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* JumpedAtTheCall: Hal Jordan in issue #4. He's spent the previous three and a half issues wandering around, taking odd jobs and trying to find some purpose in life in the absence of the Green Lantern Corps, which didn't exist at the time. When he finds out that an insane Guardian is taking cities from all over the universe and relocating them to Oa, he mans up, recites the GL Oath, and heads out into space to deal with the problem.
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* WalkingTheEarth: Hal Jordan during the first half of "The Road Back" storyline. Guy Gardner can't take the fact that Hal is doing this and keeps antagonizing him. Hal eventually snaps out of it.
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** Ironically, Batman's plan against him should Kyle go rogue is to blind him. If Kyle can't see, he can't properly "draw" constructs.
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* GodForADay: When Kyle Rayner became Ion, a being with all the power of the entire Green Lantern Corps, he tried to use his new might to feed starving children in Africa, heal his friend's back-injury, restore his girlfriend Jade's powers, etc, until Superman advises him to back down because people around the world have started to worship him as a god. Soon after he sacrifices the power so that the Guardians of the Universe and the Corps can live again.
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** When Kyle Rayner became Ion, a being with all the power of the entire Green Lantern Corps, he tried to use his new might to feed starving children in Africa, heal his friend's back-injury, restore his girlfriend Jade's powers, etc, until Superman advises him to back down because people around the world have started to worship him as a god. Soon after he sacrifices the power so that the Guardians of the Universe and the Corps can liveagain.again.
** Hal Jordan as Parallax tried to use his godlike power to destroy and remake the universe during the events of ''ComicBook/ZeroHourCrisisInTime''.
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* ThisLoserIsYou: The whole point of removing Hal Jordan in the 1990s and replace him with Kyle, a completely clueless novice without the faintest idea of how to be a superhero, was to write stories of this type.
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* ThisLoserIsYou: The whole point of removing Hal Jordan in the 1990s and replace replacing him with Kyle, Kyle Rayner, a completely clueless novice without the faintest idea of how to be a superhero, was to write stories of this type.
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The first 50 issues primarily star [[Characters/GreenLanternHalJordan Hal Jordan]]. Then in the mid-'90s the Emerald Twilight storyline occurs. Hal Jordan became a supervillain called "Parallax" due to witnessing the destruction of his hometown, Coast City. After Parallax obliterated the entire Green Lantern Corps, a single new replacement was chosen in geeky graphic artist Kyle Rayner, who brought in a whole new generation of readers with his nerd-chic attitude and more imaginative use of his Green Lantern powers.
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The first 50 issues primarily star [[Characters/GreenLanternHalJordan Hal Jordan]]. Then in the mid-'90s the Emerald Twilight storyline occurs. Hal Jordan became a supervillain called "Parallax" due to witnessing the destruction of his hometown, Coast City. City.
After Parallax obliterated the entire Green Lantern Corps, a single new replacement was chosen in geeky graphic artist Kyle Rayner, who brought in a whole new generation of readers with his nerd-chic attitude and more imaginative use of his Green Lantern powers.
After Parallax obliterated the entire Green Lantern Corps, a single new replacement was chosen in geeky graphic artist Kyle Rayner, who brought in a whole new generation of readers with his nerd-chic attitude and more imaginative use of his Green Lantern powers.
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''Green Lantern'' is a 1990 relaunch of the [[ComicBook/GreenLantern DC Comics hero]] (with as its eponymous Lantern). The comic was launched after ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths''.
The first 50 issues primarily star [[Characters/GreenLanternHalJordan Hal Jordan]]. Then in the mid-'90s the Emerald Twilight storyline occurs. Hal Jordan became a supervillain called "Parallax" due to witnessing the destruction of his hometown, Coast City. After Parallax obliterated the entire Green Lantern Corps, a single new replacement was chosen in geeky graphic artist Kyle Rayner, who brought in a whole new generation of readers with his nerd-chic attitude and more imaginative use of his Green Lantern powers.
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!!''Green Lantern (1990)'' story arcs with their own pages include:
* "[[ComicBook/EmeraldTwilight Green Lantern #48–50: Emerald Twilight]]."
* "[[ComicBook/GreenLanternANewDawn Green Lantern #51-54: A New Dawn]]."
* "[[ComicBook/ZeroHourCrisisInTime Green Lantern #55: Zero Hour: Crisis in Time!]]."
* "[[ComicBook/FinalNight Green Lantern #81: The Final Night]]."
