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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9386469" data-attributes="member: 6790260">It's like asking, "What's the difference between Green Lantern, (DC) Captain Marvel, and Superman??? They're all superheroes who fight using superpowers!"Green Lantern follows a code, with actual beings who head an organization, call the shots, and send out orders, occasionally calling for a gathering or group operations, with commanders and subordinates and all the rest. They even teach new recruits how to use their powers. All Green Lanterns do this; there are many of them. They're expected to work with that hierarchy, even though any specific comic's GL often acts as the only representative of that organization in any given story. GL's relationship to, and reputation with, said organization varies quite a lot from one telling to another, but whatever that relationship and reputation is, it almost always matters at some point.Captain Marvel got his superpowers through a pact with a power-granting entity. He's supposed to keep that entity happy, but beyond "do good things for good reasons," he's got pretty much free rein to use the powers as he likes. There is no hierarchy, no real structure--and, importantly, the wizard who granted those powers in the first place can't just take them back, because it was a gifted boon. This is demonstrated by the treachery of Black Adam. Captain Marvel doesn't really have to learn to use his powers, he just gets them every time he says "Shazam."And then there's Superman. Last son of Krypton. He just...has powers. Well, he has them as long as he's exposed to yellow sunlight often enough. Anyone who shares his physiology has those powers too. Nobody gave them, nobody bestowed them. They're just what he physically is. His greatest superpower, however, is the morality that his human parents instilled in him. He wants to do the right thing, for the right reason, because he can, because his Kryptonian physiology makes him capable of helping, saving, protecting in ways nobody else can match.If you think GL, Captain Marvel, and Supes are different enough superheroes, then there's no reason Clerics, celestial Warlocks, and Divine Sorcerers can't coexist.</blockquote>

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