Earth 10 Green Lantern

Metaphor:

Human Rights and Equality

Rogues Gallery

Goldface

Due to a strange accident the woman known as Goldface has a head made of the same material as the sun. Her survival is a marker of her fortitude, but it also makes it hard for her to interact with normal society. As such she wears an impermeable helmet with a gold-enameled stone mask that, thanks to her internal illumination, is transparent from her side even as it is opaque to those viewing her. Still, when Goldface removes her eponymous mask the illumination is blinding, and if she focuses her gaze on something for too long it will simply evaporate under the energy. This has made her a very effective assassin and crime boss, and she now runs a string of the best contract killers in the city who she hires out for individual hits or gang wars as needed. She is a canny business-woman who would be good at her job even if she couldn’t eliminate the opposition with a glance.

Solomon Grundy

The classic re-appears: a super strong, immortal swamp/plant monster that opposes Green Lantern, perhaps as a pawn of the forces that oppose the energy that powers her. His origins are unclear, his powers have to do with strength, durability and a crude ability to manipulate and talk to plant matter. His being unsubtle does not make him any less dangerous, and the swamp will always regrow him.

Sportsmaster

Kyle Lawrence was a world famous natural athlete – decathlon medalist who also played professional baseball and baskeball – a got out of professional sports just as he was tempted to doping to keep his edge. While hosting a charity event ‘competing’ against the Justice Alliance he used a salvaged piece of Kanjar Ro’s technology to drain a fraction of the JAA’s powers, rivaling Aquaman in Dexterity and swimming, Flash in running, Vigilante in gunplay & riding, Superman in Strength & Body and Hawkman in javelin and swordplay. He was able to best the JAA until Green Lantern’s arrival. Returned to normal Kyle was driven back to crime by hypnotic meddling by Hugo Strange, and since then he has an occasional outburst of trying to prove he can best the Green Lantern.

Tattooed Man

Former marine Jeb Martins was discharged for running a smuggling ring. He fell into a life of crime, stumbling upon a cache of magical tattoo ink used sparingly by a Yakuza clan. learning what it could do he painted himself head to toe. His powers launched him into the first rank of smugglers and pirates, making him a concern of the Justice Alliance and the Green Lantern in particular, due to an animus surrounding their first meeting. He occasionally has to deal with assassins from the Yakuza, but none of them have dared claim as much inked power as he has (there may be some reason for that). In addition to being able to animate any objects inked on his body he can also instill Love, Lust, Hate and Fear (the letters of which are tattooed on his knuckles), summon ice, lightning and fog, and any of his tattooed skin is all but impervious to damage.

The Green Knight

Another wielder of a green energy artifact, the Green Knight operates primarily in Western Europe. His green armor and ax give him powers similar to the Green Lanterns, and the two have been evenly matched. While the Lantern’s light burns for justice the ax’s edge is wielded for xenophobia, fear and the herrenvolk. The Green Knight, has henchmen in white supremacist movements across Europe.

ShadowJack

Trapped in an attempt to harness dark energy physicist Jaqueline Kelsa King gained the ability to turn into a living shadow for a variety of powers –two dimensionality, an icy touch, growth, shrinking or stretching – and the power to unleash people’s worst fears and sap their willpower with a touch. Originally acting as a heroine she didn’t realize the darkness power would inherently consume her, making her turn evil. Several times Jaqueline has been able to wrest control of her life back from Shadowjack, but the darkness seems to always return to overwhelm her. Her ability to drain people’s willpower makes her an especially dangerous foe for the Green Lantern, who ends up weakened by the encounter for days afterwards. (This is an amalgam of Eclipso and Obsidian, both parts of the Green Lantern lore, but not exactly like either.)