When the ring kills someone, it creates a hard light construct duplicate, which essentially transforms the deceased party into an agent of Larfleeze. The Orange Lantern Ring has the unique power to literally steal a victim’s identity. That doesn’t mean he doesn’t have minions of his own, though. Instead of recruiting new members and expanding the reach of his army, Larfleeze simply wants to be left along with all his things. Thousands of orange rings do exist, but the head of this Corps has kept the power to himself. RELATED: Jurgens Shifts from Action Comics to Green Lanterns in July Green Lantern Guy Gardner has also been a member of the Red Lanterns, though he "recovered" and has since relinquished his red ring.
Perhaps their most popular member is Dex-Starr, an ordinary house cat who became filled with rage over the death of his owner. After that, Atrocitus used his rage to form the first Red Lantern rings, creating his own Corps with the single purpose of taking out the Guardians of the Universe as revenge. Their leader is Atrocitus, who was an ordinary citizen of Sector 666 before the Manhunters went on the fritz and killed everyone. The Red Lanterns absolutely hate the Green Lanterns. They can also survive without their hearts, because their rage is the only thing that sustains them anymore. Red Lanterns also have the unique ability to spew pure rage energy from their mouths. Upon joining, a ringbearer’s blood is purged from their body and replaced with Red Lantern energy. The Red Lantern Corps thrives on rage, and due to their placement on the Emotional Spectrum, its members are extremely volatile. Now, a new emotion threatens to break that all up, so let's look back at the Emotional Spectrum for a refresher course on each Lantern Corps out there in the DC Universe. RELATED: Justice League: No Justice Creative Team Unveils the DCU’s New Cosmic Beings With the Source Wall broken, new mysteries and threatswill be revealed, and it looks like DC's Julysolicitations are teasing the first great discovery: there is an Ultraviolet Lantern among the Green Lantern's Emotional Spectrum.Ĭreated over a decade ago by Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver, the Emotional Spectrum is the manifestation of emotional energy of sentient life in the universe.By the time Johns left Green Lantern, there were nine established Lantern Corps, each influenced by a different emotion and color, with their own rings,power batteries, oaths, entities and guardians. Scott Snyder,Jim Cheung and Jorge Jimenez's Justice League promises to explore the secret of the universe in the aftermath of Dark Nights: Metal.