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-->I don't look at the child. She's a toddler, wrapped up well against the cold. Even with the ring on minimal effectiveness I could still help here. I think that would be the Human thing to do, to help the people in front of me. But the only way to fix this on the global scale on which it's happening is to shut down the spell at it's source. Though it's an easy decision from a utilitarian standpoint I'm still Human enough to be more effected by the suffering I can see and I really don't want to have the ring show me the global suffering that would be necessary to force a desire shift. It's a knife edge balance I can't risk completely ruining by giving in to compassion.
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* AbsurdlySharpBlade: The Sword of the Second and Third he picks up.
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* AbsurdlySharpBlade: He manages to get his hands on [[{{Hellblazer}} The Sword of the Second and Third he picks up.Third]].
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* AmbiguouslyBi: OL has admitted he has (some kind of) feelings for [[{{Main/CloningBlues}} Superboy]], though he is still trying to make sense of them and determine whether they're anything beyond platonic. He's also commented on the attractiveness of several of the females around him. Given the ring influences him through his desire, further exploration of the matter is likely. An early thread has him stating that he ''usually'' prefers women, so who knows with him.
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* AMillionIsAStatistic: Due to his ring being powered by avarice his ability to help people is limited by how much he wants to help them, which means [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number Dunbar's number]] and ItsPersonal have an effect how powerful his abilities are. For instance, if he creates a shield to protect one of his friends then that shield will be incredibly powerful, whereas attempting to protect a large group of people in the same way would not result in a very powerful shield. The same logic holds true when fighting someone: the more he wants to hurt/subdue them the better his powers will work. He is very much aware of this flaw, and not at all happy about it.
** One notable example is when he recovers from Cheshire's DruggedLipstick. He has difficulty getting his tentacle construct to stop strangling her because getting punked like that made him ''really'' want to hurt her. If it had been someone like TheJoker in that position, his desire to kill the man would have overwhelmed any conscious attempts to use nonlethal force.
** While he is intellectually aware that a school bus falling off a bridge whose suspension just snapped is a horrible thing, he has to take a moment to look at the faces of the kids inside and become emotionally invested in their well-being before his constructs become strong enough to rescue them.
** Another limit is that he ''has'' to use avarice, and other parts of the emotional spectrum weaken his powers, as seen during the events of "[[ThereAreNoAdults Misplaced]]". When he tries to heal children that were injured by adults vanishing while driving he manages to fix the five worst wounded before his revulsion at what he's seeing and his compassion for them renders him unable to help the rest of the injured. Later on, after five whole days conducting search and rescue operations, a combination of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compassion_fatigue compassion fatigue]] and sheer emotional exhaustion numbs him so much that he's unable to help anyone else. He's horrified when he realizes that he ''has'' to keep a lid on his compassion to prevent his ring dying on him.
-->I don't look at the child. She's a toddler, wrapped up well against the cold. Even with the ring on minimal effectiveness I could still help here. I think that would be the Human thing to do, to help the people in front of me. But the only way to fix this on the global scale on which it's happening is to shut down the spell at it's source. Though it's an easy decision from a utilitarian standpoint I'm still Human enough to be more effected by the suffering I can see and I really don't want to have the ring show me the global suffering that would be necessary to force a desire shift. It's a knife edge balance I can't risk completely ruining by giving in to compassion.
* AmbiguouslyBi: OL has admitted he has (some kind of) feelings for [[{{Main/CloningBlues}} Superboy]], though he is still trying to make sense of them and determine whether they're anything beyond platonic. He's also commented on the attractiveness of several of the females around him. Given the ring influences him through his desire, further exploration of the matter is likely. An early thread has him stating that he ''usually'' prefers women, so whoknows with him.knows?
** One notable example is when he recovers from Cheshire's DruggedLipstick. He has difficulty getting his tentacle construct to stop strangling her because getting punked like that made him ''really'' want to hurt her. If it had been someone like TheJoker in that position, his desire to kill the man would have overwhelmed any conscious attempts to use nonlethal force.
** While he is intellectually aware that a school bus falling off a bridge whose suspension just snapped is a horrible thing, he has to take a moment to look at the faces of the kids inside and become emotionally invested in their well-being before his constructs become strong enough to rescue them.
** Another limit is that he ''has'' to use avarice, and other parts of the emotional spectrum weaken his powers, as seen during the events of "[[ThereAreNoAdults Misplaced]]". When he tries to heal children that were injured by adults vanishing while driving he manages to fix the five worst wounded before his revulsion at what he's seeing and his compassion for them renders him unable to help the rest of the injured. Later on, after five whole days conducting search and rescue operations, a combination of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compassion_fatigue compassion fatigue]] and sheer emotional exhaustion numbs him so much that he's unable to help anyone else. He's horrified when he realizes that he ''has'' to keep a lid on his compassion to prevent his ring dying on him.
-->I don't look at the child. She's a toddler, wrapped up well against the cold. Even with the ring on minimal effectiveness I could still help here. I think that would be the Human thing to do, to help the people in front of me. But the only way to fix this on the global scale on which it's happening is to shut down the spell at it's source. Though it's an easy decision from a utilitarian standpoint I'm still Human enough to be more effected by the suffering I can see and I really don't want to have the ring show me the global suffering that would be necessary to force a desire shift. It's a knife edge balance I can't risk completely ruining by giving in to compassion.
* AmbiguouslyBi: OL has admitted he has (some kind of) feelings for [[{{Main/CloningBlues}} Superboy]], though he is still trying to make sense of them and determine whether they're anything beyond platonic. He's also commented on the attractiveness of several of the females around him. Given the ring influences him through his desire, further exploration of the matter is likely. An early thread has him stating that he ''usually'' prefers women, so who
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* BarrierWarrior: What OL often acts as, shielding his team mates and innocents from harm. Compared to a Green Lantern, he isn't that special since the barrier is only as strong as he wants it. But since most of his teammates are his friends he can be pretty effective.
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* BarrierWarrior: What OL often acts as, shielding his team mates and innocents from harm. Compared to a Green Lantern, Lantern he isn't that special since the barrier is only as strong as he wants it. But it, but since most of his teammates are his friends he can be pretty effective.
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* {{Greed}}: His greed is his power. Though unlike Larfleeze, Paul, not being a psychopath who only cares about himself, has a much broader spectrum of what "greed" constitutes as, including protecting his friends and people he cares about.
** He also takes numerous precautions to avoid being overcome by it like Larfleeze was, one of which is meditating on [[** He also does everything he can to avoid being overtaken by it Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs]]. When Diana alerts him to [[Hellish pupils how the ring is affecting him]], he ''immediately'' removes the ring and starts leaving it off for several hours each day. One of his defining traits is retaining his self-control while using a power ring known for making its users abandon restraint entirely.
** He also takes numerous precautions to avoid being overcome by it like Larfleeze was, one of which is meditating on [[** He also does everything he can to avoid being overtaken by it Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs]]. When Diana alerts him to [[Hellish pupils how the ring is affecting him]], he ''immediately'' removes the ring and starts leaving it off for several hours each day. One of his defining traits is retaining his self-control while using a power ring known for making its users abandon restraint entirely.
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* {{Greed}}: His greed is Technically avarice, but his power.power is based around wanting things. Though unlike Larfleeze, Paul, not being a psychopath who only cares about himself, has a much broader spectrum of what "greed" constitutes as, including protecting his friends and people he cares about.
** He also takes numerous precautions to avoid being overcome by it like Larfleeze was, one of which is meditating on[[** He also does everything he can to avoid being overtaken by it Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs]]. Needs. When Diana alerts him to [[Hellish pupils [[HellishPupils how the ring orange light is affecting him]], he ''immediately'' removes the ring and starts leaving it off for several hours each day. One of his defining traits is retaining his self-control while using a power ring known for making its users abandon restraint entirely.
** He also takes numerous precautions to avoid being overcome by it like Larfleeze was, one of which is meditating on
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* MoralMyopia: Due to his powers being affected by his desires and attachments, he simply doesn't care for the masses except in a oblique sense. Put hurt his teammates or friends? Then your crime is unforgivable. Compare his treatment of Klarion versus his treatment of Nabu.
** He cares for villains on a scale of how useful they are versus their connections to others.
** He cares for villains on a scale of how useful they are versus their connections to others.
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* MoralMyopia: Due to his powers being affected by his desires and attachments, his ability to help people is limited by how well he simply knows them and how much he wants to help. This tends to extend to his thought processes as well. Hurting people he doesn't care for the masses except in know is a oblique sense. Put bad thing, but hurt his teammates or friends? [[ThisIsUnforgivable Then your crime is unforgivable. unforgivable]]. Compare his treatment of Klarion versus to his treatment of Nabu.
** He cares for villains on a scale of how useful they are versus their connections to others. At one point he notes that healing someone like TheJoker with his ring would be impossible, and that trying anyway would probably result in [[KillHimAlready the ring killing them]].[[NoKillLikeOverkill Violently, with nothing but ash remaining]] [[DeaderThanDead if it doesn't outright annihilate them in the most literal definition of the word]].
** He cares for villains on a scale of how useful they are versus their connections to others. At one point he notes that healing someone like TheJoker with his ring would be impossible, and that trying anyway would probably result in [[KillHimAlready the ring killing them]].[[NoKillLikeOverkill Violently, with nothing but ash remaining]] [[DeaderThanDead if it doesn't outright annihilate them in the most literal definition of the word]].
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* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: Notes that he proves that he's simply better than Larfleeze by getting out of bed every morning.
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* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: Notes At one point says that he proves that he's simply better than Larfleeze simply by getting out of bed every morning.
* PowerIncontinence: If he ''really'' desires something, his ring will respond to that desire. When he restrained Cheshire with construct tentacles he had to take a moment to keep them from strangling her to death due to how intensely he wanted to hurt her at that point. He also can't touch fiat currency without the ring destroying it due to his deep-seated contempt for it.
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* SanityHasAdvantages: Its the only reason OL has not turned insane due to the ring.
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* SanityHasAdvantages: Its [[GenreSavvy He's well aware of this]], [[InvokedTrope and takes pains to make sure he ''stays'' sane]]. It's the only reason OL has not his ring hasn't turned insane due to the ring.him into a greedy, narcissistic monster..
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** He also takes numerous precautions to avoid being overcome by it like Larfleeze was, one of which is meditating on [[** He also does everything he can to avoid being overtaken by it Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs]]. When Diana alerts him to [[Hellish pupils how the ring is affecting him]], he ''immediately'' removes the ring and starts leaving it off for several hours each day. One of his defining traits is retaining his self-control while using a power ring known for making its users abandon restraint entirely.
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* NayTheist: Lantern, who was an Atheist before he came to the YJ universe... and remains so, despite meeting people who are either the children of or have had direct meetings with actual gods, such as Wonder Woman or Black Adam.
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* NayTheist: Lantern, who was an Atheist before he came to the YJ universe... and remains so, despite meeting people who are either the children of or have had direct meetings with actual gods, such as Wonder Woman or Black Adam. WordOfGod is that he acknowledges that they exist, but not that they deserve worship or the title of deity, considering them "jumped up elementals with delusions of grandeur". He even paraphrases [[Literature/Discworld Granny]] [[Discworld/LordsAndLadies Weatherwax]] when asked about it.
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** He refers to the gods of the DC Universe as "souped-up elementals with delusions of grandeur".
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* InnocentBigot: He can be pretty insensitive to the FantasticRacism or taboo cultural issues that his friends face.
* InsistentTerminology: OL calls Teth Adom as "Mighty One" to respect his title as a former pharaoh.
* InsistentTerminology: OL calls Teth Adom as "Mighty One" to respect his title as a former pharaoh.
