Post by Z451 on Aug 12, 2013 22:22:22 GMT
Hal Jordan
Hal Jordan was born in Coast City to Martin Jordan and Jessica Jordan, the middle of three children with older brother Jack and a younger brother Jim.
As a young child, he idolized his father, a test pilot who worked for Ferris Aircraft.
At a very young age, he had to face his greatest fears when his father died in a plane crash right before his eyes.
Despite his family's wishes, he followed in his father's footsteps and eventually joined the United States Air Force on his 18th birthday – turning up that very morning outside the Armed Forces Career Center before it had even opened.
Many years later, a dying alien named Abin Sur, member of the Green Lantern Corps, crash-landed his ship in the Californian desert.
Having selected a replacement officer for his position, the power ring chose Hal Jordan for his ability to overcome great fear.
The ring and its abilities were explained to him, and he inherited the mantle of Green Lantern.
Acting as a galactic police officer, it was his job to serve and protect all life in Sector 2814.
He would soon learn that there were another 3599 Green Lanterns across the universe, all monitored and empowered by mystical creatures called the Guardians.
Hal received training from some of the best the Corps had to offer, including drill sergeant Kilowog, and his mentor Sinestro.
During his training, Hal learned that Sinestro has been subjugating his home planet, Korugar, through fear, using his ring.
After Hal reported these acts to the Guardians and fellow Corps members, he battled Sinestro, and emerged victorious.
Along with the rest of the Corps, he then testified against Sinestro at his trial.
Expelled from the Corps and banished by the Guardians to the Antimatter Universe as punishment, Sinestro became a sworn enemy to the Corps and gained a new Qward power ring, exacting the start of his revenge.
As Green Lantern, Hal Jordan patrolled the galaxy and took on many missions in space.
He continued to spend his time at home working at Ferris Aircraft, where he romantically pursued his boss, the lovely Carol Ferris.
He would entrust his secrets to a young Eskimo lad who worked as his mechanic, Tom Kalmaku.
Green Lantern was one of the founding members of the Justice League of America, along with the Flash, Aquaman, Martian Manhunter and of course, Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman.
This group first banded together when they met to fight Appellaxians invading the planet, and realized that they worked much stronger as a team than any of them could have individually.
Hal and Oliver Queen are good friends, often adventuring together, and also getting along with his girlfriend, Dinah Lance.
Hal was also friends with the late Barry Allen, the second Flash, who along with Hal, were both founding members of the Justice League of America.
Later still, Hal retained a friendship with their respective sidekicks, Roy Harper and Wally West, the third Flash.
Star Sapphire
Something of a ladies man, Hal had courted more than his share of beautiful women in his time.
Of these women, the one to whom Hal may have been closest was Carol Ferris, who was his boss when he worked as a test pilot for her company, Ferris Aircraft.
Unfortunately, their relationship was repeatedly strained by Carol's position as Hal's boss and her dedication to running her company, as well as Hal going through a period of instability where he moved around constantly trying new jobs that did not suit him.
Even worse, Carol was chosen by the Zamarons to be Star Sapphire, a powerful super-villainess who repeatedly menaced the world, specifically men.
One of the greatest secrets kept by the Guardians was that their infamous yellow impurity was in fact an ancient monster named Parallax who they had imprisoned in their Central Power Battery.
Parallax was the physical embodiment of fear on the emotional electromagnetic spectrum, the opposite of the green willpower.
After the greatest tragedy of his life took away everything he held dear, Hal became susceptible to fear, and the monster gained root in his consciousness through his ring.
Through influencing his actions, it would eventually possess him and turn him into one of the greatest villains the universe had ever seen.
Hal Jordan's home Coast City had been completely destroyed by Cyborg Superman and Mongul during Reign of the Supermen! in a gigantic explosion, reducing it to a smoldering crater.
Returning to Earth after the events of Trinity, Green Lantern was horrified, and he immediately went after Mongul and beat the galactic conqueror in single combat.
Afterward, with everything he cherished piles of cinder and ash, Hal tried to use his ring to recreate Coast City in its entirety.
This was a massive construct that required all of his ring's charge, and he began interacting with characters from his life who had perished in the slaughter.
A projection of the Guardians was sent to him furious that he was using his powers for personal reasons, and threatening him unless he immediately reported back to them for disciplinary action.
Enraged that they would ignore the personal loss he had suffered in the name of the Corps and try to punish him for his humanity, Hal, driven insane by grief, decided to meet them head on and clash with the men who had destroyed his life.
In this state of madness, he was intent on obtaining their vast powers so that he might recreate all he had lost.
A team of the Green Lantern Corps' greatest warriors were sent to oppose him, and stop him before he could reach their homeworld.
Hal Jordan single-handedly went through Boodikka, General Kreon, Graf Toren, Hannu, Jack T. Chance, Ke'Haan, Laira and Tomar-Tu.
He left all those he defeated floating in space, and took their rings in his possession, adding them to his collection.
Touching down on Oa, he killed Kilowog in combat. His greatest adversary Sinestro was released from imprisonment to act as the last line of defense, and Hal snapped his neck.
Then, he entered the Central Power Battery and absorbed the energies inside... killing the Guardians and effectively destroying the entire Green Lantern Corps. He emerged in the new identity of Parallax.
As Parallax, Hal fought many of his former allies and Kyle Rayner, the newest Green Lantern of Earth, while attempting to restore Coast City.
He conspired with Extant to restart the universe and attempted to sway others to his cause by offering them wealth and power in this reborn universe, the purpose of which was to 'set things right.' Hal was ultimately defeated by heroes of Earth.
Hal seemed to gain clarity, healing the paralyzed John Stewart and resurrecting Oliver Queen, who had died in an explosion. He extinguished his powers and sacrificed himself to destroy the Sun Eater and re-ignite Earth's sun.
Some time later, the Spectre was without a host and demons sought to use it to their advantage.
With the help of the Sentinels of Magic, Hal became the new host for the Spectre.
Hal attempted to bend the Spectre's mission from vengeance to redemption, using his powers to remove the Star Sapphire persona from Carol.
However, the Spectre was the stronger of the two minds, and Hal had little success.
But the Spectre had alternate motives for attaching to Hal Jordan.
He explained to Hal that the parasitic fear demon known as Parallax had taken him over while it was trapped by the Guardians in the Central Battery, having been awoken and directed to Hal by Sinestro.
Though Parallax was able to supress Hal and take over the Spectre, Hal was able to fight off Parallax and separate both Parallax and the Spectre from his soul.
Ganthet sent a beacon of light to guide Hal's soul back to his body, and Hal Jordan was reborn as the Green Lantern.
Together, with Kyle Rayner, John Stewart, Guy Gardner, and Kilowog, they defeat Sinestro (foiling his ultimate goal of eliminating the Corps), re-imprison Parallax in the Central Power Battery, and the Green Lantern Corps is reborn.
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