Now you ’ve seen Green Lantern ’s costume , and we ’ll discover more Lantern facts at Comic Con . But we already know one thing for sure : There ’s no mode the movie can admit these 16 absolutely loopy storylines from the Green Lantern comic .

1 Green Lantern gets knocked on the head teacher . It ’s the thing that seems to happen most often to Hal Jordan in the early Green Lantern comedian — he ’s flying around minding his own business , and he gets whomped in the headland . Sometimes it ’s random tree arm falling on him . Sometimes it ’s a guy hitting him with a lamp . Sometimes it ’s meth cream hitting him in the side — because there ’s no defense against ice cream . Whatever it is , it always catches him by surprise . block Thomas “ Pieface ” Kalmaku — concussion is Hal Jordan ’s real good admirer . ( Ice ointment film viaThe Absorbascon , the place of many great Hal Jordan posts . )

2 The mystery of Star Sapphire . Why is it that whenever the love of Hal Jordan ’s life-time , Carol Ferris , vanish , the evil exotic queen Star Sapphire seem ? And she looks just like Carol ? Hal will never count on this one out , even after he finds an exotic lazuline next to Carol ’s unconscious body . Meanwhile , Carol is endeavor to defeat Hal in battle , so she can prove that she is desirable to be Star Sapphire , Queen of the Zamarons . But she not - so - secretly want to lose to Hal , and so she does . Leading to the greatest line of all time : “ He ’s defeated me . How frightful . No — how wonderful ! ” Sure , Carol .

3 A token soul of colouring jaw Green Lantern for being like George Bush and not deal about dim people . He ’s helped the reddish - cutis , the green - skins and the fish - headed tegument … he ’s a tool of the gamey - skin . But what has he ever done for the black - skins ? reply me that , Hal .

4 Hal and Ollie set off to look for America . It ’s a totally inscrutable sixties moment , man . As a outcome of that little confrontation , Hal bring in he ’s lose skin senses with America , or something . And his personal Jiminy Cricket , Green Arrow , delivers a vast spoken communication to Hal and the Guardians about how MLK and RFK go bad , man , and if you were really a military man , you ’d worry , but nooo Hal is just a tool of the Isle of Man , and he ’s not a man , because a man eats five - alarm chili pepper and arise unbalanced pointy facial hair . This speech is so moving , Hal and one of his fiddling blue taskmasters both concord to get in an old pickup hand truck and travel around America help oneself out poor downtrodden mineworker and Native Americans . Oh , and it was around this clock time that Ollie ’s sidekick , Speedy , revealed that his codification name reallyshould have been Smacky instead . But that ’s more of a Green Arrow plot line than a Green Lantern storyline , I guess .

5 Hal get a buddy who wo n’t get addicted to heroin . First Hal became the wise man to an incredibly goofy young legacy superhero , Airwave 2 , whose office involved just traveling along radio waving . ( And he always had to include the 2 in his name , IIRC . ) But then he get an even better pal — Itty , an alien starfish that ride on Hal ’s shoulder throughout all his adventures . Then Itty dies , and Hal buries the little guy in a grave , with a key and everything . Awww . But then a weird monster bend up and starts trash everything , and it change state out to be Itty — back from the grave ! Except Itty ’s not so itty any more . Did Itty get hooked on smack after all ? We ’ll never know , since he took off soon afterwards .

6 Hal steps in on Guy Gardner ’s psychical girl . Hal thinks that his fellow Green Lantern , Guy Gardner , is dead . So he decides to honor Guy ’s memory the good fashion he can — by stealing Guy ’s girl , the psychical gentlewoman Kari Limbo , who take a firm stand on referring to herself as a gypsy . At one point , she articulate Guy was a secure humanity , “ and I ’ve known many . ” Kari keeps hearing people shouting her name when nobody else is around , or perhaps those sound gist are just her listening to her theme song . “ KARI LIMBO ! KARI LIMBO ! ” She slow lets go of Guy Gardner and falls for the irrestible charms of Hal — this happens over like 10 issues . Finally , she lets Hal into her “ secret place , ” which is concealed by an AWESOME bead curtain , of course . They finally decide to get married , and you ’ll never think who shows up at their wedding — the supposedly dead Guy Gardner ! ( In progeny # 122 , which I somehow do n’t supervise to have a copy of . )

