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Among theGreen Lanterns , Kyle Rayner is often regarded as the most creative . An artist prior to becoming a superhero , Kyle ’s tycoon constructs are largely fun and creative , sometimes taking on dada culture iconography . When it comes to fighting his greatest enemy , however , Kyle proved he could produce one of the harsh constructs in Green Lantern history .
Green Lantern#55 – by Ron Marz , Derec Donovan , Darryl Banks , Craig Hamilton , and Romeo Tanghal – depict Kyle Rayner early in his career as a Green Lantern , in his first get together with original Lantern Alan Scott . The take also have Kyle crusade the villain Major Force for the first meter after he kill Rayner ’s girlfriend , Alex DeWitt .
The fight with Major Force was a brutal battle , particularly considering how early it is inKyle ’s vocation as Green Lantern . During the brawl , Kyle used his ring to make an electric chair , hook Major Force up and fry him to force the villain to spill .
Tales Of The Sinestro Corps : Parallax # 1 call in out an inauspicious trend that may make Green Lantern Kyle Rayner the Corps ’ pestilent extremity .
Kyle Rayner’s Green Lantern Wanted Revenge On Major Force For The Infamous “Fridging” Moment
Green Lantern#54features one of the most ill-famed moments in comic record account , as Kyle Rayner turn back home to feel his girl , Alex , has been murder and stuffed into a icebox . This moment precede to the coining ofthe term " fridging " to describe a tropeof char , particularly in strip , being wipe out , depowered , maimed , or sexually assaulted to further the journey and development of a male quality . The figure of " Women in Refrigerators " was mint by then - comics fan Gail Simone , who later on went on to be an iconic writer for DC and other publishers .
Kyle Rayner ’s journeying as Green Lantern was kickstarted by the fridging here and now , with the stakes of being a superhero being realise through the shockingly grim slaying of Alex . While Rayner can be hear as one of the light and more playfulness Green Lanterns , his personality counterpoint starkly with the event ofGreen Lantern#54 , where Alex ’s expiry is depicted in a grizzly way . Alex had , to this point , served as a sorting of mentor for Kyle , encourage him to maturate up and do something meaningful with his power . Since then , she ’s remained a driving power for Kyle .
Kyle’s Harshest Green Lantern Construct Shows His Hatred For Major Force
Picking up right after the events of the fridging , Green Lantern#55shows an maddened Kyle wanting to make Major Force pay for Alex ’s execution . After putting Major Force into the galvanic chair construct , Green Lantern electocutes his enemy for information , slap him while he ’s hold down . When Major Force refuses to answer , Kyle threaten to murder the villain , before being interrupted by the Los Angeles Special Crimes Unit . Were Kyle to not be interrupted , it ’s likely that he would have killed Major Force .
Juxtaposed againstKyle ’s other lighthearted Green Lantern constructs , the electric chair displays a surprising level of brutality . Kyle would by and by state that his Green Lantern ring generally prevents him from pour down or mortally wounding his opponents , highlighting his cryptic desire for blood in his first fight after Alex ’s death . It ’s a mo deeply tied to one of the most ill-famed view in the history of comics , declarative of a much tumid problem in the literary field . Kyle ’s fad here stand out for the character as he , like theGreen Lanternseries , line up himself at one of his dark-skinned , downcast points .
