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    Kyle Rayner

    Character » Kyle Rayner appears in 1652 issues.

    Originally thought to be chosen by chance, it was later revealed that Ganthet chose Kyle Rayner because he had the ability to harness the powers of the emotional spectrum. Once the Torchbearer of the Green Lantern Corps, Kyle graduated to the role Ganthet had intended for him: the White Lantern. After the White Ring is separated into seven rings, Kyle returns to being a Green Lantern Corpsman.

    Why Emerald Twilight/Kyle Rayner suck

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    DC decided to turn villainous, and later kill off, Hal Jordan. His replacement was the whiny Kyle Rayner, who was on Earth instead of, ya know, doing what Green Lantern was supposed to do and have him fight in space. The whole thing became more of a generic "hip 90s soap opera" with Judd Winnick injecting his famous brand of "progress" being AIDS/gays. Emerald Twilight ruined the whole point of Green Lantern, by making it only one GL, and having him based on Earth. Thank god for Green Lantern Rebirth.

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    Cool story bro. Really drives the point home, right where it hurts.

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    Kyle was cool, also he did a lot more visually interesting things with his ring which is important since comics are a visual medium. Hal always does the same 5 things with an occasional addition that is still something mundane just in green glow while Kyle was doing all kind of crazy crap with his ring.

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    Kiel Raenuhr sukz

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    Its not like Dc was doing anything interesting with Hal before they made him go psycho. Go check the issues before Emerald Twilight,. they are mediocre to below mediocre. Kyle was a breath of fresh air to the franchise. Going back and reading Marz interview a few years ago,. he had originally intended on having Hal be a Magneto type of anti-hero and have Kyle eventual rebuild the corps. That,. woudl have been 10x more interesting than Rebirth.

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    @BigSams50: The post was made years ago... doesn't matter anymore

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