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Hector Hammond
Hector Hammond is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics who is primarily an enemy of Green Lantern.
Peter Sarsgaard portrays Hammond in the 2011 film Green Lantern.
Hector Hammond originally appeared in Green Lantern (vol. 2) #5 (April 1961) and was created by John Broome and Gil Kane.
Hector Hammond is a petty criminal on the run from the law when he discovers the fragments of a meteor that previously landed in Africa, rapidly evolving Gorilla Grodd and the other gorillas of Gorilla City. Observing the meteor's mutagenic effects, Hammond kidnaps four scientists and exposes them to the meteor on a remote island. The radiation causes their intellects to evolve, but also has the side effect of sapping their wills. Hammond forces the scientists to use their heightened intellect to create inventions, which he sells for profit.
Green Lantern Hal Jordan asks his friend and mechanic, Thomas Kalmaku, to take on the role of the Green Lantern while Jordan investigates Hammond. Jordan creates a duplicate power ring and costume for Kalmaku to fool Hammond and tells him to fly above Coast City so it would be thought Green Lantern was there. Unaware of the impersonation, Hammond steals Kalmaku's ring and transforms him into a chimpanzee. Jordan confronts Hammond personally in a battle of power rings that ends only when the charge of Hammond's ring runs out, allowing Jordan to capture him and restore Kalmaku and the scientists. He removes the scientists' memory of their knowledge and gets rid of the inventions as well.
Hammond returns in Justice League of America #14 (September 1962). He manages to escape from prison and deliberately exposes himself to the meteorite. The radiation causes his brain to grow to enormous size, granting him psionic powers as well as immortality. He captures Green Lantern using a "de-memorizer" invented by Amos Fortune, but he is later captured. His body later becomes immobilized, and he loses the power to speak. Trapped in a motionless state, Hammond is still able to use his psionic powers to control the minds of others.
In a 1982 story arc of Justice League of America, Hammond forms the second incarnation of the second Royal Flush Gang. The group attacks and hospitalizes the members of the Justice League before Martin Stein, who exists in an intangible state as part of Firestorm, subdues Hammond on the astral plane.
Following the 2004-2005 miniseries Green Lantern: Rebirth, in which Hal Jordan is resurrected, vindicated for his past crimes as Parallax, and returns as the star of the Green Lantern core series, Hammond reappears as one of his adversaries. The Kroloteans, aliens who sent the meteor that gave him his powers, capture and experiment on Hammond, causing him to regain his capability of speech.
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Hector Hammond
Hector Hammond is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics who is primarily an enemy of Green Lantern.
Peter Sarsgaard portrays Hammond in the 2011 film Green Lantern.
Hector Hammond originally appeared in Green Lantern (vol. 2) #5 (April 1961) and was created by John Broome and Gil Kane.
Hector Hammond is a petty criminal on the run from the law when he discovers the fragments of a meteor that previously landed in Africa, rapidly evolving Gorilla Grodd and the other gorillas of Gorilla City. Observing the meteor's mutagenic effects, Hammond kidnaps four scientists and exposes them to the meteor on a remote island. The radiation causes their intellects to evolve, but also has the side effect of sapping their wills. Hammond forces the scientists to use their heightened intellect to create inventions, which he sells for profit.
Green Lantern Hal Jordan asks his friend and mechanic, Thomas Kalmaku, to take on the role of the Green Lantern while Jordan investigates Hammond. Jordan creates a duplicate power ring and costume for Kalmaku to fool Hammond and tells him to fly above Coast City so it would be thought Green Lantern was there. Unaware of the impersonation, Hammond steals Kalmaku's ring and transforms him into a chimpanzee. Jordan confronts Hammond personally in a battle of power rings that ends only when the charge of Hammond's ring runs out, allowing Jordan to capture him and restore Kalmaku and the scientists. He removes the scientists' memory of their knowledge and gets rid of the inventions as well.
Hammond returns in Justice League of America #14 (September 1962). He manages to escape from prison and deliberately exposes himself to the meteorite. The radiation causes his brain to grow to enormous size, granting him psionic powers as well as immortality. He captures Green Lantern using a "de-memorizer" invented by Amos Fortune, but he is later captured. His body later becomes immobilized, and he loses the power to speak. Trapped in a motionless state, Hammond is still able to use his psionic powers to control the minds of others.
In a 1982 story arc of Justice League of America, Hammond forms the second incarnation of the second Royal Flush Gang. The group attacks and hospitalizes the members of the Justice League before Martin Stein, who exists in an intangible state as part of Firestorm, subdues Hammond on the astral plane.
Following the 2004-2005 miniseries Green Lantern: Rebirth, in which Hal Jordan is resurrected, vindicated for his past crimes as Parallax, and returns as the star of the Green Lantern core series, Hammond reappears as one of his adversaries. The Kroloteans, aliens who sent the meteor that gave him his powers, capture and experiment on Hammond, causing him to regain his capability of speech.