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* DroppedABridgeOnHim: He was abruptly killed off alongside his wife in the eighth issue of J.M. [=DeMatteis=]'s run on ''ComicBook/TheSpectre''.
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* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Was revealed to have died between Hal's transformation into Parallax and He was abruptly killed off alongside his rebirth.wife in the eighth issue of J.M. [=DeMatteis-]'s run on ''ComicBook/TheSpectre''.
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* AllAmericanGirl: The tomboy variant, a blonde southern cowgirl (it's literally her callsign).
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* NiceHat: A white stetson - her first concern after being possessed by a Star Sapphire is not so much her nudity as where her hat has gone, and she's delighted to have it back.
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* BettyAndVeronica: The Betty to Carol's Veronica, around Hal's Archie - while she's a bit more footloose and fun-loving than Carol, there's much less conflict with Hal as they're pretty much exactly on the same wavelength.
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* BettyAndVeronica: The tomboyish Betty to Carol's more feminine Veronica, around Hal's Archie - while she's a bit more footloose and fun-loving than Carol, there's much less conflict with Hal as they're pretty much exactly on the same wavelength.
* DemonicPossession: One of the very last characters to undergo a classic Star Sapphire possession, as part of the story that led to the Zamarons finally deciding to make the damn things into more easily controlled rings instead.
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* LoveAtFirstSight: 'Love' might be stretching it, at first, but Hal is more or less starstruck the moment he sees her. By all indications, her reaction is much the same.
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* NiceHat: A white stetson - her first concern after being possessed by a Star Sapphire is not so much her nudity as where her hat has gone, and she's delighted to have it back.
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* TheLostLenore: To Kyle. Of all the women Kyle has loved and lost, she is the one he always comes back to and serves as his motivation for being Green Lantern — so he could be the man she always thought he could be. [[spoiler:Notably, in all the changed realities Volthoom offered to give Kyle, the one Kyle chose was the one where Alex was alive. He outright stated that he didn’t care about what happened to him, only that she was alive and happy]]. This is later commented on during a talk between Jade and Donna Troy (Kyle's first two girlfriends after Alex), with the former confessing that she feels as if she will always be in Alex's shadow.
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* TheLostLenore: To Kyle. Of all the women Kyle has loved and lost, she is the one he always comes back to and serves as his motivation for being Green Lantern — so he could be the man she always thought he could be. [[spoiler:Notably, in all the changed realities Volthoom offered to give Kyle, the one Kyle chose was the one where Alex was alive. He outright stated that he didn’t care about what happened to him, only that she was alive and happy]]. This is later commented on during a talk between Jade and Donna Troy (Kyle's first two girlfriends after Alex), with the former confessing that she feels as if she will always be in Alex's shadow. Even Carol Ferris runs into this when Kyle while wielding the Life Equation unwittingly and very briefly turns her ''into'' Alex (to their shared horror and discomfort), with Kyle admitting he'll never entirely get over her.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: She only appears in a handful of issues aside from flashbacks and illusions, but her life and death have a massive impact on Kyle, both as a Green and a White Lantern. On a meta level, her fate made her the TropeNamer for being StuffedIntoTheFridge.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: She only appears in a handful of issues aside from flashbacks and illusions, but her life and death have a massive impact on Kyle, both as a Green and a White Lantern. On a meta level, her fate made her the TropeNamer for being StuffedIntoTheFridge.
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Hal Jordan's older brother. Jack was a lawyer who was elected district attorney of Coast City; he was critical of his brother both in and out of costume. Jack blamed Hal's absence from family affairs for their mother's deteriorating health and eventual death. He ran an unsuccessful campaign for governor of Alaska.
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Hal Jordan's older brother. Jack was a lawyer who was elected district attorney of Coast City; he was critical of his brother both in and out of costume. Jack blamed Hal's absence from family affairs and constant close-calls and crashes for their mother's deteriorating health and eventual death. He ran an unsuccessful campaign for governor of Alaska.
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* TheDutifulSon: He gave Hal a hard time for not doing as their mother asked.asked, and as implied by his words and Hal's inner monologue, derailed his own path to care for their mother.
* ActionSurvivor: He's Hal Jordan's brother, requiring this, and he's stared down Parallax at least once, during the ''Sinestro Corps War''.
