Follow TV Tropes

Following

Awesome / With This Ring

Go To

    open/close all folders 

Orange Lantern

     2010 
  • Orange Lantern's Curb-Stomp Battle with Sportsmaster is treated like this in-universe.
  • Paul being able to wield the Orange Lantern ring and stay sane. He lets Robin wear the ring when it became absolutely necessary, and it almost drove Robin into becoming Gollum. And that was only after a few seconds. Paul manages to keep it on for the majority of the fic, and only slip up a few times.
  • His definitive moment of awesome was against Klarion the Witch Boy. Due to some multiverse science, Paul is extraordinarily weak against magic. So during the first round of fighting, Klarion fatally injures Paul. Dr. Fate tells him to stay out of the way, and it looks like even if he hadn't interfered, the fight would have been won like it was in canon anyway. But Paul doesn't know that, so even knowing that Klarion could kill him, he goes to help. With Fate's help, he manages to turn Teekl into an Orange Lantern, manipulating the demon cat even while Klarion was trying to murder him. Klarion temporarily loses his connection with the physical world because of Orange Lantern.
  • Orange Lantern reveals to Talia what happened to her sister, Nyssa Raatko, which ultimately results in Talia abandoning her father.
  • Orange Lantern stole Ra's al Ghul's Lazarus Pit! And in the process, exposed one of Ra's' secret headquarters to Batman. All this, because he thought he'd killed a man.
  • Orange Lantern disarms Ocean Master, leaving him defenseless to Aqualad, Superboy, and Miss Martian's attacks. After he gets out of his coma he is tried and executed.
  • Orange Lantern managing to block several missiles without the aid of his ring's automatic targeting system. He manages to absorb the last one into his subspace at the last minute.
    • This whole exchange ends with establishing peace between North & South Rhelasia.
  • Paul reveals that he can do more than just fight crime with his power ring when he tells Aqualad that he cleaned out the various garbage patches in the oceans and gives him the last piece of plastic from the North Atlantic Gyre garbage patch.
  • Paul gets a massive one in Episode 16, where he shows off exactly what he can do when he not restraining himself. As soon as he called the Ophidian, OL managed to fight back against the aliens that gave The Team such a hard time in canon. Bonus points is that he was actually winning an unwinnable simulation.
    • The simulation, being unwinnable, keeps sending down Motherships. It took about an hour or two for the simulation to just give up, and by that point Orange Lantern had managed to 'identity theft' 70 motherships, and a corresponding amount of drones.
  • Paulphidian demonstrates numerous times just how much more powerful they are now that they are combined.
    • They create giant constructs in order to bake a gigantic fruit cake that could feed everyone in New York.
    • They turn the moon around, and then turn it back when Wonder Woman asks them to.
    • They are able to project their consciousness through the brand they placed on Martian Manhunter, despite the fact that he's on Oa at the time.
    • In order to locate the League of Shadows, they create invisible eye constructs across the entire Earth for at least a day.
    • They casually bring down a meteor to their location while on Earth in order to mine it.
    • They are able to artificially create an Nth Metal armor that will only work for Superboy.
    • They effortlessly disarm the Green Lanterns when the Lanterns try to snap Paul out of it with the Star Sapphire.
  • Paul swearing his true oath for the first time. And summoning the Ophidian to burn away the energy-ring-eating dust Klarion used, and swearing a second oath: that he would fight Nabu, and he would win.
  • Paul chewing out Guardian for his treatment of the Genomorphs. On Thanksgiving no less.
  • OL and Megan meeting Psimon in prison. First it was impressive because OL fought against a giant psychotic robot he couldn't touch and won. Next, it was impressive because of Paul's outstanding Memory Gambit. It lead to exposing the existence of The Light and their designs on Belle Reve. Then, because Paul caught Deadshot, another one of DC's top mercenaries. And as a side note, because Psimon and Paul get some impressive sniping on each other.
    Psimon: Oh, you know; same old same old. On the plus side I'd have to live three hundred and seventy two years to complete my sentence, so in my estimation I should be able to cheat them of over two thirds of it. You?
    OL: Pretty good. Lots of fresh air, exercise, meeting new people.
  • OL starts to get proactive. He comes up with a list of magical items involved in supervillainy, and requests permission from the League to hunt them down before they can be used for harm.
    • The first item he manages to check off the list is the Ace of Winchesters. A demon slaying gun, which he tests by having John Constantine summoning various demons he knows and shooting them when they appear.
  • Paul has been disabled by a psychic confusion-ray, had his ring stolen, and is now at the mercy of Bane. What does he do? He convinces Bane to keep him alive by talking to him about his father - which is a feat in and of itself, as the last person to talk to Bane about his father was killed rather brutally - then he mobilizes the manhunt for the man who stole his ring, before stealing it back by focusing on his oath from three thousand miles away. The pull on his ring was so strong, he pulled on all the other orange lantern rings in the universe, causing Larfleeze to start a manhunt for him for the crime of trying to steal his shinnies.
  • After the revelation that Nabu is now part of the Justice League despite him wearing Zatara's body like a suit, OL and Zatanna are so horrified that OL brings her to his lantern and shows her the Ophidian. He then explains that he and the Physical God who lives his lantern are in agreement in getting her dad back.
    OL: You, are mine. Anything that hurts you is utterly unacceptable, either to me, or to the being I swore my oath to. Ophidian, show yourself.
    Ophidian: Zatanna.
    Zatanna: Um? H-hello?
    Ophidian: I agreed with my Agent's decision and wholeheartedly support this undertaking. [nuzzles Zatanna's face] I understand 'to keep' now. You are ours. Harm to you is harm to us. I stay my fangs only through concern for your father's wellbeing. I care not for your faithless League. Any knowledge, any power you require from me is yours for the asking. Your father will be liberated.
  • Paul sees the Light's ambush before it's coming, and turns it around neatly against Truggs. Truggs came prepared to the ambush with dozens of goons wearing phase tech, invisibility tech, and mass produced Captain Cold guns, along with four Bozo bots, each equipped by a Doctor Morrow Lantern-Construct (who is also present) with elemental powers, and just to cap it off an eldritch creature known as the Enemy-Of-All. The only thing that even slows Paul down is the Enemy-Of-All, and even then it's just barely a fair fight.
  • The Renegade has either convinced Darkseid that he's his son, or convinced Darkseid that he's a better choice for a son than the original Grayven. Devilance challenged him, on Darkseid's behalf, threatening him with a hellspore. The Renegade took on Brimstone, and managed to win, reciting his oath for the first time as he does so. He then sends Devilance and his goons packing, stripped of their weapons and armor.
    • In essence, this means that the Renegade is now Apokolips' officially recognized Suzerain of Earth, effectively halting the Light's trading with Darkseid in its tracks.
    • His act is so convincing that Batman has to ask for confirmation whether or not he's the real Grayven.
  • Paul flat out telling Zatanna that they are better off as friends and explaining that a relationship between the two of them would be creepy due to the timing and age difference.

