Post by Doctor Cyber on Jun 18, 2012 13:16:52 GMT -5
Real name: Kyle Rayner
Alter Ego:Parallax; Formerly Green Lantern, Ion, Torch-barer.
Status
Occupation: Freelance illustrator
Martial Status: Single
Legal Status: American with no criminal record thus far
Group Affiliation(s): Sinestro Corps, formerly Green Lantern Corps; Formerly the Justice League of America; formerly the Titans
Origin
Place of Birth: NY
Known Relatives: Aaron Rayner (father), Maura Rayner (mother, deceased), Zachary Rayner (uncle, deceased), Roderick "Snowy" Rayner (grandfather, deceased), unnamed maternal great-grandfather (deceased), Kathleen (aunt)
History
Kyle Rayner was born the son of intelligence agents Maura and Aaron Rayner, the latter of whom was an Army Special Forces officer assigned to duties overseas on a number of occasions, necessitating long absences from his wife and son. Though Kyle was born in the eastern portion of the United States, he and his family moved to Los Angeles, California, shortly after his birth. When Kyle was a small boy, his father was assigned to a mission in Southeast Asia but never returned. Due to the classified nature of his work, Aaron was deemed neither dead nor missing in action, preventing Maura and Kyle from receiving his benefits. Maura was forced to move them into a trailer and take a meager job as a cleaning lady in order to make ends meet. Maura and Kyle were forced to move an even smaller trailer after their first one was gutted in a fire when Kyle was five years old. The fire was one of Kyle's earliest memories.
Kyle grew up as a relatively normal kid with a passing interest in superheroes and comic books, the latter more for the artwork than the stories. He did play superheroes with his friends and even had a crush on Teen Titans member Wonder Girl, going so far as to doodle the young superheroine in the margins of his notebooks. Kyle's adolescence was less of a happy time as his mother was absent for extended periods in her attempts to convince the government to locate his father. He fell in with a crowd of bullys that he was reluctant to support, but his desperation for friends won out over that reluctance. A senior football player challenged Kyle to bully someone not weaker than him, a challenge Kyle accepted under the mistaken belief his friends would back him up. The football player handily beat Kyle in the ensuing fight and told him to start thinking for and believing in himself. The experience was a wake-up call for Kyle, who defended a freshman from his former friends the following morning.
Kyle's mother was eventually successful in obtaining his father' pension since the Government had finally declared her husband killed in action. Maura was finally able 2 again afford her own home, but her relationship with Kyle had become strained since she became able to spend more time with him. Her feelings of abandonment by her husband caused her to become smothering and overprotective of Kyle, a situation Kyle soon wanted out of. At the age of eighteen, Kyle moved out of his mother's home, enrolling in a local college on an art scholarship after having honed his love of doodling over time into a genuine gift for drawing and painting.
Kyle's longtime friend, Tyler Hutchence, also managed to score a scholarship to the same school. While Tyler obtained a degree in architecture, Kyle had a much harder time in school and dropped out twice, although his skills as an artist did improve enough to land him freelance jobs, primarily designing greeting cards. During this period in his life, Kyle began not-so-steadily dating photographer Alexandra "Alex" DeWitt. While the two's relationship had its ups and downs, they had made plans to make a fresh start in New York City, primarily since the destruction of Coast City by the warlord Mongul and the influx of refugees had made finding freelance work hard to come by. One night while discussing their plans, Kyle and Alex wished upon the stars for their new beginning, noticing an oddity in the heavens, a shooting star of a decidedly green hue.
The star Kyle and Alex saw was actually Hal Jordan, then hometown hero to Coast City and Earth's representative of the intergalactic peacekeeping force known as the Green Lantern Corps. Jordan had unsuccessfully plead with the Guardians of the Universe, who acted as the Corps' administrative body, to grant him the power to permanently resurrect the city and its population. Enraged as what he felt was indifference on their part, Jordan cut a swath of destruction to the Guardians' homeworld of Oa in his quest for retribution against the Guardians. The Guardians sent several Green Lanterns and even traitorous Lantern (and longtime foe of Jordan) Sinestro to absolutely no avail.
As Jordan began to absorb the power of the Central Power Battery, the source from which the Green Lantern power rings drew their energy-manipulating properties, the Guardians played a last-ditch gambit to stop Jordan by transferring the totality of their life energies into an individual member of their numbers named Ganthet. However, before the Guardians could act further, Jordan shattered the Central Power Battery and emerged as a living embodiment of the Battery's energies. Jordan cast his power ring to the ground and crushed it beneath his heel before departing for parts unknown. The shock of the Central Power Battery's destruction coupled with the life-energy transfer caused the deaths of the Guardians apart from Ganthet. With the destruction of the Central Power Battery, every Green Lantern power ring in existence across the universe ceased to exist. Determined to see that there would still be at least one Green Lantern to both carry on the legacy and stand against Jordan if need be, Ganthet fashioned the fragments of Jordan's ring into a new ring and traveled to Earth to find a suitable wielder. Ganthet first approached Guy Gardner, a former Green Lantern who had retired from superheroics. Following Gardner's refusal, Ganthet then scoured the Earth for another candidate. Weakened by his travels, Ganthet found himself outside a nightclub in Los Angeles, just as Kyle Rayner emerged from the back door.
Kyle, enjoying a night out with his friend Tyler Hutchence, had come out of the club for some air after helping a nauseous Tyler to the bathroom. When faced with Ganthet, he left Kyle with the ring and a few cryptic words before transporting himself back to Oa using the last of his power. Not knowing what else to do with the ring and with only a homeless vagrant as witness, Kyle put on the ring and was instantly clad in the standard Green Lantern uniform.
Innately learning over time the ring's capabilities, Kyle flew to the home of Alex DeWitt to try and cool himself out and make some sense of the events. Kyle decided to use the ring to become a superhero and suggested it would be the perfect way to guarantee their fresh start in New York. After facing the likes of Sonar and Ohm, Alex suggested that, while Kyle should maintain the Green Lantern identity, his uniform should reflect him as an individual. Kyle therefore visualized a new uniform design and used the ring to reconfigure his Lantern attire to match.
While out with Alex practicing creating energy constructs with the ring, she and Kyle were attacked by Mongul, the destroyer of Coast City who had recently escaped from a prison for metahumans. With the aid of Mongul's adversary Superman, Kyle was able to defeat Mongul. During the battle, Mongul and Superman were both astonished that a yellow-colored weapon Mongul used against Kyle could be defended against by his ring's abilities, since Green Lantern rings originally could not affect yellow-colored objects due to an impurity in the ring's composition.
As Kyle and Alex worked their way through his fledgling career as a superhero, elements within the government had learned of Kyle's assumption of the Green Lantern mantle and sought to obtain the ring's power for themselves. Engineering the escape of Mongul's inmate Clifford Zmeck, a.k.a. Major Force, Force was assigned to retrieve the ring at all costs. Prior to dispatching Force, members of this rogue agency questioned and then killed the homeless man who witnessed Kyle's acceptance of the ring, but not before they had taken from the man a chunk of emerald rock he had found in the alley.
Force arrived at Alex's apartment while Kyle was out and brutally murdered her when she refused to tell him Kyle's whereabouts. Kyle returned home to find Alex stuffed in her refrigerator and Force standing there asking for the ring. Enraged and grief-stricken, Kyle launched a brutal attack against Force and was close to killing him until, at the worst possible moment, Kyle's ring ceased to function. Force then viciously attacked Kyle in kind and interrogated him on the nature of the chunk of emerald rock his employers had found, which he had brought with him. The rock was actually a crudely formed battery, the exact kind used to recharge Green Lantern power rings. His ring back to full charge, Kyle beat Force nearly to death, demanding to know who hired him and why he killed Alex. About to deliver the death blow to Force, officers of the L.A.P.D. Special Crimes Unit forced him at gunpoint to back off. Flying off to grieve on a rooftop, Kyle was visited by Alan Scott, the World War II-era Green Lantern. Scott brought Kyle up to speed on the Green Lantern legacy, the destruction of the Corps, and everything heaped upon his shoulders since the day he first put on the ring. After Scott left, Kyle decided the best way to honor Alex's memory was to take responsibility for his life. As he pondered his choices, Kyle was contacted by Superman and the New God Metron, who sought his aid against Hal Jordan, now calling himself Parallax, and the time-manipulator Extant, who planned to rewrite reality to their choosing. While Kyle and a large number of Earth's superheroes were able halt their plans, both Kyle and Jordan, were presumed lost in the timestream when reality was restored.
In truth, both Kyle and Jordan were transported to Oa, where their battle continued. Jordan called for a truce and plead for Kyle to give him his ring, so he could have a chance of righting the many wrongs he committed as Parallax. Kyle agreed to give him the ring, but soon realized Jordan planned to continue his quest to rewrite reality by using the ring to strip Oa of its inherent energies. Though initially without the ring, Kyle managed to outsmart Jordan and retrieve the ring. He then fired the ring into Oa's core, causing the planet's destruction. Kyle emerged from the remains of Oa and began the long journey home, determined to live up to the legacy as, at that moment, the only Green Lantern in the known universe.
Kyle's journey back to Earth was not uneventful. Along the way home, he encountered a former Green Lantern named Adara, who befriended him for the sole purpose of stealing his ring and resuming her career as a Lantern. When Adara learned the hard way that she couldn't go back (largely since the ring was designed to only work for either Kyle or its original wielder, Hal Jordan), she took her own life despite Kyle's efforts to console her losses.
Kyle eventually made his way back to Earth and immediately set about moving to New York. Kyle moved into an apartment building run by Romanian immigrant Radu Stancu, who also ran a coffee shop on the building's ground floor. Shortly following the move, Green Lantern encountered and accepted membership in the then-current incarnation of the Titans, then led by Arsenal. He also began a romantic relationship with fellow Titan Donna Troy, who at the time served as a member of the Darkstars, a group of intergalactic peacekeepers formed to fill the void left by the Green Lantern Corps.
