Green Lantern Post Credits scene. (Easter Egg) SPOILERS!

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Well you’ve seen Green Lantern for yourself and by now you either think the critics were right and it sucks donkey ****, or that they don’t know what they’re on about & you loved it. Either way the odds are you’re one of those people that has got your coat in your hand ready to race out of the door as soon as the first word appears onscreen at the end of the movie.

If you are one of those then, even though Warner Bros / DC aren’t as sadistic as the (Edgar Wright influenced) Marvel Studios, you’ll still have missed the rather important if brief, and a trifle annoying, bonus scene for Green Lantern.

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HERE BE THE SPOILERS!!!!! HERE BE THE SPOILERS!!!!!

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This will come as no surprise to anyone who has ever seen more than about 3 pages of a Green Lantern comic or the Straight to DVD / Blu-Ray animated movie Green Lantern: First Flight.

 It will also come as no surprise to anyone with eyes, ears and 2 brain cells either, but it is a bloody disappointment; more on that later. I mean the guy is played by Mark Strong, perennial villain. He has an aristocratic English (British if you muat) accent, the BOUNDER! HE has a David Niven Moustache! (If you don’t know who that is them shame on you. No I don’t care if he died before you were born; Go Google him now and then put a few of his films on Netflix or Xbox Zune or whatever you’re using. Each day that passes without you seeing a David Niven film, 100 cats will...., well they won’t like it!) So plumy Posh accent, David Niven Moustache, played by Mark Strong and if all of that wasn’t a big enough clue, he’s called Sinestro! You’ve gotta love Golden Age Comic book character names! He couldn’t be any more of a villain if they called him Evil Lord Sinestro bastard the third, 2nd best friend of Hitler!

So that nifty Yellow Ring, powered by fear that got conveniently created and forgotten about in the second half of the film, you know the one. Well Sinestro still thinks it might be the way to go forward. So he nicks it. HE puts it on and goes all shuddery, suggesting that the guess was correct, the Yellow power of FEAR is stronger than the green power of WILL! Unfortunately as well as this his face, glowy eyes and general demeanour also imply that he has instantly been corrupted, absolute power and all that eh!

Yes, yes I know, it doesn’t fit with the character I was watching for 2 hours either; all noble and honourable like. I mean it’s not as if we couldn’t have had half a sequel with him wrestling with his conscience, pleading with the guardians to help him save the universe with the yellow ring as score of lanterns get wiped out. You know, kind of a slow, ‘The Shield’ like descent onto the wrong side of the line, for noble reasons. Noooo, bollocks to that entire cobblers mate, just skip to the evil. I mean, his names Sinestro and he’s all British. Why delay the obvious?!

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Check out my other Post Credit blogs for Thor (inc Iron Man I & II and Incredible Hulk and Captain America)  and Fast 5
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