In the case of Marine Corps pilots the answer is that they can do. In fact John Glenn was a Marine fighter pilot.
Which Green Lantern, and who should star?
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Walker didn't score JL/U, but her proteges Lolita Ritmanis, Michael McCuistion, and Kristopher Carter (aka Dynamic Music Partners) did. And at least seven of the eight themes I mentioned were composed by Walker. ("In Brightest Day" was credited to Ritmanis, but Walker was the senior composer and I gather from some of the DVD commentaries that she wrote the basic themes even for episodes she didn't personally score. For instance, she wasn't credited as composer for the first Darkseid episode, but Timm said in the commentary that the Darkseid theme was hers.) So if DMP were able to use some of Walker's themes, why not the rest?
Do GLs have backups? I never heard anything about that.
No, my understanding (based on the Wikipedia article) is that John was simply assigned to a different sector of the galaxy after his training ended; since Earth's sector was Abin Sur's, there was no need to assign John there. Instead, he got assigned to some other sector that needed the manpower. Once Sur died, the sector needed a new GL assigned to it and Rayner was still a novice, so Stewart was given Sur's old posting.
Maybe, but those aren't canonical and have often been contradicted by later episodes.
Which is basically what Wikipedia says, except that says he's been a GL for 15 years as of JL.
Where do you get that JL begins 5 years after S:TAS? If that were true, wouldn't Supergirl have to be Superwoman? Not to mention that
the Joker is still alive as of "The Greatest Story Never Told" (unless Booster Gold was badly out of the loop), so the flashback in Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, in which Tim is still a teenager, would have to be after that. In the DCAU chronology I'm working up, I have a hard enough time reconciling that with JL beginning just a year or so after "Legacy," since he looks like he's still only 13 or so in the RotJ flashbacks. If there were a 5-year gap there, Robin would've had to be in his early 20s by the time of JLU.
Kyle had one hell of a training course ahead of him. If my mental math is right, he'd probably been on Oa for up to seven years when we saw him in 'The Return.'
By my chronology, it's more like four years and change. And I question the DCAU Wiki's "ten years of training" idea. I don't think training would take that long. Oa is where Kyle is assigned for active service as of "The Return." Since John was asking the Guardians to let him and Kyle trade places, I'd assume that means that Kyle was a full-fledged Lantern in his own right, qualified to fill the same post as John.
As I recall, John and Guy were both referred to as Hal's backup GLs back in the day in the comics.
When Abin Sur was dying, the battery scanned for the closest people who were completely fearless. Guy was in a coma and Hal was closer than John. That's it. Guy and John have both exploded over this, that Hal was never ever only more worthy to be Green Lantern than they were but that just luckily Hal was "closer".
Hal was told to chose between his Ring and Carol in the early 80s. He chose love. Katma Tui tried to kill him, since years earlier when the Guardians had pulled the same bullshit on her, Hal had pushed her into chosing the ring. Well nudged with advice.
Hal was told to chose between his Ring and Carol in the early 80s. He chose love. Katma Tui tried to kill him, since years earlier when the Guardians had pulled the same bullshit on her, Hal had pushed her into chosing the ring. Well nudged with advice.
How is it that Earth rates so many Green Lanterns, and how is it that they're almost always American men? I gather there was finally a female human GL a couple of years ago, Jade, but they killed her off when her career had barely gotten started. And stuffed her in a refrigerator, I shouldn't wonder.
Like the others said, in the comics Hal had Guy and John as backups. Thinking about it, I'm not sure if anyone else does.
...Which is probably a less convoluted idea than having a sector-native represent each sector.
IIRC, it was the original intention that the first season of Justice League took place up to five years after the end of Superman (hence Superman's initial 'squint'), but by the second season (or even earlier) they'd decided against it, and the squint goes away. I would have thought that they'd have remembered Tim's appearance in RotJ, but maybe they chose to leave it ambiguous?
Good points. Your DCAU chronology is probably more accurate than my random rememberings anyway.
And I have no idea why the GL of 2814 has always been an American man. Lazy writing, or writing for the perceived audience?
And I'm pretty sure Jade's alive again.
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Really? I was reading some JSA recently and Alan lost it a little when he met the Earth II Jade... Although I am seriously behind on my reading with Green lantern Corps.
Wiki says something about "the original jade" in OYL I don't quite understand completely.
One other thing about a GL feature film is that the odds of Warner Animation making a GL animated series would get a whole lot better - and the GLC concept is perfect subject matter for a cartoon series.
I'm greatly looking forward to the GL DTV animated movie. If we get a live action feature film and an animated series to boot then my cup will runneth over as a lifelong GL fan.
I'm greatly looking forward to the GL DTV animated movie. If we get a live action feature film and an animated series to boot then my cup will runneth over as a lifelong GL fan.
Jackson's already down as Nick Fury.
Nathan Fillion would be an excellent Hal Jordan.
So? Being Batman didn't stop Christian Bale from playing John Connor. It only takes a few months to shoot a movie, and then you can move on to a different movie.
And wasn't Jackson supposedly dropped from playing Fury do to negotiation difficulties anyway?
Now that is an awesome thought...
Yeah, I'm behind too. I just got the first part of 'Thy Kingdom Come' from JSA and I swear she makes an appearance. I have to go dig 'em out and check. I may be blurring it and remembering seeing her in Green Lantern Rebirth, which I also re-read lately.
Now that is an awesome thought...
Yeah, I'm behind too. I just got the first part of 'Thy Kingdom Come' from JSA and I swear she makes an appearance. I have to go dig 'em out and check. I may be blurring it and remembering seeing her in Green Lantern Rebirth, which I also re-read lately.
Not actually dropped -- at this point, it's still up in the air. Marvel wants to offer him less money, he's asking for more, there are threats that the role might be recast if they can't come to a deal. But that may just be standard negotiating tactics.
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