Green Lantern is a group of superheroic characters appearing in various DC Comics media.
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Ongoing Comics
- Green Lantern (1941) (1941-1949): The first volume of Green Lantern, focusing on Alan Scott.
- Green Lantern volume 2 (1960-1986) Hal Jordan's first ongoing series, which spans both the Silver and Bronze Ages. Introduces most of Hal's classic supporting cast and villains, along with the Green Lantern Corps. Both Guy Gardner and John Stewart first appear within the pages of this series. With issue 200 the book was retitled Green Lantern Corps.
- Green Lantern volume 3 (1990-2004) The first 50 issues primarily star Hal Jordan. Then the Emerald Twilight storyline occurs, the Corps is destroyed, Hal becomes Parallax, and the remainder of the series stars Kyle Rayner as the last Green Lantern.
- Green Lantern volume 4 (2005-2011) Written by Geoff Johns, restores both Hal Jordan and the Corps, and is known for the Sinestro Corps War and Blackest Night storylines. Probably the most popular and successful Green Lantern era in the history of the characters.
- Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps (2016-2018): Part of the DC Rebirth initiative, this focuses on Hal Jordan, Guy Gardner, John Stewart and Kyle Rayner in wider space opera type stories while Simon and Jessica defend Earth in the main book.
- Green Lanterns (2016-2018): Part of the DC Rebirth initiative, this stars rookie Lanterns Simon Baz and Jessica Cruz as they learn to work together to defend the Earth.
- The Green Lantern (2018-2021): Grant Morrison and Liam Sharp's run centered around Hal Jordan.
- Green Lantern (Infinite Frontier) (2021-2022): Part of the DC Infinite Frontier initiative that sees John Stewart thrust into the leadership position as Corps and the rest of the DC Cosmic Universe undergoes a political re-shuffling.
- Green Lantern (2023) (2023-resent). Part of the Dawn of DC initiative, relaunching the adventures of Hal Jordan in the wake of Dark Crisis.
Comics Storylines
- The Death of Superman (1992-1993): While officially a Superman event, the destruction of Coast City in the process would have massive ramifications on Green Lantern.
- Emerald Twilight (1994): After losing Coast City, Hal goes mad and becomes Parallax, tearing down the Green Lantern Corps and everything connected with it.
- Green Lantern: A New Dawn (1994): In the wake of Emerald Twilight, this is the debut of Kyle Rayner as the new and now only Green Lantern.
- Zero Hour: Crisis in Time! (1994): A Crisis Crossover notable here because Parallax was the Big Bad.
- Final Night (1996): Hal's Redemption Equals Death.
- The Spectre (2001-2003): Hal Jordan's soul is the Spectre's host during this run (after being set up in 1999's Day of Judgement event).
- Green Lantern: Rebirth (2004-2005): Geoff Johns' launch on the title, where he restores everything that was demolished in Emerald Twilight.
- Sinestro Corps War (2007)
- Blackest Night (2009): A major crossover event involving the entire DC Universe being forced to face a Zombie Apocalypse made entirely of the heroes and villains' dead comrades, with the Lanterns at the center of it.
- Brightest Day (2010-2011): A line-wide branding featuring the fallout from Blackest Night.
- Rise of the Third Army (2012-2013): The end of Johns' run on the franchise.
- Wrath of the First Lantern (2013): Part two to Rise of the Third Army
- Lights Out (2013)
- Red Daughter of Krypton (2014): A crossover between Red Lanterns and Supergirl, the series follows Kara-Zor-El when one too many tragedies causes her to snap and lands a Red Lantern ring on her finger.
- Green Lantern: Godhead (2014-2015)
- Green Lantern: The Lost Army (2015-2016)
Other Comics Titles
- Green Lantern/Green Arrow (1983-1984)
- Green Lantern Corps (1986-1988, 2006-2015): A second book starring Lanterns not appearing in the main Green Lantern title.
