# Green Lantern poll **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 28, 2012, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-lantern-poll/620209 "2012-04-28T06:06:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-lantern-poll/620209/21 "2012-04-28T18:35:52Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Actually, the correct answer is “the pizza place”. That sitcom with Ryan Rodney Reynolds and Richard Robert Ruccolo? I hear Ronald Reagan loved that show. And Robert Redford, Richard Roundtree, and Rene Russo all wanted to guest star on it. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-lantern-poll/620209/22 "2012-04-28T19:13:36Z")
In the previous continuity, it was Alan. In the current one, where we don’t yet know quite what’s going on with Alan, Kyle, Guy, Kilowog, and Soranik Natu all sit up there. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-lantern-poll/620209/23 "2012-04-28T19:33:24Z")
> [@Ura-Maru](#): > > John Stewart. I was a Marvel kid, so my primary source is the (awesome) JLA cartoon. > > The decision to go with him instead of one of the more prominent ones caused some complaining at the time, but I think it was probably the right one. Hal would have been too much like Superman, and Kyle would have been too much like Flash. Plus, the team benefited from an ‘old soldier’ guy. I read a story (The Greatest Green Lantern of All by Elliot S! Maggin) in which the Green Lantern Tomar-Re had been charged with saving a certain planet from cataclysmic doom. Had he succeeded, one of the male natives, son of the scientist Jor-El, would have eventually been selected by the Guardians to lead an independent Green Lantern corps when he had reached maturity. Tomar-Re was unable to prevent the destruction of Krypton, however, and the Guardians conceded that the universe had a far greater need for Kal-El as Superman than it did for him as a Green Lantern. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-lantern-poll/620209/24 "2012-04-28T19:49:16Z")
There was also a personal favourite idea (even if the story fell short) wherein Bruce Wayne, brooding over what identity he should take as a crime fighter to instill fear in the hearts of criminals, is startled as Abin Sur’s spaceship crashes on the grounds of stately Wayne Manor. ---
**Author:** ![AtomicDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@AtomicDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AtomicDog)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-lantern-poll/620209/25 "2012-04-28T20:12:19Z")
What, no love for Ch’p? But I voted for John Stewart. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-lantern-poll/620209/26 "2012-04-29T02:19:58Z")
Alan Scott was vunerable to _wood_ for pete’s sake. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-lantern-poll/620209/27 "2012-04-29T02:37:33Z")
As opposed to Jordan, who can be defeated by a [banana](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnSeKHnB_k8&feature=fvst)? ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-lantern-poll/620209/28 "2012-04-29T04:29:10Z")
I said Hal, but Guy is still my favorite. ---
**Author:** ![Aestivalis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Aestivalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aestivalis)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-lantern-poll/620209/29 "2012-04-29T05:15:20Z")
[Stel](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stel). He was the dead robot GL who was so bad-ass that his successor Yron had to will him back to life to save their planet because Yron couldn’t cut the mustard. My favorite backup story (Tales of the Green Lantern Corps) ever. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-lantern-poll/620209/30 "2012-04-29T07:51:50Z")
> [@Ura-Maru](#): > > Plus, the team benefited from an ‘old soldier’ guy. That bit was actually added for JLU, possibly to make him more like Hal (who’d been in the air force). Until that point, John, while he probably did do a stint in the military, given the era he first appeared in, wasn’t noted for his military service - the fact that he was an architect was the major part of his character. His time with the marines has since been added to the comics (thankfully, in addition to his architecture, both of them have played roles in recent stories). ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-lantern-poll/620209/31 "2012-04-29T13:53:56Z")
Alan Scott. As a kid, I grew up watching Hal Jordan in _The Superman/Aquaman Adventure Hour_ and _Super Friends_. But once I got older, and learned about the Golden Age characters, I usually preferred the Golden Age versions. ---
**Author:** ![MegaBee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@MegaBee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MegaBee)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2012, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-lantern-poll/620209/32 "2012-05-01T13:22:32Z")
Started reading comics in the mid 70s, watched SuperFriends as a kid, so the Green Lantern to me is Hal. My favorite GL, however, is Mogo. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2012, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-lantern-poll/620209/33 "2012-05-01T13:24:16Z")
Green Goblin? He’s that archery guy, right? ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2012, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-lantern-poll/620209/34 "2012-05-01T14:10:54Z")
Hal Jordan. > [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > True. Although I suppose there might have been a few teenagers who were thinking _“What the Hell is Nemo talking about? I’ve got the DVD and Ryan Reynolds plays a guy named Hal Jordan. Who are all those other guys?”_ You think there are a lot of teenagers who have that DVD? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2012, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-lantern-poll/620209/35 "2012-05-01T14:32:21Z")
> [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](#): > > It Hal. Hulk speak. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2012, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-lantern-poll/620209/36 "2012-05-01T14:41:24Z")
Well they all are. Kyle is my favorite, though he’s been promoted several times, first to Ion and then to the New Guardian. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2012, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-lantern-poll/620209/37 "2012-05-01T15:34:27Z")
All of them. But Guy Gardner’s my favorite of the bunch. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2012, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-lantern-poll/620209/38 "2012-05-01T18:01:13Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > I said Hal, but Guy is still my favorite. My thinking exactly. Hal is THE Green Lantern, even more than Alan Scott (and I am a Alan Scott fan), but Guy stories are more entertaining. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2012, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-lantern-poll/620209/39 "2012-05-01T23:29:23Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > My thinking exactly. Hal is THE Green Lantern, even more than Alan Scott (and I am a Alan Scott fan), but Guy stories are more entertaining. The thing about Guy is that here’s a … guy … who is just 100% into the “hero” part of “superhero”. It used to be because it fed his ego, but I think he’s really matured over the years. While his ego is still there, it’s not as bad as it used to be, and now he’s a hero because he truly believes it’s the right thing to do. For all his braggadocio, he has a very clear-cut definition of what it means to be a hero. When the Guardians decided to allow lethal force, Guy was one of the most vocal opponents because, in his view, heroes don’t kill. He has since apparently come up with his own “line”, the crossing of which makes killing acceptable, but he still sees it as a last resort, to be avoided wherever possible. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2012, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-lantern-poll/620209/40 "2012-05-01T23:36:02Z")
Missed edit window: Alan Scott I simply don’t know enough about to have an opinion. I read JSA for about a year, but dropped the title when, after 12 issues I realized I still couldn’t put the “superhero names” to most of the characters (they were always calling each other by their real names, not codenames), or even say what most of their powers were. The writing was good, but the writer(s) forgot that not everybody had been reading since issue #1, and I came in midway through a story arc that didn’t have a lot of combat. And unfortunately, Alan didn’t appear much in any of the other titles I read. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-lantern-poll/620209.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-lantern-poll/620209.md?page=3)