Green Lantern's Powers are BULLSH*T
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- The Justice League discuss why Green Lantern's powers are kind of goofy. Like if you think about it. Like for a bit. Like Superman and Batman thought about it and that's the conclusion they reach. Like just think about it. For a second. Seriously. Please.
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The restraint to write this entire sketch without resorting to the “his weakness is yellow” joke is astonishing. Well done good sir.
Fr, it's also weird that he hadn't that weakness for 30~ years but it's still a part of the general knowledge
@@fisal8942 The concept of a superhero having a kryptonite-esque weakness is a powerful one. Look how they keep going back to fire for J'onn, even though he was supposed to have cured that problem in the 80s.
@@SeanWhitmore 80s was that meant for post crisis reboot?, I know he had an arc in the 2000s that dealt with it but the weakness returned.
Also those type of weaknesses can get boring imo, a lot of theme are non sense, like pre crisis there wasn't a reason for mm to have fire weaknesses in lore (the guy can shapshift and fire lasers) but was retconed in future stories (personally i like the retcon)
@@fisal8942 It might have been the 90s, but he had a mini-series where he discovered that his weakness to fire was actually psychosomatic, brought on by trauma. Then later writers were like, "Nope! Genetic weakness, inherent to all Martians."
@@SeanWhitmore the one with his brother? I remember reading that a while ago, MM stories always seems werid imo
If Green Lantern can imagine a voice actress for Wonder Woman, that would actually be pretty broken.
That would be too strong
Too OP, please nerf.
Even his power has limits
I’d imagine that any time he imagines wonder women, she’s too busy to be speaking, a bit preoccupied. ;)
Why not just conjure a green Wonder Woman?
One time, Green Lantern was fighting a villain with fire powers. He made a green bubble around the villain. The villain tried to blast through it with his fire powers. But ten seconds later, he had passed out from lack of oxygen.
"It's a really good bubble." -John Stuart
Considering Green Lanterns travel through space all the time and often bring friends with them, making an airtight bubble seems like one of the first things they learn.
@@KingOfElectricNinjas
How do they create more oxygen though? Plus if they can create Oxygen, they can likely deconstruct it to, or just remove it from the bubble.
There you go, instant incapacitation of pretty much anyone who is reliant on oxygen and can't just live on photosynthesis or some shit like Superman (who is apparently immune to the vacuum of space).
You could just create a vacuum bubble and now your opponent will go unconscious extremely quickly while being unable to do anything unless they can break out of the bubble, and you could simply layer the bubbles or setup traps outside of it.
Honestly the GL ring is absolutely busted if use appropriately, but this is a universe with Superman who is a literal plot device that is as strong as he needs to be at any moment and can somehow travel massively faster than light (while still knowing what's going on) and punch holes in the universe with magic photosynthesis powers, so I guess being super OP is necessary?
@@AveSicarius I think their ring provides the oxygen for them. If I remember GLs had to go through the anti-matter universe as part of a trial. John Stewart told the other members that they were positive matter in an anti-matter universe and it was his ring keeping them from making contact with said verse if they made contact they would basically explode. So GL can create universal barriers around themselves and others.
Well the difference with the fire users is that fire uses up oxygen to burn, so the bubble runs out way faster in that case.
Green Lantern’s power is only limited by the imagination of the user… and the writer.
And the animators/artists
And in noncomic media the bugdet
And the order of the universe
And the color yellow
And my axe
Meanwhile, at the Legion of Doom
"So you can make anything as long as you can imagine it?"
"As long as I can imagine it and it's scary"
"Scary to you or to anyone?"
"Dunno"
"Cuz I'm scared of the ocean, can you make an ocean?"
"I can try"
Please no. What about Black Manta, he's scared of dementia, can you make dementia?"
"Let's find out"
*conversation restarts*
Yes, please! :D
Sinestro creates an ocean of piss.
@@blaacksugar7714 you mean the average waterpark?
I mean, they can actually sense your fears and make them into a reality even drawing power from your terror directly.
"It comes bundled with your consciousness" is such a debilitating line.
You have uno
@@accessthemainframe4475 it came free with your fucking Xbox
It's technically not even true, because of animals and modern Disney writers.
@@MarvinPowell1What does Disney have to do with DC?
@@drakegrandx5914 What do animals have to do with DC?
“Everyone’s got a rock limit”
He’s not wrong
**Rock Debate**
Nope, pretty sure superman doesn't anymore. Superman is getting pretty op lately, considering that silver age Superman is back to being canon is just the start. This is the man that told lex luthor spacetime has lost its meaning to him...
@@MasterCode86 rock bigger the the meta texual space that houses every work of factual ever created
Apparently Kevin Hart doesn't
@@COOLERthenU nope, the watchman dc comic establish that superman is an universal linchpin, he must exist so you can't destroy him...he is that OP.
Batman pulling out the notebook asking how green lanterns powers work is comedy gold.
It wasn't comedy gold. If it was, Green Lantern would have been dead from the color.
@@TydePod16 Gold is just shiny yellow after all.
Well. He needs to make his emergency plans in case he turns evil
Comedy emerald
he be making one with money
Green Lantern in his own comic book: I am invincible.
Green Lantern in anyone else's comic book: Help me! I have fallen and I can't get up! I think my coccyx bone is shattered!
Sounds kinda like the difference between Batman in Justice League and Batman in his own books.
@@morgantodd3748
Bro batman has even more plot armour in justice league comics bro literally beat and killed Darkseid💀
@@neonnatella4632 You thinking I was unaware of this suggests you have terrible reading comprehension.
@@morgantodd3748
Oh man I didn't know u were talking like that I thought u were saying batman has more plot armour in his own comic book🙄 and why so rude?
This is why I was happy when Hal was replaced in the JL.
"Did you know I can split atoms with this thing? Doesn't even take much energy, just concentration." -- Kyle Rayner, explaining why a genuine genocidal misanthrope being given Sinestro's yellow ring is a bad thing.