After several weeks of acting as Green Lantern, including a second encounter with Major Force alongside Guy Gardner in which Gardner took Force's life, Ganthet appeared before Kyle and explained that, after monitoring his progress, he deemed Kyle unworthy of the ring and demanded its return. Complicating the matter was the sudden arrival of Hal Jordan, who also sought the ring's return. Although Ganthet and Jordan both made their cases, Kyle refused both requests to surrender the ring. As Jordan and Kyle fought, Ganthet gathered a number of Earth's heroes to aid Kyle against Jordan, since Ganthet considered Jordan even less worthy of the ring. Though Jordan managed to defeat all of them, Jordan finally realizes and admits to Ganthet that no power in the universe could or should wipe away the damages that drove his transformation into Parallax. He flew off, leaving the ring in Kyle's hands as its rightful owner, as affirmed by Ganthet and the recovered heroes. Kyle went on to face more metahuman threats alongside other members of the superhero community, including the Flash, Connor Hawke (the second Green Arrow), and Donna Troy.
The group of Titans Kyle belonged to soon disbanded, and Kyle's relationship with Donna hit a major bump when Donna arrived at Kyle's apartment to discover him painting a nude model. In an attempt to get over what he felt was the end of their relationship, Kyle sought out the advice of several heroes to seek advice on his costumed vocation. While in Gateway City, then home to Wonder Woman, he is approached by Donna, who came to request Wonder Woman's aid in combatting the forces of Lord Grayven, who had been decimating the Darkstars one by one. Though John Stewart, at the time a Darkstar, was gravely injured, Kyle and the remaining Darkstars were able to route Grayven. Donna and Kyle reconciled, but Grayven, who attacked the Darkstars in order to appease his father Darkseid, caused him to consider what happened to his own father. With the aid of Connor Hawke, Kyle went on an unsuccessful quest to locate his father, instead finding his uncle Zachary, who impersonated Aaron Rayner in a plot to destroy Washington, D.C. Kyle and Connor managed to stop Aaron, who only revealed his true identity to Kyle as he lay dying.
The Earth was soon beset by an ensuing cataclysm wherein the sun's solar energy had been drained away by a celestial creature called the Sun-Eater. In an attempt to make the ultimate sacrifice in penance for his actions, Parallax sacrificed his life to restart the sun. Kyle set up a memorial service for Jordan at the former site of Coast City, which was covered with new plantlife courtesy of the plant elemental, the Swamp Thing, to which Kyle added a statue of Jordan in his memory. Following the memorial, Kyle was invited to become a founding member of a new incarnation of the Justice League of America, alongside Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash (Wally West), the Martian Manhunter, and Aquaman, following their foiling of a plot by the Know Man and Dr. Destiny to make the world forget its heroes. During previous meetings, the Flash had been critical of Kyle due to his apparent bestowment of the Green Lantern mantle purely by dumb luck. The two would continue to mutually bicker, but over time it became more akin to sibling rivalry and finally to friendship.
Kyle faced one of his worst adversaries in the form of Fatality, the last survivor of a world accidentally destroyed by John Stewart during his tenure as a Green Lantern. Fatality had become a hunter of Green Lanterns past and present and sought to kill Kyle due to his being the sole Green Lantern in existence, even though she didn't know the identity of the Lantern that caused her world's destruction. Fatality had finally learned that Stewart was to blame for her orphaning, but nevertheless was defeated by Kyle.
Kyle's life became further complicated by the arrival of Jenny-Lynn Hayden, Alan Scott's daughter and the former heroine called Jade. Jenny, a former model and aspiring photographer, let herself into his apartment with her father's aid, since she didn't know anyone in New York and her father had Kyle's address. Despite a misunderstanding with her brother, the superhero Obsidian, Kyle agreed to let Jenny stay as his roommate.
While Jenny set about establishing herself in New York's photo industry, Kyle and Donna made the trip back to Los Angeles to meet Kyle's mother. Maura shocked Kyle by asking to see him in his Green Lantern garb, having known all along about Kyle's dual identity despite him never revealing it. Sadly, the trip ended in tragedy as Donna receives a phone call telling her her ex-husband and young son were killed in a car accident. In order to deal with the grief of their loss, Donna asked to spend some time alone, which eventually led to the end of their relationship. Another car accident nearly claimed the life of Kyle's friend Tyler Hutchence, who had become a bitter alcoholic after his architecture career had hit the skids despite having graduated from the college Kyle had dropped out of. Kyle's days as a single man were short-lived, however, as his friendship with Jenny blossomed into romance.
Kyle soon found himself combatting more world-threatening menaces, particularly the forces of Darkseid, whose personal torturer had captured Kyle in order to learn the control mechanics of his ring, and a new version of the Injustice Gang put together by Lex Luthor. Kyle and Alan Scott also embarked on a rescue of Jenny, who had been imprisoned by the Starheart, the source of Alan and Jenny's respective powers. Kyle and Alan were successful in the rescue, but Jenny's metahuman powers were lost.
During another battle with Grayven, Kyle was sent forward through time to the 30th century, the timeframe of the Legion of Super-Heroes, during which he met his descendant Cary Wren, to whom the future version of Ganthet gave his ring after Kyle had lost it. Though the Legion was able to find a means to send Kyle back to his native timeframe, Kyle was accidentally propelled a decade too far back, to the time period wherein Hal Jordan had only been a Green Lantern for a few short months. Though Kyle was returned home, the younger Hal Jordan was shunted to his time as well. Hal was shocked to learn of both Coast City's destruction and how it drove him to madness, but soon comes to terms enough to focus on returning to his former timeline. Hal embarked on a series of adventures in Kyle's time while waiting for a means to return home, battling Kalibak and the Eden Corps, the latter alongside Connor Hawke. At that moment, however, a past version of Parallax (prior to the regaining of his humanity) arrived to prevent Hal from trying to stay in the future, thereby changing the past so he never became Parallax. Kyle convinced both of them that, in order for the timeline to be set right, both the younger Hal and Parallax had to return to their native timeframes and that they should erase their memories of their futures. Before Hal left, he gave Kyle a copy of his Green Lantern ring, with which he implores Kyle to rebuild the Green Lantern Corps, since the ring could make duplicates of itself as well as corresponding batteries. The duplicate rings, however, were subject to the weaknesses of the original rings, meaning that they could not affect anything colored yellow and, rather than Kyle's power supply acting more along the concept of a fuel tank, the ring's charge would burn out 24 hours after its last recharge regardless of how much or little it was used during that period.
Kyle opted to head into space to recruit members for a new Green Lantern Corps, leaving Jenny with a duplicate power ring so as to act as Green Lantern on Earth in his stead. Although Kyle managed to amass a number of worthy Green Lanterns amongst the many aliens populating the universe (as well a cryogenically frozen Russian cosmonaut), his first recruitment turned out to be a grievous error as he accidentally bestowed a ring to a deposed warlord who used the ring to regain dominance over his homeworld. Kyle, alongside his new allies, defeated the warlord, but at the cost of the life of one of Kyle's recruits. Deciding he lacked the foresight to properly assign the mantle of Green Lantern to anyone, he took back the rings and batteries and returned to Earth.
Kyle returned home just in time to aid Jenny against Fatality, who had returned to seek vengeance against John Stewart. During the ensuing battle, Fatality absconded with Jenny's power ring. Fatality was defeated, but Jenny's power ring was lost in the chaos of battle.
Complicating things between Kyle and Jenny was the return of Donna Troy, who showed up at a gallery opening for Kyle's artwork. Due to Kyle's unresolved feelings for Donna, Jenny angrily ended her relationship with Kyle and moved out of his apartment. Shortly following Jenny's departure, her power ring was later found to have survived their battle with Fatality but had found its way into the hands of Anarky, a terrorist foe of Batman's, Kyle recovered the ring and gave it to Batman for safe-keeping. Kyle learns that not only Radu was an espionage agent in his early life (a fact learned by an assassination attempt on him) but that Radu knew of Kyle's dual identity all along.
The coming of a powerful being called Oblivion was a trial by fire for Kyle, as he found himself having to face him without the aid of the JLA, all of whom had fallen at Oblivion's hands. Kyle summoned the aid of a quartet of Earth's heroes (Adam Strange, Atom, Firestorm, and Power Girl) as well as various Green Lanterns from other time periods and dimensions. The Lanterns who answered Kyle's call included Green Lightning, a pair of power ring-wielding speedsters, Emerald Knight, a ring-wielder from the Middle Ages, GL, a robotic Lantern from Oa's distant past, and an alternate-universe counterpart of Alex DeWitt, who had come into possession of the ring instead of Kyle. As Kyle sent the heroes against Oblivion, Kyle soon became very ill. The cause of Kyle's illness was discovered to be the fact that Kyle had actually created the other Lanterns and Oblivion with the ring, using aspects of his own personality. Kyle managed to absorb the Lanterns and Oblivion back into himself, regaining his health.
Kyle finally obtained a steady job working as a regular cartoonist for Feast Magazine. As a result of his new job, Feast lent him upgraded computer equipment and the aid of an assistant, 16-year-old Terry Berg, due to Kyle's lack of proficiency with digital art.
After an encounter with the Manhunters, who attempted to cyberize Kyle's body for the purpose of gaining control of his ring, Kyle was forced for the first time since his time-traveling jaunt to Hal Jordan's past to face a yellow power ring, first wielded by Fatality and later, following the detonation of the ring after Fatality tried to remove it, by a psychotic young man named Nero, himself a skilled but twisted artist. Kyle managed to best Nero by exploiting the source of his dementia, namely the abuse suffered at his parents' hands.
After a brief cooling-off period, Jenny and Kyle reconciled, even to the point that Kyle proposed to Jenny using her former power ring, which had been recovered by Batman from his foe Anarky. Jenny politely declined the engagement, but seemed willing to revisit the subject in the future. Unfortunately, Terry, who had become a regular fixture at Kyle's apartment, seemed put off by Jenny's presence and when Kyle confronted him about it, he was surprised to learn that Terry was gay and had a crush on Kyle. At Jenny's urging, Kyle spoke to Terry and told him that while he was flattered, the fact that Kyle was straight and with Jenny, not to mention Terry being underage, meant they could be friends only, but Kyle affirmed to Terry that he valued their friendship and wished it to continue, which Terry gladly agreed to.
Kyle suffered arguably his most telling defeat at the hands of Ra's al Ghul, who used stolen failsafe plans devised by Batman to incapacitate each of the JLA members should any or all of them go rogue. Kyle was hypnotically compelled to order his ring to rob him of his eyesight, which drove him nearly mad, and the other League members were taken down in like fashion. Kyle and the JLA managed to overcome Ra's' machinations and his larger plot, which involved devices that broadcast a frequency that removed the ability to read written language from the world's population. Unfortunately, Batman was deemed to large a security risk and voted out of the JLA, despite the fact that Kyle voted not to oust him.
