10 Most Bizarre DC Crossover Events Since 2000

3. Planet Of The Apes/Green Lantern

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Was Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps. taking on zombified, power ring-enhanced of their fallen superpowered comrades not weird enough for you? Well, lucky for you, there's also a crossover series that involves Jordan and company finding themselves in one of the most famous sci-fi worlds of all time: The Planet of the Apes.

The Green Lantern has ventured into the worlds of Aliens and Star Trek in the past, but Planet of the Apes/Green Lantern arguably takes the cake as being the character's strangest crossover yet.

After all, if there was thing many DC fans likely never saw coming, it was Hal Jordan rubbing shoulders with Dr. Cornelius, before being thrown into the Ape City prison while Sinestro stages a coup to overthrow the simian government.

What's more is that Planet of the Apes/Green Lantern also introduced a new, game-changing element to the Green Lantern mythos: the Universal Ring, which can harness power from the entire emotional spectrum.

So, if this ridiculously powerful, potentially status quo-altering new power ring ever pops up in a main Green Lantern series, it will forever be remembered as getting its start in the Planet of the Apes crossover.

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