Forcibly transformed into Star Sapphire, a man-hating supervillain who also wants to marry Hal Jordan for some reason? Been there! Somehow creates an evil male persona called the Predator who magically impregnates her with a baby that is then taken away by the actual devil? Bought the T-shirt! You could fill an entire book-or several-analyzing the ways that Carol’s suffering over the decades has been specifically misogynistic, specifically designed to humiliate and violate a strong-willed career woman the way her agency has been continually thwarted and presented as a twisted, psychosexual obsession with Hal, the way she’s been used to conflate love and sex and rape in truly alarming ways that a therapist would have a field day with. Name a horrible trope and she’s suffered through it. Look, here’s the thing: reading Carol’s history is like Misogyny in Comics: Ultimate Edition. By signing up you agree to our terms of use Thank you for signing up! Keep an eye on your inbox. Here are a few of my favorites, in order of introduction: And the less said about the 2000s-era Star Sapphire costume, the better.ĭespite this, there have been a number of seriously great female ring bearers over the decades. The 1988 murder of Green Lantern Katma Tui, also killed in a kitchen to make a point to a male Lantern, is another particularly egregious example. It was a Green Lantern comic that spawned the term “women in refrigerators,” coined by Gail Simone to describe the trope of women being killed or otherwise grievously harmed in order to cause angst for male characters, when Kyle Rayner’s girlfriend Alex was dismembered by a supervillain and left in Kyle’s refrigerator for him to find. Though there are officially seven Earth-based Green Lantern leads in the main DCU-Alan and six official Corps members-only one of them is a woman, and it took 74 of those 80 years for her to get a ring. Now, the GL mythos is a sprawling and complicated one and host to some very good stories, but it has not always been kind to women. This summer marks the 80th anniversary of Green Lantern-that is, if you’re counting from the debut of the OG Lantern, Alan Scott.
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