Superman: The Animated Series (TV Series)

In Brightest Day... (1999)

Peter Mark Richman: Abin Sur, Guardian #1

Quotes 

• Guardian #1 : We are grateful for your help, but there is much work for you on your home planet, Green Lantern of sector 2-8-1-4.

  The Green Lantern aka Kyle Rayner : No offense, but you guys can't be serious. There must be someone better suited for the job, like him.

  [indicates Superman] 

  Guardian #1 : The ring has chosen you, Kyle Rayner.

  The Green Lantern aka Kyle Rayner : But I'm just an artist. I doodle in the margins of notepads, I daydream about color and form, and monster trucks. I live half my life in a fantasy world.

  Superman : You sound perfect.

• The Green Lantern aka Kyle Rayner , Guardian #1 , Guardian #2 : [placing his power ring in the glowing center of the power battery, Kyle sees the faces of the Guardians who recite with him the oath of the Green Lantern Corps as he recharges his ring]  In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight. Let those who worship evil's might, beware my power--Green Lantern's Light!

• Guardian #2 : Abin? Abin Sur?

  Guardian #1 : No, it's the Kryptonian.

  Guardian #2 : We are the Guardians of the Universe.

  Guardian #1 : Welcome to Oa, Superman. Unfortunately, your arrival confirms our worst fears. Abin Sur, Green Lantern of Sector 2814, is dead.

• Superman : You need help. I'll go...

  Abin Sur : No. Too late. He needs your help now.

  Superman : Who?

  Abin Sur : The Green Lantern.

  Superman : [Abin's physical body vanishes, leaving only his suit]  Green Lantern?

• Abin Sur : [sending his power ring off on its mission]  Must keep safe. Go, find another. Choose carefully. Choose well.

  [as it travels around Metropolis, it eventually ends up in the Daily Planet and hits Kyle on the side of the head] 

  Kyle Rayner : Ow!

  [picking it up, he checks the stalls and sees they're empty] 

  Kyle Rayner : That's weird. Someone's been eating Cracker Jacks.

• Guardian #1 : The Green Lantern Corps exists to promote order and justice throughout the universe. Recruits from all sentient interplanetary species have answered our call.

  Guardian #2 : We have entrusted each Green Lantern with a great power. A power which all have used wisely. All but one.

  Superman : Sinestro?

  Guardian #1 : When we determined that he was unfit to wield the power, we removed it.

  Guardian #2 : But he found another source.

  Guardian #1 : Abin Sur was not the first of his victims. And with each ring he destroys, Sinestro gains power.

  Guardian #2 : No Green Lantern can defeat him alone. He needs you, Superman.

  Guardian #1 : Help him. Help the Green Lantern.