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Green Lantern: Beware My Power

Name: Green Lantern: Beware My Power
Director: Jeff Wamester
Released: 2022
Duration: 88 min

Representation Score

4.7/10

Fair

2022

PG-13

Director

Jeff Wamester

Runtime

88 minutes

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The film's greatest strength lies in its central casting of John Stewart, a Black man who drives the entire plot. This provides meaningful representation in a cosmic epic. However, the film remains tied to traditional genre clichés, reinforcing masculine archetypes for leadership and institutional authority, which limits its impact on gender and cultural diversity. Ultimately, while the racial representation stands out as a success, the lack of LGBTQ+ narratives and disability representation results in a lower overall score.

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Category Breakdown

Does Green Lantern: Beware My Power have LGBTQ+ representation?

Minimal

The film centers on cosmic conflict and the Green Lantern mantle, but it lacks narratives or identities that question the assumption that everyone is straight or cisgender. It operates within a traditional heroic framework.

How does Green Lantern: Beware My Power portray gender?

Limited

The story is driven primarily by male leads such as John Stewart and Hal Jordan. While Hawkgirl is a key ally, the film adheres to conventional masculine frameworks for leadership.

How racially and ethnically diverse is Green Lantern: Beware My Power?

Excellent

The film places John Stewart, a Black man, at the center of the story, where his actions drive the plot. This disrupts the genre's tendency to center white protagonists.

How does Green Lantern: Beware My Power represent religion and culture?

Fair

The story emphasizes duty and cosmic stability through the Green Lantern Corps, maintaining a traditional moral landscape focused on order versus chaos.

Does Green Lantern: Beware My Power include disability representation?

Limited

Characters are portrayed through the lens of peak physical capability for combat. There are no prominent depictions of visible or invisible disabilities or neurodivergent arcs.

Present on Screen

John Stewart is a central Black protagonist who drives the entire plot.
The film avoids reductive clichés when handling the central character's identity.
Meaningful racial representation disrupts the standard white-centric superhero epic.

Limited or Absent

The film lacks representation of LGBTQ+ identities or queer character arcs.
Gender roles follow conventional masculine frameworks, limiting women's ability to drive the story.
There is no visible or invisible representation of disability or neurodivergence.

Official Synopsis

Recently discharged Marine sniper John Stewart is at a crossroads in his life, one which is only complicated by receiving an extraterrestrial ring which grants him the powers of the Green Lantern of Earth. Unfortunately, the ring doesn't come with instructions - but it does come with baggage, like a horde of interplanetary killers bent on eliminating every Green Lantern in the universe. Now, with the aid of the light-hearted Green Arrow, Adam Strange and Hawkgirl, this reluctant soldier must journey into the heart of a galactic Rann/Thanagar war and somehow succeed where all other Green Lanterns have failed.

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