User blog:Killermoves/Superhero Space War! Green Lantern vs X-O Manowar

 Space... The Last Frontier. It is a place that is almost mythological in today's popular culture. It is in space where a lot of our favorite science-fiction heroes lived and died, where aliens visited or invaded, and whole empires and galaxies rose and fell. And in the vast and open galaxies in the universe, one science-fiction hero stood amongst the rest: The Space Adventurer! The brave warriors who survived living amongst the stars, and given powerful cosmic weapons they used to defend their planet. But what happens when two of the most famous space adventurer in comics go head-to-head? 

''Green Lantern! Iconic space cop and poozer in green from DC Comics''

vs

''X-O Manowar! Savage barbarian abducted by aliens and escaped using a powerful armor in Valiant Comics''



Both of these normal humans were entrusted with powerful weapons in a form of a ring, both are dressed in bright uniforms and uber-tough armor, and both have used their space weapons to help mankind.

WHO IS DEADLIEST?!

Green Lantern
[[File:Profile-_Green_Lantern.png|thumb|"In brightest day, in blackest night,

No evil shall escape my sight.

Let those who worship evil's might

Beware my power--Green Lantern's light!" - Hal Jordan]] Hal Jordan was born in Coast City, California as the second son to Martin and Jessica Jordan. When Jordan was a young boy, his father Martin died in a plane crash at Ferris Air Field while testing a plane. Hal eventually joined the United States Air Force when he was eligible, despite his family's wishes and became a pilot. Years later, after he was discharged from the Air Force and was working as a test pilot, Hal came across a dying alien named Abin Sur, Green Lantern of Sector 2814. Hal had been chosen to represent Sector 2814 and become the Green Lantern of Earth. Eventually, other Lanterns from Earth were chosen as backups. they are John Stewart, Kyle Rayner, and Guy Gardner. Hal was also a founding member of the Justice League, along with Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Aquaman, and the Martian Manhunter. With his ring, Hal Jordan can create virtually anything he can think of, as long as his will remains strong. Some of his more notable enemies include Sinestro of the Sinestro Corps, Carol Ferris of the Star Sapphires, and Atrocitus of the Red Lanterns.

Weapon= The source of Hal's power is the Green Lantern Ring, one of the most powerful objects in the universe. The Green Ring is one of many rings of different colors of the spectrum representing a sort of metaphysical or emotional quality. In case of the Green Ring, it embodies "willpower", and is basically fueled by how strong a person's will is when faced with any odds. Since the ring draws power from willpower, it needs a person such as Hal Jordan who has a strong willpower to work. All constructs, shields and energy blasts it create are colored green.


 * -|Offensive Powers=
 * Energy Blast: The first main form of attack that the user can unleash from the ring. It is done by aiming the ring directly at a target and unleashing a stream of green energy at it. It is the simplest and the quickest attack, and Hal Jordan has used it during his iconic battle with Starro with the Justice League. He once even destroyed a planet and a moon with it.
 * Energy Construction: The second main form of attack the ring can do is creating constructs of any size or mass and use them as weapons. The constructs are based on the user's creativity, and can take form virtually any kind of weapon they want to use, only limited by their imagination. Hal Jordan has been able to use the ring to:
 * Create a giant fist to punch an enemy away.
 * Create weapons like swords and maces as weapons.
 * Created hundreds of illusions of himself to confuse an inter-dimensional guardian.
 * Once made fun of (or "tortured") a guy by creating a giant fan to blow him up, trapped him inside a giant top and spun him around, before finally putting him inside a cage. The guy obviously did not feel too good.
 * He can also create giant building sized monsters, such as the time he purposefully created one that he can fight so he can impress his girlfriend Carol Ferris (the monster was int eh shape of a large ape ala King Kong).
 * Just some non-combat stuffs, but Hal Jordan once created a tunnel that can redirect an meteor shower which was going to crash unto the Earth, as well as creating clouds to capture debris from a destroyed moon.
 * Telekinesis: Hal Jordan can basically lift objects by forming a bubble around them or create a giant hand to pick them up. Hal once caught a ballistics missile using this attack.


 * -|Defensive Powers=
 * Shield Creation: Hal Jordan can also use his ring to create barriers of protection around him or his allies. Limited only by his imagination, he can create different protections for different situations, such as:
 * The time he created a giant mattress to block machine gun fire from a jet plane.
 * Created a giant shield to protect him, Batman and the Flash from a supernova.
 * The ring's protective aura protected Hal when he was shot with a space weapon that can destroy a moon.
 * Healing Capabilities: Hal can quickly heals himself from any wound using the ring. However, this is not passive skill, and Hal must manually use the ring unto himself in order to be healed.


