The Green Lanterns remain the most popular of all the Power Ring colors, but they are not the most powerful or the most threatening of the color spectrum. For many years in DC Comics, it was only about the Green Power Rings, and the Green Lantern Corps revealed themselves to be the law enforcement agency of the universe. This introduced the world to heroes like Alan Scott, Hal Jordan, John Stewart, Kyle Rayner, Guy Gardner, and more. However, over time, there were more colors that arrived, with the most infamous being the Sinestro Corps, which used the fear-based yellow Power Rings.
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However, like the event series Blackest Night showed, neither the Green Lantern Corps nor the Sinestro Corps was the most powerful, nor did they provide the greatest threats to the universe, and there are several colors that are much more dangerous.
11) Blue Lanterns
The least powerful and threatening of all the Power Rings came with the Blue Lantern Corps. This is because these heroes are not offensive warriors, and they do not offer a threat at all. They are there as simply a symbol of the hope for the future. Saint Walker is the most famous member of this group, and they exist for the sole purpose of aiding other Lantern Colors, but only if their goals are benevolent. The Blue Lanterns are not warriors in a fight, but they will help any other Corps that needs a boost for the power of good.
10) Indigo Lanterns
The Indigo Tribe is another color that has almost nothing to do with aggression and threatening actions. Instead, the Indigo color is one that channels the emotion of compassion. There is one caveat here, and that is the fact that the Indigo Tribe enlists the most despicable sociopaths in the universe into its ranks, believing it can rehabilitate them. This makes them very interesting because they have deadly members, but the ring’s power forces them to feel compassion and doesn’t allow them to take aggressive action against anyone unless it is needed (such as during Blackest Night).
9) Orange Lanterns
The Orange Lantern Corps represents greed, and as a result, there is only one member of this entire group. Larfleeze is a petty ring holder who killed every other member of his Corps so he could be the only one to possess this power. He also lives by the motto that what is his is his, and what is anyone else’s is also his. He is almost childlike in his need to keep everything he finds for himself. However, the one thing to note is that if people leave him alone in his world, he will stay to himself. This makes him less threatening than other Power Ring holders and allows him to mostly live in peace with his numerous possessions.
8) Sapphire Lanterns
The Star Sapphire Corps uses a violent color, and this is the emotion of love that flows through their rings. One might think that this would make them the least threatening of all the Power Ring Corps, but that is not true. There are few emotions more powerful than love, and when love is threatened, things can turn deadly. They often remain on their own and refuse to take part in action unless there is no other choice, though, so they are often less threatening than most others unless pushed into a corner.
7) White Lanterns
One might consider the White Lanterns to be the best of the best, but they are also extremely powerful, more so than almost any other color. It was the White Lanterns who eventually defeated the Black Lanterns in Blackest Night, which shows how strong they really are. This is mainly because the White Lantern’s color was what originated every other color of the Lanterns across the spectrum. However, the users have no control over themselves, as they simply do the bidding of the Life Entity when wearing it. This also means they have to do actions that constitute “living,” which makes them less threatening than other colors.
6) Green Lanterns
The Green Lantern Corps is widely considered the most powerful of all the Power Ring holders, but this is not really true in every case. Yes, they are likely the best-trained soldiers, and that makes them dangerous in any war. They also fight on willpower, which makes them almost unstoppable when it comes to achieving a goal. However, they are soldiers, and often go where they are pointed, and they are supposed to uphold the law and seek justice, which makes them the good guys in most cases, lessening the danger that they would just wreak havoc when pushed too far. They also have a weakness to Red and Yellow Power Rings, which limits their power levels.
5) Grey Lanterns
Only one person has ever served as a Grey Lantern, but he almost destroyed everything, which shows how powerful and dangerous this color is. The Grey Lantern was Nathan Broome, a man who was supposed to marry Carol Ferris. However, when she left him before their wedding to save Hal Jordan, he was brokenhearted, and his engagement ring was infused with sadness, transforming him into a Sorrow Lantern. He wanted revenge, and even the entire Green Lantern Corps fell to his power, showing the threat level of his sorrow. It took Carol to give him closure before he finally sacrificed his life after Starbreaker had created the Grey Power Battery. His death destroyed that Power Battery, and it saved the universe from his ultimate power.
4) Yellow Lanterns
When it comes to bad guys in the Power Ring world, the color of Yellow was the first to show up and caused problems for everyone in the Green Lantern Corps. This was the Sinestro Corps, created by Sinestro, the former Green Lantern Corps member who helped train Hal Jordan. Of course, Yellow is one color that the Green Lantern Corps has no power against, and this made them an obvious foil. The yellow coloir feed on fear, which is what makes them so threatening, and with a tactical genius like Sinestro in the lead, this is the one group most likely to cause problems in the universe.
3) Red Lanterns
The Red Lantern Corps are pure villains in the DC Comics universe, because their color relies on rage. While the Sinestro Corps are bad guys, for sure, they are more tactical and plan out their attacks. The Red Lantern Corps just rely on their rage by enlisting the angriest beings in the universe and then having Atocitus lead them into a blind attack on anyone standing in their path. They are also one of the rare Power Ring colors that are immune to the Black Lantern Corps, since they have no use for their hearts. The Red Lanterns also shoot plasma and napalm from their rings, which makes them as deadly as anyone.
2) Ultraviolet Lanterns
The Ultraviolet Corps is one of the newest colors when it comes to Power Rings, debuting in 2018 in the pages of Justice League Vol. 4 #4. They represent the “Invisible Emotional Spectrum,” and their power comes from a sentient sun called Umbrax. This sun is something that actually scared Sinestro, which shows how powerful and threatening its power really is. Umbrax was even powerful enough to corrupt Sinestro and attack the Earth. However, the only thing that holds back the Ultraviolet Corps is that they have no control and only exist to serve Umbrax, which makes them emotionless and deadly.
1) Black Lanterns
The most powerful and threatening of the Power Ring holders is the Black Lantern Corps. They might not be as strong as others in some areas, but they almost destroyed the entire world in Blackest Night before the White Lanterns showed up to save the day. The one thing that makes them even more frightening is that they have no control over themselves and only exist to serve Nekron, the Lord of the Unliving. Their members are all dead, and their color represents the absence of emotion and life. They can bring back even the best heroes from the dead to make them part of their ranks, making them an evil form of the zombie apocalypse.
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