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 Green Lantern
Krona. At the moment he saw creation he saw a giant hand holding the universe and reality shattered creating the multiverse!
The Qwardians. The Qwardians are the ones who make the rings, specifically The Weaponers of Qward.
Appa Ali Apsa. Appa Ali Apsa went insane and nearly destroyed John Stewarts mind when he kidnapped cities from around the universe and created the "Mosaic" world!
Major Force. Major Force killed Arisia in Guy Gardners bar while he was looking for Guy Gardner.
Green Lantern and Iron Man to become Iron Lantern. Green Lantern was never Thor, Spidey or the Silver Surfer. When the universes were amalgamated briefly, Green Lantern and Iron Man merged and became "The Iron Lantern"! If Thor had a power ring... now there's a merge! "Thou Guardians shalt not talk to the god of thunder thusly. Mine uru mallet or unyielding ring of power shalt stop all evil and prove to all that Asgard is splendid in word and in deed. And the wonders of Oa shalt be heard thru the cosmos from the Odinson indeed."
He and Hal Jordan duked it out bare fisted for title of Green Lantern of Earth.. In a fight that lasted longer than an 80's Tyson fight, Guy Gardner and Hal Jordan threw their rings down to settle things the old fashioned way. With their fists. Each declared that should he lose to the other, he would give up the ring and being a Green Lantern for good. Guy lost, but not without a good fight. Afterwards Guy went to Oa and stole Sinestros ring so he could once again have the power of a GL, and be a hero once more.
He slaughtered the entire attack force except for one GL who escaped.. Hundreds of years ago, in the one of the worst disasters in Corps history, Darkseid killed the WHOLE GL attack force sent against him, save for one lone Green Lantern who escaped to the underground and is still alive today. Darkseid knows he is there and even how to contact him, but it amuses him to have the GL from another era around.
| What was the name of the robots that the Guardians dispatched to arrest Sinestro and Hal Jordan in "Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn II"? | "Green Lantern" Trivia
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The Fists of the Guardians. The Fists of the Guardians were robots possibly built on the ashes of the millennia earlier Manhunter disaster.
Jenny-Lynn Hayden. Kyle restored Jennys power while he was all powerful as Ion.
| Who was in charge of the Green Lantern Corps back when Hal Jordan and the old Corps still existed? | "Green Lantern" Trivia
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The Guardians. Up until "Green Lantern" issue 50 (3rd series) the Guardians were in charge of the Corps.
His body is entirely composed of green flame. Dr. Mid-Nite discovered that Alan only appears to be human. He is made of green flame, and his appearance, age, and health are entirely dependent on his will power.
| Though he still wears a costume almost identical to his original, complete with the image of a green lantern on his chest, he is no longer known by that name. What identity does Alan Scott use now? | Green Lantern - Alan Scott
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Sentinel. They've been using the name Sentinel in the comics for about five years now, but he's still the original Green Lantern.
| Split-personalitied Rose and Thorn either loved or hated Green Lantern, depending on which personality was in control. She was the mother of his two children, Jade and Obsidian. Back in the 1940s, whom did Rose and Thorn usually fight? | Green Lantern - Alan Scott
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Flash. Rose and Thorn married Green Lantern while in disguise, and got pregnant by him. The Thorn side started to become dominant, and to prevent Thorn from killing Alan, Rose faked her own death and gave the children up for adoption.
| In the Silver Age, they had to reconcile the Golden Age magic-based Green Lantern with the new, interstellar Green Lantern Corps, and came up with the explanation that the Guardians of the Universe had, many many years earlier, gathered up all the wild magical energy in the universe and sent it into another dimension. That dimension was, coincidentally, home to Alan Scott, whose ring and battery were formed from the magical energy. What name was given to this hard gob of green magic? | Green Lantern - Alan Scott
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Starheart. The Starheart has been personified a few times. The Emerald Eye sure looks like something from the Green Lantern mythos, but is in fact from Legion of Super-Heroes.
| Molly Mayne was a secretary at Alan Scott's network, and decided that that best way to attract the romantic attention of Green Lantern was to become a super-villian. What identity did she choose? | Green Lantern - Alan Scott
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Harlequin. She had a pair of illusion-casting glasses, apparently just lying around, and used them in her battles with Green Lantern. Eventually she would start working undercover for the FBI. Decades later it would be explained that the glasses were provided to her by the Manhunters.
| Miser Cyrus Gold was murdered in Slaughter Swamp, but emerged years later as the chalk-white marsh monster Solomon Grundy, one of Green Lantern's earliest, and greatest, foes. Grundy was such a popular character that he went on to appear in numerous comic books over the decades. His appearance in "Swamp Thing" revealed that Solomon Grundy was, in fact, what? | Green Lantern - Alan Scott
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A failed attempt at creating an Earth Elemental. Earth Elementals were created though violent death, fire, and a period of the corpse mouldering in a swamp. Grundy's creation went wrong, because there was no fire.
| While most heroes from the Golden Age has kid sidekicks, Green Lantern had a cabdriver, Doiby Dickles, as his confidant. What was the name of Doiby's beloved cab? | Green Lantern - Alan Scott
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Goitrude. Doiby also fared better than the other sidekicks in the long run, marrying an alien princess and becoming king of her planet, Myrg.
