Does your character qualify for a Lantern Ring?

Overview

Remember that this is for Lantern Rings specifically. Entities, Star Sapphire Stones, and etc do not count in this, as pretty much anyone can wield those. Lantern Rings require a specific amount of concentration and some of them actually require a superhuman level of emotion to wield properly. For example, Green Arrow, a particularly strong willed individual, almost broke his arm trying to make an arrow construct and knocked himself out. And that construct pretty much did nothing. Though there are some exceptions, the general idea is that lantern rings need more emotion than humans are normally capable of. Also, if your characters gets a lantern ring, they do not instantly become Herald level.

RAGE (Red)

Rage is probably the most lenient of the rings when it comes to choosing who receives a ring. Because of this, many of the Red Lanterns are pretty much canon fodder until you start getting to Bleez and up. The rings tend to search for those who experienced horrible tragedy and are pissed off about it. But how horrible your tragedy was doesn’t determine how powerful you were with the ring, it’s how you handle that tragedy. Atrocitus, the leader and the most powerful Red Lantern (not including New 52) has a less depressing backstory than MANY of his subjects and yet hes the most powerful. Why? Well one because blood magic. Two, hes had centuries of planning and plotting to cultivate and ever increase his rage. Hes so angry constantly that he no longer is capable of feeling any kind of love.

In addition to this, when giving someone a red ring, they become extremely rage filled and unable to think clearly or intelligently. The only two who have been capable of keeping any sort of rational thought would be Atrocitus and Gardner. Atrocitus invented the ring and Gardner was barely pulling himself together. Only those who have been dropped in the blood lake can think intelligently again.

Does your character qualify? Have they been angry enough to lash out and kill people without remorse? Have they been holding in this rage for a LONG ASS time? Are they ANY kind of lantern before hand? If so, they likely qualify. Would they be powerful with it? If you're not Atrocitus, Gardner or Bleez, probably not that powerful. Maybe at best around low to mid tier Green Lantern powerful.

Qualifications for your character:

• Have they been angry enough to lash out and kill people without remorse?
• Have they been holding in this rage for a LONG ASS time?
• Were they ANY kind of lantern before hand? (since lanterns have superhuman levels of emotion, they can access this rage easier)

If they meet this criteria, they are likely eligible. However, most Red Lanterns are only as powerful as mid-tier Green Lanterns and definitely below S-tier. Only if your character has centuries levels of rage like Atrocitus or a powerful lantern before hand (like Gardner) would they be S-tier level.

AVARICE (Orange)

Orange is an extremely parasitic emotional energy. Those who wield the orange energy have likely experienced and had selfish amounts of greed their entire life. For example, the second Orange Lantern, Glomulus, ate every single thing that looked edible to him. Once he tasted blood, Glomulus ate everyone he saw too.

Qualifications:

• Is your character Greed (Fullmetal Alchemist)?
• Is your character as greedy as Greed (Fullmetal Alchemist)?
• Does your character have selfish amounts of greed and only look out for themselves?

If they have any of these they likely qualify. And they also get immediately killed by Larfleeze. And before you ask, no, your character will never be more greedy than Larfleeze (well, maybe Greed could match him as he's the literal personification of greed).

FEAR (Yellow)

Sinestro Corps members gain their power from how much fear they've instilled throughout the universe. This can be any kind of fear. You can be a terrible tyrant or you can be a deadly virus. This is obviously lead by Sinestro, who is close to or above the power of Hal Jordan, the most powerful GL. Sinestro was feared throughout an entire space sector and now the universe thanks to him building the Corps in the first place. Sinestro is even feared in the anti-matter universe, where they worship the universe killing Anti-Monitor. And before you ask, yes Batman does qualify.

The amount of power you receive as a Sinestro Corps member is directly related to the quantity of those who fear you. If you are feared across your planet, you’re decently powerful. If you are feared in your tribe, you’re likely only low-tier lantern powerful. Sinestro Corps rings also can be wielded effectively if you have experience with the manipulation of the fear emotion, like Hal Jordan who isn’t exactly feared by many but could manipulate the spectrum well do to his experience with Parallax. It’s also worth noting that the ring does affect your mind, making you more ruthless and prone to try and take action and inspire fear into your enemies. If your character resists this change, the ring drastically drops in effectiveness.

Qualifications:

• Does your character inspire great amounts of fear in at least a group of people?
• Is your character feared or talked about anywhere?

If so, they likely qualify. How powerful they will be depends on their own previous power, experience with fear and how many individuals fear them. A group of people like a tribe or city is low to mid tier in power. A planet is mid to high tier. Across solar systems and galaxies is high tier, where you start matching people like Silver Surfer in power.

