The Green Lantern Corps is an elite organization comprised of heroic warriors from across the known universe. Selected for their honesty and courage, they are given the fabled Green Lantern ring, a powerful weapon that's capable of transforming their will into almost anything they can imagine. Throughout the DC Universe, these Emerald Warriors protect the innocent and uphold justice.
While the Green Lantern Corps is filled with the most fiercely intelligent, cunning and savvy warriors in the DCU, the Justice League's G'nort is most assuredly not one of them.
Created by Keith Giffen, J.M. DeMatteis and Kevin Maguire in 1988's Justice League International #10, G'Nort debuted during the Millenium crossover event. In a pitched battle with the evil android Manhunters, the League and their Green Lantern allies storm the hidden stronghold of the Manhunters, only to find the villains have vacated, and a hapless G'nort is found wandering the facility completely lost.
Hal Jordan explains that G'nort is an idiot whose uncle had some pull with the Guardians of the Universe -- the ancient leaders of the Corps -- and that G'nort was posted to the remote space sector because it was completely devoid of life. G'nort has a great deal of heart and is courageous and honorable, but he's not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed. G'nort joins the heroes in an effort to thwart the evil androids, but his sole contribution to the battle is getting stuck in the ventilation system.
Like a stray puppy, G'nort followed the Justice League back to Earth and have several adventures with them, among them dealing with his "arch-enemy," the Scarlet Skier. In his own way, G'Nort also helped Big Barda, Martian Manhunter and Rocket Red rescue Barda's husband, Mister Miracle, from the interstellar despot Manga Khan, and he narrowly surviving a run-in with Khan's hired killer Lobo. Later, G'nort and the Skier would be given the "honor" of becoming members of the newest branch of the Justice League based in Antarctica. The team was the brainchild of Maxwell Lord, the League's not-yet-evil benefactor, and was largely intended to keep G'nort, the Skier and a reformed Injustice League out of his hair.
Eventually, it was revealed that G'Nort's Power Ring was not actually from the Green Lantern Corps, and that he and his uncle G'neuman had been given their rings by an alien race called the Poglachians, who impersonated the Guardians and gave rings to beings who could amuse them. This turned out to be a plot by the Weaponers of Qward, enemies of the Green Lantern Corps, who wanted to destroy the Corps' reputation by giving fake power rings to the decidedly unworthy. Eventually, G'nort and Guy Gardner join forces to stop the Weaponers, but G'nort gives the Weaponers information about where to find Hal Jordan when they threaten his uncle. G'nort later redeems himself by rescuing Guy and destroys the source of the fake power rings, saving the day. Reluctantly, Guy informs the Guardians that G'nort was the hero of the hour and in recognition of his valor the hapless hero is made a legitimate Green Lantern.
G'nort would eventually be kicked out of the Justice League and have a series of solo adventures depicted in the pages of Green Lantern Corps Quarterly. During the Emerald Twilight event when the Corps was destroyed, G'nort lost his power ring and joined another intergalactic law-enforcement group, the Darkstars, until that organization was disbanded.
After bouncing around the DC Universe for a while, G'Nort eventually rejoined the restored Corps. He would be portrayed much more seriously in Howard Chaykin and Michele Stewart's Guy Gardner: Collateral Damage series, in which G'nort's homeworld was destroyed and much of his family was lost in an interstellar war.
As the world of the Green Lanterns grew wider and more complex, G'Nort faded from view even more. However, he made an unlikely return in the New 52. During 2013's "Wrath of the First Lantern" storyline, he reappeared in Green Lantern #20, the final issue of writer Geoff Johns' lengthy run. After that, G'Nort resurfaced again, having learned that he was the cousin of Larfleeze, the keeper of the greed-fueled Orange Lantern. However, G'Nort has not appeared in comics since he appeared alongside the Green Lantern Corps in Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps #50.
While he's certainly not the most distinguished Green Lantern out there, G'nort's legacy has endured both in comics as well as in guest appearances on cartoons like Batman: The Brave & The Bold and Justice League Action. G'nort may not be the brightest Lantern, but he's still a darn good boy.