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* InnocentBigot: He can be pretty insensitive to the FantasticRacism or taboo cultural issues that his friends face.
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* InsistentTerminology: OLcalls addresses Teth Adom as "Mighty One" to out of respect to his title as a former pharaoh.
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** He fires every type of ammunition he has into Captain Nazi to kill him.
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* OhCrap: Says "Oh Poop" after having his ring drained in a failed Branding attempt against a demon.
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* IKnowMortalKombat: OL previously played ''TimeCrisis'' and this factors into his gun training.
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* IKnowMortalKombat: OL previously played ''TimeCrisis'' ''VideoGame/TimeCrisis'' and this factors into his gun training.
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* BritishAccents: Invoked. Paul is compelled to go into "full English" because Ultraman is really amused to hear him speaking in his accent.
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* BreakTheHaughty: He believed that he could solo the Thangarian fleet with no problem. And learns the joy of Apokolipian version of kryptonite, Radion.
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* BreakTheHaughty: He believed that he could solo the Thangarian fleet with no problem. And learns the joy of Apokolipian Apokoliptian version of kryptonite, Radion.
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* DiscardAndDraw: When he was abducted by Justice Lord!Batman, his Orange Ring was left behind due to him deliberately turning himself in for killing Klarion. While in Earth 20, he picks up the late Sinestro's ring and becomes a Yellow Lantern.
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* DiscardAndDraw: When he was abducted by Justice Lord!Batman, his Orange Ring was left behind due to him deliberately turning himself in for killing Klarion. While in Earth 20, 50, he picks up the late Sinestro's ring and becomes a Yellow Lantern.
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** To be fair, the reasons for this are that the Orange Light "Feels" Apokolipian, and in the Renegade Omakes he physically resembles Grayven, one of Darkseid's sons.
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** To be fair, the reasons for this are that the Orange Light "Feels" Apokolipian, Apokoliptian, and in the Renegade Omakes he physically resembles Grayven, one of Darkseid's sons.
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* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Is unafraid to get his hands dirty to say the least.
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* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Is unafraid to get his hands dirty dirty, to say the least.
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* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: Being exposed to Terror Thing and Enlightened has left him resistant against Fear-based attacks.
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* {{Geas}}[=/=]TongueTied: Is under one that makes him unable to say or think his own name. He figures out through trail-and-error that name is Paul in the Paragon timeline. It is not magically nor telepathically induced
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* {{Geas}}[=/=]TongueTied: Is under one that makes him unable to say or think his own name. He figures out through trail-and-error trial-and-error that name is Paul in the Paragon timeline. It is not magically nor telepathically inducedinduced.
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* ThouShallNotKill: [[AvertedTrope Averted]], no matter which incarnation. In a situation where something is presenting clear and present danger to everyone around them, like a war-zone with soldiers using Apokoliptian tech to kill civilians, he skips straight to lethal force and equips allies as such.
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Correcting a spelling error.
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* BreakTheHaughty: He believed that he could solo the Thangarian fleet with no problem. And learns the joy of Apokolipian version of kryptonite, Radon.
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* BreakTheHaughty: He believed that he could solo the Thangarian fleet with no problem. And learns the joy of Apokolipian version of kryptonite, Radon.Radion.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: OL has admitted he has (some kind of) feelings for [[{{Main/CloningBlues}} Superboy]], though he is still trying to make sense of them and determine whether they're anything beyond platonic. He's also commented on the attractiveness of several of the females around him. Given the ring influences him through his desire, further exploration of the matter is likely.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: OL has admitted he has (some kind of) feelings for [[{{Main/CloningBlues}} Superboy]], though he is still trying to make sense of them and determine whether they're anything beyond platonic. He's also commented on the attractiveness of several of the females around him. Given the ring influences him through his desire, further exploration of the matter is likely. An early thread has him stating that he ''usually'' prefers women, so who knows with him.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: Reputation-wise, he started off as this, as no one could tell if he was interested in Superboy, or simply over-protective. Doesn't help that he never denies the rumors and sometimes plays along with them.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: Reputation-wise, he started off as this, as no one could tell if he was interested in Superboy, or simply over-protective. Doesn't help that he never denies the rumors and sometimes plays along with them. It doesnt help that he probably doesnt know himself.
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* BadPowersGoodPeople: Due to being powered by Avarice, what he can do is determined by how much he wants it or how it benefits him. For example, he can easily heal people he's close to but for strangers he has to think how the act benefits him.
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* BackToSchool: Due to not knowing Pauls real age, Wonder Woman had wanted him to enroll in high school along with Kiss Martian and Superboy. She had assumed he was in his mid teens based on his current appearance. Paul refuses, claiming that he's 17 and out of prepatory school, the British equivalent of high school. In reality, Paul is almost 30 at that point and his school days decades behind him.
* BadPowersGoodPeople: Due to being powered by Avarice, what he can do is determined by how much he wants it or how it benefits him. For example, he can easily heal people he's close to but for strangers he has to think how the act benefits him. He was completely unable to heal Robins comatose uncle, who he had never talked to before, but got around it by letting Robin use the ring as a secondary user. This is in stark contrast to Larfleeze, the original Orange Lantern, who isnt capable of caring about anything other than himself and hoarding as much for himself as he can.
* BadPowersGoodPeople: Due to being powered by Avarice, what he can do is determined by how much he wants it or how it benefits him. For example, he can easily heal people he's close to but for strangers he has to think how the act benefits him. He was completely unable to heal Robins comatose uncle, who he had never talked to before, but got around it by letting Robin use the ring as a secondary user. This is in stark contrast to Larfleeze, the original Orange Lantern, who isnt capable of caring about anything other than himself and hoarding as much for himself as he can.
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* {{Greed}}: His greed is his power.
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* {{Greed}}: His greed is his power. Though unlike Larfleeze, Paul, not being a psychopath who only cares about himself, has a much broader spectrum of what "greed" constitutes as, including protecting his friends and people he cares about.
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* MoneyFetish: Inverted by Orange Lantern. He actually disdains fiat currency, and valuable metals are only useful in their utility, and in what he can get from others with it. His ring actually disintegrates any fiat currency he tries to use, since he subconsciously views it as less valuable than the precious metals.
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* MoneyFetish: Inverted by Orange Lantern. He actually disdains fiat currency, and valuable metals are only useful in their utility, and in what he can get from others with it. His ring actually disintegrates any fiat currency he tries to use, since he subconsciously views it as less valuable than the precious metals. This is a problem early on, until a rare metal dealer he befirends helps him gain access to specially minted platinum coins from the U.S Treasury that are close enough to their own inherent value that his ring doesnt destroy them.
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* MrFanservice: Judging by Artemis and Zatanna's reactions to his looks, he's definitely easy on the eyes.
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* MrFanservice: Judging by Artemis and Zatanna's reactions to his looks, he's definitely easy on the eyes. By his own admission, he was simply average before, but the ring altered him into an idealized version of himself while he was still asleep on the moon.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After seemingly killing [[spoiler: Clayface]] by accident, Paul has a minor crisis. He doesnt feel ''bad'' exactly, but has difficulty dealing with the idea of killing someone. Batman tells him that accidental deaths happens to every crimefighter, even him.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After seemingly killing [[spoiler: Clayface]] by accident, Paul has a minor crisis. He doesnt feel ''bad'' exactly, but has difficulty dealing with the idea of killing someone. Batman tells him that accidental deaths happens to every crimefighter, even him.
** He refers to the gods of the DC Universe as "souped-up elementals with delusions of grandeur".
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* OurSoulsAreDifferent: OL is naturally without a soul. This is a problem, as the soul is what protects people from magic. Without one, even a novice magic user can trivially incapacitate him.
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* OurSoulsAreDifferent: OL is naturally Originating from a universe without magic (ours), Paul doesnt have a soul. This is a problem, as the soul is what protects people from magic. Without one, even a novice magic user can trivially incapacitate him. His battle with Klarion almost kills him.
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* CelibateHero: Despite being attracted to women and Superboy, Paul does not seek out any romantic relationship and denies any romantic attraction when asked. Paul is simply too busy to have a relationship and most of his in-group are teenage girls, so they don't pike his interest.
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* CelibateHero: Despite being attracted to women and Superboy, Paul does not seek out any romantic relationship and denies any romantic attraction when asked. Paul is simply too busy to have a relationship and most of his in-group are teenage girls, so they don't pike his interest. He may or may not have a thing for Superboy, but refuses to act on it due to Superboys lack of real world experience.
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** He also believes in the theory of "Want the ends, want the means", even if an act is despicable or reprehensible.
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** He has no interest in people who he considers "primitive" and reject modernity, to the point where its the only time he's outright rude to people who aren't antagonizing him.
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* AbsurdlySharpBlade: The Sword of the Second and Third he picks up.
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* AntiHero[=/=]VillainProtagonist: Renegade is very amoral and will anything to gain the upper-hand but cares deeply for his friends and does on some level want to do the right thing. Although this does get twisted [[spoiler: as he assimilated Sportsmaster and Bane, had the conspirators of "World Without Children" executed and funded a public campaign to humiliate the people behind Count Vertigo's exoneration to the point of the Light considering making him an offer.]]
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* AntiHero[=/=]VillainProtagonist: Renegade is very amoral and will anything to gain the upper-hand but cares deeply for his friends and does on some level want to do the right thing. Although this does get twisted [[spoiler: as he assimilated Sportsmaster and Bane, had the conspirators of "World Without Children" executed and funded a public campaign to humiliate the people behind Count Vertigo's exoneration to the point of the Light considering making him an offer.]]
** Takes to his trip to the Source Wall, he's slowly regaining himself from the Grayven mantle.
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* BreakTheHaughty
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* BreakTheHaughtyBreakTheHaughty: He believed that he could solo the Thangarian fleet with no problem. And learns the joy of Apokolipian version of kryptonite, Radon.
* DiscardAndDraw: When he was abducted by Justice Lord!Batman, his Orange Ring was left behind due to him deliberately turning himself in for killing Klarion. While in Earth 20, he picks up the late Sinestro's ring and becomes a Yellow Lantern.
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* SnowballLie: Took the mantle of Grayven to show off. Now he can never let down the act if he wants Earth not to crushed by Darkseid.
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* SnowballLie: Took the mantle of Grayven to show off.off and have a name. Now he can never let down the act if he wants Earth not to crushed by Darkseid.
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* RememberWhenYouBlewUpTheSun: Paul is frequently reminded of his past deeds in both positive and negative ways.
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* RememberWhenYouBlewUpTheSun: Paul is frequently reminded of his past deeds in both positive and negative ways. Most people know him as the "Cake-Man".
* RomanticWingman: After Kaldur ends up heartbroken over Tula, he arranges for a meeting with Dana to open him up at a french restaurant.
* RomanticWingman: After Kaldur ends up heartbroken over Tula, he arranges for a meeting with Dana to open him up at a french restaurant.
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** He refuses to refer to supervillians by their super names, as he believes that using their actual names takes away their mystique. Given his meta-knowledge he's able to surprise people with it, too.
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--->'''OL:''' Jack Napier.
--->'''OL:''' Who's next?
--->'''Robin:''' The Joker. Bet you don’t know-
--->'''OL:''' Jack Napier.
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* ObliviousToLove: Is unaware of Zatanna's attraction to him or how romantic his actions can seem. Justified in that he's attracted to women near his [[OlderThanHeLooks age group]] and [[spoiler:it turns out he used the ring to turn down his testosterone.]] He even notes that it makes perfect sense for Zatanna to love him given the circumstances, but it's not clear whether he realizes it's romantic love, not friendship.
