trained as a counselor with several years experience working in criminal rehabilitation. You're a florist! Could the League really find no one with relevant skills?
** Paul's speech to Guardian is ''all'' of this, pointing out that he's responsible for keeping an entire sapient race locked away in caves underground, making them work for no pay, and no hope of a better life. In short, he and Cadmus have become slave owners.
** Paul gives a short one to Miss Mercury pointing out that for all that she "lives closer to nature", does little to actually help the environment and just sits around wasting her potential. Whereas Paul cleaned up the oceans, restored the ice caps and is working on clean energy.
** After he [[spoiler: kills Nabu]], Paul lets out both barrels on exactly how the Justice League failed on every level from the personal to the international by [[spoiler: allowing Fate to keep Zatara imprisoned.]]
* RecruitmentByRescue:
** Princess Komand'r & Princess Koriand'r (Blackfire & Starfire) are inducted as the first Orange Lanterns in Paul's new corps after he pretty much dealt with their planet's issues and rescued them before they could undergo the experiments that gave them their in-canon powers in ''Headhunters''.
** The Renegade also saves them, but he saves them right after the experiments gave them their in-canon powers.
* RedemptionRejection: After the Light loses containment on a highly dangerous specimen that could have killed all of humanity, Paul approaches Lex Luthor and puts his cards on the table, pleading with Lex to cut ties with the Light and give Paul the info he needs to eliminate them all immediately, so they can start over in a more sensible fashion. WordOfGod is that the reason Lex turned him down was because he was paranoid and thought Paul might be influencing his mind with the orange light.
* RememberWhenYouBlewUpTheSun: OL has a habit of doing things while in a MushroomSamba that nobody will let him forget.
** Such as the mile-high indestructible naked statue of himself in the middle of the Bialyan desert.
** Or the time he made a cake big enough for everybody in New York City to have a piece.
** Interestingly, the most terrifying things he did [[spoiler:while fused with the Ophidian]], namely ''rotating the moon on its axis so that the dark side faces the earth,'' or ''dragging an asteroid down to Mount Justice,'' get barely any attention, but making cakes and delivering fruit get plenty.
* RemovedAchillesHeel:
** Not only does Paul grow himself a soul in order to resist magic attacks, he also has it carved with epic-level wards against magical scrying. And commissions ground-breaking new magical warding amulets, taking advantage of his ring's ability to fabricate sigils at smaller scales than could be achieved by hand or by regular machinery. And "mage slayer" ammunition that eats other spells. And [[spoiler: his EnlightenmentSuperpowers include immunity to EmotionControl]]. And he eventually learns to use the orange light to consume just about anything, including magic. He still can't cast spells, but he makes a point of learning quite a lot about magic anyway.
** The Renegade doesn't do as much magic study, but instead of hiring John Constantine to help him grow a soul, he uses a Father Box, giving him a ''New God'' soul that is highly resistant to external magic.
** Superman and Superboy both end up wearing radiation shields that make them largely immune to kryptonite. After Superman publicly {{No Sell}}s an attack by the Persuader, crime rates in Metropolis drop sharply; anyone who was counting on kryptonite protecting them from Superman is fleeing elsewhere.
* RescueRomance: Euanthe, who OL rescued from being forced to open a {{Hellgate}}, wants to be [[RescueSex "closer to him"]] after she recovers. He deflects it because, again, it wouldn't be proper given everything.
--> '''OL:''' Not on the first date. Not even during the Dionysia. Not with someone who went through what she did.
* {{Retcon}}: Due to how long the story is, Mr Zoat occasionally has to make some of these.
** After the Renegade uses Nth Metal, he changes how the metamaterial [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/with-this-ring-young-justice-si-thread-twelve.25032/post-6175636 interacts with transitioning]].
* RightForTheWrongReasons: After doing a background check and some tests, Aqualad and OL conclude that there is no [[TheMole mole]] on the team. They're right [[spoiler:because Red Arrow isn't part of the team]].
* RoyalWe: [[spoiler:Paulphidian]] refers to themselves as we as they find it more honest since they're a FusionDance of [[spoiler:the Ophidian and Paul]]. Although they also address themselves in the ThirdPersonPerson when they address emotions or actions one of them did.
* RunningGag:
** ClarkKenting is frequently mocked.
*** Paul points out how easily he found Alan Scott's identity with a facial recognition scan and reveals his distaste of it to the Team.
*** Wonder Woman trolls him by not telling him about Troia, figuring that he would find out himself since Troia doesn't wear a mask.
*** He notes when he has to give an interview with Clark Kent that Clark is still built like a line-backer and doesn't even change his body language.[[note]]He often does in the comics.[[/note]] In ''Ex Perdition'', a suit and a pair of glasses effectively mask OL's identity without him intending to.
** Someone saying a villain's codename followed by OL saying their actual name.
*** Another running gag, related to the first, is people pointing out when OL ''doesn't'' do this. For example, Wally asks about Doctor Cyber, whose name Paul didn't correct... only for Paul to tell him that the woman has a Doctorate and her surname actually is Cyber. "Doctor Cyber" is, in this case, a legitimate way to introduce her.
** Another one was that Kid Flash would attempt to flirt with a newly introduced girl, then Orange Lantern would steal their attention.
** People assuming OL's interest in certain women, and/or the time he spends with them, stem from -- *ahem* -- a certain ''kind'' of interest. Invariably, it turns out he's interested because they can help his engineering projects/give him expertise he's looking for/can benefit from his completely platonic attention/connect him to information he wants. Additional hilarity comes from the fact that it's a fifty-fifty chance OL even ''notices'' their assumptions.
*** By Episode 46, Artemis at the very least thinks that this happens so often that she needs to warn Donna about it.
** OL mentioning someone only for the person(s) he was talking to to have no idea who they are.
---> '''Kid Flash:''' (''in the background'') [-Who? No, it's Oh El, there's no way I'm gunna have heard of them. I'm gunna go look him up.-]
** Once the story moves to outer space, there is the running gag of aliens being completely amazed/horrified at how [[DeathWorld insane life on Earth is]].
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[[folder: S]]
* SacredHospitality: Comes up a few times when dealing with the Olympians and those associated with them.
** Paul realises after the fact that part of the reason why Wonder Woman didn't object to his dealings with the Sivana family was because he was their guest; remaining polite and non-hostile was to be expected according to her culture. (His reasons were actually more pragmatic.)
** Lord Malvolio objects to the Justice League having attacked [[spoiler:the remaining Sheeda]]. He accepts that they didn't realise that they were attacking his guests, but [[spoiler:when the Flash resumes attacking them, Malvolio retaliates against the whole party]].
* SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining: Superboy's telepathic education basically gives him this, having patches of brilliance interspersed with gaps in "normal" knowledge. He plays chess at grand master level, but is learning social skills from scratch. He can make beef stroganoff and poached pears, in a semi-fugue state, and does them well, but has no idea how to make anything else.
* SanityHasAdvantages:
** It's due to Paul's sanity he can function and utilize the Orange Light.
** It's also why [[spoiler:the Ophidian]] possesses him, OL can give [[spoiler:the Ophidian]] needed perspective due to being able to prioritize. Unfortunately [[spoiler:Paulphidian]] loses the ability once possessed, though arguably it still works to a degree- instead of becoming an all-consuming greed monster, it acts on his deep desires to improve the world.
* SarcasticConfession: When they first met, Zeus told Doctor Helena Sandsmark, Cassie Sandsmark's mother, who he was. She thought that he was joking.
* SchizoTech: Paul wants more commercial uses of it to improve the general tech level of the world. It infuiates him that there are things that people made decades or centuries ago that are considered pipe dreams now- he specifically mentions that T.O. Morrow made fully functioning artificial intelligences that have functioned pretty much perfectly since the 1930's, yet scientists struggle to create similar feats in 2011. Truggs holds a similar view, pointing out that Shaolin Robot is 2200 years old and is more advanced than Bozo, which was a contemporary of the Justice Society.