A new addition to Kyle's homelife came in the form of Jast Entheris, a youngster hailing from the planet of Delaya and its only survivor. Jast's father, Corwyn Entheris, was the Green Lantern of his native space sector and met his end during Hal Jordan's decimation of Oa. Kyle took Jast in as his legal ward, passing him off as his cousin Jason, and as a protege Lantern who went by the alias "Kid Lantern." Kyle also hit a bit of a windfall in his art career; Garfield Logan (a.k.a. Kyle's former Titans teammate Changeling) offered him a character-design job on his socially-conscious animated series, "The Last Wallaby." Gar had sought the aid of many fellow superheroes for the project, including his girlfriend and fellow Titan Starfire and Cissie King-Jones (formerly the Young Justice member Arrowette).
Kyle embarked on a lengthy sabbatical from his Earthly position on a mission to overthrow the Blue Circle intergalactic crime syndicate. His mission was waylaid by Fatality, who had gained two new flesh-and-blood arms to replace the ones lost in battle with Kyle in exchange for capturing him and bringing him to the Circle for execution. Kyle managed to escape her clutches and evaded the Circle's forces by being swallowed by an enormous space-whale, after which he decided to make his way back to Earth, as his ring's power reserves had been reduced to emergency life-support only. Following his return, Kyle and Connor traveled to Spain and Portugal to investigate a recent wave of attacks from old gods. Unfortunately, Kyle grabbed a credit card of Jenny's to cover their travel expenses, a card that drew on Alan Scott's accounts. Alan cancelled the card and, though Kyle paid for the remainder of the trip with traveler's checks, found himself in hock with Alan to the tune of several thousand dollars. Kyle repaid Alan in thousands of dollars of crab meat, which amused Alan but did little to dampen his disappointment in Kyle.
While on another deep-space mission, Kyle and Jenny became acquainted with former Lantern Arisia who had become resurrected in the form of the jade memorial statue erected after her death. During their efforts to try and restore her humanoid form, Kyle and Jenny also learned that a native of Arisia's homeworld had constructed a religion around her, a fact Arisia was nowhere near comfortable with. After returning to Earth, the population of Kyle and Jenny's apartment grew by yet one more, a puppy Jenny had purchased whom she and Kyle named Jack the Ripper after the puppy torn apart one of Kyle's sketchbooks. Kyle would also experience another surprise: Jenny's proposal of marriage. Kyle accepted, and the two were wed a month later in Vanity City, Nevada.
Kyle began experiencing controlling his ring's energy-construct abilities, as constructs would manifest and act contrary to his will. He soon learned that the Weaponeers of Qward, long infamous for developing anti-Lantern yellow power rings, had been remotely controlling Kyle's ring from their new outpost on the planet Pluto. Kyle, alongside members of the JLA and JSA, launched a full-scale assault on the Qwardian outpost, driving them out of Earth's solar system. Though triumphant, the elation of the victory was short-lived when, at Alan Scott's family Christmas gathering, Alan's wife Molly Maynne-Scott was viciously murdered by the Star Sapphire, Kyle being the first to discover her mutilated corpse.
Following incidents in which Jast encountered a horde of vampires and Kyle and Wally briefly exchanged meta-human abilities, Jenny convinced Kyle to move into a house in suburban Connecticut. The joy of moving into their new home and the reestablishment of the Green Lantern Corps was tempered somewhat by the death of Garfield Logan and a rash of attacks on Kyle committed by New York teenagers armed with Manhunter weaponry. Kyle and Jenny were shocked to learn Terry Berg, driven insane by the perceived loss of Kyle at the hands of Jenny and later Jast, was behind the attacks. Terry turned himself in at their behest and was remanded to state-mandated psychiatic care.
Kyle and Jenny, along with Alan, fellow Green Lantern Boodikka, and Chloe Rayner (Kyle and Jenny's daughter from an alternate future), had the unfortunate chance to re-encounter the Starheart, who attempted to drive the Green Lantern Corps away from Oa, seeing the science-based Corps as an abomination. Though the Starheart threw Kyle and his allies back to Oa's past to remove them from the battle, the aid of the then-benevolent Manhunters and the ancient Guardians allowed them to return to the present. Kyle and the others defeated the Starheart, and to everyone's surprise, the source of the Starheart's newfound power was revealed to be Todd Rice, Jenny's brother and the former superhero called Obsidian, who was once believed killed.
Kyle became forced to reevaluate his role as Green Lantern after the complete resurrection of Hal Jordan near the Coast City Memorial. Deciding that Hal, completely divested of the vengeful wrath that had transformed him into Parallax, needed most to recover his sense of self in the world, Kyle agreed that Hal should once again act as Green Lantern for sector 2814 and as the JLA's resident GL, relinquishing his place in the League to him. The two have agreed to share patrol of the sector, with Kyle dealing with Earth-bound threats and Hal those more global and universal.
New York continues to have Kyle as their hometown hero.
Infinite Crisis
In Infinite Crisis, Alexander Luthor reveals that had the Multiverse continued to exist after the Crisis on Infinite Earths, Rayner would have been a native of Earth-Eight.[6] When Jade dies during the Infinite Crisis, she transfers her power to Rayner, catalyzing his transformation into Ion.[7]
In the series Ion: Guardian of the Universe, Ion seemingly destroys a fleet of starships and violently attacks two Green Lanterns, but Kyle has no memory of the destruction and only learns of his possible role in it after being attacked by a bounty hunter. Upon visiting the fleet's wreckage, Kyle loses control and finds himself near the sentient planet Mogo, also a Green Lantern. Once there, Kyle converses with former girlfriends Alex, Donna, and Jade and fights Major Force. Kyle realizes that as Ion, he is able to channel the green energy of both the Starheart and the Central Battery. This new energy is called the "Ion Power".
Kyle Rayner as Ion, the Torchbearer of the Guardians of the Universe.The Guardians forbid the Green Lanterns to leave Oa to help Kyle but do not mention those off-world. Kilowog contacts Hal Jordan to check on Kyle. Jordan finds Ion destroying a planet and after scanning him with his ring, he discovers that the rampaging Ion is in fact Alexander Nero. Kyle catches up with Jordan, and Nero claims that his connection with Kyle and new powers are the result of a third party's interference.
With Nero in tow, Kyle confronts the Guardians and asks what they knew about his becoming Ion, why Nero was wreaking havoc as Ion, and why they ordered the Green Lantern Corps to not assist him. The Guardians claim they ordered the other Green Lanterns not to help because he needed to pass one final test for them to be sure he can handle his power. They explain that they had planned for Kyle to hold an honored position among Green Lanterns as their Torchbearer, the next evolution of Lanterns, but that he now possesses the power to revive the Green Lantern Corps, should it ever be destroyed again. The Guardians tell Kyle that he will no longer be required to patrol, but will be called in during situations that the Corps cannot handle by themselves. The Guardians admit that they only know that some unforeseen enemy has set Nero on a path of destruction to Oa. Nero unleashes a massive amount of energy, but Kyle dissipates the energy into what is presumed to be a "pocket universe".
Back on Earth, Kyle is met by a mysterious Monitor, who tells him that he is supposed to be dead.[8] Kyle discovers that other enemies, like his old nemesis Effigy, are being put on his tracks. The captured Effigy could only say that Kyle's location was given to him in a subliminal way, and, as the Guardians discover while interrogating Nero, the knowledge of the enemy himself was expunged by his minions' mind.[9]
Kyle returns to the planet scorched by Nero while using his name, and clears his reputation. Later Guy Gardner meets him to tell "bad news" about his mother who's in a hospital dying with no known medical cause. After comforting her, Kyle is once again contacted by a Guardian who tells him he must return to Oa at once. Before leaving Earth, he is assaulted by two superpowered individuals, a male and female who claim to be the Atom and the Flash respectively (both are characters from DC's Tangent Comics event). After a brief fight, "Atom" gains the upper hand and knocks Kyle out. They then place the Lantern previously seen at the end of Infinite Crisis on his chest. After a brief flash, the Tangent Universe's Green Lantern appears, holding the Lantern.
Kyle awakens in "the Bleed," encountering the two children that found the Tangent Comics' lantern, as well as aiding Captain Atom, who is still sporting the Monarch armor, in a battle against Daemonites. Kyle enlists Captain Atom's help in escaping the Bleed, re-absorbs the Tangent Comics' superheroes back into the lantern, and returns to the Guardians of the Universe, who send him on a mission to sector 3888.
At a satellite base inside of an asteroid in sector 3888, Kyle discovers a number of dead Qwardian Weaponers, as well as an alive Donna Troy. Able to find Grayven, and battle him, but unable to make him confess anything on the mysterious conspiration, he's again faced by one of the Monitors, and once again spared, his future to be reconsidered again.
Returned home, he tries to reanimate his mother's dead corpse using his powers, but after a tearful farewell she refuses, asking Kyle to let her pass. He agrees, and he is left again in mourning in his new home, unable to sort out his life and the mysteries surrounding his recent encounters.
Sinestro reveals to Kyle that he was responsible for his mother's death and infected her with the sentient virus Despotellis and killed her in a plot to break Kyle's will so that he could serve as Parallax's new host. Sinestro also reveals that Ion is actually a benevolent energy entity, similar to Parallax, that thrives on willpower and that Kyle was unknowingly its current host.
The Sinestro Corps confront Kyle, who has his powers drained out of him by Sinestro himself, and is immediately taken over by Parallax. Parallax then clothes itself in a new uniform which appears as a combination of the Sinestro Corps' uniform, Kyle's original Green Lantern costume, and the armor Hal Jordan wore as Parallax. Parallax's possession also turns the hair on top of Kyle's head gray, just as it turned the hair on Hal Jordan's temples. Parallax returns to Qward with the Sinestro Corps and is inducted into their ranks, becoming one of the Anti-Monitor's heralds.
