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* PinnedToTheGround: After Hal refuses to join Sinestro, [[spoiler:Boodikka]] captures him in a tight force field and pins him down with her foot on his chest while he slowly suffocates.
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* FantasticRacism: Most of the Green Lantern Corps (and by proxy, the rest of the galaxy) doesn't think too highly of humans, considering them a primitive and crude race. Which comes off as hypocritical because Hal and Sinestro go to what can be best described as a planet-wide WretchedHive that would make humankind look like saints in comparison.
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* FantasticRacism: Most of the The Green Lantern Corps (and by proxy, the rest of the galaxy) doesn't think too highly of humans, considering them and most Guardians (except Ganthet and to lesser extent Appa) protest when they realize that Hal, a human, was chosen by the ring because they think all humans are primitive and crude race.savages who commit atrocities on a daily basis. Which comes off as hypocritical because Hal and Sinestro go to what can be best described as a planet-wide WretchedHive that would make humankind look like saints in comparison.
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* FantasticRacism: Most of the Green Lantern Corps (and by proxy, the rest of the galaxy) doesn't think too highly of humans, considering them a primitive and crude race. Which comes off as hypocritical because Hal and Sinestro go to what can be best described as a planet-wide WretchedHive that would make humankind look like saints in comparison.
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* AdaptationDistillation: Most of the plot elements are taken right out of ''Emerald Dawn'' and ''Emerald Dawn II'', especially in adapting the denouement of the first for the final battle with Sinestro, who becomes the main antagonist of the latter.
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* AdaptationDistillation: Most of the plot elements are taken right out of ''Emerald Dawn'' and ''Emerald Dawn II'', especially in adapting the denouement of the first for the final battle with Sinestro, who becomes the main antagonist of the latter. However Sinestro is depicted with his iconic yellow and black Sinestro Corps uniform rather than his original blue and black outfit.
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** Kilowog tells Hal he's a brave and bold Green Lantern. "The Brave and the Bold" is an often-used DC title.
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** Kilowog tells Hal he's a brave and bold Green Lantern. "The Brave and the Bold" is an often-used DC title.title
** Sinestro implies he’s going to create his own army, nodding to the Sinestro Corps.
** Sinestro implies he’s going to create his own army, nodding to the Sinestro Corps.
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** In interviews and the behind the scene featurette, the crew also compared it to ''Film/TrainingDay''.
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** In interviews and the behind the scene featurette, the crew also compared it to ''Film/TrainingDay''.
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: Ch'p doesn't suffer his comic counterpart's fate of being run over by a yellow truck and is notably among the Green Lanterns who survives Sinestro's decimation of the Corps.
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: Ch'p doesn't suffer his comic counterpart's fate of being run over by a yellow truck and is notably among the Green Lanterns who survives survive Sinestro's decimation of the Corps.
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In the midst of flight training, Hal (Creator/ChristopherMeloni) is forcibly summoned by a nearby alien who was near death, Abin Sur. Given the GreenLanternRing, he quickly adapts to its powers, but discovers he is one of TheChosenMany of the Green Lantern Corps. Taken to Oa, the central hub of the Corps, he is given to Sinestro (Creator/VictorGarber) to be trained and attempt to prove himself worthy of the ring.
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In the midst of flight training, Hal (Creator/ChristopherMeloni) is forcibly summoned by a nearby alien who was near death, Abin Sur. Given the GreenLanternRing, Green Lantern Ring, he quickly adapts to its powers, but discovers he is one of TheChosenMany of the Green Lantern Corps. Taken to Oa, the central hub of the Corps, he is given to Sinestro (Creator/VictorGarber) to be trained and attempt to prove himself worthy of the ring.
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* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:When the Guardians and the Green Lanterns surrender to Sinestro after he seemingly destroys the Centeral Power Battery, Kilowog still defiantly hangs on to his ring. Sinestro admits he always knew Kilowog would never accept his new order and prepares to kill him before Hal comes in for the rescue.]]
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* ReplacementScrappy: Hal Jordan is an InUniverse Replacement Scrappy for Abin Sur. To Kilowog at least.
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* ReplacementScrappy: Hal Jordan is an InUniverse Replacement Scrappy for Abin Sur. To Sur to Kilowog at least.and many other Lanterns who knew Abin Sur personally.
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--> "Kadmandur was a pustule of a planet. [[WretchedHive A breeding ground of criminal scum.]] [[KillEmAll One time I suggested we clean it out with a meteor shower.]] [[RefugeInAudacity The Guardians thought I was kidding.]]"
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--> "Kadmandur was a pustule of a planet. [[WretchedHive A breeding ground of criminal scum.]] [[KillEmAll One time I suggested we clean it out with a meteor shower.]] shower. [[RefugeInAudacity The Guardians thought I was kidding.]]"