* ScrewTheProgress: The Pagan Nation espouses this, stating people should live with the land and reject technology. OL has little patience for them, with WordOfGod being that he has no interest in people who he considers "primitive" and reject modernity.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: A benign example; after getting rich from asteroid mining, Paul attempts to buy Alan Scott's personal lantern so he can charge his ring. He backs off when he thinks Alan will refuse.
--> '''Alan''': Colin here just made an offer on my lantern.\\
'''Wonder Woman''': An… offer?\\
'''Alan''': Half a billion dollars.\\
Oh, so that's what Wonder Woman's does-not-compute face looks like. It's a lot like her normal face.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveSupernaturalPowers: Swamp Thing's actions during ''Bindings'' are ultimately excused because he's literally the equivalent of a god and they ''can't'' meaningfully punish him for it.
* SealedEvilInACan: Terror Thing was trapped inside of the Stone Circle after the Ley Lines connecting it were severed. It couldn't get out unless the Stone Circle was damaged or the others were repaired. Now it’s trapped in a [[UnfinishedUntestedUsedAnyway prototype artifact]].
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Eris tests Paul's mettle by having him cheer up Hera. [[spoiler:He passes with flying colors when he successfully convinces her to divorce Zeus.]]
* SelfInsertFic: OL is not infallible, and the existing world and characters are definitely [[ShownTheirWork done justice]]—even the ones that never appear in the show.
* SelfMutilationDemonstration: Between his ring's healing and numbing capabilities, Paul is able to pull these several times.
** His sales pitch to Soranik Natu, who wants to heal people, includes cutting off several fingers with a construct knife and growing them back.
---> '''Paul''': There is no greater healing tool in the universe than an orange power ring wielded by someone who genuinely wants to heal people.
** He later force-feeds his own limbs to a Yellow Lantern from a carnivorous species, just to prove how scared he ''isn't''.
* SeparatedByACommonLanguage:
** Due to OL being British he faces some of these. For example, he refuses to call Kid Flash by his nickname because Wally means "Fool" and a "Rubber Wally" is a condom.
** OL and Guy Gardner playfully have the football/soccer argument.
* SerialHomewrecker: Sonic Sally is a meta-human pornstar who takes great pleasure in breaking up marriages by seducing away their partners. This is just one troubling aspect of a person whom [[TheEmpath empathic vision]] confirms is a deep sociopath.
* SharkMan:
** The Nanauvians.
** OL also encounters a villainous shape-shifting SharkMan gang called The Fearsome Fish-Eaters. They get sentenced to prison undersea, as the alternative is the Tower of London.
* SheepInSheepsClothing: Paragon!OL to the Justice League. According to Wonder Woman, OL had super-villain written all over him: no one is able to verify where he came from, he is literally powered by his own greed, refuses to tell anyone his name and tried to buy Alan Scott's lantern. Through a deal to get the lantern, OL works for them for a year and what she and the League find out about him? That he's very compassionate, very diplomatic and proactive. Even when given the power of a PhysicalGod, all he does is help the League and try to make his friends happy. [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten Oh, and make cakes, dance and sing, and turn the moon around because 'It was a shame that no one ever saw the other side.']]
* SherlockScan: OL covers up his MaleGaze on Wonder Woman by examining her armor to figure out her capabilities. (It doesn't fool her, but she's apparently amused by the attempt, judging by how she tells Donna.)
* ShipTease:
** Paragon has a lot of romantic chemistry with M'gann, Superboy, Artemis and Zatanna.
** The Renegade [[spoiler:after breaking up with Jade, shows interest in various women, including Blackfire, Supergirl of Earth 50, and Luna (yes, ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic that]]'' Luna).]]
* ShipperOnDeck:
** OL ships [[DatingCatwoman Batman and Catwoman]]. Sadly, Bruce is in a relationship with Talia al Ghul instead. Though Catwoman does agree that she (Catwoman) is better for Batman than Talia is.
** The amazon Dyctinna ''really'' wants to see Wonder Woman find a happy relationship, and was gunning pretty hard for Diana and Big Barda, until she was informed Barda was already married to a male (and that yes, that counts).
** Everyone supports the relationship between Philippus and Hippolyta, but the two won't act on it.
* ShootTheDangerousMinion: [[spoiler:Paul kills two of his Praexis Demons when they consume Hell-portals and start to either become corrupted or evolve.]]
* ShootTheHostage: [[spoiler:OL does this to a human shield in order to deal with Harm after he becomes the next Sabbac, banking on the fact that as long as he can heal the damage and avoid the brain, it would work out.]]
* ShouldntWeBeInSchoolRightNow: Lampshaded by OL when he wonders what excuse M'gann and Kon will give to their school when they miss class for a mission.
* ShoutOut:
** Throughout the fic, both Paragon and Renegade make various references to Literature/{{Discworld}} and TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering via quotes made by the author from the former, and using or referencing the names of cards from the latter.
** Orange Lantern thought that Sportsmaster was [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Casey Jones]].
** He causes an InUniverse meme when he listens to ''WebAnimation/ThereSheIs'' during the Rhelasia Peace Conference after stopping the missile attack.
** The Renegade encounters telepath and telekine Simon Jones, "Psimon", and tells him that, "[[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk Doctor Jones, I will show you that there is nothing you can possess which I cannot take away.]]" [[spoiler:Then [[PsychicSurgery removes]] the brain alterations that give him his powers.]]
** OL somehow convinces Artemis to wear a ''Manga/SailorMoon'' costume.
** Firebrand's password to activate M'gann and Paul's MemoryGambit is [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail "your father smells of elderberries."]]
** The Renegade eventually gets {{BFS}}es which he sometimes uses in combat. He calls them [[TabletopGame/{{Exalted}} daiklaves]].
** A straight-up quotation of WebVideo/HellsingUltimateAbridged when OL summons a shade of Ophidian against a Kobra-possessed mortal:
---> '''Orange Lantern:''' What's the matter, Kobra god? You were talking yourself up a moment ago. Come on. Muster your cultists. Call up your gods. Hit us! Fight us! Give us a hug.
** John Constantine quotes ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' in his protective invocation.
** In Themyscira, OL references ''Anime/{{Vandread}}'' when he refers to the female parents as Oma and Fama.
** One of Ambush Bug's {{battle cr|y}}ies is [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 "Canon for the Canon God! Scribes for the scribe throne!"]]
** OL calls the Purple Ray gun [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 "a gun that shoots life"]].
** In ''Resurrectionists'' Paul says:
---> '''Orange Lantern:''' Where '''I'm''' from, [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight people ]]''[[VisualNovel/FateStayNight die ]]''[[VisualNovel/FateStayNight if they're killed.]]
** In ''Retribution'', the team goes to Hell and OL shapeshifts into a rotund demon:
---> '''Orange Lantern:''' He wants to make stew with my guts.\\
'''Jason Blood:''' That's a lot of stew. You've got-.\\
'''Orange Lantern:''' [[ComicBook/{{Doom}} Huge guts]], yes yes.
** The mantra that Ambrose Bierce chanted when bringing them there was "Piscis magnus piscis minus carte tabula arca archa." Roughly translated? [[WesternAnimation/BobTheBuilder "Big fish, little fish, cardboard box."]]
** Kid Flash is impressed to learn that Paul [[spoiler:captured both Melmoth, former king of the Sheeda, and one of their scout ships, which will enable Earth to more effectively counter Sheeda magic]].
---> '''Kid Flash''': Dude.\\
'''Paul''': Orange Lantern Corps. When only [[Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982 the lamentations of their women]] will do.
