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Green Lantern
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Real Name
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Guy Darrin Gardner
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First Appearance
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Green Lantern (Vol. 2) #59
(March, 1968)
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Creators
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John Broome, Gil Kane
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Team Affliations
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Green Lantern Corps, Justice League, Red Lantern Corps
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Alias
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Warrior
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Base of Operations
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Oa
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Powers
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Wielding Green Lantern, which can create hard light matter constructs [as Green Lantern] Super Strength, shape-shifting weapons construction, energy blasts and energy absorption, healing factor, and vital organ regeneration [as Warrior]
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Skills and Abilities
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Experienced Fighter
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Tools and Weapons
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Green Lantern Ring, Sapphire Lantern Ring [formerly], Red Lantern Ring [formerly], Yellow Lantern Ring [Formerly]
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Guy Gardner is a superhero in the DC Universe and a member of the Green Lantern Corps.
Origin[]
When Abin Sur came to Earth, his ring detected two possible replacements: Hal Jordan and Guy Gardner. Hal became the successor, but when he discovered it could have been Guy, the two met and Guy was given the status as a "back up" Lantern, before becoming a Lantern himself.
Biography[]
Guy Gardner was born in Baltimore, Maryland to Peggy and Roland Gardner. His father was an alcoholic who abused Guy. He always tried to make his father proud but his father always preferred his brother Mace. Realizing that he would never make his father proud, he became a criminal at a young age, constantly in and out of juvenile hall. Mace became a cop and when Guy got into trouble for stealing a car, Mace beat him up and convinced him to give up his criminal behaviour. Guy did just that, going to school, working through his anger in undergraduate football and getting a job to pay his way through college. Mace was shot and left a paraplegic and later was revealed to be a dirty cop, much to his brother's shock. As a result, Mace lost hope and committed suicide by drowning himself in a river.
Guy went onto university, becoming a liberal arts major and getting degrees in psychology and education
Guy Gardner as the Red Lantern
Guy gets recruited to the Green Lantern Corps, he becomes friends with John Stewart, Kilowog, and Kyle Rayner, but becomes a rival of Hal Jordan. There he had bunch of adventures: he finds he is part Vulgarian, he dies but is restored to life again, he briefly becomes a Red Lantern before becoming a Green Lantern again.
TV Shows[]
He comes out in episodes of Batman: The Brave and the Bold. In the pilot episode of Justice League of America, the Green Lantern is Guy Gardner who had a similar outfit to his comic counterpart, but had the personality and hairstyle of Hal Jordan and the mask and the symbol that Kyle Rayner wears .
Equipment and Power[]
The Green Lantern power ring which gives him the hard-light construct creation powers of a Green Lantern.