# Who would make a good Green Lantern? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 7, 2018, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-good-green-lantern/820969 "2018-09-07T20:15:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [September 8, 2018, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-good-green-lantern/820969/21 "2018-09-08T16:31:50Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > Star Sapphires - if we just stick to femmes, Lug is really the only option Oops, I’d forgotten part of the arc…Her girlfriend, Anode, definitely fits, too. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2018, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-good-green-lantern/820969/22 "2018-09-08T16:32:49Z")
Mon-El: Ah, you get the idea. > **[Lar Gand (Pre-Zero Hour)/Gallery](https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Lar_Gand_(Pre-Zero_Hour)/Gallery)** > > Main Article: Lar Gand (Pre-Zero Hour) Image List: Lar Gand (Pre-Zero Hour) ---
**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:** [September 8, 2018, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-good-green-lantern/820969/23 "2018-09-08T16:51:47Z")
[Duck Dodgers](https://comicvine.gamespot.com/forums/battles-7/duck-doggers-green-lantern-vs-daffy-duck-the-wizar-742186/) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2018, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-good-green-lantern/820969/24 "2018-09-08T17:23:16Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > James T. Kirk: In fact, it’s been done. > > [Stranger Worlds, Issue 5 | Memory Beta, non-canon Star Trek Wiki | Fandom](http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/File:Green_lantern_kirk.jpg) That _would_ explain all the Orion Slave Girls. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2018, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-good-green-lantern/820969/25 "2018-09-09T00:14:26Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > Mon-El: Ah, you get the idea. > > [Lar Gand (Pre-Zero Hour)/Gallery | DC Database | Fandom](http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/File:Green_Lantern_Mon-El_01.jpg) Mon El? Kind of figured you for an Ultra Boy fan. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2018, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-good-green-lantern/820969/26 "2018-09-09T01:02:56Z")
> [@G0sp3l](#): > > Mon El? Kind of figured you for an Ultra Boy fan. Oh, I am. But Mon-El actually did wear the ring for a while so I went with him. However, pretty much any Legionnaire would qualify as honest and without fear. As would any X-Man, Doom Patrol member, or Challenger of the Unknown. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2018, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-good-green-lantern/820969/27 "2018-09-09T01:20:54Z")
Or 1st Grade teacher. ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Alex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atomic_alex/32/175_2.png) [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2018, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-good-green-lantern/820969/28 "2018-09-09T21:29:14Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Regarding your suggestion of Alex Murphy: that exact issue (being willing to kill one’s opponent) was the core of a plotline that they just concluded in the Green Lantern Corps book. Thanks, I’ll have to check that out 🙂 > [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Edit: I totally misread your question when I first created this post; I had thought you were asking, "which _actors_ would make a good Green Lantern. I removed what I originally wrote, while I consider a response to your actual question. 😃 That’s an interesting subject as well, everyone is talking about Idris Elba as the new James Bond, I think he’d make a good John Stewart. > [@E-DUB](#): > > James T. Kirk: In fact, it’s been done. > > [Stranger Worlds, Issue 5 | Memory Beta, non-canon Star Trek Wiki | Fandom](http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/File:Green_lantern_kirk.jpg) Is this the classic Kirk, or the new and unimproved jerk version? I’d trust the former with a Green Lantern Ring, I wouldn’t trust the latter with…well anything… Thanks for the answers everyone, some really interesting choices! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2018, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-good-green-lantern/820969/29 "2018-09-09T22:03:40Z")
> [@Atomic\_Alex](#): > > That’s an interesting subject as well, everyone is talking about Idris Elba as the new James Bond, ::smacks forehead:: You want a guy who does bizarrely over-the-top stuff on both the Honest front and the Born Without Fear front? Well, try a secret agent who not only introduces himself by name while risking his life, but makes sure to helpfully repeat himself! (Plus, he’s got to be the all-time champ on the _other_ aspect: wearing a gadget that turns out to be the needed plot device du jour. I mean, yes, granted, in this case it’s because he can _declare_ that he’s got whatever that is…) ---
**Author:** ![Sloe\_Moe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Sloe\_Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sloe_Moe)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-good-green-lantern/820969/30 "2018-09-10T03:53:12Z")
He has to reek of 1960’s US test pilot, something of The Right Stuff. Can’t pin down any of the young-uns but I’m imagining a young Ben Cross, ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-good-green-lantern/820969/31 "2018-09-10T14:13:06Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Miles Vorkosigen. > > Willpower? Check. Decency and sense of duty? Check. Creativity? Definitely check. And the ring would make up for any of his physical disabilities. Damn I was going to post just that. On the other hand “Miles Vorkosigan” is my default answer to almost all “who would be a good X” questions. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2018, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-good-green-lantern/820969/32 "2018-09-10T15:15:21Z")
Kal-El of Krypton. Before Krypton exploded, the Guardians gave serious consideration to the son of one of Krypton’s greatest scientific minds. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2018, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-good-green-lantern/820969/33 "2018-09-11T22:26:32Z")
Samuel L. Jackson’s Zeus. Or a lot of other SLJ characters, for that matter. ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2018, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-good-green-lantern/820969/34 "2018-09-11T23:12:46Z")
Captain Marvel, but she doesn’t need one. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2018, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-good-green-lantern/820969/35 "2018-09-11T23:23:32Z")
> [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](#): > > Captain Marvel, but she doesn’t need one. Carol Danvers or Kamila Kahn? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2018, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-good-green-lantern/820969/36 "2018-09-11T23:28:06Z")
Kamila is not a Captain. ---
**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:** [September 11, 2018, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-good-green-lantern/820969/37 "2018-09-11T23:31:04Z")
She’s also not a Kamila. 😉 Ms Marvel is Kam_a_la Khan. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-good-green-lantern/820969/38 "2018-09-12T19:22:49Z")
OK, this guys a little long in the tooth, but Al Calavicci. Hey, he’s been an astronaut and a POW. I think the “born without fear” part is covered. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2018, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-good-green-lantern/820969/39 "2018-09-13T02:21:36Z")
Conan the Barbarian. Well, the “fearlessness” and “willpower” parts. 'Kinda have trouble with keeping up a proper Rogue’s Gallery, though. And the “not conquering the galaxy” bit. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2018, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-good-green-lantern/820969/40 "2018-09-13T20:29:55Z")
Several earlier posts reminded me of two real-life people who might’ve qualify: - John Glenn - [Chesty Puller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesty_Puller) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-good-green-lantern/820969.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-good-green-lantern/820969.md?page=3)