In Kyle's body, Parallax captured Hal Jordan, Guy Gardner, and John Stewart and brought them to Qward. Before bringing them, Parallax made Hal relive one of the only times he ever felt fear: when his father died. Parallax also elaborated that since invading Kyle's mind, he now has nearly infinite creativity to call upon in his deeds. During the battle with the Green Lantern Corps, who arrives to Qward to rescue the captured Lanterns, Parallax murders Jack T. Chance and crushes his Power Ring before it can find a replacement. During his fight with the Earth Green Lanterns, Parallax revealed that Kyle Rayner's "twisted desire" was to be the last Green Lantern again and special. He is stopped from murdering Guy Gardner by the intervention of the surviving Lost Lanterns and the Ion entity. The Embodiment of Fear is now leading an advance group of the Sinestro Corps, readying to attack Coast City. It is also suggested by the Guardians of the Universe that Kyle is no longer destined to be Ion following his being taken over by Parallax.
Kyle is currently trapped within his own mind. He is able to witness all that Parallax says and does from a third person perspective, but is unable to stop it. Kyle's personality watches Parallax's actions from inside the prison that his own imagination has constructed: his mother's empty house. The only fixture in the house is an old painting of uncertain origin and authorship that had belonged to Kyle's mother. As Kyle watches Parallax battle Hal Jordan and the Lost Lanterns a manifestation of the fear enity comes to pay him a visit. In the realm of his imagination Kyle is able to "transform" into Ion, and engage the parasite in battle. After being blasted back by Parallax and losing his Ion form, Kyle forms a power ring, places it on his finger, and appears in his original costume. Although he puts up a valiant fight, Parallax is too much for him and Kyle is defeated. Parallax taunts Kyle with his deepest fear: failing the people who depend on him, especially the women in his life. Many of the women in Kyle's life have died or come to harm because of their association with him and this causes Kyle to struggle with feelings of guilt and responsibility. The latest to die was Kyle's mother, killed by the sentient virus Despotellis on the orders of Sinestro. It was the grief and guilt that this revelation caused Kyle that allowed the Parallax entity to posess him. Sneering, Parallax mocks Kyle's helplessness and turns to depart but the enraged artist grabs a pencil and stabs the creature in the eye with it. Parallax, unfazed and unhurt, taunts Kyle once more with the hopelessness of his position and disappears.
Characteristics
Age: 25
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 175 lbs.
Eyes: Hazel
Hair: Black
Unusual Features: None
Personality:
Powers
Known Powers
Known Abilities:
Strength Level: Without ring normal, with ring superhuman.
Weaknesses:
Misc (optional)
Equipment:
Green Lantern Power Ring
Alter Ego:Parallax; Formerly Green Lantern, Ion, Torch-barer.
Status
Occupation: Freelance illustrator
Martial Status: Single
Legal Status: American with no criminal record thus far
Group Affiliation(s): Sinestro Corps, formerly Green Lantern Corps; Formerly the Justice League of America; formerly the Titans
Origin
Place of Birth: NY
Known Relatives: Aaron Rayner (father), Maura Rayner (mother, deceased), Zachary Rayner (uncle, deceased), Roderick "Snowy" Rayner (grandfather, deceased), unnamed maternal great-grandfather (deceased), Kathleen (aunt)
History
Kyle Rayner was born the son of intelligence agents Maura and Aaron Rayner, the latter of whom was an Army Special Forces officer assigned to duties overseas on a number of occasions, necessitating long absences from his wife and son. Though Kyle was born in the eastern portion of the United States, he and his family moved to Los Angeles, California, shortly after his birth. When Kyle was a small boy, his father was assigned to a mission in Southeast Asia but never returned. Due to the classified nature of his work, Aaron was deemed neither dead nor missing in action, preventing Maura and Kyle from receiving his benefits. Maura was forced to move them into a trailer and take a meager job as a cleaning lady in order to make ends meet. Maura and Kyle were forced to move an even smaller trailer after their first one was gutted in a fire when Kyle was five years old. The fire was one of Kyle's earliest memories.
Kyle grew up as a relatively normal kid with a passing interest in superheroes and comic books, the latter more for the artwork than the stories. He did play superheroes with his friends and even had a crush on Teen Titans member Wonder Girl, going so far as to doodle the young superheroine in the margins of his notebooks. Kyle's adolescence was less of a happy time as his mother was absent for extended periods in her attempts to convince the government to locate his father. He fell in with a crowd of bullys that he was reluctant to support, but his desperation for friends won out over that reluctance. A senior football player challenged Kyle to bully someone not weaker than him, a challenge Kyle accepted under the mistaken belief his friends would back him up. The football player handily beat Kyle in the ensuing fight and told him to start thinking for and believing in himself. The experience was a wake-up call for Kyle, who defended a freshman from his former friends the following morning.
Kyle's mother was eventually successful in obtaining his father' pension since the Government had finally declared her husband killed in action. Maura was finally able 2 again afford her own home, but her relationship with Kyle had become strained since she became able to spend more time with him. Her feelings of abandonment by her husband caused her to become smothering and overprotective of Kyle, a situation Kyle soon wanted out of. At the age of eighteen, Kyle moved out of his mother's home, enrolling in a local college on an art scholarship after having honed his love of doodling over time into a genuine gift for drawing and painting.
Kyle's longtime friend, Tyler Hutchence, also managed to score a scholarship to the same school. While Tyler obtained a degree in architecture, Kyle had a much harder time in school and dropped out twice, although his skills as an artist did improve enough to land him freelance jobs, primarily designing greeting cards. During this period in his life, Kyle began not-so-steadily dating photographer Alexandra "Alex" DeWitt. While the two's relationship had its ups and downs, they had made plans to make a fresh start in New York City, primarily since the destruction of Coast City by the warlord Mongul and the influx of refugees had made finding freelance work hard to come by. One night while discussing their plans, Kyle and Alex wished upon the stars for their new beginning, noticing an oddity in the heavens, a shooting star of a decidedly green hue.
The star Kyle and Alex saw was actually Hal Jordan, then hometown hero to Coast City and Earth's representative of the intergalactic peacekeeping force known as the Green Lantern Corps. Jordan had unsuccessfully plead with the Guardians of the Universe, who acted as the Corps' administrative body, to grant him the power to permanently resurrect the city and its population. Enraged as what he felt was indifference on their part, Jordan cut a swath of destruction to the Guardians' homeworld of Oa in his quest for retribution against the Guardians. The Guardians sent several Green Lanterns and even traitorous Lantern (and longtime foe of Jordan) Sinestro to absolutely no avail.
As Jordan began to absorb the power of the Central Power Battery, the source from which the Green Lantern power rings drew their energy-manipulating properties, the Guardians played a last-ditch gambit to stop Jordan by transferring the totality of their life energies into an individual member of their numbers named Ganthet. However, before the Guardians could act further, Jordan shattered the Central Power Battery and emerged as a living embodiment of the Battery's energies. Jordan cast his power ring to the ground and crushed it beneath his heel before departing for parts unknown. The shock of the Central Power Battery's destruction coupled with the life-energy transfer caused the deaths of the Guardians apart from Ganthet. With the destruction of the Central Power Battery, every Green Lantern power ring in existence across the universe ceased to exist. Determined to see that there would still be at least one Green Lantern to both carry on the legacy and stand against Jordan if need be, Ganthet fashioned the fragments of Jordan's ring into a new ring and traveled to Earth to find a suitable wielder. Ganthet first approached Guy Gardner, a former Green Lantern who had retired from superheroics. Following Gardner's refusal, Ganthet then scoured the Earth for another candidate. Weakened by his travels, Ganthet found himself outside a nightclub in Los Angeles, just as Kyle Rayner emerged from the back door.
Kyle, enjoying a night out with his friend Tyler Hutchence, had come out of the club for some air after helping a nauseous Tyler to the bathroom. When faced with Ganthet, he left Kyle with the ring and a few cryptic words before transporting himself back to Oa using the last of his power. Not knowing what else to do with the ring and with only a homeless vagrant as witness, Kyle put on the ring and was instantly clad in the standard Green Lantern uniform.
Innately learning over time the ring's capabilities, Kyle flew to the home of Alex DeWitt to try and cool himself out and make some sense of the events. Kyle decided to use the ring to become a superhero and suggested it would be the perfect way to guarantee their fresh start in New York. After facing the likes of Sonar and Ohm, Alex suggested that, while Kyle should maintain the Green Lantern identity, his uniform should reflect him as an individual. Kyle therefore visualized a new uniform design and used the ring to reconfigure his Lantern attire to match.
While out with Alex practicing creating energy constructs with the ring, she and Kyle were attacked by Mongul, the destroyer of Coast City who had recently escaped from a prison for metahumans. With the aid of Mongul's adversary Superman, Kyle was able to defeat Mongul. During the battle, Mongul and Superman were both astonished that a yellow-colored weapon Mongul used against Kyle could be defended against by his ring's abilities, since Green Lantern rings originally could not affect yellow-colored objects due to an impurity in the ring's composition.
As Kyle and Alex worked their way through his fledgling career as a superhero, elements within the government had learned of Kyle's assumption of the Green Lantern mantle and sought to obtain the ring's power for themselves. Engineering the escape of Mongul's inmate Clifford Zmeck, a.k.a. Major Force, Force was assigned to retrieve the ring at all costs. Prior to dispatching Force, members of this rogue agency questioned and then killed the homeless man who witnessed Kyle's acceptance of the ring, but not before they had taken from the man a chunk of emerald rock he had found in the alley.
Force arrived at Alex's apartment while Kyle was out and brutally murdered her when she refused to tell him Kyle's whereabouts. Kyle returned home to find Alex stuffed in her refrigerator and Force standing there asking for the ring. Enraged and grief-stricken, Kyle launched a brutal attack against Force and was close to killing him until, at the worst possible moment, Kyle's ring ceased to function. Force then viciously attacked Kyle in kind and interrogated him on the nature of the chunk of emerald rock his employers had found, which he had brought with him. The rock was actually a crudely formed battery, the exact kind used to recharge Green Lantern power rings. His ring back to full charge, Kyle beat Force nearly to death, demanding to know who hired him and why he killed Alex. About to deliver the death blow to Force, officers of the L.A.P.D. Special Crimes Unit forced him at gunpoint to back off. Flying off to grieve on a rooftop, Kyle was visited by Alan Scott, the World War II-era Green Lantern. Scott brought Kyle up to speed on the Green Lantern legacy, the destruction of the Corps, and everything heaped upon his shoulders since the day he first put on the ring. After Scott left, Kyle decided the best way to honor Alex's memory was to take responsibility for his life. As he pondered his choices, Kyle was contacted by Superman and the New God Metron, who sought his aid against Hal Jordan, now calling himself Parallax, and the time-manipulator Extant, who planned to rewrite reality to their choosing. While Kyle and a large number of Earth's superheroes were able halt their plans, both Kyle and Jordan, were presumed lost in the timestream when reality was restored.
