10 Things Everyone Always Gets Wrong About Green Lantern

10. How Many Human Green Lanterns There Have Been

When the Green Lantern brand was recreated in the Silver Age, it opened up a world of possibilities. Hal Jordan may have been the one in this new continuity, but throughout the years Hal would not be the only Earthling inducted into the Justice League.

In the late 1960s Guy Gardner would become the back-up Green Lantern whenever Hal Jordan was unable to do the cosmic policing. Following a power battery exploding in Guy's face, he was then replaced by John Stewart in the early seventies. Then after the whole Hal Murders Everybody storyline, Kyle Rayner became the only Green Lantern to create a new Corps and save the universe in the process.

A forgotten member of the New Corps of 1999 was Anya Savenlovich, a Russian fighter pilot, but would disappear from general continuity after the fall of the Soviet Union. After that, there were no new human Lanterns from Earth until the New 52, which would introduce Simon Baz as a new ringbearer. Finally, it wasn't until 2014 that Earth's first female Green Lantern, Jessica Cruz, would join.

In over fifty years of the Corps, there have been seven human Green Lanterns.