HBO Officially Changes a Fundamental Rule of DC Superhero Canon
Lanterns episode 2 gives John Stewart an extremely rare Green Lantern ability, establishing the trainee as a potential prodigy.
Lanterns episode 2 gives John Stewart an extremely rare Green Lantern ability, establishing the trainee as a potential prodigy.
The short version
- John Stewart’s impossible construct reveals just how powerful he could become on Lanterns and beyond Adapted from Geoff Johns and Jim Lee’s 2011 Justice League #1 , the scene is a funny distillation of both characters.
- Batman is observant enough to identify and steal the source of that power within minutes.
- It also dramatizes one of the Green Lantern mythology’s basic rules: The ring transforms willpower into physical hard-light constructs, but a Lantern has to be wearing the ring to wield that power.
What happened
HBO’s Lanterns just pushed that rule to its apparent limit — and potentially set John Stewart up to become the most powerful Green Lantern in the DC Universe . In Lanterns episode 2, John Stewart (Aaron Pierre) maintains an intricate, autonomous construct while separated from the ring and after repeatedly losing consciousness.
Why it matters
The Green Lantern comics contain a handful of comparable feats, but they usually involve veteran Lanterns, unusual rings, or cosmic transformations.
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