- Red: Fortitude.
- Orange: Diligence
- Yellow: Chastity.
- Green: Temperance.
- Blue: Humility
- Indigo: Charity
- Violet: Kindness
- With the exception of the Blues and maybe the Reds, the given virtues are basically the complete opposite of what the Corps act like in like every way.
- but they are traits one would need to master there ring, a red lantern with weak fortitude would be consumed by the rage of there ring and become near mindless,, an orange lantern without diligence would grow tired of constantly searching and never being satisfied and burn themselves out
- With the exception of the Blues and maybe the Reds, the given virtues are basically the complete opposite of what the Corps act like in like every way.
- That.....makes perfect sense
It is entirely possible that the yellow weakness was a trick of the Guardians. After all, after failing with the Manhunters, the Guardians could well have decided that their new brand of intergalactic police needed some weakness. Since the power of the Green Lantern is limited only by the imagination, telling a new recruit that he could not affect yellow would have the effect of making his ring ineffective against yellow.
This theory is blown away by the existence of Parallax... or is it? It seems awfully convenient that the madness of the greatest of the Green Lantern Corps, brought on by a legitimate trauma, was revealed to be caused by alien possession. If the Guardians had manipulated the minds of their underlings once, why not again?
The Guardians of the Universe created the Parallax being to assuage Hal Jordan's great guilt over his killing spree. This is the equivalent of putting a band aid over a cancer; while Jordan believes he bears no responsibility for his actions, he still has that same potential for madness, which can now fester untreated. This means that Jordan is a ticking time bomb, ready to blow up with a power limited only by his imagination.
- The psychological origin theory would also explain why knowledge of Parallax was the key for Hal Jordan and other old Green Lanterns to combat their weakness against yellow in the new Green Lantern series.
- Surprisingly, there is precedent for this. In "Green Lantern: Trial By Fire" it was revealed that Kyle Rayner unconsciously created an evil cosmic entity called Oblivion with his ring. If Kyle could do that all by himself, imagine what the collective unconscious minds of 7200 Green Lanterns (never mind the thousands of different-colored Lanterns) could do.
- In the '80s, Hal fought a villain called Lord Malvolio who stole his father's (a Green Lantern's) power ring and could affect yellow. The explicit reason why was exactly that: He was never told he couldn't affect yellow, so he believed he could.
- Parallax is most definitely the DCU version of The King In Yellow, be that an avatar of Nyarlathotep, Hastur, or an entity in its own right.
- It follows that the ring, under the influence of Ion (who is also a demon of the Empire and is pretending to be good to egg the Green Lanterns on) specifically chose Hal Jordan, because he would be most susceptible to Parallax's influence when things went south, to ensure that Ion could come out and become trusted and relied upon via Kyle Rayner.
- As for why they had Ion revive the guardians, they are damn pissed. One extinction isn't enough to sate their appetite for revenge.
- Jossed by Rage of the Red Lanterns.
- What do you mean jossed? The Empire of Tears consisted of far more than just the Five Inversions. Parallax could still have been a member of the Empire as a whole at one point.
- Jossed as in, it's existed since the birth of sentient life. And it was imprisoned by the Guardians before the Manhunters went rouge and the Empire of Tears was created.
- What do you mean jossed? The Empire of Tears consisted of far more than just the Five Inversions. Parallax could still have been a member of the Empire as a whole at one point.
- Jossed. Krona sent the Manhunters to prove that an emotionless police force was too easily swayed.
- Logically, this extends to our world. The reason we don't have any visibly active Lanterns is because here on Earth-Prime, they're all particularly patriotic and in the Israeli Defense Force and don't dare use their powers visibly.
- Combined with a corollary of the above guess, this means that US President Barack Obama can be expected to ultimately cave to Israeli needs on any major issue, as he requires the presence of the Israeli Defense force to use most of his powers.
- Actually, that would mean Israel is the Blue Lanterns and America is Oa, which makes some sense culturally and the for the fact that America heavily finances the Israeli military, "unlocking their rings" so to speak.
- Combined with a corollary of the above guess, this means that US President Barack Obama can be expected to ultimately cave to Israeli needs on any major issue, as he requires the presence of the Israeli Defense force to use most of his powers.
