Heartwarming / With This Ring

2010

• OL's very first "case" so to speak. While en route to Themyscira, Paul assists Wonder Woman in defusing a hostage situation where a flock of harpies had taken a group of tourists hostage out of desperation due to Greek fishing boats depleting their food source. After solving the situation non-violently, Paul simply observes the human children playing with the harpies' offspring, using his ring's translator function to allow all parties to interact peacefully.
• When Orange Lantern accidentally uses lethal force on Clayface, he suffers a huge crisis of morality that borders on a Heroic BSoD, and is quite convinced that Batman and the rest of the League are going to kick him off the Team, if they don't outright arrest him for manslaughter. When he voices this fear, it's Batman who comforts him and tells him that he did the best he could, that he did nothing that anyone on the League, himself included, wouldn't have done, and he even helps him realize that there might be hope for Clayface to be revived.
  • Clayface is responding to treatment.
• Paul spending his afternoon with Alan, reviewing the Green Lantern's old photo albums. Sure, it becomes heartwrenching when Alan reveals how tired he was of living, briefly thinking of letting OL kill him when they met... and it swings back to sweet with Alan's realization he could still do one last deed as a Lantern: mentoring Paul.
• In a bizarre way, the camaraderie between Paul and Lex. Paul understands that Lex is a first class supervillain, and keeps a wary eye out for backstabbing, but still encourages Lex to use his intellect and resources to make the world a better place. Lex knows that Paul is trying to manipulate him onto the side of justice, but finds his polite attitude refreshing and invites him to dinner parties. It's not something that can be called friendship, but they find a kindred spirit in each other, and since their both aware that the other is an ally but not a friend, they can be themselves around each other.
  • Especially touching was that during the simulation, when Lex tried to hold out against the aliens, and Paul admitted that his plan B was giving Lex a power ring.
    Orange Lantern: I don't have to trust somebody to like them.
• When Wally admits that he's afraid that he's going to be dealing with his eating disorder for the rest of his life if they can't find a way to fix his Speed Formula, Jay Garrick puts his hand on Wally's shoulder and promises him that they'll find a way to help him.
  Jay Garrick: It's okay Wally. We'll work this out together.
• Paul uses his ring's healing ability to help heal Robin's uncle Rick and Artemis's mother Paula, both of whom were permanently crippled, and in Rick's case hospitalized. In both cases, his friends were overwhelmed with emotion at seeing their family members finally recover from their injuries.
• Teekl adopting and raising Wolf when Wolf was orphaned as a newborn pup. This does occasionally happen in real life, but normally only when a cat has had kittens recently and is still flush with maternal instincts. Teekl, being a construct, is no longer subject to physical processes, but does so out of her own free will.
• A rather dark one but when the Green Lanterns perish during the training simulation, OL wonders if he can take their lanterns to give to Alan Scott.
• Paul rushing to Alan's side in the hospital and hugging him first thing after he fell down some stairs. The colored letters really make the scene.
• The team telepathically singing "Invite Them In" to Paulphidian, to help give him the final push to separate from the Ophidian.
• For all his faults and poor choices, the Renegade gets one of the sweetest moments in the series when he proposes to his girlfriend. She happens to be a career assassin, and he proposes on the way to a meeting with Ra's al Ghul so he can discuss betraying the Justice League to them, but hey, the moment was beautiful.
  • Another for the Renegade. When he, Kon, and Megan work together to free Kon's brother Match. It's especially heartwarming when they all start to fly to make him feel not alone, and Megan offers to teach him about carrots.
• Both OLs spend Thanksgiving Dinner with their adopted family, the Nguyens. However, especially touching is Paragon!OL's family includes Zatanna, Kon, and M'gann; and then Diana comes over, and adopts Kon. Cue all of the D'aaaaaws.
  Diana: Now, on to a more personal matter. Over the past few years it has been my privilege to participate in the training of several of the younger members of our community. First Donna, who came to me for help when her abilities first began to manifest. Then Alan introduced me to Paul after he tried to acquire Alan's personal lantern by offering to buy it from him. Paul in turn made me aware of Kon-El's lack of a.. similarly gifted tutor, and asked that I consider taking him on. His display of compassion -something I had mistakenly assumed would be in short supply in anyone who claimed avarice as the source as their power- moved me, and I began including Kon-El in our training sessions. Despite his unfortunately persistent habit of forgetting what he's been taught and trying to win through brute force - he is an able student and I've found our sessions together extremely rewarding. In fact, as I've spent more time with him I've found that I have become more emotionally invested in his development -both as a warrior and as a person- than I have with either of my previous students. And, perhaps because he lacked another adult role model, he has become similarly attached to me. At first I assumed that it was simply a desire to please his tutor, but recent events have led me to re-evaluate how well his emotional needs are being tended to. Whether I was living up to the responsibilities I was coming to assume. And perhaps at eighty five I'm starting to feel a little broody. That is why, a few minutes ago, I offered to adopt Kon-El as my son. He has done me the honor of accepting. While it will probably take us some time to decide exactly how this will work -not to mention deciding how to register the adoption officially- as far as we're concerned I am Kon's mother as of now.