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* ObliviousToLove: Is initially unaware of Zatanna's attraction to him or how romantic his actions can seem. Justified in that he's attracted to women near his [[OlderThanHeLooks age group]] and [[spoiler:it turns out he used the ring to turn down his testosterone.]] He even notes that it makes perfect sense for Zatanna to love him given the circumstances, but it's not clear whether circumstances. [[AvertedTrope He later reveals that he realizes it's romantic love, not friendship.knows that Zatanna is romantically attracted to him.]] He just denies it because she is too young for him and she's in a very vulnerable state.
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** 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.
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** 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. In the Renegade chapters, Grayen shorts out the ring by becoming too angry to use it.
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* TookALevelInCynicTookALevelInCynic: He starts losing faith in the League in its ability to actually do justice.
* BecomingTheMask: He was forced to become the watcher of the Young Offenders and his narration made it clear that he doesn't like nor trust any of them. But down the line, he genuinely grew to care for them and tries to be a supportive figure.
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* DramaPerservingHandicap: Despite to Hope being one of the more powerful of the Emotional Spectrum, he is limited due to having no battery to recharge from.
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* DramaPerservingHandicap: CompetenceZone: Unlike his good counterpart, he is still an adult and is severely outmatched by his charges in power. Although it's subverted while he's not powerful, he's very cunning and good at manipulation and give him enough hope to power himself...
* DramaPreservingHandicap: Despite to Hope being one of the more powerful of the Emotional Spectrum, he is limited due to having no battery to recharge from.
* DramaPreservingHandicap: Despite to Hope being one of the more powerful of the Emotional Spectrum, he is limited due to having no battery to recharge from.
* GoodPowersBadPeople: Paul is this, seeing as how he's a Made Man of Ultraman and part of an evil team, but 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.
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* GoodPowersBadPeople: Paul is this, seeing as how he's a Made Man of Ultraman and part of an evil team, but 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.
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* GoodPowersBadPeople: Paul is this, seeing as how he's a Made Man HypocriticalHeartwarming: His opinion of Ultraman and part of an evil team, the Young Offenders.
--> They're fuckwits, buthe'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.they're ''my'' fuckwits.
--> They're fuckwits, but
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* LesserofTwoEvilsLesserofTwoEvils: As the fall of the Crime Syndicate led to a horrible power vacuum, his goal is to make a more kinder, more pragmatic Syndicate.
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* OnlySaneEmployee: He is in charge of keeping the volatile Young Offenders in line and more or less responsible for raising them. Despite all of the Young Offenders being perfectley capable of killing him without breaking a sweat, he keeps the group together.
* OnlySaneEmployee: He is in charge of keeping the volatile Young Offenders in line and more or less responsible for raising them. Despite all of the Young Offenders being perfectley capable of killing him without breaking a sweat, he keeps the group together.
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* OnlySaneEmployee: He is in charge of keeping the volatile Young Offenders in line and more or less responsible for raising them. Despite all of the Young Offenders beingperfectley perfectly capable of killing him without breaking a sweat, he keeps the group together.
* OnlySaneEmployee: He is in charge of keeping the volatile Young Offenders in line and more or less responsible for raising them. Despite all of the Young Offenders being
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* PowerPerversionPotential: After dosing himself with Blockbuster, he found the ring could make up for the lack of sensation in his skin. So he went to Japan and formed an "ogre sex cult" with orange tentacles, with the women of Aichi Prefecture. With full consent, of course.
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* ObliviousToLove: Is unaware of Zatanna's attraction to him or how romantic his actions can seem. Justified in that he's attracted to women near his [[OlderThanHeLooks age group]] and
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* ObliviousToLove: Is unaware of Zatanna's attraction to him or how romantic his actions can seem. Justified in that he's attracted to women near his [[OlderThanHeLooks age group]] and [[spoiler:it turns out he used the ring to turn down his testosterone.]] He even notes that it makes perfect sense for Zatanna to love him given the circumstances, but it's not clear whether he realizes it's romantic love, not friendship.
** While having a chat with a gynoid, she kisses him, chastely, to see if it has any emotional resonance. It doesn't. He gets her flowers. That works.
** Artemis is shown to have at least some affection for Paul, and possibly so does her mother, after he helps her out. Note that on New Years, [[spoiler:both Artemis and Zatanna kissed him, which caused him to finally realize the latter's feelings for him weren't platonic.]]
** While having a chat with a gynoid, she kisses him, chastely, to see if it has any emotional resonance. It doesn't. He gets her flowers. That works.
** Artemis is shown to have at least some affection for Paul, and possibly so does her mother, after he helps her out. Note that on New Years, [[spoiler:both Artemis and Zatanna kissed him, which caused him to finally realize the latter's feelings for him weren't platonic.]]
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* OpenMouthInsertFoot: Has a bad habit of not thinking before speaking.
* BlessedWithSuck: He has the amazing versatile powers of a Blue Lantern that can recharge itself with ambient hope...but it is super slow which makes it difficult for him to actually uses his powers for anything outside an emergency.
* DramaPerservingHandicap: Despite to Hope being one of the more powerful of the Emotional Spectrum, he is limited due to having no battery to recharge from.
* DramaPerservingHandicap: Despite to Hope being one of the more powerful of the Emotional Spectrum, he is limited due to having no battery to recharge from.
* GoneHorriblyRight: He gives Ultraman personalized gold coins to appease him for beating up his made Men during his first outing. This confrontation ends up convincing Ultraman into recruiting him and to test his his mettle by putting him in charge of the Young Offenders.
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* KidWithTheLeash: He is this to the Young Offenders.
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse
* OnlySaneEmployee: He is in charge of keeping the volatile Young Offenders inline.line and more or less responsible for raising them. Despite all of the Young Offenders being perfectley capable of killing him without breaking a sweat, he keeps the group together.
* KidWithTheLeash: He is this to the Young Offenders.
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse
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* {{Irony}}: Earth 16 Paul is an Orange Lantern [[BadPowersGoodPeople which runs on greed, but he's a superhero.]] Earth-16 Paul is a Blue Lantern [[GoodPowersBadPeople which runs on hope, but is a supervillain.]]
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* {{Irony}}: Earth 16 Paul is an Orange Lantern [[BadPowersGoodPeople which runs on greed, but he's a superhero.]] Earth-16 Earth -14 Paul is a Blue Lantern [[GoodPowersBadPeople which runs on hope, but is a supervillain.]]
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* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: Notes that he proves that he's simply better than Larfleeze by getting out of bed very morning.
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* HourOfPower: His lantern battery has to recharge after he uses it due to it not being connected to the Orange Central Power Battery so if he uses too much power, he's powerless until next recharge. [[spoiler: Due to the Ophidian residing in the lantern, Paragon no longer has to deal with that.]]
* {{Geas}}: Is under one that makes him unable to say or think his own name. He figures out through trail-and-error that name is Paul in the Paragon timeline.
* {{Geas}}: Is under one that makes him unable to say or think his own name. He figures out through trail-and-error that name is Paul in the Paragon timeline.
** While Paul favors the rehabilitation of supervillains, he also advocates a more [[MurderIsTheBestSolution permanent solution]] for the supervillains who will not change and are active threat to everyone.
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* CelibateHero: Despite being attracted to women and Superboy, Paul does not seek out any romantic relationship and denies any romantic attraction when asked. Paul is simply too busy to have a relationship and most of his in-group are teenage girls, so they don't pike his interest.
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* CelibateHero: Despite being attracted to women and Superboy, Paul does not seek out any romantic relationship and denies any romantic attraction when asked. Paul is simply too busy to have a relationship and most of his in-group are teenage girls, so they don't pike his interest. interest.
* CharmPerson: [[spoiler: Post-Ophidian]] being around Paul will make people acknowledge their desires, whether they realize or not. This is a subconscious ability [[spoiler: due to having the Tempter as his soul]] that Paul does not purposely invoke.
* CharmPerson: [[spoiler: Post-Ophidian]] being around Paul will make people acknowledge their desires, whether they realize or not. This is a subconscious ability [[spoiler: due to having the Tempter as his soul]] that Paul does not purposely invoke.
* {{Geas}}[=/=]TongueTied: Is under one that makes him unable to say or think his own name. He figures out through trail-and-error that name is Paul in the Paragon timeline. It is not magically nor telepathically induced
** His desire to improve the lives of others can blind him to the troubles or controversy the topic brings up to the point he can be unintentionally offensive.
* HourOfPower: His lantern battery has to recharge after he uses it due to it not being connected to the Orange Central Power Battery so if he uses too much power, he's powerless until next recharge. [[spoiler: Due to the Ophidian residing in the lantern, Paragon no longer has to deal with that.]]
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* InnocentBigot: He can be pretty insensitive to the FantasticRacism that his nonhuman friends face.
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* NotSoAboveItAll: Despite being more mature and level-headed to most of the team barring Aqualad, he can be very immature and act the teenager he fakes being.
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* OrangeBlueContrast: Power Ring is Paul's EvilCounterpart and they are a Blue Lantern and Orange Lantern respectively.
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* BerserkButton: OL does not like people hurting his friends, it makes him murderous.
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** ClarkKenting annoys the heck out of them.
** OL does not like people hurting his friends, it makes him
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* TokenGoodTeammate: Has heroic tendencies.
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! B06-Orange Lantern 2814/Paul/Grayven/Power Ring
The Self-Insert protagonist of the story. He is originally a normal British DC fan before waking up in the [[WesternAnimation/YoungJustice Earth 16 universe]] with no idea how he got there with a power ring. He has various incarnations based on his moral alignment that all follow different storylines as a result.
[[folder: Tropes shared all incarnations]]
* AchillesHeel: Is extremely weak to magic.
* AmbiguouslyBi: OL has admitted he has (some kind of) feelings for [[{{Main/CloningBlues}} Superboy]], though he is still trying to make sense of them and determine whether they're anything beyond platonic. He's also commented on the attractiveness of several of the females around him. Given the ring influences him through his desire, further exploration of the matter is likely.
* AmbitionIsEvil: Subverted with Paragon but Zig-zagged with Renegade.
* AmbiguouslyGay: Reputation-wise, he started off as this, as no one could tell if he was interested in Superboy, or simply over-protective. Doesn't help that he never denies the rumors and sometimes plays along with them.
* AscendedFanboy: Was a massive fanboy for DC comics before ending up in the Young Justice universe and becoming a superhero himself.
* AwesomeButImpractical: His ring can do anything! Except not [[PowerGlows glow]]! (He can dim it though.) Which is why in his own words, "always fails at stealth."
* BadPowersGoodPeople: Due to being powered by Avarice, what he can do is determined by how much he wants it or how it benefits him. For example, he can easily heal people he's close to but for strangers he has to think how the act benefits him.
* BarrierWarrior: What OL often acts as, shielding his team mates and innocents from harm. Compared to a Green Lantern, he isn't that special since the barrier is only as strong as he wants it. But since most of his teammates are his friends he can be pretty effective.
* BerserkButton: OL does not like people hurting his friends, it makes him murderous.
* BlackSheep: Is considered odd for a superhero and is believed to be TheMole regardless of his alignment due the fact he spends time with known supervillains and for his polite proactiveness for Paragon and jerkassery for Renegade.
** In addition, his powerset makes him more suspect- he is literally powered by pure, unadulterated greed.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Downplayed, but since he always refers his teammates as "his" but usually doesn't mean anything by it. Due to his exposure to Orange Light, his morality is effected in major and subtle ways. See MoralMyopia.
** In a HeelRealization, Renegade realized that he has the most alien morality of the team.
** It's noted that the Orange Light has distorted Paul's romantic awareness. To him, brushing a girl's hair or giving her a massage is a sign of friendship and a way to increase their camaraderie as opposed to being romantic as he means nothing by it.
