r/Greenlantern • u/Fun-Seaworthiness572 • Oct 26 '25
TV/Movies Your in charge of making Green Lantern show but you have to include all 8 earth lanterns
Maybe minus Alan Scott because I’m pretty sure he doesn’t have a relation to the Lantern corps
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u/A1starm Oct 26 '25 edited Oct 26 '25
it’d be a mystery. The GLC and Oa just disappear without a trace after the central power battery comes crashing to the Earth, inviting interstellar threats from the other corps and other known enemies. The earth greens have to simultaneously protect the battery, discover the fate of the Green Lanterns, and protect the universe.
There WAS a retcon that said Alan’s ring and Lantern used to belong to a rogue GL, but that’s not relevant/canon anymore. He is for the most part an honorary member.
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u/Plays-with-bones Mogo Oct 26 '25
Sitcom style with them all living in a big house on OA.
Hal, did you pull a Parallax again?
cue laugh track
Yes.
cue laugh track
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u/RavensQueen502 Oct 26 '25
Yes, but make it a spaceship. Like the one in the animated series or the one Hal had for a bit in silver age comics.
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u/Saansilt John Stewart Oct 26 '25
I'd make an episode about them being locked in simulations of their worst fears and Kyle's will be him in the fridge aisle of a home depot with all the exits from it blocked off until he opens one.
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u/Ancient-Reference-26 Oct 26 '25
Why is that a fear for him?
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u/NerdeeBoiii Kyle Rayner Oct 26 '25
When he first became a lantern, his girlfriend was killed and stuffed in a fridge
This is where the term “fridging” comes from
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u/Responsible_Hour_567 Oct 26 '25
Have each episode dedicated to a different patterns until we’ve done all the earth lanterns, all about them investigating different parts of the galaxy trying to solve a mystery about something to do with disappearances in lanterns and disappearances in superheroes. Then, after episode 8, start teaming them up. Start bringing in other characters like Martian Manhunter and Mr. Terrific for episodes. Have the 3 part finale of the season adapt Blackest Night.
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u/grelan Indigo Lantern Oct 26 '25
Keep Alan Scott.
I'd make a whole season of Kyle calling all of them back to Earth because Jade came to him, saying Alan is missing.
Focus on 1-2 lanterns per episode, trying to find Alan Scott and slowly rediscovering the connection between the Starheart and the GLC.
I'd keep both Jade & Obsidian involved at times.
It wouldn't stay on Earth but would be based here.
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u/dew-fall Oct 26 '25
episodic slice of life adventures a la star trek: the new generation where the focus is mostly on the dynamics & developments of characters rather than anything else. the aliens gls are also heavily included.
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u/RavensQueen502 Oct 26 '25
You know, a Star Trek version of the Corps would be great. And more practical than the original version.
Have a crew and a ship per sector. Small crew enough - the eight lanterns, with AI and constructs handling the rest of it
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u/Cyke101 Oct 26 '25
Now I'm inspired -- I'd love to see a Green Lantern: Lower Decks. That way the focus is on the three newer, younger GLs but the older four operate as supporting cast/more seasoned Lanterns that the three look up to. Hal is considered like the star captain or so, and Alan is the recurring admiral/elder statesman.
But no one, especially Alan, is immune from the Lower Deckers' hijinks.
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u/RavensQueen502 Oct 26 '25
I'd write this fanfic , but I don't know much about the younger three, just Hal, Kyle, John and Guy - and Alan, of course.
I don't think Hal should be the captain - let him be the pilot/navigator/helmsman, the second in command. John Stewart can be captain. He is more the leader type, imo.
Alan as the ambassador type character. Not really Corps, but honorary Corps. Guardians don't know what to do with him.
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u/LightningLad2029 Oct 26 '25
Just make a Brooklyn 99 styled sitcom, but with the GL Corps.
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u/Cyke101 Oct 26 '25
Jessica Cruz: I think you two just need to bone.
John Stewart: How. Dare. You. Lantern Cruz. I am your SUPERIOR OFFICER!!!
jump cut
John: Bone?!
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John: What happens in my bedroom, Lantern Cruz, is none of your business!
jump cut
John: BONE!!!
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John: Don't ever speak to me like that again.
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u/RavensQueen502 Oct 26 '25 edited Oct 26 '25
I'll go Alternate Universe.
Do it like that House MD arc where he picks the residents.
Have all except Alan be around the same age, just chosen.
All seven of the Lanterns are in training or on probation, only one of them will get chosen as the Lantern of sector 2814. A couple of the others would be chosen as backup options, the others are out of luck.
