 The Green Turtle as originally written has no special powers but is a skilled fighter and flies a high-tech Turtle Plane.He wears a large, flowing cape with a green turtle emblem, and is occasionally depicted with a huge, shadowy, black turtle silhouette rearing behind him, though the significance of this is never established in the original series.In 2014, Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew created a six-issue miniseries "The Shadow Hero" to revive the Green Turtle, with a retcon explaining the turtle silhouette as a spirit who keeps the Green Turtle from getting shot.