- The Guardians' newfound habit of scribbling random laws into the Book of Oa, however,
willalready has. - Not quite Jossed, not quite confirmed. When the Alpha Lanterns inevitably did do a Face–Heel Turn, it was because their cyborg parts were being controlled by Cyborg Superman.
- It can't now: the Guardians manipulated the Lanterns into destroying the Alphas to make room for the Third Army.
- Green Lantern stand-alone stories take place in the Amalgam Universe. (Star Trek is fictional in The DC Universe, but is real in the Marvel Universe.)
- Lots of Nightmare Fuel potential there, though. Black Lantern Spock; Black Lantern Data; even a Black Lantern Jadzia Dax to serve as Ezri Dax's personal Fuel. It would be surprising if Trill never invented horror stories about previous hosts returning to hunt the living. And then there's the ultimate Oh, Crap! moment: "Lore of Omicron Theta, RISE."
- Green Lantern stand-alone stories take place in the Amalgam Universe. (Star Trek is fictional in The DC Universe, but is real in the Marvel Universe.)
- While the Blackest Night prophecy started as a Corps-On-Corps war, it's going to become an every-Corps-against-Black war.
- The "try on every ring" idea has been Jossed; but when asked about White Lanterns, Johns apparently stuttered then refused to comment.
- Since this guess was posted, Hal has also wielded a red ring and Larfleeze's Orange Lantern. Just indigo and violet to go...
- This has just been partially-confirmed! The White Lantern does exist, and it involves merging with the white entity that is all the source of all life, just as people have merged with Parallax and Ion. But the White Lantern isn't Hal. It's Sinestro.
- Nevermind, Sinestro has the Entity ripped out of him so the revived heroes can be a temporary White Lantern Corps.
- Batman has been Jossed.
- But the Martian Manhunter has shown up...
- Happened already, but only to about twelve random characters.
- The G-Stone's energy is also linked to these.
- Alternatively, Khorne is the Blood God, and the Red Lanterns use blood as a weapon...
- Yes, Tzeentch is definitely Will (green) and Hope (blue). Slannesh is Avarice (orange) and Love (violet); as its followers are always seeking something. Khorne is Rage (red), while Nurgle is Death (black) as he has a habit of bringing back the dead as rotting zombies, as well as having qualities of Fear (yellow) and Compassion (Indigo).
- Nurgle wouldn't be a Black Lantern Entity, since he presents the opposite but equally horrifying possibility of life to expand until it becomes a cosmic infestation. So he's probably a White Lantern...be afraid people, be very afraid.
- There are "More Heroic" versions of the Yellow, Red and Orange Lanterns in the Anti-Matter Universe.
- Wielders of more heroic Yellow Power Rings use their powers to create fear, but use it to enforce the law, just like Batman. The Orange Lantern may be more like the Collector from Marvel and steal beings and objects in the interests of saving and preserving them from destruction rather than owning and consuming them. More heroic Red Lanterns would be motivated by righteous indignation — providing vengeance for those who cannot avenge themselves.
- Confirmed, more or less.
- There are "More Evil" versions of the Blue, Indigo, and Violet Lanterns in the Anti-Matter Universe.
- Evil Blue Lanterns would work off wishful thinking and denial of reality, but also since Hope has connotations with faith, they could also be religious fanatics whose beliefs are based on adherence to prophecy—-what is Hopeful for them could be bad for others. Evil Violet Lanterns could be rapists or work off Eros to create Star-Crossed Lovers and unrequited love and relationships doomed to sadness — just like Cupid, back when people despised Cupid. Indigo Lanterns — good ones would be kind, doing nice things for people; evil ones would commit euthanasia to end suffering... hmmm....
- So we have only seen the evil Indigos so far? They have mercy killed a lot more suffering people than helping other people.
- Yes. Turns out the Indigos are a bunch of brainwashed sociopaths trying to force compassion on the universe. So these are the evil versions.The Antimatter Universe Indigos would be like the normal ones without the forced brainwashing.
- The true name of "Violet Lanterns" is Star Sapphires. We met the evil kind first.