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** [[spoiler: Boodikka winds up fatally impaled, when she didn't die in the comics.]]
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** [[spoiler: Boodikka winds up fatally impaled, when she didn't die in the comics.comics until much later.]]
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* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler: Boodikka winds up fatally impaled, when she didn't die in the comics.]]
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* DeathByAdaptation: DeathByAdaptation:
** Sinestro ends up killing Kanjar Ro, when the villain was still alive in the comics.
** [[spoiler: Boodikka winds up fatally impaled, when she didn't die in the comics.]]
** Sinestro ends up killing Kanjar Ro, when the villain was still alive in the comics.
** [[spoiler: Boodikka winds up fatally impaled, when she didn't die in the comics.]]
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I've said this before and I'll say it again. Out-of-context quotes don't always tell us everything about how the scene counts as an example.
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* InterrogatingTheDead: "I'm reconnecting synapses for some information. This shouldn't take long..."
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* InterrogatingTheDead: "I'm reconnecting Sinestro finds out where the yellow ring is by using his ring to reconnect the synapses for some information. This shouldn't take long..."in Kanjar Ro's corpse.
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* EvilCostumeSwitch: Sinestro, though he was pretty far gone already.
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* EvilCostumeSwitch: Sinestro, Sinestro switches to his then-recent Sinestro Corps outfit after he gets his yellow ring, though he was pretty far gone already.
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* AdaptedOut: As Hal Jordan is the main focus, the other human Green Lanterns Guy Gardner and John Stewart are left out (Simon Baz, Jessica Cruz and Jo Mullein didn't exist yet).
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* AdaptedOut: As Hal Jordan is the main focus, the other human Green Lanterns Guy Gardner and Gardner, John Stewart and Kyle Rayner are left out (Simon Baz, Jessica Cruz and Jo Mullein didn't exist yet).
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* AdaptationalBackstory: While still a Green Lantern who turns renegade and obtains a yellow power ring, the circumstances of Sinestro's origin are changed for this movie. Rather than being banished to Qward by the Guardians as punishment for abusing his power and taking over his own planet as well as having the Weaponers of Qward make him a yellow ring afterwards, Sinestro had been planning a coup against the Green Lantern Corps and finds his yellow ring by conspiring with Kanjar Ro and persuading the Weaponers to give him the ring after traveling to Qward.
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* AdaptationalBackstory: AdaptationalBackstoryChange: While still a Green Lantern who turns renegade and obtains a yellow power ring, the circumstances of Sinestro's origin are changed for this movie. Rather than being banished to Qward by the Guardians as punishment for abusing his power and taking over his own planet as well as having the Weaponers of Qward make him a yellow ring afterwards, Sinestro had been planning a coup against the Green Lantern Corps and finds his yellow ring by conspiring with Kanjar Ro and persuading the Weaponers to give him the ring after traveling to Qward.
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* AdaptationalBackstory: While still a Green Lantern who turns renegade and obtains a yellow power ring, the circumstances of Sinestro's origin are changed for this movie. Rather than being banished to Qward by the Guardians as punishment for abusing his power and taking over his own planet as well as having the Weaponers of Qward make him a yellow ring afterwards, Sinestro had been planning a coup against the Green Lantern Corps and finds his yellow ring by conspiring with Kanjar Ro and persuading the Weaponers to give him the ring after traveling to Qward.
* AdaptationalJerkass: A minor case with Tomar Re and Ch'p, who are both distrustful of Hal Jordan upon first meeting him, when in the comics they got along with him rather well from the start.
* AdaptationalJerkass: A minor case with Tomar Re and Ch'p, who are both distrustful of Hal Jordan upon first meeting him, when in the comics they got along with him rather well from the start.
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* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler: Boodikka and Tomar Re.]]
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* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler: Boodikka and Tomar Re.winds up fatally impaled, when she didn't die in the comics.]]
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** [[spoiler:Boodikka]].
[[spoiler:Boodikka turns out to be in league with Sinestro's coup and goes down trying to kill Hal Jordan]].
**SinestroSinestro, per usual, is a Green Lantern who ends up betraying the rest of the Corps.
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* GreenLanternRingHeroKiller: Sinestro ends up slaughtering tons of Green Lanterns after getting his yellow ring.
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* DiesDifferentlyInTheAdaptation:
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* DiesDifferentlyInTheAdaptation:DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation:
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* AdaptationalUgliness:
** Abin Sur traditionally had the appearance of a bald human with red skin, while this incarnation has more wrinkles and vestigial protrusions on his chin.
** Kanjar Ro is given a less humanoid appearance, lacking a nose, having tentacles below his mouth and a pointier head.
** The Weaponers of Qward notably look less human than they did in the comics, complete with black eyes, pointed ears and multiple insectoid legs.
