[DC] Green Lantern Ring Doesn't Work on Yellow?!

Joined: 19 Mar 2009 Posts: 69

I was trying to get caught up in the Dinosaur Comics archives and one of them told me that the Green Lantern's ring doesn't work on yellow.

That's pretty weak.

Is it actually true though?

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Green Lantern isn't real.

Joined: 19 Mar 2009 Posts: 69

guys this is a serious thread no lying please

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It depends on who's the Green Lantern. There was one GL for whom yellow was the weakness.

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the original didn't work on wood

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Apparently the variability of the super hero's "one weakness" increases with the obscurity of the hero.

Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 1:45 pm

Not really. Even Kryptonite is pretty inconsistent.

Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 1:46 pm

Also Superman's one weakness is also magic.

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Also when interviewing for the Daily Planet his weakness was trying too hard.

Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 2:55 pm

Perry White was all "Hard or hard not, Clark! There is no try!"

Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 2:55 pm

"Great Kenobi's ghost!"

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Though I guess if you are more powerful than a locomotive you can try too hard.

Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 4:00 pm

Izzhov wrote:

I was trying to get caught up in the Dinosaur Comics archives and one of them told me that the Green Lantern's ring doesn't work on yellow.

That's pretty weak.

Is it actually true though?

what. you can't be serious. how can you know about the green lantern and not know that the rings don't work on yellow?

Hell, sinestro's whole shtick is that he has a yellow ring

Joined: 19 Mar 2009 Posts: 69

Does the yellow ring work on green?

Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 4:55 pm

it does! it doesn't have any weaknesses. but it's based on evil and shit (which is why the green lanterns dont use it)

Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 5:02 pm

There were lots of green lanterns whose ring did not work on yellow. However, the most recent incarnations have had this limitation removed. They've also made it so the ring can't be lost anymore (GL can summon the ring to himself now). And I think he doesn't have to charge the ring every day anymore?

Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 5:04 pm

also now they can KILL.

also there are red lanterns and blue lanterns. I just learned all of this today. I really need to start reading comic books again but the bookstore I go to stopped stocking them Sad

Joined: 10 Jul 2008 Posts: 270

Miles wrote:

There were lots of green lanterns whose ring did not work on yellow. However, the most recent incarnations have had this limitation removed. They've also made it so the ring can't be lost anymore (GL can summon the ring to himself now). And I think he doesn't have to charge the ring every day anymore?

So now they're completely omnipotent?

Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 5:08 pm

have any of you guys been watching this new Batman series on Cartoon Network? It's chockfull of crossovers which is kinda cool but at the same time utterly ridiculous. One had Batman and Green Arrow get transported to Camelot and fight wizards and demons and shit. Another had Batman flying around in space with some Green Lanterns fighting a planet. And Batman didn't have glass over his space helmet. One of the green lanterns (a ditzy dog) asked him about it and he was just all "I'm Batman I can do what I want." And then he knocked out one of the Green Lanterns for being a tool. in space.

Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 5:30 pm

that show is so awesome

i'm gonna watch it tonight

Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 5:53 pm

Wesc wrote:

Miles wrote:

There were lots of green lanterns whose ring did not work on yellow. However, the most recent incarnations have had this limitation removed. They've also made it so the ring can't be lost anymore (GL can summon the ring to himself now). And I think he doesn't have to charge the ring every day anymore?

So now they're completely omnipotent?

Their power is limited by their willpower. So I guess if they get really tired or demoralized or something their power would be lower. But yeah, most of the top-tier heroes in the DC universe are pretty close to omnipotent.

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"why DC is gay"

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Armchair Revolution wrote:

"why DC is gay"

So do other companies like Marvel limit the power of their superheroes more than DC does?

Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 7:57 pm

That's what Marvel fans seem to think, but you're not going to find it in The Big Book of Defensible Positions.

Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 8:46 pm

That is a very useful book

Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 9:33 pm

I love you A Bear

Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 9:38 pm

Marvel actually has a tier list for who is the best, and I think it is still COSMIC SPIDERMAN

Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 9:47 pm

p. sure it's Spider-Ham

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i think the most powerful metahuman in marvel earth-616 is phoenix and she/it is nowhere near as unstoppable/all-powerful as even aquaman

its either phoenix or galactus but once in Excalibre phoenix defeated galactus via sarcasm therefore phoenix wins imo

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pretty sure squirrel girl can defeat anyone