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The Anti-Lanterns

I've been following the New Guardians story with Kyle Rayner.
I've been thinking about the "Emotional Spectrum."  As I understand it, the emotions are what powers each of the different colored lanterns.  So, going in the ROYGBIV order:
 
Red            -    Rage 
Orange      -    Avarice
Yellow        -    Fear
Green        -    Will
Blue           -     Hope
Indigo        -    Compassion
Violet         -     Love

 The idea of drawing power from the emotional spectrum is a very very kewl idea....   But, I can't help but notice many emotions are just... not mentioned...  So the idea of a second set of lanterns came to mind... The ANTI-LANTERNS...  A force of lanterns that 'balance' out the existing lanterns... So, off the top of my head...

                                                                            Lantern

                                                                                     Anti-Lantern

Color

Emotion

Emotion

Color

Red

Rage

Happiness

 Peach?   Magenta?   Rainbow?

Orange

Avarice

Generosity

Whatever color is left will be fine…

Green

Will

Surrender

We don’t know.   You tell us.

Blue

Hope

Apathy / Despair

We don’t care.   It’ll just be taken away…

Indigo

Compassion

Cruelty / Animosity

Is ‘hell’ a color?

Violet

Love

Hate

We’re not telling you, asshat!!!

And what would these lanterns be like, I wonder..... Hmmmm....  
 

Anti-Lanterns

Emotion

Traits

Happiness

Have short memories so they never hold a grudge.
Have no family members who can be hurt.
Own no property that can be stolen.
There either is or isn’t a God.   Either way is okay with them.

The power rings of the HAPPY corp. have the ability to sense that which makes the target most happy.   Thus a HAPPY LANTERN can generate a construct of the target’s happy thoughts.
It is believed that a Happy Lantern helped Wendy and her siblings find their happy thoughts…

Generosity

A Generous Lantern has the ability to sense what a target needs and generate a construct of said need…
The downside to being a Generous Lantern is that the target’s need is often the death and destruction of the lantern corp.   
Thus, Generous Lanterns are not long lived.

Surrender

Surrender Lanterns sense out those who wish to overcome or conquer in any way shape and form…   Their rings have the ability to generate handcuffs, straight-jackets, prison cells, and various forms of restraint around the Surrender Lantern…
Surrender Lanterns rarely serve more than one mission before having to be replaced.

Apathy / Despair

The Despair Lanterns are led by Eeyore… but who cares.

Cruelty / Animosity

Cruel Lanterns exist solely to harm, torture, irritate, and bother every other life form in the universe.   Including their own team mates.
They draw power and amusement from any action that makes life more difficult on anyone else.   These actions include but are not limited to:

·          Stealing one sock from a dryer
·          Removing the battery cover on remote controls so that the batteries are always falling out!
·          Stealing toilet paper from public bathrooms
·          Starting discussions on Politics, Religion, and Sex in the workplace
·          Starting more than half the threads in comic vine
·          Stealing half the parking spaces in any university in the United States
·          Introducing ‘Intelligent Design’ to various cultures.   They are currently destroying knowledge of gravity with the ‘Intelligent Push Down’ theory.
·          Comic Events that take up many issues over long periods of time and accomplish nothing
·          Polyester wash and wear suits
·          Creating things like BICYCLE BARS in which men can fall on and…guys, you know what I’m talking about.
·          Removing the seat from a bicycle.   Now THAT hurts. 
·          Introducing PMS to many races across the universe.

Hate

This one is obvious.   The Hate Lanterns hate….   They make terrible team mates.   Hate Lanters:

  ·        Poke holes in condoms during the manufacturing process.
·          Make sure decent medical care and medicine cost too much for the poor.
·          Supports any form of organized religion which believes in the destruction of all other forms organized religions.
·          Are responsible for at least half of all country and rap music.
·          Sell weapons AND medicine to both sides during a war.
·          Are responsible for One More Day…

Please feel free to add or subtract as necessary
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