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!!''Green Lantern'' (1990) provides examples of:
* BackForTheDead: Sinestro's return during Emerald Twilight part 3. The character had not been seen for years, apart from an appearance as a spirit possessing John Stewart in Mosaic. Yet in what was meant to be Hal Jordan's final issue as Green Lantern, the Guardians seemingly resurrect Sinestro from his imprisonment inside the Central Power Battery in an attempt to stop Hal Jordan's rampage. It doesn't work, as Hal kills him by breaking his neck. Later stories would reveal that the Sinestro that died [[ActuallyADoombot was a Parallax-created illusion]] to help break Hal Jordan's will, but at the time this was meant to be the final showdown between Hal and Sinestro.
* CampStraight: During Creator/JuddWinick's run, Kyle Rayner works for an art director named Andre Choi who initially appears to be a gay stereotype, but when Kyle later asks him about his experiences "coming out" when trying to figure out how to help Terry Berg come to terms with his sexuality, Choi becomes indignant and makes it clear that he is straight, ranting on how annoyed he is that people assume he's gay just because he's thin, dresses well, wears earrings and is an art director.
* CartwrightCurse: Kyle. His ''first'' girlfriend was {{targeted to hurt|the hero}} him, and then... (Of course, DeathIsCheap and the superpowered ones came back, as Donna Troy and Jade can attest)
* CharacterShilling: Widespread shilling for Kyle Rayner appeared when he replaced Hal Jordan.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Anya Savenlovich, a Russian woman chosen by Kyle to help form a new Green Lantern Corps during the 90s, only for it not to work, before disappearing off into space.
* ClarkKenting: Kyle Rayner attempted some form of this during his time as Green Lantern, except EVERYONE close to him figured it out in record time. A tiny little domino mask like that really isn't much of a disguise, you know! Guy Gardner and John Stewart don't even bother.
* CynicismCatalyst: In issue #155, before Kyle Rayner leaves Earth after being traumatized by the brutal hate crime inflicted on his gay assistant Terry, he tells his then-girlfriend Jade (Jennifer-Lynn Hayden, daughter of the first Green Lantern) about his insights into the human psyche during his time as Ion, and what they revealed to him about man's inhumanity to man:
* EvilCounterpart:
** Nero for Kyle.
** Kyle's first evil counterpart was Effigy, a troubled youth who used the fire powers given him by the Controllers for his own pleasure. Writer Ron Marz said he was intended to be Kyle's "Sinestro" but not just "The guy with the yellow ring"... which Nero ended up being!
* EvilUncle: The "Hard-Traveling Heroes" arc where the respective Green Lantern and Green Arrow are Kyle Rayner and Connor Hawke has Kyle's uncle Zachary serve as the villain, manipulating his nephew into assisting him in a domestic terrorism plot by [[FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo pretending to be Kyle's missing father Aaron]], never revealing the truth until his plan is thwarted and [[DeathbedConfession he's dying]].
* EyeScream: Kyle Rayner freaking LOVES this trope. During his first fight with Major Force he had no problem gouging out his eye with a thumb. When depowered and fighting a Cthulhuian horror, he slammed a sharpened bone into its eye. When he fought Major Force again he picked up a shard of glass and gouged his eye out AGAIN! When Parallax taunted him inside his own mind, he picked up a pencil and gouged out its eye. In a fight with Kyle Rayner he ''will'' go for the eyes.
* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: The "Hard-Traveling Heroes" adventure between Kyle Rayner and Connor Hawke had the pair search for Kyle's missing father Aaron and run into a man claiming to be Aaron. The man manipulates Kyle into assisting him in a domestic terrorism plot. After the scheme is thwarted, [[DeathbedConfession he dies confessing that]] he's actually Kyle's [[EvilUncle uncle Zachary]] and was only pretending to be Kyle's father.
* FanserviceModel: By the time Kyle met her, Jade was a model and photographer. Because of her sensuous personality, she's more considerated as this instead of a Fashionmodel.
* GodForADay: When Kyle Rayner became Ion, a being with all the power of the entire Green Lantern Corps, he tried to use his new might to feed starving children in Africa, heal his friend's back-injury, restore his girlfriend Jade's powers, etc, until Superman advises him to back down because people around the world have started to worship him as a god. Soon after he sacrifices the power so that the Guardians of the Universe and the Corps can live again.
* LastOfHisKind: Kyle for awhile was the last remaining Green Lantern and Ganthet was the last Guardian.
* LoyalPhlebotinum: Kyle Rayner's ring only worked for him the vast majority of the time, so when someone would try to steal it, they were unable to make it work.
* MistakenForGay: During Judd Winick's run, Kyle Rayner finds out that his assistant Terry Berg is gay and having a hard time coming to terms with his sexuality, so he asks Andre Choi how he handled coming out. Andre snaps at Kyle for assuming he's gay.
