why isn't there a teen lantern?

[theoneandonly]

there has never been a recognized green lantern who was a teen Titan. is it due to age restrictions placed on the corps by the Guardians or is it due to the fact that a teen lantern would never have fit in both green lantern and teen Titan books or was it because they didn't want to saddle hal Jordan with a teen sidekick? what do you think? would you like to see a teen lantern or is it a terrible concept?

[GDC3]

Green Lanterns are essentially space police armed with a weapon that relies on focusing willpower. I don't think a teen would fit in the role very well mainly due to age. I couldn't see The Guardians or the rings themselves choosing a child (from their point of view) to bear the weight of that mantle.

[Buried Alien]

Green Lanterns are essentially space police armed with a weapon that relies on focusing willpower. I don't think a teen would fit in the role very well mainly due to age. I couldn't see The Guardians or the rings themselves choosing a child (from their point of view) to bear the weight of that mantle.

And yet, Guy Gardner somehow got picked...

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

[GDC3]

And yet, Guy Gardner somehow got picked...

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

Haha, good point.

[LordAllMIghty]

I would actually be down for a new Star Sapphire. Make her 14 to 17, maybe Asian and kind of like Maxima...a warrior looking for love/mate.

[jbmasta]

I'm not sure how it would work, but there's some special ring that changes the emotion it channels depending on the mood of the wearer. The power level of each emotion is only a seventh of a ring dedicated to only one color

[byrd156]

there has never been a recognized green lantern who was a teen Titan. is it due to age restrictions placed on the corps by the Guardians or is it due to the fact that a teen lantern would never have fit in both green lantern and teen Titan books or was it because they didn't want to saddle hal Jordan with a teen sidekick? what do you think? would you like to see a teen lantern or is it a terrible concept?

Kyle was a part of the Titans in the 90s, I think he was on the New Titans team.

[DGraysonWorldsGreatestSpy]

Dick Grayson was up for consideration during one of Hal Jordan's near death experiences but generally there has been no need. The Darkstars present an alternative through Donna Troy but the only was I see a Lantern is if some writer brings back the One Million Million Planet Dimension Trigon ruled when the NTT fought him and use it a an open canvas for new stories that do not rely or get in the way of the GL mythology.

[GDC3]

Kyle was a part of the Titans in the 90s, I think he was on the New Titans team.

He wasn't a teen though. It was the adult Titans team.

[byrd156]

He wasn't a teen though. It was the adult Titans team.

Yeah I know but that's the closest we have gotten to a teen Lantern.

[Trey Strain]

Six Earth Lanterns and seven Corps aren't enough?

I remember when if you said on a message board that there should be any other Lantern besides Kyle Rayner, most people would be aghast.

[GlennSimpson]

I had thought about this when I was a kid. I envisioned "Kid Lantern" as actually having internal super-powers that mimicked Green Lantern's to a degree, with a green force-field that could be used for various purposes. So he wasn't actually selected by the Corps or have anything to do with it, he was someone that Hal knew who he took under his wing. FWIW. I was 13 at the time...

[Dr. Skeleton]

He wasn't a teen though. It was the adult Titans team.

Wasn't Kyle 19 when he became GL?

[silly]

would kyle still work if he was part of the titans?

[byrd156]

would kyle still work if he was part of the titans?

No Kyle would break because he's a part of a team that isn't the JL.

(That's sarcasm)