- There is a "More Heroic" version of Yellow Lanterns in the Positive-Matter Universe.
- This will happen, if only by accident.
- Note that the Anti-Matter Universe already has an evil version of Green Lantern, named Power Ring. (Indeed, there have been not-Hal, not-Kyle, and not-John versions of him.) His ring is apparently powered by an entity called Volthoom — possibly the antimatter version of Ion?
- Pre-Crisis, just as Alan Scott got his ring from a Chinese monk, Power Ring got his from Volthoom "the Mad Monk". IIRC, PC PW also called his a "magic ring" on one or two occasions. The strong implication was that Power Ring's ring was an alternate of the original GL's ring, not a Corps ring. Dunno what modern non-continuity has done with him.
- If the Antimatter Universe doesn't have a Corps, then the evil counterparts may be in the new Earth-3.
- No, Black Hand is the anthropomorphic representation of the Black, Monty is just the power battery.
- Well, we haven't seen Black Hand do much of anything of the caliber of Parallax, Ion or the Predator. He just appears to be a leader of the Black Lanterns. Despite Wordof God, the Anti-Monitor appears to be a much better candidate for the black light incarnate, at least powerwise.
- Nekron explicitly described Black Hand as their equivalent. That said, the Anti-Monitor was actually the one that powered the Corps when he was imprisoned in the Black Battery...
- Well, we haven't seen Black Hand do much of anything of the caliber of Parallax, Ion or the Predator. He just appears to be a leader of the Black Lanterns. Despite Wordof God, the Anti-Monitor appears to be a much better candidate for the black light incarnate, at least powerwise.
Now, lots of things are capable of controlling emotions; but only one of those things has been critical to some of the most important events in DC history. The Psycho-Pirate, a third-rate villain, has somehow been at the centre of two separate world-shattering Crises. This isn't a coincidence. There's a reason for this, and it is that the power of the Mask is much greater than he could possibly understand.
The Medusa Mask is capable of controlling all of the emotional spectrum, is the focal point for the entire cosmology of the DC multiverse, and is perhaps even sentient. It has manipulated people into recreating the universe twice already. And according to Wikipedia, Blackest Night will see the Psycho-Pirate back from the dead, presumably because he is the Mask's preferred host. It's anyone's guess as to what it has planned for us next.
- This was half right and half Jossed. Psycho-Pirate did come back with the mask and use it to wreck havok in Smallville. Then Super-boy stole it and used to to make a few Black Lanterns feel, destroying them. And then it broke. Guess the writers figured it was a bit of a gamebreaker.
- Possibly, it will require him to kill Sodam Yat or another host of Ion.
- Of please, he's too Crazy Cool to die
- Even if he does, he'll be Crazy Is Cool enough to become a sentient orange construct.
- Of please, he's too Crazy Cool to die
- From the looks of it, the one to betray the Sinestro Corps may be... Sinestro. Unlike the Guardians, who were trying to prevent the Blackest Night, Sinestro was preparing for it. Sinestro could end up returning to the Green Lanterns by the end of the event.
- Or he may stay a Yellow Lantern, but become the anti-heroic variety.
- From the looks of things, Orange Lantern is three of the seven sins in one. He is avaricious (Greed), always eating and is never satisfied (Gluttony), and wants what others have and is afraid of losing what he has (Envy).
- Why is it every time there's enough people in a group people try and shoehorn them into the Seven Deadly Sins? This is far and away the worst case of Square Peg, Round Trope I've ever seen.
- Meh, I'm gonna give it my two cents, anyway, under the premise that the seven sins are a natural part of intelligent life. Here we go!
- Red: Wrath. Duh.
- Orange: Greed and Envy. Larfleeze may add gluttony into the mix, but Luthor doesn't
- Using Luthor as an example, this could just be Greed and Envy.
- Yellow: Sloth. I'm going by one of the more classic definitions which lumps despair (ie, desire to stop trying) into the mix.
- Green: Pride. The organization as a whole, the supposed use of "will" to power the rings.
- Blue: Sloth again — though for the opposite reason as Yellow's despair; why bother trying when "all will be well," anyway?