     2011 
  • During the Belle Reve mass break-out during New Years, it's shown that Paragon!OL's efforts in reforming supervillains stuck as Abra Kadabra and the Terror Twins stayed in prison to defend the guards and therapists being held hostage.
  • The Renegade talks smack about Zeus on Themyscira of all places. When Zeus tries to smite him for this, the Renegade just takes it, to no ill effect.
  • Paul locates Speedy a few weeks after New Years, allowing for him to be rescued. He even grows back his missing arm.
  • The way Paul finishes the First of the Fallen. He repeatedly slices up the powerful being with the Sword of Second and Third.
  • The Renegade takes down Sabbac II in seconds, using his own sword to finish him off.
  • The Renegade's 'Death Of Klarion' Arc.
    • First, he manages to execute Klarion. He does this on live television, and then turns himself in to the police afterwards. This sparks a storm of debate throughout the world about the assumptions of the superhero community.
    • Second, Batman of the Justice Lords summons the Renegade to their dimension. Unfortunately, the Renegade doesn't have his ring. So he breaks into a SHADE facility, fights off a Yellow Lantern Guy Gardner, and then fights Supergirl. Justice Lords Supergirl.
    • Then he takes on the entire Thanagarian Fleet. They happen to have Radion blasters, which is the Kryptonite of New Gods like the Renegade, but he keeps fighting anyway, commandeering their main battleship for Earth.
    • He then rescues that world's Royal Flush Gang and shares his soul with Ace. This not only saves her from an untimely death, but also gives her the spirit of a conqueror in the process.
    • He then gets a new Justice League for this earth by gathering the attention of a select team of heroes, challenging them to a fight, which he was handling rather well, before revealing the robotic nature of their president, as well as tanking two nukes to the face.
    • After recovering he returns to Earth 16, gets a gubernatorialnote  pardon for killing Klarion, uses the escape clause of his oath to Wonder Woman, and then finally quits the Team in spectacular fashion.
      • For bonus points, when Hal Jordan tries to rub it in his face that he can't use his power ring anymore now that the power battery that the Renegade was using was returned to Alan, the Renegade reveals the yellow power ring in his possession, complete with his own modified oath.
        Renegade: In blackest day or brightest night,
        Beware your fears made into light,
        Let those who try and stop what's right,
        Burn with my power, Prince Grayven's might!
        Sinestro Ring: Recharge complete, Corpsman. Good to see you again, Jordan.
  • Paul fighting Kanto into a retreat at the L'ouvre, impressing the New God of Assassination enough to wonder if Paul himself is also a god. And he didn't break any priceless masterpieces in the process.
    Kanto: Are you a god?
    OL: That's complicated.
  • When Shiruta is attacked by army armed with Apokoliptian weaponry, Paul decides that it's time to go lethal and kills as many of them as he can.
  • Paul cures Misery. It's only for a little while, but he firmly informs Misery that he's not finished, and leaves her with a box of tissues as he ponders his next move.
  • Prince Pavlos deciding not to take any of the god's injustice and attacking the Queen of Fables before arresting her. He does this despite, technically, never having wielded a sword in his life, and the Queen of Fables being a reality warper.
    • It should be mentioned that he started the fight by slamming an apple into her head, distracting her enough to steal her sword.
    • Halfway through the fight his power ring starts acting up. He believes it to be the power of the gods, and resolves to fight this fight as a man without the god's interference. He continues the fight without using his power ring.
  • In order to defeat Klarion once and for all and acquire the powers of a Lord of Chaos for his oncoming battle against Nabu, Paul decides to steal Klarion's connection with Chaos and turn another person into a Chaos Lord. The person he decides for the job? John Constantine. And it works. That's right, John Constantine is now a Lord of Chaos. Let that sink in.
    • Even better is that this completely de-powered Klarion, who is now a helpless teenaged-looking mortal. The Renegade killed Klarion on live television, Paul made it possible for him to be executed by the state.
  • As sad as it is to see him burn so many bridges with the Justice League, credit must be given to Paul on how he handled his meeting with them after he successfully killed Nabu, as it was a long time coming. Before the meeting starts, he takes off both of his rings and then asks Diana to lasso him to ensure that he won't withhold any information. From there, he unflinchingly and unapologetically excoriates the entire League for their behavior and calls them out on several flaws in their reasoning for allowing Nabu to join their ranks:
    • For one thing, new recruits into the League don't get a say in the voting process. When Captain Marvel insists that Zatara did have a vote, Paul has this to say:
      Paul: Did he, William? Did he take the Helmet off and tell you that?
      Marvel: Well... No-
      Paul: So what you're saying is, Nabu said that his slave was cool with being a slave. And you took that at face value. Well done. [Marvel's face falls] Oh, don't feel too bad, the 'world's greatest detective' did too.
    • He also declares that the League (Diana in particular) betrayed the very ideals they stand for by lying to the entire world about what really happened to Zatara and taking no action to actually set him free, and, as such, he could no longer trust them to help.
    • Diana then insists that Paul should have told them how he felt about all of this, only for him to remind her that he already did on Thanksgiving when they were talking about Justice League membership, and Diana is ashamed that she failed to see how bitter he was back then.
    • Even Batman is affected by Paul's words and has to try very hard to not show it.
    • When questioned if whether or not he committed premeditated murder, Paul explains that according to British law, Nabu was not a person, and thus could not be "killed" in any way. Even better, the British government now actually owes Paul a reward for eliminating him.
    • Hal Jordan gets fed up with Paul and calls him a criminal who should be taken to trial, only for Paul to throw his accusations right back in his face by reminding them all that, if this did go to court, the entire League would have to come clean about how they abandoned Zatara to be enslaved by a Lich, left his fourteen-year-old daughter without a legal guardian, recruited said Lich into their fold, and lied to everyone about it. He then takes off the lasso, grabs his rings, and leaves the Watchtower like a complete and utter boss.
  • Paul leading Koriand'r, Komand'r, and his branded troops in destroying the Citadel.
    • When the Renegade does it, he does it with an army of Tamaraneans armed with power rings.
  • When Paul and Lantern Medphyll attack a Dominator prison to free Vril Dox II, Paul is able to get the Dominators there to surrender to the Green Lantern Corps and admit their guilt by threatening to assimilate them and take all of the secrets locked in their heads if they don't.
  • Paul freeing Mother of Mercy from Mongul's grasp and recruiting her for the OLC.
  • Paul and Kilowog sparring. First, Paul takes him down in seconds, albeit with a cheap shot. When they go again, Paul uses what he learned from Medphyll to cause the plants in Kilowog's stomach to start growing, causing the experienced lantern to start vomiting so much he is incapacitated.
    • Guy is amazed that Kilowog lost. This is because, even with the power boost Guy got from becoming enlightened, he still loses to Kilowog more often than not.
  • Even if only for a moment, Paul is able to unnerve the Guardians of the Universe by remarking that he should have helped Alan become the Host of Ion.
  • Paul is able to outsmart a being who claims to be God, by asking him to say Paul's name. When the latter is unable to do it, Paul says his name out loud, breaking the illusion and revealing the being to be Boss Smiley.

