Who would win?
Both started out as Champions of Justice; Jedi and Green Lantern.
Both turned to evil, Darth Vader and Parallax.
Both redeemed themselves just before death.
Both are immensely powerful warriors who use the power of the mind and will to bend physical reality as a weapon.
From each of the various incarnations, which is ultimately most
powerful?
Anakin doesn’t wear yellow.
Hal wins.
:: refuses to accept the status quo ::
Since Hal never went bad, it’s not that much of a contest. Hal, with honor and nobility, kicks Anakin’s whiney little butt.
I know that there’s some guy claiming to be Hal Jordan who
A) was a drunk driver AND a drunk Test Pilot (uh-huh)
B) Coped quite well with the death of Coast City (GL V2 or 3, 38 through 45 give or take)
C) Suddenly went insane about 8 months AFTER coming to grips with things, for no readily apparent reason.
D) Didn’t know that it was stated OVER and OVER that multiple rings don’t increase one’s power (1 willpower divided by 10 rings !> 1 willpower divided by 1 ring) and snuffed the GL corps and Oa.
E) Affected a mask that looks suspiciously like the Earth-3 villian: Power Ring’s
F) Tried to reboot time to recreate the entire multiverse, which would have included the current universe (which is fine by me. For the life of me I can’t figure out what all the other character’s objections were: “Hi! I’m going to create a multiverse in a way that won’t affect you at all!” / “The monster! Get 'm!”)
G) Named himself after “the shift in a stellar object as it is viewed from two seperate places”. Why he did this, I dunno. For that matter, why did the current GL recently rename himself after “an atom, radical, or molecule that has gained or lost one or more electrons and thus acquired a net negative or positive charge” when he gained Godlike abilities?
Etc.
Thus we conclude that there is no way this character was Hal Jordan.
I believe Tony Isabella’s (creator of Black Lightning) theory is right. Darksied rescued Power Ring from Earth-3 just before the Crisis. Sometime after the destruction of Coast City, he swapped Power Ring with Hal. Power Ring ran amok and decimated the GL Corps per Darksied’s plan. The whole “Become tougher than God” thing was an unexpected side-effect.
Meanwhile in Desaad’s dungeon, the real Hal Jordan languishes as Desaad thinks “Why can’t I break him?”
Um.
So the real Hal Jordan would wump on Anakin or Vader, and would probably wump on the Emperor too! The poseur Hal Jordan…I dunno. He’s given to temper-tantrums, so he’d probably be seduced by the dark side (Darksied?!) and join 'em.
Fenris, long-windedly.
Hal Jordan no contest. Anakin/Vadar can use “The Force” to some extent and he may be good with a lightsaber, but it’s pretty common knowledge that a power ring is one of the most powerful “weapons” in the universe, simply because whatever the wearer can think of, the ring can create.
Therefore jordan could simply think up an airless container and place Vader in it, and Poof-twinkle, Vadar suffocates.
End of story.
Just don’t see it. Anakin would murderize Hal Jordan IMO.
Yes, Jordan has a power ring, but all he’s ever done with it is make boxing gloves. I see Anakin taking one look at what the ring can do (and maybe, depending on the power of a light saber, cleaving Hal’s boxing glove in half) and using the force to strip it from Hal’s finger. Then Hal’s defenseless against a pissed off, short tempered, poorly acted Jedi with a power ring and a light saber.
This fight lasts two panels, and that’s if the second is Hal running away.*
*[sub]blatant rip-off. Can you guess from where?[/sub]
Actually, you can’t remove the ring by force, or presumably, by “Force.” And then there’s the fact that Hal’s ring (not GL rings in general) protects him from mortal harm, so no quick Darth Maul treatment either. I gotta give it to HJ.
Of course, Guy would mop the floor with both of the whiny pantywaists.
Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t Jordan remove fellow Green Lanterns’ rings during the period he went berserk and blew up Oa? If he could do that why couldn’t Anakin use the force to remove the ring? **
You’re Beau Smith, aren’t you? Just admit it.
Oh, and for the record I’m a Kyle Rayner fan. At least until Marz left the book.
Since Hal is now like God’s right hand, I wouldn’t place any bets on Anakin.
Though I’d like to see them both gang up and mutilate that sadsack hack Marz. Pretty pathetic that every story Marz ever concocted for Kyle sucked, that he could never create a memorable rogues gallery, and that his continuity was a laughable joke. The day Marz left was the day I started reading GL again. The improvement is night and day. Kyle is no longer a whiny snot who makes half naked women constructs to do all his “creative” junk, his backstory seems to have been ironed out, the Guardians and Oa are back, but not in exactly the same way, and there’s indications that we’re comin up on a new Corps. Praise be to sensibility kicking in at the high levels of DC.
Yeah: made no sense at all. It’s like a story where suddenly Superman is vulnerable to lemon-cream pies, and everyone pretends that he was always vulnerable to lemon-cream pies. All the pre-Kyle GL rings had a couple of special features.
#1) They protected their wearers from mortal harm.
#2) They could not be removed from a GL’s finger except by the GL in question
#3) They had an emergency reserve charge that lasted after the 24 hour (or local equivilant) period
#4) They were only limited by the user’s will. Hal can, without too much effort, drag planets out of orbit! (And more people could pump their willpower through one ring to boost the output: there were several stories where the JLA laid their hands on top of Hal’s to increase the ring’s output). The upper threshold of the output of a ring has never been reached…no one has that much willpower.
And these were true of ALL GL rings pre-Kyle.
So the “Hal goes nuts and kills everyone” story makes no sense. And since Yoda, the most powerful Jedi we’ve ever seen, has trouble moving a 500lb pillar around, and since Hal can pull planets out of orbit: I’d say “No contest” again to Hal/Anakin.
Kirkland1244: I agree with you about the current state of the books. This guy’s doing a pretty good job of undoing everything Marz did. Naturally I approve. 
Fenris
And beyond in one case. Anyone else remember Driq, the Green Lantern Corpse. I liked him.
Don’t mind me. I’m just here to confuse the issue.