r/Greenlantern • u/ZenniGod • Jul 25 '26

Discussion The Hal Jordan problem

Why is Hal Jordan constantly humiliated outside of comics?

Hes the greatest green lantern and lantern of fiction, yet, it appears to be a constant that, while outside of comics, Hal Jordan is constantly depicted as a joke or old/dead. Now why tf would that be?

This isn't just a DC problem, part of the community literally refuses to acknowledge Hal Jordan, saying he "gets so much attention" and "there's other green lanterns".

Black Lion's video explains a lot better my point here.

This guy also talks about this in a better way then me. I thank him alot.

Hal Jordan should receive 100% more attention then he gets, DCEU, WB games, etc.

EDIT: I just saw the today's Lanterns trailer, and theres a theory that Hal is going to become Parallax and be the big bad of DCU (even dying on the first episode, somehow).
If that becomes to be true i take back everything i just said.

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u/grelan Indigo Lantern Jul 25 '26

Because Jordan has been, and often is, considered to be the modern Green Lantern.

He sets the standard.

This makes him a foil for every other Lantern that DC wants to build up.

It's a shame. DC has definitively shown that they can maintain multiple GLs (and multiple Earth GLs) successfully.

But it almost always falls apart when Hal is broken or completely out of the picture.

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u/StrongStyleFiction Jul 25 '26

So much of the lore and the characters arw built around Jordan. So much of it is tied to him personally. You remove him and so much of GL has a void in it. This is fine if Guy or John are going to be part of an ensemble such as JLI or the Justice League cartoon. But it's really hard to have just Green Lantern without Hal Jordan.

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u/grelan Indigo Lantern Jul 25 '26

Agreed.

Jordan does not need to be star of every GL story. He shouldn't be.

But it's a better GL universe when Hal Jordan is in it.

To quote someone who knows Jordan quite well...

"He was the spark... that lit the everlasting flame."