Sam Zhao

FIRST APPEARANCE: Earth 2 #2 (August, 2012)
APPEARANCE OF DEATH: Earth 2 #3 (September, 2012)

About five years after the first Apokoliptian invasion of Earth, Alan was about to propose to Sam when the train they were on was derailed by an explosion, killing Sam and injuring Alan. After Alan became Green Lantern and dealt with the "Man of Grey" known as Grundy, he went to China to talk to Sam's father about his death, fearing that he was the one responsible for Sam's death, only to be told that Sam himself may have been the target of the explosion.

As the war between Earth and Apokolips gained in momentum, Sam reappeared to Alan and Grundy, now forced to join forces, announcing that he was the Avatar of The White, the elemental force of the air, and that their time was running out.

When Deathspawn launched its attack upon the Parliament of Earth and killed the embodiment of The Blue and its avatar, the powers of the avatars waned which led the Parliament to instruct Alan Scott to combine the spirits (and therefore the avatars) to combat the invasion, though Sam's spirit still existed within Alan. After being defeated by Darkseid, Alan Scott was awoken from by Sam's essence who revealed that he was chosen as a fellow avatar to ease Alan's transition into realizing his full potential as the last champion of Earth. Unfortunately to embody Earth 2's primordial essences, Alan lost his memories of Sam.