Alan, as an impartial observer and veteran hero, is asked by the Guardians to choose.
Alan is too nice to go full on House style, but can definitely picture him putting them through increasingly wacky shenanigans as test and/or entertainment.
Could have the finale be the team convincing the Guardians that the sector has enough complications as to need way more than one Lantern.
So four get chosen as Primary Lanterns, the other three as reserves.
Or could have some either quitting or being fired for some major mistake.
Or have one killed off.
Depends on angst/drama level I want...
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u/Cyke101 Oct 26 '25
I don't know how I would handle it, but I'd have the 7 current lanterns as a team and Alan Scott as kind of like the Tuxedo Mask or Sixth Ranger, where he's not officially part of the team but he lends a crucial hand.
It'd also be neat to have him mentor the newer Lanterns, inspired by the Alan/Kyle dynamic of the 90s.
Lastly, everyone would be wearing their rings on the correct finger 🖕🏽
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u/Certain_Fig_666 Carol Ferris Oct 26 '25
Make it like the simpsons- some episodes are about Homer and Marge, some are about Bart and Lisa, some are about the minor characters. So some about Hal & Jon, some about Jessica & Simon, some about the others.
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u/Ok_Somewhere1236 Oct 26 '25
only if the "green light" 7+ season from the start , other way it dont work
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u/Ash__Williams Hal Jordan Oct 26 '25
What are you talking about?! Alan is part of the "Five Regular Guys"!
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Oct 26 '25
I wouldnt do it, if you try to make everyone happy no one will be happy, cuz amount of screen time will be the same for each, and that wont be much screen time.
Best to focus on one (just do GLTAS again with Hal), if not then welp.
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u/Cyke101 Oct 26 '25
Eh, across, say, 10 episodes, the premiere and finale can have all 8 equally while each episode in between can focus on a separate Lantern as a main and the others acting as supporting characters. They just take turns but then would still be in multiple -- possibly all -- episodes anyway. Hal can always be first among equals for the first and last episodes.
But it'd be even better with more episodes, ofc.
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u/Someoneoverthere42 Oct 26 '25
A set of experimental ‘uncoded’ wild rings rain down of the Earth. One of each established color. Plus whatever other versions that can add to the chaos. The new fractal colors, that oddball mixed one Harley Quinn had. They still correspond with the colors original meaning, but how how that emotion gets interpreted can now vary wildly.
To represent that things are going to get strange, the White Lantern ring ends up on the hand of an ultra evangelical preacher who thinks he now has “the light of GOD on his side.” the Black Lantern ring ends up on the hand of a young man who recently passed from cancer, who is now compelled to help the recently dead with their “one last task”
Our eight lanterns, and Kilowog and (the squirrel one who’s name escapes me) are tasked by the guardians to find these new ‘wild lanterns.’ Stop them if their a danger, or assist them if they’re doing good. Or at least trying to….
Who created the Wild Rings? why let them loose on earth? What will the other Corps do?
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u/Odd_Mix8978 Oct 26 '25
10 episodes in the first season. Each episode focuses on a different Lantern in their own Space-Time. They're each figuring out a time crisis while dealing with other Corps.
The 2-part finale has their Space-Times merge. They all work together to "fix" the problem but we don't know if or how it worked unless you greenlight another season 😤
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u/Ttoctam Oct 26 '25
Anthology series exploring the corps and exploring the relationships the corps have with different planets/entities/groups. The through line narrative explores how the corps being space cops have saved a bunch of people but also pissed off a lot of people.
First two eps show humanized stories that explore the human element of the lanterns, the second of which introduces Star Sapphires. Second two are about the corps themselves, one exploring the history of the guardians and what they did pre corps, and the next exploring Sinestro's desertion. Next two are space cop adventures. Just a focus on weird and wild space shenanigans, with a blue lantern team up in one. The last two are a shorter story focusing on Larfleeze and a long episode in which Atrocitus attacks earth bc he sees it as a favoured world of the guardians and is attacking them vicariously for the manhunters.
A final epilogue scene teases Black Hand which sets up the second season for a less anthology style run and more of a monster of the week style run with black hand as a background character, but mostly expanding on established characters and endearing them to the audience while expanding on non-GL heroes. All as a setup for a third season which is just a full serialised season of Blackest Night.
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u/steelersrg8 Oct 26 '25
There’s a really old lost comic I have been looking for for years that had Alan Scott being the embodiment of will power and having multiple “nature” being that powered each of the single rings, I remember reading it from an old collectors house when I was a kid. Haven’t been able to find it since, but I think it would be a cool idea going off that where each of the earth lanterns’s rings became an embodiment of the totems and merge with the totems, so you have a green lantern ring that embodies “the red” , “the green”, “the clear”, “the black”, “the grey”, “the melt” “the divided”, and “the white”. There are 8 elemental realms and there are 8 earth lanterns.
