Green Lantern

## **History**

### **Origins**

The Guardians evolved on the planet Maltus, being among the first intelligent life forms in the universe. At this time, they were tall grayish blue humanoids with black hair, who roughly resembled humans except for their skin color. They became scientists and thinkers, experimenting on the worlds around them. One experiment led to the creation of a new species, the Psions. In a pivotal moment, billions of years ago, a Maltusian named Krona used time-bending technology to observe the beginning of the Universe. However, this experiment, and later attempts to stop it, unleashed disaster upon all existence. Originally, the experiment splintered the Universe into the Multiverse and created the evil Anti-Matter Universe of Qward. Following the retroactive destruction of the Multiverse, it was revealed that Krona flooded the beginning of the Universe with entropy causing it "to be born old".

Feeling responsible for this and inspired by the Arisians, the evolved Maltusians relocated to the planet Oa (at "the center of the Universe") and became the Guardians. Their goal was simple: combat evil and create an orderly universe. They acted quickly on that goal. During this period, they slowly evolved into their current appearance, losing about half of their height and having their skulls grow larger. They now act as the leaders of the Green Lantern Corps, an interstellar police force which patrols the universe.

Krona's experiment also drew Volthoom a traveler from the multiverse looking to save his Earth. He brought with him the Travel Lantern powered by the Emotional Spectrum. Through working with Volthoom, the future Guardians shed their emotions into The Great Heart and inadvertently created the First Ring. Volthoom received this ring and had the Great Heart implanted in his chest, controlling the whole emotional spectrum making him dangerous. The future guardians destroyed his Travel Lantern further escalating the situation. Future Guardian Rami used the pieces of the Travel Lantern to create the first seven green lantern rings and imprison the First Lantern Volthoom. Soon after it was decided that the emotional spectrum was at present too dangerous to wield.

The male Maltusians argued about how to deal with the situation. One group decided to dedicate their eternal existences to contain evil; this group fractured into the Guardians of the Universe and became the Controllers. Later a single male Guardian would become the Pale Bishop and found The Paling, an anti-emotion faith. The females, however, saw no need to involve themselves and, since the Oans were by then immortal and had no more need to reproduce, left their mates and became known as the Zamarons, later founding the Star Sapphires. After relocating to the planet Oa at "the center of the universe", the Guardians dedicated themselves to combatting evil and creating an orderly universe. During this period they slowly evolved into their current appearance.

The Guardians imprisoned the entity known as Parallax in a special prison of Willpower. They then began to use the prison as a battery to power the newly created Green Lantern Corps.

A Green Lantern's only weakness was the yellow energy of fear, opposite to the green energy of will. After the Green Lantern Sinestro betrayed the Green Lantern Corps and created the Sinestro Corps, a prophecy was fulfilled that Lantern Corps of the other cosmic energies of emotion shall form, such as Red (rage), Orange (greed), Black (death), White (life), Indigo (compassion), Blue (hope), and Violet (love).

### **Manhunters and the Massacre of Sector 666**

The Guardians first get the idea for an intergalactic police force from the Martians' own Manhunters. They offer the Martian race the opportunity to be that force. The Martians turn it down, but the Guardians took the name for the androids.

In their first attempt to enforce their will and guard against all menaces, about 3.5 billion years ago, the Guardians of the universe created a legion of robotic sentinels called the Manhunters. At first serving faithfully to enforce order, in time the Manhunters came to resent their servitude and the moral restrictions the Guardians decreed of them. They were also found to be inherently flawed due to their inability to recognize or feel emotions.

The Manhunters suffered from a malfunction in their logic that led them to believe that order could only be achieved by eliminating all life. They rampaged through Sector 666, massacring trillions in the process. The only survivors banded together to form the Five Inversions, swearing revenge on the Guardians for the actions of their creations. One of the five, Atrocitus, would later become the leader of the Red Lantern Corps.

It was later discovered that the Manhunters had not suffered a flaw in their logic, as had previously been assumed, but that the renegade Guardian Krona had reprogrammed them in an attempt to show the other Guardians the necessity in embracing emotions.

They rebelled against the Guardians and fought a millennia-long war that culminated with an attack on the planet Oa. The Guardians overcame their android servants, stripped them of their power, and banished them across the universe. Eventually, the surviving Manhunters formed their own robotic society and pursued their own interpretation of their original mission (which often included interfering with and foiling the plans of the Guardians). Some Manhunters chose to remain in reduced roles in security.

### **Creation of the Corps**

Chastened by the failure of the Manhunters, the Guardians decided that their newest force of soldiers for good would consist of living beings, ones who had free will and strong moral character. A brief first attempt was the Halla, who were given the energy guns and the power batteries of the Manhunters to serve them in their goal. Soon the Guardians had decided to discontinue this organization, the last of their number being Kendotha Kr'nek who served three and a half to three billion years ago in the war against Apokolips.

To arm this new legion of celestial knights, the Guardians created the *Power Rings,* rings of inconceivably-advanced technology that allowed their wearers to project green beams of energy with which the bearer could conjure objects of any size or shape, limited only by their imagination and willpower. This began with the selection of Rori Dag who became the first member of the 3600 strong Green Lantern Corps.

### **7th Century**

The First Green Lantern of Earth is considered to be the 7th Century Monk Jong Li. Li lived with his fellow monks and Master in the Temple of the Dragon Lords. The last of those to commune with and give energy to sustain the Dragon Lords, they remained sheltered in the temple. One night an escaped concubine of the Emperor arrived in the temple begging for protection. The Imperial Guard arrived and during the fight Jong Li was knocked unconscious. He awoke to barely escape the burning Temple and flee into the woods.

During his first night of rest after, an alien being and representative of the Guardians of the Universe arrived on Earth and scanned for suitable candidates for a Power Ring. After scanning through a village, the beam landed on Jong Li alone in the woods. The alien came out of the ship in a beam of emerald light and presented both a Ring and Lantern to him, instructing him telepathically to use it to "oppose evil, to ease suffering, and protect the innocent." With that charge he was also warned of the temptation of such power.

It was at that point Jong Li became Earth's first Green Lantern and the first human Lantern of Sector 2814. His successor, Yalan Gur, was far more ruthless. He enslaved the people of China,though he still defended Earth against an invasion from Steppenwolf in the 10th Century. The Guardians made him vulnerable to wood and he fled into space after being wounded.

The next Green Lantern of Earth, Waverly Sayre, was a pioneer. His wife Peg Sayre, died in childbirth. He became a broken man until he was inducted into the Green Lantern Corps, which lifted his spirit again. After his death, he was succeeded by Starkaðr, who would pass his ring onto Abin Sur. There are rumors of a human Green Lantern in 1888 and a female successor but this is unconfirmed.

### **10th Century**

In the 10th Century, a mystical "green flame" fell to Earth in ancient China as a meteor. A voice in the flame predicted that it would act three times: once to bring death, once to bring life, and once to bring power. For the first prophecy, a lamp-maker crafted the green metal of the meteor into a lamp. In fear and as punishment for what they thought sacrilege, the local villagers killed him, only to be destroyed by a sudden burst of the green flame. For the second, in modern times, the lamp came into the hands of a patient of a mental institution who fashioned the lamp into a modern train lantern. The green flame restored him to sanity and gave him a new life.

## **Alan Scott(1940-1953)**

For the third, by 1940, after having already fulfilled the first two-thirds of this prophecy, the lantern fashioned from the meteoric metal fell into the hands of Alan Wellington Scott, a young railroad engineer. Following a railroad bridge collapse, the flame instructed Scott in how to fashion a ring from its metal, to give him fantastic powers as the superhero Green Lantern. The object in question was a Star Stone, a crude Prototype of a Green Lantern Power Battery. Scott adopted a colorful costume of red, purple, yellow, and brown. He became a crimefighter in his first adventure, defeating the crooks who caused the accident. He also discovered his powers' weakness to wood when he was bludgeoned with a club.

Scott uses his ring to fly, walk through solid objects by "moving through the fourth dimension", paralyze or blind people temporarily, hypnotize them, create rays of energy, melt metal as with a blowtorch, and cause dangerous objects to glow, among other things. It could also allow him and others to time travel. Occasionally, he used it to read minds or create solid objects and force fields in the manner usually associated with fellow Green Lantern, Hal Jordan. His ring could protect him against any object made of metal, but would not protect him against any wood- or plant-based objects.

Alan was a founding member of the Justice Society of America, and is its second chairman. He was close friends with Jay Garrick, the Flash. A hero based on him would be created in the form of the Comic Book hero Scott Mason, the Green Guardsman, who’s ring in the universe of the Comics was vulnerable to aluminum.

During the 1940s, Green Lantern's first major enemy was the undead Solomon Grundy, a resurrected undead Hulk-like zombie. He would be a persistent foe of many heroes and even a member of the Legion of Doom. He would finally pass on in the early 2000s after a battle with Cthulhu.

Among his allies was his sidekick, Doiby Dickles, and Streak the Wonder Dog, a heroic canine in the mold of Rin-Tin-Tin and Lassie.

Alan Scott had a flirtatious relationship with the costumed villainess the Harlequin (who unbeknownst to Alan, was secretly his secretary, Molly Wayne). Molly even admitted that her career as a "criminal" was just a ruse to get close to Green Lantern. The Harlequin eventually turned over a new leaf, becoming an undercover agent for the FBI. She left Alan's life without confessing her true identity or her real feelings.

The JSA fought the villain Ian Karkull, who inadvertently imbued them with life energy stolen from an innocent victim. The energy retarded their aging, allowing Scott and several other members, as well as their spouses, to remain active into the late 20th century without infirmity. The events of that incident also led Scott, who had failed to save the victim from whom the energy was stolen, to take a leave of absence from the JSA.

His first known profession was ferroviary engineer and he later became a radio engineer at Apex Broadcasting Company Studios, to be near a source of news in order to tracking down criminals. Alan served in the Army during World War II and upon his discharge in 1943, he became distant towards his own ring, fearing the amount of power that he wielded was greater than the atomic weapons that were used during the war on Japan.

He seemed to drift from station to station: WXK, then WCMG, occasionally identified as a trouble shooter. Some time after, he became employed a WXYZ Radio Station.

In 1948, Alan Scott was among a group of heroes summoned to fight an escaped Zod, Zod vaporized Scott’s Lantern ring hand. Scott was forced to retire as a result.

Alan became president of Gotham Broadcasting Company, but the company eventually went bankrupt in 1976. His friend, Jay Garrick offered him a job in his Research Laboratory in Keystone City.

Alan focused his attention on keeping the Gotham Broadcasting Company radio station afloat amidst growing accusations of his workers being Communists, one of them being Charlie Bowles who committed suicide. On the day of Bowles' death, Scott attempted to take on the Sportsmaster without the use of his power ring or his costume during a jewelry store heist. It nearly cost him his life, though, as the Sportsmaster wounded Scott with a gunshot before his escape.

In 1950, while most of his fellow superheroes attended the rally in Washington D.C. in which all costumed superheroes were to appear by Presidential decree to show their loyalty, Alan Scott appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee to testify on his behalf regarding his refusal to submit the names of his employed writers. It was during this that Dynaman revealed to be Adenoid Hynkel’s brain transplanted into Daniel Dunbar's body, showed his true colors and attacked the various superheroes present, an incident which fortunately postponed the rest of the hearing while Scott returned to his office to ask the Lantern to grant him power. Appearing on the scene as a temporary Green Lantern, Scott weakened Dynaman to the point where Libby Lawrence(Liberty Belle) delivered the final blow by piercing his body with a broken piece of Red Knight's (Starman) experimental new cosmic rod, electrocuting him to death with its energy.

Scott was a member of the Justice Society of America in 1951 when the team was investigated by the "Joint Congressional Un-American Activities Committee,"They were accused of possible communist sympathies and asked to reveal their identities. The members declined the offer, and many of the members retired.

Years later, the retired Scott turned Gotham Broadcasting Company into a leading television station, setting up a writing scholarship in the name and memory of Charlie Bowles.

In 1953, While in space, Superman met Green Lantern Abin Surr and mentioned Alan Scott's ring. He brought Abin Sur to Earth to meet Scott and inspect his destroyed Ring and power Battery. Abin Sur brought this to the attention of the Guardians. This is what they discovered.

Alan's ring originally belonged to a Green Lantern named Yalan Gur, who was so favored by the Guardians of the Universe that they removed the yellow impurity from his ring (which the Guardians deliberately placed in all the GL rings to limit their power and could be removed at their discretion). However, Yalan Gur abused his power and interfered with the inhabitants of ancient China. The Guardians then substituted a weakness for wood at a crucial moment when Yalan Gur was allowing himself to be struck to prove his power, allowing the local peasants to successfully attack and mortally wound Yalan with simple wooden clubs. Yalan flew into the sky and raged against the Guardians. His body burned in the atmosphere, becoming the green metallic meteorite that ultimately became Alan Scott's lantern. Yalan's spirit also possessed the metal, promising death in his rage and life when he realized his mistakes (the first two prophecies of the green metal, which were fulfilled). When Alan received the lantern, the spirit directed Alan to create the power ring and persona of Green Lantern, complete with the ring's weakness to wood. The lantern's damage left it with amnesia regarding the Guardians and its origins.

In the late 1960’s, Alan subsequently met and married a young woman named Alyx Florin. He was unaware that she was actually Rose Canton(a.k.a. The Thorn), a schizophrenic but reformed enemy of the Flash. Alyx disappeared on their wedding night, starting a fire that led Alan to believe she had died. In fact, she survived and discovered that she was pregnant with twins. The children were born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and raised separately by adoptive families as Jennifer-Lynn Hayden and Todd Rice. Alyx was taken to the Amazons' Reformation Island.

Jennie-Lynn and Todd, who developed superhuman powers as a result of their father's connection to the mystic Starheart, did not meet until adolescence, and set out to uncover the identities of their real parents. They adopted the costumed identities of Jade and Obsidian and confronted Alan about their parentage. And truly, Alan had no clue. Also during this time, he renewed his acquaintance with Molly and discovered her past as the Harlequin; the pair finally gave in to their longtime attraction. But Rose Canton also resurfaced. Just before her death, she revealed the circumstances of Jennie and Todd's births. Alan and Molly were married, but soon separated by the JSA's banishment to Limbo during a mission. They were reunited two years later when the Justice Society returned to Earth.​

## **Hal Jordan(1960-1968)**

Hal Jordan was born in Coast City to jewish mother Jessica and catholic father Martin Jordan, the middle child between older brother Jack, and a younger brother Jim.

As a boy, he idolized his father, a pilot who worked for Ferris Aircraft. At a very young age, he had to face his greatest fears when his father was killed in World War II. His mother forbade him from ever going anywhere near an airplane. Throughout his youth, Hal disobeyed his mother, sneaking into airfields and hangars to get the best possible view of the jets flying overhead. This culminated in him getting caught by his mother, lamenting that they never understood each other.

In 1948, Hal sneaked into Edwards Air Force Base to meet Chuck Yeager, who was also his father's wingman, and earned his autograph.

One night, Hal's brother Jim waited for the clock to turn from 11:59pm to Midnight, so that he could give his brother a birthday present. Jim walked into the room disappointed, seeing that Hal wasn't in the house. Elsewhere, an Air Force recruiter unlocked the doors to the recruiting office and spotted a young Hal sitting by the door. "Son? Can I help you?" He asked. Hal looked up, smiled, and said, "I'm eighteen today, sir."

