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Green Lantern III Age: 35
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 156 lbs.
Eyes: hazel
Hair: black
Marital Status: single
Occupation:
Known Relatives: none
Known Confidants: Donna Troy, John Stewart, Alan Scott
Place of Birth: Los Angeles
Current Group Affiliation: Justice League of America
Former Group Affiliation: New Titans
Base of Operations: New York
Former Base of Operations: Los Angeles
First Comicbook Appearance: Green Lantern #48 (as Kyle Rayner), Green Lantern #50 (as GL)
Origin
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Kyle always showed a knack for being in the right place at the right time. While getting a breath of fresh air in an alley by a dance club, he showed this talent one more time. He was given a mysterious ring by a little blue man in a red dress. With this ring, Kyle accepted the greatest responsibility of his life. He became the Green Lantern.
Powers
He wields one of the most powerful weapons in the universe, a Green Lantern ring, without which he has the strength of an average adult male. His powers are only limited by his willpower and imagination.
Green Lantern II
First Comicbook Appearance: Showcase #22
Origin
Hal Jordan was working as a test pilot in his home town of Coast City, when he was chosen by a dying alien named Abin Sur to wield a powerful ring because of his courage and fearlessness.
However, the ring had a time-dependent charge and had to be reenergized by means of a "battery."
Abin Sur was only one of 3600 members of a corps of Green Lanterns, commanded by a race of aliens called the Guardians of the Universe. The Guardians provided power to the main power battery on the planet Oa from which all the corps members obtained their power. The Guardians then sent Hal to bring in Sinestro, a renegade Green Lantern who used his power ring for personal gain, a violation of Guardian rules. Sinestro was brought down by Hal and was subsequently stripped of his ring and sent to another dimension. Sinestro, while exiled, came upon another power ring which gained its powers from other Green Lanterns. This power ring was yellow and used yellow-shifted energy instead of green. Over time, Sinestro and Hal fought on several occasions, until Sinestro was banished into the main power battery on Oa.
Meanwhile, Hal became a superhero, mainly concentrating on his home town of Coast City, and joined the Justice League of America. Hal also teamed up with Oliver Queen, aka the Green Arrow, and became best friends with him. He had many romantic connections, including his boss Carol Ferris of the Ferris Aircraft Company.
The Green Lantern Corps broke up several times and Hal lost his ring almost as many. The Guardians were very strict with their rules and Hal became very frustrated with them. All this came to a head in Green Lantern #48.
In Superman #80, Coast City was destroyed by the intergalactic conquerer Mongul and the Superman imposter later known as the Cyborg. Seven million people died. Hal, in grief, used his power ring to resurrect Coast City. When his ring's 24-hour charge expired, Jordan asked for more power from the Guardians. The Guardians, from a holo-projection, refused and instead ordered him to relinquish his ring. Jordan refused and took power from the Guardian's projection and proceeded to Oa for power. Along the way, he encountered many Green Lanterns and defeated every one of them, killing some and maiming others. When he reached Oa, the Guardians released Sinestro against Jordan. Jordan killed Sinestro and absorbed all the power from the main battery, consequently killing all but one of the Guardians. Jordan then went on a quest for more power. Calling himself Parallax, he absorbed some chronal energies leftover from the Crisis of Infinite Earths and proceeded to rewrite the universe in his image. He was stopped by a team of superheroes, which included Kyle Rayner, the new Green Lantern. 
Afterwards, he tried to get back his ring from Kyle, but realized that he would never again be Green Lantern. Instead, he absorbed Ganthet, the last Guardian of the Universe, and went on a quest to "make things right." After getting revenge against the Cyborg, who was the architect of the destruction of Coast City, Hal was asked by Kyle to help the superheroes beat the Sun-eater during "the Final Night." After a lot of thought, he decided to help out. After the last attempt by Ferro to save the solar system, Hal sacrificed himself by absorbing the sun-eater and rekindling the sun. His last words were: "In brightest day, in darkest night, no evil shall escape my sight. Let those who worship evil's might, BEWARE MY POWER...." A funeral was held for him in Green Lantern #81.
Powers
Absorbed powers from various sources, initially from the main power battery on Oa (Green Lantern #50). Other sources include: chronal energies leftover from Crisis on Infinite Earths (Zero Hour #1), Oa's raw energy (Green Lantern #0), Ganthet, the last Guardian (Green Lantern #64), the batteries of Alan Scott and Guy Gardner (Green Lantern Annual #4), and the power cosmic from the Silver Surfer (Green Lantern/ Silver Surfer).
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