History Characters / GLOrangeLanternCorps

->'''AKA:''' Agent Orange (also, "Larfleeze" is stated to be an alias; his real name is unknown)

** BadAssDecay: Prior to BlackestNight, Stargrave was one of the bigger villains the LegionOfSuperHeroes ever fought, easily capable of fighting off the Legion at its full might unless they planned ahead. Afterward, well, he's Larfleeze's butler -- and not even a BattleButler. Of course since his battles with the Legion chronologically took place a thousand years into the future, it's possible at some point Pulsar TookALevelInBadass before encountering the Legionnaires.

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** EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler: Gave back one planet's entire infant population when its people revealed they do not have any valuables except for their own children. [[PragmaticVillainy Although he wasn't doing it to be nice]]. Blume just felt that the babies had no material value.]]

** AGodAmI: Combined with JerkassGods, he demanded people give him their valuables. Although, he wasn't ALL bad. See above.

* RuleOfSymbolism: Ophidian is implied to be the same serpent that [[Literature/TheBible tempted Eve in the Garden of Eden]]. Who is considered by some to be one and the same as [[{{Satan}} someone that's associated with light as well.]]

The only true member of the Orange Lantern Corps. Billions of years ago, Larfleeze was part of a band of thieves that stole Parallax from the Guardians. While hiding out in the Vega System (and following a map they also stole), Larfleeze and his remaining men found the Orange Central Power Battery (unlike the others, it's small and handheld). While they began to fight over it, the Guardians and the Manhunters showed up and demanded Parallax. In return, they gave them the Vega System and the power of the Orange Light of Avarice; however because of its nature, the Corps can have only one member (as greed is inimical to sharing) and so Larfleeze killed them all. He makes up for the lack of numbers by making legions of constructs of all the people he has killed (and eaten) over the long, long time of being Agent Orange.

* {{Greed}}: The emotion that drives the Corps. Interesting the Orange Lantern is always a singular individual because nobody avaricious enough to activate and control the orange light could ever bear the thought of sharing it. This is why the deputy didn't work out: they'd fight each other over the power, cutting their strength to less than half.

Powered by the Orange Light of Avarice, the Orange Lanterns are a legion of gibbering phantoms emanated from the mind of Agent Orange, the keeper of the Orange Light. They are constructs created in the image of Agent Orange's victims, whose very identities he has stolen.

* AGodAmI: After becoming a [[spoiler:living Orange Power Battery]].

* VillainProtagonist: Though technically an enemy of the Green Lantern Corps he's often found aiding them, usually for his own reasons.

** TheLeader: Becomes the de facto leader of the [[spoiler:ressurected]] Orange Lanterns by virtue of being the most diplomatic and intelligent among them.

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* {{Greed}}: The emotion that drives the Corps.

* As mentioned before, ComicBook/LexLuthor was temporarily deputized during the ''ComicBook/BlackestNight''.

* DrivenToSuicide: After [[spoiler:Sayd hypnotized him into destroying his treasure horde]], he puts himself and Stargrave on meteor headed toward the Creation Point to be incinerated.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: When Larfleeze was first introduced he was more often referred to under his codename Agent Orange, to the point that when he stole new individuals, it was said they "belonged to Agent Orange." But over time characters began referring to him solely as Larfleeze more and more, to the point that his own series was called ''Larfleeze'' instead of ''Agent Orange''.

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** AGodAmI: Combined with JerkassGods, he demanded people give him their valuables. Although, he wasn't ALL bad. See above.

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** BadAssDecay: Prior to BlackestNight, Stargrave was one of the bigger villains the LegionOfSuperHeroes ever fought, easily capable of fighting off the Legion at its full might unless they planned ahead. Afterward, well, he's Larfleeze's butler -- and not even a BattleButler.

* {{Asexuality}}: Possibly, as heavy abuse on his mother's part made him believe than any woman that wasn't her was vile and would give him cooties.

* FightingSpirit

* {{Greed}}

** ServileSnarker

* BigEater
** HorrorHunger: The orange light fills its host with constant, ravenous, ''endless'' hunger. When Hal first encountered Larfleeze, Agent Orange was happily devouring a big table of disgusting, rotten food.

* BornIntoSlavery - A small glimpse into his past shown in the Book of Black shows that he was a mining slave as a child. Being forced to compete with the other kids for who gets to eat is implied to have fostered his hatred of sharing.

