Simon Baz
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==In other media== | ==In other media== | ||
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Simon Baz is a male comic superhero that features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Origins
Upon immigrating to America, his Lebanese mother had taught him along with his sibling to be who they were even if people ridiculed them. During his childhood, he had a difficult time with his mother who he respected but she was very strict and put a lot of pressure on him. In response to her suffocating judgements, he rebelled leading to him engage in criminal acts that got him arrested. (Green Lanterns v1 #7)
As a young adult, he became involved in stealing cars and restored them in order to sell them to people. On these ventures, his best friend and partner was Nazir who helped him in these acts. On one such occasion, he stole and re-furnished a car that he intended to a seller but was not aware that the person was the owner of the vehicle. Simon got into a fight with them and was only saved by Nazir who drove in to help him escape. (Green Lanterns v1 #20)
On one of his first assignments, he had detected presence of Parademons on Earth and was eliminating them but was unable to find the source of their attacks. Around this time, he encountered a faceless Spyral operative named Agent 37 who helped him in finding the source which was one of the Female Furies using a Father Box to bring in Parademons via Boom Tubes. Together, the two superheroes send the forces from Apokolips back through the Boom Tube and when Baz attempted to ask Agent 37 to be his partner he discovered the Spyral agent was gone with the Father Box. (Grayson Annual v1 #3)
Green Lanterns
Baz was later informed by his Power Ring of a danger to Earth where he encountered a new Green Lantern recruit Jessica Cruz with the pairing fighting against a Manhunter drone. Simon was shown to had distrusted Jessica and did not want to work with her as he believed himself to be Earth's designated Green Lantern leading to the pair unable to defeat the drone. The Manhunter turned out to had been a training unit made by Hal Jordan who tested the two new Earth Green Lanterns and determined that they were not working together as a team. Thus, Jordan decided to force the two to cooperate as the Sector's Green Lanterns but fusing their Power Battery and forcing them to work as partners whilst Hal went off to find the rest of the Green Lantern Corps. (Green Lanterns: Rebirth v1 #1) He along with Cruz were the Green Lantern's that worked alongside the Justice League. (Justice League: Rebirth v1 #1)
In Gotham City, Simon Baz and his partner Jessica Cruz were called to aid Batman when yellow fear energy from a Sinestro Corps ring was driving people mad with fear. It was discovered that this was part of the machinations of the Scarecrow who became worthy of a yellow ring and was used it to instil fear. Baz was affected by fear where all his doubts and fears infected him but he managed to fight past that by destroying Scarecrow's machine with his willpower rather than use his gun. Simon concluded that the desire for a gun stemmed from his self-doubt in his own abilities and decided that it was time to give the firearm away. (Green Lanterns v1 #17)
Overview
Personality and attributes
He felt a great deal of tension with regards to his mother who had always put pressure on him and told him that he was never good enough. Despite this fact, he still respected her as he viewed her as his hero. Though he rebelled due to her strictness, he felt guilty for the pain he had put his family through for engaging in criminal acts that saw him being seen as a terrorist and thus leading to further persecution for his family. (Green Lanterns v1 #7)
Baz held Nazir to be his best friend and one that knew how to get under his skin. (Green Lanterns v1 #19)
Simon was afraid that the green ring was not powerful enough for him which was why he considered taking the Phantom Ring. (Green Lanterns v1 #12) According to Batman, this did not stem from his fear that the ring would fail him but rather that he was not good enough for the power ring. (Green Lanterns v1 #17)
He said that he did not like being hospitals as these reminded him of bad memories of when his best friend Nazir was in coma and nearly died. Baz claimed that the experience made him feel helpless which was why he was not fond of being in them. (Green Lanterns v1 #19)
Baz was shown to be knowledgeable about different types of cars. (Green Lanterns v1 #20)
Powers and abilities
His fear at times caused him to panic and prevented him from manifesting the sufficient willpower to achieve certain feats with his constructs shattering in the process. (Green Lanterns v1 #20)
Notes
- Simon Baz was created by Geoff Johns and Doug Mahnke where he made his first appearance in The New 52 Free Comic Book Day Special Edition v1 #1 (May, 2012).
Alternate Versions
- In Justice League v3 #27 (2017), it was shown that in an alternate timeline where various members of the Justice League had children. In this timeline, Baz was responsible for killing Sinestro with him becoming the leader of the Sinestro Corps.
In other media
Video games
- In Injustice 2, Simon Baz was referenced in gear items that were available for Green Lantern in the fighting video game.
Appearances
- Green Lantern:
- Justice League:
- Green Lanterns:
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