Ohohohoohoh OH YEAH I remember that one! Alexander Nero! Really wish he came back! That dude was a MASSIVE threat, because the ring is limited by your imagination and restraint, and that guy was insane and had zero restraints.
The one where a single guy with a power ring was so scary, Kyle Rayner literally called on the JLA for a collective beatdown on this dude. Literally the entire Justice League trying to stop this guy because as long as he had a ring, it was a countdown until every single person on Terra died screaming horribly.
I mean, why not just take a rock and turn it into a sun by making it go through fusion. Or go further and make it a black hole. Or make a small sun that goes supernova and direct the gamma ray burst. Or maybe just imagine shooting a gamma ray burst.
Imagine him just going around vacuuming up existential threats with a green black hole and after he's done he can check out the nanoscopic remains.
"You can't just go cubing everyone. Things will get out of hand man. Like, can you imagine if I cubed a Yellow Lantern? You know what else they're called? The Sinestro Corps. Then next time we fight him suddenly big yellow cubes start exploding out of all your heads. You do NOT want the gloves off on these things." I feel like that could have been a compelling argument in the video.
"The hard part is containing the blast. But if you weren't worried about that..." The look on Guy's face was all, yeah, we Lanterns were all kinds of the sh*t.
@@brainstormsurge154 If we are going like that, it's probably easier to throw fuel at the star, maybe accelerate the asteroid belt near to light speed and crash it against Earth to keep everyone busy while you create your own black hole. Odds considered, a couple relativistic kill missiles would be enough to shatter Earth completely. Only time travel would be able to stop it, but no one on Earth left so...
Fun fact: when abin sur was dying, it was between Guy gardner and hal jordan. Hal was picked because he was closer. So, by all means, Hal was the fuel efficient option
I imagine the ring was like that scene in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, where Spock had to pick one asteroid to shoot at, and he brain-locked because there was no "logical" reason to prefer one or the other.
"Um... two guys, both equal willpower... both equal imagination... same age... same physical condition... (warning: processors overloading)... same SAT scores... same number of traffic tickets... (critical temperature imminent!)... same blood sugar measurement..."
guy gardner still became a lantern
Red ain't the new green @stoner lol
Guy was also in a coma, so there's that.
@@favoritemustard3542 guy gardner canonically wears red and green ring (sometimes at the same time)
There was a Superfriends episode where Green Lantern used the ring to grow up to about 200 feet tall. No constructs or anything, he just used the ring and grew bigger. Managed to chase off the ENTIRE Legion of Doom, too. He's completely busted in that show.
One comic has an alien girl age herself about a decade because she had a crush on Hal that he didn't reciprocate due to her age. Once she aged up things were a go.
@@christianboehlefeld5168 using that R Kelly magic
_That's why I insist the Super Friends would NOT die that easily._
@@christianboehlefeld5168 wait, wouldn't she still be too young chronilogically? I mean, I don't know how old she was, but assuming she was 8 years old before she aged herself up a decade she'd have the body of an 18 year old, but it would still have been 8 years since her birth and she'd still have the mind of an 8 year old, so why was he cool with that? At that point it just seems like he doesn't care how old a girl is as long as she's big enough in the chest.
Although now that makes me wonder about the implications of other scenarios. If an 8 year old got into a cryopod for 10 years she'd be 18 years old, so is she legal or not?
What about the girl from Invincible who was 21 before she started to de-age and now looks like she's 8. Is she legal because of the years since her birth or a child because of her appearance?
Now that I really think about it, in the animated series "Young Justice" the adult heroes had a series discussion about consent because Superboy was a clone of around a year old having the body of an adult and an intimate relationship with Miss Martian that involved shape shifting into various adult female heroes as a form of foreplay. Is he, as a one year old, legal just because his biological aging was accellerated?
@@Elliandri feel like on the deaging one it would be still legal but anyone who was attracted to her is probably sketchy
Green Lantern’s only limitation when it comes to his power is his own imagination…and ninety percent of the time all he constructs is walls and laser beams. Can we get a new Green Lantern please?
hypothetically the strongest green lantern would have will power to be able use mobius chair without issue
The recruitment agents for the corps must suck, I mean, they hired a freaking squirrel. Squirrels have the imagination of a mentally handicapped 3 year old.
Man could imagine the cure for Cancer, Leprosy, AIDS, Ebola, and snake/black widow venom but he wastes it all on GREEN WALLS.
The first time a Green Lantern with a *good* imagination watches DBZ, the world ends. Unimaginative idiots make the safest green lanterns.
That's exactly why we got John Stewart(an Engineer), and Kyle Rayner(an Artist). Also why Hal Jordan isn't considered particularly good at his job in comparison to those two.
Maybe the ring just chooses people who don't break the power scaling of the universe
The Ring looks for that perfect Goldilocks zone of creativity. Not so little that the ring would be useful, but not too much where shit gets fucky
@@Alwayz114 new headcanon acchieved!
If that's the case, please explain Sinestro then
@@Metal_Mayhem2024 Some rings have better judgment than others?
Well the ring will definitely not choose me then
"Everyone here has imagination, it comes bundled with your consciousness."
This is honestly such a great line and should not be as underrated as it is.
YOU HAVE AN IMAGINATION, IT CAME FREE WITH YOUR FUCKING CONSCIOUSNESS
@@ThatcherL45 I have the oldest consciousness known to man.
@@strawberrypupper897No you don't, I got mine on Day 1
@@strawberrypupper897 NO YOU DON'T I GOT MINE ON DAY ONE
But some people use their imagination better
Green Lantern: I can picture a small pair of scissors
Every Death Battle fan: "Internal screaming"
I swear, that figh was such bullshit
HE CHANGED INTO THE RIGHT MONSTER WHILE HOLDING A BOMB THAT COULD END THE UNIVERSE, A PAIR OF SCISSORS SHOULD NOT HAVE FUCKING WORKED IN THE SLIGHTEST
Still not enough to defeat a COSMIC GOD
Yeah that was just complete idiotic bullshit
Just give it some 'time'
Like it was stated in the show, hell it was litterally tried with a big plasma axe.
