Hal Jordan
Hal Jordan has the universe's coolest weapon and no idea what to do with it.
Just The Facts
- A Green Lantern's ring is powered by the wearer's willpower and imagination.
- Hal's design was originally going to be a standard looking, straight-laced, handsome white guy with brown hair.
- They stuck with that design.
Every Boy's Fantasy
Hal Jordan got his powers the American way: somebody handed them to him.
A dying alien name "Abin Sur" (pronounced, "for-gett-ible plot dee-vice") crash lands on Earth and asks his ring to find an honest man to wear it once he's dead. Turns out he should have asked for someone with an imagination too. Hal Jordan is immediately transported/teleported/whisked away/zoomed over/shot out of a cannon (depending on which version you read or watch) to the crash site.
Hal accepts the ring and becomes one of the universe's most powerful beings!
What Guys Would Really Do With This Power
If we could create hard-light constructs of anything we wanted ... we think most of them would look like this...
We would spend all day in our rooms with the green versions of whatever or whoever we wanted.
And...that's about it. No superheroics. No work. No school. This would pretty much take up all of our time.
With Great Power Comes Great Psychotic Breakdowns
With DC Comics needing a big crossover to coincide with the Death & Return of Superman from 1993-1994, they decided to make Hal Jordan go batshit crazy and try to take over the universe. One of the returning Supermen and the Cyborg Superman helped push Hal over the edge. He and a yellow-skinned villain named Mongul destroyed Hal's home, Coast City.
Hal looked at his ring and decided he should just re-create the entire city from his mind. Makes sense...if you've gone completely insane. He figured he needed more power to do it, though, and flew to Oa to obtain the source of his ring's power, the great big Power Battery guarded by a billion other Green Lanterns. Hal killed a few, chopped off limb's of others and absorbed the battery's power to become "Parallax".
No Detective Skills Whatsoever
Hal could have avoided pretty much every misadventure from the start. The key is to know who is going to turn on him in the end. See, several of his worst enemies started as his friends. He should have seen it coming, really. The trend seems to be giant heads and ugly mustaches ...
"Take that, Coast City!"
If only Hal had noticed his buddy Sinestro twirling his mustache and chuckling every time he saw a railroad track.
Alan Scott, I only trust a super hero if he has a AARP membership... and a hot green daughter that wears tight spandex. And, has a ridiculous weakness.
Replyi mentioned this to my dad, since he read green lantern when he was a kid, and he told me that maybe hal jordan just has a very strong love of irony :p
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ReplyJohn is the best for the simple fact that he actually knows how to fight (Hand to hand, sniper/gun skills, battlefield leadership, etc.).
Reply Hide All See All 5 RepliesImagine your city is being attacked and you find out a G.L. is on his way to save your city from being wiped off the earth.
Which Lantern do you want to show up?
A) The Test Pilot
B) The Comicbook Artist
C) The Special Ed. Teacher
D) The Marine
Someone said Affirmative Action(or the need for diversity) is the reason why we have a black G.L. ...WTF! That person then goes on to say a Kryptonian, a Martian, and an Amazon is diverse enough. Granted J'onn is green, but most of the time when he changes into a human can you guess what race they(artist/writers) usually have him turn into? I LOVE Superman, but why do all Kryptonians have to be white? Unless I'm mistaken, in the past all of the Amazons were white, only recently did they show Amazons of different skin color. Basically MOST of your A-List superheroes are white, while mostly all black superheroes are C or B-List at best.
Do they think only whites read comics?
"Do they think only whites read comics?"
If they did, they would be very close to correct.
When all these heroes were created they hadn't heard of a little thing called the civil rights movement yet. So that's why they're all white.
Learn about 1950's america and you will learn why there was originally no black superheroes. Also, I'd take the comicbook artist. He actually was creative (although sometimes stupid) I mean, would you think to blow your enemies away with giant fans?
GL to call if your in trouble: (sector 2814 only please)
5. Kyle rayner, moody emo artist, still suprised he doesn't have a vagina
4. John Stewart, Marine, but a clinically depressed one.
3. Alan scott, Golden Age GL, probably suprise you with one or two old timey racist comments, but then again his daughter is hot and he's been ring slinging fourty years longer than anybody else... and also he's occasionally evil.
2. Hal Jordan, Test pilot, ballz of steel, and there's a good chance a half naked star saphire will be on his tail.
1. GUY GARDNER, Hands down the best to call, boxer so he can fight sure, but he also is the one most likely to take you out drinking in vegas and get you laid.
As you can see, you're wrong.
i'd go for the clmic book artist, you know the one with the biggest imagination, was able to have the willpower entity possess him and defeated parallax...on his own...
You can even hear it in the name. Sinestro = Evil. Easy!
