Red Power Ring
Red Power Ring is a comic book object that first appeared in Green Lantern Vol. 5 #28
The ring of a Red Lantern, it is fueled by hatred and rage.
Characteristics
A red ring feeds on the rage of its user, and is charged by the blood of those the user kills. Red rings constantly emit words such as "Kill", "Rage", "Pain", "Hatred", "Blood", and "Burn".Powers & Abilities
As a conduit of power from the red range of the emotional spectrum, the Red Power rings have a number of abilities akin to those of other Lantern Rings.- Animation: A Red Lantern can will objects to move how he or she wants.
- Artificial Intelligence: The ring acts as an "on-board computer," telling the wearer what they need to know. It can either respond out loud, or silently directly to the wearer's mind. The ring also translates nearly every language to and from the wearer, which is why the Corps can communicate with each other.
- Burglar Alarm: A Lantern can coat anything with the rings beam and thus, if anyone other than himself touches it, his ring will glow, alerting him to the possible theft.
- Communicator: The rings can act as a personal communicator between Lanterns. They have also been seen connected to telephones.
- Costumes: The wearer of the ring may create any costume they choose, based on their personal preferences, whenever they choose. The ring projects the costume over any clothes already worn at the time.
- Energy Projections: The rings can also project beams, form protective bubbles and force fields, and fire destructive blasts. Sometimes, depending on the wearer, the beams and blasts make sounds.
- Energy Constructs: The rings can construct anything the wearer can imagine from hard-light energy, as long as they are willing to make it. The more determined the wearer is, the more complex and intricate these things can be. The constructs can even be so complex as to form working machines, computers, and even people.
- Flight: The rings allows the wearer to fly in atmosphere or in space, and can achieve incredible speeds, moving from planet to planet in a matter of hours.
- Invisibility: The rings can make the wearer or anything else invisible.
- Matter Manipulation: A Lantern can use their ring to manipulate nearby matter, such as water, for various purposes such as a construct that acts like an energy construct but can block something yellow and may serve a purpose that an energy construct couldn't perform.
- Mind Control: The wearer of the Ring can use it to plant post hypnotic commands or control a person.
- Mirages: The rings can create mirages/illusions.
- Phasing: The rings allows the user to go through walls.
- Probing: The rings can probe the Lantern's or another person's mind, allowing him to uncover memories or the person's thoughts.
- Temperature Control: The rings can increase or decrease the temperature of anything, even something as large as stars, or even create bubbles of intense heat or cold, even down to Absolute Zero.
- Transforming: The rings can transform anyone or anything, be it into an animal, altering their state of appearance, or their size.
Unique Powers & Abilities
It appears that each new Lantern Corps Ring as unique abilities. For Red Power Rings, these abilities include:- Life-Force: Red Lanterns' hearts are replaced in function by the ring. The blood spoils and the ring expels it from the bearers mouth in a vomit of violent rage. The ring's energy replaces their blood. A Red Lantern's veins stretch as they fill with the liquid fire of the red light. Red Lantern cannot remove the their ring without risking death. However, a Blue Lantern's ring has shown the ability to reverse this process, even going so far as to destroying a Red Lantern Power Ring.
- Energy Blasts: The ring's energy is discharged as a liquid capable of burning in the vacuum of space. This liquid has been described as a napalm/acid mix. This fire can burst forth from a wielder's ring and can be vomited out in their mouth with devastating effect. A Red Lantern's fire has been known to burn through a Green Lantern's force field and rapidly deplete the power levels of opposing corps power rings.
- Rage Detection/Control: Hateful emotions, such as rage, can be manipulated by the ring user. A Red Lantern can detect the rage in the heart of others and by connection the blood that pumps that blood. The rage and hatred of a individual red lantern empowers their abilities as well as the rage and hatred of others.The red ring's energy can also corrupt the energies of other power rings, infecting others with rage. The only known cure to to the rage of the red lanterns is the blue light of hope.
- Physical Properties: In addition to energy powers, Red Lantern received enhanced speed and strength. However, the red light consumed it's wielder so completely, making them little more then animals hungry to feed and kill. Most Red Lanterns tend to act on pure instinct, driven to kill and destroy with no reason or forethought. Atrocitus has shown to be the only Red Lantern still in control of his mental faculties.
- Heart Replacement: In addition to replacing the blood, the ring also works as the heart. If the heart is removed the Red Lantern will continue to live. This was demonstrated when Atrocitus' heart was torn out by a Black Lantern.
