Just watched this episode today on The Hub and everytime I see it I always have the same question. I wonder why they combined Kyle Rayner and Hal Jordan to come up with this version of Kyle. They took Kyle's name and occupation, but they used Hal Jordan's origin of getting the ring from a dying Abin Sur.
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I saw it as well. I thought it was cool that it was Kyle Rayner and when they were fighting you could see the name Hal Jordan on a plane. Wasn't Kyle Rayner the recent Green Lantern at the time in the 90's? So that seems like a logical choice even though Hal Jordan is the more well known. At least they just picked John Stewert for Justice League.
shareAs stated above, Kyle was the current Green Lantern. That's pretty much it.
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That makes sense but, why not just give him his own origin instead of taking it from another Green Lantern? Although, "Batman: The Animated Series" did the same thing. Clayface was a combination of Matt Hagen (Name) and Basil Karlo (occupation).
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Maybe they didn't want to have Hal Jordan as a bad guy.
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Maybe they didn't want to have Hal Jordan as a bad guy.
Huh? Kyle wasn't a bad guy either on this show and Green Lantern was only in one episode so even if they used Hal instead of Kyle, they wouldn't have had the time to go down that route.
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I meant in Kyle Rayner's comic origin Hal Jordan's a villain. And then you'd have to establish that lore on top of the rest of the GL lore. A lot to fit into a 1/2 hour episode that has to still work as a Superman episode.
shareI suspect it was a case of the producers wanting the Hal Jordan Green Lantern but WB and DC wanting the then-current Kyle Rayner, so the combined Rayner's name with the more interesting and more familiar Hal Jordan origin.
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