Hal eventually achieved his dream of becoming a pilot and met and befriended his father's fellow pilot Kyle “Ace” Morgan. Both Hal and Ace later served in the Korean War alongside Steve Trevor Jr. By the end of the war on July 27, 1953, the two pilots made one last recon over the Yalu River Delta to draw exact positions at the time of the cease fire. However, not everyone had heard the war was over and Hal and Ace were attacked by North Korean MiGs. Hal was shot down and was knocked out, but was fortunately saved by Ace when he jettisoned out of his jet and pulled Hal's parachute cord. As Hal regained consciousness, he accidentally landed on and knocked a North Korean soldier unconscious. Just as Hal flared a smoke grenade to be picked up by a recovery helicopter, he was attacked by the once unconscious Korean soldier. Hal wrestled with the man and tried to tell him that the war was over, but couldn't remember to translate it into the Korean language. Hal then very reluctantly killed the soldier with his pistol and was picked up by the evac chopper that was also ferrying news reporters Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen. Once on the chopper, Hal remembered the Korean words that could have convinced the Korean soldier that the war was over and might have prevented his needless death. Following his misconceived incident, Hal was traumatized and spent some time in a mental ward. Afterwards, Hal became a test pilot for many of the Air Force's projects, but developed a psychological death wish in which Hal believed that he was punishing himself for what he did in Korea.

By 1957, Hal and Ace Morgan went to Las Vegas where they witnessed boxing heavyweight Ted “Wildcat” Grant winning against Cassius Clay as well seeing the exciting battle between Captain Cold and the Flash. Hal and Ace went to Nellis Air Force Base where Ace showed the B-47 that Ace would be piloting. There, Hal admitted his still lingering problems to Ace which prompted his friend to give him words of encouragement. Ace revealed that he managed to ger Hal a job from Carol Ferris in Ferris Aircraft, which Hal was overjoyed to hear as his father also worked for the company. Hal eventually and personally met Carol Ferris, the current director of her company, during a night dinner in Coast City. The two agreed over Hal's job enrollment.

On his first day, Hal met Task Force X leader Colonel Richard Flagg, who was also a wingman of Martin's and having car trouble on the way. After two months of working for the company, Hal began a long yet unusual training that involved space flight. Eventually Hal was directed by Carol to what his actual purpose was after being briefed on Project Flying Cloud. He met King Faraday, the overseer of the project and another close friend of Martin Jordan, and learned from him about the true purpose of Flying Cloud as the first American attempt to reach the planet Mars. By 1958, Jordan became more romantically close to Carol. But while on a training simulator for the project, Hal's showboating behavior proved to be compromising for Flying Cloud and was instantly re-positioned by Colonel Flagg to control operator during the entire operation, thus ruining his chance to be in space.

Green Lantern Abin Sur was on the planet Ysmault. He was interrogating the imprisoned Five Inversions. The Inversions made predictions about his future. Sur asked for his own fate. He was told his ring would fail him and that his successor would become the Green Lantern Corps's greatest champion and its greatest enemy. He was also presented with a vision of the demise of the Green Lantern Corps when all its enemies united. The Daxamite Sodom Yat would be killed battling the Lobe Spawn while the sentient Planet Mogo would be destroyed with a bomb placed in his core. Sur called this "The Blackest Night" prophecy and shared it with the Guardians and his friend Sinestro. Shaken by the prediction of his ring failing him, Sur began using a spaceship to travel instead, including while arresting the rogue Inversion Atrocitus.

While monitoring the entire launch, Flying Cloud suffered a serious accident when Task Force X member Jess Bright went insane and sabotaged the rocket. Flagg, knowing that he couldn't survive, personally contacted Hal that the reason he didn't allow him on the mission was because he was responsible for watching over him and seeing him safe as Martin Jordan's death compelled him to do so. Following the eventual destruction of Flying Cloud along with its crew, Hal made one nostalgic moment on the flight simulator.

Abin Sur’s ship did not detect the radiation caused by the nuclear weapons on the Flying Cloud exploding that the ring would have. The ship was damaged. This allowed Atrocitus to escape and wound Abin Sur. The ship crashed and Sur told his ring to find a worthy successor. Sur's exact wording was to find someone of Earth. Because of this, the ring ignored Clark Kent because he was not "Of Earth". It then considered Hal Jordan or Guy Gardner. Jordan was closer and so he was chosen.

Hal was tracked by Green Lantern Abin Sur’s power ring and brought to where Sur was, along with the simulator. There Hal found a dying Abin Sur, who was fatally wounded from being near the destruction of Flying Cloud, telling Hal that he was chosen to be the next Green Lantern. Hal was reluctant to accept this role as he believed he was unworthy after being branded as a coward since the Korean War. But Abin convinced him otherwise that he was instilled with courage and hope as his conviction for what he believed: to value existence and to act decisively when survival was at stake; that is why the ring chose Hal. Before his passing, Abin came to Earth on a mission of great importance ( the threat of The Centre) and told Hal that everything would be known when he would be contacted by the Guardians of the Universe. After giving Abin Sur a burial, Hal then first utilized the power of the ring and became accustomed to his newfound power. However, his use was brief and he hid all evidence of Abin Sur's grave (and the simulator) and avoiding informing government authorities of his whereabouts.

While staking out at a motel, Hal watched the news about the Centre and decided to participate in the fight against the being at Cape Canaveral. Hal then used Ferris Aircraft's prototype flying saucer to travel to Canaveral. He was then angrily confronted by Carol, who then realized that he was going to fight the entity. Hal boldly retorted to Carol's view of him as a coward and that his action in Korea was out of the sense to survive and that is what he was going to do against the Centre. Carol apologized to Hal and didn't mean to refer to him that way, in which the two expressed their love for each other in a kiss before Hal left.

Hal timely arrived at Canaveral where the gathered super-heroes and soldiers made their planned assault on the Centre. Hal, Ace Morgan and their friend Nathaniel Adam were part of second stage assault in harming the Centre from within with nuclear warheads. Once they were inside, the three suffered heavy mental attacks from the being in which it gave each of them a vision of their personal fears (from Hal's perspective, the solar system). The Centre continued its attacks on the three with its biological defenses, which Hal used his power ring to dodge through until the creature scanned the weakness of Hal's ring: yellow. Hal then lost control to the saucer and underwent a series of mental attacks involving visions of his entire life, but this also strengthened him (such as remembering his love for Carol Ferris, his act of survival, and the Green Lantern Ring); Hal changed into his Green Lantern attire before escaping from his destroyed saucer. With his mind clear, Hal's ring scanned away the Centre's illusions and rescued his friends. Hal was able to save Ace and Adam, and escape the Centre.

Once outside, Hal and Ace observed the Centre making its last attempt in destroying everyone on land. After Hal (necessarily) dumped Ace and Adam into the sea, he captured the Centre with his ring and dragged it into space. Once in space, the Guardians of the Universe acknowledged Hal as a member of the Green Lantern Corps and Hal concentrated his will in sending the Centre away from Earth before it exploded. As many participants in the battle attended a victory ceremony, Hal celebrated the victory in his own way by pursuing his lifelong dream: flying through space with the aid of his new power ring.

Following the defeat of the Centre, Hal joined the Justice League of America.

Acting as a galactic police officer, it was his job to serve and protect all life in Sector 2814. He would soon learn that there were another 3599 Green Lanterns across the universe, all monitored and empowered by mystical creatures called the Guardians. Hal received training from some of the best the Corps had to offer, including drill sergeant Kilowog, and his mentor Sinestro. With Sinestro's help, the two tracked down and defeated Atrocitus. Jordan was for a moment able to impact something that was yellow, but Sinestro did not believe him. During his training, Hal learned that Sinestro had been subjugating his home planet, Korugar, through fear, using his ring. After Hal reported these acts to the Guardians and fellow Corps members, he battled Sinestro and emerged victorious. Along with the rest of the Corps, he then testified against Sinestro at his trial. Expelled from the Corps and banished by the Guardians to the Antimatter Universe as punishment, Sinestro became a sworn enemy to the Corps and gained a new Qward power ring, exacting the start of his revenge.

As Green Lantern, Hal Jordan patrolled the galaxy and took on many missions in space. He continued to spend his time at home working at Ferris Aircraft, where he romantically pursued Carol Ferris. He would entrust his secrets to a young Eskimo lad who worked as his mechanic, Tom Kalmaku.

Hal was good friends with Green Arrow, often adventuring together, and also getting along with his girlfriend, Dinah Lance. Hal was also friends with the late Barry Allen, the second Flash, who along with Hal, were both founding members of the Justice League of America.

Among Jordan's enemies were Hector Hammond in 1961, Star Sapphire in 1962, Black Hand in 1964 and Evil Star in 1965. Hammond was exposed to a meteorite that granted him psychic abilities.

Hal and Carol’s relationship was repeatedly strained by Carol's position as Hal's boss and her dedication to running her company, as well as Hal going through a period of instability where he moved around constantly trying new jobs that did not suit him. Even worse, Carol was chosen by the Zamarons to become a Star Sapphire, a powerful super-villainess who repeatedly menaced the world, specifically men as the Zamarons were sexist and had a hatred towards the Guardians, seeking to undermine the Lanterns including Hal Jordan. The brainwashing effect also took control of Carol.

Black Hand was a Villain obsessed with death. While largely an unremarkable villain, he would become a significant foe later on, ironically after his death. Evil Star was a former mobster named Guy Pompton, possessed by a parasitic Starro creature which had gained independent sentience. He had also obtained objects known as Stabrands, weapons from the now lifeless Planet Auron.

## **Guy Gardner(1968-1971)**

Guy Gardner was born in Baltimore, Maryland to parents Roland and Peggy Gardner. A family of cops. His father was an abusive alcoholic, and frequently beat the young Guy while idolizing his older brother Mace and smothering his sister Gloria. Mace eventually became a cop. After years of taking beatings and trying to impress his parents, Guy finally gave up. If he could not be as good as his brother, he decided to do the opposite. Guy turned into a juvenile delinquent, frequently getting into trouble and breaking the law. An outlaw and a criminal, he was constantly going in and out of juvenile hall.

After his 18th birthday, his brother finally straightened him out. When Guy stole a car, rather than let him go to city jail, Mace beat the tar out of him, told him to stop making people ashamed of him, get some real clothes and a decent job. He loaned Guy some money, and told him it was the last time anybody else was going to look out for him. Guy started working hard in school again, got a job and paid his way through college. He took his aggression out playing undergraduate football at the University of Michigan. Later, his brother Mace was revealed to be a dirty cop after drug dealers shot him and left him paraplegic. Rather than continue living, Mace committed suicide by drowning himself in a river. Guy Gardner went on to graduate with a Liberal Arts Major from college, with degrees in both psychology and education. For a time he worked counseling prisoners, before settling into a more permanent job as a gym teacher for children in special education.

As a young man, Guy joined the Baltimore Police Department, like the rest of his family. Three years into his career, Officer Gardner shot a suicide bomber before he could get on a plane; the resulting explosion killed ten bystanders. In the aftermath, Guy resigned from the force; this resulted in an even bigger rift between himself and his father.

Eventually, when Guy's father was dying of liver failure, the two would make peace and spend a week together before the old man passed away.(The Superhero Booster Gold had actually time travelled to convince Guy to visit his father, therefore preventing Guy Gardner from being chosen for Abin Sur’s Green Lantern Ring, as Hal Jordan was closer. This ended up saving Gardner’s life as Oan Supercomputers calculated that Guy Gardner would have been killed when he visited the planet Ghera and contracted the Yellow Plague, which had devastated the planet. He would die from the disease and Hal Jordan would become his replacement. However, this did not mean things simply went back to normal as with Guy Gardner’s involvement in a crucial moment, the Sinestro Corps, led by Sinestro himself, would destroy the Green Lantern Corps and become the Dominant force in the Universe). Gardner was placed as a "backup" Green Lantern for Jordan.

In 1968, Jordan was told of Gardner's backup status and he made an effort to approach Gardner. Jordan went to Baltimore and joined the Men’s club where Guy practiced physical fitness and befriended him. Gardner underwent training under Kilowog. As a Lantern, Gardner and Jordan would switch duties, one remaining on Earth while the other was in Space. When Jordan realized he needed to connect more with Humanity, Gardner took over space duties. Jordan had formed a friendship with both Barry Allen and Green Arrow, and would spend the years of 1968 and 1969, travelling with Green Arrow across the country. They would be joined by the Guardian Ali Apsa in what was essentially the Guardian’s journey to reconnect on a closer level to the people he helped to protect. This experience changed Hal Jordan’s life. He would enter the field of politics and later serve as Governor of California.​

## **John Stewart(1971-**

In 1971, Guy Gardner was put out of commission when he was hit by a bus, and the Guardians instead found a new backup for Hal in architect John Stewart. Although Jordan objected after seeing that Stewart had a belligerent attitude to authority figures, the Guardians stood by their selection. Jordan complied, recruited and equipped Stewart with the standard uniform (though Stewart flatly refused to wear the domino mask) and power ring.

To Jordan, Stewart's first mission began badly with the assignment of protecting racist politician Senator Jeremiah Clutcher, and Stewart took advantage of averting an accident to embarrass him in the process. However, Stewart soon proved his worth when an apparent African American assassin shot at the politician, but Stewart refused to intervene with Jordan to move in response to the attack. However, Stewart had good reasons for this apparent dereliction of duty when he stopped a gunman from killing a police officer in the outside parking lot at the event while Jordan was pursuing a decoy. When Jordan confronted Stewart for his actions, Stewart effectively explained the situation of the ruse and the fact the Clutcher staged it for political advantage. With that adventure, Jordan concluded that Stewart was an excellent recruit after all.

For some time, Stewart occasionally filled in for him as Green Lantern when Jordan was unavailable, including some missions on the Justice League. After Jordan gave up being Green Lantern, the Guardians selected Stewart for full-time duty. Stewart filled that role for some years, during which time he fell in love with and married Katma Tui, the Green Lantern of the planet Korugar(after Sinestro was deposed) with the blessing of the Guardians.

Stewart went on a number of missions while Gardner was in the hospital. While he was still crippled, Guy Gardner would meet his longtime love-interest Kari Limbo, a gypsy woman with limited precognitive abilities. She told him that he had a great destiny ahead of him, and that one very fateful day of prime importance to him and all the world, he would be the last of a great tradition.

In 1976, Hal Jordan ran for President under the Republican nomination but was defeated.

Prior to his marriage, John Stewart had a relationship which resulted in the birth of a child in 1977. He would not be told of this child, who would gain a stepfather in Roy Diggle in the meantime, growing up under the name John Diggle.

Stewart became close friends with Hal Jordan and got a chance to prove his worth when he used his ring to aid in helping the Justice League to defeat the Legion of Doom in 1978.

After Hal Jordan's ring was damaged by the new villain the Crumbler, who melted it with an acid like substance, Guy Gardner had his chance to become Earth’s Lantern at last. While Hal traveled to Oa to have it fixed, Guy worked in tandem with Green Arrow to take down the dangerous Professor Ojo. However, when Hal's Power Battery exploded in his face, he disappeared from the earthly realm and was believed to be dead. Hal Jordan consoled Kari Limbo for Guy's death, and the two slowly began to build an attraction to each other. Finally, after a near-death experience, Hal Jordan proposed to Kari. On the day of their wedding, it was discovered that Guy Gardner had actually been transported to the Phantom Zone. Brainwashed by the Zoners, he teamed up with General Zod against Green Lantern and Superman. Hal was barely able to leave the Zone alive with an unconscious Superman, and returning to Earth, he found Kari would no longer marry him if Guy Gardner was still alive. When Hal went back into the Zone to rescue Guy, he found Sinestro had kidnapped him and taken him to the Antimatter Universe of Qward. After doing battle with his arch-nemesis, Hal finally brought Gardner back. However, he was in a comatose vegetative state that he would not come out of for several years.