- The New Guardians (1988-1989): We use the term "spin-off" very loosely in this case, as it's a book that has little in common with the rest of the franchise except for a few characters.
- Guy Gardner, later Guy Gardner: Warrior (1992-1996): An attempt to retool Guy outside the Corps as a '90s Anti-Hero, first with Sinestro's ring and then with his own power to create weapons.
- Flash & Green Lantern: The Brave and The Bold (1999): A miniseries spotlighting the friendship and history between Hal Jordan and The Flash (Barry Allen).
- Green Lantern: Emerald Warriors (2010-2011): Starring Guy Gardner during the Brightest Day era as he explores the fringes of space for a hidden threat to the Corps.
- Planet of the Apes/Green Lantern (2017): A crossover with Planet of the Apes that takes place after the events of the original film and has the conflict revolve around Cornelius finding the Universal Ring, an artifact constructed by the Guardians with power over every color of the emotional spectrum.
- Red Lanterns (2011-2015): A New 52 series about the the Red Lantern Corps.
- Green Lantern: New Guardians (2011-2015): Unrelated to the 80s New Guardians, this New 52 series draws members from each of the seven Lantern corps of Johns' run into a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits.
- Larfleeze (2013-2014)
- Sinestro (2014-2016)
- Star Trek/Green Lantern (2015-2017): A crossover with the characters from Star Trek (2009), where the DC Universe is destroyed by a second Blackest Night, resulting the surviving Lanterns winding up in the Kelvin Timeline and dealing with the fallout of many of its characters acquiring power rings.
- Far Sector (2019-2020): A twelve issue mini-series from Young Animal. Newly deputized Green Lantern Sojourner "Jo" Mullein polices a massive city that keeps its inhabitants safe by removing their emotions when chaos begins to break loose.
Film
- Green Lantern (2011), featuring Hal Jordan (played by Ryan Reynolds).
- DC Extended Universe:
- An alien Green Lantern helped repel the first invasion of Earth by the Apokoliptian New God Steppenwolf several millennia before present-day and got killed by him in Justice League (2017).
- In Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021), the same alien Green Lantern helped repel the invasion by Darkseid instead of Steppenwolf. There is more footage of him in this version, as well as a dead Kilowog in the Bad Future. Zack Snyder shot a post-credits scene that included a cameo from John Stewart played by Wayne T. Carr but Warner Bros vetoed it.
- A Green Lantern Corps film project is currently in Development Hell (which may or may not be this way because of the below HBO Max series).
- DC League of Super-Pets (2022), featuring Jessica Cruz (voiced by Dascha Polanco) and Chip (voiced by Diego Luna).
Live-Action TV
- A Green Lantern series from producer Greg Berlanti (the Arrowverse) was announced to be in development for HBO Max in October 2019. Spanning multiple decades, the series was said to feature Alan Scott, Guy Gardner, Jessica Cruz, Sinestro, Kilowog and Simon Baz as major characters.
- In January 2023, James Gunn and Peter Safran announced a series titled Lanterns as part of their revamp
of DC Studios. The series will be a True Detective- inspired sci-fi mystery story following Hal Jordan and John Stewart that will play an important part in Gunn and Safran’s overall story for the slate. The project will be separate from the Berlanti series, which will not move forward.
Video Games
- Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters: A sequel game to the 2011 film, that sees Hal Jordan confront a ugly part of the Corps past as the Manhunters return to wreak havoc on the universe.
- LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham: The Green Lantern franchise and its concepts are central to the game's plot.
- Scribblenauts Unmasked: Series protagonist Maxwell is dragged into the world of DC comics, where he meets Hal Jordan. Other members of the Green Lantern Corps appear as well as Lanterns from the other colors of the spectrum. Maxwell can also become a member of any of the Lantern Corps by summoning their rings.
