A trailer for the new season of Stargirl has finally been released, and it promises to be as funny and entertaining as the first one… hoping that moving to The CW won’t affect the writing, of course. In the new trailer, we see Courtney as she tries to find other people to join her new JSA, but ends up being found by one, a girl who claims to be the daughter of the Green Lantern, and who is quite proficient in using the fallen hero’s Power Ring: that’s Jennie Hayden, portrayed by Ysa Penarejo. Jennie, better known with her alias Jade, is indeed Green Lantern’s daughter, and has joined a number of super-teams over the years, JSA included: let’s see together.
Alan Scott, aka the superhero Green Lantern, and Rose Canton, aka the supervillain Thorn, got married when the latter seemed to reform, and for a while they were happy… but Rose felt that her madness hadn’t gone, not forever, and she was terribly afraid. When the couple conceived two children, twins, Rose snapped, and terrified of harming her babies in her folly, she gave them up for adoption: the girl was adopted by Julian and Myrna Hayden, a lovely couple who lived just outside 
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and was named Jennifer-Lynn. She had quite a normal childhood, with only an odd star-shaped birthmark on her hand indicating something extraordinary in her origin, but she never understood just how much extraordinary until she was sexually harassed in her early teens: reacting to the threat, the birthmark started glowing green, and released an energy that enveloped Jennie’s body to protect her. With her skin and hair turned green, Jennie started investigating on her biological parents, but the one she found was a boy named Todd Rice, who looked incredibly like her: he was her long-lost twin brother, who had begun a similar search after he had developed metahuman abilities as well. Joining forces, the two together followed the energy flowing in their bodies to the source, and they realized they were powered by the Starheart, the magical ring held by the original Green Lantern, Alan Scott. Both Jennie and Todd wanted to live up to their father’s legacy, and to use their powers for good: they created the masked identities of Jade and Obsidian, and became crime fighters. Then, they tried to join the ranks of the Justice Society of America, to serve where their father had, but they were rejected, as they were too young and inexperienced… not something that could stop them, of course.
It turned out that many other super-kids like them were in their same situation, deemed too young to fight alongside their super-parents: Hector “Silver Scarab” Hall, son of Hawkman and Hawkgirl, Lyta “Fury” Trevor, daughter of Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor (daughter of the All-Star Squadron‘s Fury following the Crisis), Helena “Huntress” Wayne, daughter of Batman and Catwoman, Albert “Nuklon” Rothstein, grandson of Cyclotron, Henry “Brainwave Jr.” King, son of Brain Wave and Gimmick Girl, and Norda “Northwind” Cantrell, godson of Hawkman. All these kids were taken under 
the protective wind of Skyman, the former teen superhero Star-Spangled Kid, who believed in their potential not despite, but because of their youth, and organized them into Infinity, Inc., giving them a chance to prove themselves when nobody else gave them one. Jade proved to be a pivotal member of the team, and learnt much about herself, mastering also some abilities she had inherited from her mother, besides those inherited from her father. The team kept growing, and with time it welcomed other young “legacy heroes”, such as Wildcat, Doctor Midnight and Hourman, and was briefly led by Mr. Bones, but when Skyman got killed, everything started falling apart, and albeit Infinity, Inc. survived its founder and mentor for quite some time, it didn’t last long, eventually. Jade, however, had learnt a lot while with the team, and was ready to spread her wings on her own. She moved to California, where she started working as a model, and eventually she found her true passion in photography, moving again, this time to New York City, to work in the field. She kept fighting crime as Jade, but in New York she crossed paths with the man who would have changed her life: Kyle Rayner, the current Green Lantern of Earth. Initially her roommate, Kyle became much more, and the two started a romantic relationship, even becoming a crime-fighting duo and joining the Justice League of America together. By this point, Jade had done much, much more than following her father’s footsteps.
A heroine son of heroes, Jennie Hayden started wanting to prove herself worthy in spite of what she felt as an abandonment, but grew into a mature, stable and expert heroine herself, a woman who knows her worth and her value, and has nothing to prove to anybody. As Jade, she was born with a mystic connection to the Starheart, and can tap into its power, being able to fly, to create constructs of green energy powered by her thought, project energy blasts and create energy shields (all ineffective on wood, just like her father); she also has the power to control plants, inherited from her mother, and shares a psychic link with her twin brother Obsidian. The harbinger of a new generation of heroes, Jade fights to protect her loved ones, fights for justice and not for recognition, fully committed to the responsibilities coming with her abilities, as summarized in the oath from the brief time she served in the Green Lantern Corps: “And I shell shed my light over dark evil, for the dark things cannot stand the light – the light of Green Lantern!“.
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