Today, we're going to learn about the color yellow.
Doesn't that sound exciting?
Hello and welcome to Comic Misconceptions.
The show that takes you into detail about the things you think you know about comics.
I'm your host, Scott Niswander.
And we've done a lot of Yellow Lantern stuff
over the past couple weeks on our other show Behind the Frame,
and I feel like it would be a complete waste if I didn't at least talk about the Yellow Lanterns
on the comic book show.
So the Yellow Lanterns, or Sinestro Corps, as they're called,
Are like the anti Green Lanterns.
And like the GL's and their homeworld on Oa,
The Sinestro Corps also has a homeworld of their own.
Which leads into last weeks trivia question, which was:
Where is the home world of the Sinestro Corps?
Congrats to Jessica Moreau and many other who answered Qward.
Nailed it!
While we'll undoubtedly cover Sinestro's history in another episode,
Today I want to focus specifically on the Sinestro Corps itself.
So all that you really need to know is that Sinestro was banished by the Guardians
To the antimatter universe.
Where he met a race called the Weaponers living on a planet called Qward.
And they hated the Guardians... just as much or even more than Sinestro did.
And of course, naturally, they formed an alliance.
And the Weaponers forged the first Yellow Lantern Ring.
Making Sinestro one of the most formidable opponents that a Green Lantern has ever faced.
After going solo for awhile,
Sinestro realized that the best way to fight the Green Lantern Corps...
Was to have a Yellow Lantern Corps.
Which he will call instead Sinestro Lantern Corps.
More on why later.
Now the Yellow Lantern Corps, much like any Lantern Corps,
Has had an interesting group of different alien races and members.
That are just... facinating to talk about.
So here are some of my absolute favorites.
Arkillo, who's like the Yellow Lantern version of Kilowog, only...
Cooler. To me. Personally
Ranx, who is a living city.
I don't know how to pronounce this... Despotellis?
The virus. A sentient virus.
That's pretty freaking awesome.
Then we have just characters you may have heard of,
Like Mongol, Cyborg Superman,
Scarecrow... before it was stolen by Lex Luthor.
And even Batman.
Now here's something I find really awesome...
There is also a Predator in the Sinestro Corps.
Yes.
What?
Awesome.
It's unofficial, but it also appears that there's a Xenomorph on the Sinestro Corps.
Which you can see here.
And here.
And... here as well.
There's a ton more awesome ones that I don't have to go over, but...
Here's a good question: how do the Yellow Lanterns differ from the Green Lanterns?
From just seeing the kind of stuff that they do,
It basically just appears that...
Green Lanterns and Yellow Lanterns can make the same constructs.
They're just different colors. So wha-- how are they different?
Well...
Basically, the Green Lanterns are picked on their ability to overcome fear.
And Yellow Lanterns are picked on their ability to instill fear in others.
So...
Pretty opposite sides of the spectrum.
Uh, even though they're, like, right next to each other.
In the emotional and color spectrum.
So you can see why the Green Lanterns and the Yellow Lanterns would have such a huge rivalry.
But personally, if I was a Yellow Lantern...
I would hate the Blue Lantern Corps more.
See, the Blue Lanterns have the ability to absorb and distill Yellow Light.
And supercharge Green Light.
It's like Green Lanterns are Venusaur,
Yellow Lanterns are Goldeen,
And Blue Lanterns are Megadrain.
It's not gonna really work out.
Now you may have heard that Green Lanterns are weak to the color yellow.
This is kind of true. I wouldn't say it's a weakness like Kryptonite to Superman,
But it is definately a limitation.
That they, uh, couldn't control things that are yellow.
Why is this limitation here? I am glad that I imagined you asked me.
So each color has an entity that is an embodiment of that emotion.
Red is the Butcher,
Orange is Ophidian,
Green is Ion,
Blue is Adara,
Indigo is Proselyte,
Violet is the Predator.
Hilariously enough.
And yellow is... Parallax.
No!
We do not talk about that! That is not Parallax!
This is Parallax.
Parallax was secretly imprisoned by the Guardians
Into the central battery on Oa.
The central battery being the thing that gives Green Lanterns their power.
So Parallax, the most powerful entity of fear...
Is living inside of the thing that gives Green Lanterns their power.
