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* BigWhy: In Issue #40, the Guardians of the Universe tell Hal Jordan to [[TurnInYourBadge turn in his Power Ring and uniform]], since he being replaced by Alan Scott. Hal reacts with a BigWhat and rants about how invaluable he was for the Guardians up until then, ending with three consecutive "Why?"s, each bigger than the last.
* ClarkKenting: Hal Jordan did this to protect his identity.
* DastardlyWhiplash: Sinestro.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Hal Jordan inventing the name "Green Lantern" or writing his own oath for use when he charges his ring (and there's even a story dedicated to what inspired each line!). Later on, every power ring user would be called a Green Lantern, and most of them used the same oath, leaving writers to retroactively explain these early discrepancies. Even the uniform was actual cloth, which Hal took from Abin Sur, rather than being formed from energy as it would be later on. The Green Lantern Corps is structured quite differently in early Silver Age issues. The first Green Lantern Hal ever meets apart from Abin Sur is Tomar-Re, who tells him that no one knows where the Guardians of the Universe live, and that most Green Lanterns work in isolation, receiving orders through the power batteries. A few issues later we see the first ever meeting of multiple Green Lanterns, and this time they do go to Oa in order to stop Sinestro. Every time the series deals with the Corps, the concept evolves just a little bit more.
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** Hal's uniform was originally not made of the ring's energy, but was instead taken from Abin Sur after Abin died. HalJordan inventing himself came up with the name "Green Lantern" or writing his own Green Lantern moniker, naming himself after the power battery. Hal's ring also didn't automatically translate alien languages, he had to figure out that the ring could translate and then make it happen. And he actually designed and built the flight simulator he was operating when Abin Sur's search beam found him, so he was a lot more technically adept than he's become in modern stories.
** Hal created the oathfor use he recites when he charges recharges his ring (and there's even ring, based on three early adventures he had as a story dedicated to what inspired each line!).rookie. Later on, every power ring user would be called a Green Lantern, and most of them used the same oath, leaving writers to retroactively explain these early discrepancies. Even the uniform was actual cloth, which Hal took from Abin Sur, rather than being formed from energy as it would be later on.
** The Green Lantern Corps is structured quite differently in early Silver Age issues. The first Green Lantern Hal ever meets apart from Abin Sur is Tomar-Re, who tells him that no one knows where the Guardians of the Universe live, and that mostGreen Lanterns [=GLs=] work in isolation, receiving orders through the power batteries. A few issues later we see the first ever meeting of multiple Green Lanterns, and this time they do go to Oa in order to stop Sinestro. Every time the series deals with the Corps, the concept evolves just a little bit more.more.
*** The isolation part was retained in ''Secret Origin'', where the Lanterns aren't allowed to go into another's sector without permission from the Guardians. Sinestro breaks the protocol under orders from Ganthet to find Abin Sur. On arriving at Oa, Hal asks why this rule even exists. The Guardians just yell at him not to question them.
** For those who only know the Guardians for their modern, emotionless characterization, the sight of Guardians crying at the death of Hal Jordan at the hands of Dr. Polaris in issue #46 would seem very strange. The Guardians are as overcome with emotion at Hal's death as the rest of the Lanterns are.
** Hal's uniform was originally not made of the ring's energy, but was instead taken from Abin Sur after Abin died. Hal
** Hal created the oath
** The Green Lantern Corps is structured quite differently in early Silver Age issues. The first Green Lantern Hal ever meets apart from Abin Sur is Tomar-Re, who tells him that no one knows where the Guardians of the Universe live, and that most
*** The isolation part was retained in ''Secret Origin'', where the Lanterns aren't allowed to go into another's sector without permission from the Guardians. Sinestro breaks the protocol under orders from Ganthet to find Abin Sur. On arriving at Oa, Hal asks why this rule even exists. The Guardians just yell at him not to question them.
** For those who only know the Guardians for their modern, emotionless characterization, the sight of Guardians crying at the death of Hal Jordan at the hands of Dr. Polaris in issue #46 would seem very strange. The Guardians are as overcome with emotion at Hal's death as the rest of the Lanterns are.
