I've read a few threads saying how parallex should be the DC galactus fig, and I was hoping somone could explain him or leave a link to a page that does, also mayby what series he is from.

Originally Parallax is the name Hal Jordan called himself when he became crazy after coast city died.

Hal attended the ceremony to dedicate a memorial flame to the dead but he could not let go, he used his ring to create an emerald dome over the site of Coast City. He tried to recreate the city as an emerald image, in grief he brought forth past dreams, trying to let the dead live once more, to try and live up to what he saw as his failed responsibility to the deceased. The Guardians watched on and concluded that Hal was not acting as a hero but was acting for personal benefit in trying to ease his grief. Their inflexibility and rigid holding to their tenet's put the final wedge between them and the person who had once been their most faithful champion. Needing more power to rebuild Coast City Hal rampaged his way to Oa in the process battling the new GLC that he had helped build up, he defeated long time friends.

The Guardians grew desperate and resurrected Sinestro to battle Hal. Hal killed Sinestro and Kilowog in his path to the Main Power Battery. He crossed the line and knew that there was no going back. He absorbed the power of the main battery and in the process destroyed all but one of the Guardians. A new being emerged from the battery, Hal Jordan was Green Lantern no more, he was Parallax an entity with the power that he needed to recreate Coast City. The last Guardian Ganthet (who had often spoken up for Hal in the past) reformed the ring that had once belonged to both Abin Sur and Jordan and passed it onto a young artist Kyle Rayner to become the last of the Green Lanterns.

Hal Jordan as Parallax followed the Cyborg across the universe gathering more and more power at each stage until he reached the level where he had the power to not just rebuilt Coast City but to restart the universe, reforming it in his own image so that Coast City was never destroyed. He used entropy fissures to wipe out existence at both ends of the timestream and to slowly destroy the universe so that he could start a new. Ultimately it was his replacement Kyle Rayner and his former ally Oliver Queen that defeated Hal.

Vastly depowered by the event Hal eventually managed to return and tried to take back his ring from Kyle. He was forced to battle the assembled Justice League and a powerless Kyle who made him realise that there really was no going back. He departed to search out the Cyborg whom he followed half way across the universe to the massive wall of promethium giants that surround the Source. There he battled the Cyborg who was apparently killed by imagedsof the seven million inhabitants of Coast City. At the sametime as this was happening a creature called the Sun Eater had attached itself to the surface of Earth's Sun cutting off all live giving light from Earth. The planet was slowly freezing to death.

All attempts to remove it had failed, even Superman was powerless as the source of his powers the Sun itself was cut off to him. Kyle Rayner tracked down Hal as a last resort and asked him to help. Hal teleported Kyle back to Earth and decided to take a look for himself. After talking briefly with his former allies and healing John Stewart he finally met up with Carol. He offered to take them both somewhere far away and to spare her the destruction of Earth. But she told him that he knew that wasn't right and that he really knew what he had to do, as he did all along. With that Hal vanished from her life, she knew that it would be the last time that she would see him.

After the meeting with Carol there was little else to do, he met with the assembled heroes and told them of his plan, some welcomed him back, others like the Batman could not forgive him his actions - this made no difference to Hal he was about to do what he had to do. Even Ganthet offering him a GL ring to return to the old ways could not put Hal off course. The Sun Eater needed to be destroyed to save Earth and there was only one person with enough power to accomplish that - Parallax. He used emerald light to drive back the Sun Eater at one side and absorbed into in to himself of the other, it took all his gathered power to destroy the Sun Eater killing himself in the process.

However, fate had something other than death planned for Hal Jordan.


But now Geoff Johns has changed it in GL rebirth where Parallax is now a giant yellow parasite that feeds off fear and possesses its host. Personally I think it was a copout especially since he said that he wouldnt make Hal blameless for his actions previous to rebirth.....but with this giant bug possession mumbo jumbo thats exactly what he did.

Thanks for that it looks like you tyed it all yourself i appreciate the effort.

In my opinion Parallax has one of the worst historical backgrounds to ever be devised in the DC universe. Given i like the character, and he has great arch nemesis potential, and maybe somedya, SOMEDAY if he is ever nerfed, he could become an "ares" like click, but I hate parallax, Hal Jordan deserved more. Now hes back and hopefully here to stay.

Believe it or not, Parallax is my favorite angle ever, or was until recently.

Look at it this way, they didn't actually do anything with it that couldn't be done. The ring works off of willpower, and believe me, to bring back Coast City, Hal had a massive overabundance. He was able to take the entire Corps on because of his will and a few extra rings he picked up along the way, finally ending up with 10, his own plus nine more. Of course, he trounced Tomar-Tu and Kilowog with that kind of arsenal. He could've done the same to Sinestro, but chose not too. He just ended up killing the former menace with his bare hands. As for the abosrption thing, it was covered. Hal was the only GL that anyone had ever seen that could absorb power from the central battery into himself (Emerald Dawn, pt 1), thus raising later questions about Kyle and Ion that still bother me...

I personally am appalled by the garbage that has been thrust down our collective throat. For 40 years, they told us that the yellow weakness was one that the Guardians programmed in to keep the GLs from being All-Powerful! AND in one issue we found out that, no, it was in fact not true.