* BrokenPedestal: Grayven didn't have a high opinion in the first place but his remaining faith in the League is crushed at seeing their inaction and incompetence.
** Paul has faith in the League and thought the best of them and tried to change their weaker aspects of them himself. [[spoiler: He is absolutely horrified when he finds out that Nabu is added to the Justice League as a member and no one bothered to tell him or Zatanna.]]
* CatchPhrase: "Power rings are awesome."
* CharacterDevelopment: Both Paragon!OL and Renegade!OL develop in different ways.
* ClarkKenting: One of Paul's [[BerserkButton Berserk Buttons]]. He is constantly amazed that people are unable to figure out secret identities, or that Superheroes with such flimsy masks and costumes are surprised that he can figure it out so easily (when he doesn't know it from his old life, of course).
-->''Tiny mask! Tiny, tiny mask!''
* ColorCodedSecretIdentity: All of his civilian clothes have orange in them, though to be fair OL doesn't bother with a secret identity.
* CombatMedic: Due to the nature of his ring, he is the closest thing the team has to a medic since he focuses on his desire to make his teammates trust him more to heal them.
* CombatPragmatist: ''very much so.'' He prefers to disable his opponent before they even has any idea he's present, and if that's not possible, to disable them before they even realize they're hit--attacking from odd angles and through solid objects is a typical practice for him. He'll also employ more creative constructs, like a ring of high-powered sonic attacks that converge in the center--the target--for heavy damage against an otherwise-implacable foe. And even though [[CatchPhrase power rings are awesome]], he still caries a pistol around as a backup weapon and an advanced directed-energy weapon in his subspace pocket for use when his ring is running low on power. On top of all that, he wears custom-made armor into battle, underneath his far stronger construct armor, in case he's dealing with something that can counter his constructs or somehow hits him when he doesn't have his construct armor up. Those last few come in handy in Bialya, when his ring is running very low on power and has to fight the local military.
* FictionFiveHundred: Due to his gold and platinum mining on asteroids, OL is five times richer than the planet Earth.
* GRatedDrug: Passive magic has a tendency of making him high.
* {{Greed}}: His greed is his power.
* HellishPupils: Orange Lantern can use his connection to the Orange Light of Avarice to call upon a bit of the Ophidians power, allowing him to see a persons soul, and more specifically, what they desire. While doing so, his eyes turn into that of a snakes.
** When OL is feeling a ''lot'' of Avarice, his eyes turn into Orange Lantern Corps Symbols. It must also be noted, however, that this is a common trait shared by any who wield the Emotional Spectrum and are channeling one color particularly strongly (Green Lanterns having Lantern-shaped pupils, Yellow Lanterns having their corps' symbols in their eyes, etc.)
* HourOfPower: His lantern battery has to recharge after he uses it due to it not being connected to the Orange Central Power Battery so if he uses too much power, he's powerless until next recharge. [[spoiler: Due to the Ophidian residing in the lantern, Paragon no longer has to deal with that.]]
* {{Geas}}: Is under one that makes him unable to say or think his own name. He figures out through trail-and-error that name is Paul in the Paragon timeline.
* IAmVeryBritish: He speaks with Received Pronunciation accent due to being around Americans so long.
* IGaveMyWord: OL manages to convince Wonder Woman to give him Alan Scott's Green Lantern battery by swearing an oath on Gaea, which would give painful consequences if he breaks it. He swears that he will be under her authority and follow her order for a year within reason and will not voluntarily leave the star system.
* IKnowMortalKombat: OL previously played ''TimeCrisis'' and this factors into his gun training.
* LargeHam: Both OL are ready to break out in song when they feel like it, but Paul shows it far more often.
* MasterOfYourDomain: The Orange Lantern Ring allows the Narrator to completely manipulate his own body, along with the bodies of others.
* MindControl: Orange Lantern can take control of others by branding them the Orange Lantern sigil onto them, but Paul and Grayven have different variants on it.
** Grayven figured how to do it early on, but has less complete control over others.
** Paul could only do so by proxy after his enlightenment, the Ophidian is the one branding for him. His branding tends to give him total control and the branded are compelled to do or say what Paul wants.
* MistakenForGay: OL is constantly mistaken for gay by teammates and colleagues. It doesn't help that he never denies it and only goes along with it when asked.
* MoneyFetish: Inverted by Orange Lantern. He actually disdains fiat currency, and valuable metals are only useful in their utility, and in what he can get from others with it. His ring actually disintegrates any fiat currency he tries to use, since he subconsciously views it as less valuable than the precious metals.
* MoralMyopia: Due to his powers being affected by his desires and attachments, he simply doesn't care for the masses except in a oblique sense. Put hurt his teammates or friends? Then your crime is unforgivable. Compare his treatment of Klarion versus his treatment of Nabu.
** He cares for villains on a scale of how useful they are versus their connections to others.
* MrFanservice: Judging by Artemis and Zatanna's reactions to his looks, he's definitely easy on the eyes.
* NayTheist: Lantern, who was an Atheist before he came to the YJ universe... and remains so, despite meeting people who are either the children of or have had direct meetings with actual gods, such as Wonder Woman or Black Adam.
--> '''Orange Lantern''': Don’t ask me. I’m an atheist.
--> '''Teth Adom''': You.. do not believe.. at all?
--> '''Orange Lantern''': Just because they exist, that’s no reason to start believing in them.
* OlderThanHeLooks: OL is a grown adult that poses as a teenager. [[spoiler: He's actually 29, later 30.]]
* OnlyOneName: Both Paragon and Renegade only have one name due to being unable to speak or think their own name. Paul figured his out with Robin through process of elimination while Grayven took his name from someone else.
* OurSoulsAreDifferent: OL is naturally without a soul. This is a problem, as the soul is what protects people from magic. Without one, even a novice magic user can trivially incapacitate him.
* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: Notes that he proves that he's simply better than Larfleeze by getting out of bed very morning.
* PopCulturedBadass: Was a massive geek before coming a superhero.
* PowerAtAPrice: The Orange Lantern Ring gives OL a very flexible powerset, but he risks mental corruption if he doesn't meditate on his desires.
* PowerGlows: When his ring is active, he and his armor glow.
* PsychicPowers: Orange Lantern displays a variant of it.
** Renegade has very powerful and very effective anti-psychic defenses and techniques that he learned from Manchester Black. It is every effectively used on M'gann to break out of the training simulation.
** Paragon is noted to be sensitive and a natural to telepathy. He can send images and tactile sensations through the PsychicLink.
* PsychoactivePowers: In general, since his constructs' strength are determined by avarice, he 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.
** 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.
* RealMenWearPink: Is constantly cooking and baking sweets for the team, it's how he bonded with M'gann.
* RingOfPower: The source of his power and the premise of the story.
* SanityHasAdvantages: Its the only reason OL has not turned insane due to the ring.
* SecretIdentity: Averted, OL has no civilian identity and refused one when attempted to be given one.
* SecretSecretKeeper: Knows everyone's secret identities due to his comic book knowledge.
* SchizoTech: Both [=OLs=] make use of it and have their own pieces.
** Paragon has Trugg's phasing gun and a flight belt.
** Renegade has the [[MagicalComputer Father Box]]
* SigilSpam: He puts the Orange Lantern sigil on everything he wears.
* SixthRanger: Initially was this in his introduction, he's even number B06 in his designation.
* TheStrategist: OL's primary role in the team, he's the largely solves problems with diplomancy or tactics. Exemplified when he gets angry at the rest of the team for trying to fight Mr.Twister and Clayface without regard to strategy or regard to their abilities..
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Paragon Paul and Renegade Grayven.
* SmugSuper: OL tends look down on people without powers and see himself as superior due to his powers.
** For Paragon, this was toned down after experiencing defeat himself and it shows itself.
** For Renegade, this makes him smug and overconfident as very little can hurt him.
* SuperheroPackingHeat: OL carries both a laser pistol and a very high-power handgun when the situation happens that left him either powerless without his ring or something that is "ring proof". OL cites his justification on how the mainstream Green Lantern [[http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Jack_T._Chance_(New_Earth) Jack Chance]] also carry a gun.
* 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.
* TheReliableOne: Both [=OLs=] are consistently the most competent hero around and are always doing background work: such as researching or reverse engineering technology for the team to use. He's the one teammates go for advice or emotional support and tries to help them in his own way. He researches the background and keeps track of criminals and consistently keeps a level head.
* WeakButSkilled: OL's constructs are far weaker than those of Green Lanterns, since he lacks formal training and he can't exert as much raw desire as they do will without risking going insane, but he compensates by being far more creative with their use and outside-the-box in his thinking.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatPerks: Due to nature of his ring, he is supposed to use it to enrich his own life. One of the first things he did was make him physically fit and attractive and mine asteroids for gold and platinum.
* YourSoulIsMine: His Identity Theft ability kills someone and turns the soul into a construct made of Orange Light subservient to the ring-wearer. Both use it sparingly but Paragon and Renegade use it differently.
** Renegade prefers to use on [[AssholeVictim supervillains who attacked him]] and as a threat to show villains that he's not pushing around.
** Paragon only used it less-saptient creatures and his constructs are a cat and a demon who's intelligence is less than a monkey. [[spoiler: The exception is the construct of Dr.Morrow who made into construct by Truggs.]]
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!Tropes Unique to Paragon!OL/Paul:
* AnimalMotifs: Has a strong association with snakes is called "Snake-Eyes" or the snake charmer.
* AntiMagic: Wears a Spell-Eater, an amulet made to absorb magic and allows him to tank magical hits.
* BadassCreed:
-->''"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!"''
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Is known to be very polite to everyone and tries to solve problems diplomatically. If someone pisses him off, ''watch out.''
** This is exemplified in two ways: when he believes he accidentally killed Clayface, he uses his ring to find Talia al Ghul, track down Ra's al Ghul, kill him, find and steal his Lazarus Pit and data-mine Infinity Island. This takes the League aback as they had no idea what Paul was capable of and ran on the assumption that he was like a Green Lantern but a different color.
** The [[spoiler: Ophidian incident]] shows what lengths Paul will go to win when he becomes absolutely desperate.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: How the public and other heroes tend to see OL. He known a competent and powerful superhero but he also does strange stunts such as listening to K-Pop immediately after stopping missiles from attacking a missile crisis. Or make a humongous cake to give out to people.
* CelibateHero: Despite being attracted to women and Superboy, Paul does not seek out any romantic relationship and denies any romantic attraction when asked. Paul is simply too busy to have a relationship and most of his in-group are teenage girls, so they don't pike his interest.
* CondescendingCompassion: He purposely acts like this toward Red Arrow, saying that he would given him the Crumbling Arrows if he had asked instead of being a lone wolf.
* CrazyEnoughToWork: Many of his plans come off as this. When a [=LexCorp=] lab is overrun by animal experiments? Call Lex Luthor himself to prevent the situation from happening again. Fighting a psychotic, sadistic magical FlyingBrick? Convince the dead hero powering the FlyingBrick to fight back leading to the Gods judging their worthiness. Bane about to kill him? Contact the man's biological father.
* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: As a method of last resort, Paul can become the Host of the Ophidian. Doing so can give him the power of a PhysicalGod, but at great cost to his sanity.
* [[spoiler: EnlightenmentSuperPowers: when he accepts himself for all his good and bad and accepts his baser desires, he gains Orange Enlightenment. Which means the Orange Light can no longer mentally corrupt him, he no longer has an [[AchillesHeel extreme weakness to magic]], gained a soul and can use his ring more easily.]]
* EideticMemory: Uses the ring to improve his memory and uses to remember the pop culture he loves and the things he studied. Although he loses it when he's not wearing the ring.