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* TheExile: In issue #151, Hal Jordan is exiled from Earth for a year by the Guardians, as punishment for not responding to a distress call from Ungara because he was helping Carol Ferris with business problems. Normally such an offense would have meant expulsion from the Corps, but his exemplary record saved him from that fate.
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* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: The power ring gains various new abilities that weren't there before as needed by the plot.
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* SecretKeeper: Tom Kalmaku for Hal Jordan.
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* TyrannicalTownTycoon: In ''Green Lantern/Green Arrow'' #77, Green Lantern and Green Arrow come across the town of [[DyingTown Desolation]], ruled over by the tyrannical Mine Owner [[SmallTownTyrant Slapper Soams]]. His mine being the only employer in the area, grants Soams power to the point that the towns police are not only his goons but mercenary [[FormerRegimePersonnel former Nazis]]. When a worker, Johnny, starts singing protest songs, Soams has him arrested, put through a show trial and sentenced to hang. Soams even sparks his workers to rebel, solely so his guards can kill a third of them and thus cow the remainders into permanent unquestioning obedience to him.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Guy Gardner around the time of the Crisis. He has no real redeeming qualities, responds to kindness with hostility, and seems willing to kill Hal Jordan for disobeying orders.
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* OverpopulationCrisis: In GL/GA #81, the original homeworld of the Guardians, Maltus, is suffering from overpopulation. It's not helped by Mother Juna, who is cloning people en masse because she can't have children of her own.
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* LivingDinosaurs: The Yellow alien Pterodactyls that Hal fights in his first off-planet mission.
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* StrawmanPolitical: Denny O'Neil's first round of Green Lantern/Green Arrow practically ran on this trope. In the "Hard-Travelling Heroes" arc of the '70s, Hal was portrayed as an unquestioning tool of the establishment for [[WriterOnBoard Green Arrow]] to knock down.
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* PowerLimiter: The Guardians of the Universe are themselves the PowerLimiter in this series. While Hal is on a leave of absence during the early Green Lantern/Green Arrow issues, the Guardians deliberately reduce the power levels of his ring, to the point that he is no longer automatically protected from mortal harm. In-story it makes no sense for them to risk the life of a highly trained and effective member of their Corps this way, but it was a way for Denny O'Neil to cut back the overpowered Green Lantern abilities that would let Hal easily solve a lot of the problems that Green Lantern and Green Arrow encountered.
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* PowerLimiter: The Guardians of the Universe are themselves the PowerLimiter in this series. While Hal is on a leave of absence during the early Green Lantern/Green Arrow issues, the Guardians deliberately reduce the power levels of his ring, to the point that he is no longer automatically protected from mortal harm. In-story it makes no sense for them to risk the life of a highly trained and effective member of their Corps this way, but it was a way for Denny O'Neil to cut back the overpowered Green Lantern abilities that would let Hal easily solve a lot of the problems that Green Lantern and Green Arrow encountered. Later Green Lantern series would show that Guardians have near complete control over the power rings if they choose to exercise it, down to instantly depowering a ring.
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* PowerLimiter: The Guardians of the Universe are themselves the PowerLimiter in this series. While Hal is on a leave of absence during the early Green Lantern/Green Arrow issues, the Guardians deliberately reduce the power levels of his ring, to the point that he is no longer automatically protected from mortal harm. In-story it makes no sense for them to risk the life of a highly trained and effective member of their Corps this way, but it was a way for Denny O'Neil to cut back the overpowered Green Lantern abilities that would let Hal easily solve a lot of the problems that Green Lantern and Green Arrow encountered.
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* HeroicWillpower: Willpower is what fuels the Green Lantern rings.
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* DramaPreservingHandicap: This is the whole point of the 24 hour time limit on the ring's charge and the yellow weakness. Both prevent a Green Lantern from being pretty much invincible, and there are numerous examples of one or the other kicking in to cause difficulties for Hal or another Green Lantern so a problem or foe won't be too easy to beat.
