Before Hal Jordan, there was Abin Sur, an alien from the planet Ungara, who patrolled the spaceways of Sector 2814 until crash-landing on Earth. With his dying breath, he granted his power ring to Hal Jordan, and charged him with accepting the role of Green Lantern of this space sector.
John Stewart is an architect, later "retconned" into a veteran U.S. Marine from Detroit, Michigan, who was selected by the Guardians as a backup Green Lantern to then-current Green Lantern Hal Jordan after the previous backup, Guy Gardner, was seriously injured after getting hit by a car while trying to save a civilian ...
Abin Sur is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. He was a member of the Green Lantern Corps and is best known as the predecessor of Green Lantern Hal Jordan, whom Abin Sur's power ring chose as his replacement.
Alan Scott was the original Green Lantern character created in the Golden Age of Comic Books. Alan created the mantle and identity of Green Lantern by himself and is not associated with the Green Lantern Corps, since his power ring was de-authorized by the Guardians before he even obtained it.
Introduced in the final act of Geoff Johns' Green Lantern run, Simon Baz was accidentally conscripted into the Corps after Hal Jordan and Sinestro's power rings merged, choosing Baz as the latest recruit.
Even after Hal returned to Earth, the Guardians kept asking Jordan to put the Corps over his private life, abandoning his friends when they needed him most. Fed up with their apathy, Hal Jordan decided to retire from the Corps, and John Stewart became the official replacement for the Green Lantern of that sector.
After a multi-episode arc that played out across multiple shows, the Arrowverse finally wrapped up Diggle's Green Lantern arc in The Flash season 8. After getting help from Tom Cavanagh's Eobard Thawne to open the ring box, Diggle ultimately decided against becoming the Arrowverse's Green Lantern.
1 Sadam Yat. Sadam Yat was prophesized to be the most powerful Green Lantern to ever live; however, Sadam was also said to bring forth the end of the Green Lantern Corps.
The color yellow is Green Lantern's primary weakness, but he was able to use it to save the Justice League. In 1960's Brave and the Bold #30, the Justice League confronts the android Amazo for the first time.
Hal Jordan is regarded by many as the greatest Green Lantern of all time. While the Corps is filled with some of the most worthy beings across the vast DC Universe, Hal stands above his peers as one of the best ring-slingers around.
A glimpse at Hal Jordan's secret origin showed how he and John Stewart got off on a bad foot years before the two served on the same team. Hal Jordan was the first person from Earth to be picked to join the cosmic peacekeeping organization, the Green Lantern Corps, but he wouldn't be the last.
Caroline "Carol" Ferris is a fictional character appearing in the DC Comics Universe. She is one of many characters who has used the name Star Sapphire, and was the long-time love interest of Hal Jordan, the Silver Age Green Lantern.
The role of the Spectre is later assumed by Hal Jordan, the spirit of the former Green Lantern, during the Day of Judgment storyline written by Geoff Johns, when a fallen angel attempts to gain the Spectre's power. Corrigan is asked to come back, but refuses as he has found peace.
While Hal Jordan and his unique Green Lantern power ring may be special, he no longer holds a candle to John Stewart who no longer needs a ring at all, being cosmically powered straight from the source.
Hal Jordan and John Stewart first met in response to a need, rather than a call. On Earth, Hal was the designated Green Lantern of Sector 2814, with his fellow human Lantern Guy Gardner waiting in the wings should anything happen to him.
Sinestro quickly becomes the Green Lantern Corps' most powerful nemesis, partially due to a weakness in their power rings that prevent them from directly affecting the color yellow. Despite this, skilled Green Lanterns like Jordan, Sinestro's most hated enemy, always find ways to defeat him.
However, fixing the Green Lantern Corps' weakness to yellow was a little more complex. During the Green Lantern's Rebirth era under Geoff Johns, it was revealed that the "Yellow Impurity" was the result of the fear entity known as Parallax being trapped within the Central Power Battery, the rings' source of power.
He's powerful but not invincible, and there are ways to stop him. Hal Jordan, on the other hand, did not need any of these means to beat Superman. Instead, he uses the pure strength of the Green Lantern Corps, proving that a Green Lantern alone is powerful enough to defeat Superman.
Space Ghost's intangibility allows him to avoid the best offense Green Lantern can muster. Even when Hal goes on the defense and forms a shield, Space Ghost effortlessly knocks him out with a concussive beam. While Space Ghost is enough to make Hal sweat, he'd probably be in danger with the Avengers' Vision as well.
Superman is widely regarded to be one of the most powerful beings in the universe, but he has a variety of weaknesses, like Kryptonite, red sunlight, and magic. Which means that of all the Green Lanterns, Alan Scott is the best equipped to defeat him in a fight.
Ultimately, Diggle's character is defined by his devotion to his family and, as he noted in The Flash season 8, "there is no power in the universe more powerful than the love I have for my family." It would be incredibly out of character for John Diggle to abandon his wife and children, even in the pursuit of a noble ...
With the knowledge that such lives would come at the cost of Diggle leaving his family, he chose to turn down the alien power it presented, effectively ending any potential future for him as Green Lantern in the Arrowverse.
Due to the events of The Flash episode "Flashpoint", Diggle's family history is altered: his daughter Sara has been erased from existence and replaced by John "J.J." Diggle, Jr., as a result of a timeline change caused by Eobard Thawne, correcting the Flashpoint reality created by Barry Allen.
