History Franchise / GreenLantern

* LoyalPhlebotinum: Power rings will choose their successors when their wielder dies. Though more recently it has been revealed that Mogo actually helps direct this process.
** Hal Jordan is one of the notable exceptions. Abin Sur actually triggered the search mechanism as he was dying and had a chance to introduce himself to Hal.

* SeriesContinuityError: Used deliberately. During Emerald Twilight, when Hal Jordan is on his rampage towards Oa, the Guardians are seemingly powerless to stop him. They send out the various other Green Lanterns to intercept him,and finally release Sinestro from the main power battery. In the end, they sit there and watch as Hal flies into the battery to steal all the power for himself. And yet, not that many issues earlier, one of the Guardians had completely depowered John Stewart's ring, and in the classic Green Lantern/Green Arrow run, the Guardians at one point weakened Hal Jordan's ring so his power was much more limited. The Guardians have long been shown to have near complete control over the rings when they choose, a fact that was ignored so that the plot of Emerald Twilight could play out the way the editors wanted it to.

[[caption-width-right:349:The humans chosen to be a Green Lantern, clockwise from the top left: Hal Jordan, John Stewart, Alan Scott, Guy Gardner, and Kyle Rayner. Not pictured: Jade, Simon Baz.]]

[[caption-width-right:349:The humans chosen to be a Green Lantern, clockwise from the top left: Hal Jordan, John Stewart, Alan Scott, Guy Gardner, and Kyle Rayner. Not pictured: Simon Baz.]]

[[TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Created in 1940]], the original Green Lantern was a railroad engineer named Alan Scott, who fashioned his ring and lantern out of a magic metal made from a meteor that fell to Earth, later retconned into the Starheart. Alan used his fists as often as he used his ring, and was more of a pulp hero than a sci-fi one. Along the way he picked up comic sidekick Doiby Dickles who accompanied him on his adventures, and he became one of the founding members of the Justice Society of America. Like most of the other DC characters of the time, he fought in World War 2, had adventures after the war had ended, and then his comic ended as super-heroes fell out of fashion in the late 40s. His solo series was cancelled in 1949, and his last Golden Age appearance was in an issue of All-Star comics in 1951.

** Alan Scott married Rose Canton, unaware that she had an alternate personality of the Thorn. She became the mother of Jade and Obsidian. She killed herself and Alan later married Molly Mayne, who had been his enemy the Harlequin. Alan seems to have a propensity for this trope.

* Alan Scott married Rose Canton, unaware that she had an alternate personality of the Thorn. She became the mother of Jade and Obsidian. She killed herself and Alan later married Molly Mayne, who had been his enemy the Harlequin. Alan seems to have a propensity for this trope.

[[TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Created in 1940]], the original Green Lantern was a railroad engineer named Alan Scott, who fashioned his ring and lantern out of a magic metal made from a meteor that fell to Earth, later revealed to be the Starheart. Alan used his fists as often as he used his ring, and was more of a pulp hero than a sci-fi one. Like most of the other DC characters of the time, his comic ended as super-heroes fell out of fashion in the late 40s.

** Alan Scott has his own, albeit less memorable:

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience:

* EarthIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse: Actually, Oa is the center of the universe, but Earth is the center of the ''multiverse'' and would trigger the end of all reality if it fell. As of ''BlackestNight'', our little backwater planet is the vacation home of [[spoiler:the Entity that created all life.]]

* ''Green Lantern Corps'' (by Vendetti & Van Jensen), starring John Stewart & his love Fatality as they go on traditional space adventures.
* ''Green Lantern: New Guardians'' (by Justin Jordan), starring Kyle Rayner & the new Templar Guardians, as the books follow the newly emerged Guardians as the explore a universe to gain insight to its problems, with Kyle, as a White Lantern, as their protector.

* ''Comicbook/{{Earth 2}}'' (by James Robinson), following the [[Comicbook/{{New 52}} DC relaunch in 2011]], most of the Golden Age Heroes (or their successors) were removed from the main continuity and given their own universe to literally start from scratch. Alan Scott in this title is a young, late 20's C.E.O of a broadcasting company who is chosen by Earth's life force, The Green, to protect the planet & his people as it's Green Lantern. In addition to his younger age, Alan is a gay man who discovered his lover was murdered due to some connection to [[Comicbook/NewGods the leftover Apokoliptian forces]] left on Earth five years after an invasion.

