RYAN REYNOLDS (Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures)

Cameron Diaz (Jaimie Trueblood)

Blake Lively (©Warner Bros/courtesy Everett Co)

It’s a tough year to be the Silver Surfer or Black Lightning. When it comes to heroes, green is where it’s at. The new year sees the big-screen debut of both “Green Lantern” and “The Green Hornet.” Confused? No longer.

GREEN LANTERN

Alias

Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds), a cocky fighter pilot

First appeared

1959 comic Showcase #22

Origin

Recruited into a galactic police force after an alien crash-lands on Earth

Powers

A mystical green ring that can create whatever is in the wearer’s mind

A-list love interest

Blake Lively as Carol Ferris

Un-PC sidekick

Thomas Kalmaku, an Inuit mechanic nicknamed “Pieface,” for Eskimo Pie

GREEN HORNET

Alias

Media mogul and playboy Britt Reid (Seth Rogen)

First appeared

A radio serial on a Detroit station in 1936

Origin
Chooses to fight crime after realizing he’s wasted his life

Powers
An array of guns and gadgets

A-list love interest

Cameron Diaz as Lenore Case

Un-PC sidekick
Japanese valet Kato, whose ethnicity was changed to Filipino during WWII