
In the short story, “Tygers,” it’s revealed that Sur’s death was partly caused by doubts sewn in him during a mission on the hellish alien planet, Ysmault.
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Hal Jordan’s predecessor succumbs to fear in a much more literal way in the movie than he did in the comics. Finally, the linking of Sinestro’s power ring to this Parallax and the Gaurdians has been streamlined from the comics, which had the Weaponers of Qward involved.

Additionally, he serves Legion’s role in the origin by being the monster to mortally wound Abin Sur after killing several other Lanterns single-handedly. Movie Parallax also metaphorically resembles Legion for how the wall of agonized faces in his body looks like a hive mind. Interestingly, while Krona destroys whole universes, this villain’s rampage is on a smaller scale - he destroys planets. While still monstrous, this Parallax resembles a mutated Guardian like Scar rather than snarling creature of the comics. His influence corrupts others with fear, but it’s Hector Hammond whom he corrupts here through viral means instead of through a parasite/host relationship. He’s exiled and transformed into a being of energy, too, but it's the yellow fear energy that's the comics’ Parallax’s domain. The Parallax of the movie begins as unnamed Guardian who, like Krona, defies the wishes of his peers by seeking forbidden knowledge - in this case, it’s within a yellow core of fear. And Legion? He's a yellow, brutish monster whose mind is comprised of the collective conscious of the evil, insectile Tchk-Tchk race who were decimated by the Guardians. Doing so exposes him to forbidden knowledge and unleashes a terrible calamity that creates the Multiverse and inspires the Guardians of the Universe to create the Green Lantern Corps (after they turn him into energy and send him into exile, of course.) Parallax, on the other hand, is a primordial entity of fear a yellow, insectile parasite who’s possessed hosts like Hal Jordan and turned them into raging madmen. In the comics, Krona defies the rules of science by constructing a machine that allows him to view the DC universe's creation. Parallax seems to have effectively been amalgamated with the villains Legion (who’s currently been written out of continuity) and Krona, the rogue Oan who’s presently bedeviling almost everybody associated with the emotional spectrum in WAR OF THE GREEN LANTERNS.

We'll see which changes were for the better and which ones fell flat.= TEASER = PARALLAX Parallax Now prepare yourself to see how different the movie was from the comic despite heavy involvement between DC Comics and Warner Bros. SPOILER WARNING: If you read this before seeing the movie and subsequently complain about getting spoiled, you absolutely deserve to be imprisoned in the tightest, most cramped Science Cell imaginable.

How strictly does it adhere to the comics then, now that we get to see it full? We've been charging our batteries for years and, now, the GREEN LANTERN movie's finally giving us a release.