* AssholeVictim: Sure, the Sinestro Corps' invasion of Daxam in order to enslave the inhabitants is beyond reprehensible... then again, the Daxamites are violently xenophobic assholes with an intense hatred for pretty much anything not them, which makes feeling any sympathy for them quite a difficult task.

* TheBerserker: The entire Red Lantern Corps, save their leader Atrocitus, who can at least socialize (to an extent).
** And now, in the ''Red Lantern'' series of the DCU reboot, he's trying to get a lieutenant, saving at least one more corpsman from this trope.
* BeyondTheImpossible: The Guardians made sure that it would be physically impossible for a lantern to kill one of them. When [[spoiler: Hal Jordan kills Krona]] they are shocked and afraid.

* ObviouslyEvil: C'mon, he's named Sinestro and has a Snidely Whiplash mustache.

* ''Comicbook/{{Earth 2}}'' (by James Robinson), following the [[Comicbook/{{New 52)) DC relaunch in 2011]], most of the Golden Age Heroes (or their successors) were removed from the main continuity and given their own universe to literally start from scratch. Alan Scott in this title is a young, late 20's C.E.O of a broadcasting company who is chosen by Earth's life force, The Green, to protect the planet & his people as it's Green Lantern. In addition to his younger age, Alan is a gay man who discovered his lover was murdered due to some connection to [[Comicbook/NewGods the leftover Apokoliptian forces]] left on Earth five years after an invasion.

** Sinestro (with Sector 3600) destroys the rebuilt Bolovax Vik (Kilowog's home planet), along with the spirits of Kilowog's race

** And now, during ''War of the Green Lanterns'', [[spoiler:John kills Mogo, the sentient planet, in order to stop Krona from using him to recruit any more mindless soldiers to his army.]]

* ElementalRockPaperScissors: Sort of. Each of the rings seen has different powers, and interacts with other rings in different ways. For example, Orange can absorb Green constructs but not Violet or Blue. Blue supercharges Green and nullifies Red, but is close to useless on its own. Yellow is devastating to a Green Lantern that hasn't figured out how to overcome fear, and so forth and so on.

* HeelFaceBrainwashing: The Indigo Tribe can take individuals of dubious morality and turn them into peace-loving hippies, whether they want to be or not. [[spoiler:This includes themselves.]]

* HomeFieldAdvantage: The living planet Mogo is a planet sized Home Field Advantage. At least, [[spoiler:while it was still alive.]]

* IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance: Larfleeze of the Orange Lantern Corps was this, locked away in his own filthy paradise in Sector Vega for eons until the Guardians and Lanterns came a'knockin'. Now free to roam the cosmos, Larfleeze is too in love with his self-indulgence to realize he could probably take down every Lantern Corps by himself.

** The series originally had tendencies toward this anyway, though lapsed into ValuesDissonance now. Carol was originally unambiguously Hal's boss, and was never shown to be less than competent at this. Tom Kalmaku was an Inuit, not only entrusted with Hal's secret identity, but also the source of his power and, in one story, fills in as a replacement Green Lantern. Both of these characterizations date back to the late 1950s.

The franchise is currently helmed by GeoffJohns, who spearheaded Jordan's return and developed the emotional spectrum. It currently consists of:
* ''Green Lantern'' (written by Johns), starring Hal Jordan [[spoiler:and Sinestro, who was re-inducted into the Green Lanterns against everyone's wishes. Although Hal had been expelled from the Corps, Sinestro has recruited him as a sidekick for non-Guardian-sponsored missions - including going against the Guardians themselves.]] Currently a new recruit, Simon Baz, headlines the book, as [[spoiler:Hal and Sinestro are presumed dead - they're still out there somewhere, but their storyline has become the B-plot.]]
* ''Green Lantern Corps'' (by Peter Tomasi), starring John Stewart and Guy Gardner and focusing on traditional space adventures.
* ''Green Lantern: New Guardians'' (by Tony Bedard), starring Kyle Rayner on the run from the GLC as he leads a team drawn from all seven corps.
* ''Red Lanterns'' (by Peter Milligan), starring the rage-driven Atrocitus as some mix of AntiHero, AntiVillain, VillainProtagonist, and so on.
* ''Threshold'', though not primarily featuring the Lanterns, will have backup stories featuring Orange Lantern Larfleeze.