In 1980, Harold Jordan was elected President of the United States. He did not carry a ring on his person in this role. This resulted in at one point, his life being saved by the new Superhero Booster Gold, even giving the Superhero his name, in an assassination attempt shortly into his Presidency.

In 1983, The daughter of Alan Scott, Jennifer-Lynn Hayden would discover she shared her father's mystical connection to the Starheart, which gave her the abilities of a Green Lantern. Choosing to follow in her father's footsteps, she became the superheroine Jade. She would later fight a manifestation of the Starheart and lose those abilities. When Jade was fighting an Okaaran monster, she was saved by an orange lantern named Cade and fell in love with him. Obsidian meanwhile would eventually reveal himself to be gay and married assistant district attorney Damon Matthews.

President Jordan was present for the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles. The event was attacked by the New Olympians with the intent to kidnap athlete Lacinia Nitocris; security and the Outsiders protected the President. Hal went on to win reelection.

During the Crisis On Infinite Earths, Guy finally stirred from his coma. Possibly brain damaged, he wished to take back the power ring and the title that should rightfully have been his. At the time, Hal Jordan was no longer an active Green Lantern and John Stewart was the active Green Lantern of Earth. Gardner and Jordan fought over Abin Sur’s grave in a confrontation, as Guy believed Hal was deliberately responsible for his problems. Although the Guardians of the Universe required an additional Green Lantern for the time of Crisis, Hal was invalid for the job as he had quit. Guy Gardner finally got what he wanted...he was Earth’s Green Lantern at last.

Ali Apsa attacked the Guardians, his experiences on earth, leading to believe their emotionless nature made them unsuited for their role. His coup was prevented. For the first time in history, the Guardians were divided. Half of them believed that they needed to act to preserve life, while the others argued that the Crisis was an inevitable and necessary event in the timeline and time should not be wasted fighting it. Matters were further complicated when a third of them were killed by the Anti-Monitor. Guy was given a mission by one faction of the Guardians to destroy the moon of Qward, where the Anti-Monitor had been born.

To do this, he had to assemble a strike team of supervillains and invade the Antimatter Universe. Hal Jordan even returned to the role to aid him. Guy picked up the Shark, Sonar, Goldface, Throttle, Blindside and Hector Hammond. After Gardner had already gone through, the other Guardians discovered that destroying the moon of Qward would undo the Anti-Monitor's tether to the mortal universe, and make him much more powerful. Although acting on orders, Guy had to be stopped at all costs. All Lanterns available were sent to the Antimatter Universe, and there was a cataclysmic battle for the fate of the universe between the Green Lantern Corps, Guy and his villains, and the deadly Weaponers of Qward. Finally, before he could destroy it, John Stewart put Guy down with his ring, and the universe was saved from destruction for a second time that day. Guy was pardoned since he was only following orders.

In the aftermath, Gardner briefly went missing. Still bearing a grudge against Hal, and believing himself meant to be the true Green Lantern of Earth, he teamed up with Star Sapphire and Hector Hammond. Although defeated, disgraced, and wanted dead at this point by nearly half the galaxy for his actions during the Crisis, the Guardians still saw potential in Gardner, and kept him on as a Lantern. The Guardians took a brief leave from the universe along with their female counterparts the Zamarons, and Guy was assigned to be mentored by the remaining mortal Guardian...Appa Ali Apsa, on Maltus.

Guy Gardner finally returned to Earth. He declared himself leader of the Green Lantern Corps of Earth, and did battle with the seven other Lanterns stationed there for supremacy: Hal Jordan, John Stewart, Kilowog, Katma Tui, Arisia, Salakk, and Ch’p.He was subdued by Honor Guards Apros and K’ryssma, intending to remove him from the Corps permanently under Appa’s strict orders. However, after a plea from Kari Limbo convinced the other Lanterns to vouch for Guy, Appa was persuaded to allow him to continue his career, in the hopes that he would one day reach the full potential he had been selected for.

On Apokolips, Darkseid sent his agent Glorious Godfrey to Earth intending to sway peoples' minds against the superheroes, leading to violent anti-vigilante rioting and protests which Guy nearly became a victim of. President Jordan was mind controlled by G.Gordon Godfrey(Gordfrey had ironically played a part in the Watergate Scandal that brought down Nixon). Jordan was mind controlled into outlawing Superhero activity in the United States. Superman was one of the few heroes who abided by this presidential edict. When the original Batman came out of retirement, Jordan sent Superman after him.

As resident Green Lantern, Gardner was selected by Doctor Fate to be part of a final team to fight against Godfrey's mobs in Washington, D.C. despite a presidential edict banning superhero activities. Fighting against the Apokoliptian Warhounds, they eventually managed to break Godfrey's control over the populace. Although most of the other heroes immediately forgave those who had fought against them, Gardner insisted that the mind control could not have taken root if there was not an already deep-seated distrust for their kind. The heroes present that day decided to band together as a new team to fight for justice. As the previous Justice League had recently been disbanded, they would go on to form a new incarnation, Justice League International.

The Green Lantern Kilowog joined the Soviet Union, where he helped Mikhail Gorbachev create the Rocket Red Brigade. Guy Gardner personally made it his mission to invade Russia and take care of the problem, despite the danger of causing an international incident. Kari Limbo attempted to dissuade him, but in his brain-damaged state he did not feel the same love for her he once had. He single-handedly took on both the misguided Kilowog and all seven Rocket Reds, in the process rescuing prisoners-of-war John Stewart and Katma Tui. However, once Kilowog saw the light of oppression, he realized the error of his ways and was forced to fight his close personal friend Rocket Red #1 to the death.

Guy Gardner's run in the Justice League International was full of constant personality shifts and endless arguing between team members. This led to a fight with Lobo, the sucker-punching of Blue Beetle during a boxing match, and finally him quitting the team after being "belittled" by Superman. Gardner was romantically involved with his fellow Leaguer Ice, even learning some rudimentary Norwegian.

Guy Gardner became a founding member of the new Justice League, along with Batman, Martian Manhunter, Doctor Fate, Captain Marvel, Blue Beetle(Ted Kord), Mister Miracle, Black Canary(Dinah Lance) and Doctor Light(Hoshi Sato), Although Guy made repeated attempts to gain authority of the group, Batman rebuked him at every turn. These challenges culminated in a fist-fight between the two, famously ending in a one-punch knockout by the Dark Knight putting Gardner to sleep for several hours. President Jordan was staunchly against Guy's membership in the League, but chairman Maxwell Lord chose not to heed his warnings. After waking up from Batman's punch, Guy had a mild split-personality disorder induced by head trauma. He switched back and forth between his normal aggressive self and a much kinder, sweeter and gentler persona whenever he received a serious blow to the skull.

Earlier missions for the League involved international relations with the Soviet Union would reveal Guy as politically right-wing. Even if he hated Hal Jordan, he seemed to agree with his political views.

John Stewart took over as Green Lantern on the Justice League in 1988 after Gardner's resignation. John left Earth for space, where he participated in the Cosmic Odyssey, an effort by both the League and the New Gods to battle the Anti-Life equation, which had manifested as sentient aspects. Stewart was overconfident and rushed in to save the Planet Xanshi from being destroyed by an Anti-Life Manifestation. He sent Martian Manhunter away for his own protection and went in alone,arrogantly believing he could handle it himself, only to find that the Anti Life Equation had read his mind and discovered his ring’s weakness to yellow, making the bomb yellow. The planet Xanshi exploded. The blast knocked Stewart into space and continued until the entire planet was destroyed. Due to the nature of the Power Ring, both heroes survived the blast. The Martian Manhunter found Green Lantern on a piece of rock in space and told him, "Thanks to your arrogance and stupidity, I have now seen two worlds die. I will never forgive you for this."

This incident left John a shattered man on the brink of suicide, which he almost attempted, and created the villainess known as Fatality, a survivor of Xanshi’s destruction. J'onn J'onzz has since, at least civilly, forgiven him.

Another tragedy occurred in John Stewart’s life when his wife Katma Tui was murdered by Star Sapphire.

Super-powered Russian renegade Fusion made an attempt on President Jordan's life on Camp David, but Jordan was protected by the Outsiders and by Batman, who impersonated Jordan to trick Fusion.

Near the end of his term, Jordan was again targeted for assassination by KGBeast, but the villain was defeated by Batman.

In 1989, Jordan watched the televised recording of Superman(Joel Kent) killing the Ultra Humanite. He ordered the use of a sample of Gold Kryptonite kept in a special chamber built at a great taxpayers' cost to take Superman down, only to find the sample stolen by Bruce Wayne Jr, who went onto confront Joel Kent for his actions.

Near the end of his term, Jordan was again targeted for assassination by KGBeast, but the villain was defeated by Batman.

Jordan watched the televised recording of Superman(Joel Kent) killing the Ultra Humanite. He ordered the use of a sample of Gold Kryptonite kept in a special chamber built at a great taxpayers' cost to take Superman down, only to find the sample stolen by Bruce Wayne Jr, who went onto confront Joel Kent for his actions.​

In 1992, Hal Jordan attempted to persuade Guy Gardner to allow him to have his sector back. An overly confident Guy refused to listen to reason, and instead insisted that they make the decision in a single no-holds-barred fight in the streets of Metropolis, without their rings. Gardner lost to Jordan in a punch-out, and was forced to give up his ring and quit the Corps. He would go out in search of a new weapon.

Guy refused to believe he could never be a hero again, and was not deterred by losing his powers. Instead, he went through a number of efforts to reinvent himself. He tried to clean up all of the crime surrounding Times Square using nothing but his fists and his machismo. After getting beaten up by Black Hand and his crew, he realized he would need a new gimmick. At first, he visited the New Guardians, although he was kicked off their island by Gloss for flirting with her. He then tried to become a gun-toting anti-hero with an overly large amount of guns, but gave that up when malfunctioning weaponry forced him to flee from a fight with Goldface.

Visibly irritated, he also turned down an offer to be patriotic hero Major’s Glory’s new sidekick. Finally, he recalled that the Weaponers of Qward were famous for crafting Sinestro’s power ring. Using the help of G’nort to make him a ship, he journeyed into space and teamed up with Lobo. Together, the two bruisers went to the Antimatter Universe of Qward on Lobo’s Spacehog and beat up a planet full of Qwardians before learning that Sinestro's ring was actually still on Oa... traveling back, they realized that they had inadvertently lead the Weaponers directly to the Guardians for a gigantic invasion. During the massive battle that ensued, the Green Lanterns Corps were almost decimated by the invaders. Guy found the vault of the Green Lantern Corps, and took Sinestro’s Qwardian Power Ring. With the ring in hand, Gardner single-handedly put down the attackers and drove them back to Qward with arguably the most powerful weapon in the universe. Although they were glad that their home planet was safe, the Guardians of the Universe remained extremely worried about what they had unleashed upon the universe by allowing Guy to wield so much energy.

Unlike a Green Lantern Ring, The Qwardian Power Ring was powered by fear. As the yellow ring of Sinestro spoke Sinestro's native language, Gardner was entirely unable to communicate with the ring, although it seemed to understand him to a degree. The ring’s power was based on the bearer's ability to instill great fear. For Guy Gardner to be able to use it so well is... well, it is actually really not all that surprising.

Back on Earth, Guy started a whole new chapter of his life. He relaunched his campaign to clean Metropolis, and quickly became recognized as the most dangerous hero around purely for his collateral damage. Although his actions were widely panned by many including the news media and his peers, he developed a large degree of newfound popularity from citizens who believed his ruthless determination in crime-fighting was much needed.

A group of aliens who were attempting to start their own intergalactic police-for-hire to rival groups like the Green Lanterns, Darkstars, and L.E.G.I.O.N. asked Guy Gardner to be their champion and top enforcer. He agreed to work for them, on the condition that they refer to themselves as the “Gardners of the Universe” and also that they wear his haircut. This gave him an income, and he was able to move out of his small apartment with Major Glory and other Superheroes and even hire himself a publicity agent in Bucky Sharp. He had everything he wanted in addition to his hero career, power, wealth, and respect.

Working on his own now, he first went after Goldface to tie up their past feuds. Although Hal Jordan and Tom Kalmaku were also working the case at the time, Guy insisted that he would be the one to beat Goldface first, baiting the Green Lantern into a competition. Using a combination of his brains, brawns, and fighting skills, Guy actually took Goldface down before Jordan could, even after his ring had been stolen, proving he could show Hal up on his own terms.

John Stewart finally forgave himself for his past mistakes in letting Xanshi be destroyed and grew into a stronger, more complex hero when he became the caretaker of the "Mosaic World", a patchwork of communities from multiple planets that had been brought to Oa by the insane Guardian Ali Apsa, who had invaded John's mind. Although bitter and sullen at his assignment at first, he overcame this and, using his formidable intellect and talent for unconventional thinking, Stewart forged the Mosaic into a new society. Stewart became Green Lantern once again and became a member of the JLA. Stewart was also a member of the Darkstars for some time.

In 1993,When Doomsday first appeared. Gardner was with the Justice League at the time, and when Doomsday caused Blue Beetle’s craft to crash, Gardner did not wait for the rest of the team. He charged straight in, and was quickly overwhelmed by Doomsday, who pummeled him badly before tearing through the rest of the team. Guy, his face beaten so badly he could barely see, continued in the fight, but was put down again. Guy was forced to sit the rest of the battle out, taken off in an ambulance, but insisted that Superman put Doomsday down. Superman and the monster finally killed each other in single combat.

Guy, although never close friends with the Man of Steel, mourned his death along with the rest of the League. He gathered for Superman's funeral in Metropolis and walked in the honor guard along with the League. Shortly thereafter, while in Chicago, Guy became aware of four super-powered beings all claiming to be Superman returned from the dead. Infuriated at what he regarded as pretenders disrespecting the memory of Superman, Guy decided to take action. He went to Metropolis and encountered "The Last Son of Krypton" (later revealed to be the Eradicator) and challenged him to a fight. Impressed with the shaded Superman's prowess and with the brutality he exhibited in defeating some common thugs, Guy was willing to endorse him as the real Man of Steel.

The alien tyrant Mongul and his forces destroyed Coast City, murdering all of its seven million inhabitants, while Jordan was off world. When the Cyborg Superman framed the Eradicator for the destruction of Coast City, Guy was the one member of the League who refused to believe the charge. Nevertheless, he went along with the League when they were lured away from Earth in a ruse by the Cyborg.

Jordan returned to find Coast City destroyed and in rage, killed Mongul.

In 1994, Jordan then used his power ring to recreate Coast City as an instrument in the process of overcoming his grief, and talking to ring-created versions of his old girlfriend and parents. After his ring's power expired, a projection of a Guardian appeared and admonished him for using the ring for personal gain and summoned him to Oa for disciplinary action. Angered at what he saw as the Guardians' ungrateful and callous behavior, Jordan was possessed by the entity Parallax which overrode the safety put on his ring. Parallax granted Jordan great power and when he recharged his ring, it was not enough. Hal Jordan went mad. Hal Jordan attacked and single handedly went through Boodikka, General Kreon, Graf Toren, Hannu, Jack T.Chance, Ke’Haan, Laira and Tomar-Tu He left all those he defeated floating in space and took their rings in his possession, adding them to his collection. He arrived on Oa and killed Kilowog in combat. The Guardians deputized Sinestro in the hopes he would stop Jordan. Hal snapped his neck. Then, he entered the Central Power Battery and absorbed the energies inside... killing the Guardians with the exception of Ganthet and effectively destroying the entire Green Lantern Corps. He emerged in the new identity of Parallax, the entity that had now possessed him. Ganthet escaped with one ring.

