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Can a green lantern create a temporary independent automaton? Or do all their constructs require constant will?
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And, yes, they've done it before. Hal Jordan once created a monster, the Chiller Diller, to get out of a date with Carol Ferris, then ended up getting knocked out. The Chiller Diller remained active and menaced the city until he woke up. There have been multiple occasions of rings working on subconscious things, such as maintaining constructs while the Lantern sleeps or keeping them alive and moving while they nap in space.

However, they cannot give their constructs true free will. Say, for example, Tomar Re creates a Superman construct for some reason. The construct would act according to his understanding of Superman and wouldn't act on any realizations or theories that Tomar Re himself didn't have. You see something like this in Justice, where Hal Jordan is forced to convert himself into energy and live in his power ring.

Note, however, that it doesn't have to be their will guiding it. Kyle Rayner once made a pair of artificial legs for someone who had lost theirs in an accident. The person's legs were tied to their own willpower, not his.