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Back when Simon Baz, the newest Earth-based Green Lantern, was introduced, fans and the press roundly mocked his decision to carry a gun in spite of the fact that the Green Lantern ring was, in fact, the most powerful weapon in the universe.Some saw it as borderline racist, the image of a man of color wearing a full-face mask and brandishing a gun when the character at the center of Green Lantern stories has never done that before.Some saw it as trying to make the character more “extreme.”Most just thought it was silly and unnecessary.
