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There was a great bit in Batman Brave and the Bold where Guy Gardner meets Alan Scott. At one point Guy mocks him for being weak against wood. “What happens when someone attacks you with a pointy stick?””Same thing that happens to you if they paint it yellow”
John had a yellow turtleneck in his nightmare from Only a Dream. This probably wasn't intentional, but would make sense for Doctor Destiny to try to make him weaker.
For all the issues I have with Geoff Johns' writing, the retcon that the reason for the Green Lanterns' weakness to yellow was Parallax being trapped inside the Power Battery was very efficient and also helped redeem Hal Jordan in a way that made sense.
And it’s pretty freaking cool. Like, name another weakness with such a badass excuse. Kryptonite? Ooh, it’s irradiated shards of your exploded homeworld. Boo freaking hoo. Lame. Weak to everything, because you’re just a normal human? Pedestrian. Weak to yellow because the LIVING EMBODIMENT OF FEAR IS TRAPPED IN YOUR SOURCE OF POWER? Freaking awesome.
I liked the reasoning behind the weakness. Also for most of these superheroes, they have stupid weaknesses. Superman: weak to pebbles. Martian manhunter: fire, which is very common. Flash: being disconnected from the speed force, or the cold. Wonder Woman: being tied up. (Her creator was kinda kinky) Batman: bankruptcy. Hawkgirl: disruptive memories.
You're joking, but in the 60's he got a plucky Asian sidekick, who's skin the ring did not work on, explicitly because it was yellow. There's no logical reason to mention this, there's no reason you would ever need to use your ring's powers on another human's skin, but the went there, because racism.
Possible that Parallax in the DCAU is just classified and most Lanterns, like the one in Batman Beyond's time period, were just told something like "The Impurity took millennia of work to remove" without having the nature of what the impurity was explained cause it wasn't important. It's just a little bit of trivia like "In those days we had to deal with X" that the older guys in the Corps joke about.
ok but if you think about it Parallax living in the central battery can justify the weakness to Yellow entirelly: - the Lantern rings are connected to the Users mind on a subconscious level, right? - so if Parallax who is the Yellow Light of fear is inhabiting the Central battery then it means every Lantern is subconsciously aware a parallax - the Green light of Willpower weakens when exposed to ANY Fear, not just the Yellow Light of Fear therefore Yellow works on lanterns because they ARE Subconciously afraid of yellow. Why? because Yellow represents the biggest fear a Lantern could ever have: the Fear of Fear Itself
That actually makes a lot of sense. Reminds me of that time when one of Batman’s contingency plans against gl was to put his ring on while he sleeps, which would convince him he’s blind, and then the ring would actually make him blind
you mean the black bat suit with the yellow on his chest with a bat? Which reflects the spotlight the police use to call batman? God people are dumber than a box a rocks, the hippy that carries it and the yuppies who buy them put together.
Truthully, if I had a green lantern ring, I'd probably spend the first couple of hours designing the coolest looking green lantern uniform possible so I'd at least have a sick outfit to wear while inevitably failing my first super hero-ing attempt in spectacular fashion. I'm thinking something with a hood.
“Detective, if I had a Green Lantern ring, I’d probably make myself an excellent grilled cheese sandwich that won’t stain all over my shirt that hides my awesome pecs.” -Ra’s Al Ghul at some point, idk
They should make batman batmobile and jet into a transformer that's a giant mech, car, jet good buff and not to similar to iron man yet still similar rich Playboy genius vibe
Head canon, maybe its a subconscious thing like it doesnt actually weakening him but more making him think of the fear thus subconsciously lowering his will power.
Because that is exactly how it works. You can overcome your fear, which allows intermittent resilience against yellow. Here, it would be more like yellow gas always worked because John Stewart just assumed that it would in his head, it was a weakness that he made up and the yellow impurity took hold of that. Other times, when he showed weakness against it, was because like the suitcase it was solid yellow and he was aware of it. When it did work against yellow, it must've been surprising for any Green Lantern, but if they tried to replicate it, they wouldn't know why it wouldn't work a second time. The avoidance of it is because at this point, they didn't know about Parallax and hence the exact way to combat it. You instinctively put up a shield regardless if you're weak against it, some times it worked, other times not, and you would never know why, but a 50-50 was better than just taking a hit without trying. Which is why John still avoided yellow beams or tried to throw green energy against yellow shields. A weakness does not have to be absolute.
Yellow wouldn't be a weakness to me. I would just jokingly hear "Nobody expects the yellow team" every time I see it. Of all the colors why would yellow be scary?
@@magnusm4 The point is that the ring *makes* yellow subconsciously associated with fear because of the impurity, be that Parallax or something else. It's an irrational fear that they don't even realize is just a fear.
Food for thought. Those little blue men in red dresses aren't known for telling the truth, embellish their own importance (and power), and have a history of rewriting historical events to make themselves look better. It's entirely possible the Parallax entity did exist in the DCAU, was trapped in the primary Power Battery, got out, did a little crazy and a little killing, was defeated, and by the time Kai-Ro became a Green Lantern, GL School included a chapter on how the Guardians managed to single-handedly defeat Parallax, with no help from anyone else, thus removing the Yellow weakness. And they can see why kids love Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
Worth mentioning that, while probably unintentional, the word that "parallax" derives from can also mean "to change" or "to exchange". Which kinda ties in with the idea that a parallax is a change of perspective (whether literal or figurative), and can be seen as relating to anxiety and fear being either a useful survival mechanism or a crux in that moment.
