Green Lantern’s Ultimate Fantasy Reveals a Heartbreaking Secret
When taken captive by the sinister Black Mercy plant, Green Lantern was thrust into a fantasy world. And that perfect reality might have revealed Hal Jordan's true feelings about his most hated enemy.
When it comes to the origins of villains, Green Lantern has quite the tragic one. After the previous Green Lantern of Sector 2814 perished, Hal Jordan was recruited to take his place. As the first Earthling Lantern, Jordan faced an uphill battle from his fellow Corps members, including Sur's close ally, Thaal Sinestro. However, Sinestro took Jordan under his wing and the two actually developed a bond. But Green Lantern turned on Sinestro when the hero discovered that his friend had been abusing his Lantern powers to install a dictatorship on his home planet of Korugar. From that day, Jordan and Sinestro were never truly able to repair the friendship they'd began in Hal's earliest days with the Corps.
Related: Green Lantern's Nemesis Is Totally Right About His Biggest Flaw
And it appears that Hal, unfortunately, never got over that turn of events. In Green Lantern #7 by Geoff Johns and Carlos Pacheco, Green Lantern and Green Arrow discover that the intergalactic terror, Mongul, has returned and has been spotted on Earth. The two race to confront him only to discover a farm filled with Black Mercy plants. While the two think they managed to defeat Mongul and his plans for Earth, they actually wind up ensnared by the sinister fauna. Hal is drawn into a fantasy world where he never became the villain Parallax and the Green Lantern Corps is as strong as ever. In fact, the world is so perfect, that Hal's former friend and mentor Sinestro is still a deputized Green Lantern. After the Corps completes another successful mission,
Read more on screenrant.com