     2012 
  • Paul defeating the Justice League of Earth 12 in seconds.
  • Paul effortlessly steamrolling over everything the Justice Underground think to use against him.
  • The Renegade killing Grayven 50, complete with the latter's decapitation.
  • Paul has no problem handling all the criminals he comes across while crimefighting for one night in Gotham.
  • Paul creates a training exercise for the League and "kills" them by detonating a nuke.
  • Paul, when using a violet ring for basically the first time, is able to disable Overgirl.
  • When released from his imprisonment on Krona's tuning fork, Paul immediately leads the charge against Krona.
  • When the Harrowing starts, the Renegade just kills everyone in his way, Boom Tubes into the throne room, and challenges the Queen, while simultaneously looking down on her.
  • Paul is able to bypass Melmoth's defenses and brand the former Sheeda king.
  • When the Renegade and Artemis accidentally end up in the Sheeda's time, and are later separated, each take control of one faction of the Sheeda and lead a war of conquest for many years to unite them. When they realize that the big enemy each of them are fighting is each other, they join forces, forcing the remaining other factions' surrender.
  • The Renegade's reaction to meeting Melmoth and learning his intentions is to immediately brand and later disintegrate the psychopath.
  • Paul is a cornerstone of Dox's plan for the first major offensive against the Reach. This is because, thanks to shielding around Ranx from magic users, Paul can use the Honden of Avarice to bring him, and everyone inside Ranx, to their target inside Reach territory.
  • After Paul leads several Lanterns to the lead ship of the fleet that is decimating the Reach, it opens to reveal that it is headed by Grayven, who meets with Paul one-on-one. Paul is not fazed by Grayven's posturing, and even gets one over the New God of Conquest before regrouping with his Lanterns.
  • When the Reach representative on the planet that the OLC is trying to liberate reveals that she is holding the eggs of the natives hostage, Paul solves the situation by transporting all of the eggs to a pocket universe. The Reach representative could only gawk in response.
  • Paul (accidentally) destroys the racism on Mars by revealing, through the ghost of an ancient Martian, that Karmang the Good, the one who taught the first Red Martians magic, was a White Martian.
  • When a mysterious being tries to lure Gemma Masters, Paul follows in order to keep her safe. When it is revealed to be Richard Simpson, Paul makes sure to cover all of his bases before he reveals himself and captures him.
  • Paul is able to set up a shield strong enough to block a faster than light beam weapon despite being only given a heads up a few seconds before the shot was fired.
  • Paul helps Lantern Xor defeat the Alignment's fleet, effectively ending the civil war.
    • The final blow is Paul creating giant construct hands to literally crush two spaceships. Afterwards, all the other ships immediately surrender.
  • Paul is able to hold his own against a Reach fleet equipped with anti-Lantern weaponry and three Scarab Warriors by himself. He does this by utilizing some of his more esoteric abilities: constantly stepping out and absorbing the desires of some of his enemies and shoving them into the others.
  • While visiting Karax with some of his Lanterns, Lantern Onik is kidnapped by a Spider Guilder wielding a yellow power ring. After taking care of the robots that are still attacking, Paul takes matters into his own hands.
  • After disarming Astarte of her Omega Effect gun, the Renegade proceeds to use his drones to incapacitate her. The only reason she survives is because Wonder Woman insists on capturing her for interrogation purposes.
  • The Renegade is able to defeat Theana when the latter tells him that she would just kill Wonder Woman if her mother lost in their duel.
  • Paul demonstrates his ability to create a personal lantern to Lord Malvolio. It's much better than his previous attempt and impresses the older Lantern.
    • Following up on this, he somehow recreates Larfleeze's ring, which was destroyed the last time he died, using this personal lantern.
  • Paul is able to get the Green Lantern Corps to stand down against Malvolio by negotiating with one of the Guardians.
  • When one of the Titans of Minosyss is attacked, at least two of them suspect Paul and threaten to read his mind to see if he is responsible, or at least associated with the one who is. Paul isn't intimidated in the slightest.
  • In order to stop the fleet from attacking Minosyss, Paul hijacks one of the ships and gets it to crash into the flagship.
  • Despite being severely handicapped due to most of his arsenal being ineffective and his link to the Ophidian being blocked, Paul is able to defeat two Ascended and capture a third.
  • Paul figures out that he can match Sparta by absorbing her Titan Seed enhanced magic into his soul.
  • Paul is able to reveal Sparta's duplicity to her followers by recording her confession and playing it back to an audience.
  • Paul doesn't play around when fighting vampires from Earth 666. He just impales them all on a Tree of Pain construct.
  • Paul and Jade discuss all the good work Paul is doing through his ownership of Cadbury.
    Jade: Do you even know what your company is doing here?
    Paul: Only very broadly. Farming equipment comes in, which helps areas ravaged by the Sheeda rebuild and export agricultural products back to Europe under contract for a guaranteed price.
    Jade: And you own the company outright, which means that all of the profit they make is yours.
  • The Renegade's, and by extension the New Light's, efforts in Africa bear fruit, with war no longer occurring across the entire continent and both life expectancy and education on the rise.
    Renegade: (in godspeech) This Feels So Right.
  • Paul's reaction to learning that Diana was sent to Tartarus on a fool's errand for refusing Zeus' proposition to be his new queen is to immediately think up of ways to get rid of the god.
    • Diana made him promise not to attack Zeus just to end her errand. Paul doesn't - he teams up with Eris, Hecate and Athena to come up with a workable plan to overthrow Zeus. This ends up consisting of using one the old Lantern ring prototypes and the Spear of Destiny to allow Hephaestus to merge with the growing God of Technology in the dreaming, turning him into the strongest Olympian: Hephaestaean! During the ensuing battle, all Paul does is provide commentary in the form of a song.
  • Paul demonstrates that, although he's trying to modify his SOP, he still isn't someone just anyone can mess with by taking down resisting Strand Elders from the sept of the Spider Guild near Karax.

