re: Suicide Squad Has Apparently Passed $600 Million at the Global Box Office

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I hope DC does well enough to give me another Green Lantern. Justice League just feels odd without Hal.

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GL is one of my alltime favorite characters, but I can't see him being included in this run, for several reasons.

Marketing: the abysmal GL movie with Ryan Reynolds was too recent. Green Lantern isn't a universally known character like Batman that you can just "reboot", you WILL have to establish an origin all over again.

Story: he throws things off kilter. For one thing, he's arguably as powerful as Superman, and to add in such a heavy hitter once the field is set would be weird. Second thing is that he isn't a 'meta', he's just a guy with a ring (that works like a genie's lamp, but with unlimited wishes).

Now, the extra-terrestrial aspects of Darkseid and GL could actually come into play here, and that might work: the Lantern Corps could try to stop Darkseid's plans, lose an agent, and replenish from Earth to balance things out, stop the invasion.