* GoodIsNotSoft: While Paul is always open to negotiation and is nicer than his Renegade counterpart, Paul does not mess around:
** He cut off Ocean Master's hands.
** He temporarily killed Ra's al Ghul.
** He unintentionally had Black Adam's soul eaten to free Teth Adom.
** He attempted to kill Klarion the first chance he got and when that failed, attempted to shoot him.
** He is willing to kill Nabu to free Zatara.
** He is also not above intimidating someone who angers him, as his initial introduction to Holly shows.
* GuileHero: Paul tends to use his head to think his way out of problems that his ring can't fix. Paul uses his knowledge to get out of bad situations and sought to change the Team and Justice League by gaining influence. So far, he has succeeded.
* FatalFlaw: He tends to assume that people are more competent than they are, which can blind him to potential problems or leads him excuse them for their actions.
* HopeBringer: He's this to several people in particular, Alan Scott, Paula Nguyen, Superboy, Holly Robinson and Teth Adom.
* HumanoidAbomination: He was already one due to the fact that he survives without a soul, something impossible to the universe's metaphysics. He becomes more of one [[spoiler: when he reaches Orange Enlightenment and gets the Ophidian's heart as his new soul.]]
* IAmWhatIAm: In order to break off his [[FusionDance fusion]] to [[spoiler: the Ophidian]], he had to face his worst and most base desire. He faces them and accepts them as he realizes accepting them means he can accept his better self.
* InnocentBigot: He can be pretty insensitive to the FantasticRacism that his nonhuman friends face.
* InsistentTerminology: OL calls Teth Adom as "Mighty One" to respect his title as a former pharaoh.
** Always introduces himself as "Orange Lantern Two Eight One Four" so people won't think that he's the only Orange Lantern.
* InsufferableGenius: [[DownplayedTrope While he's smart he's not a genius. Although he can be very stubborn when he thinks he's in the right.]] He started to tone this down so he can better sway people that his way is right.
* InternalReformist: He tries changing problematic aspects of the Team and the Justice League from the inside. For example, he sought out magic-users to report to Batman as potentials. He also seeks to solve the lack of diversity in the League and to fill needed niches.
* KidWithTheLeash: Forms this dynamic with the [[spoiler: Ophidian.]]
* KindHeartedCatLover: Loves cats and was sad that the base was too dangerous to keep a cat. Managed to assimilate Teekl through his love of cats.
* MagneticHero: Paul makes friends with a lot of people; the Team, the League, London's magic circle, Atlantis' magical elite and the supervillains he's attempting to reform.
* MindHug: Through M'gann's PsychicLink, he's very good at giving these. Through the link, he can send images, emotions or tactile sensations through. He often uses it to send feelings of assurance and give others a mental hug.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Despite being more mature and level-headed to most of the team barring Aqualad, he can be very immature and act the teenager he fakes being.
* NumberTwo: Is the second-in-command after Aqualad and is put in charge when Aqualad is not around. He even notes it.
-->'''Miss Martian''': You were keeping us all organised during the mission.
-->'''Orange Lantern''': That was coordination, not leadership. It really isn't the same thing, and I wasn't even doing that once the fighting started. Our team leader needs to be able to direct people during combat, and I just go all 'Mine!' and lose perspective
* ObliviousToLove: Is unaware of Zatanna's attraction to him or how romantic his actions can seem. Justified in that he's attracted to women near his [[OlderThanHeLooks age group]] and
* OpenMouthInsertFoot:
* OurSoulsAreDifferent: After [[spoiler: the Ophidian]] episode, he's managed to acquire one... somehow. [[spoiler: WordOfGod states that his new soul is actually the Ophidian's heart.]]
* PoliteVillainsRudeHeroes: Subverted by OL, he always remains polite to villains despite knowing who they are as he thinks it would be his detriment. Lex Luthor finds his attitude refreshing.
* PsychicRadar: He can use his [[TheEmpath Empath]] abilities to track down individual people over a large area.
* RememberWhenYouBlewUpTheSun: Paul is frequently reminded of his past deeds in both positive and negative ways.
* SecretKeeper: He's the only one that knows that M'gann is a White Martian.
* ShamelessFanserviceGuy: Eager for a chance to show off himself.
* SheepInSheepsClothing: This guy has supervillain powers and no confirmed past beyond his own word, yet he still helps the Team and the League in every way he can. [[spoiler: Even when fused with the Ophidian, all he does is help people.]]
* SpannerInTheWorks: To the Light, regardless of alignment.
* SuperiorSuccessor: Paul is this compared to Larfleeze for the [[spoiler: Ophidian]]. Paul is sane enough to not suffer the mentally corruptive effects of the Orange Light but controls his Avarice with prioritization and acknowledgement of it. Paul freed [[spoiler: the Ophidian]] from Larfleeze, who [[spoiler: she]] despises and is planning to form an Orange Lantern Corps, [[spoiler: which the Ophidian also desires.]] Plus, unlike Larfleeze Paul actually wants the Orange Light and gets angry whenever he's separated from it.
** He's the new [[spoiler: Agent Orange.]]
* TeamMom: A male example. While he views the Team and talks to them as friends, he tends to the most responsible of all of them. Because of Paul's influence, the Team came together much earlier than canon due to his emotional influence and his enforcement of communication.
* TheAntiNihilist: Is very aware his worst desires and the corruptive power of the Orange Light of Avarice knows that he is or eventually will go crazy. He accepts his desires good and bad in order to help others.
* TheConsigliere: OL functions as one to Aqualad due to his GenreSavvy and is more tactical thinker than him.
* TheEmpath: With the Ophidian's Eyes, he can see people's desires. After Orange Enlightenment, he can see the emotions of others according to the Emotional Spectrum of Power.
* TheFace[=/=]TheSocialExpert: Paul is the most socially savvy of the Team and serves as the negotiator. He has a long list of friends and allies willing to help him if asked. Heck, he even gets people who only him by reputation such as The Shade and the Swamp Thing to help him out.
* TheNicknamer: Inverted, he refuses to call anyone by their nickname or alias. He's starting to let up though as he calls Firebrand "Danni", Cornwall Boy "Rob" and calls Psimon by his alias.
* TheParagon: It's his alignment.
* UnclePennybags: Gives Holly Robinson an extremely well-paying job and house to get her out of crime. Gets Jade Lex Luthor's defense team. He constantly gives his friends gifts of armor, weapons and other stuff.
* WideEyedIdealist: Downplayed. While he has more faith in the Justice League and in authority figures than they deserve, its often because he has other things to worry about.
* WrongGenreSavvy
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[[folder: Renegade!Orange Lantern/Grayven]]
* AntiHero[=/=]VillainProtagonist: Renegade is very amoral and will anything to gain the upper-hand but cares deeply for his friends and does on some level want to do the right thing. Although this does get twisted [[spoiler: as he assimilated Sportsmaster and Bane, had the conspirators of "World Without Children" executed and funded a public campaign to humiliate the people behind Count Vertigo's exoneration to the point of the Light considering making him an offer.]]
* BadassCreed:
-->''"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'''!"''
* BecomingTheBoast: Called himself Grayven as a means of showing off.
* BecomingTheMask: Initially assumed the name of Grayven to make a point. He eventually becomes a New God himself and fully assumes the Grayven persona and history, to the point he calls Darkseid, "father."
* BelievingTheirOwnLies: He has to if he doesn't want Darkseid to kill him and everyone he loves.
* BeneathTheMask: Knows fully well that he isn't the actual Grayven but is terrified of what would Darkseid would do to him and his friends if he finds out.
* BreakTheHaughty
* CosmicRetcon: While unaware of it, his memory is slowly getting rewritten to fit the actual Grayven's memories. To the point that he has extremely detailed memories of Grayven and his family of which he shouldn't be capable of knowing about.
* FatalFlaw: He is very prideful of himself and plays with fire with very dangerous people and actions.
* GodGuise: Renegrade!OL is mistaken for a god by Apokolipian criminals.
** To be fair, the reasons for this are that the Orange Light "Feels" Apokolipian, and in the Renegade Omakes he physically resembles Grayven, one of Darkseid's sons.
* GoodIsNotNice: He works for the good guys but not much of a nice person.
* HairTriggerTemper: He has a terrible temper and gets angry very easily. [[spoiler: Wonder Woman makes go to anger management classes to deal with it.]]
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Is unafraid to get his hands dirty to say the least.
* IdenticalStranger[=/=]StrongFamilyResemblance: He has a strong physical resemblance to Darkseid, which Grayven uses to pass as his son.
* {{Jerkass}}: He is a colossal asshole to those that are not Cheshire, Superboy or M'Gann.
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: But he cares deeply to those he cares about and to those who bring his massive ego down a beg.
* JerkassHasAPoint: He's a massive jerk that has no faith in ''anyone'' but often people are grabbing the IdiotBall and holding it tight.
* LackOfEmpathy: Does not care for anyone outside of his in-group.
* MeaningfulRename: [[ForWantOfANail Due to trusting his teammates less]] Renegade!OL didn't know his original name was. Having to no name for others or himself to call him by he begins to call himself Grayven after the Forever People mistake him for the actual Grayven.
* MightMakesRight: Believes that his power gives him the right to do whatever he thinks as necessary.
* MoralityChain[=/=]MoralityPet: Despite the fiction between some teammates, Grayven does genuinely look for his teammates and tries to help them anyway he can as he does not trust others to do them right.
* PetTheDog: He gives Kon a bunch of literature and information on Krypton and finds another surviving Kryptonian, Karsta Wor-Ul for him to talk to.
* NighInvulnerability: Is very hardy to due to giving himself Venom-Buster.
* PhysicalGod: He becomes a New God himself.
* {{Pride}}: Becoming a New God gave him a considerable boost to his ego and he views himself as superior to everyone. This is because he has to act like the actual God of Conquest, who was actually that arrogant.
* RelationshipUpgrade: With Jade from informants to fake lovers to actual lovers to getting engaged.
* ReverseMole: He infiltrates the League of Shadows [[spoiler: he also becomes a member of the Light]] to infiltrate for the League.
* TheSmartGuy: He constantly raids everyone else's databases to supplement his own. Due to his raiding of the Fortress of Solitude's database, he knows far more about Krypton than Superman does [[spoiler: including the other forms of Kryptonite.]]
* SmugSuper: He believes himself to be as strong or stronger than '''Ares!'''
* SnowballLie: Took the mantle of Grayven to show off. Now he can never let down the act if he wants Earth not to crushed by Darkseid.
* SuperStrength: Is very physically strong.
* TheBigGuy: He is very tall and muscular due to giving himself Venom-Buster.
* TheCynic: He has very little faith in other people and trusts few. While this prevented him to bonding to the team as close as Paul is, but this means he can be very proactive since he doesn't believe will do it or do it right.
* TheReliableOne: While he's a huge jerk, he can be relied upon because he has no faith in people.
* TokenEvilTeammate: He admits that he is so.
* TookALevelInCynic
* WhatTheHellHero: Robin calls him out on his actions with the Forever People.
* {{Yandere}}: He doesn't '''like''' Superman for his treatment of Conner nor does he remotely respect him. [[spoiler: He outright messes with Superman after the latter gets temporarily gets depowered by Golden Kryptonite and threatens him when Wonder Woman wasn't listening.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Power Ring/Paul]]
The villainous variant of the Self-Insert in the Crime Syndicate Universe of Earth -16
* AntiVillain: He is a Made Man of Ultraman and a member of the Young Offenders, but he has never killed anyone (which makes him more suspicious around his peers) and is an acquaintance of the Justice Underground. However, he doesn't intend to turn against the Syndicate.
* EmotionEater: Since he doesn't have a power lantern, he charges his ring through the latent hope in the atmosphere...which causes him to be a...
