Lieutenant Green Lieutenant Green Lieutenant Green is a fictional character in the 1960s British Supermarionation television series "Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons" and its 2000s computer-animated remake, "Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet". In both series, Green serves as the personal assistant to Spectrum commander-in-chief Colonel White, and is shown to be an expert in computer programming and electronics. In the former, he is a native of Trinidad and Tobago, and as well as being the only non-white male officer on Cloudbase, he is the only lieutenant among its personnel. In the latter, the character is re-imagined as an African-American woman. The original
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