10 Worst Things Hawkman Has Ever Done

10. The Brutality Of His Literally Medieval Weapons

Hawkman tends to favor the archaic weapons of the past. This includes spears, shields, and nets. But the two weapons that the Winged Wonder tends to favor over all others, are the mace and the flail.

The mace is the weapon that is most commonly associated with Hawkman and the one he uses most often. As an archaeologist and the curator of the St. Roch Museum, he has access to maces from a variety of eras. A mace is a large metal ball that may or may not have rounded knobs on it that is attached to a long wooden or metal handle. It doesn’t have spikes. That is a different weapon called a Morning Star, which is spiked all around with a long spike at the top. The flail is a spiked ball attached to a handle by a rope or chain.

The problem with these weapons, is that they are inherently deadly and there is no way for Hawkman to use them in a non-lethal way. It is one thing if Carter were to hit Solomon Grundy with his mace, but what about the average bank robber? Considering the fact that Hall is many times stronger than a normal man and flies at speeds in excess of 200 MPH, it’s simple physics that a mace hit would shatter every bone in the average person’s body.