Why is Green Lantern's weakness yellow?

The impurity rendered the rings powerless over yellow -- and when the Central Battery was destroyed in Green Lantern #50 (1993), the weakness was removed for the next generation. In the years since the "Emerald Twilight" story removed the weakness to yellow, it has been redefined.
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What is the Yellow Lanterns weakness?

9 HOPE WEAKNESS

However, the Yellow Lanterns' rings have a weakness that can disrupt and drain their power. Hope renders a Yellow Lantern ineffective because its existence is antithetical to the emotion of fear. Where there is hope, fear has no power.
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What's Green Lanterns weakness?

The Green Lantern rings is one of the most powerful weapons in the DC Universe. However, even with all that power, it has one big weakness: Fear. Of course, the concept of fear -- and especially overcoming it -- has been a prevalent topic in the world of comics for decades.
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Is Yellow Lantern stronger than green?

All of this, emotional understanding of both the user and the people they protect, coupled with its uses in the field have make the Yellow Lantern ring much more effective than a green one.
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Do Green Lantern rings work on yellow?

Originally, power rings were unable to affect objects colored yellow, though Lanterns have typically found ways around the limitation by indirect manipulation. The reason why the rings were unable to affect yellow objects has changed significantly from writer to writer.
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Does Green Lantern hate yellow?

However, fixing the Green Lantern Corps' weakness to yellow was a little more complex. During the Green Lantern's Rebirth era under Geoff Johns, it was revealed that the "Yellow Impurity" was the result of the fear entity known as Parallax being trapped within the Central Power Battery, the rings' source of power.
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What color lantern is the strongest?

Blue Lantern Corps

It is the most powerful color but also the most difficult to master and needs Green nearby to reach its full potential. Blue can, however, drain Yellow rings of their power and suppress Red and Orange.
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Which lantern ring is the weakest?

Green Lanterns are the most dedicated and heroic warriors of the Emotional Spectrum, so why do they choose to work with Blue Lanterns, the weakest? In the vast annals that make up the Green Lantern Corps mythos, the Blue Lanterns are a Corps powered by the emotion of hope.
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Is there a GREY Lantern Corps?

The Grey Lantern Corps is one of the Lantern Corps. The Grey Lanterns draw their power from their members' absolute apathy. As such, only members of Hattar's species can qualify for being Grey Lanterns.
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Are yellow lanterns evil?

The Sinestro Corps, also known as Yellow Lantern Corps, is a supervillainous analog to the Green Lantern Corps in the DC Universe. Their power is derived from the emotional electromagnetic spectrum of fear; the corps is led by the supervillain Sinestro.
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Why do red lanterns vomit blood?

Rage Plasma: The Red Lantern can vomit plasma, which has been described as napalm and acid mixed together, it burns away at anything. It can be surmised that is the internal rages effect on the blood.
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Why is Green Lanterns weakness wood?

The original Green Lantern, Alan Scott's weakness to wood stemmed from his subconscious belief that his powers couldn't affect the material. The later Lanterns' weakness to the color yellow came from the Fear entity trapped within the Green Lantern Corps' central power battery.
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What is the Flash's weakness?

The Flash is one of DC's most formidable heroes, but it turns out his biggest fear is slipping on a banana peel and rocketing himself into space.
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Why did Sinestro turn yellow?

Willpower leads to arrogance, arrogance leads to anger, anger leads to hatred, hatred leads to fear and fear leads to the Yellow Ring. He also has lost confidence that Guardians have the will to do what is necessary - he may have doubts about the ring, but he sees it as the only way.
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Are red lanterns evil?

The Red Lantern Corps are a major villainous organization, functioning as anti-heroes throughout much of the DC universe and they were enemies of the Green Lantern Corps. Their power is derived from the emotional spectrum, particularly the Red Light of Rage.
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What is the Pink Lantern Oath?

Oath: In fearful day, in raging night, With strong hearts full, our souls ignite. When all seems lost in the War of Light, Look to the stars, for hope burns bright!
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Can Green Lantern summon his ring?

A Green Lantern can recall their rings from short distances, no more than twenty or thirty feet, even if it has been taken from them by subterfuge or force.
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Are black lanterns evil?

Instead, they are malevolent beings who seek to murder even those they considered friends. As demonstrated by Batman, a Black Lantern ring is also capable of resurrecting people other than the wielder.
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What is the Purple Lantern Corps?

Violet (Star Sapphire) Lantern Corps

Love is much like anger in that its wielder cannot fully control their actions unless extreme discipline and focus are used. The Violet Power Ring is worn by those who fully know the true value love — be it through loss or gain.
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What is the White Lantern power?

Each White Lantern possesses a power ring that lets the user create white energy constructs powered by life itself. The original wielder of the Entity, Sinestro, displays the ability to eradicate swarms of Black Lanterns effortlessly and is described as "godlike".
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Who is the strongest red Lantern?

The founder and leader of the Red Lantern Corps, Atrocitus is by far the most powerful of all the Red Lanterns. After the former psychologist survived the massacre of his people at the hands of the Red Lanterns, Atrocitus became a criminal who fought against the Guardians of the Universe.
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Who is the gold lantern?

Kala Lour, a.k.a. the Gold Lantern, was created by Brian Michael Bendis, and debuted in Superman #14. Formerly a Filipino school teacher, Kala eventually joined the premier superhero team of the future, the Legion of Super-Heroes.
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Are white lanterns good?

While some of the other Lantern Corps, like the Sinestro Corps or the Red Lantern Corps, cater to individuals who are often less than heroic, the White Lantern will grant its power to anyone alive or dead as long they can serve its purposes. This means it has resurrected villains as well as heroes.
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Who Had All the lantern rings?

5 Answers. Show activity on this post. Kyle Rayner has worn each color of the spectrum and is the White Lantern. Despite the initial shock of being chosen to wield all of the rings after the Green Lanterns were all but destroyed in Blackest Night, he learned to wield all of them.
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