- Indigo: Gluttony; more accurately, wasteful consumption. The image of a green lantern being unwillingly euthanized clinched it for me — they're more willing to waste a life in the name of "compassion" than they are to let a person go down the road to recovery, however long and hard it may be to do so.
- Violet: Lust. Pervert love, and there you go.
- Nope! See above!.
- But it still can work with him. Or Great Darkness is what Ion is for Green Lanters and Parallax for Sinestro Corps.
- No, Black Hand officially for the Black Lanterns what Ion is for the Green. Word of God confirmed this.
- Actually this could still be true. In Green Lantern #50 Nekron has been revealed to simply be a Guardian to an original darkness that existed before there was life.
- If Black Hand is what Ion is for Green Does this not make him the host for something more powerful. Just as Sodam Yat and Kyle were.
- But it still can work with him. Or Great Darkness is what Ion is for Green Lanters and Parallax for Sinestro Corps.
After he comes off his bout of temporary deadness, he'll take this lesson to heart so much that he'll rival Spider-Man.
- Alternatively Death could be the one to save the day as she represents both life and death.
- You tow DO know that everything from The Sandman is Exiled from Continuity, right?
- Not necessarily. Dream appears from time to time- he appeared during Infinite Crisis, for instance, to offer his parents' souls an afterlife in the Dreaming.
- Geoff Johns has enough pull in the DC editing staff to possibly make this happen, but I don't think he'd go for such a Deus Ex Machina idea. I can see Nekron being defeated and blown away somewhere dark and mysterious, then encountering Death, who informs him that she is the true essence of the end before taking him.
- Nekron is the void, where nothing exists. He is the ultimate ending, since even after death you still exist.
- You tow DO know that everything from The Sandman is Exiled from Continuity, right?
- Jossed. Lex Luthor encounters Death in Action Comics, and accuses her of being aligned with Nekron. She's rather ambivalent about Comic Book Death, since they'll all come back to her eventually.
- Isn't Superman overpowered enough already? Besides, the Blue Lantern ring will only be a pretty little accessory (a bauble, if you will) unless a Green Lantern is nearby. That would make Supes pretty much an overly powerful side-kick, and the blue ring otherwise redundant when Hal isn't around.
- Almost, but it wasn't Superman. It was the Flash who got a Blue Lantern Ring. Along with Ray Palmer (Indigo), Wonder-Woman (Violet), Lex Luthor (Orange), Mera (Rage) and Scarecrow (Yellow).
- "Meh."
- Nah, Apathy is grey.
- Actually, grey is Sarcasm as this comic proves.
- Seriously. So far we've seen that only active emotions can be used as a power source. Depression/Apathy/Despair would be aspects of Black (death) and are more of a lack of emotions than an emotion in itself. A far better candidate for Grey would be Curiosity and its Corps members could scour the universe in search of knowledge. Their headquarters could be a Great Big Library of Everything.
Copied and pasted from DC comics Message Board - Section: Blackest Night - Topic: No. Oh, god, No. ie. Disappointment at the White Lantern theory possibly coming true - Post by: qwaring, in response to theagentorange:
Unless Indigo 1 was lying.
It seems to me that the Black Lanterns are sending all of the stolen emotional energy to one place, which means they could potentially be combining it into white light. And this means their master needs white light.We also have to question why would their master wait until the War of Light to strike. Why wait until all of these other Lantern Corps have been created if it's their rings that can put a stop to his plans. That's like waiting until a home owner loads his shotgun before breaking into his house. Why not strike before the war of light. Unless the Black Lanterns need the combined power of their rings.
And who better to sympathize with the master of the Black Lanterns than those who have given themselves over to compassion. Even Indigo 1 said that it's life that's the intruders here. Death came first. Could the Indigo tribe empathize with the black, and are willing to tell a little white lie to Hal and the other Lanterns in order to trick them into sealing their fates. Compassion is often a great motivator for telling lies after all, worrying about the truth being too painful for others.
Or I could be wrong.