* ShowSomeLeg: Z'üm does the Martian equivalent of this [[spoiler:to distract OL long enough to blow off the habitat M'gann and the others were in]] during ''Demeanour''.
* ShownTheirWork: Mr. Zoat utilizes many obscure DC comics characters, as well as showing a near-encyclopedic knowledge of more popular character (and their alternate versions) to create a much wider, expansive world.
* TheShrink:
** Black Canary acts as one to the team, but as pointed out by [[spoiler:Paulphidian]] she is not actually qualified to act as one. WordOfGod is that she had the training but never did it professionally.
** Guy Gardner is a prison counselor in his day job. He notably inspires Paul to act as WarriorTherapist to reform supervillains by telling his own experiences with reforming criminals.
* SoBadItsGood: InUniverse. When the Team can't agree on a movie to watch, Paul has the ring pick one at random. They get "Super Giraffeman Seven".
--> The plot was threadbare, the sets were made of plywood, the acting was nonexistent and one guy tripped on his own wires and I don't think I've laughed that hard since a crazy woman phoned me at work and said that she'd kept her youngest child's placenta in her fridge for seven months but needed to arrange for it to be stored somewhere else because her children had mistaken it for ice cream and tried to eat it. Took our lab manager twenty minutes to convince her that it would be pointless, after ''I'd'' tried for half an hour.
* SociallyAwkwardHero: Georgia Sivana isn't especially heroic, but as a MadScientist and omnidisciplinary genius, she's confident in all manner of dangerous situations -- and she specialises in social science, of all things. None of that saves her from being tongue-tied, stiff-backed, and fidgeting when she finally meets Vril Dox in person. He's equally flustered to see her.
--> '''Paul:''' (''internally'') I think I need to get out of here before they start holding hands or something.
* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay:
** The Team is very relieved when Paul refers to himself in the first person singular [[spoiler:after he's freed from the Ophidian]].
** Paul figures out who the Time Trapper is after the latter [[spoiler:calls the founders of the Green Lantern Corps the "Guardians of the Galaxy"]].
* SoulJar:
** Lords of Order and Chaos have to have anchors to remain on the material plane, such as Klarion the Witch Boy being anchored to Teekl. They don't technically put their souls inside, just a ''connection'' to their souls (which are actually in the planes of order/chaos respectively), but the "destroy object to banish them" aspect works similarly.
** In "Triumph of the Will", Paul learns that [[spoiler:Mister Schreiber was meant to be one for Hitler]].
* SparedByTheAdaptation:
** Red Inferno and Red Torpedo didn't sacrifice their lives in destroying Red Volcano due to OL saving them. While Torpedo hates that his life is strange now and wants to go back to the Nursing Home, Inferno is trying out her new life and becomes an important secondary character.
** Dr. T. O. Morrow becomes [[spoiler: an Orange Lantern construct thanks to Nylor Truggs]]. Though whether this counts as being "spared" is up to interpretation.
** Marie Logan survives, when in canon she was killed around the time of the New Years' attack by Queen Bee. She's in a relationship with Red Inferno (who objected to Queen Bee with fire).
** Match didn't actually ''die'' in canon, but he was a violent and near-mindless savage due to his genetic flaws. Both the main and Renegade timelines correct this (though not in the same way or at the same time) and allow him to be a full person.
** The Renegade finds June Robbins when she's in a nursing home, having lost her mind to Alzheimer's disease, and heals her so that he can rent Challenger Mountain from her. Some time later, Paragon mentions to the Team that Challenger Mountain is on the market, implying that without intervention, June has passed away.
* SplitTimelinesPlot: There are two primary timelines in the story, with their initial point of divergence being whether they wanted Alan Scott along when they meet the ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' team.
* TheSponsor: Due to Guy Gardner's comments about positive connections preventing criminal recidivism, Paul aims to convince supervillains to reform by helping and encouraging them to pursue more positive or beneficial goals instead of [[CutLexLuthorACheck senseless villainy]].
** When Cheshire is sent to jail, OL encourages her to keep her nose clean, get a GED and helps her get transferred to a nice prison. He hires Lex Luthor's defense team to get her a reduced sentence. [[spoiler:They eventually become an official item after he returns from founding the Orange Corps.]]
** OL promises to get Abra Kadabra a magic teacher if he doesn't commit any crime for a year and encourages him with a beginner's book for explaining magic. [[spoiler:He teaches Abra a few spells when the latter defends the prison staff in the New Year's Belle Reve breakout.]]
** OL regularly visits the Terror Twins in prison and explains to them [[CutLexLuthorACheck how they make more money legally as opposed to robbing banks]]. OL encourages Thomas to get a GED to make his resume look better.
** OL pays Holly Robinson via an installment plan and helps her find a good job so that she would stop stealing to survive.
** He heals Fabiao, one of Bane's henchmen, when he surrenders himself over to the police.
* StacysMom: Huntress, mother of Jade and Artemis, wasn't ugly by any means, but looked like you'd expect a 49-year old woman in a wheelchair to look like. When Paul healed her spinal injuries, the ring shaved about 15 years off her age as well, turning her into one of these. She gets even hotter when she begins working out again and returns to fighting fitness, something even Paul remarks on. In the [[AlternateHistory Common Sense]] timeline, he starts dating her.
* StarfishAliens: The Star Conquerors. They're an incredibly dangerous species of psychic aliens who superficially resemble Earth starfish, but their names have nothing to do with their appearance; it relates to their ability to assimilate and conquer entire star systems. The five-point shape that humans identify as a star is meaningless to most aliens.
* StaticStunGun: OL has a construct that acts like this which he calls a [=ShockCrown=]. They work by shorting out the motor cortex with very small amounts of precisely applied electricity. He also has another one which he calls a [=StunCrown=]. This one non-fatally knocks out a person.
* TheStationsOfTheCanon:
** To make certain events from canon possible to happen, the characters have to carry some rather heavy-handed {{Idiot Ball}}s from time to time (e.g. Homefront ([=S01E12=]), Auld Acquaintance ([=S01E26=]), Belle Reve mass escape, etc).
** Sportsmaster and Cheshire are captured by the authorities, and instead Onyx and Bane participate in the attack on the Taipei summit. In Renegade, Cheshire is allowed to escape while Sportsmaster becomes OL's first construct.
** OL saved Firebrand and Red Torpedo. Firebrand becomes a hero and is considered for the Justice League.
** OL deprived Klarion of his familiar by [[spoiler:assimilating Teekl]] and preventing him from existing in normal reality. However, Klarion still manage to get rid of the world of adults by [[spoiler:making the genie Bedlam as his new familiar, and thus making him more powerful than before]].
** The battle against the Injustice Gang ends with [[spoiler:the first Black Adam, Teth Adom, regaining control of his body from Theo Adom, who then rips off one of Wotan's arms, and Poison Ivy is made powerless by Swamp Thing.]]
** OL stops Black Adam, by helping free Teth Adom in the Paragon timeline or breaking the amulet in Renegade. In the Renegade timeline, WordOfGod says that with the amulet broken Teth Adom and Theodore Adam are duking it out for control while the body is catatonic in prison. In the Paragon timeline, Teth Adom is freed and becomes a superhero.
** Wotan is incapacitated and under Atlantean custody, and is replaced by [[spoiler:Dark Druid, who is implied to have a connection to the Black Light]].
** Martian Manhunter is browbeaten by Paul into stepping down as Miss Martian's telepathy teacher when his carelessness causes the disasters that was Contingency and Reordered. Henry King/Brainwave II is M'gann's replacement teacher and M'gann is implied to become more careful with her telepathy.
** The story further deviates from canon by having no TimeSkip.
* StatusQuoIsGod: Literally. [[spoiler:The Mind of God was actually an entity called Boss Smiley that wanted to slow the advancements of humanity to avoid them wiping themselves out. [[UnreliableExpositor Or so he claims.]]]]