Never forget that Batman once fucked with Green Lantern via painting himself, Robin, and an entire fucking room yellow, with chairs he painted yellow, while drinking lemonade.
that was hated All Star Batman & Robin
#1 on Watchmojo 's 10 DC comics moments that made fans Rage quit
I would add that this was from the Frank Miller continuity, which is basically the DC Universe on crack.
it's wasn't just 'Batman' it was THE GODDAMN BATMAN
@@thegodofalldragonsI like if I remember correctly that specific version of Batman has a villain wiki page because of how shitty he is
We do no talk about that comic...
Hear me out.
Step 1: Brain in a jar.
Step 2: Shove any lantern ring into the brain.
Step 3: ????
Step 4: Profit..?
So what happens if you put the ring on a chicken, does it just constantly make more seed?
There's a villain from Bleach who has that EXACT POWER, it's exactly as absurd as you think it is.
I mean, yeah, probably.
There is an actual Green Lantern who is just a living mathematical formula, so a brain in a jar wouldn't be weird.
@@lolasdm6959 I imagine it would get more intelligent like the cat.
Robot from the end of the Invincible comic: ...interesting. Tell me more.
"I think he's just talking about threats to the universe, not little Timmy throwing rocks at windows" had me dying 💀
I love that this single statement could have prevented like 90% of the injustice timeline
Right there sums up why superheroes should off some supervillains
Little Timmy when Justice Lord Green Lantern cuts his hands off and mails them to his parents (he was loitering on his neighbor's lawn)
It’s along the same lines as the bat (insert multiversal destroying tool) you know the evil bat concicous transmitter that transferred a evil version of Batman into doctor manhattan and he used that power to almost destroy the Omni verse.
But Timmy is such a menace
Fun fact: If the Green Lantern walked into my room, he'd be completely powerless.
Edit: I was not expecting anyone to actually see this; I can't tell you what I was thinking. 💀💀
Why's that
You lined your walls, floor, and furnitures in piss?
@@DARKWHISPERER-ze8loyellow
Is your room Yellow by any chance 😂
@@DARKWHISPERER-ze8lo cuz its yellow
"Everyone's got a rock limit"
I had to pause to catch my breath again
Good old rock. Nothing beats that.
-If someone stronger and smarter than you, like Batman, found the ring, wouldn't that make him a better Green Lantern?
-I like where this conversation is going.
I loved that exchange, Flash casually complimenting Batman and Bruce taking the compliment without bragging about it.
Isn't there a "What if" type comic where Batman gets a Green Lantern Ring and goes a little mad with power?
Or was that just a meme?
That was in the Dark Nights Metal series, his will overpowered the ring and he started using it for evil. He went by Dawnbreaker. He was also a yellow lantern in GL#17 and Forever Evil.
@@Bibochan18 Damn, the Bat as a _Yellow_ Lantern? Jesus.
@@dmgroberts5471 He was Also a White lantern, And a Black lantern For a Bit.
@@dmgroberts5471That one made sense and I liked it, because of the fear-based stuff and all that.
0:30 This is the equivalent of Squidward asking “Why must every 11 minutes of my life be filled with misery?!”
Wait this comment just made me understand the joke in the episode where Spongebob goes to live with the jellyfish
Sandy: "I give it 2 weeks."
Squidward: "I give it 11 minutes."
IT WAS ABOUT EPISODE LENGTH ALL ALONG
@@nameistanya Or when Spongebob wraps up the story of how he lost his nametag and the waitress at the diner looks at her watch and is like, "you managed to kill 11 minutes."
Batman: "I like were this conversation going." 😂
Your weakness is the color yellow. You could be killed with a number 2 pencil. Batman would be too good as a green lantern
You would have to kill him with the outer shavings since the inside is brown
Just some random dude with a mustard gun could take him out
There are many versions of the Justice League, including one of the animated movie universes where he keeps a green lantern ring in his belt just in case.
Also, the number 2 pencil joke is making fun of the fact that his weakness used to be wood. So yellow and wood defeat him across all versions, aka the pencil.
Serperior fan
They fixed that
"Well I can't just go around cubing everyone."
-Green Lantern, 2024.
Picasso: 😔
Psylocke's powers are basically a nerfed version of Green Lantern's.
She becomes a Star Sapphire and literally nothing changes
Psylocke
Weaknesses
Lack of Skill: Having been imbued with huge telekinetic powers later in her career as an adventurer, Braddock struggled to exhibit fine control over her abilities. Although her power levels were high enough to destroy mountains, she found herself facing difficulties in telekinetically affecting smaller objects for more delicate tricks.[313] It is not clear if Braddock still has limitations concerning her fine telekinetic control.
Telepathy / Telekinesis Balance: The strength and stability of Braddock's telepathic and telekinetic powers is said to depend on how much she is using the other, since using both at once makes it hard for her to focus and lowers the level of power.[329]
@@SirsasthNigam. Kwannon
Yeah, but Psylocke is hot. That's all we need.
You also have Susan Storm, The Invisible Woman, with her forcefields.
She has indestructible force fields that can be molded into different, albeit mostly simple shapes with her mind. Also the force fields can sometimes be invisible too, terrifyingly enough, and they also can negate telekinesis bypassing them… somehow. The only weakness is MAYBE some mental strain, and even that’s a weakness usually written out or overcome in the comics.
Again, she can’t make complex objects like, say, a gun, but similar to the T-1000, simple things like knives and stabbing weapons are on the table and highly effective. Plus, since they’re indestructible and even their movement can be controlled, she hypothetically could make a “bullet” of sorts.
Also, to get it out of the way: Hal and them suggesting he could make constructs inside people can also be done by Sue. She’s split Deadpool’s head open and has said she could make a force field in Wolverine’s veins or airways, meaning she could possibly put him down permanently-Logan himself has even said Sue scares the crap out of him.
