Editing DC Comics (section)

===Green Lantern===
'''Alan Scott''' was a railroad engineer who survived a sabotage induced train wreck thanks to a lantern that, unknown to him, is an ancient magical artifact. The lantern tells him how to forge its green metal into a ring, Alan uses its vast and poorly-defined powers to go after the guy responsible for the wreck and becomes a superhero. Alan would drop out of continuity in 1948, bob in and out of the DC Universe a few times over the decades and finally be revived as a gay man in the 2020s in one of many reboot events. 

The revival in the 1959 reboot would change the man holding the title and, unlike Flash, the basic concept. '''Hal Jordan''', a test pilot, receives his power ring from a dying alien and travels to the distant world of Oa, where he becomes a Lensman-style space cop. The Green Lantern Corps operates under the self-proclaimed authority of the Guardians of the Universe, a group of wrinkled blue Jewish (the "poster boy" Guardian, Ganthet, is based on the likeness of [[Wikipedia:David Ben-Gurion|Israel's first prime minister]]) midgets who claim to be the first sentient species to evolve. In this version the power ring is a "living computer" and universal translator; each ring channels the limitless psychic energy of the Guardians, shaped by the user's will into green energy constructs that can do effectively anything, limited only by the Green Lantern's imagination and willpower. 

Since then, the title character has changed a few times, and the series has become a playground for writers and artists looking to do trippy science fantasy stuff with lots of weird aliens. In the 2000s DC started introducing other colors of lantern powered by emotions rather than will, like the [[Khorne Berserker|Red Lanterns]] who are literally powered by [[rage]] and recruit from [[Cat|some of the angriest beings in the galaxy]]. Both incarnations have had really lame weaknesses in comparison to their incredible power: Alan Scott was unable to affect things made of wood, while Hal Jordan and most of his successors can't impact anything that was yellow-- the details vary. Less weaksauce is the charge limitation: The ring needs recharging on a regular basis via a special Lantern, at first once every local day, nowadays working more like a cell phone battery that depletes with use.