* StupidityInducingAttack: By putting together a human brain and a [[http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Thinking_Cap Thinking Cap]] Truggs is able to build a machine that, when active, reduces the target’s IQ by some 20–30 IQ points.
* SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic: OL wants this done to advance magic and bring it to the public.
* SummonBiggerFish: Used multiple times thus far.
** When the Injustice League attacks, Paul attempts to summon Swamp Thing to quickly take care of the problem. While Swamp Thing doesn't get there in time to stop the attack, he does show up to take away Poison Ivy's powers, rendering her normal.
** He summons Swamp Thing again to help seal up a portal to hell under London and heal a Dryad.
** During the training exercise, Paul summons [[spoiler: the Ophidian]], which has since become somewhat of an ace in the hole for Paul.
** John Constantine is trying to stop Sabbac from delivering power to summon his demonic masters... so John redirects the energy to ''their'' master, The First Of The Fallen, also known as the most powerful demon in hell.
** The Guardians originally ordered Malvolio's execution, so asking them to now order a ceasefire is a risk, but it's the only way Paul can see to stop Lantern Gardner's independent attack. [[spoiler:He's successful in persuading Guardian Broome Bon Baris that Malvolio should be preserved ForScience.]]
* SuperpowerLottery: Lia Briggs possessed a number of psionic powers and then became a vampire, retaining those powers and gaining a whole slew of others. The only downsides are that she is bound to the vampire who bit her, must drink blood, cannot go outside in the sun, and has an [[HolyBurnsEvil aversion to all religious or religious like icons that she can recognize as such]]. Paul is working on ways to get around those.
* SuperSerum: Paul comes across several reliable and not-so-reliable options for human augmentation.
** The Danner formula gives SuperStrength, SuperToughness, a significant HealingFactor, and poison immunity, as well as slower ageing (although it hasn't been around long enough to be sure of life expectancy). Unfortunately, Paul can't use it himself, and it can normally only be administered ''in utero'', but he uses his ring to infuse quite a few other people with it.
** The Garrick formula gives SuperSpeed, but can't be used in conjunction with the Danner formula. Due to its highly dangerous combat potential and lack of broader benefits, Paul is less interested in mass producing it.
** Venom Buster causes massive growth, which naturally results in greater strength and toughness, but also tends to wreck the person's skin (which can't keep up with the growth, and tears apart), and has side effects like reduced physical sensation and increased aggression. The Renegade uses it, but considers it to be a cheap knockoff of real SuperStrength.
** Compound V gives superpowers, but not the RequiredSecondaryPowers, and is therefore left on the reject pile. It's also a bit of a SuperpowerLottery.
** Devil Jizz temporarily transforms humans into demonic forms. It's implied to have consequences for their afterlife destination (namely, it constitutes selling their souls to the demon who provided the magic), but it becomes popular as an alternative to hard drugs (and Jizzers sometimes ''eat'' other drug users and peddlers).
* SuperSoldier: The Alignment creates "War Hounds" by transferring the adaptable brains of young orphans into enhanced bodies -- several metres tall, with corresponding SuperStrength and SuperToughness -- and indoctrinating them with a strict sense of duty and honour so that they'll be obedient. They often deploy via drop ships, because even if shot down, they can survive the landing, and Xalitan Xor was able to fight several Justice League members at once including Icon, Plastic Man, and the Flash.
--> The standard weapon for soldiers expecting to fight Warhounds is a one point eight metre long high pressure plasma beam projector that's completely impractical for shipboard operations but is just about the only thing that isn't another Warhound they've got that can hurt them.
* SuperSpeed: There are a variety of different forms of super speed around. The Garrick Formula, the Prayer that Rush Hours use, the Speed Formula, Magic Enhancement, and the potion that Max Mercury gained.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial:
** When OL asks M'gann whether she's wearing clothes since she was able to shape-shift her shirt, M'gann tells him "[=YesIwearclothesofcourseIwearclothes=]!...I'm ''not naked''." (Although it later turns out that she does in fact possess shapeshifting clothing; she presumably just wasn't wearing it at the time.)
---> '''Miss Martian:''' I mean, you don't seem to care but some people would probably find it really strange if I wasn't wearing clothes.\\
...\\
'''Paul:''' You are fully clad. The matter is resolved.
** [[spoiler:Paulphidian]] denies that the song, "Invite Them In" has any significance to them or their situation, despite the fact the ring plays the song constantly contrary to their desire.
* SymbioticPossession:
** [[spoiler:{{Zigzagged|Trope}} with the Ophidian's merging with Paul. Paul gets the power of a god and the freedom to do what he wants. The Ophidian gets freedom from the Orange Lantern Central Power Battery and a needed intelligence boost. Paulphidian still acts benignly, helping the League and helping his friends. However Paul loses his ability to feel any emotion besides Greed, any understanding of empathy and most of his sanity.]]
** [[spoiler:Guy briefly fuses with Ion, the Willpower Embodiment, during the battle with The Light on New Years Eve. Unlike the Ophidian, it quickly leaves once the fight is over. They later fuse again to prevent a Titan-made tidal wave from drowning part of America.]]
* SympatheticMagic: Constantine is especially fond of using it. [[spoiler:Donna Troy was made using this; Cronus wanted a minion who was equal to the champion the gods were putting together. Donna was ''supposed'' to be raised by his cult, but a gas explosion meant that she was adopted and raised by normal parents.]]
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* TacticalRockPaperScissors: Invoked by Paul when choosing how to deploy the Team to fight Kobra at Santa Prisca. Superboy wants to fight Mammoth himself, believing himself to be stronger. Paul points out that Miss Martian's {{telekinesis}} or his own constructs could make Mammoth's SuperStrength useless.
--> '''Paul''': Superboy, you beat rock with paper, not with more rock.
* TakeOverTheWorld: Deconstructed by Capo Al Scott/Power Ring Yellow. In Earth -14, he and the Crime Lodge made a bid on world domination but soon realized how massively difficult it would be to govern an entire planet. They only took control of New York City for less than a month, doing very poorly at civil administration, as some of them severely lack the skills or simply don't care for running the city at all.
* TakeThat:
** Renegade!OL dismisses "Young Justice" as a team name, but offers the reasoning that the "Young" part would imply inexperience, which is something that all the members of the Team rebelled against.
** Whenever the Joker comes up, Paul is extremely dismissive, repeatedly lambasting the idea that he should be considered one of the world's greatest boogeymen when all he ''is'' amounts to a pasty-skinned serial killer in a world full of super-powered thugs of the "smash a planet in half with one temper tantrum" variety, and asserting that in any halfway sensible world, he'd have been killed off either by the law or by another crook. Most tellingly, he absolutely ''refuses'' to call him "The Joker", instead using his powers to prove he is Jack Napier and calling him exclusively by that name. In the Renegade timeline, the Renegade also permanently cripples the Joker, to cement how powerless and unimportant he is.
** When Poison Ivy and the ComicBook/SwampThing come face to face, he gives her a short but vehement TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, essentially refuting all of her belief in her status as "The Green's Champion" before unceremoniously depowering her, permanently.
** The episode about finding the second Kryptonian Clone (Match) is about half story and half TheReasonYouSuckSpeech towards Cadmus, ranging from the obvious (not knowing about a whole clone of a Kryptonian is a pretty huge misstep), to the legal (the Genomorphs are basically slaves), to the practical (the labs are strangely dirty for such a high-tech area, with people still wearing street clothes, no clean rooms, and no special protective gear).
** When Thana mentions that the she was burned by angels for communing with the dead of the Silver City, it serves as a reminder that not all gods are as merciful as hers. Note she's talking about the Greek Gods, who have a less than stellar history with mortals.
---> '''OL:''' Oh, ''snap''! Take that, Abraham!