* CharacterDevelopment: After Hal's return, the two bond more and Jim encourages him to be a better hero while Hal encourages him to open up and take a few more risks.
* GoodParents: He's an example of ParentsAsPeople at first, being incredibly risk averse to the point of smothering thanks to reacting in more or less the exact opposite way to Hal to their father's death, before Hal and his wife persuade him to loosen up a bit.
* HappilyMarried: All evidence is that his marriage is a happy one, with his wife being supportive and understanding, despite the strains having the universe's most notorious Green Lantern for a brother-in-law.
* HiddenDepths: Hal's inner monologue regarding his origin notes that he thought that no one, not even his family, understood him after his father died... and then realises that when Jim gave him a picture of him and their dad as a much belated 18th birthday present (he'd wanted to surprise him at midnight, but Hal had spent the night on the street outside the Air Force recruiting centre), that Jim really ''did'' get him.
* CharacterDevelopment: After Hal's return, the two bond more and Jim encourages him to be a better hero while Hal encourages him to open up and take a few more risks.
* GoodParents: He's an example of ParentsAsPeople at first, being incredibly risk averse to the point of smothering thanks to reacting in more or less the exact opposite way to Hal to their father's death, before Hal and his wife persuade him to loosen up a bit.
* HappilyMarried: All evidence is that his marriage is a happy one, with his wife being supportive and understanding, despite the strains having the universe's most notorious Green Lantern for a brother-in-law.
* HiddenDepths: Hal's inner monologue regarding his origin notes that he thought that no one, not even his family, understood him after his father died... and then realises that when Jim gave him a picture of him and their dad as a much belated 18th birthday present (he'd wanted to surprise him at midnight, but Hal had spent the night on the street outside the Air Force recruiting centre), that Jim really ''did'' get him.
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* ActionGirl: She's an exceptional fighter pilot and an excellent hand to hand fighter, even with her hands while bound.
* AllAmericanGirl: The tomboy variant, a blonde southern cowgirl (it's literally her callsign).
* BettyAndVeronica: The Betty to Carol's Veronica, around Hal's Archie - while she's a bit more footloose and fun-loving than Carol, there's much less conflict with Hal as they're pretty much exactly on the same wavelength.
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* UnresolvedSexualTension: There are implications of EveryoneLovesBlondes: As soon as she takes off her helmet, Hal is more or less starstruck, and ruefully thinks to himself that yellow always was his weakness.
* FriendlyRivalry: With Hal, as a fellow pilot.
* LoveAtFirstSight: 'Love' might be stretching it, at first, but Hal is more or less starstruck the moment he sees her.
* SamusIsAGirl: When Hal rescues her crashing jet, it's initially ambiguous whether she's male or female, before pulling off her helmet.
* SecretKeeper: She figures out Hal is the man behind the Lantern mask when she gets a close up look at him, despite beingattracted to each other, but this takes a backseat after Carol Ferris returns to severely out of it at the spotlight in Geoff Johns' run.time, and keeps the secret.
* FriendlyRivalry: With Hal, as a fellow pilot.
* LoveAtFirstSight: 'Love' might be stretching it, at first, but Hal is more or less starstruck the moment he sees her.
* SamusIsAGirl: When Hal rescues her crashing jet, it's initially ambiguous whether she's male or female, before pulling off her helmet.
* SecretKeeper: She figures out Hal is the man behind the Lantern mask when she gets a close up look at him, despite being
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->'''First Appearance:''' ''Green Lantern'' Vol 3 #48 (January 1994)
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!!Alexandra [=DeWitt=]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/alex4.jpg]]
Kyle Rayner's girlfriend. Alex was killed by Major Force and stuffed into a refrigerator for Kyle to find; this was the first major tragedy he suffered as a superhero.
* TheLostLenore: To Kyle. Of all the women Kyle has loved and lost, she is the one he always comes back to and serves as his motivation for being Green Lantern — so he could be the man she always thought he could be. [[spoiler:Notably, in all the changed realities Volthoom offered to give Kyle, the one Kyle chose was the one where Alex was alive. He outright stated that he didn’t care about what happened to him, only that she was alive and happy]]. This is later commented on during a talk between Jade and Donna Troy (Kyle's first two girlfriends after Alex), with the former confessing that she feels as if she will always be in Alex's shadow.
