Misconceptions of the Green Lantern

[Webhead2006]

yea with the film i am sure it will help give the GL character a mass appeal like ironman movie did for ironman for non fans.

 

[kedrell]

If WB/DC is smart, they'll take a page from Favreau's playbook on how to take your little known B-lister to A-lister status. Have something cool to show at SDCC'10 and really start building the buzz from there with the general public. This goes for Thor as well, but I'm pretty confident that Marvel already knows that.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

I like the Green Lantern mythos. But I don't really like Hal Jordan. He has the charisma of a mop bucket (and yes I'm including under Johns. I've read Rebirth, Recharge, SCW and Blackest Night). Guy Gardner and Kyle Rayner are more interesting Lanterns IMO.

But let's hope Reynolds can inject some charisma and likability into the role. Which I'm pretty confident he can.

 

[terry78]

There will be actual rings made and sold for people to buy. That much is already certain.

 

[Webhead2006]

well that is a def good marketing item to work with and sell. i do hope they do well with promoting the film like tdk did with batman or what marvel did with im.

 

[JLU51306]

Even then, there's no scientific way to measure, gauge, or even define what an emotion is or what makes them different from each other on a measurable level. It's not like we can excrete willpower in any measurable form.

In all fictionality, a GL ring -is- the outlet to release Willpower -into- a measurable form. You can't try to have science explain everything fictional about superheroes. There's no reason for why Superman can fly, other than that he does, or why a GL can release his will through a ring, but they do.

 

[dnno1]

Even then, there's no scientific way to measure, gauge, or even define what an emotion is or what makes them different from each other on a measurable level. It's not like we can excrete willpower in any measurable form.

Emotions are a multifaceted phenomenon. We can measure (in humans) only components of it (like smiling, amusement, or increased heart rate). Sure, we as humans are not sophisticated enough to know the ins and outs of emotions, but, in the Green Lantern mythos, it is presumed that the Guardians of Oa are so advanced that they have long since developed a way to not only measure and quantify it in all beings, but harness their entropic energies. This is a concept where we have to suspend our disblief a little bit to understand it.

 

[ultimatefan]

Let´s face it, most people outside of comic book readers may at best vaguely remember Hal Jordan from the Super Friends cartoon, or they saw the JOhn Stewart version on the JL cartoons. They may have a vague idea of what the power ring does and what a GL is, but not much more than that.

 

[dnno1]

Well, at least the younger folks do. I think that most folks over the age of 25 that watched cartoons in the 1980's know of Hal Jordan. In fact, if you have Boomerang, you can still catch the cartoons featuring him. Furthermore, fortunately or unfortunately, you don't see very many people complaining that John Stewart is not in the picture.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

I did. When Reynolds was first announced LOADS of articles comments and other message boards had people like "I thought GL was black".

The GA might know who GL is, but they don't know who Hal Jordan is. But it doesn't matter, I'm not one of these fools who thinks only big name characters deserve their shots at the big time.

 

[dnno1]

I don't know how one could conclude that most people in the General Audience wouldn't know there was more than one GL just from a number of posts to some online articles. Furthermore, if you saw loads of comments from folks thinking that GL was black, you should have (unfortuantely) also seen the boat loads more complaining that he was (and not Hal Jordan). I don't want to belive that the General Audience doesn't know who hal Jordan is, and even so, the more than likely won't mind.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Well course they won't mind. I'm not saying that. I mean, at the end of the day GAs don't give a crap about comic book accuracy. They don't watch superhero/comic book films because they are simply superhero/comic book films like we do. They watch them to be entertained. End of story.

 

[ultimatefan]

Yeah, if people enjoy the movie, they won´t care if GL is Hal or John or whatever, he´s not like Spider-Man, everybody knows he´s Peter Parker, or everybody knows Batman is Bruce Wayne.