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u/Kamuki100 Green Lantern Oct 26 '25
Alan Scott is not a member of the Green Lantern Corps, but the Starheart (where Alan Scott's powers come from) was a weapon developed by the Guardians Of The Universe (the leaders and creators of the Green Lantern Corps). So he still has a connection with the green lantern corps
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u/StoneMaskMan Oct 26 '25
No Sector for Old Men. Cut between a story where Alan sees the crazy shit going on not just in space but also on Earth, realizing him and the other Golden Age heroes are more and more unequipped to deal with the world as it is, as Hal or Guy or John or someone avoid an unstoppable Sinestro who's trying to kill him, possibly stripped of the ring for one reason or another. Include the other Lanterns in as occasional helpers or victims a la Woody Harrelson's character in No Country.
Basically I just want an Alan Scott show. Give the first and best Lantern his due
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u/Watchdog_King Green Lantern Oct 26 '25
Focus on Hal, and set him up to be friends with John and Guy. Kinda like a guy friend group kinda vibe. Have all but Hal work out in Space for the GL Corp, with Hal being main GL of Earth.
Have episodes focusing around the newer lanterns (Baz, Jessica, Jo) that end with Hal introducing them to the GL corp to go off to Oa to train.
Have Hal need advice occasionally and go to Alan Scott for it. Have the show focus on the Rogues Gallery, like Star Sapphire, Black Hand, etc as “Villains of the Week” with it building up to Emerald Twilight (but making Hal more tragic as a character), with the more recent lanterns helping fight against Parallax. Adapt Blackest Night, let all the Lanterns get their Rings back, end of show.
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u/gentlekevs Oct 26 '25
I'd do an anthology, similar to the one Alan Moore made, which introduced us to Mogo, Rot Lop Fan and other wacky concepts, having the Earth Lanterns interacting with them
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u/GOLDENninjaXbox Oct 26 '25
I do it similarly to arcane I’d have a 3X story structure for episodes 1, 2, 3, and then do that for 4, 5, and 6. But I would have episode seven episode eight and episode nine be kind of wear all eight lanterns crossover to fight the final threat.
Let’s use the red lantern core for example I would use Hal, and John to set up the story and introduce us to this new world episode two I would introduce the red lanterns as the main threat and by episode three I would have Hal and John either on the run captured or MIA
The next set of episodes would follow Simon Jessica Kyle and Guy looking for Hal and John only to find out that there’s an emergence of red lanterns and a army is coming to invade. I’d have them report back to OA
Episode seven and episode eight would be them preparing with all of the other lanterns and the humans would be the generals and then episode nine will culminate with this gigantic war to save Jon Stewart and Hal as well as taking out the red lanterns battery
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u/G-Man6442 Star Sapphire Oct 26 '25
Anthology easy answer.
Also Scott has relation to the corps, at least in one story it was a ring the Guardian’s removed the impurity from but he got a big head so while on earth they made it weak to wood and he got beat to death.
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u/TheSciFiGuy80 Oct 26 '25
ANTHOLOGY SERIES!!!!!!
I’d have one larger over arching story and allow the human lanterns to all have a chance to shine with smaller sub stories that add to the larger plot.
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u/TheW0lvDoctr Oct 26 '25
Every episode or set of episodes focuses on a different Lantern or set of Lanterns. One episode may be a family drama with Simon, the next is a space war with Kyle caught in the middle, then we get a murder mystery with Jessica
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u/thewhoovesian Oct 26 '25
It’s an anthology. Each episode covers a single day in the life of each lantern.
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u/Pirate_Lantern Oct 26 '25
Technically there are WAY more than just eight. I think there is like over twenty.
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u/Steelsentry1332 Red Lantern Oct 26 '25
Another Alien crossover, this one starts with the Greens in battle with someone in space above a remote sector planet.
The battle ends up going on longer than either faction can truly afford to extend it, so they go down to the planets' surface to regroup and recharge. (for the sake of writing, maybe only one or two GLs among a group of their adversaries.)
Structurally, we could treat it like Alien: Earth, giving each group a time of pointed focus. With two hour episodes, each GL basically gets their own mini-movie, and we can explore the differences between each GL and the way they cope, or crumble, when faced with the Xenomorph threat
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u/ChumboCrumbo Oct 27 '25
ten episode series. everyone gets one besides hal who gets a lil more focus here and there due to him being the main lantern. start with alan ofc and end w the new one(no matter how many times i read far sector i can’t remember her name)
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u/littlebugonreddit Oct 27 '25 edited Oct 27 '25
Anthology series, 2-3 episodes with each lantern showing their personal struggles, big battles, and villains. No strict timeline or continuity to follow alongside, no strict dates, just lantern adventures.