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* EvilCounterpart: Sinestro for the Green Lanterns. There is also a short-lived Sinestro Corps in one Silver Age issue, and the Anti-Green Lantern Corps from GL #150.
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* {{Omnibus}}: The entire Silver Age of Green Lantern, Showcase #22-24 and Green Lantern #1-#75, has been collected by DC in two very large hardcover volumes.
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* {{Omnibus}}: The entire Silver Age of Green Lantern, Showcase #22-24 and Green Lantern #1-#75, has been collected by DC in two very large hardcover volumes. A Green Lantern/Green Arrow omnibus covering the early years of the Bronze Age is due out in 2024.
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* CallingTheOldManOut: Roy Harper blames Oliver Queen for Roy's own heroin addiction, essentially accusing Oliver of causing it by being an absentee mentor and father.
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* TheUnmasking: Hal finally removes his mask and tells Carol that he's Green Lantern in issue #83.
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* TranslatorMicrobes: Interestingly, the ring doesn't automatically translate the alien language the first time Hal heads off to an alien planet. He has to think of the possibility and make the ring translate before it happens. Afterwards either it becomes an automatic function, or we just don't see him willing the translation.
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* TranslatorMicrobes: Interestingly, the ring doesn't automatically translate the alien language the first time Hal heads off to an alien planet. He has to think of the possibility and make the ring translate before it happens. Afterwards either it becomes an automatic function, or we just don't see him willing the translation.
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* CreatorsFavorite: Oliver Queen/Green Arrow for Denny O'Neil.
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* RichesToRags: Oliver Queen's backstory. For most of his superhero career he was a wealthy businessman, but just prior to becoming the co-lead with issue #76, his business and fortune had been stolen, and he'd been left virtually penniless. It might explain his anger and cynicism when he first runs into Hal in Star City right before they start their road trip around America, given that it's only just happened to him. He's still adjusting to suddenly being on the other side after having wealth for many years of his life.
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* BackFromTheDead: Hal Jordan overrides the reserve power in the ring that protects him from mortal harm in order to save Tom Kalmaku's life, and is actually killed by Dr. Polaris. The Guardians bring his lifeless body to Oa and are actually overcome with emotion, as are a number of other Green Lanterns. This is no fakeout, Hal is genuinely dead, but fortunately for him, one of his periodic summons to the 58th century happens at exactly this time, and he is revived by 58th century science.
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* BackFromTheDead: Hal Jordan overrides the reserve power in the ring that protects him from mortal harm in order to save Tom Kalmaku's life, and as a result has no protection and is actually killed by Dr. Polaris. The Guardians bring his lifeless body to Oa and are actually overcome with emotion, as are a number of other Green Lanterns. This is no fakeout, Hal is genuinely dead, but fortunately for him, one of his periodic summons to the 58th century happens at exactly this time, and he is revived by 58th century science.
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* BackFromTheDead: Hal Jordan overrides the reserve power in the ring that protects him from mortal harm in order to save Tom Kalmaku's life, and is actually killed by Dr. Polaris. The Guardians bring his lifeless body to Oa and are actually overcome with emotion, as are a number of other Green Lanterns. This is no fakeout, Hal is genuinely dead, but fortunately for him, one of his periodic summons to the 58th century happens at exactly this time, and he is revived by 58th century science.
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* EngineeredPublicConfession: How Jubal Slade's illegal activities are uncovered. Hal uses the ring to disguise himself as one of Slade's thugs, and when Slade asks him about attempting to kill Green Arrow, the District Attorney is nearby with Green Arrow to hear the statement.
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* Hypocrite: John Stewart rightly condemning a racist Senator who is running for President, then turning around and calling Hal Jordan "whitey". Hal calls him out on it.
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* Hypocrite: John Stewart rightly condemning a racist Senator who is running for President, then turning around and calling Hal Jordan "whitey". Hal calls him out on it.
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* BestFriend: For a long time Hal's best friend is Tom Kalmaku. Barry Allen and Oliver Queen are his other closest friends, though Oliver is more of a VitriolicBestBuds given how often he and Hal butt heads.
