Line #8 YMMV/GreenLantern


1	* {{Adorkable}}: Kyle's geeky adoration of drawings and old superheroes come off as this.
2	* {{Anvilicious}}: When Robert Venditti started his run on the main ''Green Lantern'' book after Creator/GeoffJohns' departure, his first story arc revealed that excessive use of the emotional spectrum was damaging the fabric of reality itself and would eventually bring the universe to an early death. This led to the introduction of Relic, a new villain that survived the destruction of the universe that preceded the current one and attempts to destroy the Lantern Corps in a misguided effort to save reality, making him an intergalactic ecoterrorist. The allegory there was heavyhanded and everyone knew it, which was a detriment to the series.
3	* AudienceAlienatingEra:
4	** Guy Gardner's "Warrior" incarnation, though he also underwent a whole lot of CharacterDevelopment during this time.
5	** The post-Johns New 52 ongoings, for introducing stupid concepts (the rings are actively destroying the universe), stupid villains (Relic) and just dumb creative decisions that were already proven to be bad ideas (making Hal the sole Green Lantern). Most of the creative decisions were undone for ''ComicBook/DCRebirth''.
6	* BrokenBase:
7	** Fueled largely by DC, who shunted Hal Jordan and the rest of the Corps out of the spotlight to make way for Kyle Rayner, who himself was counter-shunted when Hal Jordan returned and Kyle became a supporting character.
8	** The Green Lantern books not being affected by the New 52, at least less so than other books (Alan Scott, the original Green Lantern, now no longer exists on Earth 1, which DC keeps pushing as the main/primary universe, which seriously alters the back story of Kyle Rayner since Alan was his mentor, and had his sexual orientation altered for what many believed was a cheap publicity stunt when he was shunted to Earth 2) to the point that the only costume change to Carol Ferris's Star Sapphire costume would be overhauled a year after the reboot and a slight variation to Hal's uniform from before the reboot. Whilst some are happy that nothing changed, others aren't happy that literally every other character in DC's roster that wasn't directly tied to the Lanterns underwent some sort of overhaul and every book had a creative team shake-up, whilst Johns got to stay on ''Green Lantern'' and keep all of his work in continuity.
9	** The famous O'Neil/Adams run in the '70s. Some find it to be a trailblazing work of art for being one of the first superhero comics to take a stance on real-world issues like racism and drug abuse. Others find it a sentimental {{narm}}fest due to the fact that these issues have since become old news in pop culture.
10	** Fans of Kyle Rayner disagree about the direction his character took after the events of Green Lantern: Rebirth. Some people feel that the return of Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps allowed Kyle to finally experience some long-needed CharacterDevelopment, and like the depiction of him as a confident and respected Corpsmen who is close to his fellow Lanterns. Others feel that his insecurity went a long way towards making him relatable, and dislike how Kyle's friendships with other DCU characters like Wally West and Connor Hawke have been completely dropped in favor of emphasizing his connections to Hal, John, and Guy.
11	* CantUnHearIt:
12	** Most fans are likely to read John Stewart with Creator/PhilLaMarr's voice because of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', the cartoon which brought the character into the mainstream.
13	** Likewise, for Hal Jordan, his lines are most likely read with the voice of either Creator/AdamBaldwin, Creator/NolanNorth, or Creator/SteveBlum.
14	* CompleteMonster: See [[Monster/TheDCU here]].
15	* ContinuityLockOut: There are about a half a dozen or more series running with the storyline weaving in and out of each one at random. The storyline that started with Series A will continue along its course into Series B, C, D and friggin' Z and by the time it veers back into Series A the very next issue won't pick up where the last one left off. For a random example: New Guardians issue 12 ended with the "New Guardians" parting ways with Kyle all alone. Issue 13 rolls around and Kyle is suddenly back on Earth, [[spoiler:training with Atrocitus and Carol, having at some point acquired the ability to channel the powers of all seven colors without the need for a respective ring.]]
16	* CrazyIsCool:
17	** Larfleeze will steal the coat off your back and claim it was his all along.
18	** And Dex-Starr will puke explosive blood all over your new shag carpet unless you buy him the right catfood.