     2013 
  • Paul successfully uses diplomacy to stop the Grey's attack on the Green. He then proceeds to lessen the Anti-Life's influence on the Grey.
  • Paul is able to fight a Scarab Warrior that's using a yellow power ring and defeat it with a minimum amount of difficulty.
  • Paul demonstrates the effectiveness of the cold gun when it is upscaled on a few Reach ships that are attacking Karrakan.
  • Paul is able to assimilate a New God, albeit one that was recently elevated by Grayven.
  • Paul single-handedly stops the lava flow from a super volcanic eruption and cleans up the ash cloud that resulted from it.
  • Paul helps Orion regain his rage after it is stolen by Draan Del Daar.
  • Paul nonlethally incapacitates an alien army that refuses to cooperate and keeps blasting at him by transition them halfway across the continent they were on.
  • Even with most of his powers rendered unusable while in the Shadowlands, Paul is able to get some control over one of the local beasts, giving him a ride to the rest of his allies.
  • Paul, simply through his own understanding of avarice, is able to free his rings of the Anti-Life infection that they received from an Anti-Life infected clone of himself.
  • Paul shrugs off Akhlys' attempt to break his spirit with the Anti-Life.

Other Characters

     2010 
  • After defeating Black Canary, and talking up how easy it would be for Orange Lantern to beat any baseline human, Cheshire gets one for being the first (and to date only) baseline human who has ever managed to defeat Orange Lantern. If it were possible for her to hide from him afterwards, she would have gotten away with it too.
    • And in the Renegade timeline, she continually grows more and more awesome by becoming his girlfriend/fiancé.
  • Onomatopoeia's upgrade was pretty sweet. He basically fought off the whole team while Klarion dealt with Orange Lantern.
  • The Orange Lanterns get one for supposedly being the main antagonists of Blackest Night in this 'verse.
  • Ra's gets one for finding a way to block Orange Lantern's scans. Orange Lantern's greatest asset is his ability to gather information, an ability more powerful than Ra's attempts with the Fog. And Ra's no sold it.
  • John Constantine wins a fight with Tula before he even steps into the arena.
    • Before the challenge is even issued!
  • The Team vs. The Injustice League. One of the hardest battles The Team has ever fought in the series, the one they would have lost if the Justice League hadn't arrived in time. But thanks to OL's help, they start the fight with a massive advantage; an extra teammate with incredible power, a Danner enhanced Superboy, and Aqualad with Ocean Master's armor. They incapacitate one supervillain right out of the gate, Black Adam is converted, Poison Ivy loses her powers, and Wotan even loses an arm. The Injustice League were very soundly thrashed. This marks the point where The Light begin to take The Team as a serious threat to them.
    • Orange Lantern frees the spirit of Teth Adom from Theo Adam's binding, who then proceeds to prove himself worthy to his gods once more and claim control of Theo's body so he can once more help his people. Theodore's soul is then judged for his crimes.
      Teth Adom: Now that I have the gods’ support I may once more call upon their power by speaking the wizard’s name! [...] Shu, Heryshaf, Aker, Zehuti, Atum and Montu. I pray to you, grant me your power that I may once more serve as your champion. Shazam! [transforms into the Mighty Adom]
    • Swamp Thing showing up after the Injustice League is captured, and removing Poison Ivy's connection to The Green after giving her a verbal beatdown about how Gaia doesn't care about her petty causes.
      • Swamp Thing itself is a bit of a moment of awesome, as he's the first entity that OL encounters that he admits he stands absolutely no chance against in a fight.
  • The Green Lanterns of Earth get one for managing to deny their heartfelt desires. This manages to confuse the Ophidian infused Paul enough that it leaves him a gibbering mess in the fetal position on the moon.