 * -|Miscellaneous=
 * Telepathy: Hal Jordan can use his ring to basically read a person's mind. He once manage to get inside the mind and access the memory of fellow Green Lanter Davo Yull's wife. However, he's only done this on compliant people. He can also talk to someone telepathically.
 * Matter Manipulation: He once turned himself and other people into radiant energy to quickly travel from one galaxy to another.
 * Flight: The Green Ring also offers Hal the ability to fly. In flight, Hal Jordan has been fast enough to fly at the speed of hyperspace.


 * -|Weaknesses=
 * The Ring had two classic weaknesses, one is that it has little effect on objects or enemies that are yellow in color, and second is its limited battery supply.
 * Normally energy constructs or attacks don't affect yellow objects, nor can the Ring's defenses defend against hits that are yellow in color. However, this is NOT the case with Hal Jordan entirely. He was the first Green Lantern in ages who has shown enough willpower to actually bypass this weakness to yellow. He once managed to destroy a yellow coated alien vehicle belonging to the Five Inversions, and survived a wave of "yellow energy" from a supernova. However, Hal needs to exert larger amounts of the Ring's power supply to do these.
 * There is also the Ring's infamous weakness of it running out of juice in battle. There is no exact time limit that tells when the Ring's battery will run out in early GL stories, and its battery life seems to vary from writer to writer. However, it can be assumed that the Ring can function for more than a day without charging, but its battery really do deplete when faced with very tough enemies. Hal can however, recharge it with the use of the Green Lantern that he can call upon. When recharging it, Hal needs time to put his ring in the lantern and say his iconic catchphrase.

X-O Manowar
Aric of Dacia was a Visigoth warrior who fought the Romans in the 5th century and was abducted by a race of ruthless supremacist aliens called the Spider Aliens. The Spiders had a custom where they would visit primitive planets and capture natives who they can turn into slaves, and they captured Aric and other humans to work on their ships. After living for several years as a slave, Aric have had enough and staged a revolt together with the other captives. During his rebellion, Aric managed to reach a secret area which contained a holy and powerful suit of armor. He stole the powerful armor called the Shanhara and used it to take down the aliens and finally return home. Unfortunately for Aric, almost 2 millenia have passed since his abduction and the old world he once knew was gone. Forced to live in the modern world together with his frenemy Ken Clarkson, Aric is forced to adapt to its new customs and traditions. Now dubbing himself as X-O Manowar, he vowed to protect his new home from the return of the Spider Aliens as well as other supervillains in the Valiant Universe.

Weapon= Aric's armor (known as Shanhara by the Spiders, Good Skin by Aric, and X-O by Ken Clarkson) is a suit that is basically the love child between Iron Man's armor and Venom's symbiote. It is a super tough blue and yellow armor that covers his whole body from head to toe. It can fly, create weapons out of its mass, and is nearly indestructible. But what makes it special is that it is also alive. The X-O has a mind of its own that also actively helps Aric. After Shanhara was destroyed, Aric got a new skin named Pol-Bekhara which functions similarly to the old armor. When not in use, the armor is kept inside a metal sphere and Aric can call upon it with the use of a special ring.


 * -|Offensive Powers=
 * Weapons Creation: The whole armor consist of a malleable form of space steel and organic fibers that can shapeshift or create its own weapons for Aric to use. It can make weapons that are based on the user's personality and fighting style, or adapt and design weapons to combat any specific enemy or situation. For example:
 * In order to puncture super tough alien armor, cybernetic T-rexes, or large space warships, shanhara created twin ion hand canons that can basically penetrate and vaporize just about anything.
 * When alien assassins with handheld energy weapons attacked Aric, the armor created a special blade that not only sliced through the aliens, but can also block and redirect the energy attacks back at them. The blade can also be conveniently thrown.
 * When the armor is either being grappled by multiple enemies, or being hacked by technomancers, it can create a forcefield that can blast them all away.
 * It also has a tractor beam that Aric used to immobolize and lift objects and enemies. Aric used it to great effect against an enemy called the Armorine.
 * At one point when Aric was forced to fight sentient velociraptors in the dark, the armor created spotlights that helped him illuminate and kill them more accurately.
 * It can also do miscellaneous things, such as the time it created wires and tentacles to hack unto technology, and the time when the barbarian got stuck in an unknown sewer and the armor mapped the whole place up for him to navigate it.
 * Enhanced Physicality: The armor also boosted Aric's strength into superhuman levels. He can easily punch through a large ship, rip aliens apart, and even carried a large glacier off of him when he got buried under it.
 * Destructive Capabilities: Whatever weapons Shanhara can come up with have the potential to be superpowerful in battle. In probably his greatest feat in the comic, X-O Manowar once used his ionic canons to damage, hurt and knock down Dr. Solar; a godlike being who can absorb enough energy that can destroy the whole world. Yes, Aric just hurt a guy that can no-sell universe-level damage or universal attacks, which meant that the X-O itself is universal-tier.
 * -|Defensive Powers=
 * Defensive Properties: It is an armor after all, and like any other armor it protects Aric from all sorts of attacks. During their earlier adventure the armor can only take as much punishment, but in later years it has become one hell of a tank. Not only is the material that composed the armor super strong, but it can also create forcefields. It can survive shots from energy weapons, projectile weapons like arrows and bullets, and space ship weapons. It can also survive being buried under a large glacier, an attack powerful enough to blow up a hill, and survive attacks from Dr. Solar who can casually destroy planets. It even protects Aric while he sleeps.
 * Healing Factor: The shanhara can also be used to heal Aric in a very quick notice. It has healed Aric when he was bit in two by a t-rex, when his arm was ripped apart, the time when he was poisoned, and the time he was shot by powerful energy weapons. It can even help Aric become sober when he's drunk.
 * Sensory and Analytics: The armor is basically one giant sentient AI. It has powerful senses that can detect enemies and ambushes in the area (like a Spider-Sense), learn if someone is lying, can analyze an objects weight and height, or find out enemy weaknesses or weak spots.
 * It also has an automatic targetting system that makes sure that every shot always hits its target.
 * The armor also created a small drone called the "Eye" that Aric can use to spy someone or monitor an area.
 * As a sentient being, it gives him advice and tactics in battle.