19	** Salaak, with the whole "robot catgirl threesome" thing.
20	* CreatorsPet:
21	** Creator/DwayneMcDuffie had Green Lantern John Stewart, though this was largely part of self-fulfilling prophecy; some fans didn't like Stewart for the way he leapfrogged Kyle Rayner (previously established in the animated canon) and longtime comic GL Hal Jordan to be the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' Green Lantern. This led to [=McDuffie=] (a black creator who was quite vocal on racism within the TV and comic industry, and who had inherited Stewart on the cartoon from the previous showrunner) making some comments equating hatred of Stewart as racism, which led to the widespread notion that Stewart was [=McDuffie=]'s pet character.
22	** One could argue that the Green Lantern has been a source of shilling the creator's pet since the 90s. Start with Kyle Rayner replacing Hal Jordan and the writers trying to shill him to win over the fan base disgusted by Hal's FaceHeelTurn in ''Emerald Twilight''. Fast forward 10 years, and a number of those fans are now writers/editors for DC, and they promptly retcon the heel turn and restore Hal to being GL Numero Uno - and now must shill him to the fan base who grew up with Kyle and are upset with him getting booted down - and John Stewart as described above.
23	** Interestingly, a few writers ''did'' make Kyle work for his place in the DC Universe. A number of writers, like Creator/GrantMorrison, had characters like ComicBook/WallyWest look down on the rookie Lantern for just being there and made to bust his chops to earn his place in the greater scheme of things.
24	** Creator/GeoffJohns's Hal Jordan can come off as this at times. He's the Greatest of the Green Lanterns ([[CharacterShilling and he is constantly told so]]) and he can be as much a {{jerkass}} as Guy Gardner but he is rarely called on it.
25	* EnsembleDarkHorse:
26	** In the eighties, Killowog was this, which helped him become an AscendedExtra.
27	** Currently it's [[GeniusLoci Mogo]] and Rop Top Fan.
28	** From the other corps we have, from the Blue Lantern Corps, Saint Walker for being one of the biggest {{Nice Guy}}s and {{Hope Bringer}}s in the universe (Guy could give Superman a run for his money); from the Red Lantern Corps Dex-Starr for being a BadassAdorable with a surprisingly tragic past and Bleez for her MsFanservice status and from the Orange Lantern Corps Larfleeze (It's only member, coincidentally) for his LargeHam LaughablyEvil CardCarryingEvil characterisation
29	* EthnicScrappy: UsefulNotes/{{The Silver Age\|of Comic Books}} ComicBook/GreenLantern Hal Jordan had an Inuit sidekick called Pieface who served as his mechanic. Today, he is strictly called Tom Kalmaku and depicted with respect as an engineer. In ''ComicBook/DCTheNewFrontier'', Hal calls him Pieface once, and Tom promptly berates him for calling him that, and in a later retelling of Hal's origin, the "Pieface" nickname is used by a {{jerkass}} rival pilot.
30	* FairForItsDay:
31	** The characterization of Tom "Pieface" Kalmaku in the 60s. On one hand, the character was a minority in a highly skilled position at Ferris Air, spoke excellent English, and became Hal Jordan's close friend and confidant. On the other hand, his nickname was "Pieface" (as in Eskimo Pie), and he liked to exclaim "great fish hooks!" when shocked. It should be noted that Hal always treated him with respect.
32	** The famed Green Lantern/Green Arrow series by Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams was lauded in its time for being one of the first attempts by superhero comics to address real-life social issues. But today it looks pretty hacky and heavy-handed overall, with overwrought speechifying and overdramatic plot twists. It also created some well-intentioned but poorly developed ideas. For the issue that attempted to highlight the important issue of Native American rights, the cover has the unfortunate image of Hal strapped to a giant totem pole surrounded by stereotypical Native Americans while Green Arrow wears a huge headdress pointing his bow and arrow at his buddy while screaming, "My redskin brothers have found you GUILTY!!!!"
