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{{Delete}}The Green Lantern Corps is an intergalactic police force. Green Lantern rings are powered by Willpower
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The '''Green Lantern Corps''' is an intergalactic superhero team.
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The members include: Hal Jordan, Guy Gardner, John Stewart, Kyle Rayner, Simon Baz, Jade, Vidar, Rond Vidar, Yalan Gur, Jong Li, Laham, Waverly Sayre, Daniel Young, Starkadr, Abin Sur, Anya Savenlovich, Arisia Rrab, Ch'p, Katma Tui, Kilowog, Salaak, Boodikka, Chaselon, Graf Toren, Hannu/Honnu, Jack T. Chance, Ke'Haan, Kreon, Laira, Lashorr, Relok Hag, Tamar-Tu, Apros, K'ryssma, Tomar-Re, Green Man, Kraken, Varix, and more
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==Members==
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*[[John Stewart]]
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==Season Eleven==
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==In the Comics==
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Chastened by the failure of the Manhunters, a legion of robotic sentinels that were created to enforce their will and guard against all menaces, the Guardians, the first intelligent life forms in the universe, decided that their newest force of soldiers for good would consist of living beings, ones who had free will and strong moral character. 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. These individuals made up the intergalactic police force known as the Green Lantern Corps.
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One of the oldest planets in the universe, Oa serves as the home and headquarters for the race of blue-skinned powerful humanoids, the Guardians of the Universe, and the Green Lantern Corps.
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There is at least one Green Lantern for every sector, most of the times it's his home world, which he has made an oath to protect. The first Green Lantern of Earth was chosen when the appointed Green Lantern of Space Sector 2814, an alien named Abin Sur from the planet Ungara, crash-landed on Earth after being mortally wounded. As Sur died, his power ring sought and found two potential successors: the test pilot, Hal Jordan and the social welfare caseworker, Guy Gardner. Jordan was nearer to the crash, so he was chosen over Gardner. Gardner was relegated to backup status should anything happen to Jordan. Guy is later partnered with Jordan after completing his training under the Green Lantern, Kilowog. When Gardner was seriously injured, an architect and veteran U.S. Marine, named John Stewart, was selected by the Guardians as Jordan's backup.
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Both the Corps and the Guardians suffered casualties during the ''Crisis on Infinite Earths''. The Guardians' failure to take appropriate action during the Crisis led to their decision to depart Oa in the company of their female counterparts, the Zamarons. Left to their own devices, the Corps underwent a major reorganization. A team of Green Lanterns led by Hal Jordan was stationed on Earth, and the system of assigning one Green Lantern to a sector was temporarily abandoned. The Guardians eventually returned to Oa and began the reconstruction of the Corps, assigning Guy Gardner to Earth, John Stewart to the Mosaic World, and Hal Jordan to recruit new members.
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The Green Lantern Corps patrolled the DC Universe for over three billion years. In that vast length of time, some Green Lanterns rebelled and turned against the Corps. Two of the most important fallen Lanterns were Sinestro, the rogue Green Lantern who used the power of the Green Lantern to instill fear rather than combat it, and Hal Jordan, who would unknowingly become possessed by Parallax, the ancient fear-parasite trapped in the Battery. At the ruins of his home Coast City, Jordan was consumed by grief, which in turn allowed him to be overcome by fear—all while not knowing that his fear was tainted by the creature Parallax. This was planned by Sinestro while he was imprisoned in the Battery. The Green Lantern Corps ranks were decimated by the Parallax-possessed Jordan. The Corps' power source, the Central Power Battery, was drained by Jordan and destroyed, removing the original power source for the rings. After Hal Jordan, killed various members of the Green Lantern Corps and the Guardians of the Universe, the last surviving Guardian, Ganthet, found the struggling freelance graphic artist, Kyle Rayner, and gave him the last working Power Ring, making him the the sole Green Lantern of the Corps. Rayner would eventually become Parallax's nemesis, and during their first battle, Rayner intentionally triggered a chain reaction in Oa's core, causing the planet to explode.
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The Lost Lanterns were a group of Green Lanterns that tried to stop Parallax from reaching Oa. Parallax defeated them in space and after Parallax destroyed the Corps, they were assumed to be dead. Instead, they were captured by the Manhunters and taken to Biot, the Manhunter homeworld in Sector 3601. They were used in various experiments to design and power new Manhunter models. They were eventually found and rescued by the resurrected Hal Jordan and Guy Gardner. They rejoined the Corps, albeit with some difficult adjustment. Despite learning of Parallax's possession of Hal Jordan, many still blame him for their captivity and cluster to themselves when summoned to Oa.