Before he acquired a Green Lantern ring, Kyle Rayner was a struggling-but-gifted freelance graphic artist. He lived and worked in Los Angeles initially. After Hal Jordan’s destruction of the Green Lantern Corps, the last surviving Guardian, and the last Green Lantern ring, approached Kyle Rayner. Ganthet's reasons for choosing Kyle to bear the ring have never been made completely apparent, aside from Rayner having been in the right place at the right time. Ganthet is said to have appeared before Rayner and simply said. “You will have to do”.

Kyle, unsure of what to think about having this new power, went to his ex-girlfriend's apartment, Alexandra DeWitt, showing her that he now was a Green Lantern. She decided to help him, and after his first adventure where everyone thought he was Hal Jordan, she recommended he redesign his costume to distinguish himself. Kyle and Alex got back together, and she helped Kyle train for his new role as a superhero. Tragically, she was brutally murdered by the supervillain Major Force, who had been sent to learn the truth about the new Green Lantern, after a few shadowy government operatives recovered the final battery. Force made the mistake of showing the battery to Kyle during the fight, allowing GL to recharge his ring at a crucial moment. Kyle stopped just short of killing Major Force when the authorities arrived. Kyle was then approached by Alan Scott, the Golden Age Green Lantern, who told him a little about the history of the Green Lantern Corps. He also told him about Hal Jordan's madness and warned that they would all soon have to confront Hal.

Jade was stripped of her powers in 1994 by Hal Jordan's assault on the Green Lantern Corps power battery, Kyle Rayner gave her a power ring. When Rayner left Earth to restart the Green Lantern Corps, Jade donned the classic Green Lantern uniform and served as a Green Lantern until losing the ring during a battle with the villain Fatality.

Alan Scott gathered a team to head to Oa to investigate, bringing Guy Gardner, Martian Manhunter, Darkstar (Ferrin Colos), The Ray, Wonder Woman, Captain Atom, Alan Scott and Arisia with him. Jordan used the element of surprise, attacked, and easily defeated them, crushing Guy Gardner’s yellow ring in the process. After the battle, Jordan sent them all back to Earth warning them to leave him alone in the future.

Guy Gardner, on a search for powers once again, he journeyed deep into the heart of Africa, pursuing his superheroics. A legendary river was said to possess the powers of history's greatest fighters, which it would imbue to those who had the true heart of a warrior. Guy joined the party of Buck Wargo on his quest. Braving Nazis, Zombies, Nazi Zombies, and Dinosaurs, he finally sipped the "water of the warriors" and found great powers unlocked within him. Surrounding paintings seemed to depict him as some sort of great prophesized local hero of myth. Shortly afterward, he was nearly crushed by a gigantic boulder and seemingly killed. He immediately came back from the experience. However, his new powers were limited, as while they made him a competent warrior, it was a competent warrior by the standards of a thousand years ago. He did not have any super powers like those he had as a Lantern. He was essentially about on par physically with Batman. He would eventually open a Warriors Bar, designed by John Stewart. The Warriors Bar competed with Booster Gold’s Planet Krypton chain. Another Warriors bar catering to Green Lanterns on Oa was opened.

Rayner began reforming the Green Lantern Corps. Back on Earth, Kyle briefly joined with another former Green Lantern, Guy Gardner, for a second shot at Major Force. This time, Kyle actively chose not to kill the villain, but Guy had no such hesitation and murdered the Villain. Guy Gardner also once battled a Dementor, attracted to him due to his mystical abilities.

Parallax attempted to rewrite history to his own liking with the help of Extant. Parallax destroyed the Time Trapper and attempted to remake the universe into a perfect, peaceful place, causing time disruptions throughout the universe. Superman, Kyle Rayner and Metron called upon Earth's heroes to stop the mysterious disturbances. Jordan and Extant were eventually defeated when Hal exhausted most of his power from both fighting and manipulating the time stream. Green Arrow then took advantage of Jordan's drained state and shot an arrow into a weakened Jordan's chest. While this did not kill him, it helped to cause Jordan to have an epiphany, possibly thinking about how he would be remembered if he died and he stopped his villainous actions. Instead, he created an orbital station called New Oa and watched over earth.

During a battle against Sonar, Kyle would meet The Flash(Wally West). Wally, having grown up with Hal and his uncle Barry Allen as Green Lantern and Flash, did not think very highly of the new GL at first. Their bickering almost allowed Sonar to overcome them. They managed to overcome their differences, however, and would go on to become good friends. He also met Superboy while investigating the ruins of the Silicon Dragon base beneath the Pacific. Kyle and Superboy encountered Black Manta in his new monstrous form. Kyle admitted to being a bit on edge when Superboy explained he brought Sam Makoa along, an FBI agent without powers, as this prompted bad memories of Alex. All three were able to escape the lair (rescuing some kidnapped victims along the way) and Kyle relaxed with Superboy at the Compound before heading off.

Kyle began to question his abilities and what it truly meant to be a superhero. This lead him to seek out other heroes for advice, including Batman, Alan Scott, Captain Marvel and Wonder Woman. Kyle learned a lot from them, and rededicated himself to his new role.

Kyle barely was able to rest after this "hero quest" when Donna Troy asked him to come with her to Rann, where John Stewart and what was left of the Darkstars were rallied, preparing for an invasion by Grayven, the son of Darkseid. GL managed to hold the line, defeating Grayven in single combat. He took Donna and Stewart back to Earth.

Once returned to Earth, Kyle Rayner met the new Green Arrow(Connor Hawke) and the two easily became friends (as they were both in the same situation, two young men recently thrust into the life of a superhero and trying to fill the shoes of someone with a long, proud history).

Hal Jordan and Jade joined Superman's newly formed Justice League in 1996. During Jade’s time as a Green Lantern she helped Hal Jordan on Superman's rebuilt Justice League. The two saved the lives of many heroes from the Nuclear Strike of 1996. Later, when a ring was offered again to her, she changed her Green Lantern uniform to a modified version of Rayner's. Jade continued to function as a Green Lantern until Rayner, as Ion, used his power to restore her connection to the Starheart.

Soon after, Earth's greatest heroes were unable to stop the Sun-Eater from enveloping the Sun. In desperation, Kyle sought out Parallax and found him at the Source Wall. Kyle pleaded with Hal to return and save the Earth. Parallax did come back, and after seeing the immense danger Earth was in, decided to try and redeem himself. Hal was successful at destroying the Sun-Eater and restoring the Earth to the way it was--but the cost was his own life. A memorial was held in Coast City for the former hero.

With the help of the Sentinels of Magic, Hal became the new host for the Spectre. Hal attempted to bend the Spectre's mission from vengeance to redemption, using his powers to remove the Star Sapphire persona from Carol. However, the Spectre was the stronger of the two minds, and Hal had little success.

But the Spectre had alternate motives for attaching to Hal Jordan. He explained to Hal that the parasitic fear demon known as Parallax had taken him over while it was trapped by the Guardians in the Central Battery, having been awoken and directed to Hal by Sinestro. Though Parallax was able to suppress Hal and take over the Spectre, Hal was able to fight off Parallax and separate it from his soul.

Shortly after, Kyle became one of the charter members of the new JLA, after the team saved Earth from a renegade band of White Martians. The new Justice League established their new base, the Watchtower, on the surface of the moon.

Kyle again had to contend with a former villain of the Green Lanterns coming to Earth for revenge. This time, it was a woman named Fatality, an alien whose home of Xanshi had been destroyed partially because of the actions of John Stewart. Fatality did not know who was responsible for the destruction of her world, only knowing that a Green Lantern was, and so she blamed all Green Lanterns and began to hunt them down all over the universe. Even after the Corps was destroyed, she continued her vendetta against its former members. Learning the last GL was on Earth, she arrived and battled Kyle across not only Metropolis, but also on an alien planet. Kyle managed to defeat her--but in the process she learned that John Stewart was the one she was seeking the most.

Back at his apartment, Kyle found a green skinned woman in his shower -- it was Jade, who asked if she could crash at his place for a while. Kyle agreed--much to the chagrin of Jade's brother Obsidian. Kyle took his then girlfriend Donna to meet his mother in L.A., having fallen very much in love with her, but when Donna's ex-husband and son were killed in a car accident, she broke up with Kyle, explaining that she just needed some time apart to sort things through. Kyle took the breakup very hard.

Kyle decided to head for Hawaii, where he met up with Superboy to engage a deadly being masquerading as a Hawaiian goddess, Pele, who was using Silver Sword as her lackey. After Silver Sword turned on his mistress, Kyle and Superboy were able to defeat Pele. Superboy, having recently been dumped by his girlfriend, Tana Moon was in a similar spot as Kyle, but far more depressed over the situation.

At this time, Kyle and Jade also became romantically involved. Kyle decided the time had come to try rebuilding the Green Lantern Corps. After Alan Scott, Guy Gardner, and John Stewart all turned down the offer for a new GL ring, Kyle gave one to Jade (who had recently lost her powers) and left her in charge while he decided to go into space and find some new recruits. Jade assumed the Green Lantern name and classic costume during her tour of duty. Fatality soon returned to Earth, however, continuing her vendetta against the Green Lanterns. Kyle returned to Earth during the battle, and once again the fight started on Earth and ended on a distant world, but with some help from John Stewart, Fatality was defeated once again. Kyle's soon returned to space in his effort to restart the Corps.

Shortly after the breakup with Jade, Kyle came under the influence of the Controllers, an alien race who had created Effigy, who attempted to take control of Kyle by creating a myriad of different hallucinations. Through sheer force of will, Kyle was able to defeat them and return home for a time.

Kyle finally got a steady job doing a bi-weekly comic strip for a magazine called Feast. The job came with an assistant, a 16 year-old boy named Terry Berg. Kyle barely finished the first assignment when he was attacked at his home by a rogue group of Manhunters. This particular batch of Manhunters had become self aware, formed a collective consciousness and came after Kyle for his power ring. They intended to "assimilate" Kyle and have him use his ring as a power source in their quest to further evolve. They nearly succeeded, but Kyle managed to free himself and destroy them.

Kyle's new career began to take off, but even as it did so, Fatality returned again--this time equipped with a yellow power ring. After a fierce battle with Kyle, she went after John Stewart and Merayn. Kyle managed to stop her, but after she tried to surrender the power ring, it exploded, taking her arm with it. The Qwardians who had given her the ring decided to give it to Alex Nero instead. Kyle finally brought Fatality to justice. Fortunately, in the aftermath of the fight, Kyle and Jade managed to have a heart to heart conversation, and over the next few weeks they got back together. Nero then showed up in Metropolis with his ring. Utterly insane, he created legions of yellow "demons" that plagued the city (although they were more of a disruption than a threat) and Kyle had to call in the JLA for help. A massive battle ensued across Metropolis. In the end, haunted by the ghosts of his past, Nero apparently self-destructed. Green Lantern was hailed as the hero of the hour by the mayor of Metropolis.

On top of the world, Kyle proposed to Jade (with a GL power ring no less). Terry was visibly upset about the news, leading Kyle for finally figure out that his assistant was gay and harboring a crush on him. Realizing how troubled the kid was with his own feelings, Kyle had a long talk with him and they became close friends.

Jade also accepted the ring and used it to become a hero again. She also went with Kyle when he was requested for services as a goodwill ambassador to an alien planet. Things went bad while he was there, however, and a mission of peace quickly turned into a firefight.

Over that time, it was discovered that a cosmic entity named Oblivion was the embodiment of Kyle's fear, unknowingly created after Alexandra's murder. It was not until later that Oblivion came to "merge" with Kyle. The JLA tried to stop Oblivion, but during the battle, Kyle was sent back to Earth to get reinforcements.

When he reached Earth, Kyle recruited Power Girl, The Atom, Firestorm, Adam Strange and the Circle of Fire — ostensibly a group of Green Lanterns from alternate realities and different time periods. In reality, Kyle created all of these Green Lanterns. The Circle of Fire consisted of Kyle's late girlfriend Alex, a pair of juvenile cousins (Hunter and Forest Rayner), a descendant of Wally West and Kyle Rayner who possessed both the Flash and Green Lantern's powers but could only use one of those powers a day (Green Lightning), a reprogrammed Manhunter robot (G.L.7177.6), and a Green Lantern from the Middle Ages (Emerald Knight).

This group was split up to handle different crises caused by Oblivion, or in some cases to search for a way to defeat him. Eventually they all realized that Kyle had created the Circle of Fire because he needed help. When they realized this, they decided that the created Green Lanterns should return to Kyle's mind. Doing so allowed Kyle to unlock more power from the ring that he had not used before. In a confrontation with Kyle, Oblivion revealed that he was a distillation of Kyle's doubts and darker impulses, made manifest through the power of the ring. After facing up to this, Kyle was able to defeat Oblivion and restore the JLA.

For a brief period Kyle achieved godhood when he was possessed by the benevolent entity Ion, With his new powers, Kyle could bend time, space, and reality. Kyle could even be in many places at once. Kyle's trans-godlike powers had drawbacks however: Ion was one with everything, but Kyle Rayner could no longer sleep or separate himself from the overwhelming responsibilities. Kyle was now in the exact same position that Hal Jordan had been in when he had become Parallax.

Rather than sacrifice his humanity, Kyle abandoned omnipotence, bleeding off the vast power, recharging the Central Power Battery on the planet Oa, and helping to create a new group of Guardians in the process. Before he removed all of the power though, he modified his ring. Once again limited only by his willpower and imagination, Rayner's ring could still affect yellow, did not have a set time limit on its power, and was keyed directly to him. Kyle modified the ring so that it would always return to him, and so that it would always have a lifeline of power available (although the ring still required charging to get up to full power).

After the brutal beating of his young assistant and friend Terry Berg, Kyle went on a lengthy self-imposed exile into space. Before leaving, he placed John Stewart, given a new power ring, into his spot in the JLA..

Stewart would join a new incarnation of the Justice League. Early into his tenure he was framed for the destruction of Ajuris 4. The true culprits were the Manhunters that claimed to still be loyal to the rebuilding Guardians. He would also travel to another universe and meet his childhood comic book characters, the Justice Guild of America. He would fall in love with and eventually marry Shayera Hall AKA Hawkgirl, his teammate on the League. They would have a child who became the hero Warhawk. He also had an attraction to the Leaguer Vixen.

In 2001, Hal Jordan as the Spectre aided Batman by destroying Satellites placed in orbit by Lex Luthor.

In 2004, the entity Parallax attacked the Green Lantern Corps, looking for a new host after Hal Jordan's death.It would possess Kyle Rayner for a time before being forced out of him by Ion possessing Rayner again. Parallax then retreated to Earth.

Kyle was given special status amongst the new Guardians, who considered him the "Torchbearer," the Green Lantern who carried the legacy through the Corps' darkest period.

By 2005, A new era had begun, and the Green Lantern Corps went back into action, and started recruiting new members. This time, with a total of 7200 Lanterns at all times, two for each space sector. Kyle Rayner and Guy Gardner were selected to act as instructors to the thousands of rookies now pouring in. One of the only veteran Lanterns present at this crucial point in Corps history, As the universe was being torn apart by the Rann-Thanagar War at the time,Rayner was sent to Mogo to prevent an invasion from the opposing forces.

