| “ | Somehow I feel as if destiny has taken hold of my life... That this is only the beginning...That I must continue to fight against evil! | „ |
| ~ Alan Scott: All-American Comics #16. |
| “ | And I shall shed my light over dark evil, for the dark things cannot stand the light. The light of … THE GREEN LANTERN! | „ |
| ~ Alan Scott's oath. |
| “ | We don't know each other, but I promise you I know how dark things can get when you keep emotions secret. To live with truth as a north star...that takes real willpower. | „ |
| ~ Prime Earth Alan Scott. |
Green Lantern (real name Alan Ladd Wellington Scott) is a major character from the DC Universe. He is the first human character on Earth to bear the mantle of Green Lantern.
A founding member of the legendary Justice Society of America, he fought with that group for decades starting just before World War II, aiding in that conflict outside the front lines, where a Nazi-held mystic artifact prevented the JSA from going. He is also the father of Jennifer-Lynn Hayden and Todd Rice, who became superheroes known as "Jade" and "Obsidian".
He first appeared in All-American Comics #16, in July 1940, and was created by the late Bill Finger and the late Martin Nodell.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
Alan Ladd Wellington Scott was born sometime in 1911-1912 in the city of Metropolis to unnamed parents and attended Hale University where he graduated with a degree in Engineering and Business and later became a railroad engineer in Capitol City. He served in the United States Military for a while during World War II and was later discharged in 1943. Around the 1940s, Alan was saved from a train wreck by the Starheart, a magical entity once imprisoned by the Guardians that found itself to Earth. At the Lantern's mental direction, Alan created a ring that allowed him to tap the Starheart's power and adopted the title of Green Lantern. It's unknown why he chose the name, but it's assumed that the Starheart possibly influenced him subconsciously from its history.
Heroic Career[]
Green Lantern later became a founding member of the Justice Society of America and was a big part of the Second World War. After the war, Alan met and started a relationship with the supervillainess, Harlequin, who was secretly his secretary, Molly Mayne. Molly later admitted that her villainess career was a ruse to get close to Green Lantern, and she later redeemed herself and became an undercover agent for the FBI. Harlequin left Alan's life without revealing her true identity and her feelings, much to Alan's disdain.
Despite losing Harlequin, Alan later met and married a young woman named Alyx Florin, who was later revealed to be Rose Canton, the reformed supervillainess named The Thorn. "Alyx" disappeared on their wedding night, starting a fire that led Alan to believe that she perished in the fire. "Alyx" survived and discovered that she was pregnant with twins, and had the two be adopted after their births in Wisconsin.
The two were raised in adoptive families, and Rose was taken to the Amazon's reformation island, and Alan never knew. Later, during the events of Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985-1986), Alan and the Justice Society members witnessed the destruction of Earth-Two and fought the evil Anti-Monitor before then finally defeating him which caused the 2 earths to collide and merge and form a "New Earth" containing both the histories of Earth-Two and Earth-One.
Return[]
After the events of Zero Hour: Crisis in Time (1994), Scott found out that fellow Green Lantern Hal Jordan had become possessed by an evil space Yellow Lantern entity named Parallax and was causing chaos all over the galaxy. This caused Alan to come out of retirement and team up with Hal's fellow backup Lanterns John Stewart and Guy Gardner and at the same time, also meet his biological children Jennifer "Jennie"-Lynn Hayden/Jade and Todd Rice/Obsidian for the first time. Due to Hal's havoc being too much for them, Alan along with Guy, John, Jennie and Todd found out about a new Green Lantern named Kyle Rayner who could stop Parallax and started to train him and give him mentorship advice before finally assisting him in the battle with Parallax where they defeated the evil entity and brought Hal back to his senses.
After the battle with Parallax was over, Alan and the other members of the Justice Society mysteriously started to age a few years ahead. Despite this, he still fought as a Green Lantern during the events of Infinite Crisis (2005-2006), Final Crisis (2007-2008), Brightest Day (2009) and Blackest Night (2009-2010) where he died from a neck snap by the supervillain Scythe.
New 52[]
After the events of Flashpoint (2011) reset and remade the whole Universe, Alan and all the other Justice Society members were erased from the new "Prime Earth" that was formed and were instead sent to a new Earth 2 which had its heroes fight a war with the forces of Darkseid and die sometime in the late 2000s to early 2010s.
In the new Earth 2, Alan Scott is now an openly gay media mogul and 27-year-old billionaire who is also the owner of a broadcasting company named GBC and a former railroad engineer. He reports about the defeated and killed heroes to his GBC colleagues at first in his private plane and later on, is seen in a bullet train in China with his fiancé Samuel "Sam" Zhao whom he is about to propose to until the train crashes after which a mysterious lantern falls from the sky, gives Alan powers and makes him become the "Green Lantern" of this universe. He also wears the engagement ring he was going to use to propose to Sam as his power ring for when he transforms into the cosmic being.
After helping to rebuild the train and saving the people who crashed from it, Alan as Green Lantern joins the superhero group "Wonders of the World" along with other fellow heroes like Jason "Jay" Garrick/The Flash, Shiera Sanders/Hawkgirl, Kara Zor-L/Power Girl, Khalid Ben-Hussain/Doctor Fate, Helena Wayne/Huntress, Val-Zod/Superman, Richard "Dick" Grayson/Batman and Albert "Al" Pratt/The Atom and fights against enemies such as Darkseid, Steppenwolf and Solomon Grundy. The ghost of his now deceased fiancé Sam talks to him while he is the Green Lantern at times to show loving memories.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Though Alan doesn't appear in Injustice 2, he is mentioned by Jay Garrick when setting against Hal Jordan or John Stewart.
- Despite being the first Green Lantern, Alan Scott has never become a member of the Green Lantern Corps. Although his ring contains the same power source as the ones from the Green Lantern Corps.
- During the events of Infinite Frontier, Alan Scott came out revealing he is bisexual to his children.
External Links[]
- Alan Scott on the DC Wiki
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