Quick Question on the Green Lantern Rings

[cavner]

I've been reading the DCU Green Lantern Comics for a while and came to wondering. what limits do the DCAU GL rings have? The Yellow weakness was never specifically mentioned, it has a specific capacity of power that needs to be recharged but can they kill or like pre-Sinestro Corps war, they are blocked form killing?

[Wolf Boy2]

They're blocked from killing (by the FCC).:D

[ROBOTRON]

:sweat: - Better still...how on infinite earth could The Penguin wear a GL ring and make it work when he is obviously not worthy?:raven:

[Blackstar]

First of all, the Lantern rings being powerless against anything yellow has been over for some time now. Originally, the rings had to be recharged every 24 hours, but later on, a Lantern could go on for longer periods of time before recharging his/her ring. For a brief time, the Power Rings had no effect on wood, but this rule was soon discarded.

[Wonderwall]

First of all, the Lantern rings being powerless against anything yellow has been over for some time now. Originally, the rings had to be recharged every 24 hours, but later on, a Lantern could go on for longer periods of time before recharging his/her ring. For a brief time, the Power Rings had no effect on wood, but this rule was soon discarded.

I know wood was the weakness for Alan Scott, but I wasn't aware that it effected the other GL's. At least during the golden age. The biggest thing that comes to mind for me is that in the comics( to my knowledge anyway ) the ring is unbreakable, and all though Katma Tui( sp ) tells John in Hearts and Minds that very thing, she must have never been hit by a Thanagarian ax:p.

[Anthonynotes]

I know wood was the weakness for Alan Scott, but I wasn't aware that it effected the other GL's. At least during the golden age. The biggest thing that comes to mind for me is that in the comics( to my knowledge anyway ) the ring is unbreakable, and all though Katma Tui( sp ) tells John in Hearts and Minds that very thing, she must have never been hit by a Thanagarian ax:p.

In the Golden Age comics, there was only one GL, Alan Scott, and his ring's weakness is/was to wood.

The Silver Age comics, which introduced Hal Jordan and the GL Corps, presented those GL's rings' weakness as being to yellow; this lasted for decades until (IIRC) they introduced Kyle Rayner in the mid-90s comics, at which time they ditched the weakness (think it's since come back in a modified way, like Hal has...).

Re: the Penguin: Least in the comics (from what I recall), anyone can wear/use a GL power ring if they have enough willpower (and the ring wasn't commanded by the GL owning it to only work for that Green Lantern or something)... recall an early Hal Jordan story where some bum (somehow) gets ahold of Hal's ring and wreaks havok with it...

[Dudley]

Does the ring have a weakness?
According to Wikipedia, the ring's only limit is the wielder's willpower, and the fact it needs to be recharged.
Other than that, it can do anything.
ANYTHING.

[Harvey Two Face]

I don't know too much about the Lantern's ring, so what is Yellow in being a weakness?

[creativerealms]

:sweat: - Better still...how on infinite earth could The Penguin wear a GL ring and make it work when he is obviously not worthy?:raven:

While it might be different now earlier in the comics anyone could use a GL ring. Just for people who are not worthy the ring would not always listen to them and not be full power. Which was the case with Penguin. He was able to use the GL ring but do to his low intelligence (which I hate about The Batman's Penguin) and low will power the ring only had a fraction of it's power when he used it. Thats why he had trouble getting it to work and was so easily defeated by Sinestro.

The rings obviously don't distinguish between good or evil which Sinestro proved, but Willpower.


I don't know too much about the Lantern's ring, so what is Yellow in being a weakness?

It is basically that a Green Lanterns ring cannot effect things made of Yellow. This yellow impurity can be bypassed by strong will power and also is now a non factor in the comics. It has to do with yellow in the DC universe being the color of fear.

[The Weed Of Cri]

The Golden Age Green Lantern (Alan Scott, now known as Sentinel) had a power ring that had no power against wood, possibly the dumbest weakness in the history of comics.

During most of the Silver Age, the power ring had no effect on anything yellow, due to a "necessary impurity" in the alloy used to make the rings. They could be weilded by anyone who got their hands on one, but only if they were a sufficient distance from the chosen ring bearer that the owner's will could not be exerted on the ring. They had to be recharged every 24 hours with a lantern-shaped battery. Originally, Hal Jordan kept the lantern hidden in his home, or had to take it with him if he was going to be away from home for more than a day, but later, he figured out how to hide the lantern in a "pocket dimension" and could just pull it out of hyperspace when he needed it. The ring could not be used to take a life or intentionally harm the ring-bearer.

Under Silver Age rules, Green Lantern should have been able to reclaim his ring from The Penguin just by getting within a few yards of him.

[Dudley]

According to the DCAU Wiki, GL's weakness to the color yellow, is shown in the JLU episode the Great Brain Robbery.
When Flash threw yellow gelatin at GL, it penetrated his shield.
But maybe that was a one time thing.

[Toddman]

According to the DCAU Wiki, GL's weakness to the color yellow, is shown in the JLU episode the Great Brain Robbery.
When Flash threw yellow gelatin at GL, it penetrated his shield.
But maybe that was a one time thing.

That explanation completely ignores every time the ring worked against the color yellow, particularly when fighting Sinestro's yellow ring...



Toddman

[Anarky]

In his mini-series, Anarky once wielded a power ring.

[SaBaWoJuLe]

I have a question too. In "The Return", before the revelation that Oa was actually moved and not destroyed, if Oa was destroyed, would the rings still work? If not, well then why would the Corps not realize that when they went to fight AMAZO, under the idea that Oa was gone, but their rings are still active?

[Robin2099]

I have a question too. In "The Return", before the revelation that Oa was actually moved and not destroyed, if Oa was destroyed, would the rings still work? If not, well then why would the Corps not realize that when they went to fight AMAZO, under the idea that Oa was gone, but their rings are still active?

They'd have how ever much juice was left in the rings remaining before OA was destroyed. The rings wouldn't of automatically lost power and become useless.