I liked that Flash still hugged Green Lantern despite what was happening lol 2:59
Originally during the early silver age, the green lantern ring could basically do whatever the writer wanted it to, from creating life, to telekinetically puppetering people's bodies, to accessing other dimensions, but came with the weaknesses that it couldn't effect anything that was the color yellow in anyway. One of the most absurd situations Hal found himself in was when a bunch of mobsters were working with a toymaker that would make gadgets to help with crime. The toymaker had a special machine that bathed the hideout in "invisible yellow radiation" that would kill a normal person in seconds (the mobsters had special necklaces that shielded them from the radiation) meaning Hal couldn't just go in and capture the mobsters. Instead of doing something reasonable like luring the mobsters out or breaking the machine, Hal decided to use the Green Lantern ring to alter his body on a molecule level to become a robot immune to radiation so that he can go into the hideout and fist fight the mobsters. Later stories would retcon/dial-back the green lantern ring to mostly using the hard-light constructs people are familiar with, but in return removed the weakness to yellow.
And now it can just do anything again right?
How is the radiation invisible if it’s yellow. Isn’t yellow visible radiation?
@@collectiusindefinitus6935 its just an invisible yellow
@@mannuuftfdr2 There is no such thing as an invisible yellow
So everyone in simpsons is broken, got it. 😂
"Can Green Lantern create a rock so heavy he cannot lift it?"
Meanwhile at the legion of Doom
Sinestro:Alright, so I can make anything, but it has to cause fear.
Lex Luthor:I fear defeating Superman!
Sinestro:That’s not how it works.
Atrocitus: el mío es con ira
Luthor: bien yo odio a Superman
Atrocitus: 😑
Everyone dogging on Hal’s powers being impossible as if the Speed Force isn’t complete and utter bullshit.
All super powers are impossible. That's not the point. Who cares how or if they work.? The point is what do you do with them and how do they impact your life.
@@claytonjacobs4098 I'm sorry, time travel is next level fuckery and god help you if you try to wrap your head around the DCEU version of the Speed Force.
@@jayjaydeth Yeah, there's a reason the MCU Avengers don't have a speedster. It would be a pain in the ass writing around the power of guys like Quicksilver for every single movie.
What I don’t get about speed is that to start with you go normal speed and everyone around moves in slow motion, then if you go faster everyone around you seems stationary, all well and good, makes sense, but as you go faster and faster you would feel like you were moving slower and slower while what’s around you speeds up to such as degree that you’re time travelling into the future.
That seems mad to me. At what point does one become the other? Wouldn’t that mean at some point there would be a sweet spot of speed where the world around you is moving 1 second into the future per second, aka. normal reality?
and then there's literally Batman. the guy who dodges Omega Beams
That "but seriously I can't feel my legs" at the end set me flying XD
Meanwhile at the LEGION OF DOOM!
Luthor: "So if yellow is Green Lantern's weakness, why do you keep losing to him?"
Sinestro: "If kryptonite is Superman's weakness, why do you keep losing to him? Heh, you see? Not so funny when I do it to you, is it!"
Luthor: "I'm not a kryptonite vending machine, and getting just one rock costs me a fortune or a lot of dead minions. You're literally a living cheese generator with almost an infinite supply of freaking cheddar."
Brainiac: "He could suffocate the guy in a grilled cheese sandwich if he wanted to."
Sinestro: "J-Just leave me alone, alright."
Grilled cheese sandwich had me dying!
Because it isn't a weakness.
Why is Kryptonite so expensive? One guy calculated there was enough kryptonite on Earth to fill up the red sun of Krypton.
@@MegaKnight2012Yeah, but it's actually hard to find all the chunks.
it's a good point. just trap the green lantern inside a yellow cube made with the yellow ring.
done. the green lantern got f*cked up.
unless superman/batman/author rescues him.
Everyone glazing Batman
Batman: I like where this conversation is going
Batman after seeing the dark timelines: ...Never mind, this conversation sucks.
@@LordTyph Oh yeah the Green lantern Batman that went evil. It's origin is pretty cool but I didn't like his design
@SavantPete yeah, the joke was that it's arguably a corruption of the whole 'batman would be the best Green Lantern' thing. Debate the quality if you want, it still does exist and we have to deal with it (until the inevitable recon, anyway).
@@SavantPete Didn't he get his ring right after his parents died, and then when the guardians tried to take it he said no, but like with alot of willpower, like a batman level of willpower? thats why batman dosen't get a ring, he has enough willpower to break it.
For this one i kinda agree
Batman check list everything human can do, he more than qualified for any superpower
0:36 The reason he couldn't do that is that the ring won't let you kill.
Although Hal has been shown to overpower the ring with his will.
in the timeline where Booster Gold messed up Batman's life, and Catwoman is a crazy girl with the mental capacity of a stray cat who killed Alfred, Hal Jordan showed Booster that he's strong enough to overpower the Ring's system and blow his own brain out, in front of Booster Gold,... as a flex.
@@melontusk7358 did he just come back to life too
He could just make everyone go unconscious by cutting off their oxygen supply. Or lock them in a cage made with the strongest material in the universe. Or make them go blind like in the video.
@@MarvinPowell1 Fun Fact: Batman's contingency plan for Kyle Rayner was to make him believe he was blind to the point that the ring actually made him blind
I will never forget the movie where Batman just steals the ring off his finger
he did that with prep-time
No we got edgy batman wit a stupidest name possible.
I already can hear snorkly idiot writing down a scrip that have "but what would 'Batman who laughs' ment" line somewhere in it.
Wasn't that the same movie he got jumped by 2 parademons 😂
@@stolenheart1760 Justice League War.
What's this do?
"But seriously I can't feel my legs."
So I take it this is the Christopher Reeve Superman?
Had to scroll down surprisingly far to find someone who referenced that reference 😂
BRUHHHH
Wild and funny lmao + RIP legend
Ooof.
