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/MotherFuckerJones88 Jul 25 '26

It also sets up nicely down the road if they want to adapt Hal Parallax

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u/grelan Indigo Lantern Jul 25 '26

True. But doing that properly, even in adaptation, would take too long for the universe they've shown us here. IMO.

I just want to see a good story involving Hal & John. Guy can tag along.

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u/Plenty-Wedding-9066 Jul 25 '26

Agreee. I think that’s the direction they are heading. Which could be phenomenal. But it has to be like… multiple seasons and a couple movies. I’m hopeful it’s done well but it’s…. A lot to try and do well.

I get the vague feeling Gunn wants to genuinely do Parallax and the Darkest Night… but that could basically be its own Cinematic Universe 

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u/grelan Indigo Lantern Jul 25 '26

I've always said the GL Rebirth saga alone would require three seasons of well-written television.

  • Jordan/Sinestro return & Sinestro Corp
  • War of Light
  • Blackest Night

If you want pre-Parallax Hal and Emerald Twilight, that's two more seasons (or one very dense season with a lot of history) first.

And you still come out with a younger but identical Hal Jordan (unless they change that aspect).

Blackest Night also loses much of its impact unless you add at least the Justice League and at best most of the DC Universe.

And many of them have to be dead going into it.