Green Lantern The 9 Best Supporting Characters
Green Lantern: The 9 Best Supporting Characters
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When Earth’s Green Lanterns are not hogging the spotlight, the GL mythos allows its secondary characters moments for their light to shine brighter.
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Considering its surreal galactic setting and lore, the Green Lantern mythos is rife with some of the most unique and fascinating characters in the DC universe. The Green Lantern Corps title was even established precisely to spotlight more characters, rather than focusing on any one main lead like Hal Jordan or Kyle Rayner with the Green Lantern title.
Not only by its very nature, but the long history of Green Lantern has filled the mythos with new faces who became iconic, irremovable parts of the ever-growing lore. Villains and side heroes alike contributed to the growth of the series’ lead Lanterns of Earth, moved the story along in new directions that shook the status quo, or just became fascinating characters in their own right.
9 Larfleeze
While Larfleeze was originally one of Green Lantern’s most powerful villains, the sole “Orange Lantern” is a fan-favorite among GL fans for his idiosyncrasies and obsessively greed-focused personality. Powered by the orange light of avarice, the semi-comedic character was created by Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver in Green Lantern #25 (2007). He resembles something like a humanoid mutt with tusks.
Despite his villainous origins, he has since endeared himself to fans to the point of becoming oddly sympathetic, even earning him his own twelve-issue comic series running from 2013 to 2014. He made his television debut in Green Lantern: The Animated Series and was voiced brilliantly by Dee Bradley Baker. This animated version of Larfleeze was very bit as entertaining as his comic counterpart and the character continues to be active in the DC Universe.
8 Tomar-Re
First appearing in Green Lantern #6 (1961) by John Broome and Gil Kane, the fish-bird Xudarian of Earth’s neighboring sector 2813 was the first alien Green Lantern readers met after Abin Sur. Hal Jordan’s first alien friend, Tomar-Re’s history solidifies him in comics and other media as a helpful guide to the grand world of the Green Lantern Corps and a loyal confidant to the leads.
After twenty-four years of comic history, he was tragically killed by the villain Goldface in Green Lantern #198 (1986) during the Crisis on Infinite Earths event. But Tomar-Re’s legacy continued in his Xudarian successors: his equally complex son Tomar-Tu (who sadly joined the Darkstars and became a villain), then Somar-Le, and more recently, Trilla-Tru.
7 Sinestro
Despite his main purpose of being an antagonist, the unmistakably villainous Sinestro has no less had a profound impact on the Green Lantern mythos. Debuting in Green Lantern #7 (1961) by Broome and Kane, the iconic “Yellow Lantern” top villain of the mythos was once Hal Jordan’s friend and mentor before his experiences drove him to see fear as the only true law.
His writing in the 2000s elevated the character’s complexity. Once a Green Lantern himself, Sinestro has cooperated with the side of good on numerous occasions, such as during the Blackest Night event, where the many factions of the “Emotional Spectrum” had to work together to defeat the power of death itself. His relationship with Hal Jordan allows them to develop together. Tragically, Sinestro always finds a way to return to villainy in the end.
6 Carol Ferris / Star Sapphire
Another creation of Broome and Kane, Carol Ferris initially began in Showcase #22 (1959) as Hal Jordan’s love interest, who debuted that same issue. She began to deviate from formulae when, in Green Lantern #16 (1962), she was chosen by the Zamarons to be their queen before brainwashing her into attacking Hal as the GLC were their rivals, becoming the cool Green Lantern villain Star Sapphire.
Many battles eventually freed her permanently from the influence of the Zamarons. Powered by the violet light of love itself, Star Sapphire became an ally of Earth’s Green Lanterns, but her relationship with Hal was always a tumultuous one, their work necessarily keeping them apart for long stretches and even breaking up for years. Yet she ultimately solidified herself as a capable cosmic hero of her own.
5 Ganthet
The Guardians of the Universe are the founders and controlling council of the Green Lantern Corps. Mysterious, uncanny, and deceptive, they suppress any and all emotion to become a truly stoic combined entity. That is, until Ganthet emerged from their ranks as the most emotional and distinct individual among them, becoming his own invaluable character.
Introduced by Larry Niven and John Byrne in Ganthet’s Tale (1992), his role had long been a secret supporter of Earth’s unorthodox Lanterns. When Hal Jordan became Parallax and destroyed the Corps, Ganthet survived to recruit Kyle Rayner, and when his secret love with the Guardian Sayd was outed, he was exiled with her and founded the Blue Lantern Corps — a little rebel rooting for the underdogs.
4 Mogo
Created by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons in Green Lantern #188 (1985) as part of the “Tales of the Green Lantern Corps” series that could inspire the upcoming Green Lantern reboot, Mogo is a mobile base of operations for the Corps — being a sentient planet. He is one of several alien Green Lanterns created to exploit the cosmic possibilities of the mythos, such as Leezle Pon the intelligent microbe, or the sentient math equation Dkrtzy RRR, but Mogo is the most outrageously noteworthy.
It is Mogo who also guides Green Lantern rings to new recruits across the universe, making him an essential Lantern for the functioning of the Corps. He has even served as a location for R&R for deserving Green Lanterns seeking respite or counseling. Following the destruction of Oa in Green Lantern Corps #24 (2013), he became the new headquarters of the Corps.
3 Saint Walker
If any character in DC represents hope as much as Superman does, it is the character who is literally powered by it. When Ganthet and Sayd left the Guardians of the Universe to found the Blue Lantern Corps, their first recruit was Bro’Dee Walker of Astonia in sector 0001, first appearing in a flash-forward in Green Lantern #25 (2008) by Geoff Johns, Ethan Van Sciver, Ivan Reis.
“Saint” Walker began his story as a father on a perilous trip with his family. One by one, the people he loved perished on the journey as their world died, yet he never gave up hope. His faith was rewarded when the first Blue Lantern ring chose him, allowing him to save his planet by restoring the life of their dying sun. A sagely being of wisdom, Walker has been an underappreciated ally of the Green Lantern Corps ever since, wielding the blue light of hope to empower the emerald space cops.
2 Salaak
The creation of Marv Wolfman and Joe Staton and originally named “Salakk” in his debut in Green Lantern #149 (1982), the pink-skinned, four-armed Slyggian from sector 1418 is typically the protocol officer of the Green Lantern Corps. Second-in-command of the Corps and often seen working a floating holographic interface, he is usually portrayed as shrewd, demanding, by-the-book, dutiful, and fiercely loyal to the Guardians. Yet, he still grew from an arrogant pessimist to a more thoughtful character.
Part of what makes Salaak so great is his omnipresence throughout the comics. Even when the other Earth Lanterns get forgotten by the writers, it seems that Salaak never is, even if he just gets a little cameo here and there barking orders, so artists have naturally had countless different takes on his look. Any fan of the mythos knows who he is — an irreplaceable, lovable fixture of the lore.
1 Kilowog
First debuting in Green Lantern Corps #201 (1986) by Steve Englehart and Joe Staton, the Bolovaxian drill sergeant of the emerald space cops is inarguably the most iconic and recognizable of the side characters in the Green Lantern mythos. Ruthlessly hard on new “poozers,” Kilowog deeply cherishes every one of his rookie Lanterns more than his mountainous exterior would indicate.
The size of a tank and typically resembling something between a hairless warthog and bulldog, it is surprising that Kilowog began as a scientist on his home planet before its destruction. The gruff Green Lantern generates loyalty and leads by example as easily one of the most ethical and motivational leaders the Corps has to offer, always at the frontlines of every major conflict.
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