  Kon: Um. I just… I always … When D-. When Mom… When Mom started teaching me, I didn't think I needed it. I mean, she only had to smash my head into a granite cliff face a couple of times before I worked out I was wrong - but I'd been.. programmed with the idea that I was supposed to got it alone. And I didn't like it much but I didn't know how else to be. She showed me how to be a person, not just a weapon. And when I accepted that I could be more than a weapon, everything just started to make more sense. I don't know… I don't know what I'd have do- [glomps Wonder Woman, who kisses his forehead]
• After OL's ring is recovered from Truggs, Fatty pops out of the ring and glomps OL's leg. Turns out the mindless little demon Gonk likes his master! It's one of the very few times in-story that Fatty can be called "cute".
• Wonder Woman's early Christmas present for Paul is paperwork that officially makes him a Themysciran citizen.
• Paul's Christmas prank on Artemis: he gives her an envelope to give to an old couple. The old couple reads it, and finds that it's documentation that proves their relation to Artemis. Their relation? They're her paternal grandparents and they are pretty ecstatic to meet her.
• Paul being one of the few that hasn't given up on saving Zatara from Nabu.

2011

• After he is summoned from the afterlife, Kent Nelson tells Zatanna that he was able to reunite with his deceased wife.
• All of J'aarkn's friends try to get between him and OL when the Team is tasked with deporting him off-planet.
• Kon meeting Hippolyta, his adoptive grandmother, and her asking about him and his interests.
• Two Amazons, Tekla and Iola take Paul's suggestion and ask him if he could use his ring to impregnate them with their lovers' child. Iola jumps to become the mother.
  • Paul revisits them just before he leaves for Vega, and Iola is now almost ready to give birth, with a healthy daughter in utero. The other Amazons have been giving her long-dormant advice based on their own pregnancies from thousands of years ago. Iola and Tekla's daughter is set to be the first natural child on Themyscira in 2000 years, and she's only the first, as Paul offhandedly mentions that several other couples and even a polyamorous group asked him for help as well.
• The Renegade and his acceptance of the Un-Men, even going out of his way to contribute to their cause of human augmentation, including hunting down some long-lost notes left behind by Anton Arcane.
• When Euanthe is rescued, Paul summons Swamp Thing to help her. He refers to her as "Little Sister" and feeds her from his own body to reverse the damage to her body.
• In both the Paragon and Renegade timelines, Superman abandoned Superboy as soon as he found out about him. In the Crime Syndicate universe, Ultraman immediately adopts the kid, naming him after his father, and even the color of his text shows nothing but love for this new family member of his. Word of God is that he wanted to have a family of his own.
• After Dana Dearden gets fired for not informing Paul that the interview was live (he did ask that they not fire her for the mistake), she comes to him seeking revenge. He offers her breakfast and then gives her not one, but three different interviews that end up getting published nationwide.
• How does Captain Marvel finally convince Teth Adom to give Democracy serious consideration after spending an entire chapter unintentionally highlighting all its flaws to him? By telling him that if he is instated as the sole power in the new Kandaq government, he might eventually be considered a tyrant if popular opinion shifts. And that wouldn't be fair to the people, or Adom himself. Where all the Wisdom of Solomon couldn't convince Adom to change his ways, the compassion of Billy Batson did.
  • Later on, after Shiruta is attacked by soldiers with Apokoliptian technology, Adom ends up annihilating the entire old government. The only thing that's stopping him from going on a complete rampage is Billy revealing his identity to him and explaining that he doesn't want to make that decision while angry right now or he'll regret it later. Adom agrees to let himself be guided until he cools down.
  • Its heavily implied that Adom listens because Billy reminds him of his own lost children.
• Marie Logan and Danni are in a romantic relationship, to the point where Marie is saved from her canon death because Danni... well, someone who controls people's minds with pheromones doesn't exactly fare well when facing a robot with fire powers who doesn't have pheromones.
