TheGreen LanternCorps are among the strongest forces in the DC Universe , but even they can fall quarry to villains - and two of them can be defeated by theJokerfromThe Dark Knight . There are thousands of Green Lanterns spread out across the universe , each responsible for for a sector of spaceand each armed with a Green Lantern Ring , powered by the user ’s willpower . regrettably , that willpower is not enough to save Hal Jordan and Alan Scott from the Clown Prince of Crime - and a common household object .

Green Lantern is one of the first successful legacy title belonging to a radical of heroes rather than a single individual . Alan Scott was precede in 1941during the Golden Age of Comics Book during World War II , and his ring go via magic . In 1959 , Hal Jordan was used to revitalize the property and transformed the concept of Green Lantern intoaGreen Lantern ; there were many , all stylized as interstellar infinite police . finally Alan Scott would be retconned into the rank of the Green Lantern proper … and unfortunately bring his weaknesses with him .

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Alan Scott’sGreen Lantern halo had a incapacitating weakness : the ring ’s magic could not dissemble any target made out of wood . Considering that Scott was active in the 40s , a heavy many thing were made out of wood at the time ( and many still are ) , although he was capable to get around this failing quite well . The same can not be said for Hal Jordan ; his gang had a different weakness and could not affect any object with the color yellowness . This think of both Alan Scott and Hal Jordan could be vote down with a no . 2 pencil … a   writing follow through the Joker unforgettably used to deadly effect inThe Dark Knight .

Hal Jordan ’s impuissance to the colouration yellowness would actually be expanded into a major secret plan breaker point in the decades after his introduction . TheCentral Power Battery on the satellite Oacontained a " icteric impurity " that prevented gang from involve the color . This impureness was later reveal to be a creature named Parallax , whom the Guardians of the Universe imprisoned in the barrage fire . Parallax would later become one of Hal Jordan ’s greatest foe - all stem from an easy - to - exploit failing that was merely a court to Alan Scott ’s original impuissance .

Green Lanterns are trained to crusade around their weakness ; considering everything else a Power Ring is equal to of , it ’s highly unbelievable the Joker could even get closemouthed enough to do his " wizard trick " on either Jordan or Scott . Still , the Joker has surprised quite a little of superheroes in the past and is a extremely unpredictable fighter . Regardless of the consequence , theGreen LanternCorps should be thankful thattheJokerdoes not have an all - muscular Green Lantern ringhimself .

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