#hal jordan parallax

[dc-trinity90s]

The Green Lantern Gallery - Reflections By Doug Mahnke, Sandra Hope, and Moreno Dinisio

[zoestarlings]

so ive been reading the kyle rayner run

[spidey-webs]

The real tragedy of the whole “Batman contingency plans” thing escaping containment into the wider cultural zeitgeist is that it’s become completely divorced from the original context of, you know, the Tower of Babel story-line happening after a beloved member of the Justice League did in fact go mad, become all-powerful, and destroy all of reality.

Which is devastating because it loses so much when you take Hal Jordan out of it! In both adaptations and fan discussions!

Despite only being mentioned by name once in the story, Hal haunts the whole narrative in how unspoken he is. The whole theme of the story is the failure to communicate and how it destroys trust, and an essential part of that is how the whole League won't (and can't) talk about Hal.

When Kyle finally tries to bring him up, Wally shoots him down. He is the forbidden topic at the heart of the League's breakdown of trust!

When the contingency plans plot is removed from the context of Hal's fall from grace, isn't proceeded by a JLA founding member doing what was supposed to be unthinkable, Bruce's actions lose their emotional core. It becomes just "Batman is the coolest and smartest and also a huge untrusting asshole" instead of "Bruce was already on the knife-edge of crippling paranoia regarding his powerful allies, and then one of those same allies started slaughtering people and he couldn't do a thing to stop it, confirming all his worst fears and sending him right over the edge"

You take Bruce's feelings of very personal betrayal out of the equation. He's not operating on just hypotheticals, but fears that were heartrendingly justified!

Bruce claims the reason for his plans on some past mind-control incident, but Clark calls Bruce out on it being an excuse.

Maybe that's how it started, but there's a reason the fail-safes aren't against mind-control and possession. The fail-safes are ways to permanently stop your friends should they willingly or unwillingly become a threat.

And they both know it. They've argued about Hal several times before.

Bruce has a lot of unresolved feelings about Hal. He's still hurting.

The contingency plans are not some cold, clinical necessity. They are the product of pain.

I think all readings and tellings of the Tower of Babel should be followed by the JLA/Spectre story.

It provides the necessary emotional conclusion to the unspoken conflict! Because they finally have to talk about it! They heal the broken trust! Bruce admits how much Hal's betrayal hurt him and his faith in heroes, and gets past it! Instead of letting a former and potential future threat be eliminated as his fail-safes say he should, he invites the threat back, even if he can't guarantee it won't happen again, because he chooses to believe in his friend!

The contingency plans are a cool and interesting concept, but again, you can't just...take Hal out of it. You can't make it about some evil alternate versions, or about Clark. By doing that, you lose the most heartbreaking part of the story. Batman isn't in the right or the wrong, but he's not heartless. He's brokenhearted.

[deadmaidclub]

more kyle and hal ft lady lanterns

[stantanly]

Hello there, I LOVE YOUR DICKORY ART IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL (๑ơ ₃ ơ)♥ .

But i was just wondering whether you have any Hal jordan scetches to show us, if not that's completely fine. :3

thhhaannnk uuu!!!

funnily enough hal is my favorite gl and i haven't drawn him once

hes just so man looking...its hard to capture. but now presenting my first hal ever!!!!

[yellowcorps]

He doesn't look a thing like Jesus.

[cultstatus]

he’s a real bummer

[harveydont]

unforchies for me that i like him so much.

[honkygay]

OH NO I NEVER POSTED THIISSSSSA

[stardayzzing]

[Parallax and the Sun Eater]

So funnily enough I sat down to draw KYLE today and I ended with this piece????

I'm not like insane over it because I can SEE my errors but for something I never intended to make I do really like it!!

[day-dream-fever]

[dc-trinity90s]

Adventures Of Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner) Cover Date 1995 - Storylines/Events: Green Lantern Year One Annual: Shared Lives

[zoestarlings]

page redraw from final night #4 i did on a whim. there is NO reasoning behind this except i love them

[thecrowmonster]

dc characters as tumblr/twitter posts

[wajjs]

I fully think the horror of Hal as Parallax tends to be misunderstood, or at best underestimated, by fans. Hal as Parallax is a doomsday type of event, he represents a paradigm shift both in universe and for readers alike.

For readers, he represents the painful truth that heroes are not perfect: they will waver, they will fail, and sometimes this will lead to them turning into what they once fought, or worse. Because Parallax Hal isn't just what he once fought, he is the twisted up-nightmare version of his enemies. He represents the tragedy of when "too much" effectively, undeniably, becomes "too much".

And in universe, he is a nightmare too. He's the definition of absolute worst case scenario. He's a wound that won't heal and instead keeps festering, keeps attracting more and more pain and it'll never go away. For heroes the paradigm shift comes in the form of watching one of their own fall so hard they cannot fight it. They struggle to see a way of winning against him. They are confronted by their failures, they are made aware of their weaknesses and blindness.

Hal turning into Parallax, betraying himself and everyone else close to him, is something deeply traumatizing for everyone. He murders. He murders those closest to him in such a personal, visceral way: with his own fists, with his own power. His hands kill Kilowog, Sinestro. Through his actions he destroys the Corps, leading to even more deaths.

Of course this level of betrayal is going to affect the way other heroes treat him. Hal turning into Parallax is THE reason for Bruce to come up with contigency plans in case someone else falls or turns evil. If Parallax hadn't happened, Bruce wouldn't have felt the need to come up with these plans (that is, until someone else close to him turned evil).

Parallax is meant to be the horror of a tragedy that could've been avoided. Parallax is the pain, the anguish, the trauma and the nightmare of someone who once represented the light turning into a twisted, angry and vengeful being that won't stop no matter what.

[venatici-flare]

dc may not be respecting baby but I do