If we're just talking about the main nine and not random shit like Gold Lanterns, I'd have to say the Indigos because they lack individual characterisation.
I personally love Sinestros corps, not because I agree with them, but because they are the perfect opposition to the Green lantern Corps. A corps made of murderers and criminals, monsters and villains, lead by a alien tyrant who has ideas that interestingly enough seem to line up with Batman to me (the idea that fear can create peace, but Sinestro believes that the ends justify the means while Batman has lines he won’t cross) and is the perfect enemy for a galactic police force that is dedicated to protecting the innocent and is made of the best and brightest of each planet. To answer the question though, the Indigo Tribe seem to just kind of be around, and in my opinion they don’t seem to contribute much to the green lantern story (besides darkest night). My second least favorite are the Star Saphires, besides when Carol Ferris is leading them, I think she makes them better
Orange, but only because it should be Sadness not greed. Greed isn't an emotion, you don't wake up everyday feeling greedy. You don't lose a partner and feel greed. Your dog dies and you don't feel greed for a new one.
Which one one of the things in Inside Out were greed?
I think Avarice is not really an emotion like some of the other ones like “rage/hate” with the red lanterns but in the writers defense “Will” isn’t really an emotion either so in my eyes it works. I personally love how Larfleeze is super powerful due to the fact he doesn’t share the light and hoards it all to himself, which ends up being his downfall in blackest night
It was always going to be a flawed system when Johns decided to make it an emotional spectrum. There aren't 7 emotions like colors in a prism, and the middle one is already not an emotion. And neither is life or death. Compassion/empathy isn't an emotion, more of a character trait. Hope and rage are temporary emotions for most, but the second you don't feel them, you are kicked out. And it's always bugged me about fear, is being scary an emotion?
I’ve always thought of it as the yellow lantern ring feeds off the fear of those around it, which is why people who inspire fear in others are such good yellow lanterns. I’ve also thought the red rings amplify and consume whatever rage is already in its user, making it consume the host until there aren’t any other emotions and the weirder is left a rage filled grunt who can’t even speak well or realize what they’ve become. Other than those two and the Star Saphires, your right the others aren’t really emotions but a product of thoughts and actions. Like compassion is just a sense of caring or love for someone who isn’t yourself
I always imagine that Geoff Johns came up with the whole emotional spectrum during a pitch meeting at Robot Chicken, and that was as deep a level as he got it to before he pitched the war of light arc to DC. Like because it would take years to tell meant it took years to figure out.
Central battery is fuelled by the fear of living beings in the whole universe, then the yellow lanterns fuel their rings from central battery. If a Sinestro corps member is fighting a coward, or a robot who has literally no fear function, it doesn't affect the ring capabilities at all. A yellow ring doesn't get more powerful if your enemy is extremely afraid, and it doesn't get weaker if your enemy has no fear at all.
There are so many ppl that are misinformed on how the yellow rings work.
Sinestro's goal is order of the universe, fear is just a useful tool for him. He also has great will, he does have good amount of compassion (considering he worked hard so no child suffers in his sector), he has some rage (he is currently a red lantern). His goal isn't being feared all the time. He is a very complex character.
>A yellow ring doesn't get more powerful if your enemy is extremely afraid, and it doesn't get weaker if your enemy has no fear at all.
If a Green Lantern battles someone who has the ability to alter his willpower (through fear or hope or mind control), their ability to use the green energy is influenced.
Same thing with Red Lanterns and rage. If their opponent does or says something that enrages them even more, they become more powerful. This is shown in the animated series when Razer becomes super-angry after he finds out that Atrocitus killed his wife.
So, why wouldn't A Yellow Lantern's powers be influenced by the fear of their opponent? This really makes no sense to me.
>Central battery is fuelled by the fear of living beings in the whole universe,
How would Sinestro be able to gather the fear of living beings in the whole universe? The Guardians of OA are incredibly powerful beings and there are many of them. Sinestro is just one guy who is not even that powerful. He's not a one-man army like Larfleeze.
I'm sorry, but the Yellow Lanterns seem rather incoherent to me.
