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Green Lantern: Rebirth revealed that only a certain type of willpower can use the ring effectively, as evidenced when Green Arrow's "cynical" willpower barely allows him to generate a single arrow and leaves him exhausted after this feat.
 
Main article: Green Lantern in other media
 
Green Lantern is famous for the oath he recites when he charges his ring.
 
“ ...and I shall shed my light over dark evil.
For the dark things cannot stand the light,
The light of the Green Lantern! ”
—Alan Scott
 
(This oath was later given as an in-joke to Tomar-Re, Green Lantern of sector 2813 and the first Lantern Hal Jordan met after Abin Sur.)
 
In the mid-1940s, this was revised into the form that became famous during the Hal Jordan era:
 
“ In brightest day, in blackest night,
No evil shall escape my sight
Let those who worship evil's might,
Beware my power...Green Lantern's light! ”
—Hal Jordan/All Current Lanterns
 
The word "blackest" was often replaced with "darkest" to avoid racist connotations.
 
The above is the most popular version of Green Lantern's oath.
 
Science fiction writer Alfred Bester, who wrote many Green Lantern stories in the 1940s, has been credited as the creator of this oath.
 
However, in an interview with journalist F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre at the 1979 World Science Fiction Convention in Brighton, England, Bester stated that the brightest-day oath was already in place before he began writing for the character.
 
The Pre-Crisis version of Hal Jordan has created the oath when he had three early adventures that inspired him on how he can defeat any attempt to elude him.
 
For instance, he captured robbers who used a powerfully bright flare to blind everyone in an area by using his ring as a radar to find them (In brightest day).
 
The second was when he tracked criminals hiding in a dark cave with a fog like dust suspension that reflected back any external light.
 
Jordan solved the problem by making certain elements of the criminals' bodies grow from within the fog, allowing the Lantern to target them. (In blackest night).
 
Finally, Jordan tracked down safecrackers after an inefficient aerial reconnaissance by detecting the faint shockwaves from the explosives use by the criminals and tracing it back (No evil shall escape my sight).
 
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