Writer's Block: A super debate

[gridlore]

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Green Lantern. Nearly unlimited possibilities based solely on my will and imagination vs. sticking to walls and being really strong and agile. Duh.

In brightest day, in blackest night,
No evil shall escape my sight
Let those who worship evil's might,
Beware my power... Green Lantern's light!

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[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

This is especially true if you get the whole package deal. Choose between the infamous Parker Luck (suffer for our amusement, Peter!) or Jordan's karma (hit on the head a lot, sometimes dicked over by his bosses but that applies just as much to Spidey)? No contest.

I would tend to agree.

[op-tech-glitch.livejournal.com]

Then again, having Kirsten Dunst wanting to do some serious face sucking with you could add quite a bit of weight to the other side too.

[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

OK, two friends posted this writer's block. Both of you chose Green Latern and both of you posted the "In Brightest day" poem.
I sense a fannish trend here.
I am more of the sidekick type.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Well, that's the classic Silver Age version of the Green Lantern Oath. There are variations. One member of the Green Lantern Corps comes from a species that never evolved sight, so 90% of the concepts used are meaningless.. even that of a lantern! So the GL who recruited him worked out a new version...

In loudest din or hush profound
My ears catch evil's slightest sound
Let those who toll out evil's knell
Beware my power, the F-Sharp Bell!

I've always wondered if Rot Lop Fan (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/List_of_Green_Lanterns#Rot_Lop_Fan) every unknowingly encountered something yellow and got frustrated at his inability to affect it with the ring...

Silly penguin

[capplor.livejournal.com]

Each GL has a different weakness, caused by a flaw in the construction of the ring.

[caprine.livejournal.com]

That was a totally awesome Alan Moore story.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but the science geek in me always wondered why you had to invent a "lightless region of space." Just say the species evolved without sight for some reason. A omnivore that evolved at the bottom of multiple canopy forest might not need sight in the deep gloom, especially if the local "sun" was a dim M-class or a Brown Dwarf. Incredible hearing, and a sensitivity to touch that includes subtle changes in air pressure.

[seawasp]

However, Spidey's wall-crawling and super-strength don't come with a Golden Age achilles' heel. Your spirit will be in for major mockery if, while using the ring to hit 500MPH, you crash into a yellow Canary and die from the impact.

That said, GL's powers are just so much more flexible that I'm surprised at the question.

Now, ask me whether I want Superman's powers or GL's powers, or GL's powers versus Son Goku's powers, that's a different issue.

[caprine.livejournal.com]

neo_tanuki once played a Green Lantern in a campaign run by whswhs and quite impressed the group with the range of his imagination -- using the Ring to make a bloodhound when they found a murder victim and an Arnold Schwarzenegger to catch the descending weights in a deathtrap.