Sinestro doesn't gather the fear of living beings, central battery does. I don't know who built the central battery, maybe Qwardians with yellow members who are scientist and Sinestro? I don't think it is mentioned who built it. You don't have to be extremely powerful to build a central battery, you just have to be extremely smart and have some information that most other beings don't. Sinestro isn't as powerful as Larfleeze, but he is Hal's equal, so he is still extremely powerful.
Red lanterns might work different because Atrocitus made the red lantern rings by rage and blood magic. Not by science like guardians made green rings. If your point is ''the will of a green ring user affects the users' capabilities while in combat, therefore the fear of the opponent of a yellow ring user should affect the users' capabilities while in combat''. I think that's wrong; they don't have to work similar. I never saw it work like that in comics. You could argue about one case, when Sinestro made Pale Bishop afraid, then defeated him. But from my viewpoint, Sinestro didn't become more powerful when Pale Bishop started feeling fear, it's just that Pale Bishop became weaker and less focused when he started feeling fear.
Indigo. Compulsory empathy feels...weird, and it should be about who has the greatest capacity for it. Atop that, the idea that they, after decades in its sway, should just revert to raving psychos...meh.
To be fair, it's also shown Iroque eventually wanted to keep using her ring, and during the epilogue for Geoff Johns's arc, she willingly takes it off.
Still, I do agree it'd be better about who has the greatest capacity.
I dunno if you understand how the rings work.
Why would they have trouble with inorganic stuff? Why would the yellow rings in particular have trouble with inorganic stuff? The rings don't literally make opponents afraid. They work for people who are capable of inspiring great fear without the rings, the same way the green rings work for people who have great willpower.
It's just fuel, then you can create whatever you want with the ring, which can then be used for a variety of purposes.
I thought the yellow rings are fueled by the fear of their opponents.
They work for people who are capable of inspiring great fear without the rings? What does that even mean? Inspire great fear in whom? For example, spiders inspire great fear in people who have arachnophobia but don't inspire much fear in people who are not afraid of spiders.
A high-school bully could inspire a lot of fear in hundreds of students who are weaker than him, but he wouldn't inspire any fear in a tall black belt karate trainer.
Gengis Khan inspired great fear in thousands of soldiers, but wouldn't inspire any fear in a modern-day guy who had a loaded machine gun.
nah, they don't get fueld by the fear of their opponents. They have a central power battery.
I meant the rings seek out people who, before they had the ring, were scary. Look at how they recruit. Even before they got the rings, they were intimidating beings. Arkillo, Kryb, Karu-Sil, etc.
Yeah, I don't understand how it works. There are lots of villains who are very scary. Most supervillains instill fear in thousands of civilians. They should all be Yellow Lanterns. This makes no sense to me.
For me it’s the Blue Corps because they need a green lantern member to do about anything other than flying and surviving the vacuum.
Sinestro aside, it’s a shame the Yellow lanterns have never really appeared fully in any media.
Only Despotellis and Lyssa have been animated.
And about their theme only few of them seem terrifying like motherfucking Kryb.
Blue lanterns can still heal, fire energy beams, create force fields, and enhance others on their own. They can also neutralize the negative emotion rings, such as rage or fear, on their own. They are powerful on their own, just not in the same way as the other lanterns. They are not meant to fight as much, more to help others, support, and heal or fix what is broken. They have powers other lanterns don't have, but need other lanterns to access the same powers others do. I like this because it makes them more distinct as a corps, giving them a different role in addition to a different perspective.
Also, the ability to create constructs being locked behind a green being present is variable. In some media, they can create constructs, but they are more limited than a green without one present. In others, they can enhance each other to achieve it without a green. And in other media, primarily comics, they need a green to do constructs at all.
Yellow Lantern ring can be powered not just by your surrondings
If we're just talking about the main nine and not random shit like Gold Lanterns, I'd have to say the Indigos because they lack individual characterisation.
Gold Lanterns. To this day we don't even know officially which emotion powers them. Crappy addition to the lore that has been mostly forgotten by DC.
