Why does Hal have such a bad reputation?
Ok, I know that this is out of my usual uploads which are mostly headcanons and interpretations, but there is something that has been going around in my head the last few days and that I had tried to solve on my own, but I have not been able to and today surfing the internet I came across a comment that brought me back to a question.
Why does Hal have such a bad reputation?
Why is he seen as such a shitty character?
Well I'll give a little context so you understand my little crisis.
A few days ago I was browsing tik tok and was looking for some Halbarry on the platform because I really love finding anything from the two of them. I was a couple of videos and cute and stuff like that, out of curiosity I started to get into the comments of these videos to see what was there, and as expected there was a little bit of everything; but there was a long constant one that caught my attention quite a bit.
Several users commented things like: "Barry deserves something or someone better". And other people were trying to argue about Hal being a good guy and being good enough to be next to Barry and the like, which led to a sort of debate as to why Hal wasn't someone good or worthy of Barry or even some of his other canon partners.
It really struck me that in several videos I watched of these two, many people commented that Hal wasn't good enough for Barry or was kind of a bad person. I thought about it a little bit, but I didn't take it so personally either, because well, it's tiktok, a lot of times I feel like the information there feels simpler or favors some side more, which I can understand. But curiosity led me to review some internet forums, pages, blogs, etc; and I realized that there really is a bad opinion of the character, and now my doubt arose.
Why?
I think I have some conclusions, but I would like to know other points of view about this answer, so if anyone has an idea or wants to give an opinion it is more than welcome and it would really help me too much to understand why so much hate or dislike towards the character.
(I don't mean to say that Hal hasn't been a jerk sometimes and that he doesn't have his flaws like other characters, but sometimes I don't understand the disproportionate hatred he has).
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I know you don't read any gl past gl rebirth but also this is the worst panel I've ever seen so other Hal fans have to see it to suffer with me
I'm about to scream over this why this is just so wrong on so many levels
It's so bad. It's so fucking bad. Also fun story about this panel I went to a tom king signing last year to get my supergirl trade signed, and before i went i asked my friend loof if they wanted anything signed and they said this specific panel bc it would be funny. So I printed out a picture of this panel and stuck it in my trade for safe keeping as you do. and when i handed it to tom king to get it signed, he asked me who my favourite superhero was and immediately opened up my supergirl trade to see a large picture of hal jordan 😭. anyways then he talked about how he took a philosophy course in college and realized how "ambiguous" the definition of willpower is and that people got really mad over the panel and i stood there like ahaha wow thats crazy
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Obsessed with how Carol let's him in after he asks to stay since he can do card trick (and she agrees since he's already here)
He manages to charm and impress her friends by telling silly stories and being a funny guy (TM) and she's like "I guess he is outdoing himself" until a fake Green Lantern shows up
But despite thinking Green Lantern showed up, she still says "Hal Jordan was going to show us some magic card tricks, weren't you, Hal?" despite like calling it lame compared to Green Lantern earlier it's just so sdlfkgjnsfgkhsnfghsfghfhdfgh
And then she almost lost interest in Green Lantern cos he wasn't hot enough like she's the funniest ever
Also, double date!
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On the topic of Hal Jordan being maybe a bit better than anyone gives him credit for…
[I’m kidding ofc, we all know he’s a great guy, but bear with me for the sake of this post hahaha]
⚠️ Spoilers for Green Lantern #5 ⚠️
I get it, y’all, I really do. Hal can be pushy when it comes to love. And pretty undeserving of the love he pushes for because I mean how good is a guy that keeps professing his love to the same girl only to ditch her for long and unspecified stretches of time. Like of course, Carol keeps moving on, Hal, there’s absolutely no reason why she should wait around for some guy that loves her, but still leaves her! But hear me out…
Maybe Hal being pushy doesn’t actually change the fact that he’s a good guy. Maybe his pushiness is sincere. And maybe, just maybe, he’s a big enough person to set the whole “all is fair in love and war” thing aside to do what’s right and that’s what makes him so dang hard to resist.
So, this all stems from the latest issue of Green Lantern by Jeremy Adams and Xermánico which features Hal setting out to put a stop to Sinestro’s reign of terror across the earth. Hal’s first stop is Ferris Air as Sinestro has taken over all their unmanned drones to enact his plan. Carol catches Hal up on the situation and as he’s leaving to do his superheroics Carol hands him some nifty new communicators designed by her new fiance, Nate, y’know, the guy that Hal has been at one-sided odds with since the first issue of this new run. Hal, predictably, makes a snide little Hal-comment about Nate being smart and Carol, predictably, gives him no rope when she shortly replies that he’s “very” smart. I’ll always love these terse little exchanges between them.
Hal later runs into the problem of the last two drones being too far away from each other, and too close to their intended targets, for him to reach them in time. This leads to him coming up with the idea of putting his piloting skills, and indomitable will, to the test by simultaneously sending two constructs in opposite directions to catch the last two drones. Carol puts Nate on the line, and this is where my admiration for Hal, and Adams as a writer, grows considerably, as rather than getting another typical Hal remark we get a man on a mission.
Hal doesn’t care who’s guiding him in, he doesn’t care that he’s lost the love of his life (for no reason other than his own hubris) and that the one who has earned her love is now talking to him one-on-one. Rather than taking the easy drama route of giving Hal yet another opportunity to undercut his latest rival, Adams instead opts for the much more in-character route of having Hal just be the hero that he is. Hal’s only care is that there are people in trouble and Nate is the only person who can help him. And man, do they make a great team.
And this is a fact that neither gets nor needs any particular highlighting from the story itself. No remarks about Nate being the one to guide Hal in are made. Nothing is said about how well Hal followed directions from his rival-in-love. And that’s kinda my favorite part of all of this, the conclusion that I’ve come to, that Hal is not in the least bit petty and is a wholly honorable person, is not a conclusion that the story busies itself with proving. It just is. Hal just is a hero. He just is a good guy. He just does the right thing because that’s the right thing to do and, man, does that make it hard to say no to him.
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