Green Lantern

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Television

Several Green Lanterns have appeared in animated TV shows, both as regular characters and as guest stars.

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Regular roles

Hal Jordan was the featured character in a solo series which was part of The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure as well as part of the Justice League segment. In addition, the character was an occasional supporting character in the various Super Friends incarnations.

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John Stewart is a member of the Justice League in the Justice League animated series. In this series, Stewart's ring was initially constrained to permitting him to fly, generating a protective force field, creating walls, and firing energy blasts; this limitation was established as being due to Stewart's mindset, not a inherent limitation of the ring itself. (The series' version of John Stewart is an ex-Marine, not an architect.) After being berated by Katma Tui for his unimaginative use of the ring, Stewart has increasingly generated complex tools (to defuse a bomb in one instance) and weapons. In a development not seen in any other version of the Green Lantern mythos, Stewart's eyes glow green as a side effect of the Ring's radiation (the glow fades when the ring runs out of power). In addition, the ring is effective against yellow; Stewart is seen fighting Sinestro in one episode and the yellow energy does not prove to be a significant problem for the Lantern. Another feature of this series is Stewart's dramatic lovelife. After a failed romance with fellow Justice League member Hawkgirl, Stewart begins a relationship with Vixen, although an episode where he travels into the future seems to indicate that he will come to have a son with Hawkgirl later on.

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''Justice League'' animated series - Marine - Hawkgirl - Vixen

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Guest appearances

• Kyle Rayner appeared as Green Lantern in one episode of '. This incarnation appeared to be a hybrid of Kyle Rayner and Hal Jordan, since he was recruited by Abin Sur, fought Jordan's old enemy Sinestro, and looked more like Jordan than Rayner. This character was later inducted into the Green Lantern Corps. (In one scene, the name of test pilot Hal Jordan is clearly visible, painted on the nose of an airplane on the tarmac at a military base.)
• Rayner was briefly mentioned in one episode of Justice League and reappeared after the series became Justice League Unlimited, bearing a far greater resemblance to his comics counterpart. Kilowog, Katma Tui, and Sinestro have also appeared in the series.
• A character known as Green Guardsman (real name Scott Mason) appeared in a Justice League episode in which John Stewart and several other members traveled to a parallel universe. This other universe had its own superhero group, the Justice Guild, whose members were modeled on Golden Age versions of the Justice League characters. Green Guardsman was an homage to the Golden Age Green Lantern. His power was unable to affect aluminium.
• The Justice League version of John Stewart has appeared in a few episodes of Static Shock, both as a member of the League and in a solo appearance.
• A two-part episode of Batman Beyond featured a future Justice League Unlimited that included a Green Lantern who was an eight-year old Asian child; he later reappeared as a young adult in the Justice League Unlimited episode Epilogue. (The character was created for this appearance, and has not appeared elsewhere.) His name was Kai-ro, a tribute to Kairo, Green Lantern's alien sidekick on The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure.
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• Hal Jordan appeared briefly in a two-part episode of Justice League Unlimited in which the time-traveling villain Chronos caused the timeline to become unstable, with characters changing or disappearing as their history was altered. At one point, John Stewart morphed into Jordan, who aided the other characters for several minutes before changing back into Stewart.