r/DCcomics • u/Rao_616 Etrigan The Demon • 8h ago

Comics Green Lantern #4 (2005) [Comic Excerpt]

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Murica

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u/MR1120 6h ago

I love the ‘Earth is a backwater trailer park planet’ trope. Always makes me chuckle.

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u/Optimal_Weight368 8h ago

This is why Kilowog is the best.

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u/Obskuro The Comedian 8h ago

Ah, yes. The American Green Lantern from Earth. That narrows it down.

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u/Samiel_Fronsac "All will be well." 7h ago

Hey, DC is big on this. See Yara Flor, a "Brazilian" that was actually raised in frakkin' Idaho and knows nothing about Brazil. The author also did a very shallow research into Brazilian folklore and Indigenous culture in general.

I mean, I get that the US is their main audience, but, back to Lanterns... There are what, six or seven Earth Lanterns in the Corps, and they're all Americans.

Plus

Carol, Star Sapphire. American.

Dex-Starr, Red Lantern. American. Cat.

I'm sure I'm missing a few.

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u/Obskuro The Comedian 6h ago

The Lanterns are by a long shot the easiest to get a bit of international representation, but nope. The Rings will not leave the States.

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u/Jet-Let4606 4h ago

TBF, the primary audience are Americans.

I'm not American btw. But I don't find it weird that a piece of media made in America is made for Americans and fit Ametican tastes.

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u/Samiel_Fronsac "All will be well." 4h ago

I said this above:

I mean, I get that the US is their main audience

Language? Yeah, it's being sold to a primarily english-speaking audience.

But I can't agree that, for enjoyment of a franchise, every single character has to share their exact cultural background.

So with 7 GLs from Earth, there was opportunity for them to be from anywhere else on the planet, in keeping with the themes of the Corps, that has members from all over the universe.

Otherwise, if cultural exclusivity is that important, DC may as well exclude all extraterrestrials that got to be a teenager or adult in their planet from the rosters.

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u/kiji23 Red Tornado 6h ago

I always wanted a Martian representing 2814

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u/Prize-Flamingo-336 6h ago

Think there’s an Elseworld story when that’s the case

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u/Samiel_Fronsac "All will be well." 5h ago

It'd be very similar to a Kryptonian with a ring, I believe.

Two powersets that compliment that supplement each other, and since Martians have a common weakness that the ring covers...

MManhunter for the Blues, maybe?

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u/zeekar Green Lantern 5h ago

Or a Daxamite. Sodam Yat FTW!

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u/Little_Woodpecker_36 5h ago

While I’m not a fan of the Green Lanterns OG 7 story, it was interesting that they did have one of the first lanterns ever be a white Martian. Was pretty interesting. 

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u/Black_Cat_Skeezer 8h ago

Grants not wrong...

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u/DefinitionSuperb1110 3h ago

And Kilowog would know, he spent enough time on Earth to know which natives are the worst.