7 Who is the predatory animal ? So Hal get over Kari Limbo pretty cursorily — in fact , as soon as the wedding ’s off , he never mention her again . alternatively , he goes back to being ghost by Carol Ferris , his original dear interest . But every prison term he starts to get close to Carol , something gets in the way . And every time she needs him to aid out as Green Lantern , those gloomy - skinned illegitimate , the Guardians , summon him to go save another planet from gasconade up . It all comes to a head when some bad guys are trash Carol ’s company , Ferris Industries , but Hal is forced to run off and save a planet or else of helping out . all of a sudden , a inscrutable number call the Predator shows up and saves at least some of Carol ’s father ’s conglomerate . The Predator starts romancing Carol with his pointy mask and funny articulatio humeri - pads . Meanwhile , Hal decides to give up being Green Lantern so he can be with Carol full clip and be there for her whenever she need him . She ’s thrilled — for about five bit . But really , she ’s bored with Hal once he ’s not Green Lantern any more . And he ’s not that much use to her without his gang . She invites him to come stay at her firm — but only in the handmaid ’s quarter , and he has to pay economic rent . Ouch . Then Predator shows up and initiate butterfly her again ! And he beats the crap out of Hal . It turn out Predator has a nefarious scheme for romancing Carol and taking over her company … but then the book ’s writers convert a couplet metre , and suddenly we find out that Predator is actually the virile one-half of Carol ’s personality , which she ’s been repress . No , really . And when he act as a magic organ , her manful and distaff halves will integrate … . turn her back into Star Sapphire . Because it ’s a magic organ . No , it does n’t really make any sense .

8 Sinestro pretend to be merry . Or does he ? During the “ Millennium ” crossover , our hero capture the malevolent Sinestro , who used to be a Green Lantern until his mustache became too awesome . But Sinestro is a resourceful bastard , and he attain on a foolproof schema — act to be gay and strike on the outrageous gay stereotype , Extrano . Or is Sinestro really merry ? Weasked the writer of this issue , Steve Engelhart , and he secern us that Sinestro would slumber with just about anyone , to accomplish his nefarious goal . ( Oh , and as commenter Speednuts points out , later the stereotypical festive character , Extrano , gets taint with HIV by an “ AIDS vampire ” named Hemo - Goblin . Because it was the belated eighties , and all teh gay had to have AIDS . And Hemo - Goblin is a kewl name for an AIDS vampire . )

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9 Hal is NOT a paedophile . Annnnd then there ’s this ooky storyline . There ’s a young Green Lantern named Arisia . Who ’s sort of an elf girl . She ’s cute , and she ’s distinctly draw like a little child , who has a crazy crush on Hal . finally , Hal figures it out and lets her down as gently as he can . And then … . the record changes writers a few times . And then Arisia start up having weird , orphic lightheaded spells which nobody can explain . And she grows full-grown boobs and starts assume a miniskirt and looking all hawt all of a sudden . Hal hooks her up to every diagnostic he can think of , but ca n’t find what ’s go on . At one point , he search at her suddenly voluptuous torso and says , “ Something ’s dissimilar , but I ca n’t assure what . ” Eventually , Arisia herself figures it out — she ’s been subconsciously using her ring to , ummm , spur her body ’s exploitation . So she ’s rise to fully grownup status in no time whatsoever . As Katma Tui puts it , she did n’t have to live through adolescence , “ day by empty-headed day , ” she just skipped past it . But she ’s still mentally a child , in many ways , because she grew up so fast . So now that she ’s all womanly , she redouble her efforts to come through over Hal — and he resist . For like two issue of the comic . And then he ’s like , “ Well , as long as nobody thinks I ’m a child molester . ” Of course not , Hal .