Someone seems to also got that dark sense of humor Superman adquired lmao
2:02 I mean that's how sort of how Firestorm's powers work. Firestorm has to imagine _every molecule_ that makes something in order to transmutate or create something. Ronnie had Martin Stein in the Firestorm Matrix to help him out with that and Jason Rusch had Ronnie in the Firestorm Matrix to help him out with that. Although Mikhail Arkadin didn't have anyone in the Firestorm Matrix and Stein took over for him as a solo Firestorm. There was also Firehawk who didn't have access to the Firestorm Matrix and only had the transformation, flight and energy blast powers.
My favorite Green Lantern tidbit was when John Stewart turned into a kid during the Justice League cartoon and his constucts were based off of kids' toys and objects since he now had the creative outlook of a child
Or how he'd stall making anything cause he couldn't decide what to do. I'm guessing young john had a bit of adhd.
@@jiggusfiggus Maybe he joined the Marines because someone told him it would teach him self-discipline.
Was this before or after he started hosting the Daily Show?
@@jiggusfiggus That does sound like a good weakness for a GL. OK I'll make a sword to take down this monster but what kind of sword? I'd be so wrapped up in thinking about the sword.
It was also the writers' way of admitting/addressing how they'd been doing him dirty by having just making the generic walls and beams when Stewart, as a former Marine sniper and *architect,* is one of THE most distinctly creative and detailed Lanterns around. It was the equivalent of having Frank Lloyd Wright draw box-shaped houses like a kindergartener, so after becoming an adult again, they make it a point that he learned from the experience and makes more creative constructs from then on.
Other fun facts: Stewart in the comics *does* do some of the disturbing things Jordan says here like create *kryptonite* down to the isotopic level, knock out an alien by blocking the oxygen from reaching its brain and nearly recreated an entire solar system and only failed to do so because he *broke the ring's limit with his willpower.* The Green Lantern rings, alone really are some of the most broken shit in comics.
MEANWHILE at the legion of DOOOOM!
I'm here to see DOOM
MEANWHILE at the KFC and taco bell combination
I didn’t even finish my thought!
"can you explain how your power works"-luthor
"is it really just fear" - cheetah
"yes" - sinestro
MEANWHILE AT THE HALL OF JUSTICE
@@Awssom Oh, hello!
One of the most bonkers thing I remember Hal doing in the comics was somehow turning his entire body into pure willpower while he was dead, forging a new ring from said willpower and then pretty much fight off nearly the entirety of the Sinestro Corps and Sinestro himself - who absorbed Parallax and was being boosted by the fear of thousands of tortured innocents.
He self detonated his entire being with enough power to blow up Warworld, which in of itself is WILD.
Fun fact, the ring is supposed to contain a kill block, which was shown in the comics (since superhero shit, blah blah blah), but at the same time it allows you to create fucking missiles and machine guns, which leads to a more complex reasoning about how the ring is in general determines what will kill a creature and what will not. Well, as a bonus, having high willpower does not mean good imagination, or after 130 creative solutions, most people say to themselves “Fuck this machine gun is simpler and more effective” and do not use anything more complex for no particular reason.
It also used to have a protective function, which prevented the user from dying, but not from being knocked out.
I remember one story where he got knocked out by a flaming saw blade hitting him in the gut. The ring didn't stop that, but it automatically made a hammock to catch him before he hit the ground.
I think the ring is sapient -- and a massive jerk.
And Sinestro's whole war with the Green Lanterns was meant to push them into removing the kill block.
Even before/without that, GLs have gotten around it with just the simplest, obvious loophole: just carry a real gun.
Jack T. Chance, a native to the hellhole planet of Ganthet that got recruited because every previous lantern got killed trying to bring order to it, would just wear down criminals with the ring then finish them off with the gun.
And Simon Baz, a lantern from Earth who brought the gun as a precaution, *did* kill Sinestro with it, (didn't stick only because the place they were in resurrected him,) and only gave it up after a talk with Batman.
@@stevenscott2136 AI may be smart, but that does not mean it has good judgement.
@@stevenscott2136 Don't forget that one time, Hal was knocked out by slipping in the shower and so the ring ditched and went to John.
@@PosthumanHeresy And we later found out that Mogo was in charge of all GL recruitment and would control the rings on their search.
I was literally just arguing with a friend how crazy OP Green Lantern is
Honestly between him, superman, and the Flash, he's the least OP. Ex Flash can move faster than a human can think so GL is down before he can make a construct. (That's just the beginning of how OP the Flash is)
I love how DC rebooted everything with new 52 but didn't give heroes more manageable power scales.
@@BearthatBaresFoodinBelly Yeah but Green Lantern can make his thoughts reality. The whole making a pain killer and then just taking it. Is so broken when you really think about it.
@@BearthatBaresFoodinBelly What about Aquaman?
@@kappadarwin9476 that was from a silver age comic. Currently they have to actually understand the composition of what they're creating for GL to make Kryptonite (Martian Manhunter telepathy for chemical comp, which is still fucking stupid because lantern constructs are made of fucking hard light, how do you digest a pill made of fucking light). So outside of manhunter magic, GL is getting smacked by Supes.
Even still Barry is punching him before he does anything. And you want OP, read up on Captain Cold and his cold field nonsense.
All of the above is why I don't read comics.
Batman with it's plot armor.
3:19- same thing as green apple. I'll put money on it. If someone tests it, tests the original ones before this date. 8-30-2024. Anything after will not count.
Bepis
2:36 sounds like Hal is entering his Parallax villain arc.
Honestly Green Lanterns powers are insanely OP when you think about especially when characters like Kyle Rayner have created entire galaxys form his power ring. I'm pretty sure Hal in the newest comics can create actual living creatures and animals out of his ring
Tbf I think hal's still using his manhunter amped ring
You know,taking into account several things:I'm really starting to believe that Hal actually corrupted Parallax,not the other way around
(Example:The Arisa Incident)
Hal was the first GL to create life when he reconstructed his entire city and the 7 million people that died. He was reprimanded by the guardians since creating life was taboo, then this prompted the biggest Green Lantern event ever, Emerald Twilight (early 90s), where Hal killed and destroyed the Green Lantern Corps. The aftermath of this brought us Hal/Parallax and Kyle Rayner.
