Green Lantern: The Animated Series


Green Lantern: The Animated Series is an American animated superhero television series based on the DC Comics superhero Green Lantern. The series aired on Cartoon Network, as part of their "DC Nation" television block. The series follows the adventures of Hal Jordan, the Green Lantern of Sector 2814, and his fellow warrior ally, Kilowog against the series' main antagonists, the Red Lanterns, led by the villain Atrocitus, and the Manhunters. 
A one-hour sneak peek aired on November 11, 2011, it ran from March 17, 2012, until March 16, 2013. A special screening of the first episode was shown at New York Comic Con 2011 on October 15. This was the first Green Lantern television series and the first CGI DC/WB series. The series was cancelled after one season due to poor toy sales after the negative reception and poor box office performance of the live-action film.

Plot

The series focuses on the adventures of Hal Jordan, the Green Lantern of Sector 2814, and his partner Kilowog. Jordan steals a space ship controlled by Aya and travels to "Frontier Space" together with Kilowog. This is the edge of the Guardians of the Universe' territory, where Green Lanterns are being killed by Red Lanterns. Atrocitus, their leader, wants revenge for the destruction of his world by the Manhunters, created by the Guardians, but who were also shut down by the Guardians. During their adventure, the groups meets Red Lantern Razer. They take him as a prisoner, but eventually adopt him as a teammate after he helps them defeat Atrocitus. Razer also falls in love with Aya, but after Atrocitus is defeated and Razer rejects her, Aya decides to eliminate all life in the universe.
At the end of season one, Jordan discovers that Aya is born out of a living being and that she is alive. He tries to convince her to end her universal genocide, but fails. Razer gets severely injured when he tries to kill Aya, as she defends herself by firing a laser beam. Hal convinces Aya that what she is doing is wrong and she saves the universe and heals Razer, but in Aya's anger, she recreated the Manhunter army and downloaded a copy of herself into every single Manhunter. Aya launches a computer virus that destroys the Manhunters and herself.
Razer refuses to believe that Aya is dead because she was not a complete robot after all, but alive; and a living being cannot be destroyed by a computer virus. He starts a galaxy-spanning search, in the hope to find her somewhere in the universe. A Blue Lantern ring follows Razer, but if he will receive it is left ambiguous.

Characters

Main characters

  • Hal Jordan / Green Lantern – The main protagonist, Hal Jordan is the first human to become a Green Lantern, and is considered one of the best. He is an almost fearless and skilled Lantern. He has a history of disobeying orders and disregarding rules to achieve success. His superiors see him as a loose cannon, but they are willing to overlook his transgressions due to his skill and accomplishments. At the start of the second half of Season 1, he was replaced by Guy Gardner as the Green Lantern of Earth, but was promoted to Honor Guard Corps for his victory over the Red Lanterns.
  • Kilowog – A veteran Green Lantern, Kilowog is a close friend of Hal and is in charge of training new Green Lantern recruits. Kilowog accompanies Hal in Frontier Space. He is a member of the Honor Guard, and is less willing to abandon the rules of the Corps. Kilowog is often skeptical of Hal's actions, but he is completely loyal to Hal.
  • Razer – A reformed Red Lantern who is original to the series. Razer was a follower of Atrocitus but began to question him, and eventually turned against the other Red Lanterns after they placed a bomb on a colony planet. They forced Razer to activate it to prove his loyalty, subsequently destroying the planet. The guilt-ridden Razer sought out Hal and tried to provoke him into killing him as penance. Hal, however, took him prisoner. After Razer proved himself and discovered Kilowog managed to save most of the colonists, he is invited to join the team and make up for his past actions, now fueling his Red Power Ring with the rage he feels towards Atrocitus. Over the course of the series, Razer falls in love with Aya, who based her appearance on his dead wife Ilana. He confessed his love for her at the end of the episode "Loss", but took it back in the episode "Cold Fury", saying that he only felt love because she looked like Ilana, although the truthfulness of this is unclear. At the end of the episode "Dark Matter", Razer refuses to believe that Aya is truly gone and vows to scour the galaxy for as long as it takes to find her. As he flies off into space, a Blue Lantern ring appears and flies after him, implying that Razer, now filled with hope rather than rage, will become a Blue Lantern.
  • Aya – The Interceptors AI, Aya was AI created by Scar as an empathetic alternative to the Manhunters. After being infused with a fragment of an entity inside the Green Lanterns' Central Battery, Aya developed sentience, leading her to transfer data without Scar's permission. Scar confronted Aya, wiped her memories, and installed her into the Interceptor. Throughout the series, Aya develops feelings for Razer. After Razer rejects her, Aya shuts down her emotions and assumes control of the Anti-Monitor and the Manhunters before traveling to the beginning of the universe in an attempt to eliminate all emotion. However, Aya was never able to completely seal off her emotions and regained her senses after wounding Razer. With the Manhunters still a threat and each possessing a copy of her coding, Aya releases a virus to wipe all versions of the Aya program from existence, including herself.

