# Here's what Ryan Reynolds looks like as the Green Lantern **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 16, 2010, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-what-ryan-reynolds-looks-like-as-the-green-lantern/546874 "2010-07-16T02:57:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-what-ryan-reynolds-looks-like-as-the-green-lantern/546874/41 "2010-07-16T14:50:59Z")
Actually, it was the [1997](http://superman.nu/Costumes/S.php) costume that caused the biggest uproar. But the rest of the changes were much more gradual than you attempt to portray. ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-what-ryan-reynolds-looks-like-as-the-green-lantern/546874/42 "2010-07-16T14:59:08Z")
Maybe, maybe not. But I’ll wager that, in any case, comics fandom back then wasn’t chock full of the [self-important](http://ihatethewayyoueatcereal.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/comic_book_guy.jpg) [manchildren](http://www.benzilla.com/upload_images/bilde.jpg) that so swell its ranks nowadays. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-what-ryan-reynolds-looks-like-as-the-green-lantern/546874/43 "2010-07-16T15:06:13Z")
It’s OK. I will be more concerned about how his ‘powers’ are done than the suit. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-what-ryan-reynolds-looks-like-as-the-green-lantern/546874/44 "2010-07-16T15:07:46Z")
I like it. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-what-ryan-reynolds-looks-like-as-the-green-lantern/546874/45 "2010-07-16T15:13:28Z")
> [@Grumman](#): > > For comparison, here’s a piece of fanart of Reynolds in a Green Lantern costume that does not suck: [link](http://cdn.screenrant.com/wp-content/uploads/green-lantern-ryan-reynolds-as-hal-jordan-in-costume-fan-photo.jpg). That is truly awful. It looks like a bad high school play costume created by the home ec class (but only after the good costume got sent to the 4H Fair for judging). That costume takes far more liberties with the comic costume than the one in the OP. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-what-ryan-reynolds-looks-like-as-the-green-lantern/546874/46 "2010-07-16T15:14:54Z")
> [@MTCicero](#): > > Maybe, maybe not. But I’ll wager that, in any case, comics fandom back then wasn’t chock full of the [self-important](http://ihatethewayyoueatcereal.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/comic_book_guy.jpg) [manchildren](http://www.benzilla.com/upload_images/bilde.jpg) that so swell its ranks nowadays. Sure it was. It’s just that today they have the intrawebs to help them find each other and know that they aren’t alone. So terribly, terribly alone… ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-what-ryan-reynolds-looks-like-as-the-green-lantern/546874/47 "2010-07-16T15:16:00Z")
> [@MTCicero](#): > > Speaking of ol’ Supes, I wonder if, back when they changed his costume from [this](http://www.supermanartists.comics.org/superwhoswho/Superman004.jpg) to [this](http://chud.com/articles/content_images/5/superman-standing.gif), there was the same amount of pillow biting that there is nowadays. Probably not, I’d wager. Well, it was a little more gradual than that. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-what-ryan-reynolds-looks-like-as-the-green-lantern/546874/48 "2010-07-16T15:20:55Z")
> [@Grumman](#): > > It makes him look like he’s been flayed and dipped in radioactive waste. Not a good look. LOL That is EXACTLY what I thought of when I saw it - radioactive waste ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-what-ryan-reynolds-looks-like-as-the-green-lantern/546874/49 "2010-07-16T15:43:01Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Shame they killed Deadpool in that weird Wolverine movie. You didn’t see the stinger after the credits, did you? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-what-ryan-reynolds-looks-like-as-the-green-lantern/546874/50 "2010-07-16T16:49:39Z")
Slam Evil! ---
**Author:** ![Time\_Stranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5fc32e/32.png) [@Time\_Stranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Time_Stranger)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-what-ryan-reynolds-looks-like-as-the-green-lantern/546874/51 "2010-07-16T16:58:50Z")
Well, maybe it’ll look better in motion. I love Green Lantern and would watch two hours of Reynolds sitting in a dim room reading War and Peace, so I’m still clinging to the possibility that this won’t be awful. I don’t know how much they can count on the geek-girl demographic, though. Hope springs eternal. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-what-ryan-reynolds-looks-like-as-the-green-lantern/546874/52 "2010-07-16T18:14:07Z")