The Spider Guild captured new recruit Soranik Natu, and took her prisoner in the Vega System, off-limits to Lanterns. Despite a centuries old pact with the Psions of Vega, Guy and Kyle rescued her from her imprisonment. And were immediately ambushed by bounty hunters Bolphunga and Fatality, out for the prices on their heads.The fight led directly to the Guild Nest, where they had to fight both the hunters and armies of gigantic alien spiders. Along with Isamot Kol and Vath Sam, the Lanterns escaped from Vega and made it back into their own territory. They realized that the Guild was involved in a complicated plot to compress stars into black holes and steal for power, with designs on Oa for its next invasion. Code Zero. This culminated in a full-scale Spider Guild assault that required every single available Lantern to fight. Most of the rookies still could not overcome the Yellow impurity in their rings, and had difficulty targeting the primarily golden warships. John Stewart even showed up for the battle. Rallying their forces together, Guy Gardner took control of the entire Corps, gave a speech at the new Central Power Battery and led them to triumphant victory underneath his strategies. Working as one gigantic team, and concentrating all of their willpower in unison, they turned their plot back on the Spiders and obliterated the hive mind with the very explosion they had intended to use on the Guardians. Afterward, Guy received both great praise and great demerits. The Guardian Ganthet noted that beneath his brutish exterior lied exceptional qualities that warranted their special attention, and he was promoted to "Lantern Number One" of the Corps Honor Guard, not restricted to any sector. However, on the other hand, for breaking as many rules as he had, and committing what was effectively a mutiny to usurp command, he was in need of some reprimand. Guy Gardner's new position was effective immediately, but he was also denied shore leave for a full year as punishment. The Corps was back, and stronger than it ever had been before.

During the 2005 Infinite Crisis, Guy Gardner was a present force throughout. His old friend Blue Beetle was murdered by Maxwell Lord during Lord's brutal takeover of Checkmate. Teaming up with other former Leaguers, Guy helped investigate the murder. Alongside Booster Gold, Fire, Metamorpho, and Mary Marvel fought the OMACs attempting to destroy all superheroes. Another of his old friends, Rocket Red, was murdered by the robots.

Gardner also took place in a last stand with numerous other heroes trying to face down as many OMACs as they could. At last, while they were battling, Sasha Bordeaux managed to shut the project down. Former nemesis Despero was captured and Guy got to poke a stick at him through a cage, much to the galactic conqueror's chagrin. In the company of G’nort, who was trying to organize Rann-Thanagar peace talks after his planet had been destroyed in their conflict, Guy met his old enemies the Tormocks once again. They were taking advantage of the Crisis to completely wipe out the Vuldarians, but Guy intervened, and single-handedly saved the dying race from extinction.

Gardner was working in the Polaris Galaxy at the climax of the Rann-Thanagar War as a widening rift into the Multiverse opened up at the new center of the universe.Jade died trying to stop Alexander Luthor Jr. Her power(the inherited Starheart-come-Green Lantern power) was transferred to Kyle Rayner, vastly increasing his power. After the Battle of Metropolis, when Superboy-Prime intended to fly through Oa at light speed and recreate the Big Bang, Guy led the Green Lantern Corps’ stand against him. Although a total of thirty-two Lanterns were killed in action by the rampaging Kryptonian, they slowed him down long enough for Superman to catch up to him and stop him. Superboy-Prime was imprisoned in the middle of a Red Sun Eater obtained through Donna Troy, and fifty Lanterns were posted guard around him at all times. Guy Gardner was asked to give the main speech at the ceremony for the fallen afterward.

Throughout the next year, Gardner made several appearances on Earth although he was largely confined to space missions. He made it to the speech Superman was supposed to give after the Crisis to the rest of the hero community. Guy managed to return to his home planet in time for Christmas that year as well. He also helped save lives during the rain of the supermen, when the people of Lex Luthor’s Everyman Project simultaneously lost their powers during flight and came crashing down to the streets below. After Black Adam went on a rampage and started World War III, Guy was one of the large number of heroes who attempted to put him down.

In 2006, One year after Jade's death, Green Lantern Torquemada and his rookie partner, Garmin Vid, were investigating Sector 3521 and discovered Kyle amidst the wreckage of an evacuation fleet from the Quinilon System. An incoherent Kyle blamed himself for the fleet's destruction, but repeatedly admitted that he did not mean for it to happen. The two fellow Lanterns attempted to aid Kyle and bring him back to Oa, but Kyle violently lashed out, nearly killing Garmin Vid before fleeing the scene.

Torquemada returned to Oa with his wounded ally and informed the Guardians. Meanwhile, Kyle awakened on Earth in Kaaterskill's Notch, a secluded village refuge for artists. Kyle had no memory of the incident with Torquemada or Vid, nor did he remember the destruction of the evacuation fleet. While staying at Kaaterskill's Notch, Kyle was greeted by his landlord, an old man named Schuyler, and attempted to introduce himself to the newest tenant, a reclusive mute girl name Marissa Rochelle.

Later, Kyle was attacked by a Thanagarian bounty hunter named Tarra Karn and was forced to defend himself. Kyle eventually forced her to reveal why she had chosen him as her prey and Kyle learned of the evacuation fleet's destruction and his apparent role in it.

On Oa, the Guardians had forbidden other Lanterns from aiding Kyle, apparently wanting him to fight whatever it is that had possessed him. Indeed, it seemed that something or someone was manipulating Kyle, causing memory lapses, bouts of violent anger and a lack of control over his actions and powers.

After visiting the wreckage of the evacuation fleet, Kyle lost control again and ended up on a world called Alytt where he impacted with a gladiator arena, unintentionally rescuing a warrior woman from a ferocious alien opponent via collateral damage. There, he freaked out again, nearly breaking her arm before flying off again and then finding himself in orbit over Mogo, the sentient Green Lantern planet.

Confronted by his own delusions and inner demons, in the form of his former girlfriends Alex, Donna and Jade giving aid and suggestions, and Major Force as the embodiment of all his fears, Kyle ultimately realized the meaning of his "new life". He acknowledged, thanks to "Jade," that the Ion entity was a living conduit able to channel and harness both the Starheart and the Central Power Battery willpower energy. In space, Ariana, the mysterious alien girl, still angered for the massive devastation Rayner laid on her planet was encountered by Hal Jordan as the Spectre, who went to check on Kyle. The Guardians forbid anyone to leave Oa to help, but did not say anything about off-worlders going after him. It helped that Hal Jordan had gone through changes in his past, and would be the best to help.

Upon finding Ion decimating yet another world, Hal chose to step in and speak with Kyle. The conversation was short lived and Ion lashed out at the Spectre, but Hal easily defeated Kyle and the two spoke. Kyle began to learn to control the Ion entity. The Guardians informed him that he would be placed in a position where he would be on reserve until they absolutely needed him.

Later Guy Gardner, met him to tell the bad news about his mother who was in a hospital dying with no known medical cause. Kyle tried to reanimate his mother's dead corpse using his Ion powers, but after a tearful farewell she refused, asking Kyle to let her pass. He agreed, and he was left again in mourning in his new home.
Parallax formed the Sinestro Corps, mirroring the Green Lantern Corps and creating several Yellow Lantern rings. He also allied with the resurrected Anti-Monitor. The Sinestro Corps then launched an all-out assault against the Green Lantern Corps and the universe itself.

During the assault on Oa, the Sinestro Corps managed to inflict heavy casualties and freed Superman Prime(he had aged into adulthood while in captivity) and the Cyborg Superman from their imprisonment. Kyle Rayner was captured and transported to Qward, where the Corps separated Rayner from the symbiote Ion, allowing Parallax to possess him. John Stewart and Guy Gardner attempted to rescue their fallen comrade Kyle Rayner, but were themselves entrapped. After a defeat, surviving members of the Green Lantern Corps were forced underground and split into two groups. While one group attempted to free Rayner only to find themselves ambushed, the other successfully rescued Ion. They then re-united with their ambushed comrades and together they escaped from Qward back to the positive matter universe. John and Guy returned to Earth to warn the Justice League of the Anti-Monitor's return.

As the Sinestro Corps spread out to ambush Green Lanterns across the universe. The guardians chose to rewrite their sacred text, the Book of Oa, against the objections of Ganthet, the only original Guardian among them and Sayd. The Guardians added ten new laws, the first of which authorized the use of lethal force against the Sinestro Corps. As the Green Lanterns gathered on Oa in preparation for a Sinestro Corps assault, the Sinestro Corps teleport themselves and their Central Power Battery instead to a new Warworld, their objective being Earth. Word of this was leaked and the battle began on Earth. The Green Lantern Corps, Justice League, and Justice Society of America were all present for the battle along with hundreds of others.

At the climax of the epic confrontation in Metropolis, Guy fell suddenly violently ill. While everyone else was searching for a way to destroy the rampaging Anti-Monitor, Guy had the idea of dropping Warworld on him like a gigantic bomb after detonating its core. This destroyed the Anti-Monitor's containment suit, and Superman Prime finished him off. One Guardian gained the nickname Scar from a wound sustained in battle with the Antimonitor.

Cyborg Superman was also killed in the blast, and expressed gratitude for the ending of his life. Near collapse and hacking up yellow all over the place, Guy was examined by Soranik Natu, who determined he was under the influence of sentient bio-virus Despotellis. In a battle on a microscopic scale, Green Lantern Leezle Pon, a sentient smallpox virus battled against Despotellis in Guy's bloodstream, finally winning out and saving his life.

Parallax was imprisoned in their power batteries by Ganthet. After John and Guy arrived, the former Guardian revealed to them the prophecy of the "Blackest Night," It foretold of five more Corps arising, each based on a different color and emotion. After the five corps were established, a "War of Light'' would ensue, in which all the corps are destroyed, leading to the "Blackest Night."

The Ganthet arrived on Earth and appointed the Daxamite Sodam Yat to be the new Ion(a part of the prophecy as Sodam Yat was reported to be the second to last Green Lantern killed). After a lengthy struggle in Metropolis, the Sinestro Corps was defeated by the overwhelming numbers against them. One Guardian sacrificed himself to send Superboy-Prime to an alternate universe.

The Sinestro Corps was finally defeated and the enemy Corps decimated, the Green Lanterns won the war and took back the universe from the grip of terror. A number of them stayed behind to clean up damage and rebuild the major cities that had been destroyed. Although he was prepared to use lethal force if absolutely necessary, Guy avoided giving into his baser instincts for the duration of the conflict. Now that Kyle Rayner was no longer Ion, he was assigned an Honor Guard position as well and became Guy's new partner. Shortly afterward the pair paid their respects to the dead at the Crypts of the Green Lantern Corps together. 440 Green Lanterns perished during the course of the war.

In the aftermath of the Sinestro Corps War, Guy met Ice again in Times Square and shared a single long and passionate kiss.

The Anti-Monitor's remains, having been blown across the vacuum of space at the battle's climax, landed on a dark planet where it was transformed by an unknown force into a black power battery.

Tensions escalated between the Green Lantern and Red Lantern Corps in 2008, and the single Orange Lantern Larfleeze in 2009.

In 2008, Green Lantern Kyle Rayner helped stop the rampage of Lex Luthor whose brain was transplanted into a robotic form.

Kyle and Guy both got tired of their home-life on Earth, and decided to move to Oa to better suit their responsibilities as Honor Guards. Rebuilding his old destroyed bar, Guy set up a new Warriors restaurant for Lanterns to get solid food someplace other than the cafeteria. Salakk required some convincing, but after a number of derogatory remarks directed at them mused that their entertainment value alone would be worth it. Before leaving Earth, Guy left a note on Ice's bedside table explaining his disappearance.

John Stewart was asked to join a new division within the Corps: the Alpha Lanterns, but John refused. John was later ambushed by the Sinestro Corps and the newly formed Red Lantern Corps. The Green Lanterns were left to die in space after a battle with Atrocitus. They were saved by Saint Walker, a member of the Blue Lantern Corps. John was infected with the rage of the red power rings and attacked Saint Walker. Walker used his blue ring to create a construct of Katma Tui, who healed John and calmed him down by showing him a vision of himself flying with Katma. John witnessed Larfleeze making demands and fought him. While battling the Orange Lantern, John was saved by Fatality. Fatality told John to let go of his grief over Xanshi's destruction and then left.

As part of his duties with the Honor Guard, Kyle began working with other members of the Corps, including Guy and Saranik Natu, growing closer to her. He joined the hunt for the Quintet, a family of Sinestro Corps siblings who were murdering the families of rookie Green Lanterns. Following this, Kyle and Soranik joined KT21 and the Pree couple to locate Kryb, a Sinestro Corps member who was murdering Green Lanterns and stealing their children.

In Sector 1111, they met up with Kryb, but damaged the Sector House. As he saw one of the murdered Lantern's bodies burn up on reentry, Kyle snapped and launched a violent physical assault on Kryb. The other Lanterns attempting to restrain him, allowed Kryb the chance to expose them to a chemical agent she secreted that took control of their minds, causing Kyle, Soranik, KT21 and Matoo Pree to attack Amnee Pree and forced her to go into labor. Kyle was able to overcome the agent's effects and free the others. He and KT21 attacked Kryb while Soranik and Matoo helped Amnee give birth. The Lanterns were assisted by Miri Riam, the newest member of the Star Sapphire Corps. Although KT21 was killed when she tried to kill Kryb, the monster herself was defeated, and Amnee gave birth. At the same time, the Lanterns were informed that romantic relationships were forbidden between Green Lanterns from this point on. Miri announced that she was taking Kryb to Zamaron to rehabilitate her, and Kyle dismissed her plan, admitting that he had lost too many to give love another chance. Miri then had her look into her crystal to see his true love, and what he saw was Soranik. Kyle left the choice with the Prees, who had decided to resign following the new rule's implementation, and chose to give Miri's plan a chance.

Returning to Oa, Kyle and Guy discussed the Guardians' recent law, which Kyle felt was like they were trying to micromanage their souls. Soranik then stopped by and asked to talk with Kyle alone. Heading to Guy's Place, the two discussed what they saw within the crystal, and shared a passionate embrace. Soranik then noticed the drawing Kyle was working on, a rendition of KT21's death. Kyle showed her his scrapbook, revealing that he was drawing the deaths of recent Lanterns as a way of mourning them. Soranik felt that he needed to celebrate their lives, and convinced him to make a mural of the history of the Green Lantern Corps. In Kyle's apartment, he and Soranik shared a kiss. Kyle told her about the progress he had made on the mural. Soranik encourages Kyle's work. They discussed their newfound relationship and how it went against the third law. Kyle reassured her that if what they felt for each other put the Corps at risk, he would gladly give up his ring.

Kyle and Guy were still on Oa during the great Sciencell riot. The riot included a breakout unleashing every captured member of the Sinestro Corps, as well as any of hundreds of the Corps’ greatest enemies who had been imprisoned.Kyle, along with Guy, and Salaak, lead the Green Lanterns to battle the escaped prisoners. During the gigantic battle, Gardner actually briefly teamed up with his old enemy Bolphunga against the Sinestros, although he made it clear he still hated Guy. Kyle rescued Kanjar Ro and enlisted his help in recapturing the other prisoners by offering to talk to the Guardians about reducing his sentence. They finally recaptured their enemies with the help of the Alpha Green Lantern Corps. And then the Central Power Battery exploded. Guardian Scar, having switched allegiances to a new master, destroyed from within to take down Oa’s defensive shielding and make it more vulnerable to attack. The Lanterns regrouped, and started cleaning up the mess. Salaak brought Guy and Kyle's attention to the actions of the Alpha Lanterns, and they realized that they were executing unarmed prisoners. The two Honor Guards made a stand against Chaselon, Green Man and Varix, Gardner particularly outraged at the disregard for the right to life, and the extent to which they were allowing the ideals of the Corps to slip. At first debating heatedly, and then putting themselves in the way of the blasts. They were forced to settle for only saving those who they had promised would be spared for helping them, Bolphunga and Kanjar Ro. The executions were brought onto the surface of Oa for all to see. For going against the decree, Guy and Kyle were demoted from their positions and stationed back on Earth until they could control their emotions. The Guardians decided to honor their promise of leniency and spare Kanjar and Bolphunga.

