David says:

If Sodam was to become Ion, he should have earned the power as a reward after the trials of war. He is still a rookie, and unlike Kyle, is not experienced enough to handle such power, especially with Superman level physical power too!

David says:

Hmm… This does make me wonder why Kyle needed a power ring to have power after being freed from Parallax. I had wondered before why he couldn’t fight back at all, I mean I know the Starheart is not as powerful as the bloody Spectre, but he should have been able to put up some of a fight. Especially considering its ‘all the magic in the universe’ collected by The Guardians.

(Who really mucked up considering the amount of rampent magic thats always been on Earth, which is where the Starheart ended up too. Yup, thats Earth, magic HQ) But then… Ganthet is a Guardian of The Universe (or was..) and even he couldn’t resist Parallax. How did Parallax even take him over in Rebirth? Didn’t the Sinestro Corps Special establish that Sinestro had to make Kyle extremely afraid to make him vulnerable?

Anyway, I’ve rambled from my original intended point, Kyle has shown no instances of possessing the Starheart power. He didn’t even clothe himself when freed from Parallax and Guy had to give him a pair of boxers. (Which was very considerate when he could have just as easily ring formed him some real clothes. It wouldn’t have taken any longer, since they would’ve formed around him, since Kyle never seemed to have to physically put the boxers on.)

Why is Kyle not using his power?

Yat is still a rookie.
He is undeserving of the Ion power!
Die Sodam, just die.

David says:

Possible.

But as for Kyle’s hand, I thought that was just a ploy by Parallax, since when it tried to pull him in, we saw the hand was connected to Parallax, rather than being down his throat, or connected to Kyle. I’d assumed it was Parallax tricking the now powerless Hal (his ring charge ran out) to get close enough for Parallax to absorb him

David says:

I have another theory on the Starheart!

When Hal was Parallax, his energies were consistently green, this is both due to the fact that at the time, Hal was written to have absorbed the power of the central battery, and the yellow fear entity hadn’t yet been invented. When Parallax was altered to be a YELLOW fear entity, the only way they could really explain that was by making out that he had no real power of his own and needed it from a host’s fear (assuming his feeding on fear increased his power, it can be assumed that Parallax was incredibly strong before the Guardians trapped him), and drew his power from the central battery power, explaining well why Hal Parallax was consistently green.

When Parallax possessed Kyle, his only power source there was the Starheart energy, and so once again, rather than it being used by Kyle against him, (unlike the Spectre, who had a living mind, it wasn’t just power) he could draw off it, and use it in the same manner as he used Kyle’s body, and the central power battery energies. This explains very well why the energies he had as Kyle Parallax were green.

Why they became yellow when he absorbed Hal, I have a small working theory for. The colours are part of the ‘emotional spectrum’, and so the main power battery was just collected willpower and therefore green. Now, the Starheart wasn’t like this, it was just pure power. But it was also symbiotic in nature (with Alan anyway) and since Alan learned to command it using his willpower, he only focussed that power through that part of the emotional spectrum.

Now, the main power battery is collected willpower, and Parallax couldn’t just absorb and use it while he was trapped by it. It was opposite energy, thats why it was such an effective trap. But Hal, a human, could easily absorb and manipulate it, and Parallax possessed him to have a tool to manipulate that energy with. He couldn’t just keep it, he could only use the willpower energies through Hal. Theres no reason to assume the Starheart is the same. It is just power. And Parallax craves power. I see no reason why Parallax wouldn’t just keep that power, and leave Kyle without it.

This causes a new problem. Parallax is trapped by the collected willpower in the four power batteries. (Kyle’s is probably the strongest, being made from a piece of the original power battery rather than just tapping the new central power battery’s energy.) The willpower energy will trap him, as before. But thats not all Parallax is now. He has the Starheart (assuming this theory holds up). If he can’t use that to break out, I’m thinking he might try to use it to influence Alan Scott. I mean Alan’s lost a lot, most especially his daughter. He’s a man out of time, kept young by his own power, and can see the way society has become more fearful. Who else would have secret fears about what tomorrow may bring?