DC's 2019 Justice League Movie Fixed A Green Lantern Power Problem It Took 15 Years To Repair
2019’s Justice League vs. the Fatal Five reveals that a major weakness of all Green Lantern Corps members has a potential fix. Set in the DC Animated Universe, Justice League vs. the Fatal Five takes place sometime after the series finale of Justice League Unlimited, featuring an expanded Justice League roster, including heroes like Miss Martian and Jessica Cruz. The latter is the latest addition to the DCAU’s Green Lantern Corps.
The first Green Lantern shown in the DCAU is Kyle Rayner, who the franchise imbues with a few vague elements of the iconic Silver Age Green Lantern Hal Jordan. The most prominent of the DCAU’s Green Lanterns, however, is John Stewart, who has a lead role in both 2001’s Justice League and its 2004 sequel series Justice League Unlimited. Stewart is easily one of the Justice League’s most formidable members but his Green Lantern power ring has a weakness that is less overt than its need for recharges and dampened effects on yellow objects.
Justice League Showed One Of The Greatest Weaknesses Of A Green Lantern Ring
In the Justice League series finale, “Starcrossed, Part III,” John Stewart battles the villainous Thanagarian Hro Talak. Stewart has the upper hand initially using his constructs to easily block strikes from Talak’s Nth Metal axe, but one blow slices his ring apart, rendering him powerless. Green Lantern rings may be one of the universe’s most powerful items, but the rings themselves are far less durable than the energy constructs they create. This weakness, notably, is consistent with the DC Comics source material.
How Justice League vs The Fatal Five Fixed This Green Lantern Issue
In Justice League vs. the Fatal Five, Jessica Cruz finds herself in a similar predicament to John Stewart. While battling the titular Fatal Five, Persuader strikes Cruz’s power ring with his Atomic Axe, slicing it to pieces and thus removing Cruz’s powers. Later on, however, Cruz recites the Green Lantern oath, causing the fragments of her ring to self-repair and return to her, proving that a Green Lantern can – with great effort – repair a destroyed power ring.
Justice League vs. the Fatal Five reveals that Hal Jordan and Guy Gardner both became Green Lanterns in the DCAU at some point after the events of Justice League Unlimited.
In the pilot episode of Justice League Unlimited, John Stewart is shown using a functioning power ring. At the time, it would be reasonable to assume that he was simply given a new one by the Guardians of the Universe on Oa. Given what Justice League vs. the Fatal Five showed 15 years later, it is far more likely that Stewart repaired his ring following the events of the episode.
Justice League vs The Fatal Five
- Release Date
- March 30, 2019
- Runtime
- 77 Minutes
Cast
Elyes Gabel
Diane Guerrero
Susan Eisenberg
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