10 Times Superheroes Became Public Enemy Number One

6. Green Lantern - Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn

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The Emerald Dawn series is one of the weirder Green Lantern origin stories around. Part of the reason it's so dang weird is that one of its first scenes involves soon-to-be Green Lantern Hal Jordan getting in an accident while drunk driving, and then giving himself in.

This alone is weird, but weirder yet is that in between the accident and the incarceration, Hal gets the Green Lantern ring, meaning that one of his first actions under the superhero name is to turn himself in for crimes.

Though it's perhaps not the strangest superhero origin story ever, having a hero searched for by the police nonstop until they gave themselves up is a surreal way to introduce people to Hal Jordan - although it sets him up as an unpredictable character quite nicely.

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