- Injustice: Gods Among Us and Injustice 2: The Fighting Game series features the Green Lantern mythos as part of the storyline, with Hal Jordan and John Stewart appearing as playable characters in both games. Additionally, Sinestro shows up as a playable character in the first game, while Atrocitus is available in the sequel.
Western Animation
- Green Lantern: First Flight: An origin story for Hal Jordan, showing how he was recruited into the Corps and helping to save it from destruction in spite of the mistrust he faces at the hands of his comrades.
- Green Lantern: Emerald Knights: A standalone film (though similarly stylized to First Flight that shows the Corps dealing with a major crisis, all while various Lanterns explain to their newest recruit many of the key legends surrounding the Corps.
- Young Justice (2010): The Corps, particularly John, Hal, and Guy, play minor roles in the series. Season 4 also adds a version of the events of Green Lantern: The Animated Series to its canon by picking up its story.
- Green Lantern: The Animated Series: A CGI series stylized in a manner similar to the DCAU, the show sees Hal Jordan join forces with Kilwog, a sentient A.I. named Aya, and a troubled Red Lantern named Razer, as this unlikely group of heroes travels the Lost Sector to prevent Atrocitus and his Red Lantern Corps from unleashing their rage upon the universe.
- Justice League vs. The Fatal Five: A sequel set after the events of Justice League, Jessica Cruz is the primary focus when the Fatal Five—arch enemies of the Legion of Superheroes—travel back in time to use her power to free their comrades.
- Green Lantern: Beware My Power: Set in the Tomorrowverse, the film sees Hal Jordan killed and the Corps slaughtered, leaving the fate of a devastating war between Rann and Thanagar in the hands of John Stewart—a man at a crossroads in his life and not eager to fight another war.
- Justice League X RWBY: Super Heroes and Huntsmen: A crossover film with Rooster Teeth's RWBY (who's also producing the animation), Justice League (with Jessica Cruz as their Green Lantern) is sent them into the world of Remnant and they work together with Team RWBY and JNPR in order to discover who's behind their predicament and save both their world from their mysterious enemy.
Media Appearances by Character
- Hal Jordan
- The Green Lantern and Justice League segments of The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure (the 1960s Filmation show), voiced by veteran voice actor Gerald Mohr.
- Super Friends voiced by Michael Rye
- Justice League voiced by Adam Baldwin, a cameo in an episode featuring timeline disruptions where he replaced John Stewart for two scenes. Previously, in Kyle's introductory episode in Superman: The Animated Series, he is thrown against a jet fighter with the name Jordan on it.
- Duck Dodgers (yes, really) in an episode where a mix-up at the laundromat leaves Duck Dodgers with Hal's costume and ring. Hal is voiced by Kevin Smith.
- Green Lantern (2011), played by Ryan Reynolds as an origin story.
- DC Universe Animated Original Movies
- Justice League: The New Frontier voiced by David Boreanaz, an origin story coinciding with the major events of the plot (turning out to be something of a Deus ex Machina at the end).
- Green Lantern: First Flight voiced by Christopher Meloni, a loose origin story played more as an intergalactic police procedural.
- Green Lantern: Emerald Knights voiced by Nathan Fillion, a collection of short stories featuring a number of lesser known Lanterns.
- Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths voiced by Nolan North.
- Justice League: Doom voiced by Nathan Fillion.
- Justice League: War voiced by Justin Kirk.
- Justice League: Throne of Atlantis voiced by Nathan Fillion.
- Green Lantern: The Animated Series voiced by Josh Keaton.
- The Batman voiced by Dermot Mulroney.
- Batman: The Brave and the Bold voiced by Loren Lester.
- Arrowverse has a few references to Hal. The Ferris Air field makes an appearance several times in The Flash (2014), one time making reference to a test pilot going missing. In Arrow a flashback taking place in Coast City shows a man in a bar wearing a flight jacket with the name Jordan on it.
- He is a supporting character on the DC Super Hero Girls TV series, voiced by Jason Spisak.