** And there's this gem when he goes to the Greek version of Hell to find it mostly empty, the Dead of Ancient Greece having long since served the punishment Hades believed due to them for their crimes.
---> ''Finite'' torment for sinners. Because anything else would be barbaric. Suck it, Jehovah.
* TallPoppySyndrome: The Renegade gives a lecture in Equestria about how cutie marks aren't actually a positive thing and aren't necessary in order to have special talents, and in the process, encounters Starlight Glimmer, who wants to erase them all and make everypony equal by making them all mediocre. She's stunned by his suggestion that there are other options, like giving every talent to everypony and making them all alicorns.
* TangledFamilyTree: Cassie Sandsmark is the natural daughter of Helena Sandsmark and Zeus. Hippolyta is the daughter of Ares, making Diana Ares' granddaughter and Zeus' great-granddaughter. Since Ares' is Cassie's half-brother, this makes Cassie Diana's great-aunt.
* TankardOfMooseUrine: Guy's terrible beer is terrible. According to [[spoiler:Paulphidian's]] chemical analysis, it literally almost tastes like horse urine.
* TaughtByExperience: The reason that OL managed to beat the First Citadelian is because unlike him, OL knew that feeling any sort of emotion other than Avarice would cut the power to the ring. So he riled him up until he felt anger and then blasted him.
* TechnicallyNakedShapeshifter: After Paul sees Miss Martian shapeshift her shirt, he curiously asks her if she's actually wearing clothing, or just imitating it. Her embarrassed SuspiciouslySpecificDenial ("[=YesIwearclothesofcourseIwearclothes=]!") suggests that this trope is in effect. He later learns that she does own shapeshifting clothing, but probably wasn't wearing it at the time.
* TechnicianVersusPerformer: Tula (Technician) vs John Constantine (Performer). Atlantean magic requires a lot of prior study and Tula trained hard to attain her skill, but John is more reliant on the power of intention and clever use of the little power he does have.
* TemporalMutability:
** When Paul meets the Time Trapper, the universe changes [[spoiler:from RubberBandHistory with overwriting the timeline, to branching timelines]].
** Dana Dearden tells Paul that she's come back from the future to "fix" history and put it back on the proper track. He tells her that they already took care of it.
* TemptingFate:
** In ''Contingency'', OL expresses his concerns to Martian Manhunter about the safeness of the training simulation and his fear of accidentally using constructs while sleeping. Manhunter tells him that his fears are unnecessary and the simulation is perfectly safe...yeah, about that...
** Also in ''Contingency'' OL spends the first half of the training scenario complaining of the plot holes in said scenario. The death of the League? He complains that the death of three Green Lanterns would have at least had Oa investigating. OL is asked to take the scenario more seriously.
* ThatCameOutWrong: Paul has a tendency of not thinking how his words could be interpreted. For example, after terrifying Holly, she threatens to destroy the painting she stole to get him him to back off. He tells her what are her chances whether or not she succeeds, and promises to keep quiet and give her a lot of money if she does something for him. Holly thinks that he's blackmailing her into sex. The implication horrifies Paul, since that was the opposite of his intention. He was trying to [[TheSponsor sponsor her out of a life of crime]].
* ThatMakesMeFeelAngry:
** A rare justified case. Since OL needs to feel sufficient Avarice to perform tasks, and sometimes he doesn't care enough about certain targets, he sometimes resorts to this to try to "Convince" himself.
** After achieving Avarice Enlightenment, Paul no longer has to do this as enlightenment makes him aware of his desires all the time. However, those who aren't enlightened still need to do this.
* ThatWasNotADream:
** In ''Clueless'', an amnesiac OL believes he's having a lucid dream when he is stuck in the Bialyan desert with M'gann. So he proceeds to act on dream logic and make a huge, indestructible nude statue of himself, only to find out afterwards that it wasn't a dream.
** And when it says "Indestructible", it means it; the thing is massively tall, has a foundation that goes over a mile underground, and is harder than diamond. Eventually, it's revealed that the only way that Bialya could deal with it was to throw a massive tarp over the thing.
* ThereAreNoGlobalConsequences: Averted. The events of ''Displaced'' have massive consequences for the story, as the world learns that magic is real and is a legitimate threat. The event is treated as global tragedy and genocide on a massive scale with all the world powers scrambling to do something about it. In the Paragon timeline, there are calls to action to try to prevent magical threats and Atlantis is increasingly recognized by the international community, being the the only country known to have magic. In the Renegade timeline, the conspirators are executed by the Chinese government.
* ThereAreNoTherapists:
** Mostly played straight, although the Renegade has some off-screen anger management classes.
** An interesting aversion with Paul's classes for Orange Lanterns, which sometimes verge on therapy, since they emphasize self-knowledge and an integrated personality.
* ThereCanBeOnlyOne: The Renegade's impersonation of Grayven eventually brings him into conflict with the original Grayven of universe 16. The Renegade would be content to co-exist, but Grayven 16 is not so tolerant. [[spoiler:They eventually fuse together under the influence of the orange light (a desperate tactic by the Renegade when losing their fight), resulting in both sets of memories but the Renegade's personality.]]
* TheseHandsHaveKilled: OL is ''horrified'' when he believes that he killed Clayface (he baked him alive to stop him from attacking). As he becomes more accustomed to combat, however, and especially post-Enlightenment, this is inverted; although he still prefers diplomacy, he becomes notable for his willingness to kill when necessary to achieve his goals.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: OL's reaction when he has to fight [[EvilSorceror Klarion]] after he discovered that he has a crippling weakness to magic. He tries keeping his hopes up by thinking his constructs might help. Only for Kent Nelson to immediately confirm that they won't.
* ThouShaltNotKill:
** Orange Lantern gets a ''lot'' of flak from Hal Jordan from killing Ra's, as up until that point, no one knew that Power Rings could be used to kill.
** The Renegade calls out the heroes on this mentality multiple times, pointing out that the original Justice Society participated in World War II, where yes, they ''did'' kill people. And he doesn't make distinction between killing in a war versus killing outside of a war.
* ThreesomeSubtext: In ''Clueless'' an amnesiac OL mentions wanting "Kryptonian beef with Martian greens". When Kon and M'gann later get together, OL mentions before catching himself that them dating makes them more attractive.
* ThreeWaySex: Karon and Holly offer Paul the chance for a three-way in [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/19800776/ Spring in Blume]]. [[SubvertedTrope He ultimately turns the offer down]] since there were too many unpredictable emotional variables and it could mess with Holly's rehabilitation.
* TimeDissonance: Often noticeable when fighting against powerful entities -- even in an accelerated mind state Paul sometimes has to strain to keep up with his opponents.
* TimeTravelForFunAndProfit: [[spoiler:Truggs]] traveled to the past so he could exploit his future knowledge to make a name for himself. [[spoiler:And then it's averted when it's revealed that he came back to avert the BadFuture that has Earth being little more than a Thanagarian Protectorate.]]
* ToHellAndBack: Several times.
** In "Carpe Tempus", Paul needs to go to Tartarus and have an audience with Hades to get evidence for a rehabilitation project he's working on. Queen Hippolyta and Philippus are leery of it, not because they don't think he can get there and back, but because he tends to destabilize the pantheon when he talks to the different goddesses. Like with Hera....
** Paul later visits the monotheistic hell, in Episode 73: Retribution. [[spoiler:It goes badly; Satanus sets a trap to have Paul's soul infused with so much demonic magic that it alters his outlook and makes him want to stay there.]]
** And there are a couple of short visits in Episode 66: Resurrectionists (where [[spoiler:he's ambushed by a demon and pulled through a portal]]), and Episode 77: Clarion Call (where [[spoiler:he travels there seeking protection from the Silver City]]).
