The Anti-Lanterns
By Timandm 9 Comments
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!!! |
Anti-Lanterns | |
Emotion | Traits |
Happiness | Have short memories so they never hold a grudge. 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.
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Generosity | A Generous Lantern has the ability to sense what a target needs and generate a construct of said need… |
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… |
Apathy / Despair | The Despair Lanterns are led by Eeyore… but who cares.
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Cruelty / Animosity | Cruel Lanterns exist solely to harm, torture, irritate, and bother every other life form in the universe. Including their own team mates. · Stealing one sock from a dryer |
Hate | This one is obvious. The Hate Lanterns hate…. They make terrible team mates. Hate Lanters: · Poke holes in condoms during the manufacturing process. |