🔴Green Lantern's TRUE Opposite Confirmed with New Red Lantern Lore🔴
0Green Lantern's TRUE Opposite Confirmed with New Red Lantern Lore
DC has redefined the Red Lantern’s lore, and in the process made him Green Lantern’s true opposite. The new Red Lantern had quickly become Alan Scott’s greatest foe, a former lover turned enemy through no fault of his own. The Red Lantern is also one of DC’s most mysterious characters, but now the history of the Crimson Flame is on display in Alan Scott: The Green Lantern #5.
Alan Scott: The Green Lantern #5 is written by Tim Sheridan and drawn by Cian Tormey. Alan Scott has been saved by the Emerald Flame, a personification of his power source. It explains to him both the origin of the Emerald and Crimson Flames. The Guardians of the Universe gathered wild magic into a giant green orb and imprisoned it within a star, where it grew sentient. A sliver of its essence escaped, becoming Green Lantern’s power source. Another bit saw the escape, and grew envious and eventually succumbed to rage
The Emotional Spectrum is one of the fundamental forces of the DC Universe, equal in importance to the Speed Force and other such concepts. Structured like the traditional light spectrum, with red on one end and violet on the other, each color is assigned a particular emotion. Red, as mentioned earlier, is on one extreme end of the Spectrum, meaning it is a far more intense emotion and as such, can override its hosts’ personality, turning them into rage-fueled zombies. Atrocitus, the leader of the present-day Red Lanterns, eventually experiments with giving his minions free will, nearly destroying the Corp.
Red is not the only other color in the Emotional Spectrum that can have such an effect on its user. Violet, the color of love, also occupies an extreme end of the Spectrum and, just like Red, it can overwrite a person’s identity. The Star Sapphires, the current wielders of the Violet Light of Love, take a more hard-lined approach than fans would expect, forcibly recruiting women to the cause. Likewise, the Indigo Lanterns, who wield the Light of Compassion, lose their ability to feel other emotions, which could cloud their judgements.
Perhaps the best known color of the Emotional Spectrum is green, which, as the Emerald Flame pointed out to Alan, is the color of willpower. The Guardians of the Universe, the bosses of the Green Lantern Corps, were the first to harness the Green Light of Willpower. The Guardians attempted several times to bring order to a chaotic universe, including the Manhunters, the Green Lantern Corps and the Third Army. The Guardians’ war on magic, and the subsequent creation of the Starheart, were another such attempt.