* TomatoInTheMirror:
** This ensues with Red Inferno and Red Torpedo. The former accepts herself as a robot and still goes by her name as Danette Reilly, while the latter tries to [[IJustWantToBeNormal resume his human life of James Lockhart]] to the point of wanting to remove his water control system.
** OL discovers that James Harper is one, directly referring to the term. He even explains the term to James later.
---> '''Paul:''' You're a tomato. You're a tomato. Of course, why not?
* ToonPhysics: Some of Klarion's constructs operate on this, only able to be harmed by similar effects.
* TrainingFromHell: OL training to use his power ring under [[ComicBook/GreenLantern Guy Gardner]].
--> '''Guy Gardner:''' Oh, that's it! On Saturday, we're doin' [[KillSat orbital bombardment]] practice!
** The Renegade has this with his anti-psychic training with Manchester Black.
* TrainingTheGiftOfMagic: Atlanteans and Zatanna are naturally magical, but they need training to properly utilize it.
* TransferableMemory:
** J'aarkn offers some of his memories to M'gann. M'gann is hesitant to take him up on it, but he assures her that he didn't include any of his adult film work.
** The g-gnomes can copy knowledge from one person to another, including properly integrating it as if it were naturally learned.
* UndeadTaxExemption: The trope is played back and forth.
** OL doesn't have any documentation due to the fact he comes from another dimension. The League try to provide him with some when they attempt to enroll him in high school, but he refuses and makes a point of erasing all traces of it. He is noted to not even have a passport.
** OL finally averts this when he's given Themysciran citizenship and a diplomatic passport.
** Red Tornado and Firebrand don't have any citizenship due to being robots and not considered people to the U.S. government despite the both of them living in the U.S. for years.
** J'aarkn's co-worker points out that M'gann is technically an illegal immigrant that's only there [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections due to her connections to Manhunter.]]
** J'onn J'aarkn's arc is an aversion of this: the Department of Homeland Security is trying to deport him back to Mars and needs the help of the Team to make it stick.
* TheUnfettered: [[spoiler:Post-Enlightenment]], Paul is ''always aware of his goals, and how they relate to each other''. This doesn't precisely make him a sociopath, because there are many people whom he cares about, but he tends to brush aside social norms that don't suit him, and acts in a way that others see as extreme; he's capable of [[spoiler:planning and committing genocide without regret if he believes the situation calls for it]].
--> '''Paul:''' (''asked about when he [[spoiler:genocided an EvilEmpire]]'') I don't think much about them at all. I'd rather not have to deal with situations like that, but I'd rather deal with it than have it not dealt with.
* UnfinishedUntestedUsedAnyway: OL takes Sephtian's untested prototype containment vessel for a way to contain Siskin without Nabu escalating the situation.
* TheUnmasquedWorld:
** Despite the fact that places like Atlantis and heroes like Doctor Fate were around, very few people believed in magic. Then Klarion became responsible for hundreds of thousands of death and they couldn't ignore it.
** OL reveals to the world that the afterlife and gods are very real in an interview with Cat Grant during ''Black Reign'', citing how Teth Adom was resurrected from the dead and given his power. This is notable after Wonder Woman (made from Olympian Gods) had been around for ages and a literal HellOnEarth scenario.
* {{Unobtainium}}: Radion is a metamaterial [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/with-this-ring-young-justice-si-thread-twelve.25032/post-6136750 known only to New Gods and Qwardians]].
* UnwantedAssistance: InUniverse, this is everyone's reaction to [[spoiler:Paulphidian]] attempting to help them by giving them stuff. The various things [[spoiler:Paulphidian]] did in the name of helping:
** Turn the moon around so people could see the dark side of it.
** Make a humongous cake for the people of New York.
** Give the Danner Formula to Robin and Artemis.
** Take down the League of Shadows by scanning the entirety of Earth in an attempt to give Kon ninjas... by the means of creating enough floating eyeballs to literally see all of Earth.
** Transmute a suit of Nth metal armor, which nearly took out Mount Justice.
** Give storage cases of fruits and vegetables to the Amazons. Though this one was actually appreciated, since he gave them things that they didn't have on the island. Several botanists on the island are planning on how to incorporate bananas into the crops.
* UnwinnableTrainingSimulation: In the story's version of ''Failsafe'', Renegade!OL and Paragon!OL have very different reactions to it:
** Renegade!OL immediately figures out something was wrong when his WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief broke over Robin and Kid Flash's emotional response to Artemis' death and breaks out the scenario.
** Paragon!OL [[FalseCrucible believed the training scenario to real]] and was truly seeing his friends die in front of him. Paragon becomes so desperate to turn the situation around that he resorts to drastic methods to win. He wins by simply overwhelming the scenario.
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[[folder: V - Z]]
* VaryingCompetencyAlibi: The team is inclined to suspect Lex Luthor of being responsible for many of the situations that they encounter, like the mutated guard animals in India, but Paul repeatedly opposes the idea, because he thinks Lex would have been cleverer about things like that, e.g. he wouldn't have allowed himself to be so easily connected to the facility.
* VillainousBreakdown:
** [[spoiler:Paulphidian]] breaks down when Father Mattias deconstructs their motives for releasing the Ophidian and merging with it. They recollect themselves when Father Mattias makes the mistake of telling the Embodiment of Avarice, "that they don't want this."
** [[spoiler:Paulphidian]] has a major one, breaking down in a gibbering mess when the Green Lanterns refuse to give in to their desires and refuse its help. They futilely try to [[LackOfEmpathy feel something]] by hugging the Star Sapphire in order to feel the emotions their friends want them to have.
* VillainousBSOD: After transformation into a love elemental, [[spoiler:Chantinelle]] becomes horrified of her past deeds.
* VillainsActHeroesReact:
** One of Orange Lantern's biggest complaints about the Justice League is that they're not proactive when it comes to threats or innovation. Often they just wait for the threat to make itself known and let a lot of SchizoTech collect dust in warehouses. OL seeks to avert this, often by disabling the supervillain permanently, but also by stimulating innovation, reverse-engineering supervillain technology, and increasing awareness of other resources for the world (such as magic, or that there are whole nations that don't receive nearly the attention they want or deserve).
** Paul also does this by reforming super-villains that have a chance or least could be persuaded into reforming.
** This is [[spoiler: Truggs' reasoning for becoming and siding with supervillains.]] Although he admits that Paragon!OL breaks this paradigm.
---> '''[[spoiler:Truggs:]]''' [[spoiler:Why a supervillain? Why didn't I go see Wayne or Kord, someone like that? Simple. Villains act. Heroes, those paragons of stasis, react. I wanna change the world, change history. You think they'd.. let me? Or try an' send me back to my crummy future? No, I needed ruthless, determined, aggressive. I needed people who'd plow through every law and social convention to get what they want.]]
* VillainWithGoodPublicity:
** Prince Orm was this as he often served as Regent for his brother, Aquaman while the latter was on the surface world. So it was extremely devastating for Atlantis to find out that he's Ocean Master, a racist extremist supervillain, when he's arrested by the Team.
** Paul and Zatanna consider Nabu to be this -- yes, he's a member of the Justice League, but he's technically a lich who has stolen Giovanni's body and is using it like a puppet.
** It's surprisingly difficult to prove the Reach's villainy to those who don't already believe it, because they employ long-term plans and MindControl rather than direct violent invasions. That doesn't stop them from exterminating one civilisation after another, breaking up their bodies for parts, radically altering their DNA to make them near-mindless slaves, or just wiping them out and colonizing their worlds, though; after all, [[LeaveNoWitnesses dead men tell no tales...]]
---> '''Negotiator''': We are a peaceful.. trading empire. We're trying to help this world advance. To meet its full potential.\\
'''Operative Phil''': Just like all of the other places you wiped out.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Guy Gardner and OL often trade barbs when training, and often criticize the other's limitations when it comes to Power Ring usage, but they eventually form a friendly rapport with each other, and show concern for each other's well being. This leads to Guy being the only active Green Lantern on Earth that OL actually gets along with.