  • Robin actually standing up to the massively overpowered Renegade Orange Lantern. The Renegade admired his moxy so much, he let him live. He later admitted to Wonder Woman that this made him consider Robin a true friend, one who was willing to shock him out of his megalomania and stand up to him.
  • Killer Croc punched Danner enhanced Robin in the face. He broke three fingers.
  • Batman sucker punching John Constantine. John snuck into Mt. Justice with a spell that made everybody look away from him. Batman noticed that nobody, himself included, was looking in Constantine's direction, and decided to punch where nobody was looking just in case.
  • The archery contest between Green Arrow and the Celestial Archer. On the one hand, Celestial Archer hits every bullseye in one shot with one arrow, while doing a backflip, and gets himself a date with Artemis. On the other hand, Green Arrow showed the (dismissive) Renegade what a Badass Normal can do, making shots the Renegade admitted would be hard for him even with his ring assisted targeting and missing the last bullseye by firing the arrow completely over the mountain it was placed on.
    Renegade: (in awe) Maybe you are the second best archer after all.
  • Renegade!Kon's reaction to Luthor offering him SHIELDs: destroying them with heat vision.
  • The story of how Jade's mother learned to be a badass. Her mother fought in Vietnam, and taught her how to use an AK-47 when she was just a kid.
  • Psimon's banter with OL while he was in prison. Also his spectacular display of common sense when he chose not to try to escape prison when his powers were freed, a decision most supervillains would not have made, and which probably saved his life.
  • Batman pulls a Stealth Hi/Bye on OL while in his civilian identity and WHILE OL WAS LOOKING IN HIS DIRECTION. Paul can't help but wonder how in the world Batman pulled that off.
    I was looking in that direction. I WAS LOOKING IN THAT DIRECTION! He isn't even in costume!
  • Cornwall Boy gets his first big moment when he takes on Bane. Three of the original sidekicks are fighting simultaneously and Bane wipes the floor with all of them; Red Arrow, Kid Flash, and Aqualad. But Cornwall Boy is not only able to get his shots in, he can make Bane actually retreat!
    • When he sucks up the power of one of the Bozo bots. The other bozo bots started hiding from him.
  • Salaak actually scolds Orange Lantern, and then gets his Greens moving so as to best prepare for the chance of an offense made by Star Conquerors. Paul just stands there in shock at the feeling of not having to do anything.
  • The villains deserve one too, for managing to keep up with OL in various ways- Klarion gets a much more powerful familiar and finds a way to disable the ring, Ra's starts providing his subordinates with ways to avoid Lantern-based scrying, Lex is working with alchemists and magicians now (though admittedly, he hasn't performed any villainous actions yet, it's Lex).
  • Kon and Match both pwning Devilance, who made the mistake of siccing a creature made of sun on a group with two kryptonians in it.
  • Shade's Big Damn Heroes moment, absorbing the Enemy of All.
  • M'gann telling the Renegade off for almost accepting The Light's offer to join is one the most awesome inspirational speeches in the story, in addition to being a heartwarming moment.
  • Any time Teth Adom fights another Flying Brick type metahuman and gets to show what the decades of experience as Shazam's Champion that he has under his belt means when applied to super-fights. Captain Nazi was manhandled through the Watchtower and into outer space during their fight until he decided running was the best bet. Then Captain Nazi makes the mistake of saying something truly vile about Diana, and Adom proceeds to beat him like a drum before punching his chest so hard his rib cage collapses while IN SPACE!.
  • When the rest of the League were mind-controlled by the Light, props goes to Guy Gardner for successfully resisting through sheer force of will. In fact, his will was so strong it summoned Ion and Guy became a temporary host.