In truth, both Kyle and Jordan were transported to Oa, where their battle continued. Jordan called for a truce and plead for Kyle to give him his ring, so he could have a chance of righting the many wrongs he committed as Parallax. Kyle agreed to give him the ring, but soon realized Jordan planned to continue his quest to rewrite reality by using the ring to strip Oa of its inherent energies. Though initially without the ring, Kyle managed to outsmart Jordan and retrieve the ring. He then fired the ring into Oa's core, causing the planet's destruction. Kyle emerged from the remains of Oa and began the long journey home, determined to live up to the legacy as, at that moment, the only Green Lantern in the known universe.
Kyle's journey back to Earth was not uneventful. Along the way home, he encountered a former Green Lantern named Adara, who befriended him for the sole purpose of stealing his ring and resuming her career as a Lantern. When Adara learned the hard way that she couldn't go back (largely since the ring was designed to only work for either Kyle or its original wielder, Hal Jordan), she took her own life despite Kyle's efforts to console her losses.
Kyle eventually made his way back to Earth and immediately set about moving to New York. Kyle moved into an apartment building run by Romanian immigrant Radu Stancu, who also ran a coffee shop on the building's ground floor. Shortly following the move, Green Lantern encountered and accepted membership in the then-current incarnation of the Titans, then led by Arsenal. He also began a romantic relationship with fellow Titan Donna Troy, who at the time served as a member of the Darkstars, a group of intergalactic peacekeepers formed to fill the void left by the Green Lantern Corps.
After several weeks of acting as Green Lantern, including a second encounter with Major Force alongside Guy Gardner in which Gardner took Force's life, Ganthet appeared before Kyle and explained that, after monitoring his progress, he deemed Kyle unworthy of the ring and demanded its return. Complicating the matter was the sudden arrival of Hal Jordan, who also sought the ring's return. Although Ganthet and Jordan both made their cases, Kyle refused both requests to surrender the ring. As Jordan and Kyle fought, Ganthet gathered a number of Earth's heroes to aid Kyle against Jordan, since Ganthet considered Jordan even less worthy of the ring. Though Jordan managed to defeat all of them, Jordan finally realizes and admits to Ganthet that no power in the universe could or should wipe away the damages that drove his transformation into Parallax. He flew off, leaving the ring in Kyle's hands as its rightful owner, as affirmed by Ganthet and the recovered heroes. Kyle went on to face more metahuman threats alongside other members of the superhero community, including the Flash, Connor Hawke (the second Green Arrow), and Donna Troy.
The group of Titans Kyle belonged to soon disbanded, and Kyle's relationship with Donna hit a major bump when Donna arrived at Kyle's apartment to discover him painting a nude model. In an attempt to get over what he felt was the end of their relationship, Kyle sought out the advice of several heroes to seek advice on his costumed vocation. While in Gateway City, then home to Wonder Woman, he is approached by Donna, who came to request Wonder Woman's aid in combatting the forces of Lord Grayven, who had been decimating the Darkstars one by one. Though John Stewart, at the time a Darkstar, was gravely injured, Kyle and the remaining Darkstars were able to route Grayven. Donna and Kyle reconciled, but Grayven, who attacked the Darkstars in order to appease his father Darkseid, caused him to consider what happened to his own father. With the aid of Connor Hawke, Kyle went on an unsuccessful quest to locate his father, instead finding his uncle Zachary, who impersonated Aaron Rayner in a plot to destroy Washington, D.C. Kyle and Connor managed to stop Aaron, who only revealed his true identity to Kyle as he lay dying.
The Earth was soon beset by an ensuing cataclysm wherein the sun's solar energy had been drained away by a celestial creature called the Sun-Eater. In an attempt to make the ultimate sacrifice in penance for his actions, Parallax sacrificed his life to restart the sun. Kyle set up a memorial service for Jordan at the former site of Coast City, which was covered with new plantlife courtesy of the plant elemental, the Swamp Thing, to which Kyle added a statue of Jordan in his memory. Following the memorial, Kyle was invited to become a founding member of a new incarnation of the Justice League of America, alongside Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash (Wally West), the Martian Manhunter, and Aquaman, following their foiling of a plot by the Know Man and Dr. Destiny to make the world forget its heroes. During previous meetings, the Flash had been critical of Kyle due to his apparent bestowment of the Green Lantern mantle purely by dumb luck. The two would continue to mutually bicker, but over time it became more akin to sibling rivalry and finally to friendship.
Kyle faced one of his worst adversaries in the form of Fatality, the last survivor of a world accidentally destroyed by John Stewart during his tenure as a Green Lantern. Fatality had become a hunter of Green Lanterns past and present and sought to kill Kyle due to his being the sole Green Lantern in existence, even though she didn't know the identity of the Lantern that caused her world's destruction. Fatality had finally learned that Stewart was to blame for her orphaning, but nevertheless was defeated by Kyle.
Kyle's life became further complicated by the arrival of Jenny-Lynn Hayden, Alan Scott's daughter and the former heroine called Jade. Jenny, a former model and aspiring photographer, let herself into his apartment with her father's aid, since she didn't know anyone in New York and her father had Kyle's address. Despite a misunderstanding with her brother, the superhero Obsidian, Kyle agreed to let Jenny stay as his roommate.
While Jenny set about establishing herself in New York's photo industry, Kyle and Donna made the trip back to Los Angeles to meet Kyle's mother. Maura shocked Kyle by asking to see him in his Green Lantern garb, having known all along about Kyle's dual identity despite him never revealing it. Sadly, the trip ended in tragedy as Donna receives a phone call telling her her ex-husband and young son were killed in a car accident. In order to deal with the grief of their loss, Donna asked to spend some time alone, which eventually led to the end of their relationship. Another car accident nearly claimed the life of Kyle's friend Tyler Hutchence, who had become a bitter alcoholic after his architecture career had hit the skids despite having graduated from the college Kyle had dropped out of. Kyle's days as a single man were short-lived, however, as his friendship with Jenny blossomed into romance.
Kyle soon found himself combatting more world-threatening menaces, particularly the forces of Darkseid, whose personal torturer had captured Kyle in order to learn the control mechanics of his ring, and a new version of the Injustice Gang put together by Lex Luthor. Kyle and Alan Scott also embarked on a rescue of Jenny, who had been imprisoned by the Starheart, the source of Alan and Jenny's respective powers. Kyle and Alan were successful in the rescue, but Jenny's metahuman powers were lost.
During another battle with Grayven, Kyle was sent forward through time to the 30th century, the timeframe of the Legion of Super-Heroes, during which he met his descendant Cary Wren, to whom the future version of Ganthet gave his ring after Kyle had lost it. Though the Legion was able to find a means to send Kyle back to his native timeframe, Kyle was accidentally propelled a decade too far back, to the time period wherein Hal Jordan had only been a Green Lantern for a few short months. Though Kyle was returned home, the younger Hal Jordan was shunted to his time as well. Hal was shocked to learn of both Coast City's destruction and how it drove him to madness, but soon comes to terms enough to focus on returning to his former timeline. Hal embarked on a series of adventures in Kyle's time while waiting for a means to return home, battling Kalibak and the Eden Corps, the latter alongside Connor Hawke. At that moment, however, a past version of Parallax (prior to the regaining of his humanity) arrived to prevent Hal from trying to stay in the future, thereby changing the past so he never became Parallax. Kyle convinced both of them that, in order for the timeline to be set right, both the younger Hal and Parallax had to return to their native timeframes and that they should erase their memories of their futures. Before Hal left, he gave Kyle a copy of his Green Lantern ring, with which he implores Kyle to rebuild the Green Lantern Corps, since the ring could make duplicates of itself as well as corresponding batteries. The duplicate rings, however, were subject to the weaknesses of the original rings, meaning that they could not affect anything colored yellow and, rather than Kyle's power supply acting more along the concept of a fuel tank, the ring's charge would burn out 24 hours after its last recharge regardless of how much or little it was used during that period.
Kyle opted to head into space to recruit members for a new Green Lantern Corps, leaving Jenny with a duplicate power ring so as to act as Green Lantern on Earth in his stead. Although Kyle managed to amass a number of worthy Green Lanterns amongst the many aliens populating the universe (as well a cryogenically frozen Russian cosmonaut), his first recruitment turned out to be a grievous error as he accidentally bestowed a ring to a deposed warlord who used the ring to regain dominance over his homeworld. Kyle, alongside his new allies, defeated the warlord, but at the cost of the life of one of Kyle's recruits. Deciding he lacked the foresight to properly assign the mantle of Green Lantern to anyone, he took back the rings and batteries and returned to Earth.
Kyle returned home just in time to aid Jenny against Fatality, who had returned to seek vengeance against John Stewart. During the ensuing battle, Fatality absconded with Jenny's power ring. Fatality was defeated, but Jenny's power ring was lost in the chaos of battle.
Complicating things between Kyle and Jenny was the return of Donna Troy, who showed up at a gallery opening for Kyle's artwork. Due to Kyle's unresolved feelings for Donna, Jenny angrily ended her relationship with Kyle and moved out of his apartment. Shortly following Jenny's departure, her power ring was later found to have survived their battle with Fatality but had found its way into the hands of Anarky, a terrorist foe of Batman's, Kyle recovered the ring and gave it to Batman for safe-keeping. Kyle learns that not only Radu was an espionage agent in his early life (a fact learned by an assassination attempt on him) but that Radu knew of Kyle's dual identity all along.
The coming of a powerful being called Oblivion was a trial by fire for Kyle, as he found himself having to face him without the aid of the JLA, all of whom had fallen at Oblivion's hands. Kyle summoned the aid of a quartet of Earth's heroes (Adam Strange, Atom, Firestorm, and Power Girl) as well as various Green Lanterns from other time periods and dimensions. The Lanterns who answered Kyle's call included Green Lightning, a pair of power ring-wielding speedsters, Emerald Knight, a ring-wielder from the Middle Ages, GL, a robotic Lantern from Oa's distant past, and an alternate-universe counterpart of Alex DeWitt, who had come into possession of the ring instead of Kyle. As Kyle sent the heroes against Oblivion, Kyle soon became very ill. The cause of Kyle's illness was discovered to be the fact that Kyle had actually created the other Lanterns and Oblivion with the ring, using aspects of his own personality. Kyle managed to absorb the Lanterns and Oblivion back into himself, regaining his health.
