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Heh, the instant someone dons a power ring their life is very much on the line. The ring doesn't make one invincible after all.

Yeah I remember now, it was that talk show story that prompted Hal to use his ring to make himself feel fear. Many suspect that was the door in which parallax got in.

The whole Lord Malvolio thing could also be said to be a Sinestro/Parallax mind attack on Hal since it got Hal to be without his ring and had to use deadly force on Malvolio.

The alien Priest and all the things he did with Hal could also be seen as a Parallax/Sinestro attack, especially the GL special issue where a Guardian and a Zamaron took a friend of Hal's hostage and made it clear his friend would die unless Hal kills Priest. Turned out it was all an illusion, no Guardian, no Zamaron, even the planet Oa was fake and it was all a mind game of Priest to see if Hal was "contaminated" after his encounter with Malvolio and from using Malvolio's ring.

I think Waller was in one of the Batman/Superman issues where they were going around Earth trying to confiscate/destroy all traces of Kryptonite and Superman was wearing some type of anti Kryptonite armor.

She works for the government/CADMUS which tends to be involved in researching of new weapons, new tech, superhumans and aliens.

Afterall, wouldn't the govt. love to reverse engineer Abin Sur's ship, or imagine if they tried to get a power ring for study and reverse engineering?

Man would I love to see that.

Also I wonder if we will get a story that starts the undoing of all the OMD/BND/OMIT garbage.....perhaps Kang or Immortus warning Spidey of the temporal consequences of the deal with Mephisto?

Yes, I remember this, not sure if it is still canon though with all the GL:Rebirth and Parallax stuff. Back when GL had no series of his own and was relegated to Action Comics, didn't he appear on the Oprah show and Oprah suggest that he use the ring to allow himself to feel fear? Supposedly that was the door that helped let Parallax into Hal.

Of course there was the whole Lord Malvolio incident as well, where Hal ended up with his ring destroyed and was forced to improvise a weapon and use deadly force against Malvolio. Hal then takes Malvolio's ring as his own and flies off and Malvolio reveals he is very much alive and that it is all part of a plan against the Guardians.....

Hal's origin and backstory since GL:Rebirth restored him and the GLC doesn't quite fit with Emerald Dawn.

I think this movie gave us more the Emerald Dawn Hal Jordan rather then the post GL:Rebirth Hal Jordan.

In Emerald Dawn: Hal was so screwed up by his father's death that he was an arrogant jerk who could barely keep a job at Ferris aircraft and got drunk at a bar and caused an accident that left one friend in a hospital and him facing DUI charges when the ring chose him. Tomar Re told Hal that all GL's have a past as it were and that they must overcome it to be a true GL or some such.

Hal's current origins kept a few things from Emerald Dawn such as watching his father's plane go down but he didn't turn into a drunk screwup from it, he was always confident and felt fearless since watching his father die was what he considered his greatest fear and having seen that, what else is there to be afraid of?

What is he supposed to do? Curl into a fetal position on the ground in fear and suck his thumb? GL's are chosen for their ability to overcome fear/being fearless. If a new GL transported to Oa caved into fear I daresay the guardians would rip the ring right off their finger and send the person back to their planet.

In the original Tron, FLynn gets zapped into the computer and his first thought was "this isn't happening, only think it's happening" he soon found out it was happening and he reacted with the Kevin Flynn style of humor that the character had at the time.

Pure WIN!

if you are seeking the RV AV badges, have some incarnate powers activated and slotted then send out a call that you are forming a league of incarnates to "Test your Might!" in RV. You should be able to get a lague of incarnates looking to test their might against them.

Saw the clip, he plays Hector Hammond who gets called in to examine the body of Abin Sur, the GL who passed his ring to Hal Jordan.

Mileage varies

Stacking dom doesn't really help much but it does look nice seeing those 2 to 3 dom icons.

As to permadom, presenting once again (whether some like it or not) in DBZ style the Three Stages of Permadom:

Dominator: "first I thought I'd teach you a couple of things about permadom starting with the basics"

Enemy: "Don't bother, I never asked you to explain a thing."

