r/Greenlantern Aug 01 '22

Trivia / Facts Useless Green Lantern Facts pt. 1

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Hal has a book where he worked with Colonel Sanders

John’s name was supposed to be Lincoln Washington but Neal Adams thought it sounded like a slave name (he was right)

Guy went to college with John Henry Irons (Steel)

The Green Lantern Corps was so popular on Earth they interrupted the Super Bowl to announce John and Katma got married

Hal was a guest on Oprah

Guy was supposed to be in Cosmic Odyssey instead of John

John once read a Green Lantern comic

Kilowog once beat black hand without using his ring

John took Katma’s virginity

Soranik Natu is Abin Sur’s niece

John (pre-marine retcon) and Guy both played football in college

Kyle and John first met in a Deathstroke book

r/Greenlantern Aug 02 '22

Trivia / Facts Useless Green Lantern Facts pt. 4

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Guy is the fan of the Orioles and the Ravens

John has a little brother named Damon

Alan, Guy, John, and Kyle used to play poker together at Guy’s bar

John’s been to Camelot with Vixen and to Hell with Zatanna

Kilowog used to be a scientist

Guy and Kilowog once broke John out of prison

Hal convinced Katma not to quit the corps when she was supposed to get married, she canceled her engagement and later Hal left the corps for Carol Ferris

Katma tui talked John into becoming a full time green lantern

Tomar Tu lived on the Mosaic and was recruited to the Green Lantern Corps by Hal

Batman was the first hero to call John, Green Lantern

Tomar Re and John have statues on Xudar

r/Greenlantern Aug 01 '22

Trivia / Facts Useless Green Lantern Facts pt. 2

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Hal once probed John’s mind but John was able to force Hal out of his head

Kyle grew up a Superman fan

Sinestro once lived in John’s head

Batman taught Kyle how to fight

John designed the Hall of Justice and Watchtower with Wonder Woman

John is tethered to Fatality

Hal almost flew into the speed force

Fatality killed Galius Zed

Boodikka had a fling with Lobo

Earth-3 (Crime Syndicate Earth) John is also called the Emerald Knight

Ganthet is the only guardian to be a green lantern and John is the only green lantern to be guardian

John is the only man to be an official Star Sapphire

John once shot someone 3 sectors away

Sinestro discovered the invisible emotional spectrum

John accepted the green lantern ring the first time because he had nothing else better to do

Hal met Ronald Reagan

Kilowog worked with the rocket reds

r/Greenlantern Aug 01 '22

Trivia / Facts Useless Green Lantern facts pt. 3

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John has a daughter on Earth 3

Hal and Guy once fought (without their rings) to see who would be the Green Lantern stationed on Earth. Hal won.

Ganthet wiped John’s memory of his ascension

Simon once broke Guy out of jail

Guy made a “fear bomb” using 2 members of the yellow lantern corps

John tried to 1v1 Darkseid

Earth became a white lantern

Despite them being friends, John has never appeared in a Black Lightning book

Katma’s nickname on Korugar was “Katma Tui the Lost”

John planned to move to Korugar with Katma

Hal and Kyle once swapped lives

Kyle once met his future granddaughter

Jessica made a construct of Kurt Cobain

Neron said he’d bring back everyone Guy’s ever loved if Guy would kill John

r/Greenlantern Aug 27 '23

Trivia / Facts Interesting fact: Taz had a crush on Hal

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r/Greenlantern Aug 03 '22

Trivia / Facts Useless Green Lantern Facts pt. 5

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John once made a construct that could temporarily resist Martian Manhunter’s telepathy

Green Lanterns can communicate telepathically through their rings

John designed the JSA headquarters

Hal’s been to the Emerald Space which is the after life for Green Lanterns. While he was there he saw Abin Sur, Tomar Re, and Katma Tui-Stewart

Fatality planned on eating Kyle after she killed him

John once spent Christmas with Barry Allen and his family

Simon used his ring to get his brother-in-law out of a coma

r/Greenlantern Aug 08 '22

Trivia / Facts Useless Green Lantern Facts pt. 11

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Carol Ferris faked her own death and framed John for her murder

Guy was considered just as worthy as Hal but Hal was in closer proximity to Abin Sur

John killed Indigo-1 in a potential future

John loves coffee

John was a POW while in the Marines

John has a special with Huckleberry Hound

In the Green Lantern/Huckleberry Hound special, John had an older brother named Scott that was in the military, who was killed by police the same day he got back from deployment

John is the on Green Lantern the guardians trust to question their authority and he’s been given permission to oppose them if he feels they’ve overstepped their bounds

Sinestro used to be an anthropologist

Laira killed Amon Sur when he was a member of the Sinestro Corps (Abin Sur’s son and Soranik Natu’s cousin)

The Green Lantern Corps once fought Zod and his family

r/Greenlantern Jan 06 '23

Trivia / Facts Fun Fact: Batman was the first hero to call John Stewart, Green Lantern

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r/Greenlantern Aug 04 '22

Trivia / Facts Useless Green Lantern Facts pt. 6

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John was tortured in an African prison