I never really felt the color yellow being a weakness was too goofy, but the WAY it was so often such an impediment in the comics, like GL couldn't think of any other way to defeat someone wearing yellow, that was often worth an eye rolling. 'Oh no, the villain donned a yellow mech suit, I'll have to retreat and come up with another plan. Never mind that I can just hurl boulders at the chump.'
25:05 It might be because it's the whole Justice Lords, not just him. He's merely part of a council of leaders, not the unilateral leader of the society, and they may feel that it's fine for a Green Lantern to be a governmental leader, and not have an issue with a power structure like the Lords, since it's not dissimilar to the Guardians themselves.
How did Justice Lord Green Lantern keep his power ring even though he was abusing it? The same way Sinestro kept his power ring originally when he was abusing it. No one reported them. The ring monitors if you kill, and that was basically it. Neither Sinestro or Justice Lord John Stewart killed people. The only reason why Sinestro loss his ring and status was because Hal Jordon interfered. Now, if you're questioning why none of the other Earth Green Lanterns stopped John, the answer is simple: Superman. Remember when Green Arrow pointed out that you can't argue against Superman because he's Superman? Yeah, none of the other Green Lanterns saw the wrong that was being done, because they believed in Superman.
Theory, or rather an idea of how this could work in the DCAU. Maybr, if each color represents an emotion, and yellow being a representation of fear, with fear being the weakness of Green Lanterns, then maybe if a GL is experiencing a moment of doubt, a jolt of fear, then they become vulnerable to the color yellow. Basically, if you get shaken by something, if only a little, then fear has touched you, and weakened you.
(also not a US citizen but I wanna answer the QOTD anyway) The first construct I would make would be a cool suit, I have this idea for a trenchcoat & a Daft Punk-styled screen helmet. The second would be a set of tiny tools so I can work on electronics without breaking stuff
I can reconcile the guardians being able to alter the purity of the lanturn "at will" while parallax forces an impurity. Perhaps Parallax, as you put it, is a *bug*. The guardians are supposed to be "tech" based, and an undetected bug that gets into the (like a computer virus) makes sense. It's an entity that's essentially made of fear, and the battery is mainlined into the spectrum. That's not really even head cannon though as I only found out about their ability to change it at will here 😅
So Kryptonite was randomly made up because the Superman voice actor on a radio show wanted to go on vacation and they needed a reason for him to be gone
I remember the Green lantern charge used to last for 24 hours regardless of how much or how lucky you use the ring. But they change that I'm guessing shortly after crisis on infinite earths
What might be a GL reference in Ben 10 Omniverse was the choice that Toepick, alien with a face so terrifying it causes the reanimated, psychotic dead to run for the hills, was one of the four or five aliens colored yellow.
Giving the ring weakness to yellow is like taking an ability flaw on a tabletop RP character to get some extra feats. They removed the weakness at the cost of something else when they realized the weakness was too problematic. As for the QOTD, if I had a green lantern ring I would make ... well I'd start making simple shapes in order to feel out the capacity of the ring obviously. You know, kind of like a telekinetic stress ball. Then, since I associate green lanterns with psionics, and psionics with crystals, probably some crystals. But like, what would I WANT to make? I dunno, nothing the lantern rings make is permanent, and it's not like I'm fighting supervillains or anything. I'd probably just use the danged thing to fly.
5:10 you _do not_ need yellow to make green light, you can create any color of the rainbow with a single wavelength. the only lantern color that requires more than one wavelength is the white light of life (and maybe arguably the violet light of love, since that's usually depicted as closer to magenta).
First thing I'd try to make with my power ring is one of the cool ideas in my head, like robots or aliens and such. If I could make any of those, I could make anything
So, was John hooking up with the yellow-clad Hawkgirl the equivalent of Martian Manhaunter hooking up with Fire in Tom King's 'Human Target' series? Was it some sort of weird BDSM type thing for him? Furthermore, does that mean she started wearing even more yellow as a kind of 'f#$k you'?
I agree the Guardians seeing to it could have just been them spinning the events of Parallax. The first thing I would make with my green lantern ring would be a green scooter and use it to run errands, I am sick of paying for uber lime to get everywhere and a green construct scooter would look just similar enough to not draw notice.