33	** Carol Ferris was always Hal's girlfriend, and like many [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] comics, he engaged in SuperDickery to toy with her over whether she preferred Hal or Green Lantern, as well as generally manipulating her for his own amusement. Outside of her ties to Hal, however, Carol was strikingly progressive for a late-50s character: she was a female owner of a military business, and was never shown as anything less than completely competent at her job. Despite Hal being her love interest, she was also his boss, and could and did call him to task for misbehavior on the job.
34	** John Stewart's earliest appearances were little more than {{Angry Black Man Stereotype}}s, but John was also shown to be objectively correct in his anger (just short-tempered). He was also always the most-educated of the earthbound Green Lanterns, being an architect when Hal was a pilot who never attended college and Guy's original status as a public defender all but forgotten in {{Flanderization}}.
35	* FanNickname:
36	** Dex-Starr of the Red Lantern Corps, known to some as Ruffles the Rage-Cat. Also called Pukecat in some circles, due to the... acid-blood-puking nature of the Red Lantern power signature.
37	** Hal (as Parallax) is called "Halallax", and Kyle (as Parallax) is called "Kylellax" by some fans.
38	* FauxSymbolism: It's been suggested that the Emotional Entities have Biblical origins, even though having existed for as long as life has, they've been around a LOT longer than humanity, and couldn't possibly have been created by them.
39	* GeniusBonus: Sinestro is usually depicted as wearing his ring on his left hand. For those unfamiliar with Italian (or Latin), the masculine for "sinister" is "sinistro", which means on the left hand, but also wrong, perverse, unfavorable, etc.
40	* HarsherInHindsight:
41	** In an issue published in the 80s, Hal Jordan must leave Earth because he has been forced by the Guardians to help out in outer space. Before he leaves to go back to Earth, we then get this dialogue which almost seems to foreshadow ''ComicBook/EmeraldTwilight'':
42	-->'''Hal:''' I did as you ordered because I ''swore'' I would, but if my home and friends have been ''destroyed'' because of this, I swear you'll live to ''regret'' this! And for an ''immortal'', that can be a long ''time''!\
43	'''Guardian:''' You leave us much to ''ponder'', Hal Jordan... none of it ''pleasant''.
44	** During ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'', Guy and an Indigo Lantern teamed up to fight black lanterns. This was before it was revealed that the Indigo Tribe targets sociopaths and forces them to feel nothing but compassion.
45	-->'''Guy:''' Still feel compassionate, Munk?\
46	'''Munk:''' Always.
47	* HilariousInHindsight:
48	** Flash once had a villain called the Rainbow Raider, who could make hard-light rainbows and induce emotions in people by coloring them. He'd fit right in with the emotional spectrum retcon, but sadly, he's dead, so the only time he's been used since then was as yet another Black Lantern. Even more hilariously, he was killed off by the same author who created the emotional spectrum itself!
49	** Similarly, there's the Outsiders member Halo, who has a multicolored aura. Each color has a different power, except violet which brings out an alternate personality, just like with Carol Ferris in her earlier Star Sapphire incarnation.
50	** In the very first comic featuring the Green Lantern (then the first incarnation of Alan Scott, when the green light was connected to chinese folklore rather than the Emotional Spectrum), the Lantern's green light was refered to as [[HaveAGayOldTime "queer"]]. Flash forward to 2012, where Alan Scott's counterpart in ''ComicBook/Earth2'' is reinterpreted as a gay man, and 2021, where the Post-Crisis version of Alan Scott was retconned to have been a closeted gay man all along and came out to his children in issue 0 of ''ComicBook/DCInfiniteFrontier''.
51	** In ''Rebirth'', Ganthet tells Kyle that "hope is meaningless against fear". The guardian would later go on to co-found the corps channeling the power of hope itself. Depending on how much Johns planned in advance this may or may not be intentional.
52	* HoYay:
53	** Guy and Kyle's close relationship is interpreted this way pretty often, even by non-fangirls, especially after [[spoiler:Kyle died and Guy was so heartbroken at losing his friend that he attracted a Red ring and went on a rampage.]] Seconds before this happened, he could even be seen holding Kyle's hand and crying.
54	** So much of it between Bleez and Fatality. Actually, considering her unwillingness to ever take a suitor, it isn't unreasonable to assume Bleez may actually swing that way. Fatality is one of the only beings Bleez has willingly shown her face to.