At the beginning of the Final Crisis, Orion of the New Gods was found murdered in a dumpster. Alpha Lantern Kraken, at the time possessed by Granny Goodness, framed Kyle Rayner for the murder of a God and the attempted murder of his partner(John Stewart). He was taken off of active duty during the investigation. At the trial, Guy uncovered Goodness for the fraud she was, attempting to take the powers of the Central Power Battery for the glory of Darkseid. Discovering that Earth was at the center of a doomsday singularity which could wipe out all existence thanks to Darkseid's machinations, Guy and Kyle all traveled back home within twenty-four hours to save the universe. They faced reality warps and time distortions. After Darkseid had been killed by Batman, they arrived for the ultimate confrontation between Mandrakk the Dark Monitor and Superman’s combined forces of the Multiverse. Along with his fellow Lanterns, The Lanterns helped drive a stake made of pure willpower through the Dark Monitor's heart, killing him once and for all.

The Blackest Night was an event orchestrated by the demon Nekron along with the Supervillain Black Hand.

In Gotham City, Black Hand resurrected Bruce Wayne from his grave and a massive Black Lantern power battery began to charge.The Guardians of Oa observed the breakout of the War of Light between the Different Ring Corps before the undead Guardian Scar rose and attacked them, in desperation, Ganthet fled with one of each ring and teleported away as the Guardians were destroyed for the second time.

Thousands of black rings assault the Corps' crypt, creating a Black Lantern Corps. Current Green Lantern Kyle Rayner and current Flash Barry Allen Jr investigated Bruce Wayne's grave and were attacked by Black Lanterns. On Oa, the Green Lanterns were met by all of the resurrected Lanterns, now reborn as Black Lanterns. Hawkgirl and Hawkman were killed by Black Lanterns Elongated Man and Sue Dibny and joined the growing Black Lantern Corps.

The Atom was tricked into visiting Black Lantern Hawkman. The hero Deadman was the first to realize the dead superheroes were not their true selves when his physical body revived as a Black Lantern while he was still free. An army of Black Lantern Atlanteans attacked Atlantis, including Aquaman. Mera managed to flee. The Spectre was also able to destroy the Black Lantern ring sent to his host body. The black Lantern rings were found to be unable to revive dead who were at peace, such as former Dove Don Hall, even as his partner Hawk and his brother Hank rose. In Gotham, Kyle Rayner and Barry Allen Jr were confronted by several Black Lanterns, including Ronald Raymond. A battle ensued when the Indigo Tribe appeared and used their Indigo power with other rings to obliterate the Black Lantern Dibnys. Mera found the new (still human) Firestorm and Gehenna, who merged to create a new Firestorm. Indigo said that the Lantern Corps needed to unite to defeat the Black Lantern Corps. The Indigo Tribe departed with Kyle and left the other heroes to fight the invading Black Lanterns. Black Lantern Firestorm separated Gehenna and Jason, killing Gehenna and absorbed Jason's consciousness. Black rings revived the villains whose remains had been in storage in the Hall of Justice.

Mera and Flash fled the Black Lanterns and used Atom's powers to escape through a telephone line. Flash left and gave all the superheroes in the US the key to defeat the Black Lanterns—merging lights with a Green Ring—and the Atom, Mera and the Justice Society of America battled many Lanterns together. Jean Loring killed and caused enough damage to revive as a Black Lantern, which fully empowered the Black Lantern power battery. Barry arrived in Coast City, where the Black Lantern Central Power Battery was located. Black Hand then summoned Nekron, who revived the residents of Coast City. The JLA, the Titans, and Bart Allen fought the Coast City Black Lanterns. Dove found that she could destroy Black Lanterns with her presence. Kyle and Lantern Corps members Larfleeze, Atrocitus, Sinestro, Carol Ferris, Saint Walker, Indigo-1, and Ganthet traveled to Earth to aid in the battle.

Mera and the Atom arrived. John Stewart warned Kyle Rayner that every Black Lantern in the universe was heading for Earth. Stewart said they needed the entire seven Corps to unite to produce White Light. While they summoned the seven Corps to Earth, Ganthet duplicated the seven colored rings present and deputized non-Corps members Ganthet as Green, Barry Allen Jr as Blue, Mera as Red, Lex Luthor Jr as Orange, Scarecrow as Yellow, Atom as Indigo, and Wonder Woman as Violet. The Corps Leaders and deputies fought Nekron but could not stop him, partly because Luthor Jr was overwhelmed by the Orange light of avarice. John Stewart was trying to stop the horde of Black Lanterns when the combined Six Corps arrived to join together and battle the Black Lanterns. In Coast City, Dove tried to reach the Black Lantern Battery but was forced to retreat as a being from within the battery tried to escape. Nekron caused a cocoon to emerge from the Earth. Ganthet revealed that this was the White Light Entity that triggered existence and that life actually began on Earth, not Oa, and that the Guardians upheld the lie to protect the Entity and justify their power. Nekron stabbed the Entity, causing every living being across the universe to feel pain.

Kyle realized the Entity was like Parallax and Ion and needed a guide, and tried to merge with it. Kyle was promptly killed by Nekron, but the White Ring revived him as it possessed him. Kyle retaliated and killed Nekron, but Nekron's scythe was picked up by a Black Lantern human who transformed into Nekron and said "death could not be stopped". The United Lantern Corps attacked Nekron. Deadman possessed Guy Gardner and explained that Black Hand was Nekron's tether and that he must be revived to defeat Nekron. Nekron separated Kyle from the Entity and Kyle said that Nekron opened the door to death but it was the decision of the heroes to live. Kyle merged with the Entity and transformed himself and the Black Lantern heroes into a White Lantern Corps, who restored Black Hand to life. This causes Black Hand to regurgitate a White Ring which revived the Anti-Monitor trapped in the Black Lantern Power Battery. Nekron briefly fought the Anti-Monitor when he was brought back to life and banished him to his home in Qward, the Antimatter Universe. Black Hand regurgitated a cluster of white rings that destroyed Nekron.

Larfleeze returned an unconscious Lex Luthor Jr stripped of his ring, who briefly realized that he had given something away, and demanded that the heroes honor their debt to him.

Saint Walker noticed that the Indigo Tribe and Black Hand were missing. On the Indigo home world, Black Hand was now a member and prisoner of the Indigo Tribe, and was chained to an indigo power staff. Barry Jr wondered what became of the Entity;Kyle said it was still out there, urging them all to move past the events of the Blackest Night. Elsewhere, on a distant road, a White Power Battery was found in a crater.​

2011 began with the emergence of a new Green Lantern of Earth. Martin Jordan, Hal Jordan’s son by way of Carol Ferris during the interim time when she was not controlled by the Star Sapphire. Named after Hal’s own father. Martin followed his father into the Air Force, until it was time for him to receive his ring. While he had a lot to live up to, his first mission pit him against two of his Father’s old foes, Hector Hammond, possessed by Parallax. Surprisingly, while it was Parallax who killed Hector Hammond, Jordan would be the one to finally kill Parallax, doing what his father couldn’t do. Martin Jordan pursued a romantic relationship with Bridgette Vreeland.

Martin Jordan attempted to broker peace between the various Lantern Corps, when the banished Guardian Krona threatened the Universe. Martin and the group of Lantern Corps came across The Book of the Black, and were attacked by Lyssa Drak, who started pulling the Corp members into the book. In a desperate attempt not to be pulled in, the Lanterns caused an explosion. The book teleported away leaving the rings of the book’s captives. Martin Jordan was then arrested by the Green Lanterns for conspiring with their enemies.

Krona meanwhile, teleported into Oa and possessed the Guardians with the emotional entities. The possession of the Central Power Battery caused all the Lanterns except Jordan to turn.

John Stewart, Kyle Rayner, Ganthet, Soranik Natu the Alpha Lantern Boodikka and Hannu headed to Oa after a battle with the Sinestro Corps on Qward. However, when they arrived, they found the other Alpha Lanterns floating above Oa and Boodikka as well. Shortly after. While John, Kyle, and Ganthet are not immediately affected by the impurity, Hannu and Soranik were and flew off. Kyle began to chase after them, but John stopped him, saying that it was a trap. The impurity began to take its effect and the two started to fight. Ganthet overloaded his power ring trying to remove Kyle's and John's, causing Ganthet's ring to explode, taking his hand with it. With them freed from the corrupting influence, they discovered that the reason they had not been affected the same way was due to their previous encounters with Parallax. Off in the distance, the three saw a group of Green Lanterns forming a search party. Ganthet told the others to run away since while they could no longer be traced by their rings, Ganthet could still be traced by his own power and made them take refuge under the surface of Oa while he faced off against an army of Lanterns.

Also at the same time, Guy Gardner, and Arisia were heading to Oa to tell the Guardians about Zardor, a telepathic enemy of the Guardians who had taken over Sodam Yat. They also felt Krona’s influence and saw Arisia flying. While Guy tried to restrain her, she overpowered them as they were attacked by a group of Lanterns. Guy tried to contact other members of the Corps, but only got through to Martin Jordan. The two eventually met up. However, the two begin to argue and under the effects of the impurity, began to fight. Fortunately, their fighting caused them to drain their rings of energy and calm themselves down. The two put their differences aside.

Hal and Guy fell into the underground hangar containing an old Manhunter transport called The Interceptor. They assumed that John and Kyle must have also been able to resist the impurity and headed off to Oa. The two reached Oa shortly; however, they were then intercepted by a group of Lanterns that made short work of The Interceptor as Hal and Guy slipped away in an escape pod. The pod crashed through the surface of Oa and they met up with Kyle and John as they hid in the bowels of Oa. The group planned to go save Ganthet, but realized that they were underpowered, until Martin revealed that he still had the rings of Atrocitus, Larfleeze, Sinestro, Saint Walker, Indigo-1 and Carol Ferris. Martin, Guy, John, and Kyle chose the Yellow, Red, Indigo and Blue rings respectively.

They were then interrupted by incoming Lanterns and did their best to stop them, but Kyle's ring started to supercharge the brainwashed Lanterns' rings. Unable to stand against their supercharged enemies, they flew off to find Ganthet. When they found him, Ganthet was angry at their decisions on using the different rings since they were unprepared and ill-suited to fend off their enemies. The corrupted Lanterns cleared away to make way for the corrupted Mogo.

Ganthet was quickly subdued while Martinl, Guy, John and Kyle retreated, unable to stand against Mogo's attacks. The four managed to escape into the caverns under Oa and headed to the Central Power Battery underground. When they were two miles away from the battery, they came across a large facility containing various weapons and devices made by the Guardians as well as the foundry, where the Corps' batteries and rings were forged. They also came across a Green Lantern Power Gauntlet, originally created by Krona and the first device to harness green energy. Guy smashed the gauntlet's glass case, which alerted a creature lurking in the facility that attacked them. Kyle told them to stand down and prove to the creature that they meant it no harm. The creature confirmed their identities as Green Lanterns and handed over the Power Gauntlet to Guy before going back into the depths of Oa. John then came across a computer scanning the different sectors for new recruits to the Green Lantern Corps to be taken over. John said that Mogo was now more important to stop the recruitment of more Green Lanterns and headed off, joined shortly after by Kyle. Hal and Guy continued alone on their way to the Central Battery. When they reached it, they were attacked by the possessed Guardians.

Martin and Guy were quickly defeated and taken to the Guardians' chamber. Krona explained that the Guardians had spent so long being emotionless that they were not fit to be the universe's protectors and began to transform Martin and Guy into Guardians, using the evolving bandages that turned him into one, as Ganthet watched, strapped to a rock. Meanwhile, Kyle and John were heading to Mogo, who was sending off hundreds of rings to recruit more members. The two headed down to Mogo's core until they were assaulted by more Green Lanterns, forcing them to teleport to Mogo's core. Kyle created a construct of Mogo's friend, Bzzd, in the hope of appealing to him, but it was destroyed by the Black Lantern energy that remained trapped in Mogo's core after he absorbed a wave of attacking Black Lanterns during the 2011 " Blackest Night”. Krona telepathically told John that it was too late to stop Mogo and he would bring about a wave of murder across the universe. With no other way to stop the mass of new Green Lanterns being recruited, John and Kyle called upon the greatest foes of the Corps, who arrived to bring it down. The Lanterns began to be overwhelmed and killed but Martin, Kyle, John and Guy were spared since they were not Green Lanterns at the time. Sodam Yat was killed when he was overwhelmed by a massive army of Lobe Spawn, who stabbed him with sharpened yellow lead sticks. John, with no choice to prevent Mogo, the source of the Green Lantern Rings, from creating more enemies, activated a bomb launched by Ranx the Sentient City within the planet’s core, killing the last Green Lantern.

The Guardians felt the death of Mogo as parts of him started to fall down on Oa, creating a psychic shockwave that disrupted the Guardians long enough for Martin and Guy to break their bonds. Kyle and John argued over Mogo's death as Kyle tried to restart his core, but could not and went off to help Hal and Guy stop Krona. With Krona and the Guardians distracted, Hal and Guy ran away with the Book of the Black and Ganthet. Kyle and John joined them and attacked the Central Power Battery as everyone else was unconscious. However, they were not able to damage it. Ganthet told them that a combination of all the emotional rings should’ve been able to crack the battery's shell, giving Martin and Guy the Orange Lantern and Star Sapphire rings respectively. Guy used the combined power of love and rage to attack Krona, tapping into his love of the Corps and his hatred of his own anger to power both rings. Kyle used the blue energy of his ring to free Guy of his Red Lantern ring and the four of them joined the fight. Krona summoned the other Guardians and the two groups prepared to face off.

While the Lanterns fought Krona and the entity-possessed Guardians, Martin took Kyle to The Book of the Black and made him draw a picture of the trapped other Lantern Corps members. This freed them from the book, but their rings rejected them and chose Krona as their wielders. Empowered by their rings, Krona attacked Martin, but, inspired by Martin's speech about how he fought for the potential of the Corps despite the imperfections of the Guardians, the other wielders attacked Krona. The wielders managed to overpower Krona, and Martin killed him. Unfortunately there was another problem, The Black Lantern remnants on Mogo had began to spread. To prevent their takeover, Ganthet transported himself, and one of each ring to another time with his abilities. Several Lanterns from each Corps followed him into a new time and vanished for a period of years and with them the Green Lantern Corps.

The remaining Maltusians, establishing a new Guardian council, and believing the Green Lanterns to be failures given their two recent collapses just as the Manhunters had been, established what became known as the Third Army.

The Third Army were creatures which were white and featureless. They transformed whoever they touched into beings like themselves, keeping only the victim’s eyes. They soon began to spread across the Universe, posing a threat to everyone, including the other Lantern Corps, who turned towards attempting to train Kyle Rayner, the only remaining Green Lantern who demonstrated the ability to use other rings.

