Superheroes questions - random thoughts

[Drowbane]

So... asssuming the Lantern in question wasn't able to overcome Yellow...

Dipping oneself in yellow paint would stop him being able to affect you... but being powered by a Yellow Sun wouldn't?

Does that seem right to you?

Ahh well, again was just some random thoughts. I never could get into the Green Lantern. Too weird.

 

[Glyfair]

So... asssuming the Lantern in question wasn't able to overcome Yellow...

Dipping oneself in yellow paint would stop him being able to affect you... but being powered by a Yellow Sun wouldn't?

Sure. Just like eating a banana wouldn't make you immune to an old school Green Lantern's power. Eating the banana doesn't make you yellow, gaining energy from the yellow sun doesn't make you yellow either.

As for whether having a ring that is almost all powerful but can do nothing against yellow things...well, there is a certain point where you have to not look too closely at comic book logic.

 

[Edheldur]

As for whether having a ring that is almost all powerful but can do nothing against yellow things...well, there is a certain point where you have to not look too closely at comic book logic.

Well, if you were all covered in yellow, a GL ring couldn't -normally- affect you directly; but that's why GLs use imagination a lot. However, I agree 100% with Glyfair when talking about comic book logic (which is why my GF has a really hard time playing M&M).

 

[warlord]

This mya have already been said but in Infinate Crisis the GL Corps tried to stop Superboy-Prime by shooting rays of kryponite out of their rings.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Dipping oneself in yellow paint would stop him being able to affect you

There was even a villain who did just that- Goldface- but Hal Jordan beat him repeatedly by affecting him indirectly...like picking up something heavy and dropping it on him.

Being a GL is just as much about using tactics as brute force.

 

[WayneLigon]

So... asssuming the Lantern in question wasn't able to overcome Yellow...

Dipping oneself in yellow paint would stop him being able to affect you... but being powered by a Yellow Sun wouldn't?

Does that seem right to you?

Yes, because it was literally the color yellow that affected the rings. The only part of Superman they would not have been able to directly affect were the yellow parts of his costume.

Although it really depends on the ring. I'm not sure about the current batch, but back when Kyle Rayner was the only ringbearer, his ring had no vulnerability to yellow: his only restriction was the strength of his will and the depth of his imagination.

Because that yellow disad really bites...

 

[Drowbane]

elf-boot to the head!

Because that yellow disad really bites...

...so thoroughly taken out by... Robin!!!




its a wonder that more of the Lantern's foes didn't dip themselves in yellow paint and wield baseball bats (although I guess only Alan Scott was vulnerable to wood...?).

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

...so thoroughly taken out by... Robin!!!

That's almost as bad as wounding a kobold.

its a wonder that more of the Lantern's foes didn't dip themselves in yellow paint and wield baseball bats (although I guess only Alan Scott was vulnerable to wood...?).

Or carry spray cans of yellow paint. "Look out, it's Green Lantern! Spray him!"

 

[Umbran]

...so thoroughly taken out by... Robin!!!

There's been worse. If I recall correctly, Guy Gardener got his butt whooped by Booster Gold's yellow cat at one point.

Just to show ya - cats aren't just a threat to commoners

 

[Piratecat]

Who HASN'T whooped Guy Gardner? Batman took him out with one punch.

Best... scene... ever.