* CollectorOfTheStrange

* DelusionsOfEloquence

* [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas Even Bad Men Love Their Families]]: At his core, he does still harbour a deep sorrow at the absence of the family he loves and hasn't seen for eons. [[spoiler: He does eventually reunite with them in the epilogue of the Johns run, but old habits die hard and he ruins everything with his greed.]]

*** The end of his ongoing, wherein he discovers the Green Lantern [[IdiotHero G'nort]] is his cousin... distantly related by 14 generations thanks to [[LongLived the incredibly long lifespan]] of Larfleeze's species, but still enough of a connection to bring Larfleeze to tears. While still his egotistical self, he shows G'nort almost unbelievably genuine affection and generosity.

* [[spoiler:EvilAllAlong]]: Fears that he was this even before his criminal career.

* HiveQueen

* ItMustBeMine

* MadeASlave: Maybe.

* VillainProtagonist.
* VillainousGlutton

He's now a part of the New Guardians, as Larfleeze sent him out to find who's trying to take rings from each corps, including (especially) his own. [[spoiler:Or at least, that's the cover story, as Larfleeze manipulated the group into fighting another of his enemies.]]

* TeamPet

* YouNoTakeCandle

* ReptilesAreAbhorrent

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** WreathedInFlames

** ButterFace

** {{Mummy}}

** BeleagueredAssistant
** ButtMonkey
** CloudcuckoolandersMinder: His role in Larfleeze's life could as easily be called babysitter as butler.
** DistressedDude: A great deal of the story in Larfleeze's spinoff comic centers around him being rescued from Larfleeze, only to find [[OutOfTheFryingPan his rescuers are even worse]], whereupon he is rescued back by Larfleeze. [[RunningGag and then re-rescued from him]]. [[UpToEleven Larfleeze immediately goes on a mission to rescue him back.]]
** ServileSnarker
** WeWantOurJerkBack: Despite his distaste for Larfleeze, he finds serving the orange lantern far preferable to the Gods of T'uath Dan. He fondly compares Larfleeze to a hemorrhoid he has grown so used to that it feels too strange to be without that familiar pain in the ass.

** EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler: Gave back one planet's entire infant population when its people revealed they do not have any valuables except for their own children. Although he wasn't doing it to be nice. Blume just felt that the babies had no material value.]]

* ShrugOfGod: Many fans have been asking when the Orange Lantern oath would be revealed. The response was basically "soon" (back in 2010). It's actually taken so long it was made fun of by Lex in ''Action Comics''. It hasn't stopped fans from inventing their own versions and attempting to pass them off as official on Wikipedia.
** Larfleeze's oath is finally mentioned in ''ComicBook/WrathOfTheFirstLantern''. It's as [[{{Greed}} silly]] as anyone would think.

* BadassDecay: Initially introduced as a universe-level threat who could probably best the Guardians of the Universe on his own, BlackestNight turned him into LaughablyEvil comic relief who regularly needed [[EnemyMine help from his enemy corps]] just to survive. While the opening arc to New Guardians attempted to revert this, he's still pretty much just a joke character.

* BackFromTheDead: Once during BlackestNight, and again thanks to [[spoiler:The Wanderer]].

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Every one of the Lantern Oaths rhyme, even [[BlackestNight the Black Lantern Corps]]. Larfleeze, as shown in ''ComicBook/WrathOfTheFirstLantern'' and its GrandFinale... [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment doesn't follow that rule]].

* As mentioned before, ComicBook/LexLuthor was temporarily deputized during the ''BlackestNight''.

* PigMan: When first meeting him, Hal thought he looked like a wild boar crossed with [[TheMuppets Gonzo]].

* OddlySmallOrganization: Agent Orange is the first, last, and only true member of the Orange Lanterns; all other members are orange light constructs. And SelfDemonstrating/LexLuthor was deputized that one time, but that ''really'' didn't go well. Justified as the orange light embodies extreme greed, so of course the lantern-holder wouldn't want to share the power with anyone else.

* As mentioned before, LexLuthor was temporarily deputized during the ''BlackestNight''.

** Oddly enough, they were highly abusive, demanding, and the only reason they didn't sell him off was because they had all ready sold too many of their children to legally do that.