I think it's also important to mention that the yellow impurity was officially taken away from the GL comics once Kyle took over with the last power ring made uniquely for him. Implying that the guardians had the ability to take away the impurity before the parrallax retcon. I think this had a play in how lax they could be with the weakness in the show and leaving it in as an homage makes a lot of sense. It's definitely there but can fit in the space where the Guardians can take it off once they trust that the lanterns won't turn on them like the manhunters turned on second 666/in dire situations
Speaking of yellow lanterns one of the coolest things from DC was the Sinestro Corps War written by Geoff Johans and Ethan Van Sciver. Yup gotta love EVS he is so talented and helped give us all the colors of the lanterns
There was a tie in coloring book for the justice league show. In the Dr. Destiny episode, they made GL’s nightmare that he was trapped in yellow. They had to simplify most of the fears, so the flash’s fear was being trapped in roots. May not be cannon but they did acknowledge it. QOTD: I would create a Gundam robot mech suit. Would draw alot of attention but it would be super cool
I'm really hoping that with X-Men '97 and all the talk of bringing back old cartoon series, that we get a Justice League Beyond series. Can take place after the scene in Epilogue at the end, where Bruce has passed away (retiring Conroy's Batman). The series can deal with Terry after that loss and could finally do some of the Lantern spectrum stuff, but just have it occur in the future rather than "modern day". I want this so badly. I want the Terry voice actor back.
Thank you, I knew I remembered a Gray Lantern from somewhere, but I could never find anything on it! Also since you brought him up, "Purple Cloak" from your video identifying every JLU member looks like Alan Scott to me, maybe with a hood instead of his usual high collar. Since Obsidian exists, it would make sense for him to be in the DCAU.
First thing I'd make with a Green Lantern ring is the universe's most comfortable bed/sensory deprivation chamber. Imagine the greatest sleep anyone has ever gotten. Ever. Of all time.
I saw once, in one of Kyle Rayner's stories, that, even as a ring construct, water that Lanterns make functions 100% like regular water (i.e. can put out fires, etc.) So, I was thinking... infinite water glitch? Never be dehydrated again? Sure, there are so many other, more useful applications, but that's how I'd see myself using it on a day-to-day basis.
Maybe it's not a known weakness. Perhaps GL is only weak to yellow if he doubts his willpower. Something subconsciously makes him doubt himself when he sees yellow but he can overcome it by being especially determined. When facing Sinestro, GL is already esoecially deterimed to win so he has a built up defense against yellow. When he us hit with Jello-O, he isnt esoevially on guard so the yellow gets through as he doesnt deem it as a real threat. So, he is only weak to yellow when he doesnt think he will be weak to yellow or caught off guard.
I haven't finished the video (I just started it, in fact), but my near non existent understanding of the Lantern Corps were that they thematically graft emotions and/or mental states unto colors - thus a weakness to a color is essentially one emotion being weak to another. Fear is the mind killer and whatnot
An easy explanation would be that the GL ring requires the user to be in the right state of mind. Fear makes the necessary state of mind harder, but not impossible, to maintain. The yellow light of fear can project fear into a person’s mind, making it harder for GLs to fight YLs. With their greatest weakness being symbolized with, empowered by, and just generally being yellow; GLs probably develop a conditioned fear response(basically what PTSD is) to the color, so they have a debilitating moment of panic when they see it, which pushes them out of their necessary mental state and disrupts their ability to use their powers.
you know I actually love the idea that the weaknesses are controlled by the council. if that were cannon it gives a whole meaning to how the rings could work and why its not a simple matter for a green lantern to just be omnipotent. you could very easily believe that the green energy is some form of magic to control light or something else wacky with gods or whatever and then the rings and such are a technology to be the median thus the council is able to control things such as adding wood or yellow as a weakness. at the same time parallax can still be cannon he can still be part of the reason yellow was the weakness because he would basically just be the yellow magic or whatever.
Arguably, the guardian's 'dealing' with the yellow weakness might not have been them just snapping their fingers to remove it, it could have been a battle, even the expression and the way he says it, that they 'dealt with it', treats it like a problem, not an intentional flaw to limit the power of green lanterns.
Honestly, the first thing I would make.Is just a shield around myself.So I can go flying in the space.Because how cool would it be to actually fly in space and be able to return it any time?You want without like too much worry as long as you've recharged your battery
Just because the bald green lantern says the guardians remove the yellow impurity, doesn't exclude that the yellow impurity was parallax. It just wasn't how Jordan who removed/freed parallax from the central battery. Could have been the guardians who put them in a different cell, or their attempts to stop his influence of instituting the purity caused him to get free, or any other number situations. The situation with parallax could also be a secret and so the average Green lantern doesn't know about it and is just told that the guardians removed.
I didn't know I needed to hear the best friend forever ring Jingle in a major key. For the qotd: I'd probably construct multiple lantern light copies of myself to do a bunch of tasks at the same time
I'm most impressed with how many times you put pop culture references to yellow in this one. (And the Hawkgirl shirt comment made me make a noise of amusement, it was very unusual.)
Yellow (fear) rings are strong against green (will) rings, and green absorbs blue (hope) light. Its a rock paper scissors thing as you go down the emotion spectrum.
In case anyone's wondering, the art on that Alan Scott part was substandard, because that was work by Mart Nodell, the guy who first drew Alan Scott back in the 40s. He also gave us the Pillsbury Dough Boy. The Alan Scott retcon was, IMHO, a bad idea. Not because I object to Yalan Gur - I like that part - but because of the Guardians being able to switch off the yellow weakness at any time. I sez: Yalan Gur found the Starheart on earth, used it to patch the yellow weakness, and the rest of the story proceeded in much the same fashion (including the Guardians making his ring weak to wood). In other words, the Guardians can introduce weaknesses, but they don't. The yellow weakness, on the other hand, was real.