* VocalMinority: InUniverse. During the candidate selection meeting for the Justice League, the majority were in favor of voting Paul into the league. However, admittance requires a unanimous vote, and Nabu and Lantern Jordan dissent. It's one reason that Paul recommends that their recruitment policy needs to be changed; if just one person out of a hundred says no, then the person is gone, no matter how useful they would be.
* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld:
** Averted. Donna Troy gives up superheroing for a year to focus on her senior year at high school.
** Defied by OL. he refuses to go to school, since he already went to school when he was younger (longer ago than anyone realises).
** Averted by the Green Lanterns. Since being a Lantern is a full time job, they [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/with-this-ring-young-justice-si-thread-twelve.25032/post-6215616 quit whatever job they had before they were recruited]].
* WeaponOfXSlaying: The Ace of Winchesters for [[OneHitKill slaying]] demons, [[https://hellblazer.fandom.com/wiki/The_Twin_Blade The Sword of the Fallen]] for killing even god-tier entities, The Ace of Chaos to disrupt Order-aligned magic, and, after [[spoiler:the Earth is blockaded by Heaven]], the anti-[[spoiler:angel]] "Hellblazer".
* WeatherControlMachine: Ted Kord is working with Io, Dubbilex, and Sephtian to make weather control drones. They make a pretty good showing against [[spoiler:Oceanus]].
* WhamEpisode:
** For the Paragon timeline, [[spoiler:Paragon gets so desperate to save his friends from the AlienInvasion that he frees the Ophidian and {{Fusion Dance}}s with it to become the Ophidian's Host]].
** For both timelines, the episode ''Displaced'' where Klarion's "distraction" turns out to be genocide.
** For the Renegade timeline, when the Renegade and the Team [[spoiler:are investigating the downed plane near the end of the first season, it's not an ambush by the Light -- it's an ambush by ''Apokolips''. And one of Darkseid's servants has come to Earth to investigate why, exactly, "Grayven" is going against his Father's wishes...]]
** ''Falling Actions'' in the Paragon timeline, which is when Orange Lantern [[spoiler:begins his plan to get rid of Nabu]].
** Later on in the Paragon timeline, Paul meets [[spoiler:the person who created the Lantern ring that he gained at first: Hinon Hee Hannanan. She lost her connection to the Orange Light in the process and Paul restores her.]]
** Further on in the Paragon timeline, Paul ends up getting [[spoiler:the Archangel of War sent after him with flocks of angels descending onto those he knows]]. He has to side with [[spoiler:the forces of Hell just to have a fighting chance, only for him to get his head cut off in the end and his soul dragged up to Heaven]].
* WhamLine:
** When OL learns just why Abra Kadabra, who is from the future, was frightened nearly to death upon meeting him: ring-users taking everyone over in the future...
---> '''Orange Lantern:''' Yes, Black Lanterns can be a bit of a handful, can't they?\\
'''Abra Kadabra:''' Black? No, not Black. Orange.
** There is another in the episode, ''Preparations''.
---> [[spoiler:'''Detective Bullock:''' Where were you last Thursday night?]]\\
[[spoiler:'''Orange Lantern:''' What sort of time?]]\\
[[spoiler:'''Detective Montoya:''' Midnight.]]\\
[[spoiler:'''Orange Lantern:''' Is this about the gun? Because I got a receipt-]]\\
[[spoiler:'''Detective Bullock:''' No, it's about the murder of Jennifer Gordon-Hewitt!]]
** And then there's ''THIS'' little line from when Paul summons his ring back...
---> [[spoiler:'''Larfleeze:''' No! You can't have them! They're mine! My shinies! His head swings left and right. Find him! [[OhCrap All of you, go! Find him!]]]]
* WhatDoTheyFearEpisode: Essentially the second-half of ''Hullevow''.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: InUniverse, Paul doesn't want Nabu to capture Siskin/Terror Thing because no one knows what happened to Onomatopoeia, Blackbriar Thorn, Wotan and Felix Faust after Nabu took them.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman:
** Paul attempts to prevent his team-mates from killing Mister Twister, since he appears to have comparable intelligence to a human. This becomes moot when Mister Twister self-destructs.
** He similarly stops Black Canary from killing the Duke of Oil, another sapient robot. This time, the robot survives and goes to court.
---> '''Paul:''' Before you say anything: Red Tornado. Are we killing people now?
** Robot-Man, a man whose only human component is his brain, was denied his humanity in a Supreme Court ruling, meaning all robots, regardless of how intelligent they are, are not legally people. Which is a problem to people like Red Tornado or Firebrand.
** Notably, the [[TooDumbToLive female Cadmus scientist]] treats Superboy's liberation as if he were an escaped experiment -- to Superboy's face. Superboy is not impressed.
** The G-Gnomes, despite being a telepathic and intelligent species, are treated as no better than animals by Cadmus. Dubbilex can't defend them because Cadmus owns them and he has no one to turn to. Paragon!OL attempts to fix this by making a deal with Lex Luthor: OL will help him salvage Cadmus in exchange for Lex fighting for the rights of the Genomorphs, which would likely overturn the Supreme Court Ruling.
** The Justice League's policy allows for the killing of Elementals, Demons, and presumably TheUndead.
** By the time of ''Zigzag'', the US has given rights to beings that can pass a Turing Test, including Demons, Elementals, [=AIs=], Robots, and so on. While OL pushed for the policy, he occasionally moans that he wishes he had [[DidntThinkThisThrough planned it out better]], as it makes dealing with demons much more complicated.
* WhatWouldXDo: OL asks himself what would John Constantine do when he has to confront Klarion while injured. The answer was [[spoiler:take away Klarion's source of power, i.e. Teekl]].
* WhatTheHellHero:
** OL calls out Hal Jordan for never giving Abin Sur's family any condolences for his death.
** Kon is furious when he finds out that OL knew that Lex Luthor was his 'father' the whole time and never told him.
** Multiple members of the Team give OL this when he kinda acts like a jackass to Artemis.
** OL makes sure that Martian Manhunter realizes that the events of ''Contingency'' and ''Reordered'' were all his fault due to his carelessness and neglect of his student's needs.
** [[spoiler:OL and Zatanna are horrified that the Justice League accept Nabu despite him enslaving and kidnapping Giovanni Zatara and doing nothing to help him.]]
* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have to be Orange Lantern]]: Abra Kadabra starts gibbering in sheer terror when OL attempts to interrogate him. In Kadabra's future, Orange Lanterns are considered '''extremely''' bad news to say the least.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim:
** Discussed in ''Titanfall'' that the Light had all the heroes and side-kicks' identities and could easily just kill them in their sleep. Paul thinks that they just don't want to escalate things while Zatanna believes that CantKillYouStillNeedYou is in effect and they need them for something.
** Apparently, the reason that some supervillains can't be executed is that there are laws on the books preventing the execution of mentally unstable individuals. OL is trying to get these laws changed to permanently deal with people like the Joker.
* WikiWalk: Mentioned as "Website/TVTropes disease", which caused the SI to lose two hours on the internet.
* WizardsLiveLonger: Danner formula enhanciles can live a really long time. To the point that it's odd if one starts to grey when they hit 90 -- although the formula hasn't been in use long enough for anyone to know what their life expectancy actually is.
* WorfHadTheFlu:
** When Red Torpedo and Red Inferno hold the team hostage, OL couldn't do anything to break out because they deliberately attacked when he had taken off his ring (to use the bathroom).
** In his second fight with Klarion, OL had to take off his ring because Klarion put a powder on it to draw power from the ring to himself. So he [[spoiler:couldn't save Zatara from Nabu.]]