** Abin Sur traditionally had the appearance of a bald human with red skin, while this incarnation has more wrinkles and vestigial protrusions on his chin.
** Kanjar Ro is given a less humanoid appearance, lacking a nose, having tentacles below his mouth and a pointier head.
** The Weaponers of Qward notably look less human than they did in the comics, complete with black eyes, pointed ears and multiple insectoid legs.
* AdaptedOut: As Hal Jordan is the main focus, the other human Green Lanterns Guy Gardner and John Stewart are left out (Simon Baz, Jessica Cruz and Jo Mullein didn't exist yet).
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* BigBad: Sinestro, a traitorous Lantern trying to create order through fear.
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* BigBad: Sinestro, a traitorous Lantern trying Sinestro turns out to create be behind the conflict, intending to obtain the yellow power ring in order through fear.to destroy the other Green Lanterns.
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** The "Secret Origin" arc that came out about a year prior to this film established that Abin Sur was dying in the first place because of mortal injuries inflicted upon him by Atrocitus. In this continuity, he is instead mortally wounded by an underling of Kanjar Ro's named Cuch.
** Tomar Re in the comics was killed by Hal Jordan's enemy Goldface, but here he is instead among the Green Lanterns slaughtered by Sinestro after Sinestro obtained the yellow power ring.
** The "Secret Origin" arc that came out about a year prior to this film established that Abin Sur was dying in the first place because of mortal injuries inflicted upon him by Atrocitus. In this continuity, he is instead mortally wounded by an underling of Kanjar Ro's named Cuch.
** Tomar Re in the comics was killed by Hal Jordan's enemy Goldface, but here he is instead among the Green Lanterns slaughtered by Sinestro after Sinestro obtained the yellow power ring.
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* NotSoDifferent: Sinestro tries to compare himself and Hal.
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* NotSoDifferent: NotSoDifferentRemark: Sinestro tries to compare himself and Hal.
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* SuperHeroOrigin: Subversion, while they do show how Hal got the ring, they decided to skip this and move straight on to the plot. Though the reason for the subversion is because of both the live-action ''Film/GreenLantern'' movie was expected to cover it, and ''[[ComicBook/DCTheNewFrontier Justice League: The New Frontier]]'' covered a good deal of it in animated form and was done by much of the same crew as ''First Flight''.
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* SuperHeroOrigin: Subversion, while they do show how Hal got the ring, they decided to skip this and move straight on to the plot. Though the reason for the subversion is because of both the live-action ''Film/GreenLantern'' ''Film/GreenLantern2011'' movie was expected to cover it, and ''[[ComicBook/DCTheNewFrontier Justice League: The New Frontier]]'' covered a good deal of it in animated form and was done by much of the same crew as ''First Flight''.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler: Boodikka in the comics is a loyal Green Lantern, whereas in the film, she's sided with Sinestro in his coup.]]
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* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler: Boodikka [[spoiler:Boodikka]] in the comics is a loyal Green Lantern, whereas in the film, she's [[spoiler:she's sided with Sinestro in his coup.]]
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Hal is treated as an outcast by the entire Corp merely because he's a ''human''.
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* TheScrappy: In-universe Hal is treated as an outcast by the entire Corp merely because he's a ''human''.
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Okay one was the year before but I don’t think the reception helped with any decisions
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One was the same year and one came later
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* PragmaticAdaptation: The film focuses a little on Hal's origin, before spending the rest of it developing his rivalry with Sinestro. Given that Hal's origin was explored in both ''[[ComicBook/DCTheNewFrontier Justice League: The New Frontier]]'' and ''Film/GreenLantern'', neither of which was as well-received as ''First Flight'', it was probably a wise choice.
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* PragmaticAdaptation: The film focuses a little on Hal's origin, before spending the rest of it developing his rivalry with Sinestro. Given that Hal's origin was explored in both ''[[ComicBook/DCTheNewFrontier Justice League: The New Frontier]]'' and ''Film/GreenLantern'', neither of which was as well-received as ''First Flight'', it was probably a wise choice.
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* RabidCop: Sinestro,
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* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Boodikka]].
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** [[spoiler:Boodikka]].
** [[spoiler:Boodikka]].
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* PossessionImpliesMastery: Hal seems to have no problem adapting to his new powers.
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** Hal seems to have no problem adapting to his new powers.
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* ShoutOut: one of the Lanterns is apparently [[Anime/SailorMoon moonlighting as a Sailor Scout]].
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** one of the Lanterns is apparently [[Anime/SailorMoon moonlighting as a Sailor Scout]].
** one of the Lanterns is apparently [[Anime/SailorMoon moonlighting as a Sailor Scout]].
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* RabidCop: Sinestro, big time. The filmmakers compare him to Alonzo Harris in the DVD extras.
* RabidCop: Sinestro, big time. The filmmakers compare him to Alonzo Harris in the DVD extras.
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