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He has two rings, and gave her one.

He has two rings.
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Did you miss the part where he has two rings?

Did you miss the other comments saying the same after it?

Hey guys, I'm not sure if anyone's mentioned this yet; but Paul has two rings, not one.
 
My personal theory as to how it works (I don't think the SI himself knows yet for sure):

Robin's problem was that he's a fairly standard superhero personality; he's just not much into avarice. He's a something of a less-crazy mini-Batman who is all about determination and scaring the bad guys - to put it in ring terms green and yellow, maybe some red or indigo. It was very difficult for him to get the ring to respond at all, he had so little avarice. But, when he finally got the ring to respond he was overwhelmed, party because he really had to work himself up, and partly because he had so little experience "thinking orange". He didn't really know how to constructively channel avarice, he had no experience in it.
It also didn't help that the subject of his WANT was such a strong trigger. His uncle was the only blood family he had left, and his friend had just given him the key to getting that back. Between his age, his unfamiliarity with the technology and mindset, and what he was confronted with, is it any surprise that he was overwhelmed?
 
*looks up malayan emergency* christ, WTF?

is SI going to deal with laos, thailand or alt-korea agent orange somehow?
 
Ya, funny story, a British politician stood up in public and said Great Britain was the only EU state to have nothing to be ashamed of in its actions of the 19th and 20th centuries... The Guardians website crashed twice when they asked for rebuttals...
While Britain / England nowadays has some great folks and generally wonderful attitudes towards life, the universe, and everything... Older Britain was the reason many folks really don't like White Europeans...

(until proven Irish)
 
26th March
21:07 GMT +7
Lending out Orange Rings; experiment two.
Hope it goes better than with Robin.

Little odd that Paul could care about the plastic in the ocean and the hole in the atmosphere enough to intervene but not about the dangerous chemicals in the ground. Is it just not enough of a world-shaping issue that he considers it 'not worth his time'?
 
Little odd that Paul could care about the plastic in the ocean and the hole in the atmosphere enough to intervene but not about the dangerous chemicals in the ground. Is it just not enough of a world-shaping issue that he considers it 'not worth his time'?
The plastic in the ocean and the ozone hole have global repercussions, so Paul (and all of his friends) will be affected unless it's fixed, which works perfectly in drawing upon enough desire to fix, while the Agent Orange chemical is limited to Vietnam, a country that at best is vaguely thought about by Artemis, Jade and Paula amongst his in-group. Subconsciously he can't work up enough desire to fix it, so he has to take this kind of measure to even chance fixing it, despite knowing logically the chemical is a bad thing to the people living there.
 
Actually, no. It was about personal responsibility. The SI has used any number of polluting substances, a proportion of which ended up messing with the ozone or in the sea. Thus, by repairing those he is undoing harm he contributed to. Britain didn't take part in the Vietnam War, so there's no responsibility there.
 
Actually, no. It was about personal responsibility. The SI has used any number of polluting substances, a proportion of which ended up messing with the ozone or in the sea. Thus, by repairing those he is undoing harm he contributed to. Britain didn't take part in the Vietnam War, so there's no responsibility there.
Huh. I guess that makes sense.
 
26th March
21:07 GMT +7
This will turn out to be either the greatest decision ever or the worst fuckup in history of fuckups. I just know it.

It does if it's an alternate. After all, it's a version of you that's making different choices, thus making it essentially the same thing as a set of twins that were separated after birth.
It's still yourself.

No single Orange Lantern short of Larfleeze himself poses any REAL threat to Paul
I don't think Fleezy does either. :)

If he's smart he waited until the ring had around 25% charge left before giving it to her so all he'd have to do is hold her in place with a construct and wait if she went nuts.
Why 25? Wouldn't something closer to 5 be better, as that is the cutoff point for unnecessary things (or however it goes). If she went nuts, it would be better that she can do as little as possible, no?

a lot of people said:
Technically, he has unlimited number of rings. He can get the lantern to send out as many as he wants.
 
I don't think Fleezy does either. :)
Probably not, with Paul being so tight with Ophidian. Still, Larry is basically made out of pure orange light, has the central orange power battery, and may still be capable of holding 10,000% charge. I think that without his waifu, Paul's constructs also lose to Larfreeze in power and durability.

Why 25? Wouldn't something closer to 5 be better, as that is the cutoff point for unnecessary things (or however it goes). If she went nuts, it would be better that she can do as little as possible, no?
Well, for one, I think 5% is below flight capable charge.
 
I don't know about there being no responsibility . . . While we probably would have used it anyways, simply because the President of South Vietnam apparently asked us to, those linked wikipedia articles do say that the British use of Agent Orange in Malaysia was used by the United States to justify it being deployed in Vietnam.

And it was created and tested through cooperation between Britain and America.

Still . . . It's very much a case of, "We were able to do it because the British set precedent."
 
