>cool theming >fun concept >abysmal dogshit power set that's near identical across each variant Why?
>>155142619>>abysmal dogshit power set that's near identical across each variantthis actually isn't true but nobody knows that because nobody reads comics. including you.
>>155142619Because its post hoc derivative. One ring that can make any construct as its weirder desires is pretty cool. The fact it cant work against yellow is intriguing. The implication there is an emotional spectrum where two colors clash is curious. Now to figure out how to fill those gaps and deliver on unheard promises is...tedious. If they came up with the concept right off the bat we'd be cooking but these are recons to silver age goofiness there is a lot to tackle and little to work with.
>>155142619>>155142753You casuals exhaust me. While constructs are a core to nearly every ring color, you can't say they're all the same. >Blues can heal grievous wounds and can supercharge Green Lanterns>Reds can vomit super napalm that can burn through nearly anything>Indigos can teleport at will>Orange can consume/steal the very essence of a being and make them a construct to summon at will
>>155142829Those seem rather tacked on. They are all basically flying brick plus one. If the constructs stayed with the original green lanterns you'd have a point but as you said each ring still makes constructs.Unless green lanterns have an extra power to their constructs like the others.
>>155143064>duhhh doesn't count!we're done here
>>155142829>>155143088Projectile Vomiting in addition to constructs, in fact, does not count as a major variation.It’s funny you even included teleportation on Indigos since Greens can all do that too. It’s not even presented as a special thing just a regular ring thing.
>>155142619Oh fun fact there is an emotional spectrum in real life. Plutchik's emotion wheel. An improvement on Eckmans primary emotions which normies would be familiar with as pixar's Inside Out was based on that work.plutchik basically rearranged the original 6 emotions into complimentary dyads and added trust to compliment disgust and anticipation to compliment surprise and then applied the color wheel basically showing how e.otions can .I and blend like colors. Fascinating stuff.
>>155142619I blame the fact that over time they overloaded greens with too many extra powers instead of keeping it limited to flight and inspiration based constructs. No matter what you do some writer would have pulled some bullshit with a green lantern somewhere where they already did that simply because they were inspired enough to think of it
>>155142619They weren't meant to last, each power was designed for a single storyline
>>155142619they only became samey after the fact when introduced they were more unqiue
>>155143064The Green power is them being more "stable"
>>155143110its literal teleportation not FTL hops
>>155143247Not only do Greens teleport all the freaking time, they can also teleport others.The power system, for what little even exists, is bad and boring.
The Johns era GLC actually made varied lanterns varied but it is person to person as it should be
>>155143263Not to mention, I could waste more time showing every instance Hal’s tpd himself and the League places (there are many, not just 1 or 2), but I remembered there’s even a whole arc around the time Carol the Pink Lantern teleported him to a Death Planet (and he just TPd himself back too)
>>155143219How...disappointing. like their constructs are more solid and functioning? Is it merely will being the "emotion" of perseverance? Like i said its all tacked on!
>>155143466I completely forgot they made Star Saphire into a Lantern. Were all the other lanterns made up whole cloth and not retrofitted existing characters/types?
>>155143568Well the basically green is in the middle of the spectrum and the further you get from the middle the more erratic and controlled the user is by their emotion so basically greens aren't insane
>>155142619>>155143568I’ll be honest anon.Green was meant to be the only one. Yellow Lanterns were not a thing. “Star Sapphires” was only Carol noone else. So Greens got every power ever.When Yellow Lanterns became a thing they were not powered by fear as an emotion, their rings were based off the Yellow Weakness, and they drained energy from Green. That was their gimmick, they were parasites, not a different spectrum.When Geoff introduced the other Corps it was cool but handled poorly. He introduced their different emotions but didn’t add major differences. Yellow and Pink lanterns were already technically a thinf so he kept them as they are (identical, and identical but girly)Red he had them vomit yeah but that’s underwhelming compared to every other power. They also remove their hearts just for edge.Blue are pretty useless except they boost Greens occasionally (noone cares about support classes, and it’s just a vague “boost” to powerlevels when Greens always do that just by heckin willing harder)Geoff didn’t originally include the Indigos, they were left out and a mystery for years until much later. When it turned out their thing is they’re brainwashed criminals turned good (but their powers are identical)Orange is the only unique one, and it’s not because of a unique power, it’s because they’re Greedy so there can only be 1, and he makes constructs of every other user ever (so instead of a corps of people you get a corps of constructs…basically the same but they don’t talk)
the characters on the right are in the wrong order
>>155143687Also it used to be that Blue Lanterns can only make constructs when near a Green Lantern. When alone they can’t do anything.That was, of course, retarded. And because of it Blue Lanterns never got appearances or stories. And it was recently retconned but the damage is already done.
>>155143064Ironically enough, orange got more generic over time, even in his series, Larfleeze barely used his summons, basically becoming orange green lantern.
>>155143064>flying brickThey can make nearly anything out of hard light, how the fuck is that a flying brick?!
>>155143858Because they always use it to make Boxing Gloves and Bricks and Boxing Glove Bricks.
>>155143869Sure for quick constructs but they make other shit all the time
>>155143687>Geoff didn’t originally include the Indigos, they were left out and a mystery for years until much later. When it turned out their thing is they’re brainwashed criminals turned goodHe seems to actually have planned them, there is a lot of foreshadowing about their true nature.For example, they are wearing prisoner's collars
>>155142829>Blues can heal grievous wounds and can supercharge Green LanternsWhy green lanterns? Can they charge other colors or themselves?What stopping other colors from doing that?>Reds can vomit super napalm that can burn through nearly anythingGross and unappealingAlso what's stopping the other colors from doing that?>Indigos can teleport at willWhat's stopping the other colors from doing that?>Orange can consume/steal the very essence of a being and make them a construct to summon at willWhat's stopping the other colors from doing that?If the whole power of ring depends on your imagination and will power, then why are any of these different?
