I’m wondering how an updated Parallax corruption arc for Hal would go. Not driven by sudden grief madness but driven by moments like this.
Like, Lanterns aren’t supposed to be able to kill people, but then there’s that (hilarious) page with Booster where Hal shows with enough willpower you can bypass those restrictions.
Then, this moment comes, where Hal knows the guardians would let this guy off with a slap on the wrist and he’d go back to enslaving people. So he pulls a punisher move.
More moments like that where the Guardians play power games with Hal, maybe giving him sea duty away from Earth for extended times- underhandedly trying to pressure him into resigning, but they can’t overtly go against him because he saved the corp from Sinestro and is a recognized hero.
Then we reveal Hal’s exposure to Sinestro’s yellow light has made him a release path for Parallax- who starts giving him nightmares and hallucinations until he lets Parallax take the wheel. Maybe Hal learns there’s a prisoner in the central battery the guardians are hiding and he’s convinced Parallax is just some innocent victim wasting away, begging for help.
He releases Parallax after confronting the guardians and breaks the central battery in doing so, nearly destroying Oa, preventing any lantern from regaining charge and effectively “destroying the green lantern corps”. But then Hal wants to go home- he has to- as he’s had nightmares of Mogul razing Coast City. Without enough charge what does he do? He lets Parallax take him the rest of the way.
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Green Lantern is filmed on location with the men, women, and other beings of law enforcement! All suspects are considered guilty, or else they wouldn’t be suspects!
Sure but ironically for the opposite reason here. If Hal had done his job as a cop he would've left that guy alive and allowed his slaves to be trafficked and sold.
Hal was being a bad cop when he killed the Alien slaver.
Nope, a cop is every bit as much of a bastard legally arresting a homeless person as they are illegally beating a protester. Both are bastard moves, full stop
Why the hell would we imprison people who kill slavers? To encourage slavery?? A cop's job is to protect capital. Hal's job is to protect people. If he's a cop, he's a very fucking bad one because he puts lives over "the law".
You find put if they are a slaver if they have slaves. If they do, then you kill them and release the slaves. There's no world in which forcing people to stay under slavery for your "due process" is more moral than kill a slaver and freeing them. Slavers do not get human rights if they do not extend those rights to other humans.
Man, people make arguments that the Holocaust wasn't "objectively evil" because "objective evil doesn't exist" because "from a certain perspective..."
Some people just have to be right (in their own minds) in an argument, even if it means showing their ass.
In fairness, if the laws are inherently corrupt, then wouldn’t *not* putting one’s ethics above the law be what makes them bastards?
Like if a cop is a bastard for putting their ethics above the law, then are they not bastards for enforcing racist or immoral laws? After all, the job of cops is to enforce laws rather than to ensure public well-being.
If the law allows for slavery, it is the cop's job to enforce slavery. If the law says that fathers have the right to rape their children, then the job of the police force is to enforce and protect said law and the actions sanctioned by it.
I’m not saying that vigilantism isn’t problematic, and a genuine issue with the police force. There is absolutely an issue with police “taking the law into their own hands” and basically torturing, killing, or harming others without due process, often along racist lines. However, I don’t think saying something as simple as “taking the law into your own hands is what makes cops bastards” is an appropriately nuanced thing to say given their role in perpetuating laws created by immoral institutions which directly sway legislation towards their profits and pleasures and away from collective wellbeing.
All I have learned about Hal from this sub is that he was banging an under age alien and apparently he also uses the same defense as cops who turn off their body cams.
Morrison's run is great at driving this point home. Stuff like showing them having cases (like tracking down and arresting someone for grand theft Earth) and dealing with things that might seem epic in the real world but are basically business as usual for space cops.
Context >! this is staged so he can go under cover to stop the black-stars!<
I’m wondering how an updated Parallax corruption arc for Hal would go. Not driven by sudden grief madness but driven by moments like this. Like, Lanterns aren’t supposed to be able to kill people, but then there’s that (hilarious) page with Booster where Hal shows with enough willpower you can bypass those restrictions. Then, this moment comes, where Hal knows the guardians would let this guy off with a slap on the wrist and he’d go back to enslaving people. So he pulls a punisher move. More moments like that where the Guardians play power games with Hal, maybe giving him sea duty away from Earth for extended times- underhandedly trying to pressure him into resigning, but they can’t overtly go against him because he saved the corp from Sinestro and is a recognized hero. Then we reveal Hal’s exposure to Sinestro’s yellow light has made him a release path for Parallax- who starts giving him nightmares and hallucinations until he lets Parallax take the wheel. Maybe Hal learns there’s a prisoner in the central battery the guardians are hiding and he’s convinced Parallax is just some innocent victim wasting away, begging for help. He releases Parallax after confronting the guardians and breaks the central battery in doing so, nearly destroying Oa, preventing any lantern from regaining charge and effectively “destroying the green lantern corps”. But then Hal wants to go home- he has to- as he’s had nightmares of Mogul razing Coast City. Without enough charge what does he do? He lets Parallax take him the rest of the way.
That would be cool
I fucking loved that comic
“Green lanterns, turn off you body cams in this darkest night”
He ran into my knife, he ran into my knife ten times...
I always thought the line would be better if it were nine.
I didn’t know he was Israeli!
Oh ok so we’re going for the 🔒award?
The what now?
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Oh its that guy who dated a 13 year old in canon
Wasn’t that retconned? (God please I hope to all things fine in this world it was reconned)
It’s ok he did it in self-defense
Gotta convince them I'm not a child molester ahh
What
Yeah
Did Hal just kill a minority on-duty?
Oh shit. Hal really is a cop.
"Sprinkle some space crack on him first."
