Jade
Created by Roy Thomas & Jerry Ordway
+ History
Jade is the daughter of the original Green
Lantern, Alan Scott. She and her twin brother, Todd
(Obsidian), were conceived by
Scott and a young woman named Alyx Florin. In truth, Florin
suffered from multiple a personality disorder; she was also the
form
er villainess, Rose Canton a.k.a. the Thorn. Not long after
the twins were conceived, Rose left Alan without a word. She had
the children in secret, left them up for adoption, and disappeared.
Jennie and Todd were raised separately, by two sets of adoptive
parents and did not meet until adolescence. Jennie was raised by
Julian & Myrna Hayden.
The twins found each other when their powers began to manifest. They eventually traced their parentage to Alan Scott and joined a group of up-and-coming Justice Society protégés. Alan was surprised to learn that he had two children, but they were denied membership in the JSA and formed their own group called Infinty, Inc. Soon after Jade and Obsidian's public debut, Thorn also resurfaced as a villain. (Inf.Inc. #13-14) Green Lantern entered the battle, which was joined by another of his former nemeses, the Harlequin (Molly Maynne; as an undercover member of the U.S. espionage community, Maynne had kept an eye on Thorn on her children for years).
During the melee, Thorn's good personality (Rose) briefly regained control. Rose stabbed herself to prevent the Thorn from killing her children. Before she died, she revealed that she was Alyx Florin, Alan Scott's former wife, and Jade and Obsidian's mother. The Harlequin also then revealed her true identity to them and professed her long unexpressed feelings for Alan. (Inf.Inc. Annual #1) Alan and Molly were soon engaged then married. They were happy to accept Jennie and Todd as their own children, and their bond has grown steadily since then.
During her time with Infinity, Inc., Jennie had a brief relationship with Brainwave II, but his mental instability eventually led to their break-up. When Infinity disbanded, Jade and Obsidian stuck together for a while, encountering Superman (Superman v.2 #46) and running afoul of the mindboggling maze of Mister McEscher. (Showcase '93 #7)
Jade then pursued acting and modeling and served with the short-lived team called the Blood Pack. She lost her inborn powers (Green Lantern/Sentinel: Heart of Darkness #3), and for a time began to exhibit plant-based powers similar to her birth-mother's.
During that battle, she met the latest Green Lantern of Earth, Kyle Rayner. The two became very close and when Kyle was called away into space, he bestowed Jennie with a power ring, making her the sixth Green Lantern of Earth [GL v.2 #107-112]). Better yet, when Kyle acquired godlike powers and took the name Ion, he restored her original powers completely. After that, Kyle proposed to Jennie, but the two never actaully became engaged. As a Green Lantern, Jade assisted (but did not join) the JLA, and she remains a reservist. (JLA #27) When Kyle was again called into space, Jennie was unfaithful and the pair called it off.
Recently, she has joined a new team of Outsiders. She served as that team's leader, assuming control in order to squash the infighting between Arsenal and Nightwing. (Outsiders #16) She was greatly respected as a leader, but her time with the team was short. Jade died in space after answering Donna Troy's call to fight a looming cosmic crisis. At the time of her death, she was in the company of her former lover, Kyler Rayner. When she passed away, the power that Kyle had once lent her returned to him, leaving him changed. Kyle once again took the name Ion. He claims that Jennie-Lynn still lives on, bodiless, inside him. (Rann/Thanagar War: Infinite Crisis Special #1)
+ Powers
Jade was born with the inherent abilities granted by the magic of the Starheart — from which her father's ring is made. She is able to use its power to project green plasma constructs and force from her hand. The energy also allows her to transform her natural human coloring to green. At one point, she expended all of her Starheart energy and was left powerless… until she discovered that she also possesses some latent plant-controlling ability, inherited from her mother. During this time, Jade was given a true Green Lantern Corps ring by Kyle Rayner. When Rayner acquired the powers of a god, he restored her original powers completely.
Since then, she has not exhibited the plant-controlling powers again.
Unlike her Green Lantern predecessors, Jade does not need to recharge her power and has no weakeness to yellow. In the past, she has however demonstrated the weakness to wood which was inherent to her father's ring. It is uncertain, with the changes in her powers, whether she has outgrown this weakness.
Appearances + References
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Lantern v.3 #86, 107-112, 193, Secret Files #2