Kyle finally obtained a steady job working as a regular cartoonist for Feast Magazine. As a result of his new job, Feast lent him upgraded computer equipment and the aid of an assistant, 16-year-old Terry Berg, due to Kyle's lack of proficiency with digital art.
After an encounter with the Manhunters, who attempted to cyberize Kyle's body for the purpose of gaining control of his ring, Kyle was forced for the first time since his time-traveling jaunt to Hal Jordan's past to face a yellow power ring, first wielded by Fatality and later, following the detonation of the ring after Fatality tried to remove it, by a psychotic young man named Nero, himself a skilled but twisted artist. Kyle managed to best Nero by exploiting the source of his dementia, namely the abuse suffered at his parents' hands.
After a brief cooling-off period, Jenny and Kyle reconciled, even to the point that Kyle proposed to Jenny using her former power ring, which had been recovered by Batman from his foe Anarky. Jenny politely declined the engagement, but seemed willing to revisit the subject in the future. Unfortunately, Terry, who had become a regular fixture at Kyle's apartment, seemed put off by Jenny's presence and when Kyle confronted him about it, he was surprised to learn that Terry was gay and had a crush on Kyle. At Jenny's urging, Kyle spoke to Terry and told him that while he was flattered, the fact that Kyle was straight and with Jenny, not to mention Terry being underage, meant they could be friends only, but Kyle affirmed to Terry that he valued their friendship and wished it to continue, which Terry gladly agreed to.
Kyle suffered arguably his most telling defeat at the hands of Ra's al Ghul, who used stolen failsafe plans devised by Batman to incapacitate each of the JLA members should any or all of them go rogue. Kyle was hypnotically compelled to order his ring to rob him of his eyesight, which drove him nearly mad, and the other League members were taken down in like fashion. Kyle and the JLA managed to overcome Ra's' machinations and his larger plot, which involved devices that broadcast a frequency that removed the ability to read written language from the world's population. Unfortunately, Batman was deemed to large a security risk and voted out of the JLA, despite the fact that Kyle voted not to oust him.
A new addition to Kyle's homelife came in the form of Jast Entheris, a youngster hailing from the planet of Delaya and its only survivor. Jast's father, Corwyn Entheris, was the Green Lantern of his native space sector and met his end during Hal Jordan's decimation of Oa. Kyle took Jast in as his legal ward, passing him off as his cousin Jason, and as a protege Lantern who went by the alias "Kid Lantern." Kyle also hit a bit of a windfall in his art career; Garfield Logan (a.k.a. Kyle's former Titans teammate Changeling) offered him a character-design job on his socially-conscious animated series, "The Last Wallaby." Gar had sought the aid of many fellow superheroes for the project, including his girlfriend and fellow Titan Starfire and Cissie King-Jones (formerly the Young Justice member Arrowette).
Kyle embarked on a lengthy sabbatical from his Earthly position on a mission to overthrow the Blue Circle intergalactic crime syndicate. His mission was waylaid by Fatality, who had gained two new flesh-and-blood arms to replace the ones lost in battle with Kyle in exchange for capturing him and bringing him to the Circle for execution. Kyle managed to escape her clutches and evaded the Circle's forces by being swallowed by an enormous space-whale, after which he decided to make his way back to Earth, as his ring's power reserves had been reduced to emergency life-support only. Following his return, Kyle and Connor traveled to Spain and Portugal to investigate a recent wave of attacks from old gods. Unfortunately, Kyle grabbed a credit card of Jenny's to cover their travel expenses, a card that drew on Alan Scott's accounts. Alan cancelled the card and, though Kyle paid for the remainder of the trip with traveler's checks, found himself in hock with Alan to the tune of several thousand dollars. Kyle repaid Alan in thousands of dollars of crab meat, which amused Alan but did little to dampen his disappointment in Kyle.
While on another deep-space mission, Kyle and Jenny became acquainted with former Lantern Arisia who had become resurrected in the form of the jade memorial statue erected after her death. During their efforts to try and restore her humanoid form, Kyle and Jenny also learned that a native of Arisia's homeworld had constructed a religion around her, a fact Arisia was nowhere near comfortable with. After returning to Earth, the population of Kyle and Jenny's apartment grew by yet one more, a puppy Jenny had purchased whom she and Kyle named Jack the Ripper after the puppy torn apart one of Kyle's sketchbooks. Kyle would also experience another surprise: Jenny's proposal of marriage. Kyle accepted, and the two were wed a month later in Vanity City, Nevada.
Kyle began experiencing controlling his ring's energy-construct abilities, as constructs would manifest and act contrary to his will. He soon learned that the Weaponeers of Qward, long infamous for developing anti-Lantern yellow power rings, had been remotely controlling Kyle's ring from their new outpost on the planet Pluto. Kyle, alongside members of the JLA and JSA, launched a full-scale assault on the Qwardian outpost, driving them out of Earth's solar system. Though triumphant, the elation of the victory was short-lived when, at Alan Scott's family Christmas gathering, Alan's wife Molly Maynne-Scott was viciously murdered by the Star Sapphire, Kyle being the first to discover her mutilated corpse.
Following incidents in which Jast encountered a horde of vampires and Kyle and Wally briefly exchanged meta-human abilities, Jenny convinced Kyle to move into a house in suburban Connecticut. The joy of moving into their new home and the reestablishment of the Green Lantern Corps was tempered somewhat by the death of Garfield Logan and a rash of attacks on Kyle committed by New York teenagers armed with Manhunter weaponry. Kyle and Jenny were shocked to learn Terry Berg, driven insane by the perceived loss of Kyle at the hands of Jenny and later Jast, was behind the attacks. Terry turned himself in at their behest and was remanded to state-mandated psychiatic care.
Kyle and Jenny, along with Alan, fellow Green Lantern Boodikka, and Chloe Rayner (Kyle and Jenny's daughter from an alternate future), had the unfortunate chance to re-encounter the Starheart, who attempted to drive the Green Lantern Corps away from Oa, seeing the science-based Corps as an abomination. Though the Starheart threw Kyle and his allies back to Oa's past to remove them from the battle, the aid of the then-benevolent Manhunters and the ancient Guardians allowed them to return to the present. Kyle and the others defeated the Starheart, and to everyone's surprise, the source of the Starheart's newfound power was revealed to be Todd Rice, Jenny's brother and the former superhero called Obsidian, who was once believed killed.
Kyle became forced to reevaluate his role as Green Lantern after the complete resurrection of Hal Jordan near the Coast City Memorial. Deciding that Hal, completely divested of the vengeful wrath that had transformed him into Parallax, needed most to recover his sense of self in the world, Kyle agreed that Hal should once again act as Green Lantern for sector 2814 and as the JLA's resident GL, relinquishing his place in the League to him. The two have agreed to share patrol of the sector, with Kyle dealing with Earth-bound threats and Hal those more global and universal.
New York continues to have Kyle as their hometown hero.
Infinite Crisis
In Infinite Crisis, Alexander Luthor reveals that had the Multiverse continued to exist after the Crisis on Infinite Earths, Rayner would have been a native of Earth-Eight.[6] When Jade dies during the Infinite Crisis, she transfers her power to Rayner, catalyzing his transformation into Ion.[7]
In the series Ion: Guardian of the Universe, Ion seemingly destroys a fleet of starships and violently attacks two Green Lanterns, but Kyle has no memory of the destruction and only learns of his possible role in it after being attacked by a bounty hunter. Upon visiting the fleet's wreckage, Kyle loses control and finds himself near the sentient planet Mogo, also a Green Lantern. Once there, Kyle converses with former girlfriends Alex, Donna, and Jade and fights Major Force. Kyle realizes that as Ion, he is able to channel the green energy of both the Starheart and the Central Battery. This new energy is called the "Ion Power".
Kyle Rayner as Ion, the Torchbearer of the Guardians of the Universe.The Guardians forbid the Green Lanterns to leave Oa to help Kyle but do not mention those off-world. Kilowog contacts Hal Jordan to check on Kyle. Jordan finds Ion destroying a planet and after scanning him with his ring, he discovers that the rampaging Ion is in fact Alexander Nero. Kyle catches up with Jordan, and Nero claims that his connection with Kyle and new powers are the result of a third party's interference.
With Nero in tow, Kyle confronts the Guardians and asks what they knew about his becoming Ion, why Nero was wreaking havoc as Ion, and why they ordered the Green Lantern Corps to not assist him. The Guardians claim they ordered the other Green Lanterns not to help because he needed to pass one final test for them to be sure he can handle his power. They explain that they had planned for Kyle to hold an honored position among Green Lanterns as their Torchbearer, the next evolution of Lanterns, but that he now possesses the power to revive the Green Lantern Corps, should it ever be destroyed again. The Guardians tell Kyle that he will no longer be required to patrol, but will be called in during situations that the Corps cannot handle by themselves. The Guardians admit that they only know that some unforeseen enemy has set Nero on a path of destruction to Oa. Nero unleashes a massive amount of energy, but Kyle dissipates the energy into what is presumed to be a "pocket universe".
Back on Earth, Kyle is met by a mysterious Monitor, who tells him that he is supposed to be dead.[8] Kyle discovers that other enemies, like his old nemesis Effigy, are being put on his tracks. The captured Effigy could only say that Kyle's location was given to him in a subliminal way, and, as the Guardians discover while interrogating Nero, the knowledge of the enemy himself was expunged by his minions' mind.[9]
Kyle returns to the planet scorched by Nero while using his name, and clears his reputation. Later Guy Gardner meets him to tell "bad news" about his mother who's in a hospital dying with no known medical cause. After comforting her, Kyle is once again contacted by a Guardian who tells him he must return to Oa at once. Before leaving Earth, he is assaulted by two superpowered individuals, a male and female who claim to be the Atom and the Flash respectively (both are characters from DC's Tangent Comics event). After a brief fight, "Atom" gains the upper hand and knocks Kyle out. They then place the Lantern previously seen at the end of Infinite Crisis on his chest. After a brief flash, the Tangent Universe's Green Lantern appears, holding the Lantern.
