No, it's an enlightenment thing. Or at least directly tied to his enlightenment. He can only do it while wearing his ring. It's also an active scan thing, and inherently tied to the Orange Light. The latter part was brought up when Paul talked to Hinon about the Zamarons' reaction to him using the ability from an appreciable distance.
Yes? I don't think we're referring to the same thing here. Paul can only see people's emotions when he's wearing his ring(s), and he has to be looking at them. I never said he could see the colored text at all. I only said that his ability was either a result of his enlightenment, or at least tied directly to his enlightenment. And that it was likely tied to the Orange Light in some way, but that's extrapolation from given information, rather than something that was outright stated.
Heh, on one hand Peter's backing of cosmic rod tech for power generation would likely make his company the biggest carbon-negative company on the planet (one big avenue of current research is taking carbon out of the atmosphere and turning it into plastics; Peter could definitely get a jumpstart on that kind of work with cosmic rod power). On the other hand, Isley is one of those who can probably never be trusted to join his company: as much as she claims she's "power for the trees" what she really wants is "power for me" with trees being the way she gets there.
Oh yes, don't let your shipping goggles deceive you: Isley 12 is a mental serial killer who was fine with the idea of killing all humans on the planet. Except Harley. If Peter needed a super-botanist there are far better options.
It was more that she panicked, fled a security guard who just wanted to take a tag off some clothes she'd actually paid for, grabbed a hostage who wasn't really all that scared and tried to calm her down, then got attacked by the army.
Because super powers. Seriously, how boring is your world that you'd actually turn down super powers? Especially those granted by a power ring.
Sometimes Vaermina, it's actually cute how you just make shit up in your head and insist it's canon.
Well you see, apparently just about every word and deed OL-16 has performed upsets Vaermina....so clearly he's...whatever Vaermina choses to label him.
I meant in subsequent episodes she backslid: she got back together with the Joker at least three times after that episode. Flying her out of the country might have been the best possible way to rehabilitate her, although I don't really see Peter going for it since this version of Harley just doesn't have any skills he's really looking for.
Secretary, maybe?
She'd have to be good enough at something to be worth the outside risk of Joker coming to retrieve her. I don't think Harleen Quinzel's paper-filing skills are worth that risk.
Maybe as bait to lure the Joker out of Gotham so he can be killed "in self-defence"?
If that happened, you know that Batman would be regularly targeting Peter in petty revenge. There's no doubt that a world without the Joker would be better than one with it, but the amount of trouble Peter would be bringing down on himself and his company's worth of recovering Villainous Face-punchers wouldn't be worth it.
I wouldn't recommend trying that last one. Kyle Rayner did it once, but that was with J'onn J'onzz piping the design for sun-proof armour into his brain.
The Joker isn't a problem for someone with a power ring if they know he's around. Thing is, even Lanterns sleep sometimes, and Peter doesn't have a ring that he can rely on. While he has reasonably impressive defences by most standards they're nothing the Joker couldn't get past if he really put his mind to it.
How about being a psychiatrist with enough combat experience and skill to help ride herd on the genuinely mentally unstable ones?
Even talking about Zoat rings which can pull off shit the comics only really dreamed of, the massive mental alteration that results from any ring other then Green and White just isn't worth it for any sort of long term use.
Really?
Some of them, yes.
Depending on the continuity, yes. At one point in the comics the rod was able to create a construct replica of itself. That's a bit ridiculous and the AI support probably isn't that good in this continuity, but... yes, cosmic rods can make constructs.
Yes. How do you think Starman ended up where he did?
Not directly, but I would be very surprised if it couldn't be integrated into a schizo-tech computer that can.
If we are using the same scale of "has all the abilities shown in the comics" that Zoat used for Power Rings, then yes to everything but the subspace pocket.
That event got retconned away due to time travel.
Honestly, that's not remotely true. Yes the League is much reduced from it's heyday, but that's result of the League's own success in smashing all the major organized super villains and the general advancement of technology(outright stated to be a main reason for the League's reduction by Superman in the first issue of Superman Beyond).