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Outfit: green spandex / power ring / green cloth rectangle glued to face

Tagline: "In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight. Let those who worship evil's might, beware my power... Green Lantern's light!"

Plot summary: The Green Lantern is the world's most powerful super hero:  the power of his ring is measured only by the enormity of his imagination.  He can use his ring to surround the sun.  He can use it to move the Earth.  He can create a 500-foot tall green Yogi Bear with fingers make out of nuclear missiles and bring doom and spectacle to millions by imitating Dave Chapelle's Rick James sketch and bitchslapping mountainsides.  But, since Hal Jordan has more the imagination of a muppet than a Muppet Baby, he mostly makes platforms for people to ride and punches Sinestro with a giant green boxing glove. 

Sinestro, Green Lantern's arch-nemesis, possesses a similar power ring of boundless imaginary possibility, only it's creations are yellow instead of green.  Yellow (yes, the abstract concept of color itself) is the Green Lantern's only weakness, nullifying his powers.  He could crush Superman in an airtight green globe and shoot him off into deep space without a problem but he couldn't lift a banana.   So despite wielding a ring that can bring peace or apocalypse to the universe, Green Lantern and his boxing glove are always two seconds away from getting fisted by Sinestro's big yellow George Foreman.  (more)

User Comments: One of the greatest superhero costumes of all-time, Green Lantern's simple green, white, and black design is a silver age stalwart; a reminder of times when artists didn't need to wrap utility belts around the hero's legs and cover him with oddly shaped metal plates. 

The mid-90's gets a lot of crap for bringing forth the renaissance of "dark" super hero comics.  They killed Superman, killed Green Lantern, killed the Flash, broke Batman's back, and replaced them all with what were basically sneering teenagers holding knives.  But what the mid-90's doesn't get enough crap for is serious pocket superfluity.  X-Force/Youngblood artist Rob Liefeld is alone responsible for this trend, demanding that each of his creations (with names like Shatterstar, Diehard, and Pow Pow Facepuncher) covered their costumes in pockets that were never opened or used to hold things.  It's bad design and just unnecessary in every logical sense, and one gets the feeling that they were only there to cover up parts of the anatomy that Liefeld didn't know how to draw, like thighs, wrists, and tiny feet.   Okay, anything but the boob.  He could draw the boobs.  Okay, well, you know that little girl in your middle school art class who would ignore the assignment and just draw herself on a horse all the time?  Liefeld was on par with her.  But that girl at least understood that three-hundred pound men with six-hundred pound guns needed to wear shoes above a size 1 petite.  And she rarely ever reminded you to BUTTON YOUR FLY.

Modern GL Kyle Rayner wears an updated version of the Green Lantern Corps uniform, only hindered by the fact that he's walking around with a car bumper taped to his face.

User Rating: 9.2/10 (100,005 votes)