10 More Comic Book Teams That Need Their Own Movie
7. Charles Soule's Red Lantern Corps
From 2004 to 2011, writer Geoff Johns redefined the DC's guardian of sector 2814 and his space cop comrades and enemies. He introduced the Emotional Spectrum, a rainbow-inspired range of ring-bearers, each group powered by a specific emotion. The Green Lanterns, as we know, are powered by willpower, with other corps powered by fear, greed, hope, compassion, love... and rage.
Here came the Red Lanterns, a corps made up of members so hurt, so tortured, so angry that, rather than using their rings to wield hard-light constructs, they vomited napalm blood. And aside from leader Atrocitus, none of the lanterns actually spoke. They communicated with screams and roars instead.
So back when DC rebooted its universe back in 2011 and the Red Lanterns got their own series, a few eyebrows were raised. How is a team meant to carry a comic book when most of them don't actually, y'know, speak? Writer Peter Milligan soon saw to that, with non-speaking members being baptised and reborn in a lake of blood, emerging as coherent beings. Sadly, the quality of the series was sub-standard, seemingly only surviving due to being buoyed along by its sister titles and frequent crossover events that encouraged sales.
But then came writer Charles Soule. Under his stewardship, the corps established its own MO, becoming more than just those violent, angry tornadoes of death. Green Lantern Guy Gardener was tasked by fellow GL John Stewart to go undercover in the corps and keep an eye on them, but ended up usurping leader Atrocitus and enabling other Reds to reveal their hidden depths in the process.
Together, they traveled the universe enacting justice wherever it was required, and for a time, Red Lanterns was the best GL title on the shelf. Of course, the Green Lantern would have to be established - successfully, this time - before the Reds could be introduced alongside any other corps, but that's not an insurmountable task.
One of the Reds also looks like a giant testicle with teeth. If that doesn't sell you, nothing will.