Probably not, with Paul being so tight with Ophidian. Still, Larry is basically made out of pure orange light, has the central orange power battery, and may still be capable of holding 10,000% charge. I think that without his waifu, Paul's constructs also lose to Larfreeze in power and durability
True.. What does CPB matter? Ophidian isn't there anymore. She's with Paul, and will help Paul if needed. One way or another Fleezy loses. :)

Well, for one, I think 5% is below flight capable charge
Okay, then give her a bit more. Still less than 25.
 
Yes. She had a schoolgirl crush. When people say that she was a kid, they don't mean that she was 17 and thus non-legal, they mean that she was 13 years old.
The post I quoted stated that she was Hal's age in terms of years of life lived. Is anything explicitly shown about her level of emotional maturity? I haven't read those comics myself you see.

Yes. She was her species' equivalent of 13 years old, and used her ring to will herself into increasing her physical age.
Different species have different psychologies and development rates. 13 years could well be complete emotional maturity for her kind or she may be an exception. Her species could even react quite differently from humans to romantic relationships and/or sex.
Do we know much about how her species normally behaves or her own psychological makeup?
 
Different species have different psychologies and development rates. 13 years could well be complete emotional maturity for her kind or she may be an exception. Her species could even react quite differently from humans to romantic relationships and/or sex.
Do we know much about how her species normally behaves or her own psychological makeup?

We only know how she was portrayed. She was portrayed as a teenage girl who had a crush on Hal and used her magical power ring to make herself older.
 
There's the ever-present need to defy her father
Can somebody please compose a list of everyone OL has personally alienated, humiliated, or pissed-off?

Every great hero needs their own rogues gallery, and I can picture Nybor Truggs (or maybe Eris) unifying the anti-OL villains to "toughen him up" so he'd be better prepared for the Bleed invasion or Abra's Orangest Night. The closest comparison I can think of is from the Buffy comics where Angel founded the Twilight Cabal so the Watcher's Council had a single unified threat to focus on rather than have dozens of minor enemies each doing their own independent operations.

Anti-OL villains that I can think of:
=Klarion: usurped his familiar Teekl.

=Sportsmaster a.k.a. "Casey Jones": helped redeem his daughters, unified his family members in their mutual hatred of him, thwarted his prison break which caused The Light to abandon him, nicknamed him "Casey Jones".

=Ra's Al-Ghul: dismantled the League of Shadows, revealed that he abandoned one of his daughters in a Nazi death camp.

=Zeus: convinced Hera to divorce him.

=That inmate in Belle Reve who invented the crumbler rounds OL uses (name?).

=Any enemy of John Constantine, as they tend to go after his friends and companions rather than directly attack him.
 
Can somebody please compose a list of everyone OL has personally alienated, humiliated, or pissed-off?

Every great hero needs their own rogues gallery, and I can picture Nybor Truggs (or maybe Eris) unifying the anti-OL villains to "toughen him up" so he'd be better prepared for the Bleed invasion or Abra's Orangest Night. The closest comparison I can think of is from the Buffy comics where Angel founded the Twilight Cabal so the Watcher's Council had a single unified threat to focus on rather than have dozens of minor enemies each doing their own independent operations.

Anti-OL villains that I can think of:
=Klarion: usurped his familiar Teekl.

=Sportsmaster a.k.a. "Casey Jones": helped redeem his daughters, unified his family members in their mutual hatred of him, thwarted his prison break which caused The Light to abandon him, nicknamed him "Casey Jones".

=Ra's Al-Ghul: dismantled the League of Shadows, revealed that he abandoned one of his daughters in a Nazi death camp.

=Zeus: convinced Hera to divorce him.

=That inmate in Belle Reve who invented the crumbler rounds OL uses (name?).

=Any enemy of John Constantine, as they tend to go after his friends and companions rather than directly attack him.
How about Queen Bee?
Or those guys who helped Klarion in the world split? Wotan and whatever the others' names were?
Or Bane and his lot?
Or that not-really-a-black-lantern-but-close guy?
 
Did it end well or badly?

Well, she became Hal's girlfriend, pursued a modelling career on Earth for a little while, broke up with him, got amnesia and reverted back to being thirteen years old, gets stuffed in a fridge by Major Force, gets resurrected alongside the rest of the Green Lantern after Hal comes back to life, and then was last seen partnering up with Sodam Yat.

So to answer your question - it went pretty standard comic book-wise (with the added squickiness of her being thirteen)

How about Queen Bee?
Or those guys who helped Klarion in the world split? Wotan and whatever the others' names were?
Or Bane and his lot?
Or that not-really-a-black-lantern-but-close guy?

Queen Bee is dead.

The magic guys were taken by Dr. Fate to who knows where.

Perhaps Bane can.

Dark Druid is probably a member considering he is a British sorta-Black Lantern.
 
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