WILLPOWER (Green)

Probably the most controversial on this list. I will open up with that once again, you need VERY super-human levels of willpower to wield this damn thing. Most league members are continuously impressed with how Hal Jordan uses it because they couldn't get it to do more than glow brightly. Green Lantern Rings require will-power and lots of heavy concentration. If your character has any lingering trauma that they still brood over, it will greatly reduce your chances of being able to use this ring. It makes your constructs weak, breakable and out of control. For example, Abin Sur couldn't restrain Atrocitus (without the ring) because he was afraid of the Blackest Night. The entire point of a GL is to overcome great fear, which means you have to move on or at least move on during the fight.

But wait, Shahbaz. If you need superhuman levels of willpower, how can Hal Jordan wield it. Hes just a normal human! Thats because DC is stupid and gives their humans superhuman traits, like Batman being a 1000 lb lifter and also a record time mile runner. The best examples of how Hal Jordan and the human lanterns have superhuman emotion come from these feats:

• Volthoom, the first Lantern, needed a central focus for LARGE amounts of will-power to help him regain his primal power and remake the universe. He used Hal Jordan, who was stated to be a better focus of willpower than the central power battery, which contains a nexus to all the willpower in the universe. This willpower is even stated to be an echo of the very first spark of existence, the light of creation.
• John Stewart was taunted by Parallax, the literal embodiment of all fear, and instead of being infected and scared, it only made him more determined. He later created an entire solar system and his willpower was OVERRIDING the rings limitations. Thats right, John needed to have at least more than one ring to match his power, something I've never seen in GL before.
• Guy Gardner was completely dominated and mind raped (left a drooling vegetable on the ground) by The Dominator and left drooling on the ground for dead. His willpower was so powerful he got back up again to go keep fighting.
• Kyle Raynor and other Green Lanterns were infected by a Sinestro Corps member named Kryb, who had a substance that leaks through the skin and completely dominates both the mind and body. Kyle Ranyor was able to overcome mind control at the biological level due to pure willpower.

See what Im saying?

Qualifications:

• Is your character MORE determined than most of the Justice League?
• Does your character have no emotional trauma that might affect their determination and if they do have emotional trauma, have they pushed past it and moved on?

If so, they likely qualify for lower to middle tier powered, like Arisa and pre-ion Sodam Yat. But if they have anything close to the kind of willpower I mentioned for the human green lanterns, they jump up and become higher tiered lanterns like Kilowog and Gardner. Are they a planet? Mogo.

HOPE (Blue)

Lemme tell you these guys are f**king Space Jesus incarnates. Blue Lantern Rings are selective as hell but they're all awesome as s**t. But they are also RIDICULOUSLY hard to control and master. But once properly control, they are the most powerful lantern energy (not including White). But this ring DOES NOT fuck around with its hope. If you lose hope or determination at any time, the ring will abandon you and you will likely fall to your death because you were flying and looking at what terrified you so much. But the advantages are endless. They can heal, they can cure Red Lanterns, they are good against Orange Rings, they drain the power of Yellows and they boost the power of Greens.

Qualifications:

• Has your character pushed through and hoped for a better tomorrow despite all the terrible things that has happened to them?

This qualification puts them around mid-tier blue lantern level. But never as powerful as Saint Walker.

INDIGO

These are one of the more vague and unknown kinds of Lanterns (and my personal favorite). The ring will actually not pursue you unless the Indigo Lanterns will it. The entire roster of the Indigo Tribe actually consists of convicts and criminals, and the ring that is given to them brainwashed them into feeling compassion for the rest of the universe. This is their rehabilitation. The only human to have gotten it is The Atom (John Stewart only recieved it because Hal gave it to him), who spent all of Blackest Night feeling sorry for people and trying to mend things and relationships.

Qualifications:

• Is your character a gigantic asshole criminal?
• Does your character feel sorry for like EVERYONE?

If they have either of these, they will be eligible for it. But all Indigo Lanterns start off low-tier due to the in-experience with the powers given to them.

LOVE (Violet)

The Star Sapphire ring deals with many different types of love. Theres the platonic love that you feel for people, the deep romantic love or extreme loss of love. Typically, a ring will come to you if you if you experience incredible amounts of loss. And this isn’t normal heartbreak loss, like your girlfriend cheated on you. This is when your one true love just got brutally murdered right in front of you and you'll never love again. Assuming that doesn't give you a Red Lantern Ring, the ring will show up for you and you will be taken to be COMPLETELY brainwashed to see nothing but the love of the universe.

Similar the Sinestro Corps ring, the ring is actually the most powerful when you already have prior experience dealing with the Star Sapphire love element, such as Carol Ferris, who quickly became the most powerful thanks to this and kicked some serious ass. This coupled with the loss or love you need to experience to be a Star Sapphire will make you a strong lantern. These rings however, typically choose females only and men weild it in VERY limited occasions.

