{"id":2224,"date":"2009-04-27T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=2224"},"modified":"2009-04-27T23:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T06:01:00","slug":"what-the-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=2224","title":{"rendered":"What the what?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Question 1: Is this the dumbest thing I’ve ever posted? Probably.<\/p>\n

Question 2: Is this the nerdiest thing I’ve ever posted? Almost certainly, but I have every intention of trying to continually out-nerd myself.<\/p>\n

Question 3: In spite of being both dumb and uber-nerdy, is this also the most awesome<\/i> thing I’ve ever posted? I think so, yes.<\/p>\n

For reasons unfathomable even to myself, here is Darth Vader<\/a>, if he were an Alpha Lantern<\/a> of the Sinestro Corps<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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If you’re still reading, you’re probably still asking yourself, why<\/i>? Well, I’ve been enjoying Green Lantern<\/i> since the Sinestro Corps War<\/i><\/a>, and I really like the idea of the Sinestro Corps having high-profile members like Superboy Prime<\/a>, Mongul II<\/a>, and Hank Henshaw<\/a>. So my naturally nerdy brain was scanning its archives for other characters capable of instilling great fear<\/i>, and since I had already crossed over Star Wars with the Green Lantern mythos, once<\/a> or twice<\/a>–I came up with Darth Vader.<\/p>\n

Before you protest–yes, I’m aware that this concept wouldn’t really work in the continuity of either Star Wars or the DC Universe due to the fact that Darth Vader died a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away… long before the Sinestro Corps had ever been formed. If I had<\/i> to come up with an explanation, I would say that the ghost of Anakin Skywalker<\/a> was psychically controlled\/driven insane by Parallax<\/a>, and had regressed into the psyche of Vader once more. With his spirit trapped in the hollow shell of his suit of armor, and powered by a yellow power battery, Darth Vader is now forced to serve the Sinestro Corps as perhaps their most powerful enforcer.<\/p>\n

It had occurred to me that Vader could have made a good Red<\/a> or Black Lantern<\/a>. However, I’m not so into the Red Lanterns, and I’m not entirely sure how the mechanics of the Black Lanterns work. Overall, I find the fear-based Sinestro Corps to be more compelling.<\/p>\n

The really scary thing is that these hyper-nerdy thought-processes basically all occur without conscious effort. I’m just walking around doing normal things, like drinking Vitamin Water and playing with Legos. Meanwhile my brain is running these dorky match-ups between continuities in the background, and I’m only aware of them in a vague semi-conscious manner. BAM, next thing I know, I’m drawing Darth Vader with a yellow lantern embedded in his chest. It’s a blessing and a curse, people. A blessing and a curse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Question 1: Is this the dumbest thing I’ve ever posted? Probably. Question 2: Is this the nerdiest thing I’ve ever posted? Almost certainly, but I have every intention of trying to continually out-nerd myself. Question 3: In spite of being both dumb and uber-nerdy, is this also the most awesome thing I’ve ever posted? I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,41,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crossovers","category-star-wars","category-superheroes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}