Anyway, on the matter of the click, I can agree that he shouldn't be on level with Galactust, although at his strongest, during Zero Hour, he was more like Thanos+Infinity Gauntlet. I could see a representation from around the Longest Night where Hal was not at his strongest, but still incredible, on level with Dark Phoenix, maybe a little more. I can see the sculpt, Parallax hovering in the center of a burning lantern...

B-E-A-Utiful...

Actually, there was a Pre-Crisis story arc where Hal was running around with a impurity-free ring. At that time, the lack of impurity made the ring unstable and unreliable so Hal gave it up. Where did the story of the Guardians building the impurity into the ring come from? I'd like to read it. Plus, I thought Kile's Ring was new...infact I thought it was the ring from Pre-Crisis for a while...

Well, the "built in weakness" thing has just always kind of been a given, I'm not sure what comic it started in, but it is in the DC Encyclopedia, amongst other sources.

Kyle's ring, on the other hand, in "new." Ganthet reforged Hal's ring at the end of Emerald Twilight into a new one, this was after the now Parallax Hal had exited the battery and taken time out of his busy schedule of hunting and destroying the Cyborg to destroy it.

Don't need the Encyclopedia, Got a Showcase #22 and most of the first (#1-#224...missing about 25-30 odd issues) series. I know the inpurity was always there, but I don't know the version of the story where the Guardians put it there on purpose. The "cover story" I remember is the one where it was just a natural instability that the Guardians couldn't get around.

Yea, that was the story of Kyle's Ring. It's been a few years since I read that story. All I remember is Ganthet and Kyle in the ally with an impurity-free ring. Then Major Force shows up and kills his girlfriend...

...and later on, his mother...

You know, I think they should have made Major Force his arch-enemy, instead of giving it to Capt. Atom.

If a sucka offs yo' momma and girl, you better kick some ###.

So we have Kyle Rayner...... but who the heck is Ion?? I recently saw him on a VS card, and I'm kinda like "wtf...?"

Anyone wanna clarify for me?

No, that's not true. The first time it came up in comics was a story in the early eighties, and at that point it was supposed to be a shocking revealation. The story was so bad, and so full of holes, that it was retconned as a "deeam sequence" kind of thing just an issue or two later. The "guardians put it there" explanation wasn't revived again until years later.

There have been several other explanations for the weakness over the years, and they all contradict one another. This is just another one.

I never liked the "guardians made the weakness" thing becuase it made no sense in the massive whole-GLC-against-some-menace stories. Why would you give suh a crippling weakness to your force, and then not remove it when the universe was on the line?

First of all, Ion is Kyle.

Backstory:
Soon after Kyle became a GL, he had a lot of, how shall we say, "problems" in his life. Let's seee, his life has just been turned upside down, he's a super-hero with super-abilities, that's disorienting enough. Major Force kills his girlfriend and stuffs her in the fridge!

In a series called "Circle of Fire"... I think, a manifestation of Kyle's ring energy, they discover later, appears from out of nowhere and wipes out, I mean it, the ENTIRE JLA, Superman, Wonder Woman, Bats, Plastic, J'onn, EVERYONE. Kyle's ring subconciously makes him some allies, and he gets Power Girl and... Adam Strange, was it? To help him. Eventually, the entity, "Oblivion," reveals to Kyle that it is a manifestation of Kyle's dark emotions. When all of the stuff happened to Kyle at first, the ring took all of the stress and emotions and dispelled it from him. Oblivion was the entity coming back.

With all of this, Kyle has just become more powerful, regaining a massive amount of power that he was otherwise just sustaining.

During "The Longest Night," we all know that Parallax reignited the sun and destoryed the Sun Eater. Apparently this left some residual energy, actually, A LOT of residual energy. Earlier, the Qward had forged a new yellow ring and bestowed it first on Fatality, who still got beat, and then a schitzo named Nero.

While fighting a Jokerfied Grayven, Kyle tapped into this latent power and got a super-charge, thus becoming aware of it. Nero also sensed it, and this started a race. Nero and Kyle fought for a full issue over control of the power and of course, Kyle won.

By absorbing the power of Parallax, his ring, Oblivion, and his lantern, Kyle became literally the most powerful being since Zero Hour Parallax, who was still stronger, a bit. Kyle changed the costume and changed his name to Ion. As Ion, Kyle was able to do nearly anything, he was literally in dozens of places at once, including places off of Earth. He settled a century long war on an alien war by simply willing their weapons to not work, all of them, literally millions of weapons across an entire planet just die. Kyle didn't even have to sleep anymore, he basically cured hunger, too. Let me put it this way, Superman got bored.

Eventually, after people started to worship him, I think... been a while since I read it, Kyle realizes that the power is too much for him to handle alone. Before he lets it go, Kyle finds his father and has a long discussion with him. Also, Kyle has modified his ring to hold a reserve charge so that when the main source is empty, he'll still be able to get away to recharge, he made John Stewart a new ring and healed his legs, although that was psychological. In the end, Ion ends up releasing his power to do a few things, recreate Oa, rebuilds the Central Battery and creates a new group of Guardians for Ganthet to look after.

Ion, in a nutshell.

Sweet. Thanks. Now I know why his VS card is so good.

Well now i want a freaking ion clix, I have parallax!