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Alexandra DeWitt
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.
- The Lost Lenore: 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. 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.
- Small Role, Big Impact: 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 Trope Namer for being Stuffed into the Fridge.
- Stuffed into the Fridge: An untimely visit from Major Force turned her into the Trope Namer when he killed her and left her body in the fridge for Kyle to find.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: She first appears in Green Lantern Vol. 3 Issue #48. She's killed off in issue #54.
Jack Jordan
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.
- Aloof Big Brother: With a side order of Big Brother Bully, often physically losing his temper with Hal when they were kids. He wasn't very close to Hal.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: He was abruptly killed off alongside his wife in the eighth issue of J.M. DeMatteis's run on The Spectre, leaving Hal the responsibility of looking after their daughter Helen.
- The Dutiful Son: He gave Hal a hard time for not doing as their mother asked, and as implied by his words and Hal's inner monologue, derailed his own path to care for their mother.
Jim Jordan
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.
- Action Survivor: He's Hal Jordan's brother, requiring this, and he's stared down Parallax at least once, during the Sinestro Corps War.
- Character Development: 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.
- Good Parents: He's an example of Parents as People 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.
- Happily Married: 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.
- Hidden Depths: 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.
- Nice Guy: He's a very amiable man and gives his brother Hal helpful advice on being the hero he's supposed to be.
- Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Jim and Hal, respectively, with Jim being the quiet and sensitive type who's averse to risk and Happily Married, and Hal being the hotshot fighter pilot who goes through girls like water.
- Unexplained Recovery: 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
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 Take a Third Option 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.
- Ace Pilot: She's a pilot in the same league as Hal himself, with a legitimate claim to be his rival.
- Action Girl: She's an exceptional fighter pilot and an excellent hand to hand fighter, even with her hands while bound.
- Betty and Veronica: 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.
- Birds of a Feather: With Hal, which is why they're immediately drawn to each other, with a friendly rivalry and Unresolved Sexual Tension that is eventually resolved.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: 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.
- Demonic Possession: 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.
- Everyone Loves Blondes: 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.
- Friendly Rivalry: With Hal, as a fellow pilot.
- Love at First Sight: '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.
- Samus Is a Girl: When Hal rescues her crashing jet, it's initially ambiguous whether she's male or female, before pulling off her helmet.
- Secret-Keeper: She figures out Hal is the man behind the Lantern mask when she gets a close up look at him, despite being severely out of it at the time, and keeps the secret.
Tom "Pieface" Kalmaku
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.
- Berserk Button: In modern stories, calling him "Pieface" enrages him because it's an offensive reference to his Inuit ethnicity.
- Out of Focus: He's almost never seen these days, but the fact that he's now a CEO means he's probably doing well.
- Refusal of the Call:
- 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.
- Secret-Keeper: He was one of the first to learn that Hal was the Green Lantern.
- Sidekick: He was Hal's sidekick in The Silver Age of Comic Books.