Kyle awakens in "the Bleed," encountering the two children that found the Tangent Comics' lantern, as well as aiding Captain Atom, who is still sporting the Monarch armor, in a battle against Daemonites. Kyle enlists Captain Atom's help in escaping the Bleed, re-absorbs the Tangent Comics' superheroes back into the lantern, and returns to the Guardians of the Universe, who send him on a mission to sector 3888.
At a satellite base inside of an asteroid in sector 3888, Kyle discovers a number of dead Qwardian Weaponers, as well as an alive Donna Troy. Able to find Grayven, and battle him, but unable to make him confess anything on the mysterious conspiration, he's again faced by one of the Monitors, and once again spared, his future to be reconsidered again.
Returned home, he tries to reanimate his mother's dead corpse using his powers, but after a tearful farewell she refuses, asking Kyle to let her pass. He agrees, and he is left again in mourning in his new home, unable to sort out his life and the mysteries surrounding his recent encounters.
Sinestro reveals to Kyle that he was responsible for his mother's death and infected her with the sentient virus Despotellis and killed her in a plot to break Kyle's will so that he could serve as Parallax's new host. Sinestro also reveals that Ion is actually a benevolent energy entity, similar to Parallax, that thrives on willpower and that Kyle was unknowingly its current host.
The Sinestro Corps confront Kyle, who has his powers drained out of him by Sinestro himself, and is immediately taken over by Parallax. Parallax then clothes itself in a new uniform which appears as a combination of the Sinestro Corps' uniform, Kyle's original Green Lantern costume, and the armor Hal Jordan wore as Parallax. Parallax's possession also turns the hair on top of Kyle's head gray, just as it turned the hair on Hal Jordan's temples. Parallax returns to Qward with the Sinestro Corps and is inducted into their ranks, becoming one of the Anti-Monitor's heralds.
In Kyle's body, Parallax captured Hal Jordan, Guy Gardner, and John Stewart and brought them to Qward. Before bringing them, Parallax made Hal relive one of the only times he ever felt fear: when his father died. Parallax also elaborated that since invading Kyle's mind, he now has nearly infinite creativity to call upon in his deeds. During the battle with the Green Lantern Corps, who arrives to Qward to rescue the captured Lanterns, Parallax murders Jack T. Chance and crushes his Power Ring before it can find a replacement. During his fight with the Earth Green Lanterns, Parallax revealed that Kyle Rayner's "twisted desire" was to be the last Green Lantern again and special. He is stopped from murdering Guy Gardner by the intervention of the surviving Lost Lanterns and the Ion entity. The Embodiment of Fear is now leading an advance group of the Sinestro Corps, readying to attack Coast City. It is also suggested by the Guardians of the Universe that Kyle is no longer destined to be Ion following his being taken over by Parallax.
Kyle is currently trapped within his own mind. He is able to witness all that Parallax says and does from a third person perspective, but is unable to stop it. Kyle's personality watches Parallax's actions from inside the prison that his own imagination has constructed: his mother's empty house. The only fixture in the house is an old painting of uncertain origin and authorship that had belonged to Kyle's mother. As Kyle watches Parallax battle Hal Jordan and the Lost Lanterns a manifestation of the fear enity comes to pay him a visit. In the realm of his imagination Kyle is able to "transform" into Ion, and engage the parasite in battle. After being blasted back by Parallax and losing his Ion form, Kyle forms a power ring, places it on his finger, and appears in his original costume. Although he puts up a valiant fight, Parallax is too much for him and Kyle is defeated. Parallax taunts Kyle with his deepest fear: failing the people who depend on him, especially the women in his life. Many of the women in Kyle's life have died or come to harm because of their association with him and this causes Kyle to struggle with feelings of guilt and responsibility. The latest to die was Kyle's mother, killed by the sentient virus Despotellis on the orders of Sinestro. It was the grief and guilt that this revelation caused Kyle that allowed the Parallax entity to posess him. Sneering, Parallax mocks Kyle's helplessness and turns to depart but the enraged artist grabs a pencil and stabs the creature in the eye with it. Parallax, unfazed and unhurt, taunts Kyle once more with the hopelessness of his position and disappears.
Characteristics
Age: 25
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 175 lbs.
Eyes: Hazel
Hair: Black
Unusual Features: None
Personality:
- Courage
One wouldn't think that a guy as seemingly benign as Kyle would be someone who could stare into the abyss on a regular basis, but Kyle has done just that far more than once. Kyle isn't someone to get easily shaken or flustered at the sight of a rough challenge. Fully cognizant of the unspeakable possibilities if he doesn't take on adversity head-on, Kyle continually throws himself into the fray, knowing that bothering with fear or second thoughts won't get the job done. - Creativity
It's what makes Kyle a top-notch artist and one of the more unique personalities to take on the role of a Green Lantern. Kyle's mind is a repository of ideas both practical and flamboyant. In the span of seconds, Kyle can envision at least two or three artistic approaches to a design dilemma, whether trying to hammer out a logo for a Chinese restaurant or coming up with something to stop Grayven from strangling him.
Friendly
Kyle is the quintessential nice guy. He's honest and loyal as a friend and doesn't set out to start grudges, even with those already with a low opinion of him. This isn't to say that Kyle is incapable of betrayal, but in almost every case the betrayal is unintentional and always something Kyle deeply regrets, such as the faux pas with Donna Troy regarding the nude modeling session with another girl or his unresolved feelings for Donna causing a shipwreck in his relationship with Jenny Hayden.
Goes with the flow
Kyle isn't one to let change throw him off. One asset to being a creative type is learning to adapt to change. Life rarely throws Kyle a curveball he can't knock out of the park with a bit of rethinking. He almost thrives on the challenge adversity provides, which makes it all that easier to surmount. - Haunted
Kyle knows all too well wait failure can entail. Not being there just once resulted in the grisly demise of Alexandra DeWitt. The experience of opening Alex's refrigerator to find her body stuffed inside is a mental image Kyle cannot excise from his memory and part of him doesn't even want to. It's the memory of what Alex meant to him and the abruptness with which she was taken from him that drives him to take his responsibilities by the horns and push forward. The irony lies in the fact that Alex and Kyle broke up numerous times due to his previously lackadaisical attitude; now her memory drives Kyle to push himself past his limits. - Individual
While Kyle is adaptable to change, that quality does not come at the expense of maintaining his individuality or sense of self. As an artist, Kyle considers it bad form to not put his personal spin on something, hence his own design of uniform that doesn't conform to GLC attire standards and his tendency to speak his mind freely. While voicing his opinion may earn stares worthy of the Dark Knight himself, it hasn't stopped him yet. - Low self-esteem
Sure, Kyle has earned the right to be Green Lantern now. That doesn't change the fact that he got the ring the same way kids could get a toy car out of a Happy Meal, and it certainly doesn't change the fact that others have handled the Green Lantern tradition for much longer, and in some cases, better than he ever has. Kyle is quick to quell doubts, but for every person who accepts him as a GL, there are numerous detractors who think the "punk newbie" has no right calling himself Green Lantern. The fact that he has done his best to make the role more his own than others who maintain the GLC's traditions further widens the gap between him and his predecessors and further plants doubts in his mind that he's the right ring-slinger for the job. - Romantic
Kyle doesn't fancy himself as a ladies' man; then again, he really doesn't need to. Kyle has something of an unrefined magnetism to him, making him attractive to the opposite sex at an above-average degree that he doesn't develop or exploit often. He's mindful of women's needs, which has made him a very loyal romantic partner for those who have involved himself with him. If this aspect of his persona caused him any form of problem, it's the fact that he is slow to let feelings die for someone with whom a relationship has ended. This led to something of a problem when Donna Troy showed up at a gallery opening of his that he and Jenny Hayden were attending together. Kyle learned his lesson the hard way, but now that Jenny has renewed their relationship and become his wife, he is mindful of her feelings first and foremost. - Work ethic
Kyle would love to toss his responsibilities to the wayside, and chill out for an entire day with a soda, a bag of chips, and the Xbox. However, he doesn't. Kyle is nowhere near a workaholic, but he is mindful that work comes before play. Thus, he does his best to get the nasty bits of anti-fun done and out of the way before any form of R&R. That means art projects, comic strips, Watchtower monitor duty... it all gets done before he trades work for recreation. Not an easy feat when Manhunter robots can land at the roof at any time, but Kyle manages.
