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One of the most devious traps to ever ensnareSupermanwas outdo byGreen Arrow . In a perfect world imagined by a Black Mercy , Oliver Queen defeated the phantasy by confronting his worst demons head - on .
The Man of Steel faced one of his most distressing skirmish with a villain with the galactic warlord Mongul used the horrendous Black Mercy on Superman . By attach to a boniface , the plant quiet its victim into a illusion , show them the life-time they on the Q.T. wish for . For Superman , the Black Mercy showed him a world where Krypton never explode and his parents lived . “For The Man Who Has Everything"wasn’t just a exalt story , it gave a glimpse into the psychological science of Superman and showed personal opinion and feeling the hero does n’t often express to others .
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Green Arrow would understand with the Man of Steel as he to knows what it ’s like to be lost in the Mercy ’s fantasy . InGreen Lantern # 8by Geoff Johns and Carlos Pacheco , Oliver and Hal find themselves with perfect lives . Green Lantern lives in the glory day with his Corps and Oliver fights crime side - by - side with his Word , Connor . As if spirit was n’t good enough for the wedge , Green Arrow and Connor Hawkespeed to a infirmary where Oliver ’s wife , Sandra , is about to give birth to Queen ’s next Logos . However , a dreadful realization hits Green Arrow and allows him to wake up up from the dream cosmos . Once clearness has returned to the Hero of Alexandria , he pulls Hal out of his own phantasy to the Lantern ’s dismay . Oliver inform him that because they shared a Black Mercy , Hal imagined a human race for both of them . A world that mistakenly portray Oliver as a better father than he really is .
This is a painful thing for Oliver to admit , but it ’s not exactly false . Green Arrow and his sonhaven’t had the sound relationship with one another , largely due to Queen avoiding the obligation of being a founding father . But that recognition of his failure helped Green Arrow conquer something that even vexed Superman when he was infamously trammel in the Black Mercy ’s grip .
Superheroes are often thought to be infallible paragons of righteousness , and for some that might even be true . But many of them are just as flawed as anyone else and nowhere near stark . Take Superman and Green Arrow . Clark is turn over a superlative of virtue , while Oliver has more than his share of personal failings . But Green Arrow ’s flawsultimately helped him defeat the Black Mercy ’s simulated realism . When Clark was trapped in his vision , he was the same ethical human beings he ’s always been . But for Oliver , he was put on a path he bang he did n’t merit . But interestingly enough , the moral weakness that haunt Queen are what obtain him out of the phantasy world . By being uncoerced to look his demons head on , Green Arrowwas able to vote out a trap that about took the life ofSuperman .
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