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kiseiakhun · 9 months

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Anyway, I think the worst thing Geoff Johns did to Hal's character is that he just made him boring. The fun thing about Hal is that he's the worst man to walk the earth. He's a trainwreck in the making. Every day he wakes up and thinks nothing and makes 20 awful decisions and messes up everything and goes to sleep content in a job well done and it's great. Hal is the Worst Man Ever™. He's a donkey in human form. By all means his personality and skillset makes him the perfect supervillain but he's a hero and he's imperfect and he claws himself back from the brink long after most people would've given up because that's who he is. That's at the core of his character. Even when he's below rock bottom, he never gives up, and god does he hit it, over and over again.

Johns just... erased all that complexity by making Hal the bestest greatest most precious lanterny lantern ever. Suddenly everyone loves him and treats parallax as just a 'hehe! Whoops!' and it sucks because if you take away the fact that Hal is a garbage human being he's just BORING. He's just a boring stereotypical stoic superhero. Who wants to read that! Who wants to read about Universe's Best Most Precious Greatest Man Gets Praised And Solves Every Problem And Is Never Wrong. Like at least when batman does it they try to give us a detective story. Usually it's not a good detective story but they at least try. Hal doesn't need to do detectiving. He can solve pretty much anything with the ring on his finger. He's invulnerable and powerful and perfect and let's be real, at this point he barely has a secret identity. There's nothing adding stakes to the story, not when Hal the best boy is here.

It's so fucking boring!! It's genuinely an injustice to his character. Hal's much more interesting when he makes every single bad decision, ever, and then has to dig himself out of the hole that he dug. That's someone I can root for. That's a character I can develop complex feelings about. If you just hand me the perfect being in creation I feel nothing. I'm already bored.

#in conclusion thank you Jeremy Adams for feeding me. that man is the worst man in existence. i want to put him in the juice presser #like you look at hal and you just know he never replaces his toothbrush #hal jordan #meta #i guess #this is also how i feel about ollie btw #men who are the worst 🤝#im more okay (though still annoyed) by Bruce being the best because the whole point of his stories is that he's so smart he can solve any #mystery. there's other things driving the stakes. plus he's more limited in power so even when he's the Best there's still narrative tension #hal is just too op for something like that to work #and for other characters like superman who are also op they thrive off of a nonpowered supporting cast #but Hal's supporting cast are all other lanterns. or like. superman.#like you don't need to be the Worst Man Alive to carry a narrative through the strength of your personality as Wally demonstrates #but you still need a PERSONALITY #you can't have a personality if you're the best at everything always

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batmomhoe · 7 years

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You Dated Who?!

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Summary: Bruce finds out that batmom dated Hal Jordan before him.

Warning(s): None

-”Well obviously you upgraded.”

-It was kind of one of those things where you start dating but realize you’re better off as just friends.

-And for you and Hal it held true, you were still friends.

-Hal recognizes you the second he enters the batcave(not like your disguise was the best anyways.)

-OH BOY DOES HE RUB IT IN.

-You and Hal hadn’t even been intimate, the most you did was a heated, slightly awkward make out session.

-Hal would never let Bruce know that though.

-”They look great in green, don’t they Batsy?” *waggles eyebrows*

-You’re slightly afraid Bruce is going to snap and just left-hook Hal some day for his comments.

-Every now and then you’ll add in a comment as well, even when Hal isn’t around.

-”Y’know Hal could...-”

-“IF HAL CAN DO IT, I CAN DO IT TOO.”

-Dressing up as Green Lantern for Halloween just to see Bruce grumble about it.

-Basically just randomly buying Green Lantern merchandise to piss Bruce off.

-Little things though, like the GL keychain you have, or look at that, your new toothbrush has GL on it.

-You never even point them out, you let Bruce notice them on his own an he grumbles before replacing your toothbrush with a plain one.

-Deep, deep down, you may just be wanting to see the two of them wrestle each other, but then reality sets back in when you realize how mangled Hal’s body would be.

-Your friendship with Hal after your breakup obviously means you become friends with Barry.

-More grumbling from Bruce ensues.

-Eventually you do tell him that your relationship with Hal was nothing serious.

-Guess who makes fun of who now.

-”At least I made it to second base.”

#batman #bruce wayne #batman headcannons #batmom #batmom headcannons #hal jordan #green lantern

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