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- Scott became Green Lantern when the Starheart—a mystical, sentient entity composed of highly concentrated magic—fell to Earth and saved him from a train wreck.
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Oct 12, 2020 · In his origin, Scott was a simple train engineer who is saved from what would have been a fatal train accident by a magical green engineer's lantern. The lantern's metal was made from a fallen meteorite that had fallen thousands of years ago in China.
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In Alan Scott: The Green Lantern, Alan's early history is again rebooted, filled out with new retroactive continuity. In 1936, Alan was in a secret romantic relationship with a fellow engineer named Johnny Ladd.
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- POTENTIALLY IMMORTAL. This isn’t really proven, but there’s no reason Alan Scott can’t be an ageless immortal. The power of the Starheart is vast, and enough that he’s been able to conquer the minds of superheroes with a connection to magic.
- AVATAR OF THE GREEN. During the second wave of New 52 stories, we got an Earth 2 comic that placed Alan Scott back on a separate Earth. The character underwent no small amount of changes, but the primary one was that in a universe with no Guardians, the powers had to come from somewhere else.
- HAS LOST CONTROL OF HIS POWERS. As the Starheart happens to be a collection of wild magic which is also sentient, it’s unsurprising writers have told the story of Alan not being entirely in charge of his powers from time to time.
- HAS TWO "SUPER" CHILDREN. Alan Scott has a pretty weird family set-up. Briefly married to a woman who was actually the supervillain Thorn, Alan had two children he didn’t even know about for years.
Jun 14, 2021 · The first Green Lantern, Alan Scott, just revealed a tragic side to his origin story. In a story titled 'He’s the Light of My Life' from DC Pride #1 , Alan Scott explains to his son Obsidian that the accident that led to him becoming Green Lantern also led to the death of someone he loved.
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Jul 13, 2022 · He took some inspiration from Greek mythology, Richard Wagner’s opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung and the sight of a trainman’s green railway lantern. He chose the name Alan Scott by looking at the phone booth and didn’t stop until he found two names he liked.
Scott becomes the Green Lantern. On July 16th, 1940, Alan Scott and Jimmy Henton were travelling aboard a train together. On this particular evening, their romantic encounter would end in tragedy, however.
Aug 6, 2015 · Scott became Green Lantern when the Starheart—a mystical, sentient entity composed of highly concentrated magic—fell to Earth and saved him from a train wreck. Hidden within a strange green flame, the Starheart had been placed within a railroad lantern and it instructed Scott to carve a ring from its metal, promising him great powers if he ...