* {{Workaholic}}: Even when he tries to take a holiday, Paul has a hard time stepping back from trying to uplift civilisations wherever he goes. Fairly well justified by the fact that the very nature of his ring means his work has to be composed of things that he enjoys and wants to do.
--> '''Paul''': I.. ''know''. Everywhere we go, I try working. Um. I just-. It's a habit I've gotten into, and basically everywhere I've ''gone'' is a place where I've had work to do. I don't really… I don't really ''know'' other places.\\
'''Jade''': You like being a superhero.\\
'''Paul''': I like doing what I do.
* WoundedGazelleGambit:
** As per canon, Miss Martian pretends to be Red Tornado in order to lure Mister Twister closer.
** During the investigation of [[spoiler:Jennifer Gordon-Hewitt's murder]], Orange Lantern comes across Bane and his thugs holding a man hostage. Orange Lantern goes in to rescue the man, [[spoiler:only for the man to use a telepathic disruptor on him and turn out be the man that hired Bane]].
* WoundThatWillNotHeal:
** Klarion's chaos magic continued to inflict damage on Paul’s body because Paul had zero natural resistance to magic at the time. It goes away after Cornwall Boy thoroughly cleans the lingering magic.
** Captain Marvel’s abilities could not counteract and heal his wounds because they were inflicted by the Twin Blade.
* WretchedHive: Gotham ''used'' to be this. Thanks to the efforts of Batman and his allies, Gotham is, as Jade puts it in ''Date Night'', almost a normal city.
** Mr Zoat later confirms that the crime rate [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/with-this-ring-young-justice-si-thread-twelve.25032/post-6227679 has gone way down ever since Batman became active]].
* WrongGenreSavvy:
** OL initially refuses to go near a Zeta Beam fearing being {{Telefrag}}ged or ending up in the wrong place.
** He later is attacked by a man (Sportsmaster) wearing a hockey mask and wielding a javelin, and thinks it must be [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 Casey Jones]]. When it turns out that the Ninja Turtles are fiction on Earth 16 as well, he has a hard time explaining the mix-up to his teammates.
** Uns Al-Wujud steals Alan's power ring and then tries to command the djinn of the ring to smite him. Alan is momentarily baffled.
---> Why does he think-? Middle East, right.
* TheWrongfulHeirToTheThrone: King Orin ''thinks'' that Ptra is the rightful heir to Venturia; she's not been back to the city since she was abducted as a small child, and is thus not really prepared to rule it, but she's Queen Clea's only child -- and she's likely to support Orin's goal of centralising authority in Poseidonis. He's perturbed to learn that the Venturian crown is only hereditary by custom, and that Queen Clea, before her death, nominated another successor, who is selfless and competent but will continue her isolationist policies.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: After Renegade!OL's become disillusioned with the idea that the Justice League could ever help at all, [[spoiler:he's very tempted to work alongside the Light instead. Then M'gann comes along, and tells him that he has the power to help people without relying on the aid of unrepentant murderers]].
--> '''Renegade:''' Well... that's me told.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: OL has currently no way to get back to his home dimension and his hometown does not exist in the DC universe.
* YouClonedHitler: The premise of ''Triumph of the Will''. [[spoiler:Wolf Krieger tried to clone Hitler 94 times until he finally succeeded. However, the sole surviving clone was raised by loving parents and became a well adjusted man (Helmut Schreiber) who married a black woman and had a family. Although Krieger is not so pleased by the results, he sees the clone as the means of bringing back Hitler's broken soul from Hell and then putting that soul inside the clone to create a god that embodies the ideal of Aryan fascism.]]
* YouDidntAsk: The Time Trapper is annoyed that Paul didn't mention his contact with Ambush Bug up front, but Paul points out that Time Trapper is the one with the expertise.
--> '''Paul''': You came to ''me'', having met me before. You didn't ask. I '''don't know how this works.'''
* YourHeadASplode: How several people are killed by the enemy speedster in ''Zigzag''.
* YourSoulIsMine: Ghost Fox Killer, one of the Chinese Superfunctionaries can take the souls of evil to use for herself. [[spoiler:She kills Bane like this, and it's strongly hinted that she did the same to those responsible for Roanoke in Renegade timeline.]]
* YoungFutureFamousPeople: While web searching, OL found out that there are some very young people who have yet to become either heroes or villains. For example: [[Comicbook/{{Cyborg}} Victor Stone]] is eleven and is completely organic. [[Comicbook/{{Anarky}} Lonnie Machin]] is also eleven, but is already fighting the [[FlameWar forum wars]] as 'moneyspider'.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Many examples.
** Superboy and his brother are a few months old, justified as they are clones.
** Red Inferno/Dannette Reily was three years old when she "died" or she's technically a few months old if one considers reactivation her rebirth.
** Discussed when Paul doesn't go to the World of Adults. Kid Flash initially believes that [[RightForTheWrongReasons Paul was lying about his age]] and is actually a teenager.
** Danner Formula enhanciles are this incarnate- it's considered strange if they start going grey before they're in their nineties.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: In Praise of Eros]]
* DroppingTheBombshell:
** Paul does this when he reveals to Catwoman that he's used his ring to conclusively prove that she is related to the Falcones.
** He later reveals his true age to the Team, Wonder Woman, and Alan.
* GoodIsOldFashioned: Humorously, Paul's mentor Alan Scott finds himself a bit uncomfortable with his apprentice's choice in romantic partners, not so much that he's involved with two women, but that it's a relationship with no traditional future. He's even less happy about Paul going out with an actual supervillainess, though Paul points out that Catwoman has been effectively retired for some time.
* {{Polyamory}}: Paul ends up in a relationship with Holly and Karon. Somewhat unique is the dynamic between Paul and Karon, since Karon isn't sexually attracted to men, and Paul refuses to engage in anything that makes her uncomfortable. Much of the early relationship is establishing exactly where everyone's boundaries are, and how far they're willing to go.
* PowerPerversionPotential: We are shown Paul actually using his power ring while in bed with Holly and Karon.
* ThatCameOutWrong: When Paul has Karon just get used to the idea of touching each other via hand holding, he says that she doesn't "have to take the whole thing". He even says the trope name after he says this.
* WhatIf: These are events that could have happened in the Paragon timeline if Paul did things a little differently.
* WordOfGod: There is [[https://forum.questionablequesting.com/threads/with-this-ring-in-praise-of-eros-young-justice-si.4618/#post-1005640 no chance]] of Paul hooking up with Paula.
** The thread will be [[https://forum.questionablequesting.com/threads/with-this-ring-in-praise-of-eros-young-justice-si.4618/page-2#post-1007070 strictly non-canon]].
** Eros/Cupid [[https://forum.questionablequesting.com/threads/with-this-ring-in-praise-of-eros-young-justice-si.4618/page-2#post-1008112 won't appear]].
** The US government's relationship with Swamp Thing will be an ongoing matter of contention, [[https://forum.questionablequesting.com/threads/with-this-ring-in-praise-of-eros-young-justice-si.4618/page-3#post-1008781 but mostly in the background]].
** Paul has [[https://forum.questionablequesting.com/threads/with-this-ring-in-praise-of-eros-young-justice-si.4618/page-4#post-1013142 read some stuff]] on what to do during sex.
** By the time Holly and Karon offered to have a threesome with Paul, he's [[https://forum.questionablequesting.com/threads/with-this-ring-in-praise-of-eros-young-justice-si.4618/page-5#post-1028417 known them for three and a half months and has been seeing them at least weekly]].
[[/folder]]

*** An Anti-Green Lantern Paul, who is a reluctant villain that is [[BlessedWithSuck being controlled by his power ring]], in a version of the Franchise/{{DCAU}} in which it includes Cyborg being a founding member of the Justice League and a abundance of sidekicks closely participating in the League.