@@Sky2023-uf3ip even space tentacle creatures that are the embodiment of fear respect the age of consent
HES BAAAACK!
“Look I don’t mean to start a 2-3 min comical conversation about this subject”
*An average hilarious Solid JJ video in a nutshell lol*
"Everyone's got a rock limit" is basically the motto of power scaling.
Fun fact, originally when the Previous Green Lantern died while landing on earth the Power Ring had to choose the most Will powered person in the area as soon as possible.
It detected both the Pilot Hal Jordan and the Teacher Guy Gardner, but went with Hal because he was Closer.
So in other words, Hal Jordan being Green Lantern only depended on the Ring having it more convenient that way.
Lazy ass ring.
And Guy made sure to spend like a decade telling everyone that the only reason Hal is Green Lantern was because Hal was closer
And there is at least one story where it was going to go to Superman before realizing he was from a different sector of space and wasn't eligible to be the GL for space sector 2814.
i always get shit when i tell people he’s my favorite hero
I mean he constructs the most basic things like he’s doing the bare minimum, now if you said it was that other lantern that constructed a dragon then I’d understand
@@proborderjumper2139was that Kyle? That feels like a thing Kyle would do.
@@kbbd6999that was Kyle, Kyle rainers the fucking goat
I mean Hal has a cool design, but otherwise he's just...there. Which is ironic for someone who has a power involving imagination.
Green lanterns main weakness is that his writers are not that creative. Its like when 2 characters do a magic battle bit it devolves into 2 boring rays of light hitting each other.
1:02 *rock debate* killed me.
And it might kill Superman too.
"so what's everyone's opinion on Journey? Rock or Jam Band?"
**conversation spirals**
Good old rock. Nothing beats that.
@@davidwuhrer6704Except paper.
@1:10 Ben 10's backstory be like:
It’s crazy how true this is as well. The Omnitrix saw Ben, checked his DNA and said ‘y’know what, close enough to Max. This one’ll do I suppose’
@@Bertiboy An then a "What If" episode showed *Gwen* getting it instead and turns out to be better at it then Ben. It really is just the dumbest luck that Ben stumbled upon it first.
Tbf he didn't see Vilgax or Xylene...... neither of em died there either
@@Kshandamion And then in Omniverse it was revealed that Paradox and No-Watch Ben travelled trough time to manipulate events to ensure that Ben was the one to receive the Omnitrix to secure the timeline and ensure events go correctly.
@@blue_boo3171 Which still goes to show how much bullshit is required to make him "The one."
Batman taking notes on Green Lantern’s powers in the beginning was hilarious 😂 Also, now that I think about it, that does seem like Hal found an alien and just took the ring for himself the way he described it 😂
Batman is gonna add it to that "How-To Eliminate JIC" file he keeps 😂
He’s planning his contingency’s for Green Lantern. Which will later be stolen by Vandal Savage or Ra’as Al Ghul.
@@favoritemustard3542 Hopefully he never has to use it! His plan to beat GL in the comics was something to do with hypnosis to make him think he was blind.
@@edwxx20001it quite literally make Kyle think he is blind so his ring would make him blind until he turns the ring off. That was it. 😂
@@michealfoster4411 so if you are a green lantern, and you imagine you are blind, you are blind, that's crazy!
"well i can't just go around cubing everyone" that's basically Kekkaishi, my friend
Honestly the entire construct thing seems redundant. They can fly faster than light , manipulate the fundamental forces of the universe such as gravity and electromagnetism, teleport, scan anything, change their own biology, change their own rings with their will power, absorb energy, redirect energy, produce energy, turn invisible, open pocket dimensions, and open wormholes as well. What type of idiotic superhero constantly decides to waste everyone's time and put thousands of lives in danger creating a Gundam to fight a giant star fish instead of just teleporting bro outta there. 😂
Well most of that is older comics where the rings didn't really have limits except for the colour yellow
HEY! Don't badmouth Kyle he just likes anime
@@Justaguythatcameby more than keeping people alive ? 😭
In the old comics, the green lantern ring was basically a handheld reality warping device with an advanced AI and limited power. My guess would be that most lanterns mostly stuck with hard-light constructs because it's simpler (and thus faster and less mentally taxing) and more efficient than anything else they can do. In combat, if absorbing the enemy's attack and shooting it back at them takes a quarter-second longer than stopping it with a bubble, it's probably not worth it most of the time - that extra quarter-second could get you killed.
In newer comics, flying really fast, shooting lasers, and making hard-light constructs are pretty much the only things that the ring can do. There are a few utility things as well, like active sensing and long-range communication, plus life support, but that's about it.
“Yeah here’s my suggestion make a suggestion box with your ring.” Absolutely hilarious.
Honestly i would wanna do that
“I can conjure ANYTHING that I can imagine. The possibilities are ENDLESS!”
*GIANT GREEN FIST*
What if green lanter imagines a "not-weak-to-yellow" suit?
It would work unless a yellow latner could somehow imagine a yellow to strong to fight
Green Lanterns lost their yellow impurity weakness in the early 2000s when they purged the fear entity out of their central battery.
@@COOLERthenU would be fucking hilarious if green lantern ran into condiment king and lost the fight because of condiment king's mustard
@@sabagaming3079 true, even funnyer, imagine just telling a blind green lantern that all your wepons and attcks are yellow and they belive you
@@COOLERthenU Lol, imagine meeting a colorblind green lantern
3:10 ….is…is that a mf Christopher Reeves joke….?!!