On Earth there was a man, Frank Laminski grew up in a life where he was never noticed or appreciated as anything special, he felt unappreciated and completely average. He then decided to join the Air Force to gain a sense of purpose, but still went unnoticed. Soon after he overheard a conversation from his commanding officer's regarding who will test drive a new concept jet, The Flaming Spear. The commanding officer agreed to let Frank test drive it, but he pushed the jet to its limits, and as a result the engines failed. As Frank was crashing, Hal Jordan(who just received his Green Lantern ring) saved him. After he reported his crash, he was grounded, and not allowed to fly ever again in the Air Force, but he did not care about his military career anymore, the only thing he wanted in life was to be a Green Lantern.

Frank soon left the Air Force and dedicated his life to training (both mental and physical) with the hope that whoever gave Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) his ring, would see his dedication and training and give him one as well. He tried this for years and years, all the while tracking every appearance of Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) and learned as much as he could about the Green Lantern Ring. As more time passed he watched as a new Green Lantern was chosen, then another, and then a third. However, Frank did not give up hope, and pushed himself even further, often times taking the most dangerous of jobs such as becoming a security guard in Arkham Asylum, and also honing in his firearm skills, learning as much as he could by reading various literature, etc.

Just about when he was going to give up all hope, a Green Lantern Ring burst through his window, speaking the words: "Frank Laminski of Earth. You have the ability to overcome great fear. You have been chosen. Welcome to the Green Lantern Co-- Error. Welcome to th-- Error. Malfunction detected. Recalibrating. Rescanning. Frank Laminski. You do not have the ability to overcome great fear. You have not been chosen. Correct candidate located. Charting course: Guantanamo Bay, Cuba." The ring then zoomed away and found a new host in Simon Baz.

Simon Baz was a Lebanese American who was born in Dearborn, Michigan. When he was ten years old, he and the rest of his family watched their television in horror as an airplane flew into one of the twin towers while another flew into the Brooklyn Bridge. As he grew up he and his Muslim family found themselves falling under intense suspicion and ostracism in the days, months and years following the attacks. During those years, Simon had to physically defend his sister from bullies on several occasions.
Despite these hardships, Simon managed to graduate high school, and proceed into higher education, gaining a degree in engineering, followed by a job in an automotive plant. However, when the financial crisis hit, Simon was fired from his job.

In his desperation to make money, Simon took up illegal street-racing, something he proved good at. Sadly, disaster struck during one race, and his brother in-law was severely injured and placed in a coma. Simon just barely escaped being arrested and sent to prison for his part. As a result of his growing guilt, Simon grew increasingly distant from his sister.

Some time later, still financially desperate, Simon began stealing cars, to re-sell them for parts. One night, while stealing a van, Simon accidentally stole a van filled with explosives. A high-speed chase ensued, ending with Simon's arrest. As a result of his heritage, Simon was immediately suspected to be a terrorist and deported to Guantanamo Bay for further questioning. Despite the efforts of the more reasonable Agent Fed, Simon's attempt to claim he was innocent was ignored, and he was nearly subjected to torture.

At that moment, a Green Lantern Ring burst into the room, and despite being badly defective due to corruption, found Simon a suitable candidate, removing him from the holding facility.

The ring transported Simon to Florida, and while he remained unconscious, mapped his neural pathways. When Simon awoke, the ring displayed a message from its previous owner, telling him not to go to Oa, and not to trust anyone. Ignoring their message, Simon made his way to Detroit and contacted his sister. Angered by his former distance, she told him to meet him at a safer location. As he waited, Simon altered his ring-generated outfit to hide his identity better. Unfortunately, the quiet wait was interrupted by the arrival of the Justice League.

Knowing he would not be a match for the League (except perhaps Batman), Simon restated his innocence to them. He offered to let Wonder Woman use her Lasso of Truth on him, to determine his innocence. Unfortunately, since the ring had been programmed by Sinestro, it responded violently to contact. Panicked, Simon retreated. Despite having little operational knowledge of his ring, he was able to create multiple constructs, as he evaded Superman and the Flash, ignoring their entreaties to turn himself in.
Some time later, he met up with Sira, who had acquired the name and location of the van's owner. Simon declared his intention to find out what was going on by himself, refusing to let anyone else get hurt.

Simon proceeded to the residence of the van's owner, one Edward Wale, and tried to talk to him about the van. Wale allowed Simon into his residence, only for Simon to quickly learn the man was not innocent, having been deliberately planning to blow up the van under the bridge Simon found it under. His attempt to kill Simon was foiled by the ring protecting him, but any attempt on Simon's part to pay Wale back for his actions were foiled by the ring's charge running out. Cornered, Simon was only saved by the intervention of Agent Fed, who'd been investigating his case. Before the stand-off could proceed any further, the Third Army arrived, transforming Wale into one of their own, before advancing on Simon.

Grabbing Wale's gun to defend himself, Simon and Fed fled into the house's basement, finding a small stockpile of weapons. As the Third Army followed, Fed wired up some of the room's explosives to explode. The resulting explosion destroyed the creatures, Simon and Fed only being saved by the timely arrival of former Green Lantern B’dg, who became Baz’s mentor and friend.

The Justice League eventually tracked Baz down and questioned him as to how he came into the possession of a Green Lantern ring. Batman tried to disarm him by removing Simon's ring, but self-defense mechanisms of the ring prevented this. Simon Baz was offered the opportunity to join Amanda Waller and Steve Trevor's Government agencies under the pretense that his criminal charges would be dropped and his innocence publicly declared after FBI Agent Franklin Fed vouched for him.

The period after the Fall of the Green Lanterns was filled with chaos and fighting amongst other Lantern Corps. This included the Larfleeze-Invictus War and The Fall of The Blue Lanterns(the Blue Lantern rings were pretty much useless except for giving a boost to the Green Lantern rings). Kyle Rayner, one of the few Lanterns to not vanish during the fall, prepared to fight the Guardians of the Universe. His first choice of color to master was the Red of Rage. Kyle was physically and verbally tormented by Atrocitus in a cemetery whilst Carol Ferris watched from the sidelines. Atrocitus tried to anger Kyle through sheer force and humiliation but sensed no angry spark within him.

Being thrown through the headstone of his former girlfriend Alexandra DeWitt, Kyle recalled in flashback, the happy times prior to her horrific murder at the hands of Major Force. Atrocitus berated Kyle further, but the sight of his former lover's grave just brought him sadness, not anger. Carol told Atrocitus that this wasn't the way to inspire rage, but Atrocitus threatened her not to interfere. Taking Kyle with him, Atrocitus promised Carol that upon their return, Kyle would "be a new man."

Atrocitus took Kyle to the Middle East where a small village was being massacred by a rebel faction.
Atrocitus prevented Kyle from interfering. Again and again, Atrocitus forced Kyle to watch families slaughtered while Kyle tried to avert his gaze. However, increasingly angered by the slaughter and Atrocitus' own inaction against the bloodshed, Kyle finally channeled the blinding power of rage and transformed into a Red Lantern avatar. Using his new powers, Kyle killed all of the violent rebels and then angrily told Atrocitus that he was no better than the rebels to which Atrocitus replied, "No, child...I am WORSE!" Atrocitus left Kyle, reminding him of their bargain against the Guardians.

Kyle used the power of Hope to heal the wounded in the village before returning to Carol to witness her using her Star Sapphire ring to fix Alex DeWitt's headstone. However, Kyle appeared cold and unaffected by Carol's gesture. He told her that he would move onto the next color by asking his ring to locate the Sinestro Corps member Arkillo. Carol tried to speak to Kyle wondering what Atrocitus did to him, however, Kyle ignored her and flew off with Carol chasing after him. Kyle Rayner successfully mastered the different emotions and was able to become a White Lantern. A power which he used to destroy the third army. He was then able to bring Martin Jordan, Guy Gardner and John Stewart from forward in time. They had found Ganthet murdered and had been transported to the 23rd Century where several Lantern rings belonging to various corps were granted to different people of the era, including the crew of that timeline’s Starship Enterprise.

Without a Lantern Corps, Guy Gardner took control of the Red Lanterns and rose as the defacto defenders of Space Sector 2814. Stewart discovered the ring used by Sinestro and then Katma Tui had been heavily damaged and sent to Earth, where it found Simon Baz. Baz was allowed to keep his ring so long as he did not oppose the Red Lanterns. Baz would go on to train Green Lantern Jessica Cruz. The Korugan ring was among the Seven Rings to survive working, forcing the Lanterns to split up and patrol only seven galaxies. Since the only remaining Lanterns were earth based, the remains of the planet mogo were transported to be near Earth. Mogo had been capable of creating new Lantern rings, but now it produced defective rings capable of being used by just about anyone. Only the seven “Good” Rings remained. The Corps began to be rebuild. Martin Jordan found himself working alongside the AI(later discovered to be alive) Aya and the Red Lantern Razer. Aya became corrupted and took control of the hollowed corpse of the Ant-Monitor before being defeated.

In 2013, Kyle was approached by the group of Templar Guardians, who sought his assistance in navigating the universe in search of a better understanding of its inhabitants and its customs. Untrusting, Kyle declined at first, until Martin managed to persuade him, and that doing so would be in the best interest of the rebuilding of the Corps and the universe because of the fact that these new Guardians could be potential threats, as the old Guardians were.

The first outing that Kyle and the Guardians undertook led them to the outer edge of the universe where an anomaly in the form of a giant floating mass was being studied by multiple spaceships and guarded by Exeter. The Guardians left Kyle to deal with Exeter while they would take a closer look at the anomaly. As Kyle wielded the white light to protect himself, the anomaly exploded and released the being Relic before the Guardians had a chance to warn him.

Now facing Relic and obviously out-powered, the Guardians called on the assistance of Carol Ferris, nonconsensually pulling her from Earth. As Kyle attempted to battle Relic, he was captured as the entity studied Kyle's memories. With the combined force of Carol Ferris and Exeter, Carol managed to talk Kyle out of his illusion as Relic fled with the collected information.

The group managed to track down Relic to the Blue Lantern Corps' home planet, where he attempted to drain the now dead Corps Central Power Battery. Despite the best efforts of the Blue Lanterns and Kyle's group, Relic managed to empty the battery's reservoir of hope. With an injured Saint Walker, the remaining Blue Lanterns sacrificed themselves to allow Walker and Kyle's group to escape via Kyle's Indigo teleportation powers.

Kyle sensed the presence of most of the Entities- Ion, Adara, The Predator, Ophidian, The Butcher, Proselyte. They commandeered Kyle's body as a host and struck out at Relic. The Guardians reminded Kyle that he could pit the entities against each other long enough for him to take control and to contain them. From what Kyle learned from the Entities, he knew that he could not stop Relic but instead should help him save the universe.

When Kyle did find Relic, after all, the latter entrapped Kyle in a blanket of devices that drained the energy Relic needed. Kyle pulled Relic through the Source Wall that guarded the edge of the universe. The two of them disappeared until Relic was seen transforming into a part of the wall, a typical reaction to anyone who would venture too closely. The Guardians, stayed behind to study the wall when they saw Kyle reemerge from the other side. Kyle told them how the Entities sacrificed themselves to refill the reservoir that fueled the rings of the Lanterns. The Guardians decided that this was too important for others to know, and so they came to the decision that Kyle's survival must be kept a secret, as his journey had only just begun.

In 2010, Jessica Cruz went on a hunting trip with her friends and unfortunately came across mobsters who were burying a body. Unwilling to have witnesses, the mobsters shot and killed Jessica's friends while Jessica herself managed to escape, but was extremely traumatized by the incident. Jessica developed debilitating anxiety and locked herself in her room for 4 years.

During the Crime Syndicate’s brief conquest of Earth, she was unwillingly chosen by the Ring of Volthoom after its former bearer was killed. Unlike the ring's predecessors, the ring forced itself upon Jessica and took over her body. Under the influence of the ring, she attacked her home town and was confronted by the Justice League and Doom Patrol. Through the intervention of Batman, Jessica was able to overcome the ring's influence when he told her that he was a victim like her and that finding strength, even at their worst moment of despair, would overcome their fears.

Allying herself with the Justice League, Jessica practiced and eventually mastered the use of the foreign ring.

In 2015, Darkseid's daughter Grail arrived on Earth, she attacked Jessica and used her ring to summon the Anti-Monitor to fight her father.

Thinking of ways to stop the fighting between the Anti-Monitor and Darkseid, Jessica helped Mister Miracle break out the Crime Syndicate in order to fight the rampaging monsters. The ring being in close proximity to the Syndicate however overwhelmed Jessica, and the being inside the ring possessed her body and mind.

When Grail summoned the Black Racer, the New God of Death, to kill the Flash, Jessica maintained enough control of her body to jump in the path of the Black Racer and seemingly kill herself to save the Flash. The Black Racer though, managed to kill the entity in her ring controlling her, causing her Power Ring to crumble apart on her finger. For her ability to overcome fear, Jessica was then tracked down and bestowed a Green Lantern Ring, becoming Earth's newest Green Lantern. While she was initially uncertain in her own abilities. She proved her abilities to herself when she helped the Justice League defeat the Fatal Five.

Simon Baz and Jessica Cruz underwent training together as Green Lanterns. Simon started blaming her and the two got in an argument. Before it got serious, Martin Jordan stopped them & made them summon their power batteries. He combined their power batteries into one, making them partners. They had no choice but worked together as a team.

Even though Jessica had become an official Green Lantern, she was struggling to get the hang of her powers and her anxiety was not making it easy for her. Simon was unhappy being stuck with her. The situation got even worse when the Red Lantern Corps attacked Earth to make it their new world full of rage. Jessica was with her sister Sara Cruz when they got attacked and the Red Lanterns filled her sister with rage. Simon rescued her, causing more tension between them. She returned the favour to him later but it was revealed that she had gotten in his way of curing the Red Lantern Bleez. They tried their best to not make any more mistakes but things got even worse when she got infected by rage. They fell into the surface of the Earth and Simon tried to cure her as he did the Red Lantern earlier. This time he succeeded and he encouraged her to help him fight off the Red Lanterns. However she got a panic attack in the middle of the battle. She did her best to control her negative thoughts and stay aware of the anxiety that was causing her panic. She started to fight with her fears and her willpower increased when she formed her first construct during doing so. She helped Simon to take down the Red Lantern leader Atros. After that, they finally got along and accepted each other as partners. Later as they arrived at Simon's house, a Guardian of the Universe was waiting for them. He demanded that he needed to see Hal Jordan 'Legendary Green Lantern of sector 2814'. But Hal was in space not answering their calls. The guardian revealed himself as Rami, the rogue guardian and the creator of the Phantom Ring.

It was Halloween and Jessica was having a hard time fighting her social anxiety to hang out with Simon's family. She even tried to run away but Simon stopped her before she found and saw what he was doing for dinner. Simon promised her if she helped him make cookies, she didn't have to make small talk with his family. By the time they were done Guardian Rami was missing and they went to find him. They finally found him after knocking about 28 doors, unfortunately, he was freaked out and ran away again. Next time the Lanterns were not going to let him go as easily, they chased him and caught up to him. When they were comforting him they got attacked by Dominators, who wanted the Phantom Ring for themselves. Simon and Jessica were able to take them down and protect the phantom ring. And finally, Rami explained about Phantom Ring and how it was most dangerous weapon in the universe.

Frank had given up all hope and fell into deep depression. But just when all hope was lost, Frank returned to his apartment after a long day to find a mysterious hooded figure in his room. The figure told him that he was watching him and tracking his movements for quite some time. This figure then told Frank of a certain ring that did not need to choose its wearer, but one that anybody could use: the Phantom Ring. Frank asked who this figure is, so he removed his cloak to reveal himself to be none other than Volthoom, the First Lantern.