@@Idran The original pre-Crisis idea was, the Guardians scooped up most of the magic of the (Earth-One) universe, and sent it off to another universe (that of Earth-Two). In the early 90s, it was changed to, the Starheart was still a big bundle of magic, but the Guardians disposed of it in some other manner (since there were no other universes any longer).I like your idea that the Starheart was somehow connected to Ion, but it wouldn't be something the Guardians built. So how about, there was a sorcerer who tried to bind Ion to magic, and the Guardians undid his work and contained the magic. It would explain why a magic GL ring functions so much like a scientific one.
Parallax is kind of all over the place too, one moment he's scaring off The Spectre, the next he's getting taken down by Thunderer mooks on Quard while in possession of Superman.
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He is my favorite, aside from Bruce and Clark, he’s my third favorite, flash is 4th and Wonder Woman is 5th, 6th is Jon and 7th is hawkgirl, just because she is last dosent mean I didn’t like her, she was amazing, I liked the other leaguers more
No offense but you all didn't read comics because if you did. You wouldn't like this lineup. Wally west, John Stewart and Hawkgirl are not original seven. They should've came along later.
Yeah I'm guessing from everything that it's there, to an extent, in some GLs, but it's not telegraphed for obvious reasons, and doesn't completely nullify the green energy, just works better against it (& maybe specifically yellow energy/gas, not really solid objects, unless it's jello). I like the idea that overcoming fear is in play too, and DCAU John hasn't really overcome it like his Justice Lord counterpart, but would be immune to the yellow impurity is he was, like Jessica becomes. Then at some point the Guardians are able to remove it completely. Hey maybe Kai Ro is weak to wood
It may not be the first thing I'd make, but if I were a lantern, I'd absolutely make use of feints. You think I'm hitting you with a construct from the right? No, that one isn't solid. The one behind you is
They explained the weakness to yellow in the first appearance is due to impurities in the ring causing vulnerability to yellow in the visible light spectrum. It’s been repeated too many times without the explanation, making it into sort of a joke.
It's always a good day when the WD posts a new video! Always found weird that we never had that classic weakness for the GL in the DCAU, especially before the comics' retcon.
For a short time, one writer made a point that the phrasing was "Due to a necessary impurity..." (As opposed to an "inherent impurity.." The idea was that a lantern or two abused the power of the rings and they added an flaw/weakness so that the Lanterns would not be "all-powerful." This fact allowed the Guardians to make changes to rings at times. too. The ring that Alan Scott would come to possess was a regular Lantern Corp ring that was being abused by a GL on Earth in Asia. He was tormenting Rice Paddy farmers and a Guardian *shifted* the weakness from "yellow" to "wood" -- which allowed the farmers to stop the rogue Lantern. When Alan Scott found the ring, it retained the new weakness to wood and not the color yellow. I really liked this ret-con and thought it was quite elegant and innovative. It answered a lot of questions and added to the lore.
Also, not to chew up comment space in the comment section (lol) but the fact that this video ended with a variation of the song I was hoping would play the entire video, made every minute so, sooo, SOOOOO worth it! You're a class act and delivered in full!😂👏🏾
Here lies a Green Lantern...defeated not by Darkseid, or by a universe-level threat...but by a banana peel. Wait, what was that? Oh, sorry. It wasn't a banana peel...it was a kernel of corn.
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If you want to kill a green lantern... use a #2 Pencil, it is both Yellow and made of Wood.
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There was a great bit in Batman Brave and the Bold where Guy Gardner meets Alan Scott. At one point Guy mocks him for being weak against wood. “What happens when someone attacks you with a pointy stick?””Same thing that happens to you if they paint it yellow”
Does this mean that if i can go at them with a yellow stick i can beat them both?😅
@@Ultriac301a number 2 pencil would do the trick
@@firebird1080The Eraser: Well well well, if it ain't my lucky day.
That reminds me of the Big Bang Theory episode where Raj says he could beat every Green Lantern with a no. 2 pencil.
"Happy Australian camping noises".
John had a yellow turtleneck in his nightmare from Only a Dream. This probably wasn't intentional, but would make sense for Doctor Destiny to try to make him weaker.
It's the same one he wears in the beginning of "In Blackest Night"!
Omfg why is this the funniest thing ever
They definitely knew what they were doing, Lex as the Flash threw a bowl of cheese at GL and it was the only thing that gets past his barrier.
@@anhquannguyen8190that was the jello shown in this video a couple times
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For all the issues I have with Geoff Johns' writing, the retcon that the reason for the Green Lanterns' weakness to yellow was Parallax being trapped inside the Power Battery was very efficient and also helped redeem Hal Jordan in a way that made sense.
And it’s pretty freaking cool. Like, name another weakness with such a badass excuse. Kryptonite? Ooh, it’s irradiated shards of your exploded homeworld. Boo freaking hoo. Lame. Weak to everything, because you’re just a normal human? Pedestrian. Weak to yellow because the LIVING EMBODIMENT OF FEAR IS TRAPPED IN YOUR SOURCE OF POWER? Freaking awesome.