It's like having a rat in your pantry.
It's gonna mess with your food.
Similarly, kind of, Parallax was able to put a small amount of control over the rings
To make it so they are ineffective against anything the color... yellow.
Now you may remember me saying WAY back in the day
that the original weakness of Green Lanterns was wood.
This is one of those other crazy stories that we don't have time for today.
But I will make a video about it.
Because it's... bonkers.
But that's why the Green Lanterns have had this weakness to yellow.
So you can see the benefit being on the Sinestro Corps, fighting against the Green Lanterns.
But... why is it even called the Sinestro Corps?
I mean, it's the Green Lantern Corps, why not just the Yellow Lantern Corps?
You might think it was Sinestro being vain and just naming the Corps after him, but it wasn't!
In fact, we have none other to thank for the name of Sinestro Corps than the time-traveling superhero himself:
Booster Gold.
I'll spare you all the crazy details, but all you need to know is that
Time screws up and Sinestro is known as the greatest Green Lantern of all time.
But he gets wind that Guy Gardner will surpass him of that role in the future,
So he goes to Earth, planning on getting rid of Guy Gardner.
All because Sinestro wants to be the very best, like no one ever was.
More Pokemon references.
Booster Gold plays to Sinestros ego,
And says that he comes from the future,
Where everybody worships the great and powerful Sinestro.
Now, Booster Gold wears a yellow ring that gives him the ability of flight.
Sinestro notices this ring, and
Booster Gold just says it's a tribute that everyone wears in the future.
To the great Sinestro.
Sinestro then asks what Corps is he from,
Booster Gold kinda fumbles and says,
"Uhh... The Sinestro Corps?"
Then Sinestro does the typical villain thing, twirling his mustache at the idea
Of his OWN Corps.
Oh, Booster Gold. How I love the way you mess with history.
That's a guy for another episode.
But I hope you guys learned a little bit more about the awesomeness that is the Sinestro Corps.
So here's my question to you guys this week:
Forget about the existing Lantern Corps,
And tell me if you could create your own Lantern Corps,
What would it be?
Let me know in the comments below.
Mine would be plaid.
But now we must move on to the Weekly Trivia Challenge!
So Thor comes out next week.
And I'm verily excited.
I think.
I... uh-- I don't know if that was the correct usage of that word.
So obviously, we have to talk about Thor.
So of course you know that Thor has a mortal alter ego, called Donald Blake,
And whenever there was crime to be fought,
He would turn into Thor.
And do that stuff.
And what have you.
So this weeks trivia question is:
What did Donald Blake have to do in order to transform into Thor?
If you know the answer, or just wanna leave your best guess, you can do so in the comments below.
If you're right, you can be featured on the show next week.
So get started, you guys.
[announcer voice] On the WEEKLY TRIVIA CHALLENGE!
Yes, it's the end of an episode, but before we go,
I wanna address what you guys had to say in the comments of last weeks episode about Moon Knight being Batman.
You guys left some awesome stuff.
And I wanted to just address it.
And put it in this episode.
Because you guys are amazing.
Timothy Outram says that
Moon Knight sounds more like Red Hood than Batman
Because they both... died and came back to life
and are messed up in the head and don't mind killing people.
I absolutely agree, this-- this is a great point.
Uh, maybe Moon Knight is even the, uh,
the combination of Batman and Red Hood.
Because he has all those qualities of Red Hood that you pointed out,
But he's also incredibly wealthy, like Batman
And uses that wealth to fund, uh, moon-themed weapons.
Similar to how Batman would do bat-themed weapons.
So, great point.
And from Mike Cunningham and Slaggathor12,
Asking for the best Moon Knight comics to read,
Zer02290, uh, came to the rescue.
And said that the best run is the 2006 Charlie Huston's run.
Uh, I've only heard great things about it.
It's great to see you guys...
Helping each other out in the comments.
You guys rock.
I wanna do more stuff like this in the future,
So if you have a comment about todays episode,
Please leave it down below and we'll try to address it next time.
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Of course you know that Thor has a mortal alter ego,
Cal--Donalala.
Yup.
That's his name.
Donlala.
If you know you--
[makes strange noises]
[continues to make strange noises]
Yup.