The Flash Season 3: 15 Things You Need To Know About Flashpoint

7. Hal Jordan Never Becomes Green Lantern

The Flash Flashpoint
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Due to the whole changing of the landscape, Flashpoint is a world in which Hal Jordan never became a Green Lantern. But that’s only half of the problem for Hal.

In the Flashpoint world, the ramifications of the situation reached as far as the skies and into space. As such, Abin Sur, the alien being who crash-landed on Earth and gave Hal Jordan his Green Lantern ring with his dying breath, never actually crashed into Earth at all. That meant that Hal was never in a position to receive the shiny little ring that would change his life, resulting in him just being a pilot.

If not becoming a Green Lantern was bad enough, even worse for Hal was that he was one of the pilots shot down and killed by the Amazon army of invisible jets.

So, you can add Hal Jordan to the list of DC heroes whose life was changed for the worse as a result of the whole Flashpoint event.

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