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- Alan Scott’s new origin in Alan Scott: Green Lantern #2 takes on a much darker tone and adds depth to the character.
- The reimagined story centers on the character Billie, a trans woman who ends up being lobotomized, adding a more tragic touch to the origins.
- The new origin adds a dark, contemporary layer to Alan Scott’s story, making it more appealing to modern audiences.
Warning: contains spoilers Alan Scott: Green Lantern #two!
Green Lantern Alan Scott’s new origin has made the DC icon much darker than ever. After being sidelined for most of the 2010s, Alan Scott, the original Golden Age Green Lantern, returned to the DC Universe. The new Alan Scott: Green Lantern The miniseries redefines the character for a new era and issue two revisits an important part of Green Lantern’s origins, but here it’s given a dark facade.
Alan Scott: Green Lantern Issue 2 was written by Tim Sheridan and drawn by Cian Tormey. In the late 1930s, Alan Scott was hospitalized because of his homosexuality. Alan’s roommate is Billie, a trans woman. Billie presents Alan with a green train lantern that she made from the mysterious substances she found on Alan. The two have a heartfelt conversation, but Billie irritates him. When Alan says goodbye to Billie, she is accompanied by two nurses, and when Alan sees her again, she is practically lobotomized.
“/> Alan remembers the prophecies he heard earlier: that the lantern would bring first death and then life. Billie’s ‘healing’ ended the second part.
Green Lantern Alan Scott’s origin is reworked for a modern audience
“/> parts of Alan Scott: Green Lantern The story in issue #2 is an adaptation of the character’s first appearance in the 1940s. All-American comics #sixteen. In this story, Billie (here called “Billings”) is a patient in a psychiatric hospital. It’s never revealed why Billings is there, but they work in the hospital’s workshop. One day, Billings receives a mysterious green metal, which is then transformed into Alan Scott’s flashlight. As Billings works on this, they are “magically healed” and then released from the hospital so they can resume their lives. The story reflected the understanding of the medical community at the time, but it remained problematic.
Alan Scott’s Green Lantern was created by Batman co-creator Bill Finger and artist Martin Nodell.
Now this story has been reinterpreted and given a much darker subtext. Billie here is a trans woman who is hospitalized by uncaring relatives. Alan Scott was not present for this part of the origin, but Sheridan and Tormey reconfigured it. Readers sympathize with Alan and Billie and develop them far beyond the original story – the perfect setting for the slap in the face that is Billie’s fate. When Alan sees his girlfriend again, she is a shadow of her former self. The story shows exactly what happened to the reader’s imagination, but Billie is no longer the same.
Alan Scott’s origins became darker
“/> The restructuring of Alan Scott’s origins takes on an even darker meaning. when he realizes that Billie’s “healing” was the fulfillment of the second part of the prophecy: first it brings death, then life, then power. Billie was given ‘life’, but unlike her Golden Age counterpart, she did not live happily ever after, but rather lived a false life and was constantly forced to deny her true nature. Now that the Lantern has brought ‘life’, it’s time to bring ‘power’, in this case turning Alan Scott into the Green Lantern. This addition to Green Lantern’s story brings a much more contemporary yet darker layer to its origins.
Alan Scott: Green Lantern Issue #2 is now available from DC Comics!
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