* HopeBringer: A villainous variant, as he raises the hope of those around him for his own ends.
* GoodPowersBadPeople: Paul is this, seeing as how he's a Made Man of Ultraman and part of an evil team, but 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.
* {{Irony}}: Earth 16 Paul is an Orange Lantern [[BadPowersGoodPeople which runs on greed, but he's a superhero.]] Earth-16 Paul is a Blue Lantern [[GoodPowersBadPeople which runs on hope, but is a supervillain.]]
* OnlySaneEmployee: He is in charge of keeping the volatile Young Offenders in line.
* RingOfPower: He uses a Blue Power Ring instead of Orange.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Power Ring hasn't murdered anyone until Emperor Rickard, who is the first man he has ever killed.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Host of the Ophidian/[[spoiler: Paulphidian]] ]]
A desperate measure by Paul GoneHorriblyRight
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Seeing how their respective moralities have merged...
* DemonicPossession: Averted, [[spoiler: the Ophidian]] is not a demon and their possession is more of a fusion.
* {{Greed}}: Well, duh
* EleventhHourSuperpower: They are a method of last resort and everyone wants them to stay that way.
* FusionDance:[[spoiler: Paul willingly merges with the Ophidian in Contingency due wanting the power to save his friends more than he wanted to remain himself. Paul gets the power of a Physical God 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.]]
* GodzillaThreshold: They came to be when Paul was so desperate to save his friends, [[spoiler: that Paul merged with the Ophidian in order to turn the tides.]] They are noted by Paul and the team to be used as a method of last resort if things truly get bad.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Paul knew that summoning the Ophidian would deform him mentally and had a high chance of failing. But he did not expect to how well the summoning would succeed and how well he and the Ophidian gelled together.
* [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy I Want My Friends to be Happy]]: All they want is their friends to be happy, unfortunately their friends would rather have them gone.
* LackOfEmpathy: [[spoiler: Paulphidan ]]cannot understand why his friends are so upset about their merging and seem so listless after seeing themselves die in a horrible scenario. They cannot feel nor answer any emotion besides greed and the attempt baffles them. Their understanding of humans were so poor that he didn't understand that the things they tried to tempt the Green Lanterns with were pretty horrible.
* PoisonousFriend: [[spoiler: In crossing of the Ophidian's nature as the Tempter and Paul's natural desire to help his friends and humanity,]] they become this. They try to improve the lives of his friends and help the Justice League. Their methods leave much to be desired.
* PhysicalGod: Has the power of a pagan god in the words of Father Mattias.
* [[spoiler: PowersViaPossession: They get their abilities of the people they are possessing.]]
* PsychopathicManchild: They are like a small child: has little to no impulse control, no patience, no sense of time, scale or progress. They see things in a very literal manner. They also have the power of a PhysicalGod.
* RealityWarper: They can do '''anything''' they set their mind to. He could heal a woman's osteroporosis with a thought. He finds a man's SecretIdentity by scanning an entire country for a DNA match without ever leaving the room or breaking the conversation. He could turn the moon so the other side could face the Earth without causing global side effects. He spied on the entire world simultaneously to destroy the League of Shadows. He causes a quantum singularity to make Nth metal for a suit of armor. Everyone is woefully outmatched by him and have to try different methods to stop him.
* [[spoiler: RoyalWe: refers to themselves as we as they find it more honest since they're a FusionDance of the Ophidian and Paul. Although they also address themselves in the Third-Person Person when they address emotions or actions one of them did.]]
* [[spoiler: SanityHasAdvantages: To Paul's credit, during the initial fusion they remained sane and still were stable and did not become a monster that cared only for their immediate wants and nothing else. Even at their absolute lowest, they still cared for their friends and cherished the individuality of complete strangers.]]
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler: The longer the fusion went and]] the more their friends rejected them, the more they became unstable.
* SelfInflictedHell: They have the power to do anything they desire and their greatest desire is to make their friends happy. Their friends on whole do everything to reject him.
* SkewedPriorities: Every single desire of the friends or themselves is weighed with equal importance.
* [[spoiler: SymbioticPossession: Paul gets the power of a god and the freedom to do what he wants from the Ophidian. From Paul, 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.]]
* TheDreaded: No one wants them showing and for good reason.
* TragicMonster: All they want is to make their friends happy and accept their help. Unfortunately all their friends reject them, for good reason.
* VerbalTic: They call themselves "we" except in referring to individual experiences.
* [[spoiler: WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Zigzagged while they are not insane in the comparison to the Ophidian, he more or less loss any semblance of common sense in the process.]]
* WalkingSpoiler
[[/folder]]
The Self-Insert protagonist of the story. He is originally a normal British DC fan before waking up in the [[WesternAnimation/YoungJustice Earth 16 universe]] with no idea how he got there with a power ring. He has various incarnations based on his moral alignment that all follow different storylines as a result.
[[folder: Tropes shared all incarnations]]
* AchillesHeel: Is extremely weak to magic.
* AmbiguouslyBi: OL has admitted he has (some kind of) feelings for [[{{Main/CloningBlues}} Superboy]], though he is still trying to make sense of them and determine whether they're anything beyond platonic. He's also commented on the attractiveness of several of the females around him. Given the ring influences him through his desire, further exploration of the matter is likely.
* AmbitionIsEvil: Subverted with Paragon but Zig-zagged with Renegade.
* AmbiguouslyGay: Reputation-wise, he started off as this, as no one could tell if he was interested in Superboy, or simply over-protective. Doesn't help that he never denies the rumors and sometimes plays along with them.
* AscendedFanboy: Was a massive fanboy for DC comics before ending up in the Young Justice universe and becoming a superhero himself.
* AwesomeButImpractical: His ring can do anything! Except not [[PowerGlows glow]]! (He can dim it though.) Which is why in his own words, "always fails at stealth."
* BadPowersGoodPeople: Due to being powered by Avarice, what he can do is determined by how much he wants it or how it benefits him. For example, he can easily heal people he's close to but for strangers he has to think how the act benefits him.
* BarrierWarrior: What OL often acts as, shielding his team mates and innocents from harm. Compared to a Green Lantern, he isn't that special since the barrier is only as strong as he wants it. But since most of his teammates are his friends he can be pretty effective.
* BerserkButton: OL does not like people hurting his friends, it makes him murderous.
* BlackSheep: Is considered odd for a superhero and is believed to be TheMole regardless of his alignment due the fact he spends time with known supervillains and for his polite proactiveness for Paragon and jerkassery for Renegade.
** In addition, his powerset makes him more suspect- he is literally powered by pure, unadulterated greed.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Downplayed, but since he always refers his teammates as "his" but usually doesn't mean anything by it. Due to his exposure to Orange Light, his morality is effected in major and subtle ways. See MoralMyopia.
** In a HeelRealization, Renegade realized that he has the most alien morality of the team.
** It's noted that the Orange Light has distorted Paul's romantic awareness. To him, brushing a girl's hair or giving her a massage is a sign of friendship and a way to increase their camaraderie as opposed to being romantic as he means nothing by it.
* BrokenPedestal: Grayven didn't have a high opinion in the first place but his remaining faith in the League is crushed at seeing their inaction and incompetence.
** Paul has faith in the League and thought the best of them and tried to change their weaker aspects of them himself. [[spoiler: He is absolutely horrified when he finds out that Nabu is added to the Justice League as a member and no one bothered to tell him or Zatanna.]]
* CatchPhrase: "Power rings are awesome."
* CharacterDevelopment: Both Paragon!OL and Renegade!OL develop in different ways.
* ClarkKenting: One of Paul's [[BerserkButton Berserk Buttons]]. He is constantly amazed that people are unable to figure out secret identities, or that Superheroes with such flimsy masks and costumes are surprised that he can figure it out so easily (when he doesn't know it from his old life, of course).
-->''Tiny mask! Tiny, tiny mask!''
* ColorCodedSecretIdentity: All of his civilian clothes have orange in them, though to be fair OL doesn't bother with a secret identity.
* CombatMedic: Due to the nature of his ring, he is the closest thing the team has to a medic since he focuses on his desire to make his teammates trust him more to heal them.
* CombatPragmatist: ''very much so.'' He prefers to disable his opponent before they even has any idea he's present, and if that's not possible, to disable them before they even realize they're hit--attacking from odd angles and through solid objects is a typical practice for him. He'll also employ more creative constructs, like a ring of high-powered sonic attacks that converge in the center--the target--for heavy damage against an otherwise-implacable foe. And even though [[CatchPhrase power rings are awesome]], he still caries a pistol around as a backup weapon and an advanced directed-energy weapon in his subspace pocket for use when his ring is running low on power. On top of all that, he wears custom-made armor into battle, underneath his far stronger construct armor, in case he's dealing with something that can counter his constructs or somehow hits him when he doesn't have his construct armor up. Those last few come in handy in Bialya, when his ring is running very low on power and has to fight the local military.
* FictionFiveHundred: Due to his gold and platinum mining on asteroids, OL is five times richer than the planet Earth.
* GRatedDrug: Passive magic has a tendency of making him high.
* {{Greed}}: His greed is his power.
* HellishPupils: Orange Lantern can use his connection to the Orange Light of Avarice to call upon a bit of the Ophidians power, allowing him to see a persons soul, and more specifically, what they desire. While doing so, his eyes turn into that of a snakes.
** When OL is feeling a ''lot'' of Avarice, his eyes turn into Orange Lantern Corps Symbols. It must also be noted, however, that this is a common trait shared by any who wield the Emotional Spectrum and are channeling one color particularly strongly (Green Lanterns having Lantern-shaped pupils, Yellow Lanterns having their corps' symbols in their eyes, etc.)
* HourOfPower: His lantern battery has to recharge after he uses it due to it not being connected to the Orange Central Power Battery so if he uses too much power, he's powerless until next recharge. [[spoiler: Due to the Ophidian residing in the lantern, Paragon no longer has to deal with that.]]
* {{Geas}}: Is under one that makes him unable to say or think his own name. He figures out through trail-and-error that name is Paul in the Paragon timeline.
* IAmVeryBritish: He speaks with Received Pronunciation accent due to being around Americans so long.
* IGaveMyWord: OL manages to convince Wonder Woman to give him Alan Scott's Green Lantern battery by swearing an oath on Gaea, which would give painful consequences if he breaks it. He swears that he will be under her authority and follow her order for a year within reason and will not voluntarily leave the star system.
* IKnowMortalKombat: OL previously played ''TimeCrisis'' and this factors into his gun training.
* LargeHam: Both OL are ready to break out in song when they feel like it, but Paul shows it far more often.
* MasterOfYourDomain: The Orange Lantern Ring allows the Narrator to completely manipulate his own body, along with the bodies of others.
* MindControl: Orange Lantern can take control of others by branding them the Orange Lantern sigil onto them, but Paul and Grayven have different variants on it.
** Grayven figured how to do it early on, but has less complete control over others.
** Paul could only do so by proxy after his enlightenment, the Ophidian is the one branding for him. His branding tends to give him total control and the branded are compelled to do or say what Paul wants.
* MistakenForGay: OL is constantly mistaken for gay by teammates and colleagues. It doesn't help that he never denies it and only goes along with it when asked.
* MoneyFetish: Inverted by Orange Lantern. He actually disdains fiat currency, and valuable metals are only useful in their utility, and in what he can get from others with it. His ring actually disintegrates any fiat currency he tries to use, since he subconsciously views it as less valuable than the precious metals.
* MoralMyopia: Due to his powers being affected by his desires and attachments, he simply doesn't care for the masses except in a oblique sense. Put hurt his teammates or friends? Then your crime is unforgivable. Compare his treatment of Klarion versus his treatment of Nabu.