55	** Soranik Natu and her sector-partner, Princess Iolande, had shades of this in Iolande's first appearance. While rings tend to fly onto fingers when they select a new candidate, Iolande's entry into the Corps is by Natu manually sliding the ring onto Iolande's finger. Iolande's wearing a white dress at the time, making it almost look like the two women are getting married.
56	** Green Lantern and Flash always tend to evoke this, no matter which Flash or Lantern it is. Alan/Jay, Hal/Barry, and Wally/John in the DCAU, etc. Bart and Guy are the only two who don't have this with anyone from the other side of the dynamic, mostly because Bart is too busy having it with Robin and Superboy and Guy is too busy having it with Kyle. This even applies to their DistaffCounterpart characters too, with Jesse Quick and Jade getting some scenes in their short-lived tenure together in the JLA.
57	** Concerning Kyle, instead of being shipped together with Wally, he's most often shipped with his Hard-Traveling Heroes partner, Connor Hawke (Green Arrow II). It mostly makes sense, they're both direct successors to the prime holders of the mantle, one of Connor's first stories as the new Green Arrow is him meeting Kyle and revealing his identity to him (although that might be just Connor), and Connor being written as not being interested in women romantically leading to fans interpreting him as gay.
58	* JerkassWoobie:
59	** According to the Christmas comic, [[spoiler:Larfleeze]], as it's revealed he misses his family above everything.
60	** Also, Guy Gardner. When you look at his history, it's no wonder he's constantly pissed off-- he had an alcoholic father, he's been struck by buses, had Hal's power lantern explode in his face, which [[ItMakesSenseInContext somehow caused him to get stuck in the Phantom Zone to get tortured by General Zod]] ([[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer no, really, that happened]]), rendered comatose, it all affected his personality to make him the Guy Gardner we all know. It's telling that Guy's character development started after he gained powers that helped heal his brain damage from that incident...
61	** [[CatsAreMean Dex-Starr]]. He may be one of the most feared Red Lanterns around, but considering that his beloved owner was murdered and he was nearly drowned by some street punks afterwards, he has a ''damn'' good reason for behaving the way he does.
62	** Karu-Sil was orphaned at a young age and became the monster she is from being [[RaisedByWolves raised by a pack of beasts]], who were then killed by her sector's Green Lantern under the belief that they were her attackers.
63	* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: [[spoiler:Killing Hal and Sinestro in the 2012 Annual... Or rather, keeping them dead beyond the ''Rise of the Third Army'' event, with most fans expecting the characters to return during the latter stages of the event. They were right on Sinestro, Hal had to wait a few months longer.]]
64	* MagnificentBastard: See [[MagnificentBastard/DCUniverse here]].
65	* MemeticBadass: In certain sections of the Internet, Rot Lop Fan is this, being a Green Lantern despite not even grasping the concept of "light" or "color" because his race sees with sound.
66	* MemeticLoser: It's either Hal, for losing his mind despite supposedly being one of the most willful individuals in the universe and [[BecameTheirOwnAntithesis becoming his own antithesis]] ([[AdaptationDisplacement and having a panned movie]], as well as his cases of ForgotAboutHisPowers in the Silver Age) or Kyle for [[TraumaCongaLine not being able to catch a break to save his life]].
67	* MemeticPersonalityChange: In FanWorks focused on the Justice League where Hal is a secondary character, he'll usually be portrayed as a tryhard constantly attempting to prove his worth to the rest of the league. In fact portrayals of him like this are more common now than ones with ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}, which is saying something. This has only gained more steam following his appearance in WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie and WesternAnimation/TheLEGOBatmanMovie as TheFriendNobodyLikes.
68	* MisaimedFandom: Guy Gardner. Despite being created specifically as a parody of the overly masculine types who think themselves more badass than they really are, many people interpret him as exactly that kind of cool, arrogant badass who does whatever he wants without impunity. The comics themselves make an effort to show how thoroughly uncool and un-liked he is by everyone else, but that hasn't stopped many people considering him their favourite Green Lantern for how anti-authority and funny he is, citing moments like ''mooning Batman,'' among others.
