History Fridge / GreenLantern

* There's a whole story arc where the AbsoluteXenophobe [[PlanetOfHats planet of Daxam]] is invaded by the Sinestro Corps, who take up residence and make it a base, and it's up to Green Lanterns Arisia Rrab and her partner Sodam Yat - apparently the only Daxamite adult ''not'' to be a horrible anti-alien xenophobe - to deal with it. Sodam Yat is actually initially unsympathetic to his own home planet's plight, ''because'' of their horrible racism, but Arisia manages to convince him that it's their duty to save them anyway. Because they have no backup able to arrive soon enough from the GLC but Daxamites are partly descended from Kryptonians, this results in them resorting to the tactic of Sodam Yat using Ion, for whom he is the current [[WillingChanneler Torchbearer]], to turn Daxam's red star yellow, activating the population's hidden Superman-like powers; Arisia then trains them how to deal with their powers and use them in battle, and subsequently leads them in a successful coup against the Sinestro Corps invasion. Of course, the adult Daxamites must have missed the obvious Aesop that this means not all aliens (Arisia after all is non-native to their world) are awful, because they immediately turn on her and tell her to get the hell off their planet because now that they have superpowers, they don't ''need'' her. She [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech calls Sodam Yat's own father a racist]] and [[KickTheSonOfABitch punches him]] for his lack of gratitude in the face of his son's sacrifice - because turning the star yellow required Sodam Yat to ''[[HeroicSacrifice stay inside of it]]'' - but he just ''smirks'' at her. It's a frustrating DownerEnding and we're meant to feel bad for Arisia and Sodam Yat and to be just ''itching'' to see the Daxamites' comeuppance. So it's a ''good'' thing that Ion later gets mysteriously torn out of Sodam Yat so that the star is no longer yellow, and revokes the superpowers of those xenophobic monsters, right? Wrong: FridgeHorror kicks in, because it's canonically stated that a LOT of Daxamites who were using their powers of [[FlyingBrick invulnerability, flight, etc.]], when the star cut back to red, ''died'' from said powers suddenly going away. Which sounds like an awesome KickTheSonOfABitch, HoistByHisOwnPetard, KarmicDeath moment...right up until you remember that there were ''children'' on Daxam, some of whom [[ChildrenAreInnocent reacted positively to Arisia in the original arc]] and clearly ''weren't'' yet irreversibly corrupted by their elders' racist fear-mongering (meaning, [[AnAesop the racism is purely cultural]], not genetic). Given the sheer number of Daxamites killed in the mass-depowering event, what do you think the chances of ''all'' those deaths being out of the super-racist adults are, compared to the possibility that a number of perfectly innocent, still-redeemable children just died horribly by say, being crushed by heavy objects they'd picked up, or falling to their death during an innocent aerial sports game?

* It's surprising that such a non-racist guy like Sodam Yat - who even has budding {{UST}} with a member of another species - could have come from a planet of {{Absolute Xenophobe}}s like Daxam, isn't it? Except as we see in the horrifying treatment of the corpses of aliens they've found (a taxidermy museum where they're made to look much more frightening than they were when alive), the adults on Daxam actively use ''fear'' to instill hatred of aliens in the next generation. So, what, growing up in such a culture, could have possibly changed Sodam Yat's mind? Why, meeting an actual alien, who befriended him after crashing his ship on his world, of course! Sure, classic "get to know them and realize you're NotSoDifferent" [[AnAesop Aesop]], right? Except that the same Aesop does ''not'' stick with the adults on Daxam, even ''after'' Arisia, an alien who was ''Sodam Yat's partner in the Green Lantern Corps'' no less, helps them expel the Sinestro Corps invaders from their world. So it still begs the question of what made ''Sodam Yat'' so different from the other Daxamites? Well, he had to be willing to be ''around'' said alien to make friends in the first place, despite having been raised in such a hateful, fear-mongering culture, right? Except that's just it: it's a ''fear''-mongering culture. And Green Lanterns universally have the [[ArcWords Ability to Overcome Great Fear]]. He was able to work up the nerve to interact with the friendly alien and have his whole view of other worlds and peoples completely shifted, ''because'' he didn't give in to his culture's attempts to instill fear in him. Folks, Sodam Yat ended up not being a racist like his parents, for the ''exact'' same reason that he was chosen as a Green Lantern.

* The ''Franchise/GreenLantern: Rise of the Manhunters'' video game, in its loading screen will occasionally show a message along the lines of "The GreenLanternRing generates its bearer's costume, based upon physiology & culture", which just seems to be a note about every Lantern having a different costume. The FridgeBrilliance kicks in when you realize that there's a piece of free {{DLC}} available, which unlocks Hal's costume from the comics... or rather, unlocks a re-skin of his movie costume to resemble to one he wears in the comics. ''The ring is generating Hal's costume based upon if the player is more familiar with the comics or movie''.
* In the [[Film/GreenLantern2011 Film]], [[spoiler:Sinestro]] didn't steal the newly-forged Yellow Ring which Hal advised that no one should use... it broke out on its own and ''chose'' him.

* Many complain about the entirely digital costume used for the live action version, but it makes sense. The suit is created out of energy, so using real materials would destroy that illusion. It doesn't look realistic because it isn't meant to, being made of energy.