When I read this, it struck me as precisely something for the perfect plot twist: a complete revelation, and precisely what Johns might be planning. Here is what has been said about the Indigo Tribe and Compassion by Geoff Johns himself and a psychologist said about them:
In an interview, Geoff Johns said of the Indigo Tribe: "I've been very careful with Indigo because they're not what everyone expects, and they act very differently than what everyone expects." On that note, Dr. Robin S. Rosenberg (writer of college psychology textbooks and editor of the anthology The Psychology of Superheroes) describes compassion as being able to have empathy for someone while maintaining enough distance to understand their motivations.
When the White Light came, Nekron lost his home. If you were a being of compassion, wouldn't you want to help someone get their home back after it has been taken over by "invaders"? In this case, Nekron has had his home taken, and the Indigo Tribe is the one helping them. If Nekron is taking the primal emotions from 10,000 beings to bring him to the world of the living, wouldn't that in itself form a White Light for his heart (as seen on Blackest Night #5 cover), and make him immune to what once was his weakness?
- That was way too tl;dr, but with #5 now out, here's my theory as to why the "white light" empowered Nekron: The "Rainbow Lantern Corps" were using raw emotions combined (chaotic and unbalanced), rather than the "distilled" white light Dove radiates (balanced and orderly, calm, etc.). We've been told that Dove will play a big part in the series, so presumably the key to defeating Nekron, and in turn the Black Lanterns, lies with her. Maybe because she's an Agent of Order?
- I don't know about the last part, since Nekron himself said he want's to return the universe to a "dark, quite order" which kinda makes sense when you think about it. What's more chaotic the super beings messing with the laws of physics and just life in general.
- An Invisible Emotional Spectrum powered by hidden emotions, including Ultraviolet Lanterns representing shame, has appeared.
- Jossed, but there's still hope for Red Lantern. It's REALLY pissed.
- Close - its the fact that life did not first appear on their homeworld, but Earth. They hid the original lifeform "The Entity", not just because of their superiority complex, but because the Entity dying = all life going with it.
Larfleeze has also went mad with greed because of an instrument of great power, and in Blackest Night #5, both Atrocitus and Sinestro expressed their desire to kill Larfleeze, presumably because they thought him to be a nuisance. As a bonus, they both killed a close associate of theirs to obtain their respective object's.
Golum has enough in common with Agent Orange that the writers might be tempted to go this route. If anyone has any ideas for more specific scenarios, feel free to type them.
- If this hasn't already happened, then it will.
- With the exception of Ganthet, their induction was only a deputization for the current crisis. None of them remained a member of their various Corps.
- This may already be happening, the nascent chaos gods are at present comparatively weak. They are, of course, Ion, Parallax, and so on.
- Warhammer 40K is an alternate timeline that diverged due to Krona listening to Ganthet and not looking at the dawn of time, meaning they never decided to make the Manhunters. The good news? Threats like the Anti-Monitor don't exist. The bad news? The Anti-Monitor destroying the universe is now preferable.
- True for Blue Lanterns and Yellow Lanterns.
- She's a Violet Lantern. Hal's been too busy with Green Lantern duties to be a good boyfriend. It seems the Violet Lantern Corps wants to recruit lovers who feel their love is unrequited.
Adventure seeker on an empty street- Just an alley creeper light on his feet// A young fighter screaming with no time for doubt// With the pain and anger can't see a way out// It ain't much I'm asking I heard him say// Gotta find me a future move out of my way// I want it all I want it all I want it all and I want it now
- Larfleeze started out as a "young alley creeper, light on his feet," a thief. The pain and anger that he can't see a way out of is the orange light of avarice. Finding a future refers to Larfleeze ruling over the entire Vega system, forcing the gurdians to "move out of his way."
- All the people gathering round- Larfleeze's stolen avatars that comprise his corps. Shaking them to the ground of course, is killing them. The 'sign' he refers to is his personal corps symbol, which he brands on everything he feels is his (you know, everything). The future? Dreams of youth? Someone as greedy as Larfleeze would want to live forever (and it seems like he's lived a billion years with the help of the orange lantern).
- This is pretty self-explanatory.
- Living it all seems to fit, but giving it all does not refer to any of Larfleeze's posessions, but rather, his drive to own everything.