@@Paradox-es3blStill lamer than radiation poisoning.
Scary feeling in the battery!
I liked the reasoning behind the weakness. Also for most of these superheroes, they have stupid weaknesses.
Superman: weak to pebbles.
Martian manhunter: fire, which is very common.
Flash: being disconnected from the speed force, or the cold.
Wonder Woman: being tied up. (Her creator was kinda kinky)
Batman: bankruptcy.
Hawkgirl: disruptive memories.
@@chrisblanc663 To be fair, said "pebbles" gave Lex cancer.
@@RippahRooJizah true.
The fact that they just made everything that beat him yellow and didn't call it out explicitly was perfect, I think.
True calling it out would've been stupid because it is a silly weakness. I never noticed it until the video
The people calling it out are US
WE CAN SEE THAT YELLOW IS THE ONLY COMMON THING
@millo7295 Yeah the point is that they’re better than TH-cam trivia mongers at putting together an entertaining TV show
Green Lantern would be doomed in a Simpsons crossover
Also with my green lantern ring the first thing I'm doing is flying.
How did you comment 21hrs ago on an 18 minute old video
@@siraxlrose5659 my abilities are beyond your comprehension
But what’s the first thing you’re MAKING? That was the question.
@@Paradox-es3bl I’m making a plane to fly in!
You're joking, but in the 60's he got a plucky Asian sidekick, who's skin the ring did not work on, explicitly because it was yellow. There's no logical reason to mention this, there's no reason you would ever need to use your ring's powers on another human's skin, but the went there, because racism.
The Guardians legit went: "It's not a bug, it's a feature."
Ever notice both of Shayera's outfits are yellow? She was GL's biggest weakness afterall
Could you imagine Green Lantern going "UGGGARRGH!" and dramatically collapsing whenever he sees a yellow villain?
*"EEEEEEEEPAAAH!"*
Sounds like Wolverine 😂 (who conveniently also wears yellow)
Just some dude with an army of yellow cardboard cutouts, vats of yellow paint, and a warehouse of yellow glitter bombs is effectively untouchable.
Cheese has to be a bizarre weakness.
He’d be the Justice League’s Jean Grey lmao
Possible that Parallax in the DCAU is just classified and most Lanterns, like the one in Batman Beyond's time period, were just told something like "The Impurity took millennia of work to remove" without having the nature of what the impurity was explained cause it wasn't important. It's just a little bit of trivia like "In those days we had to deal with X" that the older guys in the Corps joke about.
Yeah... Do the lanterns know that Parallax gets defeated when he does?
Sounds like something the Guardians would lie about.
ok but if you think about it Parallax living in the central battery can justify the weakness to Yellow entirelly:
- the Lantern rings are connected to the Users mind on a subconscious level, right?
- so if Parallax who is the Yellow Light of fear is inhabiting the Central battery then it means every Lantern is subconsciously aware a parallax
- the Green light of Willpower weakens when exposed to ANY Fear, not just the Yellow Light of Fear
therefore Yellow works on lanterns because they ARE Subconciously afraid of yellow. Why? because Yellow represents the biggest fear a Lantern could ever have: the Fear of Fear Itself
Their is nothing to fear but fear itself.
That actually makes a lot of sense. Reminds me of that time when one of Batman’s contingency plans against gl was to put his ring on while he sleeps, which would convince him he’s blind, and then the ring would actually make him blind
@@pokefire953 lmao, that's so convoluted i love it
@@Artista_Frustrado yeah, when it gets used on him superman just tells him to take off the ring and he's able to see again
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All roads lead back to that damn yellow batsuit.
you mean the black bat suit with the yellow on his chest with a bat? Which reflects the spotlight the police use to call batman? God people are dumber than a box a rocks, the hippy that carries it and the yuppies who buy them put together.
Truthully, if I had a green lantern ring, I'd probably spend the first couple of hours designing the coolest looking green lantern uniform possible so I'd at least have a sick outfit to wear while inevitably failing my first super hero-ing attempt in spectacular fashion. I'm thinking something with a hood.
So... Hal Jordon as The Spectre?
ohhh thats ocool ill steal it from u, i would make mine with a dress or a skirt or shorts-skirts, and gaunlets cuz cool
Green Lantarrow
“Detective, if I had a Green Lantern ring, I’d probably make myself an excellent grilled cheese sandwich that won’t stain all over my shirt that hides my awesome pecs.”
-Ra’s Al Ghul at some point, idk
As long as you don't use any yellow cheese
how the cheese is yellowwwwwww, well come to think of it, the grilled cheese would be Green because of the ring😂
@@mattanozteklehimenot8000 That just does not sound appetizing
@@bobmasters9871 defiantly
@@bobmasters9871 but you could imagine it would be appetizing therefore it would be because the rings can make anything apparently 😂
I would make a mech suit with my green lantern ring
Honestly, just sucks my favorite color is blue yet the Blue Lantern Core is the one i don't fit in at all-
Cool man
Bro how did you comment 18 hours before the video came out
@@MetroBisonpeople pay money to see a TH-cam video early and message
They should make batman batmobile and jet into a transformer that's a giant mech, car, jet good buff and not to similar to iron man yet still similar rich Playboy genius vibe
GL's eye at 3:45 threw me for a loop.
