10 Awesome Temporary Power Upgrades Received By Comic Book Characters

5. Kyle Rayner (Ion)

Ion Kyle Ion is a benevolent symbiote, created when the first act of willpower in the universe was carried out, which embodies willpower itself and is the driving force behind the Green Lantern Corps and their power rings. When the entity has a host, the name Ion is often used as an alias by the hosting character €“ and in this case I'll be referring to the time the Green Lantern Kyle Rayner was its host (which first occurred in Green Lantern volume 3, #145). Kyle first assumed the Ion identity after a prolonged series of events which stemmed from the death of his girlfriend Alex. He unconsciously expelled all of his feelings of rage from his body, which subsequently takes the physical form of one of his childhood nightmares and calls itself Oblivion. Kyle defeats Oblivion in the Circle of Fire arc and his powers are boosted as a result. As time progresses, his powers begin to grow even stronger until Kyle realised he was tapping into the Green Lantern energy left in the sun after Hal Jordan died. After a battle over control of the power with the villain Nero, Kyle absorbed all of the powers of the Green Lantern Corps and embodied willpower itself, resulting in him taking the name Ion. Of course, any character hosting Ion has all the usual powers of a Green Lantern (flight, incredibly durable automatic forcefields, energy manipulation, the ability to create constructs and the ability to augment their own physical statistics etc), but they also possess other godly abilities of untold power. As Ion, Kyle Rayner was completely omniscient and omnipotent, possessing all knowledge and able to exist everywhere at once. He had complete control over time, space and reality and was essentially God. He fixed all of the world's major problems at the same time by virtue of the fact that he could be everywhere he was needed simultaneously. He was never defeated and chose to submit his powers and bled them off to avoid losing his humanity, as the power would have ultimately consumed him despite its benevolent nature. He did so by creating a generation of Guardians and restarting the central power battery €“ both of which are fine indications of the level of power he possessed, given that the Guardians are insanely powerful beings in themselves and the central power battery is what powers every single Green Lantern ring (of which there are hundreds).
 
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