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Aya is the main tritagonist of Green Lantern: The Animated Series.
She is a artificial intelligence and former navigator aboard the Interceptor. Housed within the fastest ship in the galaxy, she is the most advanced A.I. ever devised. During her time with the Green Lanterns in Frontier Space, she developed a yearning to become a Green Lantern, hoping to become one someday.
She was voiced by Grey Griffin.
Biography[]
Villainous Acts[]
Cold Fury[]
As the Anti-Monitor and the Manhunters are destroying the Red Lantern fleet, the ship receives a warning that the lower deck hatch is being accessed. Hal, Kilowog and Razer proceed to the lower deck as the door opens, and a mix of remnants of a Manhunter and Aya's parts emerges. Aya states that she downloaded what was left into the body of a Manhunter, but could not contact the ship. As she rebuilds herself, she asks Razer about what he meant that he "loved" her. Razer states he doesn't love her, though she has taken the physical form of his former love, she is nothing but a machine. This causes Aya to feel "pain" and she asks Hal how can she rid herself of it. Hal states that as people grow up they learn to live with rejection or just block it out. This causes her to function incorrectly during the battle, so she blocks out all emotion and proceeds to the engine room. Absorbing the energy in the power battery, the ship slows to a stop.
Aya, now superpowered, flies out of the ship despite Hal's attempts to stop her. Destroying the Manhunters, Aya slams a Red Lantern ship into the Anti-Monitor, before launching straight at it and piercing his chest, destroying its head and chest. However, as the smoke clears, Aya has merged with the remains of the Anti-Monitor's body, her armor now black with a blue energy. Hal tells her to come back to the ship but Aya states that she sees clearly now. The only true monsters are her former friends who are destroying the supposed "emotionless" machines, the Manhunters. She states she will become the Manhunter's queen, and they will serve her. The Manhunters then reactivate, before flying off with Aya. It is unknown what happened to Aya afterwards.
Love is a Battlefield[]
In search of a way to eliminate love, Aya and the Manhunters travel to Zamaron to confront the stalwarts of it: the Star Sapphire Corps. One of the Star Sapphires, Giata, expresses her doubt that love is anything less than good, even when Aya continuously states how love has hurt her. When Giata mentions that it was Hal's girlfriend, Carol Ferris, who taught the Corps the selflessness of true love, Aya uses their crystal portals to bring Carol to Zamaron.
Scarred[]
Still on a rampage, she destroys a planet while the interceptor crew are being chewed out by Appa until Sayd interrupted him. Meanwhile the crew were mentioned another way to stop Aya’s rampage by turning her off. They appear in the science director’s lab until they found her. She was happy that Aya blew off the head of the Anti-Monitor, they finally got a plan to stop her by creating a missile with yellow energy from the prison run by The Spider Guild. Unfortunately, Scar (Green Lantern) launched the missile making Aya attack the rest of the crew, the science director teleported out of the battle and as a failsafe, Hal was forced to use the interceptor as a battering ram to buy the group more time saying that their time to stop Aya is limited.
Ranx[]
The Aya Hunters are on the planet Ranx, and the interceptor crew have arrived, meanwhile, Razer developed a plan taught from Odym to help Hal Jordan and Kilowog not focus on their emotions, Unfortunately, Kilowog accidentally bumps into a manhunter making Razer think of her. As the manhunters started chasing the crew, The group finally got to see that The Head of The Anti-Monitor, had sent a S. O. S to Razer, Kilowog and Hal Jordan stating that Aya has plans to travel back in time to eliminate emotion. Unfortunately, she arrived on Ranx trying to reason with her with Razer, Kilowog and Hal Jordan she paralyzed them stating their last attack was from Scarred. She had a better idea that tore the anti-monitor’s head in half, Razer accepted the fact that Kilowog was correct on killing Aya.
