Ryan Reynolds Recites Green Lantern Corps Oath for Adorable Youngster

If you don’t fall in love with Ryan Reynolds a little bit after watching this video, you have a heart of brass: After resisting the perpetual pesterings of the press to recite the Green Lantern Corps oath for who knows how long, a youngster at Comic-Con asked him to do so, and he happily obliged, causing the crowd in attendance to burst into applause.

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Video below:

The text, if you don’t know it by heart:

In brightest day, in blackest night,
No evil shall escape my sight
Let those who worship evil’s might,
Beware my power … Green Lantern’s light!

(via io9)


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