Justin Hartley is Green Arrow... make that Hawkeye
Let’s get one thing clear. … the entire concept of “bringing a knife to a gun fight” is seen in a guy who shoots arrows at bad guys instead of using firearms. It’s just stupid. “What about a man who flies or sticks to walls like chewing gum!? Huh!?” – Shut up you.
Look, what makes the comic/sci-fi/fantasy universe work is “suspension of disbelief.” For example, 2001: A Space Odyssey is hands-down, the closest thing to reality in space that we’ll ever see on the screen. They got it right, even for a movie made in 1968. But Star Wars (the first movie, which is the last (6th) in the series) was infinitely more entertaining to the masses regardless of it’s ludicrous plausibility. You don’t hear, or see, lasers in space. You can’t walk on an asteroid with nothing more than a gas mask and Lord knows Tashi Station is the WORST place in the galaxy to get power converters! “So! What’s that have to do with my hero Hawkeye!!!” – SHUT up you!
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The deal is that, even though all of these Star Wars flaws are true, we tend to “ignore the man behind the curtain” and suspend our disbelief while we are entertained. Can we believe in a man who flies or sticks to walls? … of course we can’t, but we waaaant to believe it soooo bad, that we will set aside our logic for the sake of entertainment.
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What about a guy who paints a white skull on his chest and takes vengeance on the mobsters and bad guys? Who wouldn’t!? You tell me you wouldn’t after they did that to your wife and kids. The Punisher is probably the most believable character in the entire comic universe, movies aside where he’s friggin’ SWINGING FROM A CHANDELIER UPSIDE DOWN while firing twin 9 millimeters, that’s just stupid writing. I’ll take a flying man in skivies any day of the week over that scene. … that didn’t come out right, but you know what I mean.
“You’re still not getting to the point! Why do you hate Hawkeye? I love Hawkeye!” – egad. Let me finish. So Star Wars is flawed and our desires to want to be billionaire crime fighters or invulnerable heroes is so great we can over look the the realities of their inherent problems of existing in reality.
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This is not the case with a guy who shoots arrows at people who carry AK-47s, grenades and all other sorts of military hardware that is used in the field of war! Look, the idea that someone picks up a device that was developed by people who lived in mud back in the stone ages and was antiquated over 250 years ago is just ludicrous. Apparently Marvel AND DC never bothered looking into exactly why the American Indians lost the gun battles over the years. Yeah, we cheated and used germ warfare on them, but point is that they lost and not having a handgun or rifle played no small part in their tragedy.
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So, Smallville aside, Green Arrow, played by Justin Hartley, who does a spectacular role of Green Arrow, is still of disbelief proportions so great, that only a handful of people refuse to swallow it. … ok, so I’m the only one. Brian, co-owner of Superherostuff, in charge of the warehouse, says I’m full of it. Oh Yeah? These images of some of those highly plausible arrows is just a smattering of what DC has(had) going on. The whole Arrowete thing is just…. well just darn not believable.
“What’s this have to do with Hawkeye! He’s no GL! He wears a purple skirt, by golly!” – For the love of…. It doesn’t matter what color his outfit is, or if he’s wearing a skirt, they’re both using a weapon used by people in the stone age!!! It just doesn’t work in reality.
“But Hawkeye’s cool!” – .. sigh… What’s cool is that someone took the time to photoshop Justin Hartley’s GL into Hawkeye. THAT’S what’s cool. Aside from these two characters being pretty much the same thing, they shoot arrows (big deal) this is still a cool image, capturing both Hawkeye along with GL in a very cool pose with a very cool bow. For imagery, it works.
