The Green Lantern would beat Superman because Superman's weaknesses lie in
And since Green Lantern rings are basically energy manipulation devices, replicating Kryptonite radiation is well within their capabilities. In fact, Green Lantern rings have been shown to create massive amounts of Kryptonite radiation in both the Silver and Modern Age.
Physical strength? Superman hands down. While Green Lantern can use the ring to enhance his strength, it's still nowhere near Superman's.
The Green Lantern Corps are among the strongest forces in the DC Universe, but even they can fall prey to villains - and two of them can be defeated by the Joker from The Dark Knight.
3 Can't Beat: Silver Surfer
As arguably the most powerful cosmic beings in their respective universes, Silver Surfer is far more likely to overpower Green Lantern.
4 Could Defeat: Venom
Whether its Eddie, Flash, or even Mac Gargan wearing the symbiote, its weaknesses to sound and fire should be easy enough for Green Lantern to expose and defeat another alien that threatens innocent lives.
The color yellow is Green Lantern's primary weakness, but he was able to use it to save the Justice League. In 1960's Brave and the Bold #30, the Justice League confronts the android Amazo for the first time.
Hal Jordan is the most famous Green Lantern as well as one of the strongest. As such, he has more than enough to be able to take Black Adam down. With his ring, Jordan can do and create pretty much anything he wants.
Yes, a Green Lantern can defeat The God of Thunder.
He commonly annoys Superman, though he is blissfully unaware of this. However, in The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part, Superman accepts him as a friend, due to him having glitter on his body.
Sure Green Lantern Guy Gardner can be obnoxious, but essentially every hero in the DC Universe finds Guy to be generally abrasive. Batman seems to have it out for Hal largely due to what seems like Hal's particular brand of arrogance and determination.
Blue Lantern Corps
Blue is the color of hope in the Emotional Electromagnetic Spectrum and Blue Rings are given to those who bring hope for the future to others. It is the most powerful color but also the most difficult to master and needs Green nearby to reach its full potential.
7 Not Worthy: The Green Lanterns Are Unworthy
It may seem odd, but there is no member of the Green Lantern Corps who is worthy of Mjolnir.
1 NO CHANCE: GREEN LANTERN
While we could see Hulk eventually being able to shatter Green Lantern's powerful energy constructs given enough time and strength increases, Green Lantern is just as likely to take Hulk out in a number of ways that get around his brute strength.
While Superman is one of the most powerful heroes in the DC Universe, enhanced to godlike levels by the Sun's radiation, The Flash's physics-defying powers are capable of killing him not by playing on his famous vulnerability to magic or his weakness to Kryptonite, but simply by hitting him so hard, even his ...
Of all his weapons, Darkseid's Omega Beams are the most iconic and devastating, and yet DC has revealed that Green Lantern can effectively stop them.
Even though Superman is often considered the most powerful character in the DC Universe, Shazam definitely comes close, and he can even beat the Man of Steel. And with a massive power upgrade, there's no question that Shazam can meet Superman blow for blow—despite the upgrade's terrible side effects.
Yellow is fear. Green Lanterns used to be unable to use their rings against yellow, because it represented fear. A: Okay, it actually makes much more sense than it seems.
Superhuman Strength: While not super strength of the conventional sense, a Lantern while using constructs created by the ring becomes capable of lifting/moving tremendous weights far heavier than 100 tons with little effort.
His magic-based ring gives him the kind of power that would far outstrip the likes of Hal Jordan and John Stewart. The contemporary iterations of Green Lantern are typically members of an intergalactic peacekeeping organization known as the Green Lantern Corps.
Unfortunately, he uses too much power to resist the Flash's vibrations and ends up killing him. Nevertheless, when it comes to a fight between friends, Flash beats Green Lantern nearly every time.
As the fearless ring-wielding Green Lantern, Hal Jordan was a cocky and brash adventurer who believed himself to be invincible. His polar opposite, Barry Allen was a modest and clean-cut police scientist who respected his own mortality.
Green Lantern has many advantages over Joker. His ring operates at light speed, grants him a ranged advantage, and is a superior, more versatile weapon than nearly anything in his opponent's arsenal. There is a fatal flaw in its design against this particular foe; it requires willpower to use.
Green Lanterns are some of the most powerful heroes in DC Comics, and if they were to ever face the Mad Titan himself, they'd beat him easily.