69	* MisBlamed: When [=McDuffie=] took over the ''Justice League of America'' comic, he was told to use John instead of Hal as the Justice League of America's Green Lantern on orders from above (partly because Hal was being given [[ComicBook/JusticeLeagueCryForJustice HIS JLA TEAM!]]). Sadly for [=McDuffie=], fandom took the change badly, not helped in the least by the fact that Hal's JLA spin-off was delayed and reduced to a mini-series when it became apparent that James Robinson's artist was never going to get the book done on time. This lead to Hal returning to the title until his book was ready, followed by John's reinstatement just long enough for him to be bounced again and replaced with Hal until he was quickly replaced with Jade when they needed a book to focus on her ''ComicBook/BrightestDay'' storyline. The entire process was made progressively worse and worse by ExecutiveMeddling, in case you couldn't tell. And when [=McDuffie=] had the ''gall'' to describe this and the other creative difficulties on his forum (without assigning blame or complaining), DC [[ShootTheMessenger responded by firing him]].
70	* MoralEventHorizon:
71	** [[spoiler:Krona reprogramming the Manhunters to slaughter a sector just to prove a point.]]
72	** [[spoiler:The Guardians mind raping Ganthet for having a personality, following ''War of the Green Lanterns''.]] If not that, then [[spoiler:powering up Black Hand so that he can kill both Hal and Sinestro to get them out of the way before the ''[[BatFamilyCrossover Rise of the Third Army]]'' event starts]] is definitely this. Even the mere premise of [[spoiler:[[TheEvilsOfFreeWill the]] [[AssimilationPlot Third]] [[NightmareFuel Army]]]] counts.
73	** Black Hand killing his family as a prologue to the Blackest Night, simply because Nekron told him to. Given that Flashpoint and [[spoiler:Green Lantern v5 #11]] showed us that simply dying is enough to "rise", it counts.
74	** Relic massacring the de-powered Blue Lantern Corps, after destroying their Central Power Battery.
75	* MyRealDaddy: The entirety of the modern Green Lantern mythos has Geoff Johns, but particularly Hal Jordan and Sinestro. For many readers, he is ''the'' Green Lantern writer.
76	* {{Narm}}: Some of the Silver Age plots have not aged well at all.
77	** The first version of the Star Sapphire's origin have them choose Carol Ferris as their leader on the basis that they ''have'' to choose a leader who looks exactly like their previous leader. Yeah...
78	** The first "Pol Manning" story has a man in the 51st century deciding that a job needs filled, and since apparently ''no-one'' in the universe at that time is capable, they'll use a time machine to take Hal Jordan and give him the job. Did we mention the machine entirely wipes Hal's memory, meaning they have to retrain him to do the job ''anyway''. Meanwhile, the villains of the story are... Gila monsters, which apparently have evolved (in the space of three thousand years). And developed laser eyes. From living underground.
79	* NeverLiveItDown:
80	** Being [[WeaksauceWeakness weak to yellow]].
81	** Guy Gardner's [[http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/One_Punch One Punch]] knockout at the hands of Franchise/{{Batman}}.
82	** Hal Jordan's relationship with the underage Arisia. Hal, at least, got a {{Retcon}} escape from that: 13 years old on Graxos IV (Arisia's home planet) equals 240 years old on Earth.
83	** Hal Jordan being possessed by Parallax.
84	** John Stewart: Letting Xanshi get blown up. [[spoiler:Blowing up Mogo did not help that "Destroyer of Worlds" reputation, despite Mogo's eventual reformation.]]
85	** Many readers (and a few writers) seem to have trouble forgetting that Kyle Rayner's girlfriend was the trope namer for StuffedInTheFridge, and his seeming parade of dead girlfriends has [[MemeticMutation become a source of dark humor amongst the fanbase]].
86	** Hal and the Spectre making sure Linda Danvers would never see her child again during ''ComicBook/ManyHappyReturns'' is a particular sore spot for fans of that version of ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}, especially when the narration made it clear Linda was more or less dead inside now.
87	* OlderThanTheyThink:
88	** Green Lantern is older than ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'', but Wonder Woman had a ''Literature/{{Lensman}} inspired SpacePolice force in the form of "The Golden Police Women'' well before Green Lantern got a space police corps.