Powers
Known Powers
Known Abilities:
- Artist
Kyle is a highly skilled artist, his skills a combination of raw talent and extensive education. Kyle's skills were enough to earn him an art scholarship at a local college, and his education (which unfortunately he did not complete) honed his skills to professional level. He is primarily a painter, able to crank out realistic portraits and still-lives as handily as works of a more abstract bent. He is also facile with a drawing pencil and has parlayed that medium into his current regular job as regular cartoonist for Feast magazine. Prior to signing on with Feast, his experience with computer graphics software was rudimentary at best, but the aid of Terry Berg is increasing his prowess in that area. Kyle's works have appeared in art galleries and in more commercialized design work, including the signature logo of Radu Stancu's coffee shop. Kyle knows more than just how to create art; he has an extensive knowledge of the works of other artists and styles, enough to be able to recognize most of the classic works and know the meanings and stories behind those works. While pencil and paintbrush are his tools of preference, he is also skilled in sculpture, carvings, and other more three-dimensional forms of art, though these skills are less developed than his abilities to paint and draw. - Celtic lore
Maura Rayner has regaled her son with the stories and myths of her homeland of Ireland, knowledge of which Kyle has mostly retained. Chief amongst Kyle's remembrance were the tales regarding the spirits of the Irish afterlife, primarily since such myths were the reason Maura refused to allow Kyle to trick-or-treat during Halloween, since she believed the mythology that founded the holiday were not to be made light of. Though Maura holds her culture tight to her, Kyle is less apt to believe in his mother's tales, though his experiences since becoming Green Lantern, one example being teaming with one of Heaven's angels in the JLA, are causing him to reconsider. - Bilingual
As taught to him by his mother, Kyle knows a smattering of the Irish Gaelic tongue, though not quite enough to carry on a conversation with a fluent speaker. His knowledge of the language is confined to greetings, acknowledgements, and other basic expressions. He hasn't made any attempt to expand his knowledge of the language beyond that, largely to the once-strained relationship between him and his mother. - Survival
While Kyle has no actual education or experience in surviving out in the wild, he certainly isn't that bad at it. And when "the wild" can be an alien world or the depths of space itself, his survival skills are not something to be taken lightly. A die-hard urbanite, Kyle probably wouldn't be caught dead camping, but the necessity provided by, say, Fatality shooting him down over the Adirondacks, would spur Kyle to learn to stay alive in forested surroundings very quickly. - Popular culture
Kyle has eaten, lived, and breathed popular culture from the 1980's on and has compiled a long list of trivia knowledge from then on. Television shows, popular music, movies, comic books, video games... these are all topics on which Kyle can blurt out a bit of obscure knowledge. His music tastes tend to run in the circles of hard rock, metal, and industrial (Stabbing Westward, Killswitch Engage, and Fear Factory could be considered favorites of his), while his television and movie preferences run towards, science fiction, fantasy, and horror. He devours it all, from Jean-Luc Picard to Jason Voorhees, Gandalf the Grey to Apollo and Starbuck (either version), and surprisingly his pop-culture knowledge comes in handy once in a while. - Unarmed combat
Like every kid who grew up seeing Ralph Macchio throwing crane kicks, Kyle also developed an interest in martial arts, though his interest didn't last beyond a couple months. Although he got in fights as a teenager during his bygone days as a school bully, he never developed his abilities at unarmed combat, even well into his career as Green Lantern. Donna Troy illustrated to him the need to handle himself without using his ring as a crutch and trained him in more advanced combat techniques. While nowhere near the level of Batman or his allies, Kyle is able to handle himself in a bare-knuckle fight. Supplemented by his ring's abilities, Kyle has been known to slap on some plasma-construct samurai armor and get up close and personal with a horde of foes, though he still prefers long-range attacks. - Watchtower
Kyle almost considers the JLA's lunar headquarters a second home, since he's found himself there alone on monitor duty more than once. During his downtime while still a member, Kyle could be found wandering its corridors, which has given him a better than average familiarity with its layouts and means of access. Kyle even built an addition onto the Watchtower on one occasion with the aid of J'onn J'onzz. - Computer use
Kyle isn't an uber-hacker by any means, but he does have the average industrialized person's knowledge of operating a computer. He can easily manipulate basic software such as word processors and Internet browsers, and has been steadily learning how to use computer graphics programs (such as Adobe Photoshop), a necessity for his comic-strip work, under the guidance of Terry Berg. He is also facile with the Aegis' computer systems as taught to him by the other League members.
Strength Level: Without ring normal, with ring superhuman.
Weaknesses:
- Focus
Kyle's ring requires a considerable deal of mental focus to operate, a fact many of his enemies have exploited in battle with him. When Kyle is able to throw his full will into the use of his ring, his plasma constructs are solid and workable. Conversely, when Kyle's off his game or sufficiently distracted, his constructs maybe less than what he visualized and certainly not as effectual in their designed use. - Day job
Kyle is something of a working stiff, even though his job doesn't require him to leave the house much. Kyle hasn't quite gotten time management 100 percent down yet, and when you throw in the fact that he may be asked to walk away from his work at a moment's notice to do the savior-of-sector-2814 thing, Kyle finds himself having to shuffle his life around to meet his occupational obligations, which sometimes leads to working long nights to make up for the loss of time. Kyle does his best to have enough comic strips in the can or enough of the conceptual work on his other assignments to keep himself ahead, but it doesn't always save him from having to burn the midnight oil because Fatality decided to tear up Tribeca. - Inferiority complex
He may have pr oven himself time and again as Green Lantern and earned himself a spot on the most prestigious superhero team in human existence, but it doesn't change the fact that Kyle often feels undeserving of the privileges and responsibilities laid before him. Interactions with other superheroes, particularly those who have spent years working alongside Hal Jordan, make him feel like he doesn't come close to filling Jordan's very big shoes. When Kyle first became Green Lantern, he knew next to nothing about the Lantern legacy, the Corps, or the intergalactic level of prestige the right to wear a power ring entailed. Now fully cognizant of the legacy he has stepped into, Kyle can find himself wondering if he really is worthy to uphold this grand tradition. - Dependence on his powers
Now that he doesn't have a ring to recharge or depend on Kyle finds himself with a lot of power. Sometimes he starts to abuse these powers. There is so much power at his finger tips he never has to leave them anywheres. So now the temptation is always there for him to use his powers in everyday life. - Ion power limits
Kyle has no idea of his limits on his energies. So as of right now Kyle powers are limited to his creativity, which he has a lot of. But he is still human, he can only compute so much information and ideas to create at once. If he uses a mass amount of energy for a long period of time he'll start to fatigue, not the power itself, but Kyle himself just physically getting exhausted. - Secret identity
The major hindrance of most of Earth's superhuman champions, namely maintaining the illusion that the spandex-clad do-gooder and the average Joe are two completely different people. While Kyle does his best to keep his dual identity, those that know him well, particularly his mother and Radu Stancu, have been able to deduce that he's Green Lantern on their own. Many of the superheroes he's teamed with, including his former fellow Titans and Justice Leaguers know him well in both identities, which can and has been a level of familiarity used against him. - Rogues' gallery
Kyle had made his fair share of enemies in his relatively short career as a superhero. While Kyle has earned the ire a number of his foes through his direct actions, a number of them come from rivalries with other GLs or the entire Corps itself. Arguably his most deadly adversary is the Lantern-killer Fatality, which is ironic since, while she considers all Lanterns worthy of her murderous wrath, the true target of her rage is former Lantern John Stewart. Also chief enemies of Kyle are Effigy, a fire-manipulator empowered by the Controllers, and Grayven, illegitimate son of the Apokaliptian despot Darkseid. Kyle's less-than-friendly relationships are not confined to the superheroic part of his life. Many former friends of his from his days in Los Angeles are not that friendly to wards him, particularly Alex DeWitt's sister Aimee, who felt Kyle was too quick to bug out of L.A. following her sister's death, and his childhood friend Tyler Hutchence, who, unlike Kyle, graduated from art school only to end up a drunken wage slave in comparison to Kyle's relatively higher level of success. - Visual thinker
Kyle is very dependent on his abilities to judge visual information and store it away for future use, both in his career as an artist and as Green Lantern. Unfortunately, his dependence on the visual aspects of his surroundings is a double-edged blade that can be turned against him. Probably the most telling example of this weakness is Ra's al Ghul's use of Batman's take-down protocols to hypnotically convince Kyle he had been blinded, which drove him temporarily mad. - Mothers death
After meeting with Guy Gardner, Kyle was informed about some "bad news" about his mother who's in a hospital dying with no known medical cause. These causes eventually claimed her life. After returning, Kyle tries to reanimate his mother's dead corpse using his powers, but after a tearful farewell she refuses, asking Kyle to let her pass. He agrees, and he is left again in mourning in his new home. Kyle is constantly battling with himself overing not being able to save her. - Parallax
With Parallax now in control all of Kyle's emotions are hidden deep within himself. He is now trapped in his own mind and cannot get out. Parallax himself is a fear-inducing being. Parallax feeds on its users fears to intrap them, he also can consume more than one person if wanted (absorbs Hal and Kyle). Parallax does not need a ring since Kyle has the starheart and Parallax has consumed the power battery that was fused to Kyle also in yellow energy. Parallax as is blood thirsty and does everything to eat away at the person he has absorbed so that they stay in a constant form of depression, sadness, and fear.
Misc (optional)
Equipment:
Green Lantern Power Ring
- Natural Durability and Life Support: When wearing the ring, the wielder has an increased durability and recieves life support functions. This allows the wielder to be about as tough as a iron wall. This can also be increased by surrounding oneself with a force field (found below). The life support function of the ring naturally protects the user from sickness, disease, gases, viruses, etc. Theoretically, a ring wielder could use the ring as his/her/its sole source of life support.
- Energy Constructs: The primary function of the Power Ring is to provide a weapon capable of transforming the wearer's thoughts into physical constructs through the wearer's strength of willpower. A Green Lantern can create any particular items or construct that they can imagine as long as they have the willpower necessary to will it into existence. The constructs are made out of green energy, which is a tangible form of pure willpower, and they exist only as long as a Green Lantern is fueling it with their willpower. Items created by the rings are not indestructible and are only as powerful as the willpower of the Green Lantern creating them.
- Energy Absorption and Projection: By will, the ring cab absorb all forms of energy. This energy is not use to recharge the ring, as only the Power Battery can do that. This energy can be released however. The ring can also project any form of energy as a blast. It can even simulate radiation, including Kryptonite.
- Flight: The Power Ring grants a Green Lantern the ability of flight. Not only is a Green Lantern capable of flight while in an atmosphere, they are capable of traveling through outer space without risk to themselves. While traveling through space, the ring creates a force field around the wearer, which protects them and allows them to breathe normally. The ring also protects the wearer from the hazards of the void of space including filtration of stellar radiation and microscopic particulate matter, which would ordinarily be fatal, should the space debris strike the ring wielder at high speeds. An atmosphere appropriate to the ring wielder's biology is created inside the force field, body temperature is maintained and waste products are removed. Gravitational stresses, which could cause injury, are stabilized for the ring wielder. Flight is possible at velocities exceeding light speed. In atmospheres, air friction is not a hindrance, since heat is either absorbed or reflected by the ring's field. The power ring grants its wearer access to wormholes in space, enabling the ring wielder to rapidly cut time and distance needed for transport.
- Force Fields: In addition to the natural durability that every Green Lanter has, the ring can also increase the wearer's protection be creating a skin-tight force field, seen as a green glow surrounding the Green Lantern. Adding this skin-armor takes a conscious choice, and allows the wearer to take massive amounts of damage. In addtion to the skin-armor, force fields can be expanded to protect others, or separate force bubbles or shields can be created.
- Uniforms: The Green Lantern's uniform is not made out of fabric. It is created by the Power Ring whenever the wearer wills to wear it. It automatically appears over the wearer's normal clothing, and vanishes when the wearer wills to return to their civilian attire. Each Green Lantern is able to adjust their uniform to fit their own needs, personalities and whims.
- Communication: The Power Rings can be used as communicators between Power Ring wearers. Typically a green "hologram" of the Green Lantern you are communicating with appears from within the ring.