     2011 
  • Kadabra's first successful spell, summoning a lightning elemental.
  • In both timelines, M'gann's encounter with the Burning Martian really counts. A creature the Guardians feared and M'gann bested it (even without her mental blocks removed in the Paragon timeline).
  • What happens when Queen Bee tries to threaten Marie Logan.
    Danni: Appearing in public at anything less than her best would risk giving the impression of weakness. She will mostly likely not do so until her burns have healed.
    OL: Burns?
    Danni: [Holds up a flaming fist] Burns.
  • Sabbac II, who almost killed Captain Marvel and fought through multiple other heroes, including Mary Marvel, found himself on the wrong side of a beating whenever he stood still long enough for Adom to catch up to him, and had to abuse his teleportation multiple times to keep away from him.
  • John vs. Sabbac II. This is the guy who in the same chapter almost killed Captain Marvel, and John not only folds him like a deck of cards, but passes on the hurt to five of his six patrons by hijacking his spell. And then managed to get the First of the Fallen killed again.
  • Adom demonstrates how much he was holding back after Shiruta is attacked. Within hours, the former government of Kahndaq is dead at Adom's hands.
  • Paul temporarily gives one of his rings to Jade so that she can heal various Vietnamese civilians of the afflictions they suffer from due to exposure to Agent Orange. When she's done, she moves on to cleansing the soil that was also affected by the chemical.
  • Saul Talbot decides to prove to his new teammate that he's not a bad guy by going to a children's ward in a hospital and healing all the terminal patients.
  • Future Orange Lantern deconstructs Azula's motivation and though process in order to help her.
    Her eyes are locked forwards, unseeing. She's shaking slightly. "You built your identity, your concept of the good, around a man who cared for you not at all. You pushed away everyone -just like you were supposed to- and you were left with nothing. And fixing that is what I am here to help you with."
  • Two for the books in Triumph of the Will:
    • Helmut Schreiber, a man confirmed to be a clone of Adolf Hitler and generic Muggle in a superpowered world, snatches the Spear of Destiny out of the Evil Sorcerer villain's grasp the second he has the chance, and kills him with it.
    • Rocket takes on Captain Nazi, who finds out what a mind-controlled Wonder Woman found out in canon - kinetic energy control is an awesome power. She dominates that fight.
  • M'gann has come far enough by Demeanor that she managed to fight off her murderous Uncle by turning into a Star Conqueror and using the bolstered telekinetic and telepathic ability to force him into unconsciousness.
  • Graham Marrack gives us this gem when OL comes to his great grandson about his plans to deal with Nabu.
    "My time is done. My life is over. I accept that. Life passes from one generation to the next. Great grandson, you are my heir as my own son never was. I will guide, I will steward, at your request, recognizing the rightness of your independence. I will not make you my slave, fit to live only that you serve me. It would be a foul and unnatural act and Nabu should know better. If he has become so arrogant, so debased, then strike him down and worry not for the righteousness of your cause."
  • Guy merges with Ion to protect the East Coast from tidal waves.
  • Sephtian gets called a "bastard half-breed" by the resurrected Orm, more powerful than ever before. His response?
    Sephtian regards him levelly for a moment. "Better a half-breed than a traitor."
  • To defeat Oceanus, Kon has Paul take him to the sun and Helios embodies him with the power of a solar flare. He then turns himself into basically a living weapon and launches himself into Oceanus like a missile, wiping him out.
    • It's later revealed that Kon got Heat Vision as a reward from Helios as a result. It's strong enough to actually cause lasting damage to a planet when he cuts loose.

