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Green Lantern question: we all know that power rings run on willpower, but how do you define willpower in the DCU? What I mean is, how do you know which character is able to use the ring, and which one can't? If it were a matter of discipline, every martial artist would be able to handle one. Stubborness isn't necessarily it either. Can someone help me understand the common thread between Hal, Guy, and Kyle?
I think the the link between the GLs Hal Guy John and Kyle is their unwillingness to say I give up under any pressure. Alot of people should be able to use the rings but I think the ring also looks for a certain spark in the ring slinger.
I'm pretty sure Jensen was just created to kill Batman.
Sad as it is.
Don't forget that those were 'new JSA' stories produced after the JSA hadn't had thier own book for at least a decade.
Jensen was a guy who received powers from Frederic Vaux. I guess Jensen was a nobody but was Vaux ever in a comic before. Also I'm pretty sure they had their own book that lasted to the late 70's. Power Girl and Huntress both first appeared toward the end. A little later they were in Adventure Comics (which I think continued the stories from their recently cancelled book).
In the current Shadowpact series, Nightshade (Eve Eden?) is written as having a pretty stable, fun-loving personality...but this is not how I remember her from either the Suicide Squad or Captain Atom series of the mid-80s....wha' happened?
(IIRC, Enchantress definitely had the whole split-personality thing going, but I seem to remember that Nightshade was also having some issues due to her link with the dark dimension...)
Can someone help me understand the common thread between Hal, Guy, and Kyle?
This will be of almost no help, but the PAD GL 'arc' in Action Comics Weekly, it was (IIRC) strongly hinted that the GL rings needed both the "willpower" requirement and a "fatal personality" flaw...Hal's was that he "had no fear" (this is actually a diagnosable problem!)
Hal was told by somebody (a renegade Oan, or just some other space-pixie) that eventually he would be able to weild the GL power without the use of a ring.
This was a cool idea, since it tied the "flawed rings" (weakness to yellow, need to be recharged) to "powerful but flawed" personalities, and while both could be used for great good, even better deeds were possible by growing beyond your flaws.
It was all quickly swept under the carpet during "Emerald Dawn", and forgotten by the time Hal went berserk.
I also thought that Hal and Guy had very similar personality types as far as the ring was concerned, it was just that Hal was closer than Guy when the ring called out.
Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less.
-Chuck Klosterman, "Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs"