History YMMV / GreenLantern

** Interestingly, a few writers ''did'' make Kyle work for his place in the DC Universe. A number of writers, like Creator/GrantMorrison, had characters like ComicBook/WallyWest look down on the rookie Lantern for just being there and made to bust his chops to earn his place in the greater scheme of things.

** Wonder Woman actually had an emotions-visible light spectrum thing well before Green Lantern too. The difference there is that in Wonder Woman's book which color represented which emotion didn't actually matter(hers incidentally was Orange or Gold, which definitely wouldn't line up with how Green Lantern did it), what mattered was that Hades had found a way to separate people's emotions as "color bodies" from the physical ones, which became inert and helpless, and the best thing he could think to do with such a thing was [[MundaneUtility use color bodies as a source of light]] before Wonder Woman ultimately defeated him, introduced electricity to his kingdom, and the plot point never came up again.

** The Star Sapphire is generally known as a Green Lantern adversary, but a Star Sapphire first appeared as a Golden Age Flash enemy in All-Flash #32, December 1946. This Star Sapphire's identity was unknown, but she would later be retconned as a failed and exiled queen of the Zamarons.

** Green Lantern and Flash always tend to evoke this, no matter which Flash or Lantern it is. Alan/Jay, Hal/Barry, Wally/Kyle and Wally/John in the DCAU, etc. Bart and Guy are the only two who don't have this with anyone from the other side of the dynamic, mostly because Bart is too busy having it with Robin and Superboy and Guy is too busy having it with Kyle. This even applies to their DistaffCounterpart characters too, with Jesse Quick and Jade getting some scenes in their short-lived tenure together in the JLA.

* MemeticLoser: It's either Hal, for losing his mind despite supposedly being one of the most willful individuals in the universe and [[BecameTheirOwnAntithesis becoming his own antithesis]] ([[AdaptationDisplacement and having a panned movie]], as well as his cases of PlotInducedStupidity in the Silver Age) or Kyle for [[TraumaCongaLine not being able to catch a break to save his life]].

** As society marched on, fans began to raise eyebrows at Hal's origin, specifically the fact that the most fearless guy on the planet conveniently turned out to be a straight, white, male American. A story was eventually done that showed there were many Green Lantern candidates all throughout the globe, and Hal was chosen because he just happened to be the one closest to Abin Sur's crash site.

** John Stewart's earliest appearances were little more than AngryBlackManStereotype{{s}}, but John was also shown to be objectively correct in his anger (just short-tempered). He was also always the most-educated of the earthbound Green Lanterns, being an architect when Hal was a pilot who never attended college and Guy's original status as a public defender all but forgotten in {{Flanderization}}.