The power rings wielded by The Green Lantern Corps are perhaps the coolest weapons ever designed. In case you dont know (but seriously, who reading this doesnt!?), a Green Lanterns ring enables the wearer, once properly trained, to create, well, anything she/he can imagine. These constructs are made from glowing green light, but they have the ability to physically affect their surroundings. If I were wearing a GL ring and I saw a fire, for example, I could easily put it out by imagining a bucket of water and then mentally picturing it spilling over the fire. The great thing about Green Lantern rings is that, like comics themselves, they are only limited by the imagination. The power ring must be recharged regularly by placing it onto a Lantern and reciting the Green Lantern oath. The ring draws its power from the Lantern and its fantastic abilities from the bearers willpower. In more recent years, over the course of an absolutely brilliant nine-year run on the Green Lantern books, writer Geoff Johns introduced several other power rings to the GL mythos. Yellow rings draw from a users fear. Blue rings draw from a users hope. Red rings draw from a users rage. Indigo rings draw from the power of compassion. Violet rings utilise the power of love. Orange rings (or rather, the one orange ring) are powered by greed. Meanwhile, black rings animate the dead, turning them into evil zombies (cool) and white rings have the opposite effect, bringing with them the powers of light, life and healing, as well as containing all the aforementioned powers in the rest of the list. The GL rings are an intersection of technology and magic, i.e. technology so advanced that it may as well be magic, which is probably the best kind of technology. Being able to use a Green Lantern ring in day-to-day life would be tremendous. I mean, youd never get bored again, would you? Even if you couldnt think of any constructs to create, youd still be able to fly/breathe in space and have a protective forcefield around you at all times.
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