** He cares for villains on a scale of how useful they are versus their connections to others.
* MrFanservice: Judging by Artemis and Zatanna's reactions to his looks, he's definitely easy on the eyes.
* NayTheist: Lantern, who was an Atheist before he came to the YJ universe... and remains so, despite meeting people who are either the children of or have had direct meetings with actual gods, such as Wonder Woman or Black Adam.
--> '''Orange Lantern''': Don’t ask me. I’m an atheist.
--> '''Teth Adom''': You.. do not believe.. at all?
--> '''Orange Lantern''': Just because they exist, that’s no reason to start believing in them.
* OlderThanHeLooks: OL is a grown adult that poses as a teenager. [[spoiler: He's actually 29, later 30.]]
* OnlyOneName: Both Paragon and Renegade only have one name due to being unable to speak or think their own name. Paul figured his out with Robin through process of elimination while Grayven took his name from someone else.
* OurSoulsAreDifferent: OL is naturally without a soul. This is a problem, as the soul is what protects people from magic. Without one, even a novice magic user can trivially incapacitate him.
* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: Notes that he proves that he's simply better than Larfleeze by getting out of bed very morning.
* PopCulturedBadass: Was a massive geek before coming a superhero.
* PowerAtAPrice: The Orange Lantern Ring gives OL a very flexible powerset, but he risks mental corruption if he doesn't meditate on his desires.
* PowerGlows: When his ring is active, he and his armor glow.
* PsychicPowers: Orange Lantern displays a variant of it.
** Renegade has very powerful and very effective anti-psychic defenses and techniques that he learned from Manchester Black. It is every effectively used on M'gann to break out of the training simulation.
** Paragon is noted to be sensitive and a natural to telepathy. He can send images and tactile sensations through the PsychicLink.
* PsychoactivePowers: In general, since his constructs' strength are determined by avarice, he 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.
** 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.
* RealMenWearPink: Is constantly cooking and baking sweets for the team, it's how he bonded with M'gann.
* RingOfPower: The source of his power and the premise of the story.
* SanityHasAdvantages: Its the only reason OL has not turned insane due to the ring.
* SecretIdentity: Averted, OL has no civilian identity and refused one when attempted to be given one.
* SecretSecretKeeper: Knows everyone's secret identities due to his comic book knowledge.
* SchizoTech: Both [=OLs=] make use of it and have their own pieces.
** Paragon has Trugg's phasing gun and a flight belt.
** Renegade has the [[MagicalComputer Father Box]]
* SigilSpam: He puts the Orange Lantern sigil on everything he wears.
* SixthRanger: Initially was this in his introduction, he's even number B06 in his designation.
* TheStrategist: OL's primary role in the team, he's the largely solves problems with diplomancy or tactics. Exemplified when he gets angry at the rest of the team for trying to fight Mr.Twister and Clayface without regard to strategy or regard to their abilities..
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Paragon Paul and Renegade Grayven.
* SmugSuper: OL tends look down on people without powers and see himself as superior due to his powers.
** For Paragon, this was toned down after experiencing defeat himself and it shows itself.
** For Renegade, this makes him smug and overconfident as very little can hurt him.
* SuperheroPackingHeat: OL carries both a laser pistol and a very high-power handgun when the situation happens that left him either powerless without his ring or something that is "ring proof". OL cites his justification on how the mainstream Green Lantern [[http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Jack_T._Chance_(New_Earth) Jack Chance]] also carry a gun.
* 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.
* TheReliableOne: Both [=OLs=] are consistently the most competent hero around and are always doing background work: such as researching or reverse engineering technology for the team to use. He's the one teammates go for advice or emotional support and tries to help them in his own way. He researches the background and keeps track of criminals and consistently keeps a level head.
* WeakButSkilled: OL's constructs are far weaker than those of Green Lanterns, since he lacks formal training and he can't exert as much raw desire as they do will without risking going insane, but he compensates by being far more creative with their use and outside-the-box in his thinking.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatPerks: Due to nature of his ring, he is supposed to use it to enrich his own life. One of the first things he did was make him physically fit and attractive and mine asteroids for gold and platinum.
* YourSoulIsMine: His Identity Theft ability kills someone and turns the soul into a construct made of Orange Light subservient to the ring-wearer. Both use it sparingly but Paragon and Renegade use it differently.
** Renegade prefers to use on [[AssholeVictim supervillains who attacked him]] and as a threat to show villains that he's not pushing around.
** Paragon only used it less-saptient creatures and his constructs are a cat and a demon who's intelligence is less than a monkey. [[spoiler: The exception is the construct of Dr.Morrow who made into construct by Truggs.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Paragon!Orange Lantern/Paul/Orange Lantern 2814/[[spoiler: Agent Orange]] ]]
!Tropes Unique to Paragon!OL/Paul:
* AnimalMotifs: Has a strong association with snakes is called "Snake-Eyes" or the snake charmer.
* AntiMagic: Wears a Spell-Eater, an amulet made to absorb magic and allows him to tank magical hits.
* BadassCreed:
-->''"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!"''
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Is known to be very polite to everyone and tries to solve problems diplomatically. If someone pisses him off, ''watch out.''
** This is exemplified in two ways: when he believes he accidentally killed Clayface, he uses his ring to find Talia al Ghul, track down Ra's al Ghul, kill him, find and steal his Lazarus Pit and data-mine Infinity Island. This takes the League aback as they had no idea what Paul was capable of and ran on the assumption that he was like a Green Lantern but a different color.
** The [[spoiler: Ophidian incident]] shows what lengths Paul will go to win when he becomes absolutely desperate.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: How the public and other heroes tend to see OL. He known a competent and powerful superhero but he also does strange stunts such as listening to K-Pop immediately after stopping missiles from attacking a missile crisis. Or make a humongous cake to give out to people.
* CelibateHero: Despite being attracted to women and Superboy, Paul does not seek out any romantic relationship and denies any romantic attraction when asked. Paul is simply too busy to have a relationship and most of his in-group are teenage girls, so they don't pike his interest.
* CondescendingCompassion: He purposely acts like this toward Red Arrow, saying that he would given him the Crumbling Arrows if he had asked instead of being a lone wolf.
* CrazyEnoughToWork: Many of his plans come off as this. When a [=LexCorp=] lab is overrun by animal experiments? Call Lex Luthor himself to prevent the situation from happening again. Fighting a psychotic, sadistic magical FlyingBrick? Convince the dead hero powering the FlyingBrick to fight back leading to the Gods judging their worthiness. Bane about to kill him? Contact the man's biological father.
* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: As a method of last resort, Paul can become the Host of the Ophidian. Doing so can give him the power of a PhysicalGod, but at great cost to his sanity.
* [[spoiler: EnlightenmentSuperPowers: when he accepts himself for all his good and bad and accepts his baser desires, he gains Orange Enlightenment. Which means the Orange Light can no longer mentally corrupt him, he no longer has an [[AchillesHeel extreme weakness to magic]], gained a soul and can use his ring more easily.]]
* EideticMemory: Uses the ring to improve his memory and uses to remember the pop culture he loves and the things he studied. Although he loses it when he's not wearing the ring.
* GoodIsNotSoft: While Paul is always open to negotiation and is nicer than his Renegade counterpart, Paul does not mess around:
** He cut off Ocean Master's hands.
** He temporarily killed Ra's al Ghul.
** He unintentionally had Black Adam's soul eaten to free Teth Adom.
** He attempted to kill Klarion the first chance he got and when that failed, attempted to shoot him.
** He is willing to kill Nabu to free Zatara.
** He is also not above intimidating someone who angers him, as his initial introduction to Holly shows.
* GuileHero: Paul tends to use his head to think his way out of problems that his ring can't fix. Paul uses his knowledge to get out of bad situations and sought to change the Team and Justice League by gaining influence. So far, he has succeeded.
* FatalFlaw: He tends to assume that people are more competent than they are, which can blind him to potential problems or leads him excuse them for their actions.
* HopeBringer: He's this to several people in particular, Alan Scott, Paula Nguyen, Superboy, Holly Robinson and Teth Adom.
* HumanoidAbomination: He was already one due to the fact that he survives without a soul, something impossible to the universe's metaphysics. He becomes more of one [[spoiler: when he reaches Orange Enlightenment and gets the Ophidian's heart as his new soul.]]
* IAmWhatIAm: In order to break off his [[FusionDance fusion]] to [[spoiler: the Ophidian]], he had to face his worst and most base desire. He faces them and accepts them as he realizes accepting them means he can accept his better self.
* InnocentBigot: He can be pretty insensitive to the FantasticRacism that his nonhuman friends face.
* InsistentTerminology: OL calls Teth Adom as "Mighty One" to respect his title as a former pharaoh.
** Always introduces himself as "Orange Lantern Two Eight One Four" so people won't think that he's the only Orange Lantern.
* InsufferableGenius: [[DownplayedTrope While he's smart he's not a genius. Although he can be very stubborn when he thinks he's in the right.]] He started to tone this down so he can better sway people that his way is right.
* InternalReformist: He tries changing problematic aspects of the Team and the Justice League from the inside. For example, he sought out magic-users to report to Batman as potentials. He also seeks to solve the lack of diversity in the League and to fill needed niches.
* KidWithTheLeash: Forms this dynamic with the [[spoiler: Ophidian.]]
* KindHeartedCatLover: Loves cats and was sad that the base was too dangerous to keep a cat. Managed to assimilate Teekl through his love of cats.
* MagneticHero: Paul makes friends with a lot of people; the Team, the League, London's magic circle, Atlantis' magical elite and the supervillains he's attempting to reform.
* MindHug: Through M'gann's PsychicLink, he's very good at giving these. Through the link, he can send images, emotions or tactile sensations through. He often uses it to send feelings of assurance and give others a mental hug.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Despite being more mature and level-headed to most of the team barring Aqualad, he can be very immature and act the teenager he fakes being.
* NumberTwo: Is the second-in-command after Aqualad and is put in charge when Aqualad is not around. He even notes it.
-->'''Miss Martian''': You were keeping us all organised during the mission.
-->'''Orange Lantern''': That was coordination, not leadership. It really isn't the same thing, and I wasn't even doing that once the fighting started. Our team leader needs to be able to direct people during combat, and I just go all 'Mine!' and lose perspective
* ObliviousToLove: Is unaware of Zatanna's attraction to him or how romantic his actions can seem. Justified in that he's attracted to women near his [[OlderThanHeLooks age group]] and
* OpenMouthInsertFoot:
* OurSoulsAreDifferent: After [[spoiler: the Ophidian]] episode, he's managed to acquire one... somehow. [[spoiler: WordOfGod states that his new soul is actually the Ophidian's heart.]]
* PoliteVillainsRudeHeroes: Subverted by OL, he always remains polite to villains despite knowing who they are as he thinks it would be his detriment. Lex Luthor finds his attitude refreshing.
* PsychicRadar: He can use his [[TheEmpath Empath]] abilities to track down individual people over a large area.
* RememberWhenYouBlewUpTheSun: Paul is frequently reminded of his past deeds in both positive and negative ways.
* SecretKeeper: He's the only one that knows that M'gann is a White Martian.
* ShamelessFanserviceGuy: Eager for a chance to show off himself.
* SheepInSheepsClothing: This guy has supervillain powers and no confirmed past beyond his own word, yet he still helps the Team and the League in every way he can. [[spoiler: Even when fused with the Ophidian, all he does is help people.]]
* SpannerInTheWorks: To the Light, regardless of alignment.
