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CHARACTER CLOSE-UP

CHARACTER CLOSE-UP: Lord Malvolio

9/6/2016

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Origin
Lord Malvolio is the son of a human woman and the Green Lantern of Sector 1634. Born in 1612, his mother died in childbirth, and Malvolio was raised by his father. Eventually, he slew his father and took his ring, traveling the stars until he came upon his father's planet. When the Guardians of the Universe learned of the Lantern's passing, they named Priest the new Green Lantern of Sector 1634, and sent him to slay Malvolio. When Priest refused to slay him, opting instead to imprison the false Lantern in a starless void, he was stripped of his title. Malvolio languished in his prison until the present day, plotting.
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Hal Jordan Heir Apparent
After meeting and assisting Priest with a border war, Hal Jordan was pursuing an alien that had inadvertently caused massive destruction on Earth, when he found himself teleported to Malvolio's system. Jordan ran across an alien scientist and asked if he might know the way back to Earth; the scientist suggested he consult his "master". A short time later, Jordan found a citadel, perched on a mountain marked with a Green Lantern symbol; inside, he met Lord Malvolio, who revealed that he too was from Earth, and made cryptic reference to Phobus. Not gaining any answers, Jordan went back to the scientist, when Malvolio suddenly appeared and murdered the alien. Malvolio revealed that he had brought Jordan there, looking to make him his heir; the two battled, and Malvolio blasted Jordan through the planet. Jordan fled to a strange yellow satellite, and was surprised to find a large number of aliens worshiping a Power Battery. He met a man named Wallace, who claimed to be Malvolio's squire.

​Jordan was surprised to find out that the satellite he thought was meant to be a sanctuary from Malvolio, was in fact a shrine in his honor. Arriving on the scene, Malvolio destroyed the satellite, killing everyone inside. The battle resumed, and Jordan managed to gain the upper hand. He turned to walk away, when Malvolio pulled a weapon. Jordan turned to blast the gun from Malvolio's hand, when it fired, destroying his ring. Jordan fled and managed to find some weapons. Using a brace and tension rod as a bow and arrow, he fired a shot into Malvolio's chest, seemingly killing him. Jordan took Malvolio's ring and used it to return to Earth.After he left, Malvolio stood up and pulled the rod from his chest; his surroundings disappeared, an illusion created by Malvolio himself. Malvolio mused that the entire encounter was a ploy to get Jordan to use his ring, in an elaborate plan to get revenge on Priest and the Guardians. Malvolio's ultimate end game has yet to be revealed.

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Notes
Jim Owsley, now Christopher Priest, has stated that DC has no interest in the character, which is why the storyline was dropped. The character's name has come up in conversation, but has yet to be reintroduced into continuity.
Malvolio was never actually a member of the Green Lantern Corps, as he took his father's ring rather than being inducted.
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Trivia
Before the Parallax story the fact that Hal was wearing Lord Malvolio's ring when he went crazy was a popular way for Hal fans to explain why Hal went crazy.
Given that Kyle's ring was a reformed version of the ring Hal wore when he went nuts (presumably Lord Malvolio's ring) this would also explain Oblivion

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Greenknight
3/16/2018 04:16:20 am

I wish you would have used this angle to explain Hal's madness. This would have provided the continuity needed for the readers DC left hanging after Malvolio's grimmmmmmm smile as though we know something wicked this way comes, but we can only guess. It also conveniently explains the sickness that invaded Hal after losing his family when Coast City was destroyed. This was totally under the Guardian's radar. In his final moments before he re-ignites the Sun, Jordan seems to regain his sanity from Parallax (stereotypical name, wot?). This would have been a good time for Jordan to deduce that Malvolio set him up to destroy the guardians as well as all his comrades in the GL core. In a final rage, Jordan as Parallax finds Malvolio, beats the living Hershy bars out of him, and drags him off to the sun, where Malvolio, like Jordan, becomes toast.
Something else that's not explained is Malvolio's costume. This was a missed opportunity to connect Malvolio's father to the first Green Lantern to visit earth, Yalan Gur's, by whose death and immolation the green meteor, powering the magic flame of Alan Scott's lantern, could have found its way all over the ancient world including ancient England. The Green Knight pulls off walking off with his own head after it was severed by SIr Gawain, which is easily done if you have a power ring or the power of the Green Flame. For that matter, you could have made Malvolio's father be someone who arrived on earth long after Yalan Gur's death wearing the same costume as Yalan Gur. Did Alan Scott really design his own costume, or was it the influence of Yalan Gur within the Green Flame?
The fascination of someone moving large statues with the power coming from a ring grabbed my imagination as a little kid, and it has still held me in awe as I contemplate the power in the ring.

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