Qualifications:

• Is your character female? (men can wield it, but its rare and unlikely)
• Has she suffered the extreme loss of the love of her life?
• Has she dealt with the manipulation of the love emotion before?
• Does your character literally love fuckin everything (coughcoughWonderWomancough)?

If she shares these qualities, then she will likely be able to wield it and likely be mid-tier level. But the combination of love experience and deep loss will make an almost Silver Surfer level lantern.

BLACK

Qualifications:

• Is your character dead?

If so, they qualify. The Black Ring is THE most lenient ring, as it chooses whoever Nekron (DC Embodiment of Death) wants to a black lantern. The Black Ring doesn’t actually increase your power by that much. It gives you a pretty good healing factor (destroying a black lantern permanently requires the use of two emotional energies), small amounts of energy projection, heart stealing and flight. The only chance that you’d be Superman level as a Black Lantern is if you’re Black Hand or you were already Superman level.

WHITE

Qualifications:

• Are you Kyle Raynor?
• Are you currently possessing the Life Entity inside yourself?

If so, you qualify. If not, don’t even try.

Believe it or not there are some people who just have a lot of will. On top of that, Hal is a former fighter/test pilot which are occupations which take a great deal of willpower and physical conditioning.

John was a marine/special forces as well a a black man who lived during an era where it was extremely difficult to get along.

Guy had a difficult childhood which required a great deal of willpower for him to master himself.

So technically none of the are "simply average guys".

Back on topic, this was absolutely fantastic .

Cyclops: Blue I guess... For all the sh*t he receives from Wolverines side, he still loves them and even gives Storm his students... Plus he made some pretty questionable decisions for the sake of mutants, and probably knew he was going to get flack for it...

I would give him green but his childhood and ex girlfriends/wives have still left him a tad bit crazy...

So Cyclops: Blue

Batman

Yellow

Rationale: Batman has historically and consistently been known for his ability to inspire fear. He was also already chosen.

Power area: Slightly below Sinestro (w/o Parallax), above Akrillo significantly. The reason for this is that he is feared by all criminals across Earth (and as a urban myth millions of children), he's also feared in the Phantom zone, Apokolypse, portions of the Anti-Matter universe by a few alien species. Additionally, one time he managed to scare all of Gotham to the point that he burned away the influence of fear toxin.

Green

I feel, controversially so, he's in a similar tier as the Earth GL members. His feats in this area include:

• Through pure willpower resists Joker's poison: 12

• Resists a type of fear toxin that not even Scarecrow is immune to.

• Resists the Syren of Arkham. She's literally manipulating the quantum particles in his brain to mess with his mind and he fights it off.

• Resists a government mind reading machine for 24 hours straight

• Nudge who had previously taken control over Supes couldn't take control over bats

• Resists the telepathic powers of a being who has beaten the Hal Jordan Spectre

@sophia89:

Sasuke Uchiha

• Indigo
• Red

Itachi Uchiha

• Black (hehehe...)
• Blue

Hulk: Red, Yellow

Solid Snake could hold blue & green rings.

Also, cool thread.

Scooby Doo as a GL or Star Sapphire

Uncle Ben - Black Ring

Not limiting ourselves to comics, pi from life of pi would be one of the most qualified for green lantern ring.

Punisher could do red lantern.

Sam Fisher for Yellow or Blue Ring.

Also, you said the "F" word, I'm telling!

David S Goyer - Orange

Moon Knight--Definitely Yellow.

• He dresses in all white because he wants his enemies to see him coming. (Inspires great fear in his enemies)
• Out of all the people of Marvel Earth it would probably be a toss up between him and the Punisher.

@sophia89: what crossover was this? That really doesn't make any since because the Sinestro Corps is for those who inspire fear in others.

@sophia89: scans/source or it didn't happen.

Snow White - Probably could pull off a Green or Blue ring.

Deathstroke should be a decent GL in my opinion.

In Identity Crisis he was able to concentrate enough to hold Kyle off from using his ring. That even allowed him to shatter Rayner's finger despite the ring protecting them.

Sade's willpower is very strong.

Yes.

Flash: Blue

Also, Hellsing Ultimate's Alucard with a Sinestro Corps ring would be insane. I can't find any fan art of it, unfortunately.

No, but his race possibly deserves help from a GL.

@sophia89: ahh, well I guess I can argue with that logic it. still, that doesn't really mean Scooby isnt worthy of a GL or Star Sapphire ring. It just mean he's worthy of Sinestro's too. Cuz hes a freakin boss.