"Johnson, this Alien broke in here and hung pictures of him and his family. Open and shut case."
There’s the law and there’s justice. They aren’t always the same thing. Batman knows.
Is that a coochie headed alien?
https://preview.redd.it/fpqzfbzhb09d1.jpeg?width=1679&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3bbe28629513bffb59c5d6a201e5e08b3c75e035
Is that... Is that what I think it is?
Yes yes it is
Lmao wow
Green Lantern is filmed on location with the men, women, and other beings of law enforcement! All suspects are considered guilty, or else they wouldn’t be suspects!
Remind me again why Hal Jordan is "the greatest Green Lantern to ever live?"
Read the comic dude
Is John Stewart an asshole in the comics or something?
Martian Manhunter would certainly say yes
Sometimes!
The thin green line
*Stop Resisting!*
https://preview.redd.it/x1regif86y8d1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=873f39ef23031a5bfc55e25ca0460583de01989f *Why would Hal do this?*
Idk what to say man he had a yellow gun
Yep, self defense.
Okay I take it back he had every right
Maybe Hal had a point ngl
I mean in a normal situation what hal did would be terrible. He did kill a man that was no threat to him. However. Slavers don't get rights.
John brown? Dat you?
“Sprinkle some crack on him and let’s get out of here.”
Alright Johnson
ACAB includes the Green Lantern Corps.
Sure but ironically for the opposite reason here. If Hal had done his job as a cop he would've left that guy alive and allowed his slaves to be trafficked and sold. Hal was being a bad cop when he killed the Alien slaver.
Spoilers but >!He doesn’t actually kill him. It’s all a ruse to kick Hal out of the corps so he can infiltrate the darkstars.!<
Taking the law into your own hands is what makes cops bastards. Hal's right to gut a slaver, but he's still putting his ethics above the law.
Nope, a cop is every bit as much of a bastard legally arresting a homeless person as they are illegally beating a protester. Both are bastard moves, full stop
If the laws don’t protect the weak, than the law should be broken.
Hooah
And if Hal had pumped that bastard full of nails and then immediately turned himself in I'd be good with it. It's the coverup that makes it a problem.
Why the hell would we imprison people who kill slavers? To encourage slavery?? A cop's job is to protect capital. Hal's job is to protect people. If he's a cop, he's a very fucking bad one because he puts lives over "the law".
I dunno, maybe due process?
Slavers don't have rights or deserve them
Due process is how we find out whether they are a slaver
You find put if they are a slaver if they have slaves. If they do, then you kill them and release the slaves. There's no world in which forcing people to stay under slavery for your "due process" is more moral than kill a slaver and freeing them. Slavers do not get human rights if they do not extend those rights to other humans.
What is legal and what is moral are sometimes two very different things.
Man, people make arguments that the Holocaust wasn't "objectively evil" because "objective evil doesn't exist" because "from a certain perspective..." Some people just have to be right (in their own minds) in an argument, even if it means showing their ass.
Or licking it, yeah.
if everyone who would kill slavers is imprisoned, that sounds amazing for the slavers
In fairness, if the laws are inherently corrupt, then wouldn’t *not* putting one’s ethics above the law be what makes them bastards? Like if a cop is a bastard for putting their ethics above the law, then are they not bastards for enforcing racist or immoral laws? After all, the job of cops is to enforce laws rather than to ensure public well-being. If the law allows for slavery, it is the cop's job to enforce slavery. If the law says that fathers have the right to rape their children, then the job of the police force is to enforce and protect said law and the actions sanctioned by it. I’m not saying that vigilantism isn’t problematic, and a genuine issue with the police force. There is absolutely an issue with police “taking the law into their own hands” and basically torturing, killing, or harming others without due process, often along racist lines. However, I don’t think saying something as simple as “taking the law into your own hands is what makes cops bastards” is an appropriately nuanced thing to say given their role in perpetuating laws created by immoral institutions which directly sway legislation towards their profits and pleasures and away from collective wellbeing.
Rustin Cohle’d that shit, didn’t he? For once I approve.
AGLAB
And internet moderators
I didn't know Hal became a dark blue Lantern.
The thin blue lanterns
Oooof
Big fans of the Punisher
Looool
Nah, I hate Hal, John is the best green lantern hands down.
Tell that to Xanshi
Johns cool, I love Alan (he's not a cop!), kyles pretty chill. Hal and Guy are total cops
All I have learned about Hal from this sub is that he was banging an under age alien and apparently he also uses the same defense as cops who turn off their body cams.
Trying to learn something from this sub was your first mistake lol
Just fyi that guy was a slaver
Well that's what Hal told them when they caught him in the collar and ball gag anyway, and during pride month as well. For shame.
Sure
https://preview.redd.it/bufmqwev9x8d1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=196ae49919a452f5462bebfde348000dc00269d5 Damn.
No it is not
https://preview.redd.it/88nslq0vxw8d1.jpeg?width=1334&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=06c960543d36b2b02fd91b108c4a00c661d111e7
Tbf, the guy he shot was a slave owner
Lantern Corp covering up Hal going around and nailing dudes.
Green Lantern shot first!
It’s times like this you remember that the Green Lantern Corps are basically just space cops.
Morrison's run is great at driving this point home. Stuff like showing them having cases (like tracking down and arresting someone for grand theft Earth) and dealing with things that might seem epic in the real world but are basically business as usual for space cops.
https://preview.redd.it/ca818o069w8d1.jpeg?width=1360&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a7b0e7a57e80649854a6fa73ac6743c7da18cecf
Deserved tbh
Hal just because you yelled “By God, he’s coming right for us” before killing him doesn’t make it self defense.
Nailed it