question of the day: How could Green Lantern more imaginatively -- and effectively! -- use his powers?

Could not Hal have stopped that alien monster that feeds on fear by, I dunno, creating baskets of puppies to calm everyone down? Could Hal not have sapped the fearmongering power of the monster by casting a happy rainbow?

I’m only half facetious. For a superhero with a different sort of power than the usual superstrength, Jordan is a depressingly ordinary sort of superhero after all. Maybe the comic features Hal being more creative with his powers; maybe it doesn’t. Whichever is the case, Hollywood couldn’t be bothered to do anything original with the character. So let’s fix that:

How could Green Lantern more imaginatively -- and effectively! -- use his powers?

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