- In issue 6 of Blackest Night, The orange ring even said "You want it all" when speaking to Lex Luthor.
- Alternatively, it could be an Emotion Eater that can drain the emotions that power other Lanterns, which would render the Lanterns completely powerless. Doing this to a Black Lantern would "revive" the dead body as a soulless husk, making it useless to the Black power rings. Doing this to White Lanterns would just instantly kill them. On it's own though, it still won't do a damn thing.
- Jossed. He was a kitten named Dexter and was from New York City.
- "From Brightest Day until Blackest Night//We fight for the one who showed us light//The Lantern known as Abin Sur//May Compassion Guide You— The Tribe of Sur!"
- This is awesome and I love it. Johns, make it canon!
- Sadly, he didn't. It turns out the word "Natromo" is actually the name of a character who helped Abin Sur create the Indigo Tribe.
Another piece of evidence? Atrocitus used his blood magics to discern the Predator's general location to be in Nevada, and the being who is collecting these Entities appears in Las Vegas.
- Minor problem: The guy taking pictures of the woman was a Stalker with a Crush not a Chivalrous Pervert. When the Predator possessed him he went insane and tried to make her love him.
- Except that Guy was just as mindless as Vice was...
- Really? Guy at least could talk, though it was Angrish
- Most likely Guy wasn't totally mindless because of his incredibly strong willpower, which enabled him to briefly break through the control and speak to Kyle a couple of times.
- Except that Guy was just as mindless as Vice was...
- Confirmed, or will be at the next universe reboot. There is supposed to be a new title involving a heroic, or maybe antiheroic, Red Lantern Corp.
- Semi-Jossed. Proselyte specifically references himself as compassion. Though obviously empathy is in the mix as it's part of compassion.
- Confirmed in Green Lantern #59. The Indigo Tribesmen are chosen by the rings because they lack compassion — the rings channel the power of the Compassion Entity Proselyte and forces it upon them.
- Certainly plausible. It was apparently satisfied enough with Max Lord's brutal, sadistic murder of Magog to declare that mission accomplished. To say nothing of the other people killed to get to that point.
But in different languages so it sounds like an official oath.
Blue, Violet and Indigo are more relate to ethics of care since: compassion involves caring and helping others, love involves a more concetraded feeling of care and passion and hope gives someone the conpasity to move on and to help people move on.
And for Green, Green is in the middle because it acts as a comprimise between all the other 6 emotions/colors. basically a balance between reason and emotion.
- Well, it was mentioned off-handededly that some Malthusians fled to Earth and became leprechauns...
- Naturally, somehow, their being split into two beings is Krona's fault.
- The Sinestro Corps remains the same, but uses an E-Flat Bell instead of an F-Sharp.
- The Red Lantern Corps becomes the Taut Beat Corps, using drums made taut with blue skin.
- The Orange Lantern Corps becomes the B-Sharp Bell Corps, no doubt with its own Faux Affably Evil monster latched onto a big bell as "Agent B-Sharp".
- The Blue Lantern Corps is simply the G Bell Corps, complementing F-Sharp.
- The Indigo Tribe might be omitted, since they're a little less inclusive.
- The Star Sapphire Corps becomes the Moon Chime Corps, with a strange crystal chime at its center.
- The Black Lantern Corps becomes merely the Silence Corps.
- The White Light ends up becoming the Symphony.
- Of all the continuities, the Green Lantern series is completely unchanged. Yeah, make that what you will.
- Well, they were both foiled in the end...
- No one ever said being a Lantern would be easy.
- Shouldn't he be hunting down Vandal Savage in that case, since Vandal is apparently Cain?
- Being a bull, the Butcher might not be smart enough to deduce that.
- Is it just me or has the relation between the Guardians and the Corps been getting worse and worse over the course of Geoff Johns's run?
- In the relaunched Green Lantern series the Guardians have plans to create a new army to replace the Corps.
- The Green Lantern Corps is stacked with Lanterns who have proved to be capable of leading in their place such as Salaak, Kilowog, John Stewart, Guy Gardner, and recently Sinestro.
