| Posted: 30 November 2010 at 11:58am | IP Logged | 3
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I knew a guy once who's name was Bobby. Not Robert, not Bob, but Bobby, right there on his Birth Certificate. •• Yup. And I have known, over the years, a Ricky and a Tim. Full names of both. == As for Thaal Sinestro, it first appeared in the lead-up to Blackest Night, which led to a point where characters in the story all stood back and said "YOU have a first name?" I suppose I can accept it as one of those things that just never got mentioned before - it's not like they retconned he was Hal Jordan's real father or anything, they're just revealing a previous unknown fact that doesn't really change the character at all. Since other Lanterns from Korugar have first and last names, it even makes cultural sense. •• But it DOESN'T make sense for anybody to be SURPRISED that Sinestro has a "first name", if others of his race have them! If you knew somebody named Bob Smith, and for years that was all you knew him to be, and then one day you found out his middle name was David, would you be SURPRISED that he has a middle name? This is the worst kind of comicbook-think.
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