* StuffedIntoTheFridge: The unfortunate TropeNamer. Major Force strangles and dismembers her in order to traumatize Kyle.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: She first appears in ''Green Lantern'' Vol. 3 Issue #48. She's killed off in issue #54.
!!Jack Jordan
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jack_jordan.jpg]]
->'''Homeworld:''' Earth
Hal Jordan's older brother. Jack was a lawyer who was elected district attorney of Coast City; he was critical of his brother both in and out of costume. Jack blamed Hal's absence from family affairs for their mother's deteriorating health and eventual death. He ran an unsuccessful campaign for governor of Alaska.
%%* AloofBigBrother: With a side order of BigBrotherBully, often physically losing his temper with Hal when they were kids.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Was revealed to have died between Hal's transformation into Parallax and his rebirth.
%%* TheDutifulSon
!!Jim Jordan
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->'''Homeworld:''' Earth
Hal Jordan's younger brother, Jim works as an office drone for a Coast City insurance company. Jim is quiet and timid--a huge contrast from his daredevil brother--and is overly concerned with safety. He and his family were among the first to move back to Coast City after its reconstruction, but quickly began to consider moving away again due to the city's reputation. However, thanks to Hal's example, Jim decided to stick in there and loosen up with his family.
%%* NiceGuy
%%* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Jim and Hal, respectively.
* UnexplainedRecovery: Hal encounters him as an angel in the afterlife in the ''Spectre'' series, but that doesn't stop him from showing up alive once Hal puts the ring back on in ''Green Lantern''.
!!Jillian "Cowgirl" Pearlman
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->'''Homeworld:''' Earth
Jillian is a pilot in the Air Force (call sign-Cowgirl), working along side Hal Jordan. She was shot down and made a POW, but fought her captors every step of the way before being rescued by Hal as the Green Lantern. She and Hal eventually fell in love. During a date, Carol Ferris, possessed by the Star Sapphire Gem, attacked them. However, after noting that Hal had feelings for Jillian, the Gem transfered to her. Hal and Carol worked together and freed her from the Gem's hold, but the Zamarons arrived and made Hal choose a girl - "winner" became the new Star Sapphire (Hal decided to TakeAThirdOption and chose a Zamaron, forcing them to retreat to deal with it). She and Carol parted on friendly terms, but both love Hal and he is conflicted on which one he will choose in the end.
%%* ActionGirl
%%* BirdsOfAFeather: With Hal.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: After being a love interest for Hal in the early Geoff Johns years, she disappears at the start of ''Blackest Night'', and despite a one-off mention during ''Brightest Day'', wasn't seen again.
%%* NiceHat: The cowboy hat she always wears.
%%* UnresolvedSexualTension
!!Tom "Pieface" Kalmaku
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->'''Homeworld:''' Earth
Ferris Aircraft mechanic and Hal's friend. Tom was aware of Hal's secret identity almost from the start and helped him out in his adventures. Years later, after Tom got married and started a family, Carol Ferris made him a full partner in Ferris Aircraft.
* BerserkButton: In modern stories, he views calling him "Pieface" as is an offensive reference to his Inuit ethnicity.
* OutOfFocus: He's almost never seen these days, but the fact that he's now a CEO means he's probably doing well.
* RefusalOfTheCall:
** After the ''Millennium'' crossover, Tom was chosen by the Guardians to be one of the ''New'' Guardians, but he declined because he had a family to look after.
** He was offered a Green Lantern ring, but declined.
* SecretKeeper: He was one of the first to learn that Hal was the Green Lantern.
%%* {{Sidekick}}: To Hal in UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks.
* SocietyMarchesOn: Tom Kalmaku was called "Pieface" because he was Inuit. (Modern-day stories tried to explain this as a pun on "Eskimo pie", which was never stated in the Silver Age). This nickname was later quietly dropped. Kalmaku debuted in 1959, when the thought of a non-white person being trusted as a SecretKeeper would've been controversial before considering that Hal entrusted Kalmaku with the lantern, and even had Tom replace him as Green Lantern on at least one occasion.
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Kyle Rayner's girlfriend. Alex was killed by Major Force and stuffed into a refrigerator for Kyle to find; this was the first major tragedy he suffered as a superhero.