-->'''Andre Choi:''' Why does ''everyone'' think I'm gay?! I'm ''so'' sorry I'm thin, I'm sorry I ''dress'' well, that I have ''earrings'', that I'm an ''art director''. I don't like ''show tunes'', disco does ''nothing'' for me and I'm attracted to ''women''. ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Not. Gay]]''.
* MustMakeAmends: Hal Jordan completely loses his sanity and decide to fix his failure to save Coast City... by killing the Green Lantern Corps [[spoiler:(They came back)]], killing Sinestro [[spoiler:(He came back)]], and then killing the universe [[spoiler:(it came back)]]... so he could remake reality "right".
* NinetiesAntiHero: Guy Gardner as Warrior, though that might have been a StealthParody.
* OneGenderRace: Averted, as Kyle Rayner, when resurrecting the Guardians, chooses to make half of them female in the process.
* TheOnlyOne: At one point things got so bad for the Green Lantern Corps that the last Guardian teleported to Earth and threw a ring at a random person. Eventually they got better.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain:
** Issue 93 had ComicBook/{{Deadman}} possess Kyle Rayner to take down a homophobic and misogynistic serial killer who was targeting lesbians.
** Judd Winick's run had a two-part story titled "Hate Crime", where Kyle's openly gay friend Terry Berg was severely beaten by a bunch of homophobic punks who saw him kissing his boyfriend David in public.
* PsychosomaticSuperpowerOutage: Kyle Rayner loses his powers when his confidence is shattered by Megaddon.
* SceneryCensor:
** The sixth annual has Kyle Rayner enter an Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs-influenced fantasy world through a painting he bought. In there, he befriends a woman named Saria Amenthis, who at one point undresses in front of Kyle. She is viewed from the back and has a tree branch obscuring her buttocks while a flower covers up her breast.
** In issue #138, Kyle and Jade visit an alien planet and at one point spend time on a beach. Jade chooses to go topless, much to Kyle's dismay. During this scene, Jade's breasts are obscured by Kyle creating a construct of a censor bar as well as the wing of one of the bird constructs Jade creates to take the censor bar away.
* ShoutOut: During Kyle's tenure on the Green Lantern series, a lot of his constructions were shout outs to Anime, video games, and cartoons. He enjoyed making Mecha and on at least one occasion he made a [[Franchise/StreetFighter Chun Li]] {{Expy}}. Apparently Kyle Rayner is a HumongousMecha {{otaku}}.
*** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''JLA'' (vol. 2) #3:
--->'''Green Lantern:''' I'm your worst nightmare, pal. A manga nut with a power ring.
*** And this itself is probably in reference to Steve Gerber's infamous "Elf with a gun" subplot during his run on ''Defenders''.
*** Also, Creator/EddieMurphy's "Nigger with a badge" line in ''Film/BeverlyHillsCop''.
* StarSpangledSpandex: Kyle's second Ion costume.
* StoryReset:
* TargetedToHurtTheHero: Major Force kills Kyle Rayner's girlfriend Alexandra [=DeWitt=] and leaves her remains in the fridge for the hero to find, as revenge for Kyle getting in his way.
* ThisLoserIsYou: The whole point of removing Hal Jordan in the 1990s and replace him with Kyle, a completely clueless novice without the faintest idea of how to be a superhero, was to write stories of this type.
* TroubledFetalPosition: Happened to Hal Jordan (as Parallax) in issue #62, after Ganthet allowed Hal to absorb him.
* TheUnchosenOne: Power rings will choose their successors when their wielder dies. However, Kyle Rayner managed to be a total exception to this rule, as his selection for being a ring bearer was totally random, and a simple case of being in the right place at the right time. Not that it mattered.
* VerySpecialEpisode: Showed up during Judd Winick's run as writer in the Modern Age, though Winick's versions of said stories were widely panned for being way more {{Anvilicious}} than the O'Neill/Adams stories, which used science fiction allegory for their stuff.
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''Green Lantern'' is a 1990 relaunch of the [[ComicBook/GreenLantern DC Comics hero]] (with as its eponymous Lantern). The comic was launched after ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths''.
The first 50 issues primarily star [[Characters/GreenLanternHalJordan Hal Jordan]]. Then in the mid-'90s the Emerald Twilight storyline occurs. Hal Jordan became a supervillain called "Parallax" due to witnessing the destruction of his hometown, Coast City. After Parallax obliterated the entire Green Lantern Corps, a single new replacement was chosen in geeky graphic artist Kyle Rayner, who brought in a whole new generation of readers with his nerd-chic attitude and more imaginative use of his Green Lantern powers.