Yeah, what the fuck happened there?
Might be a leftover bit of fruit juice or whatever splatted on his face in the prior scene. That’s from the In Blackest Night 2 parter.
Head canon, maybe its a subconscious thing like it doesnt actually weakening him but more making him think of the fear thus subconsciously lowering his will power.
Because that is exactly how it works. You can overcome your fear, which allows intermittent resilience against yellow.
Here, it would be more like yellow gas always worked because John Stewart just assumed that it would in his head, it was a weakness that he made up and the yellow impurity took hold of that. Other times, when he showed weakness against it, was because like the suitcase it was solid yellow and he was aware of it. When it did work against yellow, it must've been surprising for any Green Lantern, but if they tried to replicate it, they wouldn't know why it wouldn't work a second time. The avoidance of it is because at this point, they didn't know about Parallax and hence the exact way to combat it. You instinctively put up a shield regardless if you're weak against it, some times it worked, other times not, and you would never know why, but a 50-50 was better than just taking a hit without trying. Which is why John still avoided yellow beams or tried to throw green energy against yellow shields. A weakness does not have to be absolute.
Yellow wouldn't be a weakness to me. I would just jokingly hear "Nobody expects the yellow team" every time I see it.
Of all the colors why would yellow be scary?
@@magnusm4 The point is that the ring *makes* yellow subconsciously associated with fear because of the impurity, be that Parallax or something else. It's an irrational fear that they don't even realize is just a fear.
@ArcDragoon Nope, wrong, that’s not “how it works”. Different versions of these characters work different ways. None of that applies to this TV show.
First green lantern ring construct: a cartoon style piano to drop on people
Food for thought. Those little blue men in red dresses aren't known for telling the truth, embellish their own importance (and power), and have a history of rewriting historical events to make themselves look better. It's entirely possible the Parallax entity did exist in the DCAU, was trapped in the primary Power Battery, got out, did a little crazy and a little killing, was defeated, and by the time Kai-Ro became a Green Lantern, GL School included a chapter on how the Guardians managed to single-handedly defeat Parallax, with no help from anyone else, thus removing the Yellow weakness. And they can see why kids love Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
Worth mentioning that, while probably unintentional, the word that "parallax" derives from can also mean "to change" or "to exchange".
Which kinda ties in with the idea that a parallax is a change of perspective (whether literal or figurative), and can be seen as relating to anxiety and fear being either a useful survival mechanism or a crux in that moment.
*sees GL has turned evil* Batman: "It's time" *puts on the yellow batsuit*
The lantern was Kyle, Batman gets steamrolled in seconds.
You know he has a wood suit somewhere too.
I think the wooden one would have worked and looked better.
@@wolffang489 he doubled up its a wood suit painted yellow.
I love the idea that a Pikacku could solo an army of green later.
As for the qotd: I'd make a hoverboard. I wanna see if it's as cool as it sounds
Back To The Future style? Of course. It’s a flying skateboard. What’s cooler? Besides sex.
I get that but I think if you can fly , Hoverboard is kinda weak experience compared to flying.
21:54 I was really worried that the guardians were gonna do something with a “yellow impurity” at this point in an old comic like this 😂
thank god I'm not the only one that thought that... I mean... look how they drew the people...
@@davinator1212dude my whole body tensed up when he was explaining the story with that still image😂😂😂
I never really felt the color yellow being a weakness was too goofy, but the WAY it was so often such an impediment in the comics, like GL couldn't think of any other way to defeat someone wearing yellow, that was often worth an eye rolling. 'Oh no, the villain donned a yellow mech suit, I'll have to retreat and come up with another plan. Never mind that I can just hurl boulders at the chump.'
Frank Miller Batman painting an entire room yellow and offering Hal lemonade just to mess with him was priceless.
And I think the room was in the desert, e.g. yellow sand. 💛
if I had a green lantern ring I would make a tiny Godzilla and a tiny King Kong and see them fight
25:05 It might be because it's the whole Justice Lords, not just him. He's merely part of a council of leaders, not the unilateral leader of the society, and they may feel that it's fine for a Green Lantern to be a governmental leader, and not have an issue with a power structure like the Lords, since it's not dissimilar to the Guardians themselves.
Oooh. Very good point!
So joker kept a number two pencil ✏️ not for a magic trick but to cover all his bases with green lanterns huh?
GENIUS !!!!!
If i had a green lantern ring, i'd make a construct that allows me to scratch my back easily. Pretty useful, isn't it?
How did Justice Lord Green Lantern keep his power ring even though he was abusing it? The same way Sinestro kept his power ring originally when he was abusing it. No one reported them. The ring monitors if you kill, and that was basically it. Neither Sinestro or Justice Lord John Stewart killed people. The only reason why Sinestro loss his ring and status was because Hal Jordon interfered. Now, if you're questioning why none of the other Earth Green Lanterns stopped John, the answer is simple: Superman. Remember when Green Arrow pointed out that you can't argue against Superman because he's Superman? Yeah, none of the other Green Lanterns saw the wrong that was being done, because they believed in Superman.