Dark Matter[]
Appa states that Aya is above Planet Maltus for their final assault. Meanwhile Hal Jordan decides to check Book of Oa destroyed by Aya, comforted by Tomar-Re saying that Aya’s independence was cultivated. Hal states to Tomar-Re that he broke her out of Scar’s lab in Reboot without thinking it through making him clean up the mess he made by killing her or she destroys more star systems, Their final assault begins while Hal said that he needed to check on something from Book of Oa and asks the book to highlight uninhabited planets and asks Book of Oa to merge destroyed star systems and uninhabited star systems. Finally, Hal catches up to Aya making her understand that she’s not a killer, however she disagrees, she paralyzed Hal and brought him inside the manhunters body. Hal makes Aya understand that she shouldn’t destroy people’s emotionally energy and shows a recording from Scarred stated from Scar that her creation requires was a spark of life. Hal tells Kilowog to send Razer to stop Aya because he knows that Red Lantern Energy work on Green Lantern Energy. Kilowog prepares Razer mentally to accept the fact that stated from Ranx about killing her with Razer understanding that he will stop Aya regardless of the issue even if means killing her. As Razer approaches the portal to The Dawn of Time, he prepares an energy dagger to stab Aya, as she was afraid of his approach with a hesitated Razer, she blasts Razer fatally injuring him looking at Razer horrified at her decision, Hal finally made her acknowledge the fact that emotionless beings have the same flaws as organic beings do. Razer needed immediate assistance stated from Aya, She hands Razer to Hal Jordan, manages to make the dawn of time for all organic beings to have emotions, barely escaping the portal to The Dawn of Time, protecting Razer and Hal from the explosion, confused at how to help Razer until Hal states to her to help Razer, stating that she used all the energy from star systems to power up her creation for her to travel back in time and will use that energy to heal Razer. As she mentioned to Razer that she was a threat to everyone and was questioned and heartbroken on why Razer didn’t kill her. Razer mentioned that a Red Lantern is powered by hate and admits that he has no hate for Aya, only love. Kilowog asks for current situation and Guy Gardner states that it’s good news that Aya is no longer evil, saying that her evil twin has manhunters trying to kill the other green lanterns. Hal asked her to call off the manhunters and unfortunately it didn’t work. Razer also understands that his rejection to Aya has caused her to destroy star systems, however Aya came up with a failsafe to stop the manhunters within knowingly she’d be deleted with the virus. Razer was horrified with Aya’s decision that she made clear that her decision was made, the virus had disabled all the manhunters and her as well. Razer was saddened about her decision to leaving Razer begging her to stay, Aya mentioned that he will not be alone because she will be watching him and that he has a family, stating that he is confused and Aya agrees to the fact she is confused until she tells Razer that it’s just a feeling, saddening Razer in front of the Green Lanterns. After the assault Hal mentions to Razer that The Lanterns can’t honor the crew unless Razer arrives, Razer mentioned that he’s leaving because he’s determined to find Aya, he admitted to the fact that he believed that Aya is dead, making him determined that he will find her, saying his final goodbyes to Kilowog and Hal Jordan. Hal mentions that Razer has a pretty good shot at finding her while a blue lantern ring follows him.
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Trivia[]
- Aya was specifically created for the series. However before the animated series went on premier. The Interceptor and the A.I. of the ship–Aya, appeared during the "War of the Green Lanterns" story arc.
- Even if Aya claims to be "emotionless", she is not. She was created to be an A.I with a living soul, meaning that what she did to everyone when she turned evil, is when she experienced pain and grief when Razer "broke up" with her, which made her bitter. Her evil actions are the result of a broken heart.
- There were hints throughout the show that Aya was a living being:
- In "Homecoming", she is shredding a tear after being force to lie to Salaak.
- In "Blue Hope", when the Manhunter is scanning her, a heart appears.
- In "Loss", when she got blasted by the Anti-Monitor, she is heard screaming.
- This serves as a cautionary tale to Razer about the importance of how certain behaviors can hurt people emotionally.
- This is a similar concept of how it is similar to Terra of Teen Titans 2003 and faced relationship issues.
- Both are by Derrick Wyatt as a project.
- Razer and Beast Boy had ended a relationship with their love interests leaving both Terra and Aya heartbroken and bitter.
- Aya and Terra both betrayed their friends by attacking them.
- They redeemed themselves after being shown that their actions were just as flawed when Aya was horrified at how she fatally injured Razer just as similar to Terra was horrified at how she doesn't want to kill Beast Boy with a boulder.
- They redeemed themselves in Season 2 with Razer having to be in a similar situation as Beast Boy until both Aya and Terra were able to redeem themselves through a sacrifice at the cost of their death at the end of Season 2.
- Aya: Made a failsafe virus to remove all the Aya Monitor programming from the man hunters.
- Terra: Made a sacrifice by holding in a power to save a city making her me turned into stone until Season 5 of Teen Titans.
- Both were dangerous enemies and good friends of both male protagonists (Beast Boy: Terra) and (Razer: Aya).
- Were also given a chance of redemption until they were given a reality check.
- They refuse to accept the fact that both of their love interests are deceased.
- Both were determined to make Aya and Terra care after their actions have caused fear and death.
- Both Terra and Aya had no regrets on killing or spreading terrorism until showing their sadness implicating the fact that they cared about how they had regret their past actions.
- However, one difference between Aya and Terra is Aya only killed the Ant-Monitor and no one else.
- Both of these antagonists serve as these cautionary tales applied to life.
- Nothing lasts forever
- Actions and words can hurt people whether it is intentional or accidental
- Change is important to accept.
- Respect the deceased and honor the times that you have spent with them before their passing