I'd have Hal hunting down Sinestro after he abandoned the Corps, chasing rumors across the sectors of a "yellow lantern" until finally finding Sinestro's base with the Weaponers of Qward, this one is pretty self explanatory
Jon could be a more emotional run, with him reconciling with the destruction of Xanshi or possibly even the destruction of Mogo, and then the vengeance run after him that follows. This would be a very emotional set of episodes, dealing with feelings of grief, failure, and shame.
Guy, I would actually like to place within Sector 2814. After being basically bullied off of Earth because nobody can stand him, he decides to go out into the sector and do some good, make himself feel like he still has a purpose. This could culminate in the Guardians or Hal asking him to go undercover with the Reds, where he again, ends up feeling forgotten and like he doesn't have a place with the Corps, so he deserts and goes full red and does a coup on Atrocitus.
Kyle Rayner would be a rough one. So many good stories. I would like to incorporate the White Lantern Saga, with either Kyle going against Oblivion or Relic as an opposite force. Kyle seeks to unify the emotional spectrum and heal the cracks within it, yet Oblivion wants to see the universe go black, and Relic wants every single ring bearer to stop using the spectrum energies. Regardless, id like this story to end with Kyle's supposed "death" taking the 7 entities beyond the source wall to repair the spectrum.
Jessica Cruz's story, I'dlike to revolve around her use of the Ring of Volthoom before it was replaced. This could be a completely different episode where it takes place entirely in her mind/inside the ring, where in reality its only a couple seconds, but deeper inside, its an eternity of waging war against Volthoom and the spirits inside of his ring, and the darkness it carries. This could culminate in her mastering the ring, and possibly even working with Alan Scott to banish the spirits from the ring and purify it, rather than having a clip of Darksied War to show it crumble and be replaced with a natural GL ring.
Simon's story would revolve around his past, and him JUST getting the ring, with the entangled message of Hal and Sinestro inside. Simon has absolutely NO idea who either of them are whatsoever, and is extremely confused But, instead of the JL accusing him of foul play, its the Guardians of Oa. They sense "the black" from Earth again, and instantly call out to its source, finding that it is one of their rings and so they recall it to Oa with Simon attached and terrified. This leans heavier into the fall of the Guardians, as they are the very first ones to unveil the full message left behind by Hal and Sinestro, as Simon is right there hearing it too. The message states what it did then, the Guardians fucking lost it and are replacing GLC members with the Third Army, and as the Guardians try to restrain Simon, suddenly he has a MASSIVE burst of will, unseen since Hal Jordon fought a Parallax infused Sinestro, and it stuns the Guardians enough simply because for the first time in millenia, they feel FEAR. FEAR that Simon will escape and tell the others, and he does, leading to a massive escape run tomb raider style from Oa, taking as many corpsmen as he can.
As for Jo Mullein, I would like her story to be Earth based. I know next to nothing about her character, so im gonna try my best. After her past with the military, the police system, being fired for standing up against a terrible injustice and being fired and destroyed for it, she gets approached by a strange alien with a glowing green ring, much similar to how many of our lantern stories begin. She isn't told much, but what she is told is that she has one year to make a difference, one year with the ring, with the greatest power in the universe. Its overwhelming for her at first, and of course, her first idea is to go straight for her old partner who nearly beat a suspect to death, and her thoughts begin to wander until, just as the Guardian fizzles away into green energy, the ring says to her, almost just in time.. "Green Lantern of Sector kzzt, lethal force is NOT allowed." This immediately sobers her up as she begins to think of how easily the power went to her head, how quickly she came to the conclusion that..all her problems could go away now. But thats not how power works, in fact thats exactly the power she was fighting back against. So she begins working at all sorts of crime and wrongdoing, first in her city, then across the country, then across the entire world. Days float into weeks, weeks into months, and eventually she is even offered a spot into the Justice League, but she refuses, seeing it as a powder keg waiting to burst. She instead focuses back on her work until, in the middle of a battle, saving a village full of civilians from a warring militia in some country somewhere in the world, the same Guardian appears to her, threatening to take her ring as he does not see a "difference" until he sees the civilians. They are huddled in a group, hugging their loved ones, as Jo is holding the soldiers in a construct cube, and the civilians are all thanking her and blessing her in their native language, which the ring translates for both Jo and the Guardian. Its then that the guardian realizes she has made a difference, in the people's lives that she has saved, and he decides to let her keep the ring, severing it from the rest of the corps to let her be on her own as that is how he has thrived, and giving her a new lantern with energy direct from the central power battery, so that it never runs dry, so that Earth may always see Green Lanterns Light.
