| Jessica Cruz | |
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.jpg) Textless variant cover ofGreen Lanterns #7 (November 2016). Art by Emanuela Lupacchino. | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | Cameo appearance: Green Lantern #20 (July 2013) Cameo appearance proper: Justice League #30 (July 2014) Full appearance: Justice League #31 (August 2014) |
| Created by | Geoff Johns Ethan Van Sciver |
| In-story information | |
| Full name | Jessica Viviana Cruz |
| Species | Human |
| Team affiliations | Green Lantern Corps Justice League Justice League Odyssey |
| Notable aliases | Green Lantern Power Ring |
| Abilities | Use ofpower ring grants:
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Jessica Cruz, one of the characters known asGreen Lantern, is asuperheroine appearing inAmerican comic books published byDC Comics. Created byGeoff Johns andEthan Van Sciver, she is a member of theGreen Lantern Corps andJustice League, as well as the first female human Green Lantern. Her first full appearance takes place inJustice League (vol. 2) #31 (August 2014), which is also her first cover appearance. Cruz currently operates out ofPortland, Oregon.[1][2][3]
Jessica Cruz has appeared in various media outside comics, including television and films.Myrna Velasco, Cristina Milizia,Dascha Polanco,Jeannie Tirado, andDiane Guerrero have voiced the character in animation
Jessica Cruz's name is mentioned and her right hand appears briefly in a single panel of the 2013 issueGreen Lantern #20. Her next appearance comes inJustice League (vol. 2) #30, when the Ring of Volthoom locates her, and she then gains her powers in the following issue. She was dubbed "Power Ring" while she was host to the Ring of Volthoom but is not a member ofCrime Syndicate of America.[4] Jessica becomes an official member of the Green Lantern Corps, in the Prime Earth reality, at the end ofThe Darkseid War storyline.[5]
Teenager Jessica Cruz and her friends were on a hunting trip when they accidentally stumble across two criminals burying a body. Jessica manages to escape while her friends are murdered but is left severely traumatized and riddled with guilt. The Ring of Volthoom, which feeds off fear and abandonedPower Ring after his death inForever Evil, locates Jessica and forcibly attaches itself to her hand.[6]
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Batman, sent to stop Jessica from unleashing violence and terror, de-powers the ring after convincing Jessica to face her fears and thereby eliminate the emotional weaknesses that allow Volthoom to dominate her.[7] During the AMAZO Virus arc, Jessica succumbs to the effects of the virus, but is cured after Superman creates an antidote. Afterward,Hal Jordan agrees to teach Jessica how to wield her ring in the service of good.
WhenDarkseid's daughter Grail arrives on Prime Earth, she attacks Jessica and uses her ring to open a portal toEarth-Three and summon theAnti-Monitor. In response, the Justice League frees the Crime Syndicate to assist them. Volthoom possesses Jessica, butCyborg briefly overrides him by "hacking" the ring. Jessica sacrifices herself to subdue theBlack Racer by enabling it to reap her own soul. However, it is soon revealed that Volthoom was killed instead, destroying the ring. This heroic act results in a true Green Lantern ring appearing and choosing Jessica as its bearer, making her a full Green Lantern.
InGreen Lanterns: Rebirth #1, Jessica meetsSimon Baz as he is investigating an intrusion by aManhunter. The events are revealed to be a training exercise run by Hal Jordan. He combines Jessica and Simon's power batteries to make them work together, inducts them into theJustice League, and puts them in charge of protecting Earth.
Jessica temporarily dons the Phantom Ring, a prototype power ring that can channel the entire emotional spectrum, and overcomes her previous trauma.
She is later sent to space to train with the Green Lantern Corps and is under the orders ofGuy Gardner, who pushes her around and berates her. However, he agrees to keep the events secret after she defeats him in combat.
Later, Jessica is assigned to monitor the Ghost Sector, a region consisting of recovered planets stolen byColuans. While there, she encounters Cyborg,Starfire, andAzrael piloting a skullship commandeered fromBrainiac in an attempt to enter the sector. Attempting to stop them, she finds herself trapped in the Ghost Sector alongside the others, and they work together to investigate the mysterious region of space asJustice League Odyssey.
Darkseid later kills Jessica and destroys her ring. However, the ring's fragments resurrect her and temporarily grant her enhanced powers.[8]
As a Green Lantern, Jessica is capable of projecting energy-based constructions, flight, and utilizing various other abilities through her power ring which are only limited by her imagination and willpower. Jessica's signature constructs are massive, intricate structures with an organic appearance similar to a giant alien flower. She initially experienced some trouble in creating constructs with the ring, requiring a period of intense concentration to generate larger constructs, but overcame this limitation while training with Simon Baz.
While Jessica was briefly a Power Ring, she initially had no control over the ring. Under the tutelage of Hal Jordan, she learns to overcome the evil powers within the Ring and use it effectively until Volthoom possesses her body. Her feelings of courage help Cyborg decipher the alien language of the ring, and he is able to let her overcome Volthoom's influence for a moment and jump between Black Racer and the Flash which ends up destroying Volthoom and the Ring, freeing Jessica.
Jessica is also an adept survivalist and was able to live by herself for three years. She was seen wielding a shotgun with proficiency when she was able to hit the Ring of Volthoom and keep it at bay for a few moments before it made her its host.[6]
Jessica's ring is partly fused with Volthoom's Travel Lantern, due to it being one of the first seven power rings created by the rogue Guardian Rami during Volthoom's first attack onOa, ten billion years ago. It was the Travel Lantern that allowed Volthoom to make his initial journey to the past, and Jessica's ring connection to it also resulted in Jessica accidentally using the ring to send herself and Simon into the past to escape Volthoom, only to find themselves at the time of Volthoom's assault on Oa.
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