![]() Since Sinestro harbored hatred for Hal, Parallax chose Jordan as its tool to free itself. When the renegade Sinestro was later imprisoned in the Power Battery himself, his Qwardian yellow power ring tapped into Parallax's power and awakened it. Thus, when recruiting new Green Lanterns, the Guardians were careful to look for recruits who could do this. ![]() Being yellow in color, Parallax eventually came to be referred to as simply "the yellow impurity", a flaw, whose nature was kept secret from the Corps, that made their rings useless against the color yellow: Parallax weakened its power over the corresponding spectrum hence, only someone with the willpower to overcome great fear could master the power ring. Parallax had lain dormant for billions of years, its true nature hidden by the Guardians to prevent anyone from trying to free it. The Guardians of the Universe imprisoned Parallax within the Central Power Battery on Oa using fear's opposite energy, willpower, along with the aid of one of the fear's counterparts, Ion. Traveling from world to world, the parasite caused entire civilizations to destroy themselves out of paranoia. The 2004 miniseries Green Lantern: Rebirth, written by Geoff Johns and penciled by Ethan Van Sciver, revealed that Parallax was actually the sentient embodiment of the emotion fear from the Emotional Electromagnetic Spectrum, one of The Seven Forces of the Universe, dating back to the dawn of time. His soul not at peace, Hal then became the new Spectre to seek redemption for what he did as Parallax. Hal eventually sacrificed his life to reignite Earth's sun after it was nearly completely eaten. While Kyle Rayner became the primary Green Lantern of Earth for the next decade, Hal Jordan terrorized the DC universe as the villain Parallax and attempted to make the Cyborg Superman pay for the destruction of Coast City. ![]() As detailed in the crossover Zero Hour: Crisis in Time, Parallax attempted to rewrite history in order to stop the destruction of Coast City by using chronal energy, pulled from the universe by the combined power of the rings of the Green Lanterns he had killed. After this, Jordan assumed the name Parallax and became a supervillain. Following the complete destruction of his home town Coast City by the villain Mongul, Hal Jordan descends into madness, destroying the Green Lantern Corps, killing his friend Kilowog and all of the Guardians, except for Ganthet. This was done in the story " Emerald Twilight", beginning in Green Lantern vol. In 1994, in an effort to generate interest in its Green Lantern comics, DC replaced Hal Jordan, who had been the primary Green Lantern since the late 1950s, with the character Kyle Rayner, and eliminated the Green Lantern Corps which had served as supporting characters in the series. Fictional character biography Hal Jordan becomes Parallax. In 2009, Parallax was ranked as IGN's 92nd Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time. ![]() Parallax was revealed to have been once imprisoned within the Central Power Battery on the planet Oa, from which all Green Lanterns derive their power, and was the reason for the necessary impurity that in the past rendered the rings useless against anything colored yellow. After further changes for the Hal Jordan character over the subsequent years (sacrificing his life in order to reignite Earth's Sun in the 1996 crossover storyline " The Final Night", and Jordan's soul subsequently becoming the newest host of the Spectre in the 1999 miniseries Day of Judgment), 2004's Green Lantern: Rebirth once again cast Jordan as a heroic Green Lantern and explained Parallax as an ancient entity embodying the yellow light of fear which possessed Jordan and drove him to his villainous actions. 3 #48 (January 1994), Parallax was originally devised as the new supervillain identity for then-former Green Lantern protagonist Hal Jordan. Parallax is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.Ĭreated by writer Ron Marz and artist Darryl Banks for Green Lantern vol. ![]()
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