Good thoughts!
I'd make an interstellar phone to call Atrocitus and ask where the hell my red ring is.
7:25 I NEVER REALIZED THAT!!!! IT WAS YELLOW!!!!🤯🤯
Theory, or rather an idea of how this could work in the DCAU.
Maybr, if each color represents an emotion, and yellow being a representation of fear, with fear being the weakness of Green Lanterns, then maybe if a GL is experiencing a moment of doubt, a jolt of fear, then they become vulnerable to the color yellow. Basically, if you get shaken by something, if only a little, then fear has touched you, and weakened you.
And that Jell-O DID look pretty spooky
I would make more green lantern rings. The Guardians won't be able to stop me if i pull up to oa with seven hundred rings and a cool green necklace.
No they still can; GL rings can already canonically do that anyway
(also not a US citizen but I wanna answer the QOTD anyway)
The first construct I would make would be a cool suit, I have this idea for a trenchcoat & a Daft Punk-styled screen helmet.
The second would be a set of tiny tools so I can work on electronics without breaking stuff
I mean how can it be yellow when in this universe one of the most famous green lanterns wears exclusively yellow and blue
Eyyyy
I can reconcile the guardians being able to alter the purity of the lanturn "at will" while parallax forces an impurity. Perhaps Parallax, as you put it, is a *bug*. The guardians are supposed to be "tech" based, and an undetected bug that gets into the (like a computer virus) makes sense. It's an entity that's essentially made of fear, and the battery is mainlined into the spectrum.
That's not really even head cannon though as I only found out about their ability to change it at will here 😅
"So does GL have a wekness to yellow in the DCAU?"
"Well yes, but actually, no."
Yes but only half of the time.
Took a lot of restraint to wait five minutes before making the Coldplay joke, hats off.
So Kryptonite was randomly made up because the Superman voice actor on a radio show wanted to go on vacation and they needed a reason for him to be gone
Lol that mahogany color kryptonite. It causes Superman to race swap.
I remember the Green lantern charge used to last for 24 hours regardless of how much or how lucky you use the ring. But they change that I'm guessing shortly after crisis on infinite earths
What might be a GL reference in Ben 10 Omniverse was the choice that Toepick, alien with a face so terrifying it causes the reanimated, psychotic dead to run for the hills, was one of the four or five aliens colored yellow.
*Death Battle debate flashbacks💀💀💀*
Isn't it more likely that that"s just a reference to yellow often representing fear in general, like green for envy or pink for love?
@@Idran Omniverse had a lot of pop culture references though
First thing I'd make with my Orange Lantern ring is all the JLU figures Mattel never made.
Giving the ring weakness to yellow is like taking an ability flaw on a tabletop RP character to get some extra feats.
They removed the weakness at the cost of something else when they realized the weakness was too problematic.
As for the QOTD, if I had a green lantern ring I would make ... well I'd start making simple shapes in order to feel out the capacity of the ring obviously. You know, kind of like a telekinetic stress ball. Then, since I associate green lanterns with psionics, and psionics with crystals, probably some crystals.
But like, what would I WANT to make? I dunno, nothing the lantern rings make is permanent, and it's not like I'm fighting supervillains or anything. I'd probably just use the danged thing to fly.
If I had a Green Lantern ring the first thing I would create is a Transformer that I can pilot and use for my own purposes.
5:10 you _do not_ need yellow to make green light, you can create any color of the rainbow with a single wavelength. the only lantern color that requires more than one wavelength is the white light of life (and maybe arguably the violet light of love, since that's usually depicted as closer to magenta).
First thing I'd try to make with my power ring is one of the cool ideas in my head, like robots or aliens and such. If I could make any of those, I could make anything
So, was John hooking up with the yellow-clad Hawkgirl the equivalent of Martian Manhaunter hooking up with Fire in Tom King's 'Human Target' series? Was it some sort of weird BDSM type thing for him?
Furthermore, does that mean she started wearing even more yellow as a kind of 'f#$k you'?
I agree the Guardians seeing to it could have just been them spinning the events of Parallax. The first thing I would make with my green lantern ring would be a green scooter and use it to run errands, I am sick of paying for uber lime to get everywhere and a green construct scooter would look just similar enough to not draw notice.
I think it's also important to mention that the yellow impurity was officially taken away from the GL comics once Kyle took over with the last power ring made uniquely for him. Implying that the guardians had the ability to take away the impurity before the parrallax retcon.
I think this had a play in how lax they could be with the weakness in the show and leaving it in as an homage makes a lot of sense. It's definitely there but can fit in the space where the Guardians can take it off once they trust that the lanterns won't turn on them like the manhunters turned on second 666/in dire situations
That shirt design is actually cool. And if I had the ring I would make an extend hand so I can grab things without getting up.
