Trivia / Green Lantern: The Animated Series

• Actor Allusion:
  • Josh Keaton is on a show that features a talking red and blue robot, and a bulky friend clad in green voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson. Where have I seen that before?
  • After her Face–Heel Turn, Aya is surrounded by a fiery blue glow. Hmm, Grey DeLisle and blue fire?
  • Will Friedle playing a prince with ambitions to become the ruler of his homeland? Wait a minute...
  • Robert Englund voices Myglom, who tortures prisoners with nightmares before feeding on them. He's done something like that before, right?
  • Tom Kenny voices The Starscream. Sound familiar, doesn't it?
• Ascended Fanon: A fair amount, given Giancarlo's active participation in the fandom. Big ones include Razer's hair color and Drusa's sexuality.
• In Memoriam: "Regime Change" is dedicated to the memory of Ian Abercrombie, the voice of Ganthet.
• Playing Against Type:
  • Josh Keaton, who usually plays heroes like Hal Jordan in this series, voices the Manhunters.
  • Kurtwood Smith plays a kind, compassionate father figure instead of a villain.
  • Phil Morris is known for his distinct, deep voice, but uses his higher register as Saint Walker.
  • The intelligent, withdrawn Razer is voiced by Jason Spisak, also known as Kid Flash. For bonus points, their metabolisms are the complete opposite.
    • To really hear the contrast, here's Jason Spisak reading a fan comic where Razer and Wally discuss their respective series finales (i.e. spoiler alert).
  • Ian Abercrombie as Ganthet, who is the complete opposite of Palpatine.
  • Tom Kenny as the Anti-Monitor.
• Playing with Character Type: At first, Ragnar seems no different than Will Friedle's usual roles, even coming off as something of an alien Lion-O. But then Ragnar's true colors are revealed...
• Promoted Fanboy:
  • As with The Spectacular Spider-Man, Josh Keaton is something of a comic book geek.
  • Giancarlo Volpe admitted that he watched A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) as a kid, and grew to love it after many sleepless nights. Years later, he got to ask Robert Englund to take the role of Nyglom.
• Role Reprise:
  • Kevin Michael Richardson, who voiced Kilowog in the Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters video game, reprises the role for this series.
  • In the French dub, three of the voice actors reprised their roles from previous adaptations:
    • From Green Lantern (2011): Pierre Tessier as Green Lantern/Hal Jordan.
    • From Green Lantern: First Flight: The late Marc Alfos as the first voice of Kilowog and Jean-Claude Donda as Appa Ali Apsa.
    • From Batman: The Brave and the Bold: Jean-Claude Donda as Sinestro.
• Screwed by the Merchandise/Screwed by the Network:
  • Unlike Young Justice, which was screwed even worse, it got to finish the first half of its season without interruption despite getting shifted from Friday afternoons to Saturday mornings. Then it was hit with the three-month break of the DC Nation block, and won't be getting another season in order to make room for new DC Nation shows.
  • Even worse, how long a cartoon lasts on a network is based on how well its toys sell. GLTAS didn't actually have many toys at all to begin with because Warner Bros., who holds licensing on DC related cartoons, and retailers looked at the poor sales from the Green Lantern live action movie toys and refused to make any for the show under the assumption they wouldn't sell. Can we say "Screwed from the get go?"
  • The worst part about the above statement is that apparently there was merch in development that later got scrapped.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Due to the series' untimely cancellation, we will never be able to see the Sinestro Corps or the Black Lantern Corps, despite nods to the potential of both being included in future seasons.
  • What happened to the Green Lantern ring Byth Rok had swiped from Kilowog was supposed to be covered in the second season. Also the finale scene of the series shows a Blue Lantern ring following Razer into the depths of space implying he would have potentially belonged to a different Corps come his next appearance.
  • He would have.
  • Jason Spisak actually put up a recording on youtube with Razer's voice saying the Blue Lantern oath.
  • According to Volpe, part of the Sinestro arc would've involved him framing Hal for his crimes, and Hal being on the run from the GLC, including John Stewart. Hal would've explained the situation to Stewart, and the two would've team up against Sinestro.
  • At one point, Greg Weisman and Brandon Vietti were in charge of developing the Green Lantern show. It would've featured a more "black-ops" take on the Corps, with a different protagonist in Charles Vicker, but with appearances from other earth Lanterns, with Hal Jordan in the pilot episode.
  • Giancarlo Volpe mentioned on Tumblr that due to downright 'muddled' test screenings, the show almost never got the go-ahead. In spite of this, the staff chose to press on.
  • Merchandise actually was in production, but was scrapped after prototypes were made. Then the network cancelled the show for not having merchandise...
  • A video game was planned that would've featured the Controllers.
  • According to concept art, Ch'p was originally intended to be his comic counterpart's successor B'dg.
  • A piece of Season 2 concept art drawn by Bruce Timm features yellow ring Sinestro, Hal with a new armor-like uniform, and Hawkman and Arisia Rrab as major characters.

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