    Guardians of the Universe

  • Ganthet
  • Appa Ali Apsa
  • Sayd
  • '''Scar'''

    Green Lantern Corps

  • Mogo – A sentient planet that imprisoned criminals on its surface for many years before becoming a Green Lantern.
  • Salaak – A multi-armed Green Lantern senior administrator from Sector 1418.
  • Ch'p – A squirrel-like Green Lantern from Sector 1014.
  • Tomar-Re – A bird-like alien from Sector 2813 and a member of the Green Lantern Honor Guard.
  • Guy Gardner – Hal's replacement as the Sector Lantern of 2814 after Hal's victory over the Red Lantern Corps and promotion to the Corps Honor Guard. Quickly promoted to Honor Guard duty, Guy is placed in charge of the Corps during the Battle of Ranx, much to Hal's chagrin. He states that after being promoted, he was replaced by John Stewart as the Green Lantern of Earth.
  • Sinestro – The Green Lantern of Sector 1417. Considered one of the greatest Green Lanterns, he is Hal Jordan's idol and mentor. He has shown to be willing to kill enemies, in violation of Green Lantern protocols.
  • Chaselon – A crystalline Green Lantern from Sector 1416.
  • Iolande – The queen of the planet Betrassus in Sector 1517. When Hal and Kilowog arrived on her planet to recruit its resident Green Lantern, Dulock, to fight the Red Lanterns, one of her generals attempted to force her hand in marriage, which Dulock openly challenged. When her brother Ragnar murdered Dulock to obtain his ring, it instead passed to Iolande, who resolved to remain her planet's queen and its protector.

    Red Lantern Corps

  • Atrocitus – The leader of the Red Lantern Corps. Due to his planet's destruction, the power of the Red Ring and ruthless crusade of revenge against the Guardians and the Green Lantern Corps, Atrocitus never found true happiness as he was willing to destroy other worlds no matter the cost.
  • Zilius Zox – A sycophant who is almost never far from Atrocitus's side, constantly offering him praise. After Atrocitus is arrested, Zox becomes the new leader of the Red Lanterns.
  • Bleez – The only female Red Lantern depicted, Bleez comes from a winged race and prefers to rely on her own wings to fly rather than her red ring.
  • Veon – A one-eyed Red Lantern who apparently possesses some measure of psychic ability.
  • Skallox – A brutish Red Lantern with an ongoing rivalry with Kilowog, his physical equal.
  • Cleric Loran – A slug-like alien who was created for the series. Loran does not appear to possess a Power Ring, but maintains a chapel dedicated to Atrocitus on the Red Lantern's base.
  • Ragnar – Ragnar is a character who exists in the mainstream of DC Comics, but only becomes a Red Lantern in Green Lantern: The Animated Series. He was responsible for the death of his planet's resident Green Lantern, Dulock, in hopes that his ring would choose him. After failing to become a Green Lantern and seeing his sister Iolande chosen in his place, Ragnar's rage attracts a red power ring and makes him a Red Lantern.

    Blue Lantern Corps

  • Saint Walker – The first Blue Lantern in the universe.
  • Brother Warth – An elephant-like alien and the second Blue Lantern.

    Star Sapphires

  • Carol Ferris – Hal Jordan's love interest and vice president at Ferris Aircraft. In "...In Love and War", she becomes a Star Sapphire and learns Hal Jordan is a Green Lantern. In "New Guy", she breaks up with Hal after she realizes that his duties to the Green Lantern Corp complicated their relationship. In "Love Is a Battlefield", Carol is brought back to Zamaron, decides to keep her ring to honor Ghia'ta, and renews her relationship with Hal.
  • Queen Aga'po – The queen of Zamaron and leader of the Star Sapphires.
  • Ghia'ta – A Star Sapphire and Aga'po's niece. She thought love was just a way to help people become happy by bringing loved ones together, but she later learns the true meaning of love and teaches it to her people. In "Love is a Battlefield", she is killed defending Hal from Atrocitus. Aga'po tells Hal, Carol, Razer, and Kilowog that her niece did not die in vain, but to protect the true meaning of love and will be honored as the greatest Star Sapphire of Zamaron, with Carol saying they will remember Ghia'ta as a hero.
  • Galia – A Star Sapphire of the same species as Kilowog.