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!!''Green Lantern (1990)'' story arcs with their own pages include:
* "[[ComicBook/EmeraldTwilight Green Lantern #48–50: Emerald Twilight]]."
* "[[ComicBook/GreenLanternANewDawn Green Lantern #51-54: A New Dawn]]."
* "[[ComicBook/ZeroHourCrisisInTime Green Lantern #55: Zero Hour: Crisis in Time!]]."
* "[[ComicBook/FinalNight Green Lantern #81: The Final Night]]."
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!!''Green Lantern'' (1990) provides examples of:
* BackForTheDead: Sinestro's return during Emerald Twilight part 3. The character had not been seen for years, apart from an appearance as a spirit possessing John Stewart in Mosaic. Yet in what was meant to be Hal Jordan's final issue as Green Lantern, the Guardians seemingly resurrect Sinestro from his imprisonment inside the Central Power Battery in an attempt to stop Hal Jordan's rampage. It doesn't work, as Hal kills him by breaking his neck. Later stories would reveal that the Sinestro that died [[ActuallyADoombot was a Parallax-created illusion]] to help break Hal Jordan's will, but at the time this was meant to be the final showdown between Hal and Sinestro.
* CampStraight: During Creator/JuddWinick's run, Kyle Rayner works for an art director named Andre Choi who initially appears to be a gay stereotype, but when Kyle later asks him about his experiences "coming out" when trying to figure out how to help Terry Berg come to terms with his sexuality, Choi becomes indignant and makes it clear that he is straight, ranting on how annoyed he is that people assume he's gay just because he's thin, dresses well, wears earrings and is an art director.
* CartwrightCurse: Kyle. His ''first'' girlfriend was {{targeted to hurt|the hero}} him, and then... (Of course, DeathIsCheap and the superpowered ones came back, as Donna Troy and Jade can attest)
* CharacterShilling: Widespread shilling for Kyle Rayner appeared when he replaced Hal Jordan.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Anya Savenlovich, a Russian woman chosen by Kyle to help form a new Green Lantern Corps during the 90s, only for it not to work, before disappearing off into space.
* ClarkKenting: Kyle Rayner attempted some form of this during his time as Green Lantern, except EVERYONE close to him figured it out in record time. A tiny little domino mask like that really isn't much of a disguise, you know! Guy Gardner and John Stewart don't even bother.
* CynicismCatalyst: In issue #155, before Kyle Rayner leaves Earth after being traumatized by the brutal hate crime inflicted on his gay assistant Terry, he tells his then-girlfriend Jade (Jennifer-Lynn Hayden, daughter of the first Green Lantern) about his insights into the human psyche during his time as Ion, and what they revealed to him about man's inhumanity to man:
* EvilCounterpart:
** Nero for Kyle.
** Kyle's first evil counterpart was Effigy, a troubled youth who used the fire powers given him by the Controllers for his own pleasure. Writer Ron Marz said he was intended to be Kyle's "Sinestro" but not just "The guy with the yellow ring"... which Nero ended up being!
* EvilUncle: The "Hard-Traveling Heroes" arc where the respective Green Lantern and Green Arrow are Kyle Rayner and Connor Hawke has Kyle's uncle Zachary serve as the villain, manipulating his nephew into assisting him in a domestic terrorism plot by [[FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo pretending to be Kyle's missing father Aaron]], never revealing the truth until his plan is thwarted and [[DeathbedConfession he's dying]].
* EyeScream: Kyle Rayner freaking LOVES this trope. During his first fight with Major Force he had no problem gouging out his eye with a thumb. When depowered and fighting a Cthulhuian horror, he slammed a sharpened bone into its eye. When he fought Major Force again he picked up a shard of glass and gouged his eye out AGAIN! When Parallax taunted him inside his own mind, he picked up a pencil and gouged out its eye. In a fight with Kyle Rayner he ''will'' go for the eyes.
* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: The "Hard-Traveling Heroes" adventure between Kyle Rayner and Connor Hawke had the pair search for Kyle's missing father Aaron and run into a man claiming to be Aaron. The man manipulates Kyle into assisting him in a domestic terrorism plot. After the scheme is thwarted, [[DeathbedConfession he dies confessing that]] he's actually Kyle's [[EvilUncle uncle Zachary]] and was only pretending to be Kyle's father.
* FanserviceModel: By the time Kyle met her, Jade was a model and photographer. Because of her sensuous personality, she's more considerated as this instead of a Fashionmodel.