> [@Grumman](#): > > It’s not our fault it sucks. > > For comparison, here’s a piece of fanart of Reynolds in a Green Lantern costume that does not suck: [link](http://cdn.screenrant.com/wp-content/uploads/green-lantern-ryan-reynolds-as-hal-jordan-in-costume-fan-photo.jpg). No, THAT outfit sucks. That outfit is Standard Hollywood Superhero Costume #45,168. It’s just like all the rest of them; take the colours, dull them down/add lots of black, and make it look padded and leathery. Boring. The CGI suit might look great on screen. It might look terrible. **But at least it’s different.** ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-what-ryan-reynolds-looks-like-as-the-green-lantern/546874/53 "2010-07-16T18:21:57Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > No, THAT outfit sucks. > > That outfit is Standard Hollywood Superhero Costume #45,168. It’s just like all the rest of them; take the colours, dull them down/add lots of black, and make it look padded and leathery. Boring. Concur. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-what-ryan-reynolds-looks-like-as-the-green-lantern/546874/54 "2010-07-16T20:06:45Z")
> [@MTCicero](#): > > Speaking of ol’ Supes, I wonder if, back when they changed his costume from [this](http://www.supermanartists.comics.org/superwhoswho/Superman004.jpg) to [this](http://chud.com/articles/content_images/5/superman-standing.gif), there was the same amount of pillow biting that there is nowadays. Probably not, I’d wager. Can you define “pillow biting” in this context? The only definition I know for the term doesn’t make any sense the way you’re using it. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-what-ryan-reynolds-looks-like-as-the-green-lantern/546874/55 "2010-07-16T20:10:57Z")
> [@Grumman](#): > > It’s not our fault it sucks. But it IS your fault you do such a collectively dead-on impression of Comic Book Guy. I was thinking the EXACT same thing that MT Cicero was, and I’m sure many others were, too. ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-what-ryan-reynolds-looks-like-as-the-green-lantern/546874/56 "2010-07-16T20:35:19Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Can you define “pillow biting” in this context? The only definition I know for the term doesn’t make any sense the way you’re using it. This just made me giggle. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-what-ryan-reynolds-looks-like-as-the-green-lantern/546874/57 "2010-07-16T20:43:29Z")
I’m rather ‘meh’ on the official costume…doesn’t look great in the still, but superhero costumes rarely do. (The Spider-Man costume looked absolutely horrible in preliminary stills…looked great in the actual movies.) It’s interesting, if nothing else. And ALIEN - which is always a good thing when it’s supposed to have been originally designed by aliens. (My main problem with the pic is Reynolds looks way too much like Ben Stiller for my taste…) The one Grumman linked to is worse - although the suit itself isn’t bad - no better, but not bad - the mask is horrible. It looks like the bastard child of a cheap domino mask and a length of Hot Wheels track… Or someone wanted to model it on Kyle’s mask, then chickened out…and wedded a cheap domino mask with a length of Hot Wheels track. > [@Chronos](#): > > Is Green Lantern’s costume supposed to be a direct manifestation of his powers, rather than just ordinary (or extraordinary) cloth? Here? Who knows, yet. In the comics (and the DCAU cartoons)…Both! While the costumes are, by all appearances, solid, material, items - they remain when the wearer’s ring is completely discharged, removed, or otherwise disabled, and can be damaged - but, they’re also generally shown to be created, or turned back into their civilian clothes, by the ring at the GL’s desire, and, in the last couple years, it’s gotten common to embellish them with ring-constructs - specifically, making the symbol glow and/or hover in front of the Lantern him/her/it/themself. (Then there are the Alpha Lanterns, who are Lantern, Ring, Battery and costume all in one…) ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-what-ryan-reynolds-looks-like-as-the-green-lantern/546874/58 "2010-07-16T21:13:29Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > But it IS your fault you do such a collectively dead-on impression of Comic Book Guy. If I was saying it strayed too far from canon, _that_ would be an impression of Comic Book Guy. If anything, I’m saying it doesn’t stray _far enough_ from canon. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-what-ryan-reynolds-looks-like-as-the-green-lantern/546874/59 "2010-07-16T22:25:28Z")
> [@](#): > > …and, in the last couple years, it’s gotten common to embellish them with ring-constructs - specifically, making the symbol glow and/or hover in front of the Lantern him/her/it/themself. Cool, sort of like a star sapphire. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-what-ryan-reynolds-looks-like-as-the-green-lantern/546874/60 "2010-07-16T22:48:56Z")
I don’t get what’s wrong with you people. He looks like the Green Lantern, no more no less. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-what-ryan-reynolds-looks-like-as-the-green-lantern/546874.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-what-ryan-reynolds-looks-like-as-the-green-lantern/546874.md?page=4)