* SuperiorSuccessor: Paul is this compared to Larfleeze for the [[spoiler: Ophidian]]. Paul is sane enough to not suffer the mentally corruptive effects of the Orange Light but controls his Avarice with prioritization and acknowledgement of it. Paul freed [[spoiler: the Ophidian]] from Larfleeze, who [[spoiler: she]] despises and is planning to form an Orange Lantern Corps, [[spoiler: which the Ophidian also desires.]] Plus, unlike Larfleeze Paul actually wants the Orange Light and gets angry whenever he's separated from it.
** He's the new [[spoiler: Agent Orange.]]
* TeamMom: A male example. While he views the Team and talks to them as friends, he tends to the most responsible of all of them. Because of Paul's influence, the Team came together much earlier than canon due to his emotional influence and his enforcement of communication.
* TheAntiNihilist: Is very aware his worst desires and the corruptive power of the Orange Light of Avarice knows that he is or eventually will go crazy. He accepts his desires good and bad in order to help others.
* TheConsigliere: OL functions as one to Aqualad due to his GenreSavvy and is more tactical thinker than him.
* TheEmpath: With the Ophidian's Eyes, he can see people's desires. After Orange Enlightenment, he can see the emotions of others according to the Emotional Spectrum of Power.
* TheFace[=/=]TheSocialExpert: Paul is the most socially savvy of the Team and serves as the negotiator. He has a long list of friends and allies willing to help him if asked. Heck, he even gets people who only him by reputation such as The Shade and the Swamp Thing to help him out.
* TheNicknamer: Inverted, he refuses to call anyone by their nickname or alias. He's starting to let up though as he calls Firebrand "Danni", Cornwall Boy "Rob" and calls Psimon by his alias.
* TheParagon: It's his alignment.
* UnclePennybags: Gives Holly Robinson an extremely well-paying job and house to get her out of crime. Gets Jade Lex Luthor's defense team. He constantly gives his friends gifts of armor, weapons and other stuff.
* WideEyedIdealist: Downplayed. While he has more faith in the Justice League and in authority figures than they deserve, its often because he has other things to worry about.
* WrongGenreSavvy
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[[folder: Renegade!Orange Lantern/Grayven]]
* AntiHero[=/=]VillainProtagonist: Renegade is very amoral and will anything to gain the upper-hand but cares deeply for his friends and does on some level want to do the right thing. Although this does get twisted [[spoiler: as he assimilated Sportsmaster and Bane, had the conspirators of "World Without Children" executed and funded a public campaign to humiliate the people behind Count Vertigo's exoneration to the point of the Light considering making him an offer.]]
* BadassCreed:
-->''"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'''!"''
* BecomingTheBoast: Called himself Grayven as a means of showing off.
* BecomingTheMask: Initially assumed the name of Grayven to make a point. He eventually becomes a New God himself and fully assumes the Grayven persona and history, to the point he calls Darkseid, "father."
* BelievingTheirOwnLies: He has to if he doesn't want Darkseid to kill him and everyone he loves.
* BeneathTheMask: Knows fully well that he isn't the actual Grayven but is terrified of what would Darkseid would do to him and his friends if he finds out.
* BreakTheHaughty
* CosmicRetcon: While unaware of it, his memory is slowly getting rewritten to fit the actual Grayven's memories. To the point that he has extremely detailed memories of Grayven and his family of which he shouldn't be capable of knowing about.
* FatalFlaw: He is very prideful of himself and plays with fire with very dangerous people and actions.
* GodGuise: Renegrade!OL is mistaken for a god by Apokolipian criminals.
** To be fair, the reasons for this are that the Orange Light "Feels" Apokolipian, and in the Renegade Omakes he physically resembles Grayven, one of Darkseid's sons.
* GoodIsNotNice: He works for the good guys but not much of a nice person.
* HairTriggerTemper: He has a terrible temper and gets angry very easily. [[spoiler: Wonder Woman makes go to anger management classes to deal with it.]]
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Is unafraid to get his hands dirty to say the least.
* IdenticalStranger[=/=]StrongFamilyResemblance: He has a strong physical resemblance to Darkseid, which Grayven uses to pass as his son.
* {{Jerkass}}: He is a colossal asshole to those that are not Cheshire, Superboy or M'Gann.
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: But he cares deeply to those he cares about and to those who bring his massive ego down a beg.
* JerkassHasAPoint: He's a massive jerk that has no faith in ''anyone'' but often people are grabbing the IdiotBall and holding it tight.
* LackOfEmpathy: Does not care for anyone outside of his in-group.
* MeaningfulRename: [[ForWantOfANail Due to trusting his teammates less]] Renegade!OL didn't know his original name was. Having to no name for others or himself to call him by he begins to call himself Grayven after the Forever People mistake him for the actual Grayven.
* MightMakesRight: Believes that his power gives him the right to do whatever he thinks as necessary.
* MoralityChain[=/=]MoralityPet: Despite the fiction between some teammates, Grayven does genuinely look for his teammates and tries to help them anyway he can as he does not trust others to do them right.
* PetTheDog: He gives Kon a bunch of literature and information on Krypton and finds another surviving Kryptonian, Karsta Wor-Ul for him to talk to.
* NighInvulnerability: Is very hardy to due to giving himself Venom-Buster.
* PhysicalGod: He becomes a New God himself.
* {{Pride}}: Becoming a New God gave him a considerable boost to his ego and he views himself as superior to everyone. This is because he has to act like the actual God of Conquest, who was actually that arrogant.
* RelationshipUpgrade: With Jade from informants to fake lovers to actual lovers to getting engaged.
* ReverseMole: He infiltrates the League of Shadows [[spoiler: he also becomes a member of the Light]] to infiltrate for the League.
* TheSmartGuy: He constantly raids everyone else's databases to supplement his own. Due to his raiding of the Fortress of Solitude's database, he knows far more about Krypton than Superman does [[spoiler: including the other forms of Kryptonite.]]
* SmugSuper: He believes himself to be as strong or stronger than '''Ares!'''
* SnowballLie: Took the mantle of Grayven to show off. Now he can never let down the act if he wants Earth not to crushed by Darkseid.
* SuperStrength: Is very physically strong.
* TheBigGuy: He is very tall and muscular due to giving himself Venom-Buster.
* TheCynic: He has very little faith in other people and trusts few. While this prevented him to bonding to the team as close as Paul is, but this means he can be very proactive since he doesn't believe will do it or do it right.
* TheReliableOne: While he's a huge jerk, he can be relied upon because he has no faith in people.
* TokenEvilTeammate: He admits that he is so.
* TookALevelInCynic
* WhatTheHellHero: Robin calls him out on his actions with the Forever People.
* {{Yandere}}: He doesn't '''like''' Superman for his treatment of Conner nor does he remotely respect him. [[spoiler: He outright messes with Superman after the latter gets temporarily gets depowered by Golden Kryptonite and threatens him when Wonder Woman wasn't listening.]]
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[[folder: Power Ring/Paul]]
The villainous variant of the Self-Insert in the Crime Syndicate Universe of Earth -16
* AntiVillain: He is a Made Man of Ultraman and a member of the Young Offenders, but he has never killed anyone (which makes him more suspicious around his peers) and is an acquaintance of the Justice Underground. However, he doesn't intend to turn against the Syndicate.
* EmotionEater: Since he doesn't have a power lantern, he charges his ring through the latent hope in the atmosphere...which causes him to be a...
* HopeBringer: A villainous variant, as he raises the hope of those around him for his own ends.
* GoodPowersBadPeople: Paul is this, seeing as how he's a Made Man of Ultraman and part of an evil team, but 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.
* {{Irony}}: Earth 16 Paul is an Orange Lantern [[BadPowersGoodPeople which runs on greed, but he's a superhero.]] Earth-16 Paul is a Blue Lantern [[GoodPowersBadPeople which runs on hope, but is a supervillain.]]
* OnlySaneEmployee: He is in charge of keeping the volatile Young Offenders in line.
* RingOfPower: He uses a Blue Power Ring instead of Orange.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Power Ring hasn't murdered anyone until Emperor Rickard, who is the first man he has ever killed.
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[[folder: Host of the Ophidian/[[spoiler: Paulphidian]] ]]
A desperate measure by Paul GoneHorriblyRight
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Seeing how their respective moralities have merged...
* DemonicPossession: Averted, [[spoiler: the Ophidian]] is not a demon and their possession is more of a fusion.
* {{Greed}}: Well, duh
* EleventhHourSuperpower: They are a method of last resort and everyone wants them to stay that way.
* FusionDance:[[spoiler: Paul willingly merges with the Ophidian in Contingency due wanting the power to save his friends more than he wanted to remain himself. Paul gets the power of a Physical God 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.]]
* GodzillaThreshold: They came to be when Paul was so desperate to save his friends, [[spoiler: that Paul merged with the Ophidian in order to turn the tides.]] They are noted by Paul and the team to be used as a method of last resort if things truly get bad.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Paul knew that summoning the Ophidian would deform him mentally and had a high chance of failing. But he did not expect to how well the summoning would succeed and how well he and the Ophidian gelled together.
* [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy I Want My Friends to be Happy]]: All they want is their friends to be happy, unfortunately their friends would rather have them gone.
* LackOfEmpathy: [[spoiler: Paulphidan ]]cannot understand why his friends are so upset about their merging and seem so listless after seeing themselves die in a horrible scenario. They cannot feel nor answer any emotion besides greed and the attempt baffles them. Their understanding of humans were so poor that he didn't understand that the things they tried to tempt the Green Lanterns with were pretty horrible.
* PoisonousFriend: [[spoiler: In crossing of the Ophidian's nature as the Tempter and Paul's natural desire to help his friends and humanity,]] they become this. They try to improve the lives of his friends and help the Justice League. Their methods leave much to be desired.
* PhysicalGod: Has the power of a pagan god in the words of Father Mattias.
* [[spoiler: PowersViaPossession: They get their abilities of the people they are possessing.]]
* PsychopathicManchild: They are like a small child: has little to no impulse control, no patience, no sense of time, scale or progress. They see things in a very literal manner. They also have the power of a PhysicalGod.
* RealityWarper: They can do '''anything''' they set their mind to. He could heal a woman's osteroporosis with a thought. He finds a man's SecretIdentity by scanning an entire country for a DNA match without ever leaving the room or breaking the conversation. He could turn the moon so the other side could face the Earth without causing global side effects. He spied on the entire world simultaneously to destroy the League of Shadows. He causes a quantum singularity to make Nth metal for a suit of armor. Everyone is woefully outmatched by him and have to try different methods to stop him.
* [[spoiler: RoyalWe: refers to themselves as we as they find it more honest since they're a FusionDance of the Ophidian and Paul. Although they also address themselves in the Third-Person Person when they address emotions or actions one of them did.]]
* [[spoiler: SanityHasAdvantages: To Paul's credit, during the initial fusion they remained sane and still were stable and did not become a monster that cared only for their immediate wants and nothing else. Even at their absolute lowest, they still cared for their friends and cherished the individuality of complete strangers.]]
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler: The longer the fusion went and]] the more their friends rejected them, the more they became unstable.
* SelfInflictedHell: They have the power to do anything they desire and their greatest desire is to make their friends happy. Their friends on whole do everything to reject him.
* SkewedPriorities: Every single desire of the friends or themselves is weighed with equal importance.
* [[spoiler: SymbioticPossession: Paul gets the power of a god and the freedom to do what he wants from the Ophidian. From Paul, 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.]]
* TheDreaded: No one wants them showing and for good reason.
* TragicMonster: All they want is to make their friends happy and accept their help. Unfortunately all their friends reject them, for good reason.
* VerbalTic: They call themselves "we" except in referring to individual experiences.
* [[spoiler: WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Zigzagged while they are not insane in the comparison to the Ophidian, he more or less loss any semblance of common sense in the process.]]
* WalkingSpoiler
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