![]() Keep Hal's mask glued to his face even when someone tries to pull it off? Easy.Ĭhange Hal's friend Tom into an exact double of Green Lantern? Doable. Marvel’s Cosmic Cube and Infinity Gauntlet have abilities that far outstrip the power ring's, but writers rarely have as much fun with them. But that only scratches the surface of what Green Lanterns can do, of course. The rings most visible powers are flight and creating glowing green energy constructs, such as the energy fist Hal has often used to flatten his foes. And as you can see in the image above, it did make for a pretty spectacular cover image. However, he was pretty much barking mad by this point, so he probably wasn’t thinking straight. No matter how many rings Hal wears, he won’t have more willpower, so he’s not going to be able to summon more energy. That reserve saved Hal several times when he'd otherwise have sustained fatal injuries.Īs the rings don't store power, the 1990s "Emerald Twilight" plotline (where Hal kills his fellow Green Lanterns to steal their rings) was ridiculous. In a couple of stories ( Green Lantern #5, for example), Hal even creates duplicate power rings other people can use to draw power through his battery.Įach ring does contain a small reserve charge, but its only function is to preserve the wearer's life. The only limit on the power Hal and others can draw is the amount of willpower the ringbearer can focus. That way, there’s no risk of a GL exhausting a finite energy supply. Instead, it primes the ring to channel power from a giant central battery on Oa, the Guardian’s headquarters. When a Green Lantern charges their ring from the battery, the ring doesn’t store any energy. Here are 15 Things You Never Knew About Green Lantern's Ring. Read on to find out just how remarkable their rings really are. The Green Lantern Corps has been a source of colorful supporting characters and challenging adventures for decades, and we'll likely be seeing the group grace the big screen once again in the very near future. Every Lantern had a ring as powerful as Hal’s. ![]() Hal belonged to an entire corps of Green Lanterns, created by the Guardians of the Universe to maintain law and order throughout the cosmos. Though equally cool, the power ring wasn’t quite as unique as Captain America’s shield or the Infinity Gauntlet. What’s not to love about a weapon like that? ![]() In just his debut issue ( Showcase #22) Hal was able to fly, lift a mountain, and dematerialize through a wall. As long as he charges the ring at his power battery - the green lantern he’s named for - every 24 hours, Hal commands almost unlimited abilities, except against anything colored yellow, that is. ![]() TL DR: It looks like they're tiny computers, made out of something impossible.When the dying alien Abin Sur gave Hal Jordan his power ring, Hal became the wielder of one of the coolest, most powerful weapons in comics. I'd love to compare our notes with a Red lantern ring, but I doubt we'll see any one soon. The Black Lantern rings had a really disturbing inward effect that we postulate doesn't happen on the more.sapient ring-bearers. It definitely appears that they have an awareness of their current owner, and we even got hints that there was some kind of internal translator.Ĭlearly, these rings tapped into some ambient background-energy of the universe, and - through an impossibly complex series of haptic and sensory inputs - channels this energy outwards in the form of hard light. Wouldn't call it sentience, now that I think about it more of an instinct. There's a certain sentience to them, probably more of an ambient AI. It seems resilient to crushing, although there are reports that it has been done. We tried to set up an interface, once.Īs for literal material, I haven't the foggiest idea. We tried to set up an interface once, but. I know, that's strange, but we were able to see impossibly small structures that are a dead ringer (sorry) for machinery. The rings were, in effect, complex computers. They all dissolved pretty quickly, even when de-synchronized from the time-stream, but we got a good look at them beforehand. ![]() well, needless to say, we got some, and we kept them in a separated stasis. However, a few years ago, when the dead began to rise - you remember, I'm sure, although the whole thing is actually kind of hard to remember for some reason - the place got littered with Black Lantern rings. From all we can tell, there are only, like, five of them - and they aren't too commonly separated from their rings. I'm a researcher at LexCorp, and we've been told to keep our eye on the Green Lantern(s) basically since their arrival some years ago. I could really lose my security clearance for this, but I love Reddit too much to hold back. ![]()
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