Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner)

Kyle Rayner was a struggling graphic artist in Los Angeles. Son to Mexican-American father Aaron and Irish mother Maura Rayner, Kyle's infant life was spent with his parents constantly on the run. Aaron used the Military as a cover; in truth he was a C.I.A. BlackOps agent. When Kyle was 3, Aaron had to leave Kyle with his mother in order to protect them. He never came back yet was never listed as killed in action. Kyle and his mother settled and grew up in Los Angeles. Kyle attended North Hollywood High School as a teenager. Years later Kyle found out his father's real name was Gabriel Vasquez but was already scarred from growing up fatherless. He would soon to take comfort from another paternal figure... Ganthet.

Kyle first witnessed a green shooting star moving upwards in the night sky while on a nighttime beach date with his on-again off-again photographer girlfriend Alexandra Dewitt. The shooting star was actually famed Green Lantern Hal Jordan, who had been driven insane by the destruction of Coast City and went on a murderous rampage, destroying the Power Battery, the Guardians of the Universe and the Green Lantern Corps. Only one Guardian named Ganthet survived Jordan's rampage, reforging Jordan's discarded Power Ring as the Corps' final legacy.

Later, Ganthet traveled to Earth, appearing in an alleyway outside of a nightclub and encountered two humans. One was a drunken homeless man and the other was Kyle who was getting some fresh air and spotted the same green falling star as before, this time falling to Earth. It was Ganthet, and the Guardian thrust the final ring into Kyle's hand muttering "You will have to do" before disappearing. Putting on the ring, Kyle found himself dressed in a standard Green Lantern uniform.

Unfamiliar with the concept of Green Lantern, Kyle went to Alex's apartment and showed her the ring and his new powers and the two made a plan, Kyle would be a superhero and Alex would photograph him in action, giving both their careers a much needed boost. Kyle had trouble at first with controlling the ring due to not knowing how it worked but with Alex's guidance and support, he quickly learned basic GL abilities like flying and constructs. However, there was much confusion over his identity as he was wearing the GL uniform commonly associated with Hal Jordan. Alex brought this to Kyle's attention and urged him to make his own identity, leading to him redesigning the costume to better fit his personality.

Following his victory and encounter with Superman, Kyle began to feel good about himself and was settling into his new life as a superhero but unfortunately for him, tragedy was about to strike. Shadowy forces within the government had obtained a fragment of glowing green metal from the homeless man who had been in the alley when Kyle received his ring and sent the villain Major Force to Alex's apartment, since she had published her photos of Kyle as Green Lantern. When Kyle returned from a successful mission, he found Alex had been brutally murdered and her body stuffed in the fridge, and Kyle didn't have time to grieve as he was confronted by Major Force. The two began a brutal fight and Kyle appeared to be winning before his ring ran out of energy, allowing Major Force to gain the upper hand.

When Major Force presented Kyle with the glowing green energy fragment and demanded to know what it was, the fragment transformed itself into a Green Lantern power battery which recharges Kyle's ring. Once again fully charged Kyle quickly defeated Major Force and demanded to know who sent him and why he murdered Alex only to be confronted by the Los Angeles Special Crimes Unit who tried to arrest the two of them for Alex's murder. Major Force escaped immediate prosecution due to his government ties while Kyle fled back to his apartment where he met Alan Scott, who filled him in on the Green Lantern Corps, Hal Jordan and the legacy Kyle had just fallen into.

Although he acted alone for many years, when the Corps was reformed, his skill level gave him a position as an Honor Guard, only behind Salakk and the Guardians in the chain of command of the Corps. He has also been a host for the Ion entity, and a member of the Justice League.

Power Ring Rayner is a wielder of a Green Lantern Power Ring, which enables him to construct anything out of light based on his imagination and willpower. The ring possesses a wide array of functions such as: translating alien languages, flight, the ability to breath in space, illusion casting, enhanced strength and durability, etc.