#the honesty thing is very important to me like thats one of the things katma taught john is that gls are supposed to be honest Always | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

rillette · 2 years

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Sometimes I think the Guardians are so full of shit because how dare they try to fit people into specific emotional categories. Then I realise that we do it all the time bc we call so and so person "sad" or "angry" or "happy" "all the time" and suddenly I lessen the Shit Grade of the Guardians.

Currently it's at a 9.5/10.

As much as I love to shit on the guardians, that's not actually how the various lantern corps works! Keep in mind that I haven't read the War of Light and Blackest Night events, so all my knowledge of the other corps comes from wikias.

The Guardians of the Universe harnessed the power of the green light that fuels the central battery on Oa. They have the power to give out Green Lantern rings, but only green lantern rings. They aren't responsible for any of the other lantern corps. Green Lanterns are chosen because they have the ability to overcome great fear. They're also supposed to be honest.

As for the other lantern corps, the Indigo Tribe members in particular aren't chosen because they have great compassion, they're chosen because they lack it. They're a group of villains forced to constantly feel the emotions of every living thing in the universe in attempt to "rehabilitate" them. (The Guardians have nothing to do with this.) As much as i love to hate on Geoff for sucking shit, this does in fact go hard. And the Sinestro Corps members are chosen because they have the ability to inspire great fear in others.

So yeah! The Guardians suck for a wide and ever growing variety of reasons but this reason in particular is not one of them i hate to say it. i would still put them at a solid 10/10 on the shit scale tho

#asks <3 #ty for the ask!!#comic talk #i hope this is coherent and nicely worded i genuinely cant tell ive been studying literally all day my brain is leaking out of my ears.#im not trying to shit on u at all anon i prommy i just wanted to talk about green lantern i miss it so bad (wailing)#i said one nice thing about goeff my mortal enemy and almost threw up in my mouth #i need to shit talk him to balance out my karma um um um #geoff basically ignored the entirety of Spectre 2001 and promptly threw all the character development hal went threw out the window so #that he could write the shitty fucking bug retcon. we could have had it all (hal raising helen in a mainline gl comic) but NOOOOOOOOO #the honesty thing is very important to me like thats one of the things katma taught john is that gls are supposed to be honest Always #also the ability to overcome great fear is important to note. they aren't supposed to be completely fearless they're supposed to be able to #push PAST their fears thats where their willpower comes into play!! its so much more interesting to have a character whos scared and being #brave than to have a character who is completely unable to feel fear i think #its 1am i need to stop incoherently babbling about gl in the tags and go to bed good nite

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