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When Kyle Rayner accidentally travelled through time to ten years in the past and met a young Hal Jordan, the Guardians were able to send Rayner back to his own time by using the power from the Central Battery after Jordan and Rayner defeated Sinestro together. Jordan decided to gave Rayner a copy of his ring to restart the Green Lantern Corps in a bid to undo some of the damages he knew he was going to make. Rayner then gave the ring to Jennifer-Lynn Hayden, daughter of the elder Green Lantern Alan Scott, whereupon she became the first female Green Lantern of Earth, following in her father's footsteps, after he made another copy with it.
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In an attempt to redeem himself after his actions as Parallax, Hal Jordan sacrificed his life reigniting the sun, whereupon Oa and the Central Power Battery were completely rebuilt by the physical manifestation of Jordan’s dying will channeled through his old friend and confidant Thomas Kalmaku. After Hayden regained her Starheart powers and becomes the superheroine Jade once more, Rayner gave the ring to John Stewart. After Oa's return, Kilowog would eventually be resurrected. With everything apparently in place, Ganthet, Kilowog, Stewart, and Rayner made plans to rebuild the Corps once more.
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The new Green Lantern Corps presently lacks both the manpower and the political influence it once had due to its years-long absence from many sectors. This has left the Corps currently unable to intervene in situations it might have before Parallax destroyed the old Corps, including conflicts such as the Rann-Thanagar War. The Guardians remain staunchly uninvolved in what they see as a conflict that could destabilize many sectors, but that has not stopped Kyle Rayner and Kilowog from helping refugees.
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As of the ''One Year Later'' timeframe, the Green Lantern Corps had increased its numbers, with many former trainees now full-fledged officers. A lack of truly experienced lanterns remained an issue, with Guy Gardner being called upon often to assist the rookies.
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Rogue Green Lantern Sinestro created his own version of the Corps. Dubbed the "Sinestro Corps", it recruited beings capable of generating great fear. One of the members recruited into the Sinestro Corps was Amon Sur, the son of former Green Lantern Abin Sur, who held a grudge against Hal Jordan for being chosen to bear his father's ring instead of him. Armed with yellow Power Rings and Lanterns, the Sinestro Corps staged an attack on Oa, killing dozens of Green Lantern Corps officers, kidnapping Kyle Rayner, and freeing Parallax from the Corps' supervision. As the Sinestro Corps' campaign of terror spread, the Guardians, in desperation, rewrote the first Law of Ten in the Book of Oa, enabling the remaining Lanterns to use lethal force against members of the Sinestro Corps. This law later expanded to include all adversaries of the Green Lanterns, though the law does not extend to cold-blooded killing of defenseless adversaries. This distinction played a part in the expulsion of the Green Lantern, Laira from the Green Lantern Corps for killing Amon Sur when he was unarmed.
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Several other corps were created with their power being derived from the emotional spectrum, which is divided into the seven colors of the rainbow, with each color corresponding to a different emotion: rage (red), greed (orange), fear (yellow), willpower (green), hope (blue), compassion (indigo), and love (violet). However, it also represents the absence of color (black), which is death, and the combination of colors (white) which is life. The two emotions on the far ends of the emotional spectrum (rage and love), have a much stronger influence over their users while willpower, the center of the spectrum, can be used to overcome and maintain control over one's emotions.
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The Red Lantern Corps, which were formed by Atrocitus, draw upon rage in order to create constructs made of red light with their power rings. The sole bearer of the orange light is Larfleeze, also known as "Agent Orange", who draws upon greed to create constructs made of orange light with his power ring and he also possesses the ability to steal the identities of people he's killed and transform them into orange light constructs which he uses to comprise his Orange Lantern Corps. The Blue Lantern Corps, were formed by former Guardians Ganthet and Sayd, with the Blue Lanterns draw upon hope in order to generate constructs made of blue light with their power rings, which are created from the target's hopes. Moreover Blue Lanterns can only have the full extent of their abilities unlocked in the presence of a green power ring, which can also supercharge it. The Indigo Tribe, which is lead by Indigo-1, draw upon compassion in order to generate constructs made of indigo light with their power rings. The tribe also possesses the ability to teleport and reproduce the abilities of other Corps. The Star Sapphires were formed by the Zamarons in order to spread love throughout the universe; drawing upon love in order to create constructs made of violet light with their power rings.
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Hidden in the Book of Oa is the forbidden chapter of Cosmic Revelations, which contains a prophecy called the "Blackest Night". In the prophecy, seven different colored corps are at war with each other, eventually destroying one another and the universe. Following the ''Sinestro Corps War'', Ganthet and Sayd are banished from the Guardians. The remaining Guardians create the Alpha-Lanterns and reveal new laws they've written to the Green Lantern Corps. During the ''Blackest Night'', the Guardians finally realize the accuracy of the prophecy and are imprisoned by Scar, a rogue Guardian who launches an attack on the Corps by reviving deceased members as Black Lanterns, an army of zombies. The Green Lantern corps, along with the other six corps fight the Black Lanterns to regain safety and order in the universe.