| Once he became Green Lantern, Alan decided it was time to settle down, and got a job as an engineer for a broadcasting system, and would ascend to newscaster, program director, and eventually the network manager. What city was his broadcasting company located in? | Green Lantern - Alan Scott
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Gotham City. Green Lantern was also a native Gotham City hero, probably because both GL and Batman were written by Bill Finger. The broadcasting company was originally WXYZ, later Apex Broadcasting, and finally the Gotham Broadcasting Corporation.
| Railroad engineer Alan Scott survived a horrible train wreck thanks to a magic lantern from China. The lantern spoke to him, explaining that it would empower a ring that could do most anything. What was the one thing the ring could not affect? | Green Lantern - Alan Scott
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Wood. For no clear reason, Alan Scott's ring was powerless against wood.
| When a nasty thing called the Sun-Eater ate the sun (and who would have guessed it would do something like that?), Hal sacrificed himself to re-ignite the sun and save all life on earth. What major crossover was this? | Green Lantern - Hal Jordan
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"Final Night". It was not a really suprising conclusion, but certainly a touching one.
| Now with unlimited power, Hal adopted the name Parallax and set out to undo time, and re-make the universe in such a way that Coast City would not get destroyed. What was this major crossover? | Green Lantern - Hal Jordan
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"Zero Hour". The identity of the villian behind the events of "Zero Hour" was kept secrert until the second last issue.
| In the storyline "Emerald Twilight" Hal tries to resurect Coast City, but the Guardians prevent him. In desperation, he turns against them and winds up in an assault on Oa. The Guardians call in the new Corps, and even resurect Sinestro in a failed attempt to stop him from consuming the Central Power Battery, thus killing the Guardians. As well as the Guardians of the Universe and Sinestro, who does Hal Jordan kill? | Green Lantern - Hal Jordan
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Kilowog. Kilowog, the lovable, boar-like Green Lantern had worked as a fixit man for the different Justice Leagues after his ring was destroyed.
| Hal was off in space with the Darkstars and L.E.G.I.O.N. when his home of Coast City was destroyed, along with its inhabitants. The destruction of Coast City was part of a storyline running in a different comic entirely. What storyline was it part of? | Green Lantern - Hal Jordan
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"Reign of the Supermen". Coast City was wiped off the map by Mongul and the Cyborg Superman as part of their plan to turn Earth into a new Warworld.
| Following the events in "Millenium", Hal would once again lose a series, and this one he was already sharing, under the name "Green Lantern Corps". In this second interim period between books, where could Hal be found in solo stories on a regular basis? | Green Lantern - Hal Jordan
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"Action Comics Weekly". During his run in "Action Comics Weekly", Hal teamed with Captain Atom, gained and lost another job, broke up with Arisia, and saw Star Sapphire murder Katma Tui. Whew!
| In "Green Lantern" 181, October 1984, Hal quit the Green Lantern Corps, though he would rejoin in just over a year. What prompted this resignation? | Green Lantern - Hal Jordan
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Carol made him choose between the Corps and her. After Hal resigned to be with Carol, she transformed more or less permanently in Star Sapphire and left him.
| Hal and Carol went on vacation in Newfoundland, and stumbled across this super-hero group, who were making their very first appearance anywhere. The group would eventually graduate into their own comic. Who were they? | Green Lantern - Hal Jordan
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Omega Men. The Omega Men debuted in "Green Lantern", the went on to appear in "Action Comics" and "New Teen Titans" before returning to "Green Lantern", then spinning off into their own book.
| 1980 saw Green Lantern take solo control of his comic, just in time to learn that Carol Ferris' father had cheated his former partner out of his half of Ferris Aircraft. This cheated partner had a son who became a congressman and used his influence to try to put Ferris out of business. What was the name of this vengeance-bent family? | Green Lantern - Hal Jordan
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Bloch. Congressman Bloch had a lot of success in his campaign against Ferris, but got killed by the Predator after sending the Demolition Team to destroy Ferris Aircraft.
| Green Lantern got kind of lonely wandering in space, and so he picked up a quivering, starfish-like creature and carried it on his shoulder on his journeys. What did he decide to call the creature? | Green Lantern - Hal Jordan
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Itty. Itty appeared to die, but actually was maturing into adult form. Itty even managed to find himself a female of the same species.
| Green Lantern had his comic cancelled in 1972. It would be revived in 1976. In that four year period, where could one find regular Green Lantern solo stories? | Green Lantern - Hal Jordan
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"The Flash". Green Lantern went back on active service, had some outer-space adventures, and saw Jason Woodrue transform himself into the Floronic Man while appearing in 8-page back-ups in "The Flash".
| Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams completely reviltalized Green Lantern in 1969, having him go on a leave of absence from the Corps, and travelling across the States in search of America. What was the title of the story that marked this change? | Green Lantern - Hal Jordan
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"No Evil Shall Escape My Sight". Green Lantern and Green Arrow journeyed across America, along with a Guardian called the Old Timer and Black Canary.
| Well, that job didn't pan out, so he became a toy salesman (I'm not making this up), and promptly fell for rival toy saleswoman Olivia Reynolds. She had no interest in Green Lantern, but he had a professional interest in her. Why? | Green Lantern - Hal Jordan
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She maintained an alien race with her subconcious mind. Hal called it her "U-Mind", and for a brief period thought it was vitally important to monitor her at all times. Then he changed his mind and didn't see her again for decades.
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