 * -|Miscellaneous=
 * Enemy Control: Although not a psychic, Aric can use Shanhara to basically take control of someone. He does this by taking a small part of the armor's mass and then making it attach its target. In one example. Aric managed to attach a prosthetic arm made from shanhara that attached itself forcibly unto Ken Clarkson's limb. Doing this allowed Aric to basically monitor what Ken's is saying or thinking, and also take control of his body and action through that hand.
 * Flight: X-O Manowar is capable of flight, both on Earth and in space. It is lightspeed in nature since it can dodge laser attacks.


 * -|Weaknesses=
 * Although strong and almost indestructible, the armor is still a living and breathing organism, which meant that it can still feel pain when attacked. Continuous or repeated powerful attacks can stun or possible cripple the XO armor.
 * Again, like any other organisms, the armor can also be poisoned as well. The Spiders once manage to destroy the Shanhara once by injecting it with a form of a silicon virus that poisoned it.

X-Factors
Training= Hal Jordan has the advantage since he is military-trained by the US Air Force and the Green Lanter Corps. Aric's only training came from his time as a Visigoth Warrior, but allthroughout his space adventure he's basically self-trained.

Both have shown impressive feats of intellect. Hal Jordan had used his ring in ingenious ways to battle celestial foes and planet-destroying cataclysms, while Aric had used his lifetime of warfare to create strategies and tactics to defeat enemies even in odds that are against him. The only problem with Hal is that he's been known (mostly by the comic community) for lacking creativity when compared to other GLs. He's even had difficulties with foes who are supposed to be weaker than him (like his battle with Sonar and the Rainbow Raider). Aric on the other hand, is not infalliable as well. His brutish barbarian nature tends to show itself from time to time when Aric goes berserk or use brute force when fighting (like his fight with Krollos).
 * -|Intelligence=

Its kinda obvious. Green Lantern is a super strong dude with his ring but he never really showed much feats in actual muscle strength. Without the ring he's just barely peak-physical Hal Jordan. Aric on the other hand has enhanced strength and durability that gives him abilities to lift almost everything and punch almost everything as well. He once fought Ax, an enemy in a power armor, even without using an armor of his own. Yes, this guy just fought a guy with a high tech suit, while almost naked.
 * -|Physicality=

Hard to decide on this one. Green Lantern has fought his fair share of enemies from galatic threats, space cataclysms to street-level buffoons. He's even fought as a member of the first incarnation of the Justice League. X-O Manowar has also fought his fair share of aliens, godlike reality warpers and urban supervillains. He's also fought in the early form of Unity, which was basically the Justice League/Avengers of Valiant Comics.
 * -|Experience=

Read First!

 * Battle takes place initially in a neutral city, but would later include space itself. The only way for this battle to end is to the death.
 * If its not obvious enough, I am using both character's classic appearances in their first volumes. THIS is not nerfing, I just decided to use their original incarnations for personal preference, and such the only feats that I am using are during these first volumes.
 * This will be classic Hal Jordan in Green Lantern Vol. 1 (1960), which means that he will have weaknesses when it comes to yellow. I never really liked Hal Jordan in vol 2 since this was the time he became "edgy" for my taste (which also hilariously led to him becoming an insane supervillain named Parallax).
 * This will be X-O Manowar in X-O Manowar Vol. 1 (1992). I like modern day Aric of Dacia but he kind of lack good feats and I like the classic better.