I went to the comments to see if anyone else noticed lol, fucking amazing joke
Good lord
Can’t believe I didn’t catch that lmao
Well it wasn't a Christopher walken joke
I cant believe how many people missed that one. Maybe I am showing my age a bit. lol
Wow Green Lantern sure is strong. It would be crazy if a clown lady, shark god, angry Australian, and assassin with a jetpack killed him with guns or somethihg
That was John and he, unlike Hal, doesn't have the script on his side.
> "i don't mean to start a 2-3 minute conversation about this topic."
> three minutes and two seconds left in the video.
1:28 "Everyone has imagination"
Now superman.... you'd think that normally wouldn't you...BUT APPARENTLY, there are people incapable of picturing an apple, then turning it in their mind...much less imagining the cross section, with a little apple worm in it.
That doesn't mean they can't imagine things, it just means they can't picture it in their head.
@@matthewgagnon9426 .......
>Googles
"the act or power of forming a mental image of something not present to the senses or never before wholly perceived in reality"
So was that meant to be a joke, or...?
@@matthewgagnon9426 This sounds like a line out of the video. 🤣🤣🤣
I mean, how mathematically symmetric is this apple? In which direction is it turning?
Now YOU imagine a perfect sphere rotating in a universe where there's equal light coming from all directions and no other things to cast shadows.
@@Skeletons_Riding_Ostriches
I just realized...my mind has raytracing too...
Batman: “I like where this conversation is going”
"Yeah everyone's got a rock limit"
fucking amazing. quoting that now.
0:06 I thought the table was the “most replayed” bar of the video for a second
Thats genuine stupidity and I love it
@@Do_tart_tycoon I think I’m supposed to say thanks
@@Fanboy_of_everythingI think so too?
Can someone explain this?
Thanks to that comment it's going to be
I love how half the time, Hal's go-to defensive option is a brick wall. Like really? Bricks? Couldn't you imagine a sturdier building material 😭
It is canon that Hal Jordan loved the three little pigs story as a kid.
I’m kidding, I just made this up
And people thought him becoming Parallax didnt made sense.
Awful bold of Superman to believe that Little Timmy throwing rocks at windows isn't a threat to the universe.
Well, unless it's little Timmy Turner who has family Oddparents, I'm not too worried about it.
Everyone has a rock limit.
"I threw a rock at him!... it was a big rock" -Crockman
Love how GL also got scared at the end, implying it wasn't him that cause Sups not to feel his legs...
...It almost like done by a superhero that can shrink on atomic level.
I'M RAY PALMER, WELCOME TO PAIN!
"You fight impulses better than anyone else" dude I fell off my chair laughing.
Guess that's why I don't hav🧁e the ring.
1:45 if you don’t have second thoughts like that it could be impulsiveness.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the time Green Lantern turned himself into a letter. Like just a plain ol letter, got mailed n everything.
Funniest shit I've ever seen
0:17 the notebook 😭
He finna update the contingency plans
Stay strapped
In Red Sun Green Lantern was able to make a cube that Superman could not escape from by imagining a cube with infinite cocentric cubes inside of it entrapping superman from al lsides.
0:50 Reminds me of the Batman Animated Series when Batman disguised himself as Killer Croc.
Killer Croc: There I was, hold up in this quarry, when Batman came nosing around. He was gettin' closer, closer...
Poison Ivy: And?
Killer Croc: I threw a rock at him!
Penguin: …
Joker: …
Two-Face: …
Poison Ivy: ...So, Harvey, what became of the giant penny?
Killer Croc: It was a big rock...
Two-Face: They actually let him keep it!
Legendary episode. So many Easter eggs
@@AgentofLADON I actually had it in book form that came with the audio on cassette. So while I only saw the episode a few times, I "heard" it dozens of times.
Hal has the powers of a god and he chooses to make giant green fists
1:29
EVERYONE HAS UNO! IT CAME FREE WITH YOUR XBOX!
Say he fought darkseid, could he not just imagine a "darkseid-erasure" gun that can delete darkseid from existence?
Has crisis on infinite earths taught you nothing about why we can't do this?
Crisis on infinite earths-erasing gun.
@@Goodbutevilgenius. . . good point
Darkseid literally got hit by a bomb that ripped apart reality in front of him and was fine... there also the fact that as a God he is powered by one of the Seven Forces of Creation which supposedly includes the Emotional Spectrum, and the Speed Force.
Fun fact: If you piss on Green Lantern, he can't use his ring to stop the piss, he has to take it
If Green Lantern pisses himself does the costume melt?
@@blacksage2375 Only if he's dehydrated.
He creates a giant fan. and blows it back in your face! Take That! (Batman may have helped with this plan)
He'll aim his ring and construct a cube where you're standing, and boom! Cube. Piss gone
Or he grabs the air and uses that to intercept. Your in a fluid, not outer space. (Unless your in space, it'd take a pretty wide hydrogen net to meaningfully make a shield in time.)
Solid's been doing so will with these skits and he hasn't even began to delve into the other Lanterns, especially the Black Lantern Corp.
1:07 “erm, it’s not inanimate, it’s literally a piece of alien AI technology made to basically recruit space cops” ☝️🤓
It's sentient?
@@MetalHopper in a way, yes
@@MetalHoppermaybe Jessica's ring but if I remember there was something inside it. Otherwise it's more a computer that connects to brains rather then a living thing. But it was built out of living willpower so you might factor that.
@@Slowpoke3x Jess's GL ring isn't actually sentient, but the ring she had before she became GL is because...(grabs booze)
Before becoming the 5th(?) main Green Lantern, Jess actually served as Power Ring as part of the crime syndicate, since the previous one died and his ring chose her while on Prime Earth. Unlike main continuity Green Lanterns, there can only be a single Power Ring at a time because the ring is...actually magic and made from the soul of the First Lantern ever, Volthoom, who was a human scientist from the future of an alternate Earth who discovered the emotional spectrum and used it in order to create the first lantern battery, which he used in order to save his dying people and travel the multiverse, only to become a raging loon and make a deal with a sorcerer and give them part of his soul.
