8. His Politics Are Crazy Extremist

So Hawkman was the Justice League’s token conservative for quite a while. Now that isn’t a bad thing. It works to have a vast variety of political and social beliefs amongst your characters if you’re writing a team book. The problem came with him and Green Arrow. While most of the satellite-era League were arguably written conservative, (Barry Allen, Hal Jordan, Ray Palmer), it was Hawkman whom the writers picked to be The Conservative to balance out Green Arrow as The Liberal.

And since Green Arrow was the most left-wing tree-hugging hippie comics ever produced, Hawkman became to most thuggish closed-minded right-winger that could be written. To be honest, I don’t like reading about EITHER of them when it comes to those stories. No matter what your political affiliation, it’s hard not to find both characters a little too extremist in their beliefs.