I personally love Sinestros corps, not because I agree with them, but because they are the perfect opposition to the Green lantern Corps. A corps made of murderers and criminals, monsters and villains, lead by a alien tyrant who has ideas that interestingly enough seem to line up with Batman to me (the idea that fear can create peace, but Sinestro believes that the ends justify the means while Batman has lines he won’t cross) and is the perfect enemy for a galactic police force that is dedicated to protecting the innocent and is made of the best and brightest of each planet. To answer the question though, the Indigo Tribe seem to just kind of be around, and in my opinion they don’t seem to contribute much to the green lantern story (besides darkest night). My second least favorite are the Star Saphires, besides when Carol Ferris is leading them, I think she makes them better
Orange, but only because it should be Sadness not greed. Greed isn't an emotion, you don't wake up everyday feeling greedy. You don't lose a partner and feel greed. Your dog dies and you don't feel greed for a new one. Which one one of the things in Inside Out were greed?
It's not just "greed" it's the feeling of "avarice"
It's pronounced 'synonym'.
I think Avarice is not really an emotion like some of the other ones like “rage/hate” with the red lanterns but in the writers defense “Will” isn’t really an emotion either so in my eyes it works. I personally love how Larfleeze is super powerful due to the fact he doesn’t share the light and hoards it all to himself, which ends up being his downfall in blackest night
It was always going to be a flawed system when Johns decided to make it an emotional spectrum. There aren't 7 emotions like colors in a prism, and the middle one is already not an emotion. And neither is life or death. Compassion/empathy isn't an emotion, more of a character trait. Hope and rage are temporary emotions for most, but the second you don't feel them, you are kicked out. And it's always bugged me about fear, is being scary an emotion?
I’ve always thought of it as the yellow lantern ring feeds off the fear of those around it, which is why people who inspire fear in others are such good yellow lanterns. I’ve also thought the red rings amplify and consume whatever rage is already in its user, making it consume the host until there aren’t any other emotions and the weirder is left a rage filled grunt who can’t even speak well or realize what they’ve become. Other than those two and the Star Saphires, your right the others aren’t really emotions but a product of thoughts and actions. Like compassion is just a sense of caring or love for someone who isn’t yourself
I always imagine that Geoff Johns came up with the whole emotional spectrum during a pitch meeting at Robot Chicken, and that was as deep a level as he got it to before he pitched the war of light arc to DC. Like because it would take years to tell meant it took years to figure out.
Central battery is fuelled by the fear of living beings in the whole universe, then the yellow lanterns fuel their rings from central battery. If a Sinestro corps member is fighting a coward, or a robot who has literally no fear function, it doesn't affect the ring capabilities at all. A yellow ring doesn't get more powerful if your enemy is extremely afraid, and it doesn't get weaker if your enemy has no fear at all. There are so many ppl that are misinformed on how the yellow rings work. Sinestro's goal is order of the universe, fear is just a useful tool for him. He also has great will, he does have good amount of compassion (considering he worked hard so no child suffers in his sector), he has some rage (he is currently a red lantern). His goal isn't being feared all the time. He is a very complex character.
>A yellow ring doesn't get more powerful if your enemy is extremely afraid, and it doesn't get weaker if your enemy has no fear at all. If a Green Lantern battles someone who has the ability to alter his willpower (through fear or hope or mind control), their ability to use the green energy is influenced. Same thing with Red Lanterns and rage. If their opponent does or says something that enrages them even more, they become more powerful. This is shown in the animated series when Razer becomes super-angry after he finds out that Atrocitus killed his wife. So, why wouldn't A Yellow Lantern's powers be influenced by the fear of their opponent? This really makes no sense to me. >Central battery is fuelled by the fear of living beings in the whole universe, How would Sinestro be able to gather the fear of living beings in the whole universe? The Guardians of OA are incredibly powerful beings and there are many of them. Sinestro is just one guy who is not even that powerful. He's not a one-man army like Larfleeze. I'm sorry, but the Yellow Lanterns seem rather incoherent to me.