Well, most of the first half *has* been explained in one form or another.
-Green Lanterns are Space Cops, are usually limited to one per space sector, and have a mandate of nonlethal force.
-The rings themselves are connected to a discerning intelligence, which allows them to select new wielders and make snap judgments as what counts as "lethal force."
-A lantern's imagination is powerful, real knowledge even more so. Lanterns who have deep knowledge of engineering, chemestry, and biology can make complex constructs that can do far more than make rough outlines with weight.
-While you *could* keep smashing with rocks, the Rings are ultimately just pieces of highly advanced battery-powered technology. There is an inherent limit on how much a ring can be used before it needs a recharge, which means there *is* an upper limit where a single ring uses its entire charge making one construct that only lasts a half-second.
-And finally, Green Lanterns (and DC) need to get over themselves and admit it's not "Willpower" they're using, it's "Courage", the direct opposite of Fear.
It's two per sector like cops on a precinct.
And it IS and always will he Willpower not "Courage". Its the ability to over come great fear, to push through when the odds are stacked against you. To never give up.
Whilst everyone shows acts of bravery and different emotions that form different corps (e.g a green lantern can be angry but that doesn't make him a shoe in to be a red lantern)
my question is: is the object real or just green energy with diferent shapes? if a green lantern imagine a train. is a fully functional train or is just the same as a big green rock? I've never read a comic, so it's not clear to me.
@ian7595 they're "hard light constructs" so energy. But the train will be more complex depending on the lantern, their willpower, their background. For example John Stewart being an architect has more detail constructs
@@ian7595 yes and no
Willpower is more nebulous and therefore more malleable. It also fits some situations better than courage
"What about a girlfriend hal, can you make wonder woman from your imagination?"
" ............ you don't wanna know"
1:58 I’m pretty sure the pain killer worked because ring made a placebo pill.
No, he actually listed the damn chemicals he made his Green lantern pill out of. I found it stupider than some of the usual bullshittery.
You would think he could just use his superhuman willpower to work through the pain, like soldiers and athletes do ALL the time.
@@stevenscott2136
I mean technically that is what he did
Omnissiah bless you
1:35-ish White lantern. Boom done!
What does this comment mean
@@SzaposJogdan2733he’s saying white lanterns are stronger than greens
@@SzaposJogdan2733the white lantern was the physical personification of life which was created to counter death so it kind of had to be the most powerful
Green Lantern could imagine green lantern rings for every League member
You know it's gonna be a good one when it opens with "MEANWHILE...!"
In Injustice, a green latern used their power to block synapses in Superman's brain to paralyze him, but of course Supes overpowered it
"And i just happen to have the strongest willpower out of all the greenlanterns history"
*Mogo has entered the chat*
Solid JJ: “Don’t look up Hal Jordan minor! Don’t look that up!
Me: “Please, it can’t be that bad.”
-Later
Me: “wha….. wha…. what the 🤬!”
The guy that wrote that story went to jail for...related reasons.
Sometimes I'm really glad to just be a normie who enjoys superheroes through cartoons and movies without actually diving deep into the comics.
@@TydePod16 Shit.
But hey, let's not use that as a reason to side-eye every writer who makes such stories... wait, let's do that actually.
No, my point is it's not just people who make their intentions obvious. Don't buy into every rumor but keep an eye out and an open mind when accusations are made.
@@sdgdhpmbpyeah but he actually went to jail
@@TydePod16Gerard Jones didn’t begin the storyline, but he did write issues portraying it.
You have to wonder if any of the staff working with him knew.
3:28 i know what you did
Minor?
What do you mean Jordan minor
@@Centuri0n24 hal jordan had a relationship with a minor once
Look it up
@@coolmanrandomthe one thing he couldn't resist
Green Lantern "I just can't go around Cubing everyone."
Me "So you have cubed people."
Green Lanterns powers seem more like visual telekinesis. However he’s always executed in the laziest ways. “I’m gonna make a big fist guys”
And that is usually depicted as majorly more creative then the rest of the Corp, who generally only use green energy blasts with no other form.
Fist is faster to imagine than whatever Rube Goldberg horseshit you'd rather do.
@@morgantodd3748 😂I looked him up and this made me laugh. No need to be rude. A good middle ground would work nicely to showcase the user’s imaginative abilities.
@@christianboehlefeld5168I didn’t know different rings corps work differently.
Batman taking note is so comic accurate. That said, Solid JJ has to do a "Tower of Babel" video
"So here's the thing Bruce. You made plans to blind Hal, make Jonn burn non stop, asphyxiate Arthur and give Diana a heart attack, not even mentioning what you did to Plastic Man. How come you never go that far with the Joker?"
"Can't risk my cash cow Clark."
"....what?"
"I mean...bat signal. Gotta go."
@@AgentofLADON 🤣
his willpower is the ability to keep the intrusive thoughts out.
tbh they fucking underrate green lantern they nerf him bad
I swear every animated DC thing since like 2010 has been making a concerted effort to make a Hal Jordan look like shit, he's either going out to fight darkseid and getting his s*** beaten by like three parademons or immediately s*** talking the Justice League and refusing to join, or talking big shit to Batman then getting his shit beaten in by Superman. it's starting to feel a little hateful honestly.
@@kbbd6999 The movies just forgot that you can't take off a lantern's ring without them allowing it. Those movies were bad anyway (based on new 52) with Shazam and Cyborg on the League instead of the founding team, nerfing Hal was the least of those concerns.
Well, my rock limit is pretty big so it wouldn't work on me
0:29
“Look I don’t mean to start a 2-3 minute comical conversation about this topic”
*Proceeds to do just that*
One time, when Hal was asleep, a random dream of his ended up turning his sidekick into a seagull. Back in the day it wasn't about energy constructs nearly as much as it was a magic wishing ring. Not literally magic, but in terms of how it could do all sorts of random things.
Oh, and one time Hal turned himself into a robot.