Still, if you don´t have strong/selling comics to inspire the movie, it tends to get hard to get it done, cuz they inspire the material, even if it´s not totally accurate. If the Geoff Johns/Ethan Van Sciver run hadn´t turned GL into a comics superstar, the movie wouldn´t be on such a fast track. It´s no surprise it´s much harder for them to figure out Wonder Woman, she wasn´t one of the top-selling characters even with talents like George Perez and Greg Rucka behind her.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Yea that's true, I agree with you to an extent.

But see my mentality is, they don't have to be a famous/a-list character to be a great character and have great stories.

I mean guys like Nova for instance, or Captain Marvel or countless others. Barely anyone knows who they are, Nova's comics barely sell 20k a month. But they are fantastic characters and if they had movies I'm sure they'd be great.

See, I can't stand the mentality of some people who think only big name characters are worthy of films or games or whatever. Big name doesn't automatically equal great character.

 

[Webhead2006]

so true there guys.

 

[Mr. Earle]

That's nothing compared to GL's marketing lately. So that doesnt compare at all..

How are they marketing GL?
All the marketing i know of are the rings they were giving with issues of Blackest Night, to lure non fans i would assume.

 

[Mr. Earle]

The GL ring was weak to the color yellow, and since there's no real explanation to how it works, it might as well be "magic" (then there's Clarke's Third Law). I see no "misconceptions" here.

Even then, there's no scientific way to measure, gauge, or even define what an emotion is or what makes them different from each other on a measurable level. It's not like we can excrete willpower in any measurable form.

What he says:

Actually there is a scientific explanation. In the DC Universe there is an emotional spectrum just like the visible light spectrum, Green=Will power, Blue=Hope, Yellow=Fear, ect. The central power battery on Oa collects the will power emmited from all beings in the universe and channels it through the power rings giving a green lantern their power. Yes i am a nerd and i love it!!!!

Also, the rings are not magical, but high tech gadgets that can use this form of energy, the emotional spectrum.

Its also very interesting to consider that in real life, fear can overcome willpower and vice versa. So its normal that the GLs have a problem with fear and its Lanterns. Also, the Blue Lanterns that use hope arent very powerful. But near a Green Lantern (hope is nothing without willpower) they grow a lot more powerful.

Interesting stuff, right?

 

[Mr. Earle]

I like the Green Lantern mythos. But I don't really like Hal Jordan. He has the charisma of a mop bucket (and yes I'm including under Johns. I've read Rebirth, Recharge, SCW and Blackest Night). Guy Gardner and Kyle Rayner are more interesting Lanterns IMO.

But let's hope Reynolds can inject some charisma and likability into the role. Which I'm pretty confident he can.

I agree. Hal is such a Mary Sue. I really loathe the special treatment he gets. Yeah i know its his book, but you never get the feeling that he is part of some corps, more like they re there to serve him.
I never got that feeling with Kyle, or any other earth Lantern for that matter.
Kyle and JLU Stewart are the best in my book. Guy is more of a breakout - comic relief character to me.

 

[Anubis]

....Alan "f**king" Scott's ring was magic.....

 

[Mr. Earle]

....Alan "f**king" Scott's ring was magic.....

Yeah, i think so, but that's a different type of ring anyway.
But i think that in the film they'll treat him as a GL veteran. Like as if he actually served in the corps. Which is much simpler to the weird origin he has in the comics.

 

[SuperFerret]

Refer to Clarke's Third Law. Obviously, were magic a discernible reality, there's the potential that it could be studied scientifically. That's really all I have to say.

 

[Anubis]

It's not that weird.


Guardians tried to contain wild magic, condensed it into the starheart, f**king lost it, ended up on Earth where some dude found it and he became the baddest mofo ever to rock a purple pimp cape.

 

[Mr. Earle]

It's not that weird.


Guardians tried to contain wild magic, condensed it into the starheart, f**king lost it, ended up on Earth where some dude found it and he became the baddest mofo ever to rock a purple pimp cape.

I think he wrote a book or something...


The book on willpower!

 

[protocida]

I'm a big fan of Hal's portrayal by Johns. He's basicly John McClane... with a POWER RING!

 

[dnno1]

I'm a big fan of Hal's portrayal by Johns. He's basicly John McClane... with a POWER RING!

John McCain.