What Other Characters Do You Want Back?

[Wesley Dodds]

Since Geoff Johns' began his Green Lantern run he's brought back a lot of old Green Lantern characters and has even completely rebooted a lot of them... Black Hand, Hector Hammond, The Manhunters, The Controllers, Star Sapphires... Even The Rocket Reds. The man is so talented he even managed to make The Shark into a total Bad Ass!

So what other characters of old do you want to see brought back? Would you change them in any way and if so, how?

Me? Two words- Evil Star!

This is a character who has always been one of the classic GL villains. He's been in every volume of the book, made appearances in the spin-offs and has even turned up in the animated JLU show.
So, i guess what i'm wondering is why a writer as gifted and well-versed in Lantern lore as Johns' hasnt brought him back in some way? HE's brought almost all of the other major players back and Evil Star is notable by his absence...

http://xs538.xs.to/xs538/09144/evil_sta412.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_Star

[Wesley Dodds]

Nobody? Really?

[protocida]

Evil Star is a given. Sonar and Dr. Polaris also.

[Wesley Dodds]

Well, Sonar got a brief cameo early on in Vol.4... Didnt go too well for him if memory serves... Hehe.

[protocida]

I remember. :hehe:

[donk70]

Guy Gardner

[Wesley Dodds]

Guy Gardner

Eh? You dont read the Corps book, do you?

[Wesley Dodds]

Guy Gardner

Eh? You dont read the Corps book, do you?

[Wesley Dodds]

I'd also like to see the Darkstars back too... Perhaps, after The Blackest Night...

http://xs138.xs.to/xs138/09150/darkstars181.jpg

http://greenlantern.wikia.com/wiki/Darkstars

[dnno1]

Itty.

[protocida]

Who?

[donk70]

Eh? You dont read the Corps book, do you?
No

I also misunderstood the thread title

[Wesley Dodds]

No

I also misunderstood the thread title

Yeah, thought it mighta been something like that. If you're looking for Guy Gardner action, though, he's still rockin' it over in the GLC book... Definitely worth checkin' out.

[protocida]

Agreed.

[dnno1]

Who?

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b188/dnno1/FGLItty.jpg (http://glcorps.dcuguide.com/profile.php?name=itty)
Hal Jordan and Itty
(click to see bio)

He (it) was a cute little side kick that Jordan had back in the late 1970's.

[protocida]

Cool. :)

[CLARKY]

Since Geoff Johns' began his Green Lantern run he's brought back a lot of old Green Lantern characters and has even completely rebooted a lot of them... Black Hand, Hector Hammond, The Manhunters, The Controllers, Star Sapphires... Even The Rocket Reds. The man is so talented he even managed to make The Shark into a total Bad Ass!
So what other characters of old do you want to see brought back? Would you change them in any way and if so, how?
Me? Two words- Evil Star!
Well for me it is Evil Star, like you. the difference is that I do not believe in the potential of characters like Sonar or the Shark. The Shark evolution was neat but that's it. Shark are feared all over the world I thought it was a good idea to illustrate the fact that Hal Jordan has no fear by making him fight the Shark, but I think that's it. Just like Sonar. I liked a lot the whole "master of the sound thing", that was fun, but I do not believe in his potential. And that what makes other villains better in my opinion. I'm glad he is considered as a loser. And even if I like Dr Polaris a bit , I do not think his potential is great, the Magneto light, no thanks. As a superman villains, yes, master of magnetism against the man of steel, yes, not in GL world.
For the Darkstars, honestly, I do not want to see them return. As soon as they were created I thought they were copies of the GL corps, and now with 7 corps in space, I think it is far from enough. In fact I thought the Alpha Lantern candidates would have been the Darkstars. Incorporating them into the corps. Maybe in an alternative universe, but not in the "main" one.

So in the end, I'm waiting for G.Johns to build up Evil star, but I think the character has a huge potential and enormous possibilities so I think the more time he takes to build him, the better it is. A slightly revised uniform would be cool and above all the deleting of the small "evil stars children" always helping him. Why not transform the idea and make him control people with atsrs , a link with starro maybe ?
For the record, I'm glad Mongul left the gallery of Superman foes to be in the GL ones. A interstellar conqueror ? It is about time ! :up:
Good thread btw.

[protocida]

Evil Star was in "52", tough.

[Oddzball]

Amped up, the Tatooed Man could work. The original version of him was a chump change foe, but with a good power up he's dangerous.

The "ink' used in his tatooes was a mix of Black, Red and Blue lantern brands of "Occult Energy" (as it was called by Krona in the Secret Origins of the Guardians tale). Each symbol on his skin is a specific type of command over the energy (smash, burn, lift, crush etc) and manifests by his will.

In putting those energies into his body he is able to draw raw power from death, hope and hate ambient to sentient minds to recharge them.