- Kyle Rayner
- Superman: The Animated Series episode "In Brightest Day" voiced by Michael P. Greco. He's mentioned in a later Justice League episode as being in training on Oa while John Stewart is the primary Green Lantern for the series, and he appears in the episode "The Return" voiced by Will Friedle.
- Guy Gardner
- Justice League of America, a television pilot for a proposed TV series that never took off. Gardner was played by Matthew Settle, and bore no resemblance to his namesake.
- Batman: The Brave and the Bold voiced by James Arnold Taylor.
- Green Lantern: The Animated Series voiced by Diedrich Bader, a rival to Jordan recruited while he was having extended adventures in deep space in the first season.
- HBO Max Green Lantern series portrayed by Finn Wittrock.
- John Stewart
- Justice League, voiced by Phil Lamarr. A surprise choice by the producers, despite Kyle already being established in the DCAU, this version of John Stewart has had the most exposure of any other Green Lantern, and for a time was considered THE Green Lantern to general audiences. A former Marine and By-the-Book Cop, he had a massive impact on the original character as well.
- Young Justice (2010) voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson.
- Arrowverse: Though never stated outright, the Elseworlds (2018) crossover hinted that Stewart exists in the world of The Flash (1990) and that he's an Alternate Self of John Diggle from Arrow. Besides Diggle's basic similarities to Stewart (a black ex-military man named John), the Flash of that world comments on Diggle not wearing a ring. A later episode of Arrow further strengthens the connection by establishing that Diggle's stepfather is named Stewart. And then the Arrow finale goes one step further, having a meteor containing an "unidentified glowing green box" crash land next to Diggle; however, his appearances in other shows over the next few years showed him struggling to open the box, and ultimately rejecting whatever was inside (which
Word of God confirms was a Green Lantern Ring) in favor of staying with his family. - Green Lantern: Beware My Power: John serves as the main protagonist of this film, showing how he gets recruited into the corps.
- Jessica Cruz
- DC Super Hero Girls: Jessica had her origin loosely adapted in the web series where she is voiced by Cristina Milizia, and also acts as one of the leads on the TV series where she is voiced by Myrna Velasco.
- LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes: Jessica was featured prominently in the DTV-movie Lego Aquaman: Rage of Atlantis, again voiced by Milizia.
- LEGO DC Super-Villains: Appears as a playable character, oddly enough. Her connection to the villainous Power-Ring from Earth-3 might serve as some rationalization as to why she is in a game centred around evil characters
- Justice League vs. The Fatal Five voiced by Diane Guerro.
- DC League of Super-Pets voiced by Dascha Polanco.
- Justice League X RWBY: Super Heroes and Huntsmen voiced by Jeannie Tirado.
- Simon Baz
- LEGO DC Super-Villains: So far, his only appearance outside of comics.
- Other
- Kilowog is the most depicted alien Green Lantern. If there's a storyline involving the Corps, you can bet Kilowog will be there and prominent, including the DCAU, First Flight and Emerald Knights. Tomar-Re would be second behind him, and of course Sinestro.
- Batman Beyond had an original character portraying a future Green Lantern, a young Tibetan boy named Kai-Ro, voiced by Lauren Tom (coming before Justice League, he is in fact the second Green Lantern introduced in the DCAU). Though an original character, he's named for Green Lantern's alien sidekick from the Filmation cartoons, Kairo.
- LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham featured Daffy Duck as a "Green Loontern" alongside the normal Green Lanterns, based on the crossover episode of Duck Dodgers.
- DC League of Super-Pets: The movie features a version of a squirrel-like Funny Animal Lantern named Ch'p, though as part of the movie's premise he's made a normal Earth squirrel (named "Chip") who receives Shock and Awe powers instead of being an alien member of the Corps. Until the pets find homes with the Justice League; then Chip lands with Jessica Cruz and she gives him a Power Ring.