  • As of May 2011 (in-story), they are now married.
• When some guys harass Holly for her "services", Paul drives them off and then comforts her.
• Green Arrow gives Paul some solid advice when he's propositioned for Three-Way Sex with Karon and Holly, allowing him to come to his own conclusion based on what he knew so he wouldn't regret it.
• The Renegade is very compassionate to Lynne Wayland. When he sees the damage that the Anti-Life has left on her soul, he sacrifices part of his own to heal her. He does this for no other reason than to help a little girl recover from a traumatic experience.
• As a present for the Un-Men, the Renegade brings back samples of Nth Metal. Doctor Cranius uses the material to give Niko the ability to fly, something that brings her great joy and gives Cranius hope for what could be done in the future.
  • Cranius tells the Renegade that he is considered family among the Un-Men.
• Upon meeting Akhlys, the Anthropomorphic Personification of Misery, OL tries to cheer her up and heal her wounds. It doesn't work, and in fact backfires, but she appreciates the effort while he plans on coming back to fix it properly later on.
  • When we see her later on in Coup Data, it's revealed that Paul did eventually get something that could help her manage her condition.
    Akhlys walks towards me, looking pretty miserable but not as miserable as she used to. Her arms and legs clatter from the bracelets, armlets and other rune-inscribed charms I've had made for her; spells for promoting health and wellbeing and others that are designed to absorb sickness. The result is no better than a draw, but it's where we are now and Sephtian said that making them taught him a lot.
• Before and during an attack by the Queen of Fables, Eris comes by to warn and encourage Paul. As the goddess of chaos she has every reason to sit back and let the good times roll, but she cares enough about her follower to lend a hand anyway.
  • At the end of the play, despite not being a Discordian, Prince Pavlos warmly thanks Eris for her help above all the other deities who played their part in his saving the day.
• Calliope helps Paul out against the Queen of Fables by briefly waking him up in the middle of the play.
• Holly seems to genuinely fall for Paul basically because he's one of the few men in her life that hasn't tried to abuse her or take advantage of her. Tellingly, her words are colored by Love when greeting him at one point, the same as for her girlfriend Karon.
• Paul is waiting outside the prison as Jade is being released. She feels hopeful upon learning from Paul that her mother and sister have set up a party to celebrate her being released, which is why they aren't there with him.
  • After which he brings her to Vietnam to heal the many living victims of Agent Orange in order to "white mail" her.
  • Then she gets to the party, along with her maternal grandmother, whom Paul picked up on the way. She has a pleasant time interacting with her father's side of the family.
    • On the way, Jade realizes that Paul's been helping out her fellow inmates by fixing whatever's wrong in their lives in whatever way he can (curing one's son of ADHD, getting the police to investigate another's husband's loan shark, etc.).
      Jade: Did you fix everyone's personal problems?
      Paul: No, not everyone. Just anything I could fix through legal mechanisms or by my own labours. Didn't realise there was that much lead paint left in Rhode Island.
• The Crocks and Nguyens have a great family reunion. Lawrence Sr. and Missus Nguyen in particular get along quite well by reminiscing over fighting in Vietnam, even though the two were on opposite sides at the time.
• Paul shows that he's still working on supervillain rehabilitation by reaching out to Captain Cold.
• Euanthe, the Dryad that Paul rescued, is struggling to re-adapt to life after everything she experienced (being used to open a portal to Hell). So Paul offers her the chance to live on Mount Justice, where the Green is strong because of Swamp Thing.
• The first place Siskin visits after getting a Golem body is his parents' home. His father is just happy to learn he's alive in some form.
• Though she's a bit too aggressive about it, Fire looks out for her best friend Ice and attempts to get in Guy's face when she mistakenly believes that Guy is creep. Thankfully, Paul is there to defuse the situation before anything happens.
• Mister Miracle and Big Barda of Earth 50 track down the Renegade and attack him as soon as they get him away from civilians. Why? Not for blowing up the president, but because he left Ace with them after effectively making her his daughter by sharing his soul with her. After realizing how significant this bond is, he immediately adopts her. She spends her first night in Challenger Mountain sleeping on top of him, and the morning after they go to fly a kite.
  • Further, when Darkseid uses a fragment of the Anti-Life Equation on the Renegade, basically erasing all his emotions, he immediately goes to the Zamarons to return Love to him because he cannot stand being unable to love his daughter.
• The Renegade notes that going to Guy Gardner's anger management classes is even more important now that he has Lynne.