Not as ultra versatile as a ring wielder, he's still very formidable and being triple sourced his occult energy has to be overpowered by A LOT more power from any single source. (Gl, Sinestro and Star Sapphire combined could match him, but they're in trouble one on one or even two on one.)

Hector Hammond got messed up by becoming paralyzed. Post Crisis DC tried to revamp him, leave him mobile, tied his origin to the origin of Grood and Gorrilla city. But someone decided because he'd been made a cripple in a chair back in Broome's day, he had to be returned there.

It didn't work too well in the comics and will utterly die in what are called Motion Pictures.

[protocida]

Unmoving Hector is great. It makes him more creepy.

[Wesley Dodds]

Agreed. It makes him more other-worldly and adds to the messed up Scanners vibe that the character gives off... Having said that i'm perfectly fine with him getting his body back in the books...

[protocida]

He got his body back?

[Wesley Dodds]

Yeah, it's being hinted at in the books that he's secretly recovering physical movement. I've been reading so many GL back issues lately, i cant remember which issue this happens in. I'd say it's probably a relatively recent one, though.

[protocida]

I only remember of Hector recovering his hability of speaking on that Kroloteans story arc.

[Wesley Dodds]

Ah. That was it. Apologies, as i said i've been reading so many old issues recently.. It must've gotten a little mixed up there.

But my point stands. Do you really think all he got back was his speech?

Knowing Hammond, I reckon he's planning something. Even the way the scene is written, it's like "Ooooh, just wait to you see whst happens next."

[protocida]

You have a point. We'll see.

[CLARKY]

Hey Wesley Dodds, speaking of Evil Star, have you read the last GL issue ? The end of Agent Orange ? One of the Blue Lantern talks about Evil Star. Something like :
"Can I go back to my home to help those in need and fight against the dictatorship of Evil Star ?"
Have you seen this ? First mention of Evil Star. I hope it will be a long and a good arc.

[protocida]

Cool!

[Wesley Dodds]

Hey Wesley Dodds, speaking of Evil Star, have you read the last GL issue ? The end of Agent Orange ? One of the Blue Lantern talks about Evil Star. Something like :
"Can I go back to my home to help those in need and fight against the dictatorship of Evil Star ?"
Have you seen this ? First mention of Evil Star. I hope it will be a long and a good arc.


havent read it yet, CLARKY but WOW! This is good news! "The dictatorship of Evil Star"? Perhaps, this is a set-up for the books direction after The Blackest Night...

[protocida]

Kanjar-Ro should become a GL villain, like Mongul did.

[Wesley Dodds]

Kanjar-Ro is nowhere near the level of badass as Mongul is and at this point, i dont think he has the potential to grow beyond petty, small-time space despot. That's why his recent cameo in GLC was so cool, he pretty had no choice but to work with them. Can you see Mogul doing that?

Nah, keep Kanjar-Ro for filler issues of JLA...

[CLARKY]

I agree, Kanjar Ro works better as a small crook IMO. I suppose G.Johns coul find a way to "elevate" him but it is not something I want to see. I, too, do not think he has the "potential to grow beyond small time "space despot" ". I see him perfectly as a weapon dealer for galactic war or something.
havent read it yet, CLARKY but WOW! This is good news! "The dictatorship of Evil Star"? Perhaps, this is a set-up for the books direction after The Blackest Night...
Yeah i hope so. I immediately thought that when I read it. :)

[NewAvenger4]

evil star,doc polaris,legion,

[CLARKY]

^It seems everyone wants Evil star. :)
But Doctor Polaris ? For me it is like Sonar, I do not see the potential of the villain I always considered him as a sub-Magneto crook. So If he was considered as a small crook, it was fun to see him in action but if it happens that he becomes more than just a small gangster, I see him as a bad sub-Magneto.
I do not see his potential at all. I think he is boring, the whole magnetic power ? Magneto did it already and did it better.

[protocida]

Doctor Polaris is a badass. He deserves the Johns.

[CLARKY]

Can't you develop a bit more ? What is so "badass" about him ?

[protocida]

He's really powerful, he has an interesting backstory and personality and a cool design.

Badass.

[CLARKY]

Well, yes, he is powerful, but I see him as a sub-Magneto. The more powerful he is, the more Magneto-like I find him. Except that Magneto is a 1st classe character.
Interesting backstory ... yeah maybe, I do not find it interesting but I understand it can be interesting. I think there are possibilities to expand on that, yes .... but maybe not in a GL book IMO. Personnality, meh, and design, I preferred the old blue and purple design.
Which make me think he could be a pawn of Evil Star. Maybe it could work. Anyway, no I do not find him "badass". He almost suck IMO. Maybe there are rooms to exploit but not with magnetism I think.

On a side note I was reading an old Terra man story and was thinking that (pre-crisis) he had contact with aliens, was most of the time in space, like an outlaw, he could be develop as a pirate or as something like weapons dealer for the universe alongside Kanjar Ro. Just a thought. I think he sucks, but I was just toying with the idea.