Because joining with the Ophidian would weaken every Orange Lantern in the universe, including those actively fighting the Reach right now. Also, he's not completely sure that Superman couldn't still drain him like that, and he has no idea what that would do.
The sudden loud noise thing only works if he's not ready for it, and is actively trying to hear something quiet or see something a long way away. Otherwise he can just work through it.
Yes.
Torquasm.
Hah! Just reread this and saw a plot hook that'd been planned like a decade in advance.
Because as I said, he could easily work through it. It's like if you were working and someone on the other side of the room started saying your name. You'd be distracted the first time but once you realised they were doing it to wind you up you'd learn to ignore it pretty quickly.
Remove the [ in the sentence.
Superman has been routinely exposed to sonic weaponry, it only ever gives him a brief pause before he powers through it unless it catches him off-guard while he's focusing his super-hearing up to extremely sensitive levels.
'effect'
I can't wait to see the massive mocking Orange Lantern gets now that he got his ass kicked by Superman.
Eh. holding your own in a brawl for any length of time with supes is worthy of praise. If Paul had wanted to kill Supe's the could have, but there was always the implicit assumption that it's much harder to bring Supes back from the dead than Paul. Their win conditions are completely different.
Orange Lantern was trying to kill Supes.
Unfortunately, short of being the goddamn Flash there's no way to outspeed Kal-El. And as we're seeing, there's not really anything OL's got to stand up to him. Unfortunately, running isn't an option, as the Last Son is too fast for him to escape...
They're just not a big enough threat to pull his attention of OL...
Greediporting away? But in short range, since he doesn't have long enough to really ping anyone further.
Great, that'll buy you a couple of seconds. Then what?
Much like that moment in Justice League. I don't even need to link it, you know the one...
Hope you've got plenty of spare materials, OL, this could be an expensive fight.
He's got guts, if not smarts. Coming out in something that probably won't stand up to Superman for long even if he weren't supercharged.
Something which is hopefully only temporary.
It's big and made of crystals. Pretty safe bet, yeah?
Which means even red sunlight beams may not weaken him...
Sadly, despite the similarities, it's not related to the Orange Light.
Are you flexible enough to bend over and kiss your ass goodbye?
Yeah, that about sums it up.
Hell of a thing to say, but desperate times call for desperate measures.
Trying to rip the Eradicator infusion out of his psyche? Risky, because doing so opens you up to his counterattack...
One punch, I bet.
Yep. He's gonna feel that in the morning, no matter how much he heals himself.
Huh, it's actually effective, at least for a few moments. I shudder for whatever splinter of reality is catching those hands, though.
With any luck he might dislodge something, enough to let Clark fight his way back to control.
Casual backhand, huh?
Oh, he's not going for the heart, then... He's spotted something more useful.
Given a bit of sunlight, it'll heal right up, after all.
Quite possibly the last words you want to hear in a fight with a Kryptonian. And probably the last words you'd hear period.
Oh, Supes went for the decapitation. Effective against most Lanterns, sure...
And he caught both the Ring and the Lantern, didn't he?
It'd be funny if he couldn't work up the desire to activate it, but that's pretty unlikely. Probably keeping tight control to prevent overload.
Psychic attack while he was gloating? Well done, that telepath!
So it's serving as a tongue ring of sorts for now.
Ah, good, Gold K can't be affected by his bullshit kung-fu. At least, not while he's distracted.
Okay, looks like between the Desire manipulation, the psychic feedback and the blatant defiance of his very nature, he's freed himself. Hopefully?
Especially after he put in such a devastating show of what someone with those powers and without scruples can do...
According to a single solitary thread on Versus, Vo is the mental meditation theta wave technique that makes kryptonians resistant to mind control and reality warping and Rao is tai chi on steroids. It looks very much up to the author, though, considering that stupid aura armor that Supes recently did was a Vo technique.
Oh, yeah. They're really going to make fun of Paul for nearly getting killed by a brainwashing victim that he would have held back against even if he tried going with some of his less powerful lethal options.
If Zoat hasn't forgotten about that then it's possible that while Paul can recharge just by willing it, it may take time or he needs to meditate for it to work.
Thank you, corrected.
If Superman wasn't really good at ignoring sound, he wouldn't be able to function. In the films, remember what happened when Zod and Co. took off their armour? In the comics something similar happens to Preus, and Superman said that when he was a boy he had to stop going to church because he couldn't take that many people making noises around him.
Thank you, corrected.