>>155144308>Why green lanterns?Because will is stronger with hope behind it
>>155143679And that logic won me back!
>>155144491Love and Hate are some of the most potent emotions
>>155143858Eh meant in the colloquial sense of how every generic superhero is superman plus another power. Just here the invulnerablility, superstrength and flight is replaced with magic ring that does anything.
>>155142619>>155143064You're such a ridiculous casual, you can't even do the bare minimum of wiki research to educate yourself on the subject, let alone actually read a comic to find out why your misconceptions are wrong.You may as well share with the class what your fancy ideas for each Corps are since you're apparently so much more creative than the writers.
>>155144308>If the whole power of ring depends on your imagination and will power, then why are any of these different?Because the other rings don't run on willpower, did you even read the rest of the thread?
>>155142619Johns is a hack.
>>155145113maybe try reading the whole post instead of selectively listening you still have to imagine the constructswhat's stopping the green or really all of the other colors from having you vomit acid blood, boosting others, teleporting, or even stealing the essence of others?
>>155145527Green can already do all that. It's capable of literally anything.
>>155145527Rings being able to do literally anything is more of a silver age thing. The modern take is that it takes some level of knowledge rather than just imagination to generate anything other than a solid object. It's rare to see a lantern so much as construct anything liquid or gaseous.Even so, the point of Johns' run early on was that the Greens were the only ones that could make constructs without any caveats. Even Sinestro's lanterns were technically limited by the fact that their constructs had to be scary or threatening.
>>155143190I suppose that makes sense, powers working in service to the story.
>>155142619Making complex superpowers is tough for people and even tougher to write in more than one creative way.
>>155142721From memory:Green makes constructsBlue supercharges GreenRed throws up blood.Yellow also makes constructsOrange makes constructs that are copies of people Larfleeze killed or something like that. "Orange makes guys and the ring drives you crazy with greed"Indigo and Violet I don't know. More constructs I think. How'd I do?
>>155143739What would be the right order?
>>155149035Thanks for proving that you dont read comics OP you cocksucking faggot
>>155148831Yes, it is more notoriously with blues and oranges
>>155142619>Why?Because the Emotional Electromagnetic Spectrum is retarded nonsense that was essentially Geoff Johns thinking "hey wouldn't it be cool if there were power rings but in like other colors?" akin to a five year old who gets excited over crayon sets and then rewriting the entire lore of the Green Lanterns to accommodate his idiotic ideas. How is willpower an emotion? Johns doesn't give a shit because OH LOOK PRETTY COLORS.
It's so entertaining watching all these losers seethe when someone asks a question about GL. lanterns are my favorite superheroes but I distance myself from the fandom for this kind of shit.GL fans have so much insecurity and arrogance, they try to delude themselves into thinking green lantern is a popular hero when in reality is always treated as b rated character.anon made a legitimate question and almost every answer is dogpilling on him for not reading the comics.Go touch grass losers, if somebody has to research about a comic character because the fans are such assholes that don't answer a question about their favorite hero then don't be surprised when people don't give a shit about GL and keep asking these questions.seriously green lantern fanbase is one of the worst in the world. You guys sicken me. If someone is not glazing GL or reveals that he doesn't know every part of the lore you treat him like shit. Then you get pissed when every other DC hero has a bigger fanbase
>>155142619>they still haven't done INJUSTICE: The Blackest Nightseems like a waste.
>>155150619>lanterns are my favorite superheroes>green lantern is a b rated characterSo you're admitting you have shit taste too? lel
I wish the Indigo Tribe was real because there are a lot of people who need to have compassion forced upon them.
>>155142619I like the composition in this image a lot.>Bad Guys to the left: Rage, Avarice and Fear>Good Guys to the right: Love, Compassion and Hope>Green squirely in the middle, Willpower can be used for anything and everythingReal nice synergy here.Though, it does seem like everyone gets to be a Green Lantern at some point.That shit is eaiser than a police test.
>>155142619It actually was varried...when Johns introduced them one by one and up ntil the Blackest Night. After that the made them all just color carbon copies of GL (lets fix the red lanterns so they can speak and think clearly, also make constructs. Boooooring).
>>155142619>insanely popular addition to green lantern>new characters that manage to gain fans and used in various forms of media>helped make green lantern dc's most popular hero with several spin off comics>johns leaves>didio and vendetti get rid of the entities and reduce the presence of the other corps>grant morrison pretends none of it exists and fucks up his run halfway through>thorne butchers what's left>gl has yet to recoverWhy?
>>155151169>lets fix the red lanterns so they can speak and think clearly, also make constructs. BoooooringBut then Guy and Supergirl joined them and that fixed things. Also more Bleez.
>>155151160>he calls worst sector possible Rage guardians bad guys>he calls mind-wiping compassion and psychopatic love faggots good guys>green is somehow willpower instead of bravery
>>155151261I hated that part of Lantern history. Jordan with the stupid glove and Gardner as a red lantern with his worst costume ever and gayest beard. Never finished the Red Lantern series...
>>155151243Did the entities returned? I stopped reading after Kyle sacrific3d his space jesus powers and took them outside th source wall to reffill the spectrum or whatever, and revealed there are hippie non evil maltusians.Now Gardner is a space pope or the fuck?
>>155151311>Did the entities returned?yes and they're babies
