19 Facts About Hector Hammond

1.

Hector Hammond is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics who is primarily an enemy of Green Lantern.

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Character Hector Hammond is a petty criminal on the run from the law when he discovers the fragments of a strange meteor in the woods.

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3.

Hector Hammond rapidly becomes a rich celebrity due to the wealth he has acquired.

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4.

Jordan creates a duplicate power ring and costume for Kalmaku to fool Hector Hammond and tells him to fly above Coast City so it would be thought Green Lantern was there.

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5.

Hector Hammond removed the scientists' memory of their knowledge and got rid of the inventions as well.

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6.

Hector Hammond captures Green Lantern using a "de-memorizer" invented by Amos Fortune, but he is later captured.

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7.

Hector Hammond was involved with erasing the world's memories of the JLA in Justice Leagues.

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8.

Hector Hammond appears in Infinite Crisis: Villains United special, in which he is broken out of prison along with several other supervillains and was seen as a member of Alexander Luthor, Jr.

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9.

Hector Hammond appears in the 2008 storyline Green Lantern: Secret Origin, a re-telling of Hal Jordan's first days as a Green Lantern.

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10.

In that storyline, Hector Hammond aspires to be Carol Ferris' boyfriend, feelings that are not reciprocated by Ferris, who merely went out to one dinner with him for business purposes as he is a private consultant for Ferris Aircraft.

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11.

Hector Hammond later plays an important role in the Superman: Psi War story arc.

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12.

Once she discovers Hector Hammond is just a psionic avatar, she retreats back to her base, intent on retaking it.

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13.

Recovering, Hector Hammond proposes a truce between the heroes and the Queen who had barely survived the Pirate's attack.

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14.

Hector Hammond succeeds in contacting Hal Jordan and Superman who arrive and defeat the Kroloteans after fighting through an illusion generated by Hector Hammond.

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15.

Furious, Hector Hammond kills the Kroloteans and confesses to Hal that he is tired of everyone wanting to control him.

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16.

Hector Hammond then tries to commit suicide by making Superman shoot him with his heat vision, but Hal stops him and the shot instead puts Hammond into a coma.

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17.

Hal regains his identity and powers, leading Hector Hammond to explain that his actions were to show Green Lantern that his guilt over his failures were just thoughts and not actions.

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18.

Hector Hammond's deformities are gone and he looks like a normal man; he explains to Roy Harper that he was "reset to the factory settings" when "reality returned".

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19.

Hector Hammond resembles Hector Hammond, but with a larger spherical head, yellow eyes, a large black goatee, a smaller body, MODOK's laser cannon on his forehead and a red and yellow uniform.

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