Soon after, Frank followed the advice of Volthoom and travelled to the location of the two current Green Lanterns of Earth, Simon Baz and Jessica Cruz, who just so happened to be protecting the exiled Guardian of the Universe, Rami, the creator of Phantom Ring. He distracted them by setting a house on fire across the neighborhood, and in the distraction he sneaked into the house, took the ring, and became the Phantom Lantern, but due to the nature of the ring, it took the form of the ring that was connected to the emotion he was the strongest in at the moment, in this case willpower, and he became a pseudo Green Lantern.

He then bursted out of the house, and rushed away to "go make a difference in the world", and that was what he did. He went and rescued cats from trees, stopped forest fires, and rescued a kid from an oncoming tornado. It was soon after the tornado was nullified by Frank that both Simon and Jessica arrived and confronted him, telling him he was not "a real Green Lantern". He became infuriated with the two of them and began to glow red with the power of the Red Lanterns, but soon turned his mind to how it was his right to be a Green Lantern, and as a result, he exploded with a bright orange light, becoming a pseudo Orange Lantern.

He then stormed off, raced back to Volthoom for help, and started experiencing multiple emotions at once (fear, anger, and greed) and as a result became a pseudo Yellow, Red and Orange Lantern respectively in rapid succession. He then maintained his composure and control, and became a "Green Lantern" once again. He then rushed back to Simon and Jessica for one final confrontation.

Frank appeared before the two Green Lanterns, but due to his increasing emotional instability, he shifted between fear (yellow), rage (red), hope (blue), fear (yellow) again, orange (greed), and fear (yellow) for a final time, then to finally ended up feeling compassion (indigo) and as a result, became a pseudo "Indigo Lantern". His compassion became so great that he felt the urge to remove the ring, and indeed did that very thing. After he took the ring off, he came to his senses and before he could put his ring back on, Simon shoved him and took the Phantom Ring, to then pass it to Jessica Cruz.

Frank was then knocked out, tied up, and beaten. Simon and Jessica called in a favor from Cyborg and had the Justice League relocate and hold him in one of the Watchtower holding cells.

In 2019, Keli Quintela, found a crashed Green Lantern ring in her mother’s house in La Paz, Bolivia. She was accepted by the ring and became a member trained under Young Justice.​

In 2020, Tai Pham was a boy given the powers of a Green Lantern after Kim Tran’s death that led to her ring choosing him. Tai Pham was one of the youngest Green Lantern's at the age of 13. Eventually after John Stewart confirmed with the Guardians, he became an official Green Lantern, and was now the protector of the rebuilt Coast City.

New Green Lantern Sojourner "Jo" Mullein was assigned to an unnumbered newly charted Sector, which she referred to as the Far Sector.

Kyle Rayner was still active in the 2020’s as a White Lantern. Rayner was imbued with the Life Equation, which made him see the truth of the universe. Driven mad by this revelation, Kyle became obsessed with making the universe 'pure' by brainwashing every being in the known universe into obedient followers of the White Light. Kyle's extremist agenda was violently turned against by his former allies, the Templar Guardians and Carol Ferris, whom he eventually killed but spared Guardian Yekop.Kyle soon realized the errors of his actions and learned that he would become one with the Source he was unable to see beyond his own perspective and chose to find a worthy successor who would undo what he had done. Kyle's search for his successor came in the form of a rebellious young woman named Saysoran, who successfully resisted Kyle's brainwashing. After testing Saysoran, Kyle was satisfied and became one with The Source while leaving his White Lantern Ring to Saysoran. Martin Jordan would battle a Black Lantern Krona and sacrifice himself to imprison the villain within the Source Wall.

In 2028, John Stewart was present at the Battle of Metropolis the day Nightwing activated a device that eradicated 90% of the world's superpowers. This did not effect him or his ring.

Kai-Ro was the Green Lantern of Sector 2814 in the 2040's and 2050's and a member of that era's Justice League. Raised in a Buddhist temple, Kai-Ro was often calm and collected, unlike his more aggressive teammates Warhawk and Barda. Despite his young age, Kai-Ro showed remarkable maturity and wisdom. He had also been around the universe and exhibited excellent proficiency with the Power ring. It is unknown how Kai-Ro received his ring. He was more serene than most of the Justice League. When Superman brought Batman to join the group, Kai-Ro tried to temper down his hotheaded teammates, Big Barda and Warhawk. Also, while others immediately resorted to violence, Kai-Ro advocated more peaceful resolutions. Kai-Ro continued to serve the Justice League into adulthood.

After the decimation of the Green Lantern Corps, seven rings were left unscathed. It was agreed that the seven ringbearers would each look after the seven primary galaxies. Hal Jordan Jr, named for his grandfather, was assigned to another galaxy, giving Kai-Ro was in charge of the Milky Way. His duties often kept him in space, but he still visited Earth. This resulted in Kai-Ro acting as Earth’s Green Lantern while Martin acted as the Spacefaring Lantern.

In the year 2040, John Stewart was one of the few super heroes legally allowed to have powers, acting as an agent for the US government. He was sent after Dick Grayson, who went rogue after his son was discovered to have superpowers and taken into custody. Stewart almost managed to capture Grayson before he was saved by Wally West.

Hal Jordan Jr was one of the many Superheroes who abandoned Earth after the Malazza-Rem invasion that caused humanity to turn against its heroes. Overcome with guilt, he returned and dug graves for the citizens he once protected. He was eventually happened upon by Superman, Batman Wonder Woman and Jimmy Olsen Jr, who asked him to join them in an attempt to take back the planet. He agreed, and Batman also joined their crusade. They then stopped in Seattle, Washington to enlist Flash(Wally West) and continued on their way to Metropolis. Along the way they encountered a young Meta-Human named Superboy who had just haphazardly destroyed a Malazza-Rem stronghold. Batman then insisted he join them so that they could monitor his activity. In Metropolis, they found Metallex, with whom they formed the Super Seven.

Lana Ling lead the Super Seven into a trap which caused a shield to be lowered over the city. Green Lantern then fought the oncoming horde with Flash, Metallex, Superman, Wonder Woman and the resistance soldiers until Wonder Woman was wounded. They regrouped and got out to fight again while Batman and Superboy tried to take down the ship from which the shield is projected. They were successful at the seeming cost of Batman's life(he was discovered alive afterwards). Superman and Superboy then left to find the Malazza-Rem's leader Grend'll, and Flash took a spear that was headed for Jordan's back. The Malazza-Rem then fell apart when Superman (Really Superboy in the deceased Superman's costume) flew out of the ship with Grend'll's body. After the battle, Jordan decided to head out to find new Meta-Humans, and possibly form a new Justice League.

John Diggle, alongside Blue Beetle(Jaimee Reyes), created a distraction for the various people infected by Brother Eye, so that Amethyst and Grifter could destroy the Firestorm Battery. After Jaime died, A Superman confronted John. But John refused to believe that was the real Superman. However, they both fell to Brother Eye and were corrupted. John prevented Amethyst from interfacing with the Firestorm Battery, and killed both her and Grifter. Brother Eye was eventually defeated. Brother Eye, along with Brainiac, also brought Mogo’s remains into Earth Orbit once in the hope of gaining Green Lantern rings, after being destroyed the rings instead fell to Earth and were found by zombified people who had no way to controlling them, making them a threat to anyone nearby.

In the 2250’s of another timeline, the temporality displaced Lanterns Martin Jordan, Guy Gardner, and John Stewart and others resurfaced and aided the Federation in combating those who had obtained rings and used them for evil deeds. This included fighting the now Red Lantern criminal Phillip Green, an augmented British War criminal with known ties to Khan Noonien Singh, even impersonating him during an encounter with the Enterprise. They were eventually returned to their own time though not

One of Hal Jordan’s descendants, working for Ferris Space, found the body of a Green Lantern and a Manhunter. The Manhunters had slaughtered all possibly resurfaces of the Green Lanterns they could find. Jordan teamed up with a descendant of Kilowog who had his ring passed through the generations and together they helped form a resistance which liberated Oa from the Manhunters and formed a new Corps. While this was successful, they found one surviving Guardian who was corrupt and wanted the Corps destroyed, even reviving the Sinestro Corps to do so. After a clash the Guardian is killed. Another Oan took his place, one more receptive to the ideas of the original Lantern Corps.

In 2350, Duck Dodgers briefly became a Green Lantern, Toon star Daffy Duck had been frozen and awoke in the future, taking up the mantle of his fictional TV persona. This came about due to a mix up. Hal Jordan’s descendant had accidentally placed his costume and ring in the public laundry and it was mixed up with Daffy’s, who fought crime briefly, including a Korugan modeling himself on Sinestro, saving the Green Lantern Corps.

In 2425, the Green Lantern Ator fell in love with Supergirl Blue, but since her body was stuck at the physical age of 11, Ator was uncomfortable with the relationship. Several other Green Lanterns found the buried robot body of Lex Luthor, who went on a rampage. While the Green Lanterns fought Luthor, Supergirl Blue usef gold kryptonite to remove her powers, allowing her to age. Ator managed to stop Luthor, but Luthor uploaded his mind into the city's computer, leaving Ator with an atomic bomb about to detonate. Ator contained the explosion with his power ring, but was trapped inside with the radiation. The now-powerless Supergirl Blue was forced to stand by and watch Ator die.

In 2925, Green Lantern of Earth Jordan Kelley aided an aged Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman in a battle against Darkseid that claimed his life.

In the 31st Century, Ariel Masters and the Wonder Twins(Teri and Terry) cloned the original Justice League members Green Lantern, Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and the Flash. The original intent for this being, to combat against the five, a ruthless group, who were seemingly unstoppable. Using the bodies of various volunteers, they used the DNA to override the volunteer's body. This resulted in imperfect versions of the League, with incorrect physical characteristics, shortage of certain powers, as well as memory loss for the entire team. After an encounter with the reality shaping Locus, the Green Lantern was dramatically shrunk down. He is about as big as a doll.

After a slew of battles the Green Lantern discovered that each use of the green energy sapped away at his life force. Firestorm, the new head of Cadmus, then cloned Guy Gardner but placed his DNA into a female host body belonging to Shiryalla Tome, thereby switching his gender.

Several Lanterns served on or during the time of the Legion of Super Heroes. Gardine Gardner was the most recent assigned to space sector 2814, along with her sidekick Gen’ma. During one of her adventures, the entire Green Lantern Corps fell victim to the spores of Starro the Conqueror. Controlled by Starro, the Green Lanterns invaded the city of New Metropolis on Earth and battled the Legion of Super Heroes. Saturn Girl used her telepathic powers to learn that the Corps members were being controlled by the space parasite and Superman used his heat vision to burn the parasite away from Jordana's face. The parasites were destroyed, and the Starro progenitor was defeated when Bouncing Boy rammed it with a Legion star cruiser.

Rond Var, was the son of Universo and the only person with natural immunity to Universo's hypnotism, Rond has aided the Legion of Super-Heroes on many different occasions and been granted honorary Legion membership. He proved to be a genius with his research of time-travel and time-manipulation theory. At an early age, he developed the Time Cube, a device which could transport matter through the Timestream. The Time Cube would prove indispensable to the Legion, who used it to stop Rond's father, Universo, from taking over the world.

Soon the Legion made Rond an honorary member and he continued his research, collaborating on many experiments with Brainiac 5. While instrumental in many temporal advances, including the creation of the Time Beacon, Rond's experiments did have a disastrous outcome when his friend, Professor Jaxon Rugarth, was locked into a time loop, changing him into the infinite Man.

At some point in Rond's career, the new Guardians of the Universe recruited him to be a covert member of the Green Lantern Corps. Since Green Lanterns were banned on Earth at the time, Rond kept this a secret, not even telling his friends in the Legion.

Considering his son (the only other person immune to his powers of hypnotism) a threat to his plans, Universo eventually "killed" Rond. Rond, however, survived the attack but chose to allow the rest of the world to believe he was dead, allowing him to work better undercover.

Rond's survival (and secret identity) was ultimately revealed, when he helped save Brainiac 5, Saturn Girl, Duo Damsel, and Mon-el during a confrontation with the TIme Trapper to avenge the death of an alternate version of Superboy, who had joined the team.

During the battle, Rond was revealed to be a Green Lantern, and due to Earth's ban on Green Lanterns, he left the planet and never returned.

Rond hooked up with Laurel Gand, with whom he had a daughter. While attempting to rescue Mysa Nal, the former White Witch, from the clutches of Mordru, Rond was captured and tortured. It was his eventual rescue that signaled the return of the Legion to active duty.

Rond helped the Legion of Super-Heroes in their war against the Legion of Super Villains but was killed by Superman Prime, who wanted the ring for Rond's father, Universo. Rond defiantly stated that his father would never have the ring and spit in his face before his death. His ring flew off into space looking for a new bearer but was lost without Mogo to direct it and it returned to Oa, where it powered down for good. Mon-El and other Legion members followed Rond's ring back to Oa to find a single surviving Daxamite Lantern. They used Rond's death to convince him to take action against Superboy Prime. This was the first time he would enter battle in hundreds of years.

Absorbancy Boy, real name Kirt Niedrigh, tried out for membership in the Legion of Super Heroes, Calling himself Absorbancy Boy, and possessing the ability to absorb the energy residue of any super-powered being, gaining their powers himself, he was rejected on the grounds that his powers were too limited.

Incensed at his rejection, Niedrigh found the costume of "Zoras", a fake villain used as a final test for new Legionnaires. Attacking the Legion and defeating them, Niedrigh revealed himself, believing that he had earned his place on the team. The Legion did not see things this way, and Superboy attempted to confiscate the suit. Niedrigh used the suit to project red sun radiation, and, absorbing Superboy's powers, was able to defeat the Kryptonian. Niedrigh was then defeated by the Legion's new member Tyroc, who used an ultrasonic scream to blister his newly-acquired super hearing.

Years later, after the Dominator's had secretly taken over Earth and disbanded the Legion, Kirt's name appeared on a list of Dominator test subjects. When the occupation ended. Niedrigh, With several other Earth-born rejects, started the anti-alien Justice League of Earth as Earth-Man.

Cary Wren acted as a Green Lantern during the 30th Century time of the Legion and aided in fighting rogue Green Lanterns.

During an archaeological expedition in the Arctic, a crystal tablet was found. The tablet said that Superman was not from the planet Krypton, but from Earth, and protected Earth from aliens. Absorbancy Boy, now called Earth-Man, spread the "true origin" of Superman further, and made Earth secede from the United Planets and ban all aliens. Earth-Man had the Justice League of Earth hunt down aliens and place them in camps.

The new Legion of Super Villains freed and allied briefly with the Justice League of Earth. Following the defeat of the combined JLE-LSV, Earth-Man was again imprisoned, until the Earth Government, eager to mollify his pro-human supporters, forced the Legion to offer him membership in return for allowing the Legion to remain on Earth. While mulling over their offer, however, Earth-Man was also offered a Green Lantern ring by Dyogene, a creature from within the planet Oa.

In the year 5700 of the 58th Century, Hal Jordan was brought to the era and took the identity of Pol Manning. He could focus and mentally return there at will for a time. The Green Lantern Salakk was brought to that period and became the era's Green Lantern.

And so like the tales of many heroes, the end of the Green Lanterns is not an end but instead the possibility of a new beginning. Perhaps there is always a light in the darkness.