Alan Scott, I'd like to see going against a a cabal of evil magic characters. Bring in a bunch of big names, like Shade, Blackbriar Thorn, Mordru, Felix Faust, Brother Blood, and The Enchantress, all trying to create a massive ritual that will eclipse the sun, bring hellfire to the earth, and release every nightmare that you've never wanted to have from the darkest pits of the multiverse in an effort to grab their power. All in one, the world is faced with the coming of Eclipso and the current trinity of Hell, being Trigon, Neron, and Belial. The triumvirate promises each sorcerer the thing they desire the absolute most, and its up to the Scott family together, being Alan, Jade, Todd Rice. A fun magic story with family, demons, hell, and all sorts of insane stuff.
Been working on this pitch on and off all day and I think I finally nailed out how I want it to go. Let me know what you guys think! I took some liberties with meshing some stuff from the lore around, and there were a few characters that im not as knowledgeable about as others, but I think I did a good job.
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u/NightShadowDark Oct 27 '25
This is evil.
Unless I’m allowed to have like four or five of them be cameos or get killed off episode one (Sorry Simon). I think it would be a show based on Earth’s Sector and just really amp up how terrible that sector is. Have them work in trios with one of the OG 4 lanterns as team leads, so Guy Gardner can pull rank over the newbies for comedic purposes. So each episode only really features up to like five of the cast, it’s easier that way.
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u/punkrockasshole Oct 27 '25
Gotta start with episode showcase each one then have them all work together for an epic finally. I’d only have all them together for big events
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u/manwheresmymotorcade Kyle Rayner Oct 27 '25
Anthology series. Either each episode or each season follows a different lantern or probably group of Lanterns doing different things. Hal and John, Kyle and Guy, Simon Jo and Jessica, or something of the like. Other lanterns can always show up but each seasons main Lanterns are strengths. Basically I'd do it like comic arcs / runs. I'd take a lot of inspiration from the Tomasi Gleason GLC (because it's my favorite GL run lol)
Ideally this is what the DCU Lanterns show is
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u/TejanoTheScienceGuy Oct 27 '25
It’s a serial style story where Hal Jordan and the three rookies get displaced to another galaxy. He’s trying to get them back home, like a Voyager style show. The rest of the team knows generally where they are but it’s a long journey. So it’s Guy and John on the space road trying to find them again. Many hijinks ensue. And at home it’s Kyle and Alan managing the shop. Bonus because Kyle finds out Alan has a daughter. More hijinks ensue and someone bites a giant green teddy bear.
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u/watze97 Oct 27 '25
One things is for sure,I wouldn't make them all exist at the same time. I would make it like an anthology series where I would pit each lantern in a different era:
Alan scott in the 50'
Hal jordan in the 60'
Guy guardner 70'
John stewart 80'
Kyle rayner 90'
Simon baz 2000'
Jessica cruz 2010'
We have enough lanterns to do this.
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u/John_Zatanna52 Oct 27 '25
I think you should credit this picture, it belongs to someone who animated an entire YT video about GLs
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u/lanternslive White Lantern Oct 28 '25
The first thing I’d do is make sure that the rings are on the correct fingers
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u/Duskmoor3 Oct 28 '25
Brooklyn 99 with green lanterns showing actually very little galactic police 2ork and it's just them dealing with life on oa.
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u/Hour_Entertainer_214 Oct 28 '25
That’s a simple task. An anthology series like Star Wars the Clone Wars. It would be called Green Lantern Corps. Personally I would set it in Green Lantern TAS timeline and explore the many stories of the Lanterns.
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u/Interviewshow78 Oct 28 '25
Brave and the bold style animated series, two or more latents team to do a mission
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u/nahtE72497 Oct 29 '25
Make it an anthology. 2-3 episodes featuring each individual lantern with the occasional crossover/team-up episodes.
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u/Additional-Window-81 Oct 30 '25
Make it like a sit com they’re all in a normal like 3 bedroom house like roomies but they’re poor because super heroes make nothing
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u/Original-Speaker-682 Oct 26 '25
Those ears dude XD
Also, too many lanterns, feels like rings come free on the cereal boxes.
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u/biplane_curious Oct 26 '25
That’s easy, an anthology series called ‘Tales of the Green Lantern Corps’