10 Hal ’s brother in arms : a animated cartoon squirrel . In the 1980s , there was a big push to add lots of funny / unearthly creatures to the roll of Green Lanterns , who police the existence with their major power rings . And so we get Ch’p , the squirrel from space . Who catch more and more cartoonish as the 1980s go on . Then the Green Lanterns get a new opponent — Truk , a guy who is a motortruck . Yep , that ’s his whole deal . And Truk is almost unstoppable , because he ’s got hand truck powers . And trucks are the natural enemies of squirrels . Except then it wrick out that Truk is actually Ch’p ’s arch enemy , the squirrel excited scientist Dr. Ub’x , in disguise .

11 Hal ’s girlfriend down John Stewart ’s girlfriend for no intellect . Star Sapphire comes back , now that she ’s integrate her male and female halves thanks to her magic organ . And she decides to “ have a message ” to Hal Jordan . Could she save it down ? charge him an electronic mail ? Maybe take out a personal advertising ? No , she just tears John Stewart ’s wife , the former Green Lantern Katma Tui , to shreds . more or less gratutiously . Hey , is it the XC yet ?

12 It turns out Hal ’s ring “ lobotomized ” him . From the department of really random plot twist that will never be cite again . A big part of the Hal Jordan mythos was the melodic theme that he was a human who get laid no fear , and that ’s why he was choose to wear the power ring . But when writer Peter David took over the character , he decide that actually Hal had originally had fear , like all other humans . But when the former wearer of the gang , Abin Sur , asked for a human “ without reverence , ” the band had tracked down Hal , who had the minimum amount of fear — and alter his brain to withdraw all persist traces of fearfulness . With me so far ? So Hal is horrified to hear that he ’s actually been “ lobotomized ” by the ring all this meter . So he apprise his band to give him fearfulness once again , so he can be a normal human race . regrettably , the next clip he tries to fly , he looks down and all that stored - up fear comes out , make him lose control and almost go splat . Oops !

13 Hal was a intoxicated machine driver . It turn out that before he got the anchor ring , Hal was a wash up test pilot who drank too much and crash his auto . This attack to give Hal a newfangled “ gritty ” stemma and a trouble with alcohol consanguine to Tony Stark ’s please absolutely nobody , as you’re able to imagine . After he gets the gang , Hal decide to find fault the sign that he almost crashed into when he was driving drunk — that mark was too unaired to the route , it ’s the foretoken ’s fault — and does n’t realize that because the sign is yellow , his green ring ca n’t affect it . Because irony .

14 Hal decides to find himself . Yet again . The now Reed Richards - hirsute Hal Jordan gets a mid - life crisis , and decides he does n’t take his ring . He require to be a man . Because reckon on the ring makes him both less and more than a man . So he puts the tintinnabulation aside — thus condemn infinite innocent to ugly end , because the owner of the most powerful tool in the cosmos is n’t bothering to use it — and goes off to find himself . He says “ brother road ” a lot and thinks about his past , with thought captions like , “ Damnation , I lived . I was a Isle of Man . Brother route , where should we go now ? Where will you take me ? ” Brother .

15 Hal gets perturb and gets himself some extra band . And finally , there ’s the “ Emerald Twilight ” storyline . No this is n’t a story where Hal becomes a vampire and fights a lycanthrope for the erotic love of Kari Limbo . Rather , it ’s a ridiculous , editorially dictated news report in which Hal suddenly go nuts about the destruction of his hometown , which he had already gotten over in the premature issues , and decides to slip as much Green Lantern ringpower as he can for himself . He turns Kilowog into a skeleton ! Kilowog ! finally Hal turns into a full - on scoundrel appoint Parallax . This is much later ret - swindle into being a kind of fear parasite that preys on Hal ’s fear — which mean it ’s Hal ’s fault , for postulate his ring to un - lobotomize him during the Peter David era .

16 The girlfriend in the icebox . Various multitude paint a picture we add this , and I ’m kind of embarrassed I block it . Several years after John Stewart ’s lady friend got slaughtered for no particular reason just to launch a fresh originative team and get some good buzz , the same thing happened the lady friend of another GL — this metre it ’s Kyle Rayner , who took over from Hal after he Parallaxed . I ca n’t really explain it better thanTopless Robot does , so direct over thereand scroll down to # 4 .

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