@karambit: Honestly, I think he'd be Larlfreeze's equal. That's simply amazing.

Yellow or Black. Oh you know what that means? Repaint! Hooray, we get the exact same toy again.

I'll choose 3:

Kaine:

He would be a solid red, with an argument for Black since he basically can't die. But this was easy.

Angela:

She is a little tougher to pick. She has arguments for green, indigo, pink and even orange. I think she favours green and orange personally.

Doom:

Doom has no need for power rings, he will fashion his own. He'd try to go for white, and might even steal it with enough prep. Other then that, yellow all day.

The Punisher - Red Lantern.

Toph - yellow (maybe?)

Rock Lee - green, 100%

Hulk red

The Doctor...

Hmmm...

Could be green, blue, yellow or red. I'm leaning towards blue.

Obviously Hulk is red.

Batman is Green, could use yellow but definitely green.

Goku (Who I hate) would easily wield a green ring.

Rocket Raccoon would be a natural choice for green. You need balls of steel to successfully threaten someone like Thanos when you're some 3ft tall furry midget even if you've got the biggest guns in your quadrant of the Galaxy to back that threat.

Indigo and Violet

Lantern rings are officially the cracker jack mood rings of comicdom nowadays.

Red Hulk with a Goddam Red Hing

Also, Sentry with a Black Ring. I almost can feel the PIS shockwave

Vegeta could be red or yellow.

Two Face could take a red lantern ring, so much anger inside him, against Batman,GCPD, criminals,etc.

The Dent persona could take a blue ring,he inspired hope as DA, people hope he will return to normal and so does himself.

Black ring for Blade?

Green for Robin.

I can definetly see the Chosen Undead being the most powerful green lantern ever.

Captain America: Weak Blue (not suitable for a power ring)

Captain America's a weak blue because he sometimes becomes depressed and gives up temporarily when reality doesn't live up to his ideals. He can also be profoundly disappointed in other people (as well as himself) for similar reasons, and doesn't always see the good in them. However, I think his hope for the future and commitment to the ideals of liberty and democracy show that he has a high "blue concentration", but this doesn't make him a suitable ring-bearer.

Not green: Prodigiously strong will, but distracted and susceptible to psychological attacks.

Not red: While both are haunted by memories of war, Cap doesn't share Frank Castle's bloodlust.

Spider-man: Weak Green (not suitable for a power ring)

While Spider-man has shown great willpower in risking his life to save other people and thwart crime with his powers, despite having every excuse to quit and focus on his personal life, he is held back from being a suitable Green Lantern candidate by guilt and self-doubt.

Not blue: Spider-man is not concerned with ideals or the big picture, but has a more short-range worldview.

Not yellow: In his adolescence, Spider-man terrorized his opponents with his powers and wanted to be seen as powerful to compensate for his social ostracization in high school, but Uncle Ben's death influenced him greatly, and he is now a more humble super hero.

Batman: Medium Yellow (somewhat suitable for a power ring)

Bruce Wayne spent most of his life training to be the ruthless vigilante that would crush the criminal element of Gotham and liberate the spirit of the city his parents believed in from fear and apathy. To this end, he took steps to conquer his own fears and to understand the effect of fear on the mind. The Batman persona was created as a way of exploiting criminals' "cowardly and superstitious" nature, a fear-based psychological weapon. He is also a skilled interrogator. Nobody on Earth understands fear better than Batman, and few wield it to a greater extent.

Not green: While Batman can certainly be strong-willed, he is also emotionally stunted and somewhat mentally unstable.

Not red: While the pain of his parents' death has never truly gone away, Batman has plenty of opportunities to vent his anger, and he is more likely to draw strength from willpower in dire situations, because rage is the enemy of patience.

Wolverine: Medium Blue (somewhat suitable for a power ring)

After decades of being a sullen wanderer, Wolverine found a purpose he could believe in, and a worthwhile outlet for his experience, in the X-men. He's become a mentor for many young mutants, and remained dedicated to Xavier's cause long after many of his comrades became disillusioned and abandoned it.

Not red: Wolverine's rage is more of a defense mechanism, or in some cases a cover for some deeper emotion, than anything.

Not green: Unfortunately, Wolverine often "disappears" instead of facing his problems.

Hulk: Weak Red (not suitable for a power ring)

Hulk's rage is childish and unfocused, base temper tantrums amplified by super strength.

This.

@darthmummy:

Batman can wield a Yellow and Green lantern

and could probably use a red one,

his clone used black and he's been nominated for a white one.

Everything else I agree with though except Hulks rage couldn't use a red one. Hulk is all about anger.

Sasuke, Madara, Tobi, and Itachi - Red

Itachi, Tobi and Madara - Yellow