89	** It's an FAQ where casual viewers confuse ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'''s Green Lantern John Stewart with all others and ask "Isn't Green Lantern black?," even though Hal first appeared a dozen years before John.
90	** Wonder Woman actually had an emotions-visible light spectrum thing well before Green Lantern too. The difference there is that in Wonder Woman's book which color represented which emotion didn't actually matter(hers incidentally was Orange or Gold, which definitely wouldn't line up with how Green Lantern did it), what mattered was that Hades had found a way to separate people's emotions as "color bodies" from the physical ones, which became inert and helpless, and the best thing he could think to do with such a thing was [[MundaneUtility use color bodies as a source of light]] before Wonder Woman ultimately defeated him, [[InsufficientlyAdvancedAlien introduced electricity to his kingdom]], and the plot point never came up again.
91	** Modern GL readers are familiar with the many Corps and the emotional spectrum, but the Sinestro Corps was not the original opposite number of the Green Lantern Corps. That honor goes to the anti-matter ring wielding Anti-GL corps, from GL #150.
92	** However Sinestro did attempt to create his own Corps during the Silver Age in Green Lantern #52 by stealing the central power battery and giving GL rings to criminals, made up to look like him.
93	** The Star Sapphire is generally known as a Green Lantern adversary, but a Star Sapphire first appeared as a Golden Age Flash enemy in All-Flash #32, December 1946. This Star Sapphire's identity was unknown beyond being an inhabitant of the "seventh dimension" that wanted [[ApocalypseHow to kill all life on Earth]], starting with the plants. She would later be retconned as a failed and exiled queen of the Zamarons.
94	** The Green Lantern Oath associated with the Corps actually was first used by the Golden Age Alan Scott Green Lantern in a 1943 story. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20200217015720/http://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/299/ See here for details.]]
95	* ProtectionFromEditors: The Green Lantern books under Creator/GeoffJohns are one of the two things to enter the New 52 unscathed, the other being Creator/GrantMorrison's ''ComicBook/BatmanGrantMorrison'' run, which only had a few alterations. Whilst Morrison's ''Batman Inc.'' continued the plot they were writing before ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}'' it had everyone spontaneously change costumes and some supporting characters' retconned out (E.g., Batwoman never joined Batman Inc., Cassandra Cain doesn't exist). The Green Lantern books don't even do that and just carry on as they were before the reboot. This can be attributed to Johns being the Chief Creative Officer of DC Comics, essentially the No. 3 guy at the company after co-publishers Creator/DanDiDio and Jim Lee.
96	* RecurringFanonCharacter: Hope Corgi, an animal sidekick of the Blue Lanterns who wields one of their rings, powered by hope. He inspires a sense of calm in all those he meets, and to the people he appears before, he resembles their childhood dog. He is meant to be a GoodCounterpart of Dex-Starr, the Earth cat member of the Red Lanterns.
97	* ReplacementScrappy: Kyle Rayner to Hal Jordan fans. Hal Jordan to Kyle Rayner fans. Both to fans who only know about Green Lantern from the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' cartoons.
98	* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap:
99	** Kyle Rayner, as written by Creator/GrantMorrison in ''ComicBook/JLA1997''. Grant Morrison asked Ron Marz "How would Rayner work in a team book as opposed to a solo one?" The characters were very similar, and Kyle's era was a best seller until Ron Marz left the book, and by that time Morrison was no longer writing JLA. It would be BETTER to say he became a Scrappy during the Creator/JuddWinick[=/=]Ben Raab Era and Ron Marz and Creator/GeoffJohns rescued him from the Scrappy Heap. The only people to whom he was ever a scrappy were [[BrokenBase die-hard Hal Jordan fans]]. Kyle Rayner was the star of the Green Lantern book for ten years, and thus had a generation of ''his own fans'' who couldn't care less about Hal Jordan and thus never saw him as TheScrappy in the first place. To those fans, it was Hal Jordan, and not Kyle Rayner, who was RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap.