ReplyAlso, Sinestro= Lefty
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ReplyI always ask this kind of questions, but no respones here, who can tell me whether I can share this with my POZ friends on POZ-Dating[.]Com ?
Mmm, spam...
so he basically has real life scribblenauts power
ReplyPretty much. I hadn't thought of it that way. Wait a minute, his mind doesn't have a dictionary. He can create things that don't even exist.
Stopped reading past the image, but I'm pretty sure Hal's powers were limited to a set of pre-determined things he could make. It wasn't until Kyle Rayner that Green lanterns could make anything they imagined with the ring, if memory serves...
ReplyI don't think Hal Jordan was restricted, I'm pretty sure the reason Kyle Rayner could make so many more things was because he was an artist, and so he had a crazy elaborate imagination.
They aren't restricted. But keep this in mind too; when you're in a fight and you see an opening while you COULD imagine Godzilla with the Hindenburg for his face stomping on them your more likely to think PUNCH THAT GUY THERE so that is what happens.
Yeah, but in some, that's what he did when he first got the ring, make green versions of hot girls and, uh... do ''things'' with them.
ReplyStill not a chart.
Reply"And...that's about it. No superheroics. No work. No school. This would pretty much take up all of our time."
ReplyI though the article ended here, which would have been hilarious.
I don't like being a dick or blatantly insulting people I don't know, but stick to stuff you know about. superheroes isn't one of them.
ReplySo, if the ring is limited only by imagination...why does everything come out green?
Reply Hide All See All 4 RepliesIt only taps into the green part of your imagination.
It's eco-friendly. The last thing the world needs is a superhero contributing to global warming, like Batman and his ozone-killing Batmobile.
I think the actual mythology for Green Lantern goes something like...
When the universe began, there was nothing, or blackness. From nothing came The Entity, or life, which is represented by the color white. With the birth of The Entity, life was defined by emotion, breaking white into a spectrum of colors representing emotional extremes. Red (anger), Orange (avarice), Yellow (fear), Green (willpower), Blue (hope), Indigo (compassion), and Violet (love), as well as the pure force of Life (white) and the emotional void of Death (black).
Each of these fundamental colors is represented by a Lantern Corps, and their power rings are linked to the specific color of their spectrum, requiring the presence of that emotion in their wielder to work, and manifesting as the color of that emotion when used to create constructs of light. Ergo, Green Lanterns always produce green light constructs, Atrocitus always produces red constructs, Larfleeze produces orange, and so on, and so forth. It was covered pretty extensively in Blackest Night.
TL;DR Because Green Lanterns use willpower to create their constructs, and willpower is green.
To add to Durflehop's comments:
There are also different interactions between the different corps:
- Red (rage) is calmed by blue (hope).
- Orange (avarice) has it hunger satisfied by blue.
- Yellow (fear) is drained by blue.
- Green (will) is supercharged by blue.
- Blue is ineffective without the presence of green.
- Indigo (compassion) is able to emulate the abilities of the other colors.
- Violet is able to convert others to its corps.
there's only two problem with this:
Reply1. He used a lot of green fists in the silver, bronze and dark age. After his return, he got more creative
2. He can't use his powers only to his pleasure and not save the universe. That means the suspension or even expulsion from the GL Corps.
dork alert!
i saw an episode of super friends where he makes an orange helicopter
getting punched by the very essence of imagination must feel very meta.
ReplyI don't think you understand what "meta" means.
Why only inflict physical damage when you can inflict emotional damage at the same time? With the power of imagination anything is possible!
ReplyOption 1: Dick whip. Just like a whip but it's a dick.
Option 2: Dick gladiator. Gladiator made of dicks weilding the dick whip.
Still thinking to small, f**k it go for option 3!
Option 3: No one shall escape the dick colloseum!
Bonus level: All dicks will have a lovely green tint adding a tasteful syphilis effect.
I approve of these ideas. You should write the GL movie :D
Bunch of Poozers, HJ is the greatest GL around. Guy Gardner is a joke, DC never knew what to do with him.
ReplyThats why I like Guy Gardiner.
ReplySeriously, what amazing crime fighting constructs can you think of? A tank? Pfft in that universe that's useless. A jet? Ok Wonder Woman.
ReplySomething more basic? A sword perhaps? Ok that's kinda sweet, but its just a glowing green sword. Simpler still? A super powered fist. Hey, it works for superman.
How about a cloud of tiny green energy organisms/bots that mercilessly rip apart anything and everything they envelop? Or a green energy beam that blinds you while simultaneously sending green energy parasites up your urethra to feast on your reproductive organs? Or a green energy railgun-like projectile that is small and high-velocity enough to tear a meter-wide hole through, I don't know, the moon?
Anyone else catch the whole "yellow-skinned villain named Mongul" thing and do a double take?
ReplyBut Mongul is, like, REALLY yellow-skinned. Like, for serious yellow-skinned. In a non-racist way.