     2012 
  • Captain Comet, regarded as a minor superhero on Earth, is single-handedly capable of completely decimating the Citadel. He was so powerful, that when he was defeated, which only happened because he was covering the Tamaraneans' retreat, that he can power most of the Citadel's most deadly weaponry.
  • As grotesque as it sounds, Harm's willingness to kill, and then subsequently eat, angels is this. This impresses the denizens of Hell so much that they no longer look down on him as an upstart.
  • Zauriel sacrificing himself so as to return as an angel and lead the released theurgists in sending Asmodel to Hell.
  • Nylor Truggs outsmarting the Team and getting his hands on the Dial.
  • The Team getting to fight and defeat an actual dragon.
  • The way the Thanagarians were able to manipulate Paul to the point where he didn't even suspect a thing.
  • Most of Vega pulling the wool over Paul while they decimate the Psions. He only realized what they did when he felt the Psions' collective avarice literally disappear from the universe.
  • Sunset finally achieving her dream and becomes an alicorn.
  • Overgirl is able to No-Sell Time Trapper stopping time. He actually needs Paul to stop her because he can't.
  • Clayface of Earth 12 (or more specifically a clone of him made using his powers) is able to throw a wrench in Krona's plans by finding Time Trapper and learning from him what to do: get an orange ring and get it to Paul.
    • When the two Clayfaces return to Earth 12, the clone decided to take matters into his own hands, and somehow forces the return of Annie, while simultaneously recombining with his original self.
  • Peter Wynne threatens to sue the Justice League if they don't return the power ring Batman stole. He gets what he wants, and Kyle Rayner returns it to him personally.
  • Dr. Sivana is able to kill Gloriana, Queen of the Sheeda, in the Renegade timeline. This is especially awesome because he is doing it to avenge his family.
    • In the Paragon timeline, Dr. Sivana only fights the Sheeda to see how much they can challenge him intellectually. In order to give his full assistance, he asks Paul to get him and his two younger children pardoned by every country on the planet. Paul agrees as his assistance is just that necessary.
  • Grayven getting ahead of L.E.G.I.O.N. in wiping out a Reach fleet.
  • After Paul's death via qwa-matter explosion, Lantern Gozzi is able to bring him back by creating a duplicate body and hoping that his soul would enter it, which is indeed what happens.
  • Kalmin goes back to Qward to find that the Councillors, aside from his former apprentice, are not up to the task in leading Qward as the Anti-Monitor's loyal followers. His solution is to kill them all.
  • When Ahri'ahn attacks Aberrance, he is able to hold his own against both the Renegade and Zatara. He fares far worse against Teth Adom, being forced to flee after one magically Enhanced Punch.
  • The Reach demonstrate how seriously they take Paul by forming several fleets equipped with anti-construct weaponry and having at least three Scarab Warriors guarding them.
  • After getting a Rousing Speech from Paul, Lantern Onik is able to free himself from the construct chains the Yellow Lantern Spider Guilder held him in and defeat her all on his own.
  • Astarte of the Citizenry shows that she's no pushover when she effortlessly defeats Big Barda.
  • Wonder Woman defeats her aunt by forcing her to confront herself when she first joined the Citizenry using the Lasso of Truth. This causes Astarte to have a Villainous BSoD.
  • Lynne is able momentarily halt Grayven's Omega Effect with her telepathy and metaphysique.
  • Grayven demonstrates how much more of a superior combatant he is compared to the Renegade by boom tubing the latter to his location so that they can fight one on one. Although the Renegade gets a few hits in, he's ultimately no match for Grayven.
  • After Grayven and the Renegade fuse into one being which is more of the former than the latter, Artemis uses her metaphysique to shoot arrows into him, allowing the Renegade to become dominant.
  • Lord Malvolio reveals to Paul that he was able to create what seems to be his own version of a Green Central Power Battery on his own, unknowingly bypassing whatever restrictions the Guardians put to prevent that.
    • Then he reveals that he doesn't even need it, as he can recharge his ring simply by willing it. He attributes this to his teacher Priest, who also didn't need a personal lantern to recharge his ring.
  • Malvolio shows he isn't one to be trifled with when he takes on four Honor Guard Lanterns, including Guy Gardner, with little difficulty.
  • The Karrakanians are able to bypass some of New Cronus' defenses via a boom tube.
  • Doctor Impossible (and Sparta) makes use of all advantages at hand to overwhelm Paul.
  • The New Kara demonstrates how much more powerful she is by finding Truggs just through her super hearing.
  • While under the influence of black kryptonite, Kara demonstrates how deadly she can really be if she wanted to.
    • In addition to that, she also has in her possession Dana's magic coins, giving her even more power and safeguarding herself from magic.
  • Demon Superman is taken down by the combined forces of Paul, Superman, Wonder Woman 666, Artemis 10 of the Bana-Mighdall, Crusader 666 and the New Reichsmen.
  • After being freed of the demon's influence, Mister Terrific 666 shows great willpower in agreeing to help put the world back together, which makes him eligible to become the new Green Lantern of his sector.
  • When OL and Supergirl III visit Pied Piper to see what he's up to since going legit, he reveals that he's using his expertise in sonic technology to build devices that can cure cancer.
  • Alan shows how much he's improved by cornering Crimson Avenger II with only some minor assistance from Paul.
  • After getting a power boost from absorbing the God/Titan of Technology, Hephaestus, now Hephaestaean, is able to overthrow his father as the ruler of Olympus.
    • As a bonus, he also defeats Ares, who tried to assist Zeus in defeating Hephaestaean. To add insult to injury, Hephaestaean gelds Ares before demoting him to God of Eunuchs.
    • When Aphrodite tries to get back in her husbands good graces now that he's taken Zeus's throne, despite literal millennia of infidelity and making no secret of how little she thinks of him, Hephaestaean simply dissolves their marriage, then tells her to shack up with Ares like she's been doing for so long. And doesn't bother informing her that Ares is now castrated before she leaves.
  • Pamela Isley reveals that Euanthe has been trying to align the piece of wood from the Garden of Eden that she got from Paul to the Green. If she succeeds, it will cause all plant life on Earth to burn demons on contact.
  • After some coaching from Paul, Alan is able to tap into the pure power of hope to restore JFK to full health.
  • Doctor Mist easily captures Johnny Reb after he shows up to give Paul and Alan assistance.
  • Avenger!OL is able to convince the Enchantress to reconsider her approach on how to win Thor's heart. This leads to her and Skurge joining the Avengers.
  • Avenger!OL is able to use diplomacy, and the threat of getting the assistance of another alien empire, to get the Kree to leave Earth alone.
  • Xalitan Xor shows that he's learned from Paul's lessons and helps the latter stop an unprovoked attack on Chugragah.