• After Awakening Misa, the Renegade sings a song as a way to show that he's there for both her and his new daughter Lynne.
• Saul Talbot shows that he isn't like most of the other "heroes" of Vought by healing numerous terminally sick children.
• Future Orange Lantern successfully gets Tai Lung to repent for his actions and reconcile with Shifu.
• Despite his past animosity towards Superman, OL takes the time to point out survivors of his people who inhabited a colony before the planet exploded (the Daxamites). They're not likely to be friendly, being xenophobes, but the thought is still nice. As well as unintentionally pointing out that there was another survivor on the planet aside from him, Karsta Wor-Ul. Hope colors Superman's words upon hearing it.
• Helmut Schreiber greets Orange Lantern warmly upon meeting him, recognizing him not for the Cake incident, but because he helped bring their children back. He also recognizes Rocket as one of the few non-white American heroes, and mentions that one of his daughters idolizes her.
  • Helmut Schreiber violently and passionately rejecting his dubious "legacy" as the clone of Adolf Hitler.
  • The fact that Helmut Schreiber is a completely normal family man and contributor to society. Adolf Hitler is dead and burning in Hell as he so rightfully deserves. Helmut Schreiber is not him and never will be; he's effectively Hitler's long-lost twin, and maybe what Hitler might have been if he hadn't allowed himself to be consumed by hate and bitterness. Tellingly, Helmut Schreiber is a professional architect, one of Hitler's failed ambitions.
• Thanks to some help from the Renegade, August Colonel in Iron gets a promotion to general, making him August General in Iron. Also, as a wedding present, the Renegade gives him a device that can make him look more human. He also ensures Ghost Fox Killer that's he's already working on her request to find a way for her to bear her new husband's children.
• The Renegade brought the extinct Tasmanian Tiger back to life through cloning. The first litter of pups are currently being raised by a pair of African wild dogs in a nature preserve, so they'll develop the correct hunting skills and social behavior. It's one of the few times you see Ra's al Ghul happy about something.
  • Watching the pups interact with Ra's, and their curiosity, since they have no understanding what a human is, and their "mother's" protectiveness, as translated by the ring.
    Pup: You're new! You're new and you smell weird!
    Mother: Foolishness! Come away!
    Ra's: Neither tame, nor afraid of humans. As far as they're concerned, our civilization never existed at all.
• Paul saving Koriand'r and Komand'r (Starfire and Blackfire) before they went through the worst of the experiments that gave them their powers, and then offering them Power Rings.
• While trapped in the fantasy world created by Mother of Mercy, we're shown a future OL in a polyamorous relationship with Kon, M'gann and Jade. While he himself acknowledges that said relationship is unlikely bordering on impossible after breaking free, it's still endearing to see his interaction with them as a lover instead of just friends, however brief it might be.
  • There's also bringing his mother over from Earth Prime.
• The Renegade pays a visit to Darkseid on Apokolips, why? Because he needs a Green Lantern to save Alan's life. Unfortunately, he's too late.
  • While on Apokolips, he also meets the real Grayven's mother, and brings her back to Earth with him, saving her from Darkseid's cruelty. Unlike with Suli (Kalibak's mother who was killed by Desaad by order of Darkseid's mother Hegra) and Tigra (Orion's mother, who Darkseid himself hated and simply killed) this poor woman suffered under Darkseid's random whim.
  • His interaction with Granny Goodness is both creepy and oddly heartwarming, as she acts like a maternal adoptive granny while at the same time the reader knows she's an abusive monster, just like in the comics.
• Mortalla reading a bedtime story to Lynne. It's nice for a woman who has been abused for so long to have a nice moment with family she actually likes.
• Paul manages to get a Blue Lantern constructed for Alan in time. Barely in time, but he made it, bringing Alan back from the brink of death in a hospital bed to full fitness.
  • When the Amazons see him at the embassy, alive and healed, they rush to hug him. Wonder Woman thinks she has to break the sad news of Alan's condition to Paul, but when the realization sinks in that it's all fixed, she immediately flies through her own door to greet Alan.
    "Ambient hope detected. Charging. Charge: ninety eight percent."
• Introducing Kara Zor-El to Kal and Kon. That's right, for a souvenir from a visit to Krypton OL brought back family.
• Flash gives a very reasonable explanation for why Orange Lantern needs to consider his more ruthless behavior around the Team:
  Flash: You're a soldier? Fine, so's Captain Atom. But I don't want kids learning to be soldiers. They've got to have normal lives outside of this, and.. frankly I hope they give it up. I sure don't want them regarding what you do as 'normal'.
