What was so morally wrong about the Third Army? It was just a way to bring order to the universe, and it's not like it hurt to become one. It was quick and painless.
The Guardians of the Universe did nothing wrong but Sinestro was allowed to slaughter them wholesale for their troubles.
Everything the 'Guardians' of the universe do is wrong, they are so goddamn stupid.
The Lantern Corps is such a dumb organisation in every regard, it falls apart instantly if you actually think about the details of it.
Explain how
>1 Lantern to enforce law across multiple star systems
>Yet even the greatest Lanterns typically are challenged keeping crime down in a single major city.
>Cooperation on typical beats is discouraged.
Comicbook writers are not the sort of people well known for having any understanding of Scale, they can't even begin to understand how big the Universe really is.
It's actually 2 per sector now, except earth which gets like 5 cause we're special.
Also the multiple times the Guardians have attempted to make alternate kinds of servants to your standard lanterns to carry out their will over space that have turned out to be a huge threat to everyone.
Earth is super special and the center of everything yeah.
How many of the multiple Earth lanterns are Americans specifically while we're at it?
all of the green ones.
The red lantern kitty was from america too.
The girl who turned out to be like one of the emotional entities was from america.
Technically Kara was the red lantern for earths sector and she's kryptonian. So just the 1 non american lantern.
What about Teen Lantern?
is that the new one? I stopped following lantern stuff cause i got tired of the every few month event cycle.
Nothing wrong with it except universal genocide.
They really shouldn't be beat cops that handle all the local crime. Planets can take care of their own damn smugglers and purse snatchers.
Lanterns should be the ones to make goddamn sure world ending threats are taken care of. They should keep it to the Giant armadas of conquers from space, or the big cosmic villains that want to blow up stars for no actual reason.
Like stopping the Dominators, Thanagarians, Reach, and Apokolips invaders. Go handle Brainiac and Imperiex. Let the star systems deal with their own little local level shit.
Are there characters that are written worse than the Guardians of the Universe?
>Oldest civilization in the universe
>Mastered psionic powers to a degree higher than any other, billions of years before Earth was even formed
>Immortal, older than Earth
>So powerful an individual Guardian could destroy a planet if so inclined
>Know everything, have experienced everything
>Even way back when, they were at least as far beyond humans as we are beyond gerbils
>Strongly motivated to make the universe a safe, harmonious and just place to live for all life forms
>Consistently make absurdly stupid mistakes
>Get called out by beings who, by their standards, have the life span of a spark
This is bullshit.
Honestly, I was working from that assumption. There's about a hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe with billions of stars - a trillion, in the case of Andromeda - in each.
Why are there so few Lanterns? Why not one for every planet with sentient life? That would make more sense.
Rankorr was British
Isn't DC's stated number of Green Lanterns to be in the low thousands?
That's like way less than the armies of single pissant countries on Earth.
about 7000 lanterns, give or take a few
I forgot about him.
Maybe they have just gotten super-senile.
DC did too. Guy Gardner as a Red wasn't too bad, but it basically made Rankorr redundant
What the hell is this goofy looking thing
Originally it was 3600, then they made it into two-Lantern teams, so 7200.
Granted, each wields the most powerful and versatile weapon ever created, but how is that enough if you have to police twenty-five million galaxies?
I have heard people suggest they only police the Milky way which would be a lot easier, but it's the Guardians of the Universe, not the "Guardians of the Galaxy".
More like the Threats to the Universe.
I don't think they ever got an individual designation. They were just collectively called "The Third Army", with the Manhunters and the Green Lanterns being the previous two.
Using the power of the First Lantern, the Guardians - who had apparently gone mad - devised a way to turn any living being into a powerful, but mindless being, motivated only by their - the Guardians' - will. Their touch was infectious, turning every being they encountered into one of them. The Guardians intended to replace all life in the universe with these drones.
The transformation involved, among the obvious, the expulsion of the heart.
They should have billions of support staff on Oa alone handling all the data collection other tasks.
>handling all the data collection
Their tech can handle that, no problem. The rings gather data and process it, too, I bet.
That’s fucked up