Green Lantern Lore Confirms Most Powerful Heroes Have a Secret Weakness
It isn't just fear that the members of the Green Lantern Corps have to be wary of. The organization has a history of its most notable Lanterns being led astray by something much more powerful: knowledge of the future.
Since their creation, the one thing that stood in the way of the Green Lanterns doing their jobs was the Lanterns' abilities to feel fear. Because of the Yellow Light of Fear's proximity to the Green Light of Will on the Emotional Spectrum, fear could taint a Lantern's ability to wield their ring effectively. This helped make the color yellow a weakness for the Green Lanterns, preventing them from using their constructs on anything with that particular color. Therefore, it remains imperative that any being recruited into the Corps is able to overcome great fear, lest they succumb to the natural enemy of willpower.
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It turns out the Green Lanterns have a hidden weakness that can take down some of their most powerful Lanterns. Abin Sur, Hal Jordan's predecessor, was long considered one of the greatest Green Lanterns in the entire Corps. But the officer was doomed when he came into contact with Qull of the Five Inversions. The demonic alien told Green Lantern Abin Sur a prophecy of how his ring would fail him at a crucial moment, setting up Sur's infamous death. But Sur isn't the only Lantern who was affected by visions of the future. In Green Lantern #35 by Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis, a still-Green Lantern Sinestro is imprisoning Atrocitus on Ysmault along with his fellow Inversions. The future leader of the Red Lanterns tells his captor that Sinestro's home planet, Korugar, is destined for chaos that Sinestro will not be able to
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