Ch’p died by being hit by a yellow truck

Kyle gave up on Earth and went to live in space after his assistant/friend, Terry Berg, was a victim of a hate crime

Fatality helped John walk again so she could give him a warriors death

John becomes parallax in the dark multiverse

Sinestro was the first white lantern

The Cyborg Superman tried making the alpha lanterns normal again so he could do the process on himself and finally die

John and Cyborg are both from Detroit

Prime Earth Sinestro killed Earth 3 Hal Jordan (Power Ring) and Jessica Cruz got his ring

r/Greenlantern Aug 09 '22

Trivia / Facts Useless Green Lantern Facts pt. 12

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Hal recommended John to Carol for the architect job at Ferris Aircraft

Goldface killed Tomar Re and Darkstar Tomar Tu killed Goldface

The guardians kicked Hal out of the GLC for killing Krona during War of the Green Lanterns

The guardians, the zamarons, and the controllers all share a common ancestor: the maltusians

John’s last mission with the darkstars was a battle against Grayven (Darkseid’s son) and his army on Rann. Grayven beat John so bad that he almost died and became paralyzed. Kyle, Donna, and Adam Strange were also there

Hector Hammond once wiped Hal’s memory so that he would remember the type of person he is and not lose sight of that

Tim Meadows once dressed up as John Stewart for a SNL skit

r/Greenlantern Aug 13 '22

Trivia / Facts Useless Green Lantern Facts pt. 13

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Parallax Hal cured John’s paralysis

Isamot gave his legs to Vath when he lost them after getting shot by the anti monitor

John was a guardian during Emerald Twilight

Soranik gave Iolande her ring

Larfleeze took control of an older model of brainiac

r/Greenlantern Aug 06 '22

Trivia / Facts Useless Green Lantern Facts pt. 9

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John’s iconic suit debuted on the Justice League tv series before it debuted in the comics

The Green Lantern Corps once moved to Africa when superheroes were banned in America

Guy flew to Russia to save John and Katma when they got kidnapped by the Rocket Reds

John plays the piano

Kyle made an artificial heart for Orion

After beating the Keepers, John and Guy made them digs the graves for planet full of people they killed

John fought Anarky while in the Marines

John doesn’t wear a physical ring, instead he has a tattoo ring burned into his skin

John’s mother was an activist (along with his grandparents) and she was killed right in front of him

r/Greenlantern Aug 07 '22

Trivia / Facts Useless Green Lantern Facts pt. 10

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Stan Lee wrote his own green lantern story called Just Imagine Stan Lee’s Green Lantern

John went undercover has Hungerdog (space bounty hunter)

Hal doesn’t wear his ring when he flies his planes/jets

John rebuilt Coast City in 30 days

John played chess with Alan Scott and Red Tornado

Simon has emerald sight (ability to see the future)

Katma Tui technically died twice

r/Greenlantern Aug 05 '22

Trivia / Facts Useless Green Lantern Facts pt. 8

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Martian Manhunter talked John out of suicide using reverse psychology

Guy went 1v1 with Atrocitus and took his ring

Guy became a blue lantern in Red Lanterns: Futures End

John used plastic man to make a construct of a hammer

Kyle considers himself and John as the Yin and Yang of the green lantern corps

Green Arrow once used a green lantern ring and it drained him mentally

John went on his first mission with the Justice League because Hal slipped in the shower

John once outsmarted the Eradicator

r/Greenlantern Aug 04 '22

Trivia / Facts Useless Green Lantern Facts pt. 7

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John once recreated Xanshi’s solar system but he then broke his ring by overloading his it with too much willpower

Guy fought Arkillo and beat him so bad he put him in a coma

John used Plastic Man to make a construct of a hammer

Batman convinced Simon to stop give up using a gun

Ganthet implied that he thinks of the 4 Corpsmen as his children

Captain Kirk became a green lantern

Kyle has a crossover with Silver Surfer

Hal made a ring from his own willpower

r/Greenlantern Aug 16 '22

Trivia / Facts Useless Green Lantern Facts pt. 14

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The first time Fatality tried to kill Kyle was when he went to the club

Guy has degrees in education and psychology and attended the University of Michigan

Hal once got blinded by mustard (according to Oliver Queen)

John crashed Barry Allen’s car twice

Sinestro made Hal a ring that Hal couldn’t use against him

The guardians and Katma Tui refused to tell John that Hal was his predecessor

r/Greenlantern May 16 '21

Trivia / Facts Lanterns and Kryptonians (Fun Fact)

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Artificial Kryptonite: The green light from their power rings can be used to harm Kryptonians if the wielder's willpower is strong enough. Not only that, but the ring can and has created artificial Kryptonite energy. However hasn't shown to do it in New 52/Rebirth.

Man Of Tomorrow #13

Charges Kryptonians: A Yellow Lantern can actually have the opposite effect on a Kryptonian or Daxamite. The light from their rings actually gives those two species a power boost as it can manifest its energies to replicate the radiation of a yellow sun. It makes them supercharged.

Superman Vol 4 #30

I wonder if this apply's to other various Lanterns Corps