100	** The Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse was this for John Stewart when he was used as the primary Green Lantern for ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague''. After getting several on and off shots at the spotlight John Stewart had more or less faded into obscurity by the time the show went into production, and at the time that the roster was announced he was initially met with disdain by fans who were either angry that the Bruce Timm and his colleagues weren't using Kyle Rayner, who was the current Green Lantern of the comics at the time and had been previously introduced in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'', or Hal Jordan, who was the best known Green Lantern among comics fans but who had not appeared in the wider-media at that time (even though Hal was technically dead at the time of the show's creation) and, in some cases, because Timm and co admitted that one of the reasons for using Stewart was because they wanted a black hero to break up what would have otherwise been an all white line up (not counting the ComicBook/MartianManhunter of course). Fortunately, Stewart received enough CharacterDevelopment over the course of the series that fans eventually warmed up to him, and when DC comics bosses noticed this they decided to capitalize on it by making Stewart an important character in the comics again. Some critics even speculate that the reason the 2011 film failed was because general audiences who only knew of the Green Lantern mythos from the DCAU were confused at seeing Hal Jordan being used instead of John Stewart thanks to the exposure the DCAU had given him.
101	* RootingForTheEmpire: Sinestro has been getting some attention in this manner, mainly due to him being a very charismatic villain and [[VillainHasAPoint his arguments]] against the Guardians being too involved with their mysteries and prophecies to do an effective job policing the cosmos.
102	* SalvagedStory:
103	** Fans were so angry about the Parallax storyline where Hal underwent a FaceHeelTurn and subsequently died that when Geoff Johns took over the title, he brought Hal back to life and retconned the incident into Hal having been possessed and brainwashed by a physical embodiment of fear named Parallax who exploited his grief over the destruction of Coast City. And to a much lesser extent, the Parallax entity and its association with the color yellow provided what readers found a satisfying answer to the Green Lanterns power rings' WeaksauceWeakness.
104	** In an issue of ''Wizard'' magazine, Johns stated he also used the Parallax entity as to explain why Hal is such an idiot in the Denny O'Neil/Neal Adams issues with Green Arrow.
105	** Arisia was first introduced as a 13-year-old GL who had a sort of little sister/big brother dynamic with Hal. This eventually turned into Arisia harboring an unrequited PrecociousCrush on Hal, which later resulted in a story where she used her ring to [[PlotRelevantAgeUp age herself up]] so that she could enter a relationship with him. Fans found the whole thing kind of {{Squick}}y, so Johns later stated that due to her planet's prolonged orbit around its two suns, 13 years on her world were technically closer to 240 years on Earth.
106	* TheScrappy:
107	** G'Nort, for mostly being nothing more than TheLoad.
108	** Relic for being a being an {{Anvilicious}} GreenAesop villain who murdered most of the Blue Lantern Corps. The fact his backstory pulled a massive {{Retcon}} on how the Emotional spectrum worked didn't help either.
109	* ToughActToFollow: Geoff Johns wrote for ten years on the franchise, which not only propelled the Green Lantern mythos into becoming a major part of the DC canon, but introduced the now iconic aspect of the Emotional Spectrum and other Lantern Corps, and was popular enough to support an entire CrisisCrossover. Good luck matching that.
110	* ValuesDissonance: The first "Pol Manning" story has a massive case of {{Squick}} attached to it, where the man who builds the time machine declares that Hal Jordan's cover identity must "logically" come with a love interest (or otherwise he'll question the whole thing), and immediately tells his secretary she has to pretend to be his girlfriend, since she's unmarried. She just goes along with this, without even protesting.
111	* TheWoobie: Ch'p has it pretty rough after the events of the ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths. He returns to his home planet H'lven only to discover that history has been changed so that there was never a Green Lantern in his sector, he died 19 years ago and that M'nn'e, the woman who used to be his wife, is now married to his friend D'll. Ch'p tries to tell them it's him, but they mistake him for an imposter trying to tarnish Ch'p's memory. The little alien squirrel manages to find solace in the fact that his fellow Green Lanterns still remember him, but he still feels upset about his cosmic divorce, even breaking down into tears and wailing about his marriage being retroactively erased from history after being informed that John Stewart and Katma Tui will be wed.

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