Earth-Shattering Kaboom: When Relic destroys the central Green Lantern battery, it renders Oa unstable and it ultimately explodes.Does This Remind You of Anything?: The villain maintains that overdependence on a resource will destroy a society when that resource runs out.Little do they know, but fortunately for them, Kyle is alive and well. Kyle's sacrifice may have replenished the emotional spectrum and saved the universe, but since he's the only White Lantern, they fear that there might not be another chance if this happens again. Despair Event Horizon: In the finale, some of the Green Lanterns don't partake in the oath now that they know their energy source is finite.This actually nicely justifies why the Lanterns don't pitch in to help against the Crime Syndicate takeover on Earth, as they're too busy fighting for their lives against Ruin. Continuity Overlap: Lights Out runs parallel to Forever Evil.Not wanting to relive the experience, Relic decides to take a more forceful approach to the Lanterns. No one listened and sure enough, their light source ran dry and caused the end of the universe. Cassandra Truth: In Relic's old universe, he tried to tell the Lightsmiths that their light is a resource that would dry up eventually.

When he awakens in the DC Universe, he sees that the Lanterns wield light and calls them Lightsmiths out of habit. Call a Rabbit a 'Smeerp': In Relic's old universe, wielders of light were called Lightsmiths.Boom Stick: In Relic's universe the light of the spectrum was channeled in staves rather than rings.During Oa's last stand, he dies when he stays behind to distract Relic so John and the other recruits can flee. His ring chose him because he was not afraid to be left behind to die so that his tribe can continue on their journey. Bookends: Not in regards to the story, but to Green Lantern recruit Ergann.He kicks Atrocitus out and makes the Corps a democracy, he finds them a ship to live in so they won't have to sleep on the ground, and he makes a deal with Hal to give them their own space sector to protect in exchange for helping to fight Relic. Becoming the Mask: Having been sent by Green Lanterns to spy on the Red Lanterns, Guy Gardner eventually starts to like being a Red Lantern.Bat Family Crossover: The third major Lantern crossover since the Flashpoint reboot and the first of the post-Geoff Johns era.After he's been tended to, he's ready to get back in the fight. An Arm and a Leg: During Oa's last stand, Green Lantern recruit Jruk loses his left arm when a building falls on him.Not to be confused with the 2016 horror film.

It will take the Lanterns all they have to prove him wrong.

Fearing that the various Lantern Corps will destroy the universe in a matter which eventually destroyed his universe, he seeks out to destroy them all to save it.

Still recovering from the aftermath of Wrath of the First Lantern, the Lanterns encounter Relic, an ancient being who has survived the end of the universe previous to this one. This story begins in Green Lantern and goes through Green Lantern Corps, Green Lantern: New Guardians, Red Lanterns, before concluding in Green Lantern Annual #2. Lights Out is a month long Green Lantern crossover event that happened in October 2013.

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