Will audiences accept yellow as a weakness for the Lanterns?

[M.O.Steel]

hold on! he is weak to the color yellow? like, literally to the color yellow? that makes no sense. how do they explain this in the comics?

i think they should use it like "green" is to superman. not literally the color, but it just so happens that everything that hurts him has a yellow hue to it.

 

[Changeling]

No. Thats not it. He is a vulnerability to fear, and in the emotional spectrum, fear is the color yellow.

 

[M.O.Steel]

ah ok...phew.

that makes more sense.

but does that mean he hates sun rises? and yeloow cake? and twinkies?

 

[Watson]

No. Thats not it. He is a vulnerability to fear, and in the emotional spectrum, fear is the color yellow.

That's true now, but it's kind of a retcon from the recent GL stories. As far as I know when the character was first around it was just a yellow impurity in the rings. Golden Age Green Lantern (Alan Scott) was of course weak to wood.

 

[protocida]

It's just say Green and Yellow block eachother.

 

[protocida]

How do they explain this in the comics?

Originally, it was a problem in the Central Battery metallic league, that made the ring useless to anything yellow (Robin beat Green Lantern up putting his yellow cape over his hand).

Geoff Johns retconned it, explaining that each emotion of the emotional spectrum had a visual color representation. Parallax, the entity of fear, was yellow. The Guardians placed him inside the Central Battery so he wouldn't destroy the Universe, and, because of his presence, the rings became useless against yellow. Now, the senior Lanterns (Hal, John, Guy, Kyle, Kilowog, Salaak...) can fight yellow, and the recruits can't. However, if any Lantern feels fear, his ring will become useless against the yellow light of fear (As Parallax showed Jack T. Chance).

 

[Webhead2006]

yea if they explain the whole spectrum thing it should be good.

 

[louiebling$]

To be Honest I've always found this a flaw to me.. which is the very reason I didn't like GL for a Very long time (or DC for that matter) then I finally Started Collecting GL and I finally understood what his Weakness really is... its not realy the Color yellow but its Fear(Sinestro Corp) that hinders his will power.If they can make the GA understand that the GL's Power comes from their Will Power and that Fear Weakness Willpower then I think they can Grasp his Weakness and not think its just the actual color then it should be good.

 

[Webhead2006]

Yea i dont see if they explain it well the GA should understand it and dont think its silly or cheesy.

 

[Doctor Jones]

If they do it the way people have been talking about around here it should be fine.

 

[Chris B]

What if they showed that it was still possible for the ring bearer to overcome the weakness to yellow despite the impurity? Every other GL succumbing to it while Hal is eventually able overcome it at some point could help plant the seeds of him being considered the greatest GL one day.

 

[Webhead2006]

that could work.

 

[Timstuff]

Sounds good to me.

 

[Paradox1]

Saw GL: First Flight last night which was ok, the way they explained the weakness was a lot better. In the movie it wasn't a weakness to the color yellow at all it was a weakness to a yellow crystal called yellow element. I'd prefer if the movie went with that sort of explanation. I'm not give away any of the plot for those who want to see the movie but that explanation is best to me.

 

[Katsuro]

Saw GL: First Flight last night which was ok, the way they explained the weakness was a lot better. In the movie it wasn't a weakness to the color yellow at all it was a weakness to a yellow crystal called yellow element. I'd prefer if the movie went with that sort of explanation. I'm not give away any of the plot for those who want to see the movie but that explanation is best to me.

That sounds like a direct ripoff of Superman's weakness to Kryptonite. That wouldn't be good.

The comic book explanation of the weakness is fine. It only has to be brought up casually, like it is in the script, where it isn't even mentioned that it's yellow, just "the light of fear".

 

[Paradox1]

That sounds like a direct ripoff of Superman's weakness to Kryptonite. That wouldn't be good.

The comic book explanation of the weakness is fine. It only has to be brought up casually, like it is in the script, where it isn't even mentioned that it's yellow, just "the light of fear".

Watch the movie before you dismiss their explanation of the weakness. The crystal itself is not their weakness it has to be turned into a weapon. The yellow element was the ying to the green element yang.The elements were just a powersource from which the GL's and Sinestro drew their power.

 

[Ion Kenshin]

Let's not forget that spoiler tag button

 

[dnno1]

That sounds like a direct ripoff of Superman's weakness to Kryptonite. That wouldn't be good.

The comic book explanation of the weakness is fine. It only has to be brought up casually, like it is in the script, where it isn't even mentioned that it's yellow, just "the light of fear".

Actually in the original story in Showcase #22, Abin Sur explained that it was a yellow impurity in the metal used to create the power battery that caused the weakness, so explaining it as a crystal or element is not that far off. Although Superman is most well known for having one, using a weakness as a plot device is a common thing in the comics. If they didn't, these characters would be just too powerful to write any intresting stories about.

 

[Raiden]

If they make it so GL is vulnerable to yellow energy on the emotion spectrum, instead of just color yellow, then it could work. GL needs a weakness otherwise he'd be too powerful otherwise, but they have to do it in a way that doesn't seemed too campy.

 

[M.O.Steel]

Actually in the original story in Showcase #22, Abin Sur explained that it was a yellow impurity in the metal used to create the power battery that caused the weakness, so explaining it as a crystal or element is not that far off. Although Superman is most well known for having one, using a weakness as a plot device is a common thing in the comics. If they didn't, these characters would be just too powerful to write any intresting stories about.

i understand what you are saying, but i don't think it has to be this way. if they are so powerful, they should be pitted against other powerful beings. if two individuals are fighting each other with GL rings, then the weakness is not necessary.

superman fighting brainiac or darkseid. neither one really uses krytonite. if the character is too powerful, then you pit him against something even more powerful.

 

[Webhead2006]

Yea every hero needs to have a weakness, superman has kryptonite, spider-man his compasion for human life, etc......

 

[Katsuro]

Actually in the original story in Showcase #22, Abin Sur explained that it was a yellow impurity in the metal used to create the power battery that caused the weakness, so explaining it as a crystal or element is not that far off. Although Superman is most well known for having one, using a weakness as a plot device is a common thing in the comics. If they didn't, these characters would be just too powerful to write any intresting stories about.

I'm aware there's nothing wrong with him having a weakness. It was just that the way he described it made it sound like there was some yellow rock that made Green Lanterns lose their powers or something, which is pretty much kryptonite exactly.

But i'd really prefer they stick to the current continuity of the comics as close as possible. I know a lot of people dont like Parallax, but I would like to see the movies eventually go down that path eventually, so you have to set it up so that later Parallax can be revealed to be the yellow fear entity residing in the Central Battery, which caused GL power rings to not work on things colored yellow (unless fear was overcome).

 

[Lightning Strykez!]

Pretty much like this.

Holy crap. That...is effing hilarious.

On a more serious note, I think that audiences have been already well-conditioned to accept the fact that certain things and colors weaken superheroes. Kryptonite, the loss of Wonder Woman's belt, etc. have already been played out for decades.

The important thing here is good writing.

 

[M.O.Steel]

i didn't know that fact until i came to this thread because of the new movie. and i consider myself way more of a comic book fanatic than the general population.

i didn't know it had to do with the color alone. i really think the color thing needs to be thought out. simple reaction to the color wouldn't work. there are too many things in the world that are yellow for it to be a genuine weakness.

green does not weaken superman. and this is also the first time i heard wonderwomans' belt gives her her powers.

 

[Lightning Strykez!]

The TV Wonder Woman is what I was referring to M.O. Steel. Whenever the bad guys got a hold of Lynda Carter's belt, she became useless. Ditto for the magic bracelets.