Alan Scott wasn't even in the first Green Lantern movie so I see no reason why they'd put him in the next one (if another is even made).

It is funny though reading comments from non-comic readers on other sites about how they wonder if Ryan Reynolds will be gay in the next movie.

As a huge JSA fan im shocked. But not in a bad way. I can live with a gay Alan Scott.

I do think the whole making characters gay just to sell comics is kinda lame though.

This is the problem ... DC just torpedoed any hopes of a GL2 movie. Movies are not made for the hardcore comic book readers. I would wager most of the people who saw the movie do not know there have been Green Lanterns other than Hal Jordan. They will not understand that Alan Scott being gay in some alternate universe has nothing to do with Ryan Reynolds playing Hal Jordan as the Green Lantern.

I have no idea who these characters are, but I'll take a stab at it (with the current subject matter in mind) ...

Admiral Anal
Gypsy Leslie Bian, aka GLB
The Vaseline Kid
The last one must be Storm and Wolverine's love-child ... Platypus

^ I think it's the Justice League Detroit team... Citizen Steel, Gypsy, Vibe, and Vixen.

Citizen Steel has a hard-on for justice:

Robin should be gay.

The general audience didn't even know Hal Jordan before the movie. John Stewart was the Green Lantern in the 90s DCAU, and when the movie came out people were asking why they didn't get a black actor to play him.


The 1950s called and want their joke back.

So it's NOT an iconic character. It's the Alan Scott Green Lantern from the 40s who hasn't had his own book since that decade.

But think what a major twist this is to all those comic readers from 40s.

Then they must not have been paying very close attention. There were other Green Lanterns besides Hal Jordan in the movie, lots of them actually.

I don't have problem with a gay character...I have a problem of changing the past instead of building or making a new one out of the present. And where does this stop? What happens if some Gay Women's group gets upset and wants a Gay Super Women. Maybe there are Gay Blacks that's upset at having a "White Guy' and want a Gay Black Super Hero. In fact we need a few more Black Super Heros. And don't forget the Asias or Middle Easterns....


Already having to change Wonder Woman's custome so not to offend anyone. Heck...why not go ahead and just call Captain America something like Captain World so we don't offend those tht hate America....yea; that's the ticket. Open a Pandora Box and you're going to get more than you bargin for.

True. Good thing they're the ones who have been clamoring for this development!

But they're not changing their past. DC just relaunched their whole line and this Alan Scott is a blank slate. He has no ties to what came before, no kids, no connection to WWII. He's essentially a new character.

I don't think they changed Wonder Woman's costume so as not to offend anyone. She still wears here star spangled panties.

Precisely on point with Alan Scott.

They tried to change WW's costume to look modern and less "comic book ridiculous" to the main stream. That's why all the dudes have armor instead of tights now. Initially, that meant pants and a jacket and doing away with the gaudy style of the star spangled banner on her crotch. I mean, very few can pull this off these days:



But since the reboot it appears they went back to the classic style mostly, so there isn't much to complain about. American flag star underwear with a few less stars, no jacket, and cleavage are in season.

It has nothing to do with making a particular minority group happy. DC and Marvels sales are tanking so they're trying to do something to grab some media attention. Gay rights and gay marriage is a hot topic, so they turn a character gay, but one that nobody cares about.

With Wonder Woman, her sales are always bad so recently they tried to do something different. They'll do whatever they think will sell.

And if this Alan Scott character is a blank slate, why is DC referring to him as "iconic"?

He was the first Green Lantern, but I doubt anyone outside of preexisting fans ould consider him iconic at this point.

Never heard of him.

So long as they're converting retired characters, they should have had someone with a wife say, "Honey, I love you dearly, and I tried hard to make you happy, but I can't pretend anymore." Then start the soap opera.

I would have been alright if they made WW bisexual. Why not? It would have been more interesting than making Alan Scott gay.

Does anyone seriously call their significant other "love" these days?

It seems like more of a British thing (which Robinson is). Gary Ennis does that sometimes too, like when he had an American talking about a fancy dress party in Crossed,

Wonder Woman sales weren't always bad. Her, Batman, and Supes all seem to have their ups and their downs over the decades. I think Wonder Woman was a huge seller in the 80s if I'm remembering correctly something that I read a while ago. Of course, the 80s was a long time ago at this point.

The movie did show many Green Lanterns other than Hal. Gnort and hundreds of others when he went to the home planet.

It would have been more interesting, but Wonder Woman is mostly kept around DC for licensing purposes. She's never been a big seller in comics outside of brief stretches and most people only know the character from the television show. DC was not going to do anything that hurt her licensing potential in the mainstream media. It's why I thought people were nuts when I saw serious suggestions that Batman or Superman were going to be revealed as the gay character.