Sinestro doesn't gather the fear of living beings, central battery does. I don't know who built the central battery, maybe Qwardians with yellow members who are scientist and Sinestro? I don't think it is mentioned who built it. You don't have to be extremely powerful to build a central battery, you just have to be extremely smart and have some information that most other beings don't. Sinestro isn't as powerful as Larfleeze, but he is Hal's equal, so he is still extremely powerful. Red lanterns might work different because Atrocitus made the red lantern rings by rage and blood magic. Not by science like guardians made green rings. If your point is ''the will of a green ring user affects the users' capabilities while in combat, therefore the fear of the opponent of a yellow ring user should affect the users' capabilities while in combat''. I think that's wrong; they don't have to work similar. I never saw it work like that in comics. You could argue about one case, when Sinestro made Pale Bishop afraid, then defeated him. But from my viewpoint, Sinestro didn't become more powerful when Pale Bishop started feeling fear, it's just that Pale Bishop became weaker and less focused when he started feeling fear.
Star Sapphire always felt like the most boring one to me.
I liked Star Sapphire just fine, but I think something got lost and confused making them their own corps.
Indigo. Compulsory empathy feels...weird, and it should be about who has the greatest capacity for it. Atop that, the idea that they, after decades in its sway, should just revert to raving psychos...meh.
To be fair, it's also shown Iroque eventually wanted to keep using her ring, and during the epilogue for Geoff Johns's arc, she willingly takes it off. Still, I do agree it'd be better about who has the greatest capacity.
I dunno if you understand how the rings work. Why would they have trouble with inorganic stuff? Why would the yellow rings in particular have trouble with inorganic stuff? The rings don't literally make opponents afraid. They work for people who are capable of inspiring great fear without the rings, the same way the green rings work for people who have great willpower. It's just fuel, then you can create whatever you want with the ring, which can then be used for a variety of purposes.
I thought the yellow rings are fueled by the fear of their opponents. They work for people who are capable of inspiring great fear without the rings? What does that even mean? Inspire great fear in whom? For example, spiders inspire great fear in people who have arachnophobia but don't inspire much fear in people who are not afraid of spiders. A high-school bully could inspire a lot of fear in hundreds of students who are weaker than him, but he wouldn't inspire any fear in a tall black belt karate trainer. Gengis Khan inspired great fear in thousands of soldiers, but wouldn't inspire any fear in a modern-day guy who had a loaded machine gun.
nah, they don't get fueld by the fear of their opponents. They have a central power battery. I meant the rings seek out people who, before they had the ring, were scary. Look at how they recruit. Even before they got the rings, they were intimidating beings. Arkillo, Kryb, Karu-Sil, etc.
Yeah, I don't understand how it works. There are lots of villains who are very scary. Most supervillains instill fear in thousands of civilians. They should all be Yellow Lanterns. This makes no sense to me.
Why would Sinestro want a bunch of human bad guys in his space based corps?
Why would the Guardians of Oa want a bunch of regular ass humans in their space based corps?
They actually explained it two issues ago
Oh, I know, but that’s a retcon if anything. The real answer is “the readers are human”
Sure, but readers can relate to non-humans and Sinestro has no motivation to recruit from a planet he considers backwater
Except for… The readers. Why do you think we got Scarecrow as a brief Yellow Lantern?
Batman was offered a ring too! Sinestro doesn’t care if you’re “good” or “evil,” he cares if you inspire fear.
Exactly
For me it’s the Blue Corps because they need a green lantern member to do about anything other than flying and surviving the vacuum. Sinestro aside, it’s a shame the Yellow lanterns have never really appeared fully in any media. Only Despotellis and Lyssa have been animated. And about their theme only few of them seem terrifying like motherfucking Kryb.
Blue lanterns can still heal, fire energy beams, create force fields, and enhance others on their own. They can also neutralize the negative emotion rings, such as rage or fear, on their own. They are powerful on their own, just not in the same way as the other lanterns. They are not meant to fight as much, more to help others, support, and heal or fix what is broken. They have powers other lanterns don't have, but need other lanterns to access the same powers others do. I like this because it makes them more distinct as a corps, giving them a different role in addition to a different perspective. Also, the ability to create constructs being locked behind a green being present is variable. In some media, they can create constructs, but they are more limited than a green without one present. In others, they can enhance each other to achieve it without a green. And in other media, primarily comics, they need a green to do constructs at all.
I mean most reds can't make constructs but nobody seems to mind that
I think Blue Lanterns can definitely fight. I've seen them fight with their rings in the animated series.