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The White Lantern Corps, were formed by Hal Jordan, and draw upon the power of life itself to create constructs made of white light with their power rings, which can also resurrect the dead, restoring them to life. The Blackest Night ends when Hal Jordan, merged with the Life Entity, and the recently created White Lantern Corps to defeat Nekron and banish him from the realm of the living.
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After the ''Blackest Night'', Hal Jordan forms a loose alliance with Carol Ferris, Atrocitus, Sinestro, Larfleeze, Saint Walker and Indigo-1 to find and protect the emotional entities, who have been kidnapped by a mysterious villain. The kidnapper is revealed to be Krona, who is also revealed to be the one who caused the Manhunters to go on a rampage in the first place. Carol, Sinestro, Atrocitus, Saint Walker, Larfleeze and Indigo-1 are trapped within the Book of the Black. However, Hal escapes and takes their rings. During the final struggle, Hal and Kyle free Carol, Sinestro and the others from the Book of the Black. Also, Sinestro becomes a Green Lantern once again. Hal kills Krona, releasing the entities from the Guardians. However, the Guardians believe Hal to be the most dangerous Green Lantern, so they discharge him from the Corps.
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During ''Brightest Day'', the New Guardians were created. The team is made up of a representative of each of the Corps that tap into a particular portion of the emotional spectrum; its members are Hal Jordan (Green Lantern Corps), Carol Ferris (Star Sapphires), Sinestro (Sinestro Corps), Atrocitus (Red Lantern Corps), Larfleeze (Orange Lantern Corps), Saint Walker (Blue Lantern Corps) and Indigo-1 (Indigo Tribe).
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In the New 52, Sinestro is still an unwilling Green Lantern, Hal remains exiled, although he has been forced to assist Sinestro's activities with a ring created and powered by Sinestro, while Kyle has gone AWOL alongside six members of the other Lantern Corps. John was recently forced to kill a Green Lantern who was about to give in to torture the access codes to the Oan defense network from the Keepers. Guy remains the only main character with a stable position on the Corps.
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The New Guardians now consist of Kyle Rayner (Green Lantern Corps), Arkillo (Sinestro Corps), Bleez (Red Lantern Corps), Glomulus (Orange Lantern Corps), Munk (Indigo Tribe), Saint Walker (Blue Lantern Corps) and Fatality (Star Sapphires).
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The Guardians currently consider the Green Lantern Corps a failure and are planning to replace it with the "Third Army", which consists of beings with no free will that are made out of the Guardians' bio-tissue and will be led by the equally unknown "First Lantern", who was guarded by the older Guardians because he was deemed too dangerous. In the midst of the chaos, Sinestro gave Hal Jordan a temporary ring to help him out on missions, but the Guardians attacked them and both rings merged and became faulty and thought Sinestro and Jordan apparently dead so it went in search of a new Lantern, the Lebanese-American, Simon Baz. The Guardians command the Third Army to destroy the Green Lanterns, but B'dg of Sector 1014 says that some Green Lanterns have discovered the Guardians' true intentions. Meanwhile, Green Lantern Sentinel Guy Gardner is assisting a ship as a peace treaty with warring planets, but Xar, Guy's mortal enemy, was freed by the Guardians. Taking half of the Lanterns on the mission away to keep his family safe, they are met by some Third Army recruits, who kill all the additional Lanterns. Guy escapes, but only to be reprimanded and removed from the Corps. Meanwhile, John is on a mission to gather all of the pieces of Mogo, in hopes that the planet-sized Green Lantern will be able to reform. The Guardians' plan was to use the reformed Mogo and assimilate it into the Third Army, but their plan failed when Mogo destroyed the Third Army that was trying to assimilate him. Meanwhile, the Green Lantern Corps discovered that the Guardians had turned against their own Corps; so the Green Lantern Corps join the New Guardians and Atrocitus' Manhunters to rebel against the treacherous Guardians. During the fight with the Third Army and the Guardians, Volthoom, the First Lantern, breaks free of containment as the Guardians attempt to draw more energy from him. While Volthoom is in a weakened state, he began to drain off the other Lantern members of their emotions, minds, and memories of the various beings present with the intention of examining their lives in order to get his emotional powers to return. Among those that suffered these invasive processes: Guy Gardner, Kyle Rayner, John Stewart, Fatality, Carol Ferris, Larfleeze, Saint Walker and Atrocitus. While Volthoom drains off the Green Lantern Corps on the planet Oa, Mogo rescues them by shielding them with dirt and stone allowing them to escape from Volthoom's powers. Mogo recruits the Green Lantern Corps to fight against Volthoom. After the battle is over and Volthoom is killed, Hal returns to life as Green Lantern once more, Sinestro, however, killed the Guardians of the Universe for unleashing Volthoom and their "Third Army" plot and spares Ganthet and Sayd, but exiles them both from Oa.
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==Notes==
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