  • Later on, Hal Jordan says something similar:
    Hal: Look, I wanted to fly for the US Air Force. And if.. things had gone differently, I'd probably have killed plenty of people by now. But I'm not. I'm a space cop with a fancy ring. Superheroes aren't military, they're police. The Justice League isn't a military.
    Paul: The Orange Lantern Corps is a military.
    Hal: Maybe that's the problem. The US military doesn't do policing outside of disaster zones, because that's not what it's for. The rules of engagement are different, for good reasons. I don’t have a problem with you wanting to be a soldier. But if that's what you want? Then this is the wrong organisation for you.
• For Adom's wedding, Paul brought back friends from Adom's first life thousands of years ago: Lord Rama Khan, Prince Khufu, and Chay-ara, all of whom Paul took the time to find and, in the latter two cases, remind of their former lives.
• OL celebrating Christmas with everyone he sees as family. This consists of: Alan, Jade and her family, Superboy, Wonder Woman, Donna, M'gann, and the Amazons of Themyscira.

2012

• Paul decides to take Kara on his trip to Thanagar in order to help her get over her depression.
• Since the Renegade healed Hawkgirl from lead poisoning, she and John Stewart have had a baby, whom they named Rex Grayven Stewart.
  Renegade: I can be available to babysit at very short notice.
• The Renegade finds and comforts Party Popper, the last Pinky Pie clone that wasn't returned to the Mirror Pool.
• When Sunset is finally ready to become an alicorn, she has both the Renegade and Circe there to support her. She doesn't say it, but it's obvious that she's thankful that they're there and have helped her get to this point.
• Angel Paul is watching the wedding between Scandal Savage and Knockout. Although there are some things that are rather off (like Deadshot having the person officiating the wedding at gunpoint to get him to do it in the first place), it is still a sweet moment.
• Suspecting that a blue ring would suit her more, Paul has Koriand'r borrow Alan's ring to have her test it out. She takes to it immediately and is so happy with it.
• Similar to what he did with Clayface, Paul is helping Sandy find a way to get at least a semblance of human sensation back.
• The only thing Dr. Sivana wants for his assistance in wiping out the Sheeda is a pardon for him and his two younger children. It's implied by Paul that this is in part because he wants to get back together with his wife, who disagreed with supervillainy. When Paul later visits Thaddeus Jr and Georgia during Onslaught, Thaddeus Sr and Venus are on a date.
• A lowkey one, but there's something heartwarming about Paul and Hal just sharing stories about their love lives, especially since they were rather at odds with each other most of the time before then.
• The Renegade's solution to Artemis having difficulty readjusting to their time period is to bring her to Equestria, where she can enjoy life again after decades/centuries of fighting and ruling the Sheeda.
  • This works, as Pinkie Pie is able to get through to Artemis, and even get her to laugh again.
• Red Lantern Paul learns that the reason Blackfire has been acting oddly lately is because she's pregnant. Although it was unplanned, he's happy to raise a child with her.
  • He brings the Teen Titans with him to break the news to Blackfire. Before he can open the door, Blackfire bursts out and hugs him. Then she and her sister hug affectionately with no reservation.
    Starfire and Blackfire: (at the same time) I am so happy to see you!
  • When Blackfire learns she's pregnant, she's momentarily scared that Red Lantern Paul doesn't want a child. He immediately assures her that he is happy with it.
    Red Lantern: Komand'r, I love you. We are financially secure and have no living enemies. This is as good a time as any.
    Blackfire: Okay. We're having a kid. [eats the cake Starfire made for her] Wph aw?
    Red Lantern: Does X'Hal do weddings?
  • Red Lantern Paul and Blackfire decide to get married and have the ceremony at Zamaron.
• Sunset accepts the reality that the Renegade and Circe have essentially adopted her.
• Venus Sivana taught her children not to destroy each other's laboratory equipment, which also includes test subjects or random people in each other's territory. As Paul has been such a help to the family, Junior and Georgia extend that courtesy to him as well.
• After the affects of the black kryptonite have worn off on Kara, Paul reaches out to her lets her know that what happened wasn't her fault.
• Paul moves in with Jade because he misses her.
• Overgirl is finally able to reunite with her father figure Overman.
• Jade goes on leave for a month and asks Paul if he can do the same so that they can spend some time together without having to worry about the war with the Reach.
• Paul finds out that his work on reforming criminals has paid off, with the Terror Twins, Abra Kadabra, and Captain Cold all being released from Belle Reve.
