Green Lantern (Simon Baz)

Simon Baz was an automotive engineer from Dearborn, Michigan. After losing his job in Detroit’s fluctuating automotive industry, he began stealing cars to help assist with finances. One night, after stealing a vehicle, he discovered that there was an explosive planted in the back of it. Due to his ethnic and religious background, he was prosecuted for terrorism after narrowly escaping the car explosion. Elsewhere, Hal Jordan and Thaal Sinestro’s malfunctioning power rings presumed them both dead during an altercation with Black Hand. Their two defected power rings fused together and immediately sought out Earth's replacement Lantern, Simon Baz!

Powers

Simon Baz is a bearer of a Green Lantern Ring, a powerful device that allows him to construct anything he can imagine, based on his will. Similar to the other Earth Lanterns, he has a unique theme to his constructs. Being an automotive engineer, Simon's light constructs are often automobiles and/or auto tools.

Simon has also been shown to have a unique ability to Green Lanterns, the power to heal. He is able to wake his brother-in-law from a coma through sheer willpower, and very nearly revived Thaal Sinestro's homeworld of Korugar and all of it's citizens when in possession of the White Lantern ring.

More recently, Simon achieved a new feat with his healing abilities. He was able to cure a Red Lantern of the effects of the Red Lantern Ring, an ability normally only held by Blue Lanterns. Not only does he cleanse all the rage in their heart, but keeps them from dying, which is the standard effect of being separated from a red ring. However, two drawbacks have been seen. The effort necessary for curing a Red Lantern is taxing and leaves Simon fatigued and in pain for a short period. Secondly, if the target Lantern becomes enraged again, the effects of the ring quickly return, turning the back into Red Lanterns.

Simon has also displayed another new ability known as Emerald Sight. While little is known about this ability, it apparently allows him to receive visions of the future.

Powers and Abilities Simon Baz is a bearer of the Green Lantern Ring. The abilities the ring grants him are: Animating: A Green Lantern can will things to move how he wants. Artificial Intelligence: Every ring has a connection to the Main Battery on Oa, which taps into an artificial intelligence. It acts as an "on-board computer," telling the wearer what they need to know. It can either respond out loud, or silently directly to the wearer's mind. The AI contains a large database of information that may be crucial to a Lantern's success. The ring also translates nearly every language to and from the wearer, which is why the Corps can communicate with each other. When the bearer of a Green Lantern ring dies, the ring will seek out a suitable replacement for their sector. Burglar Alarm: A Green Lantern can coat anything with the ring's beam and thus, if anyone other than himself touches it, his ring will glow, alerting him to the possible theft. Communicator: The ring can act as a personal communicator between Green Lanterns. They have also been seen connected to telephones. Costumes: The wearer of the ring may create any costume they choose, based on their personal preferences, whenever they choose. The ring projects the costume over any clothes already worn at the time. The only rules that the Guardians of the Universe implement on the creation of a individual costumed is that the ring bearer display the insignia of the Green Lantern Corps. Energy Projection: The rings can also project beams, form protective bubbles and force fields, and fire destructive blasts. Sometimes, depending on the wearer, the beams and blasts make sounds. Energy Constructs: The rings can construct anything the wearer can imagine from hard-light energy, as long as they are willing to make it. The more determined the wearer is, the more complex and intricate these things can be. Flight: The ring allows the wearer to fly in atmosphere or in space, and can achieve incredible speeds, moving from planet to planet in a matter of hours. Invisibility: The ring can make the wearer or anything else invisible. Matter Manipulation: A Green Lantern can use their ring to manipulate nearby matter, such as water, for various purposes such as a construct that acts like an energy construct but can block something yellow and may serve a purpose that an energy construct couldn't perform. Mind Control: The wearer of the Ring can use it to plant post hypnotic commands or control a person. Mirages: The Ring can create mirages/illusions. Phasing: The ring allows the user to go through walls. This ability however required great concentration on the bearer of the ring Probing: The ring can probe the Lantern's or another person's mind, allowing him to uncover memories or the person's thoughts. Recharging: The rings need to be recharged by means of a Power Battery. Other large sources of power may be used to recharge a power ring, however effectiveness may vary. Ring Duplication: Each ring can duplicate itself, creating a second ring which may be given to another as a backup, for protection, or to help the lantern in times of great need. This duplicate ring is exactly like a normal ring. Temperature Control: The Ring can increase or decrease the temperature of anything, even something as large as stars, or even create bubbles of intense heat or cold, even down to Absolute Zero. Wormhole/Warps: The ring can open wormholes to cut down on distance. Healing: A wielder can command a ring to heal him/her/itself of any injures incurred. It can also heal others. However, this ability cannot regenerate lost limbs. Energy twin: The ring can create an energy copy of the wielder which is connected to the ring wielder, any information the twin gathers is transferred to the wielder upon touch while others cannot see this twin apart from fellow Green Lanterns. Pocket dimension: Within the ring is a pocket dimension which can altered to the wielders specification. It can be used to contain opponents. Sub-routines: The power rings have inner programmings or mechanisms which can executed without the users permission. One such sub-routine is the autoshield.

Besides his Green Lantern ring, Simon utilizes the use of a handgun. Since his ring was unpredictable and unreliable, Simon kept his handgun on him to use for emergencies. It has come in handy on more than one occasion. After a mission with Batman, Simon had his gun taken from him by a mind-warped Alfred. Though Batman was able to recover it for him, by the end of the mission Simon was inspired to stop using the gun.