     2013 
  • Pamela Isley shows that she is now able to mentally enter the Green when needed.
  • Due to the fact that the Parliament of Trees is absent during the Grey's attack on the Green (which was due to the influence of the Anti-Life), Paul tells Euanthe that, as the strongest being of the Green trying to fix this, she is basically the Green's new ruler. Though she would wish other, she accepts the responsibility of such a role.
    "Queen. Eldest sister. I have grown much since we first met, and I wish with all my heartwood that I had never left Mother's glades. I wish I could run carefree through field and glen, troubled only by faun or woodsman. I wish I could be so simple once more. But if there is no one else, then I must."
  • Even though they ultimately can't overcome Paul, the Reach ships and Scarab Warrior sent to Karrakan are able to hold their own against him.
  • After Paul defeats the Scarab Warrior that is accompanying the ships attacking Karrakan, Grayven's ship comes out of nowhere and starts destroying the Reach ships one after another.
  • X-Men!OL threatens Sabretooth so that the supervillain won't crash his wedding to Rogue.
  • Zartok gets to demonstrate how much he's improved when he fights both a Scarab Warrior and Knockout.
  • Once Paul helps Orion recover his rage, Orion quickly finds Draan and makes short work of the maltusian thanks to some assistance from Paul, Jade, and Kalmin.
  • After about three months of training, Green Knight becomes proficient enough with his power ring to fight off a large group of Alliance soldiers with minimal support.
  • Canis is able to get an audience with Mistress in order to get info on her operations simply by beating up a few of her followers.
  • Mistress, revealed to be Karon Chase, tells the members of the Team that she's meeting that Mannheim considers her a significant enough threat to personally take care of her because her interpretation of the Anti-Life runs counter to his own. She also tells them that if she beats him, that would result in all of his Justified becoming hers, effectively taking over the world.
  • Mannheim once again demonstrates that he isn't to be taken lightly when he takes down Mistress despite Robin, Artemis, Match, and Canis backing her up.
  • The Forever People finally build their confidence back up to unite their powers, which ends up summoning Prince Drax. Prince Drax effortlessly defeats Lyssa Drak within the short time he is able to manifest.
  • While isolated in the Aztec afterlife, Cornwall Boy makes use of what he's learned as a member of the Team to stay undetected while surrounded by enemy forces and investigate the most suspicious location around.
  • Malvolio gets another chance to demonstrate his raw power when he takes on an Anti-Life empowered Vincent Edge with only minimal difficulty. In comparison, simply being near Vincent Edge almost immediately caused Paul to lose his focus.
  • Mannheim, after being freed of the Anti-Life by the power of the White Light, leads the charge against the Anti-Lifed version of himself. With the support of the Lanterns, he's able to defeat his darker duplicate permanently.
  • The First of the Fallen demonstrates how dangerous he is by taking on the Renegade and cutting off one of his hands.

Others

  • Zoat reveals this oath as a sneak peek.
    "With Will and Rage of crimson red
    Four million years and still not dead
    Today your empire finally falls
    In Oa's name I'll burn you all!"
    • It's a tidbit from Year Five, with confirmation that it will be in the Renegade timeline.
    • A reader later guessed that it would be Raker Qarrigat, with Mr Zoat confirming that he was right.
  • Apparently, Acts of God don't work on the Shade.
  • The only way Apokoliptians can take down the Justice League is either through numbers, or just Darkseid.
  • One poster is such a fan of the story that they literally tattooed the Orange Lantern Corps symbol on their hand.
  • One reader made a pyrography for this story.

Top