Dominator: "trust me, you are gonna love this! This is my normal state...."

powers up domination

Dominator: "This is a permadom, 70% recharge from IO sets and 3 to 6 slotted recharge in hasten depending on your preference. Decent build, risk of power crashes if hasten and dom aren't monitored closely in battle."

Powers up again.

Dominator: "This is what is known as a Permadom that has Ascended past being a Permadom, or just call it Permadom 2. 90% recharge from IO sets and 6 slotted hasten and you can have permadom and permahasten, a better build and the risk of power crashes is lessened. But just wait...it gets better"

Scene changes to Recluse and his Lieutenants:

Ghost Widow: "Has he really found a way to surpass an Ascended Permadom? Is that possible?"

Mako: "Ah he's just bluffing!"

Black Scorpion: "Yeah, that would make him double ascended? Big deal."

Dominator begins to power up "AND THIS............"

Lord Recluse: "?? What's he doing?"

Dominator: "Is to go EVEN...FURTHER.....BEYOND!" Insert 10 minutes of yelling at the top of his lungs while powering up and everyone is too dumbstruck to do anything but watch.

Dominator: "Sorry that took so long, it takes time to power up like that. In this form, 125% recharge from IO sets and you can throw hasten out the window. This is what I call a Super Permadom Three."

Not sure if calling Krona a good guy is accurate, but I do agree with his view that the Guardians have lost their perspective. Also recent GL issues have dropped a few hints that Hal initially being infested with Parallax way back in GL VOl 3 #50 was indeed allowed/permitted by the Guardians, something I've suspected before. Also in GL:Rebirth even Parallax called Ganthet a liar and that the Guardians allowed him to escape via Jordan.

I think the GLC could do rather well without the Guardians, and perhaps a few new Guardians in charge could be good.

Precisely. But Luthor's monumental ego just keeps getting in the way.

Though I did like the JL episode with the Justice Lords where President Luthor had his finger on the button and Superman said there was at least 6 ways to stop him and Luthor said "But they all involve deadly force and you don't do that do you?" he then lectures him about how deep down Superman loves being a hero, the cheering fans the swooning women and that a hero needs a villain thus Superman is Luthor's most reliable accomplice since Superman never crossed the line and stopped Luthor for good.....until that moment when Superman felt that Luthor was right and charged up his heat vision.....

However in defense of that particular Superman, the world was on the brink of nuclear armmageddon and Luthor's finger was right on the button.

The way Max Sterling could integrate with his veritech and make it work so smoothly that it truly was an extension of him might be a good example of this.

However let's also remember that due to Superman's upbringing, that he is not a killer. He CAN kill but he chooses not to, thus he holds back a lot.

Two examples:

1. End of JLU "I feel like I live in world made of cardboard! Always taking care not to break something or someone, always afraid of losing control because someone could die!" He then cuts loose on Darkseid and gives him a super speed falcon punch that sends Darkseid through several buildings.

2. Batman/Superman Public Enemies: Superman watches the missile with Batman at the controls fly into space to smash the meteor. He then glares at Luthor, stops Luthor's kryptonite powered punch, crushes the gauntlet on Luthor's wrist and says "That was my BEST FRIEND.....and YOU JUST KILLED HIM!" One punch sends Luthor flying into the wall, he coughs blood and then looks up and sees Superman stalking towards him and realizes the mistake he just made of angering Superman and tries to fly away. Superman chases him around the world, ripping the suit apart as they are in flight.

Someone else I believe posted about getting Superman alcohol poisoning or somesuch presuming he isn't immune to it. I posted the Grey Hulk incident where Grey Hulk sucked down a store worth of booze so that his own immune system wouldn't burn off the effects right away and when he reverted to Banner at sunrise, Banner was tanked.

Don't forget all the "duck and cover" warning commercials they had for when a nuke went off.

Super strength / shield does fine, sure there are some combos that may perform better, but SS/SD is far from being the red headed step child set.

My own SS/SD does just fine and will be even better once I finish obtaining the missing IO's for it's respec. Of course having installed Tier 3 Cardiac kind of helps with the stamina issues too

Indeed, and if reports are true, Bruce Timm could be making a Dark Knight Returns animated movie......