A Green Lantern's Chequered Past

So...there was this Green Lantern, who turned out to have stolen a vehicle...and I'm NOT talking about the new guy, Simon Baz.  No, I'm referring to my own best beloved Green Lantern...Guy Gardner.

 

As we all know, Guy had a pretty rotten childhood.  His loathsome parents made it clear that his older brother Mace, was the fair-haired child in the Gardner household, and from trying to win his Father's love to giving up and saying the heck with it,  Guy became somewhat of a Juvenile Delinquent.  In fact, right after his 18th birthday, his brother, who had become a Cop at that point, caught him joy-riding in a stolen car, had him brought to the football field of their High School...and proceeded to beat the ever-living crap out of him.  Then he stuffed some cash into his pocket, told him to go out and get a job and stop giving their Mom gray hair. 

Guy was actually smart enough to do just that.  Plus, he did have this whole love/hate thing going with Mace anyway.  He got a job, he got two jobs, he got his GED, he got into the University of Michigan, got onto the Football Team, no less, and graduated with a double Major, in Education and Psychology.  And he did it all on his own...with no faithful Butler, or billions of dollars, or knowing the right people or anything. 

So while I certainly don't APPROVE of stealing cars, maybe it isn't such a bar to being a Green Lantern as it seems.  And, if I recall, didn't Hal go to PRISON for a DUI back in the day?  I'm sure that's all been retconned out of existance...but still.  I remember it.  You might remember it too.  John may not have stolen any cars, but he does have this nasty habit of blowing up planets.  Kyle seems to have lived a pretty exemplary life, all things considered...at least in relation to his comrades-in-arms. 

Green Lanterns are Bad Boys wtih fabulous Behinds.  What more could you possible want?