• Paul helps Alan try to process Crimson Avenger II committing suicide right in front of him.
  Paul: If you want to talk about anything, I'm just a ring call away, right?
  Alan: Yeah. [pats Paul on the shoulder] I know
  • When Paul calls himself psycho for not finding that kind of thing disturbing, Alan says that he's not a psycho, just resilient.
• Paul talks to Hera about his relationship with Jade.
  "Yes, we're co-habiting, and it's… We're not on the same schedule and it's a bit awkward, but I-" I nod. "-prefer it. Prefer her being there and… Being there myself."
  "And how does she feel about it?"
  "A bit like she's intruding in her own house sometimes. And other times she just sort of relaxes-. I guess it's like a cat, where you know it's decided that it likes you when it jumps on your lap and goes to sleep. Jade's the sleep-with-one-eye-open type, and sometimes she'll do this whole… Alert-and-check-for-threats thing, but she instinctively doesn't include me, which is-. I know how big a deal that is for her."
• After Diana returns from Tatarus, she, Hippolyta, Conner, and Mitchell have a family hug.
• After the defeat of Johnny Reb, Paul and Alan have a pleasant conversation on what they want to do with their lives for now, since they'll both be able to live for a very long time.
• After John Quinn is defeated, Paul takes the time to wait for John Constantine to wake up after being reassembled from the different beings he was split into to welcome him back.
• We get to see Red Lantern Paul and Blackfire have a moment to relax and enjoy simply being together in married bliss.
• Slipstream reflects on the fact that she can't imagine life without Pull and that she wants to find new ways to get closer to him.

2013

• X-Man!Paul is dating Rogue and, after some prodding from her on what he wants from their relationship, admits to her that he is already planning on proposing to her.
  • Afterwards, he goes to the effort of finding the members of Rogue's family who would most likely want to attend the wedding.
• While in the middle of an errand, X-Man!Paul is able to discover that Cyclops' long lost brother Alex Summers is still alive and gives Alex a card with Xavier's number so that the brothers can reunite.
• While undercover with the Citizenry, Jade helps out one of the women who didn't want to join and is not coping with her new life very well.
• Despite initially feeling awkward over the age gap, Power Ring ends up being Happily Married to Zorina, and the two even lovingly raise their daughter Zita together.
• Orion demonstrates his true nature when he asks Paul to transfer the rage that is driving a few innocent people mad into himself.
  Orion: (after being told of the possibility of taking others' rage into himself) And you fear the result?
  Paul: Yes.
  Orion: Will it be stronger than the ring will be?
  Paul: You'll have less control, but… No. At peak draw, the ring will be stronger.
  Orion: Then do not think me too weak to withstand it, or too delinquent to avoid doing what I know is right. Take me to them. (in Godspeech) Because despite my father, I am a hero.
  • After successfully drawing out the rage of one of the people driven mad, Paul and Orion proceed to do the same with everyone else who was affected, giving them the change to reunite with their families, who believed they were potentially gone forever.
• The Renegade successfully gathers lanterns for each color of the Emotional Spectrum together to cleanse King Sombra of the evil that corrupts him so that Celestia can get the love of her life back.
• Paul hugs Hinon after she tells him that she won't have anything left to live for after the Reach are destroyed.
• Tommy Beresford helps a civilian fight off the effects of the Anti-Life Equation as one of the many people helping the heroes against the forces of Apokolips.
• While on enforced rest so that he can help combat the influence Anti-Life later, Bruce thinks about how much better his life is from when he started. First after he took Dick in, and again after he married Talia.
• While searching for Indigo Lanterns, Paul helps the Forever People recover from the trauma that they went through because of Apokolips.
• While waiting for more info so they know what to do, Paul takes the time to talk to Tuppence about how she's handling the Anti-Life.
• The Renegade gives one of his sons emotional support when the boy visit's his mother's resting place and offers to help him find his deceased siblings so that they can be buried alongside their mother.
• During the reconstruction efforts after the Earth is cleansed of the Anti-Life, Paul takes some time to help out a random harpy and a gorgon with their personal problems.
• It's revealed that in addition to Power Ring and Zorina being Happily Married with three children, several other members of the Syndicate have also settled down and started families.
• Future!Renegade is able to save a version of Subjekt-17 and give him a goal beyond simply killing humans.
• Even though Future!Renegade has the opportunity to either let Diana kill All-American Boy or do it himself, he stops her so that he can try his initial plan of getting All-American Boy's parents so that they could talk him down instead.

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