I've been seeing a lot about how "Hawkman's kind of a dick."
Yes. Yes he is. In the comics he is a 6'5" spiked-mace-swinging flying-mack-truck who remembers all FOUR THOUSAND years of his reincarnations (and some of those lives sucked rocks), so he REALLY doesn't have time for your shit ... not even if you're the goddamned Batman.
Also, there's
THIS.
So, what we're seeing in LoT? Yup. (Except for the shameful lack of bare-chest and abs to grate cheese on.)
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He's one of my all time favorite comics characters.