- As stated above the Guardians have plans to create a new army to replace the Corps and the Ring Slayers were made and they took out the Lanterns in the future so they went back to destroy through time, which would explain why they weren't in the Guardian's records.
- Jossed. As it turns out, the Ring Slayers are the Keepers, a race of beings hailing from the planet where every Lantern's power battery is stored, before it's pulled from Hammerspace for the daily recharge. Evolving with the power batteries lying around, they became both dependent on their energies and immune to the effects of green Hard Light. The Green Lanterns defeated them by blowing up 2 Sinestro Corps members, scaring the Keepers into submission. Go figure.
- Other Corps Guesses
- Yellow: Either a shark or giant spider
- This troper has always envisioned a dolphin or orca joining the Yellow Lanterns. After all, they look for those with the potential to spread fear, and what else could be more terrifying than the mind of a dolphin?
- Green: A dog
- Blue: A dove
- Alternatively, a corgi
- Indigo: A dolphin
- If the dolphin would join as the average tribe member joins, then yes. As an embodiment of compassion, however, it'd have to be a rat.
- Violet: a rabbit
- Yellow: Either a shark or giant spider
- Jossed. Firstly, they used to use the White Light but apparently abandoned it in favor of the Green. They're replacing the GL Corps with a Third Army, a Grand Theft Me type thing/
- The Starheart was a Sealed Evil in a Can artifact made by the Guardians. The New 52 Alan Scott is in another universe, and seems to be getting his power directly from his Earth. This might have freed up the New 52 Starheart to be used in some capacity in the current storyline.
- The Red Lanterns aren't really misinterpreting their emotion-each of them is motivated by revenge, specifically a wrong they have suffered. Its just they are bad at controlling the rage.
- Larfleeze might not be doing it right; he is rather short sighted. A more methodical Orange Lantern would make plans to take over the universe. There's more to have than just what's in sight.
I really hope that this isn't true, because the Green Lantern comics have so far survived the reboot mostly intact. The Sinestro Corps war, Blackest Night, and Brightest Day all still happened in continuity. All the talk about that if the first Lantern breaks free, he will use his power to alter Green Lantern history as we know it. The result will be Hal Jordan getting a new origin story, and (again hopefully not) the elimination of the other Corps. This is so that the Green Lantern comics will fall in line with all the other reboots that DC has done recently. Being someone who is fond of what has been done so far, I hope this doesn't happen.
- Jossed, thankfully.
- The Butcher is the basis for first murder stories. It could go either way whether the Butcher inspired the murder or the victim: Cain represents the uncontrolled wrath that you'd expect the Spectre to detest or Abel, who represents the desire for vengeance at one's murder. Maybe both, and the ancient aliens writing this didn't know who to blame.
- Ophidian is the basis for stories dealing with the fall of man-he's as much representing the Fall of Man as Pandora's Box. Ophidian became the way he is by trying to obtain greater knowledge, which consumed his mind and turned him into greed itself. This action later based the concept of the Tree of Knowledge
- Adara is the basis for flood stories, and a number of apocalypse stories where there's a select group of people to rebuild. Adara was a massive bird who helped a group of people survive an environmental cataclysm. As such, it became a religious symbol of hope that later became Noah's dove.
- Color: Pink, Emotion: Laughter, Oath: "HA HA HA HA HA"
- Color: Brown, Emotion: Confusion, Oath: "WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!?"
- Color: Gold, Emotion: Confidence, Oath: "I got this"
- Color: Gray, Emotion: Depression, Oath: "Whatever"
- Or apathy.
- "Color": Infrared. Emotion: Pride/Arrogance, to serve as a Foil to the Ultraviolet Corps
- Those Corps...need work.
The actual Guardians are dead ever since Hal Jordon got possessed by Paralax and destroyed them along with most of the Green Lantern Corps. Kyle Rayner never brought the Guardians back, he merely created a facsimile of them based on what little he knew of them. This is also why the Guardians grow steadily more unreliable and even psychopathic after their "resurrection," they're a bunch of fakes forced into a role they were never actually suited for. Proof is in the fact that they don't even remember why they decided to police the cosmos in Blackest Night despite that being well established. They don't know because they're fakes just making it up as they go along.