* GodForADay: When Kyle Rayner became Ion, a being with all the power of the entire Green Lantern Corps, he tried to use his new might to feed starving children in Africa, heal his friend's back-injury, restore his girlfriend Jade's powers, etc, until Superman advises him to back down because people around the world have started to worship him as a god. Soon after he sacrifices the power so that the Guardians of the Universe and the Corps can live again.
* LastOfHisKind: Kyle for awhile was the last remaining Green Lantern and Ganthet was the last Guardian.
* LoyalPhlebotinum: Kyle Rayner's ring only worked for him the vast majority of the time, so when someone would try to steal it, they were unable to make it work.
* MistakenForGay: During Judd Winick's run, Kyle Rayner finds out that his assistant Terry Berg is gay and having a hard time coming to terms with his sexuality, so he asks Andre Choi how he handled coming out. Andre snaps at Kyle for assuming he's gay.
-->'''Andre Choi:''' Why does ''everyone'' think I'm gay?! I'm ''so'' sorry I'm thin, I'm sorry I ''dress'' well, that I have ''earrings'', that I'm an ''art director''. I don't like ''show tunes'', disco does ''nothing'' for me and I'm attracted to ''women''. ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Not. Gay]]''.
* MustMakeAmends: Hal Jordan completely loses his sanity and decide to fix his failure to save Coast City... by killing the Green Lantern Corps [[spoiler:(They came back)]], killing Sinestro [[spoiler:(He came back)]], and then killing the universe [[spoiler:(it came back)]]... so he could remake reality "right".
* NinetiesAntiHero: Guy Gardner as Warrior, though that might have been a StealthParody.
* OneGenderRace: Averted, as Kyle Rayner, when resurrecting the Guardians, chooses to make half of them female in the process.
* TheOnlyOne: At one point things got so bad for the Green Lantern Corps that the last Guardian teleported to Earth and threw a ring at a random person. Eventually they got better.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain:
** Issue 93 had ComicBook/{{Deadman}} possess Kyle Rayner to take down a homophobic and misogynistic serial killer who was targeting lesbians.
** Judd Winick's run had a two-part story titled "Hate Crime", where Kyle's openly gay friend Terry Berg was severely beaten by a bunch of homophobic punks who saw him kissing his boyfriend David in public.
* PsychosomaticSuperpowerOutage: Kyle Rayner loses his powers when his confidence is shattered by Megaddon.
* SceneryCensor:
** The sixth annual has Kyle Rayner enter an Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs-influenced fantasy world through a painting he bought. In there, he befriends a woman named Saria Amenthis, who at one point undresses in front of Kyle. She is viewed from the back and has a tree branch obscuring her buttocks while a flower covers up her breast.
** In issue #138, Kyle and Jade visit an alien planet and at one point spend time on a beach. Jade chooses to go topless, much to Kyle's dismay. During this scene, Jade's breasts are obscured by Kyle creating a construct of a censor bar as well as the wing of one of the bird constructs Jade creates to take the censor bar away.
* ShoutOut: During Kyle's tenure on the Green Lantern series, a lot of his constructions were shout outs to Anime, video games, and cartoons. He enjoyed making Mecha and on at least one occasion he made a [[Franchise/StreetFighter Chun Li]] {{Expy}}. Apparently Kyle Rayner is a HumongousMecha {{otaku}}.
*** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''JLA'' (vol. 2) #3:
--->'''Green Lantern:''' I'm your worst nightmare, pal. A manga nut with a power ring.
*** And this itself is probably in reference to Steve Gerber's infamous "Elf with a gun" subplot during his run on ''Defenders''.
*** Also, Creator/EddieMurphy's "Nigger with a badge" line in ''Film/BeverlyHillsCop''.
* StarSpangledSpandex: Kyle's second Ion costume.
* StoryReset:
* TargetedToHurtTheHero: Major Force kills Kyle Rayner's girlfriend Alexandra [=DeWitt=] and leaves her remains in the fridge for the hero to find, as revenge for Kyle getting in his way.
* ThisLoserIsYou: The whole point of removing Hal Jordan in the 1990s and replace him with Kyle, a completely clueless novice without the faintest idea of how to be a superhero, was to write stories of this type.
* TroubledFetalPosition: Happened to Hal Jordan (as Parallax) in issue #62, after Ganthet allowed Hal to absorb him.
* TheUnchosenOne: Power rings will choose their successors when their wielder dies. However, Kyle Rayner managed to be a total exception to this rule, as his selection for being a ring bearer was totally random, and a simple case of being in the right place at the right time. Not that it mattered.
* VerySpecialEpisode: Showed up during Judd Winick's run as writer in the Modern Age, though Winick's versions of said stories were widely panned for being way more {{Anvilicious}} than the O'Neill/Adams stories, which used science fiction allegory for their stuff.
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