* TheLostLenore: To Kyle. Of all the women Kyle has loved and lost, she is the one he always comes back to and serves as his motivation for being Green Lantern — so he could be the man she always thought he could be. [[spoiler:Notably, in all the changed realities Volthoom offered to give Kyle, the one Kyle chose was the one where Alex was alive. He outright stated that he didn’t care about what happened to him, only that she was alive and happy]]. This is later commented on during a talk between Jade and Donna Troy (Kyle's first two girlfriends after Alex), with the former confessing that she feels as if she will always be in Alex's shadow.
* StuffedIntoTheFridge: The unfortunate TropeNamer. Major Force strangles and dismembers her in order to traumatize Kyle.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: She first appears in ''Green Lantern'' Vol. 3 Issue #48. She's killed off in issue #54.
!!Jack Jordan
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->'''Homeworld:''' Earth
Hal Jordan's older brother. Jack was a lawyer who was elected district attorney of Coast City; he was critical of his brother both in and out of costume. Jack blamed Hal's absence from family affairs for their mother's deteriorating health and eventual death. He ran an unsuccessful campaign for governor of Alaska.
%%* AloofBigBrother: With a side order of BigBrotherBully, often physically losing his temper with Hal when they were kids.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Was revealed to have died between Hal's transformation into Parallax and his rebirth.
%%* TheDutifulSon
!!Jim Jordan
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->'''Homeworld:''' Earth
Hal Jordan's younger brother, Jim works as an office drone for a Coast City insurance company. Jim is quiet and timid--a huge contrast from his daredevil brother--and is overly concerned with safety. He and his family were among the first to move back to Coast City after its reconstruction, but quickly began to consider moving away again due to the city's reputation. However, thanks to Hal's example, Jim decided to stick in there and loosen up with his family.
%%* NiceGuy
%%* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Jim and Hal, respectively.
* UnexplainedRecovery: Hal encounters him as an angel in the afterlife in the ''Spectre'' series, but that doesn't stop him from showing up alive once Hal puts the ring back on in ''Green Lantern''.
!!Jillian "Cowgirl" Pearlman
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->'''Homeworld:''' Earth
Jillian is a pilot in the Air Force (call sign-Cowgirl), working along side Hal Jordan. She was shot down and made a POW, but fought her captors every step of the way before being rescued by Hal as the Green Lantern. She and Hal eventually fell in love. During a date, Carol Ferris, possessed by the Star Sapphire Gem, attacked them. However, after noting that Hal had feelings for Jillian, the Gem transfered to her. Hal and Carol worked together and freed her from the Gem's hold, but the Zamarons arrived and made Hal choose a girl - "winner" became the new Star Sapphire (Hal decided to TakeAThirdOption and chose a Zamaron, forcing them to retreat to deal with it). She and Carol parted on friendly terms, but both love Hal and he is conflicted on which one he will choose in the end.
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%%* BirdsOfAFeather: With Hal.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: After being a love interest for Hal in the early Geoff Johns years, she disappears at the start of ''Blackest Night'', and despite a one-off mention during ''Brightest Day'', wasn't seen again.
%%* NiceHat: The cowboy hat she always wears.
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!!Tom "Pieface" Kalmaku
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->'''Homeworld:''' Earth
Ferris Aircraft mechanic and Hal's friend. Tom was aware of Hal's secret identity almost from the start and helped him out in his adventures. Years later, after Tom got married and started a family, Carol Ferris made him a full partner in Ferris Aircraft.
* BerserkButton: In modern stories, he views calling him "Pieface" as is an offensive reference to his Inuit ethnicity.
* OutOfFocus: He's almost never seen these days, but the fact that he's now a CEO means he's probably doing well.
* RefusalOfTheCall:
** After the ''Millennium'' crossover, Tom was chosen by the Guardians to be one of the ''New'' Guardians, but he declined because he had a family to look after.
** He was offered a Green Lantern ring, but declined.
* SecretKeeper: He was one of the first to learn that Hal was the Green Lantern.
%%* {{Sidekick}}: To Hal in UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks.
* SocietyMarchesOn: Tom Kalmaku was called "Pieface" because he was Inuit. (Modern-day stories tried to explain this as a pun on "Eskimo pie", which was never stated in the Silver Age). This nickname was later quietly dropped. Kalmaku debuted in 1959, when the thought of a non-white person being trusted as a SecretKeeper would've been controversial before considering that Hal entrusted Kalmaku with the lantern, and even had Tom replace him as Green Lantern on at least one occasion.
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