History Awesome / GreenLantern

* LarryNiven wrote the GreenLantern writing bible and some stories. Notably one where Red shifting was abused to take down Sinestro.

* John Stewart confronts {{Batman}}, who had up to that point in the story had been drawn completely in shadow. After listening to Batman constantly bad-mouthing Hal, John puts the goddamn Batman in his place:

* In Green Lantern (2011-), Sinestro is trying to get Hal Jordan to think like a Green Lantern, not a superhero. When Hal tries to save a woman who's fallen from a collapsing bridge, Sinestro shuts down Hal's ring, then uses his own to catch the woman. And her car. And every other person, vehicle, and bit of debris. He then cold-welds the deck and cables, re-seals the road surface, and places everyone and everything back on the bridge. All at once. This is the first time we see exactly why he was known as the [[InformedAbility greatest of the Green Lanterns]].

* Hmm....strange how this didn't come up. In the comics, when John Stewart is convicted of destroying a planet, he attempts to recreate it-to its entirety-for piece of mind. This is where his architectural prowess comes into play. This also proves that his {{Determinator}} goes far and beyond the scope of most human lanterns...or even most alien lanterns. How is this shown? With only four small words.

* After Mogo has been blown up, he hides John and Fatality as he destroys all third army soldiers within three parsecs of his coordinates before rebranding the Green Lantern symbol across himself. {{Badass}}.

** A tag-team moment with B'gd: Third Army trapped in sphere + Baz commandeering real missiles + MacrossMissileBarrage = AWESOME.

* In Green Lantern (2011-), Sinestro is trying to get Hal Jordan to think like a Green Lantern, not a superhero. When Hal tries to save a woman who's fallen from a collapsing bridge, Sinestro shuts down Hal's ring, then uses his own to catch the woman. And her car. And every other person, vehicle, and bit of debris. He then cold-welds the deck and cables, re-seals the road surface, and places every one back on the bridge. All at once. This is the first time we see exactly why he was known as the [[InformedAbility greatest of the Green Lanterns]].

* Hmm....strange how this didn't come up. In the comics, when John Stewart is convicted of destroying a planet, he attempts to recreate it-to its entirety-for piece of mind. This is where his architectural prowess comes into play. This also proves that his {{Determinator}} goes far and beyond the scope of most human lanterns...or even most alien lanterns. How is this shown? With only four small words.
--->'''John Stewart's Ring''': Warning: Willpower exceeding Ring parameters.
** John seems to be involved with blowing up a lot of planets. In War of the Green Lanterns, [[spoiler: John blows up Mogo with a Black Lantern bullet]]
* A robot is about to blow up Hal Jordan's home city and he has no charge in his ring, what does he do? He decapitates it, by punching it in the face, after jumping out of a jet that's on fire and traveling a mach 1.
* Just about anything Guy Gardner does: rides a motorcycle construct through space, talks back to the Guardians, [[spoiler: declares war on the Reach]], [[spoiler: steals Krona's power guantlet]], [[spoiler: puts Parallax out of the central power battery]], etc.

* THE FREAKIN HOT WHEELS SCENE!

-->'''Hal:''' Mongul...you shattered my arm...you shattered my knee...\

* The climactic battle, especially on Earth. Whatever the faults of the film's writing, Jordan's showdown with Parallax is a thriller with the filmmakers just getting the possibilities with a ring that can create anything. What that enables is a mindblower of an action scene as Jordan creates one green energy construct after another in rapid-fire succession to fight the seemingly unbeatable foe. Finally, Jordan is being pushed to the floor by the entity who is ominously ranting of what failure he is and what is going to happen to everything he values so he might well despair. Against that, Jordan quietly recites his Corps' BadassCreed, now realizing it has come to mean everything he values, until he roars why this worshiper of Evil's might must beware his power, "'''Green Lantern's Light!'''"

* EVERY [[PrecisionFStrike Fucking]] time this phrase is spoken

** Hal's ISurrenderSuckers gambit to defeat Hector.

--->'''John Stewart's Ring''': Warning: Willpower exceeding Ring parameters.

* The climactic battle, especially on Earth. Whatever the faults of the film's writing, Jordan's showdown with Parallax is a thriller with the filmmakers just getting the possibilities with a ring that can create anything. What that enables is a mindblower of an action scene as Jordan creates one green energy construct after another in rapid-fire succession to fight the seemingly unbeatable foe. Finally, Jordan is being pushed to the floor by the entity who is ominously ranting of what failure he is and what is going to happen to everything he values so he might well despair. Against that, Jordan quietly recites his Corps' BadassCreed, now realizing it has come to mean everything he values, until he roars why the monster must beware his power, "'''Green Lantern's Light!'''"