Kyle Rayner

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Kyle Rayner

Information
Species:	Human
Hair:	Brown
Eyes:	Black
Base:	Metropolis, Oa
Affiliations:	The Green Lantern Corps
Weaponry:	Power Ring
Voiced by:	Michael P. Greco, Will Friedle

Kyle Rayner was an artist for the Daily Planet. He is currently a member of the intergalactic police force known as the Green Lantern Corps.

[edit] History

Kyle's first day as a Green Lantern

Kyle Rayner was a gifted artist who worked in the art department of the Daily Planet. He aspired to become a comic book artist with no success. He was friends with Jimmy Olsen and recovered Jimmy's camera when it was taken from him with a demonstration of athletic skills. When Abin Sur crashed on Earth while fleeing Sinestro, he was mortally wounded. Abin sent his Power Ring to find his successor. The ring chose Kyle.

Sinestro pursued Kyle to take the inexperienced Green Lantern's ring and Power Battery. Superman kept Sinestro occupied long enough for Kyle to figure out how to use the Power Ring. Kyle then battled and defeated Sinestro.

Some time later, John Stewart sent Kyle to Oa to be trained by Katma Tui. This implies that John had been a member of the Green Lantern Corp for a good deal of time prior to Kyle. It also implies that John and Abin Sur shared duty as Green Lantern's of their sector of space.

When the android AMAZO was detected on a collision course with Oa, Kyle lead the defence alongside several other Lanterns. The defence failed and Oa appeared to have been annihilated. Kyle along with the surviving Green Lanterns tracked it to Earth where they intended to use all the remaining charge left in their Power Rings in one powerful blast and destroy the android and probably half the planet with it. However, when they confronted AMAZO in Lex Luthor's bunker he revealed that he had simply moved Oa to another dimension to get it out of his way. After he agreed to move it back, the Lanterns withdrew and allowed the android to go with Doctor Fate.

[edit] Background information

Kyle Rayner was an artist given the last power ring by Ganthet, sole surviving Guardian of the Universe, after Parallax influenced Hal Jordan into destroying the Corps and the other Guardians. After evolving into Ion, Rayner rebuilt and recharged the Central Battery, and resurrected the Guardians as mixed-gender infants under Ganthet's care. The origin Rayner is given in the DCAU is a modified version of Hal Jordan's DC Comics origin. Kyle's original DCAU appearance was also more similar to Jordan than his own in the comics. When he was given a new appearance in The Return, the similarities began to fade and he now resembled his comic counterpart more.