Speaking of yellow lanterns one of the coolest things from DC was the Sinestro Corps War written by Geoff Johans and Ethan Van Sciver. Yup gotta love EVS he is so talented and helped give us all the colors of the lanterns
There was a tie in coloring book for the justice league show. In the Dr. Destiny episode, they made GL’s nightmare that he was trapped in yellow. They had to simplify most of the fears, so the flash’s fear was being trapped in roots. May not be cannon but they did acknowledge it.
QOTD: I would create a Gundam robot mech suit. Would draw alot of attention but it would be super cool
Oh cool! Which coloring book?
@@dcauwatchtower my family got rid of the book awhile ago but let me see if I can find a similar one
@@dcauwatchtowerI thought flashes fear would be ice a strong weakness of his is captain cold.
I'm really hoping that with X-Men '97 and all the talk of bringing back old cartoon series, that we get a Justice League Beyond series. Can take place after the scene in Epilogue at the end, where Bruce has passed away (retiring Conroy's Batman). The series can deal with Terry after that loss and could finally do some of the Lantern spectrum stuff, but just have it occur in the future rather than "modern day". I want this so badly. I want the Terry voice actor back.
Thank you, I knew I remembered a Gray Lantern from somewhere, but I could never find anything on it!
Also since you brought him up, "Purple Cloak" from your video identifying every JLU member looks like Alan Scott to me, maybe with a hood instead of his usual high collar. Since Obsidian exists, it would make sense for him to be in the DCAU.
First thing I'd make with a Green Lantern ring is the universe's most comfortable bed/sensory deprivation chamber. Imagine the greatest sleep anyone has ever gotten. Ever. Of all time.
I don't know how to properly describe it but your videos are so calming, watching these videos lowers my blood pressure
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What happens if your internet fails?
Do you just explode?
I saw once, in one of Kyle Rayner's stories, that, even as a ring construct, water that Lanterns make functions 100% like regular water (i.e. can put out fires, etc.) So, I was thinking... infinite water glitch? Never be dehydrated again? Sure, there are so many other, more useful applications, but that's how I'd see myself using it on a day-to-day basis.
Maybe it's not a known weakness. Perhaps GL is only weak to yellow if he doubts his willpower. Something subconsciously makes him doubt himself when he sees yellow but he can overcome it by being especially determined. When facing Sinestro, GL is already esoecially deterimed to win so he has a built up defense against yellow. When he us hit with Jello-O, he isnt esoevially on guard so the yellow gets through as he doesnt deem it as a real threat. So, he is only weak to yellow when he doesnt think he will be weak to yellow or caught off guard.
“And you… Your weakness is the color YELLOW…”
I can't wait to dive into this video. I always wondered was Yellow a Green Lantern weakness in the DCAU!
I haven't finished the video (I just started it, in fact), but my near non existent understanding of the Lantern Corps were that they thematically graft emotions and/or mental states unto colors - thus a weakness to a color is essentially one emotion being weak to another.
Fear is the mind killer and whatnot
An easy explanation would be that the GL ring requires the user to be in the right state of mind. Fear makes the necessary state of mind harder, but not impossible, to maintain. The yellow light of fear can project fear into a person’s mind, making it harder for GLs to fight YLs. With their greatest weakness being symbolized with, empowered by, and just generally being yellow; GLs probably develop a conditioned fear response(basically what PTSD is) to the color, so they have a debilitating moment of panic when they see it, which pushes them out of their necessary mental state and disrupts their ability to use their powers.
you know I actually love the idea that the weaknesses are controlled by the council. if that were cannon it gives a whole meaning to how the rings could work and why its not a simple matter for a green lantern to just be omnipotent. you could very easily believe that the green energy is some form of magic to control light or something else wacky with gods or whatever and then the rings and such are a technology to be the median thus the council is able to control things such as adding wood or yellow as a weakness. at the same time parallax can still be cannon he can still be part of the reason yellow was the weakness because he would basically just be the yellow magic or whatever.
“because it’s Friday” doesn’t rolloff the tongue.
QotD:A wave motion gun whenever I’m fighting a large group of enemies.
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I would just use my GL ring to lift stuff at my job as a construction worker, saving myself all the back pain. 😂
Back pain relief is a hell of a drug
Arguably, the guardian's 'dealing' with the yellow weakness might not have been them just snapping their fingers to remove it, it could have been a battle, even the expression and the way he says it, that they 'dealt with it', treats it like a problem, not an intentional flaw to limit the power of green lanterns.
Honestly, the first thing I would make.Is just a shield around myself.So I can go flying in the space.Because how cool would it be to actually fly in space and be able to return it any time?You want without like too much worry as long as you've recharged your battery
Another place where people heard of Parallax is that 2011 Green Lantern film.
We don't talk about that film.
But deadpool shot Ryan Reynolds in the head and splattered his blood on the only copy and we all lived happily ever after tho...
Just because the bald green lantern says the guardians remove the yellow impurity, doesn't exclude that the yellow impurity was parallax. It just wasn't how Jordan who removed/freed parallax from the central battery. Could have been the guardians who put them in a different cell, or their attempts to stop his influence of instituting the purity caused him to get free, or any other number situations. The situation with parallax could also be a secret and so the average Green lantern doesn't know about it and is just told that the guardians removed.
I didn't know I needed to hear the best friend forever ring Jingle in a major key.
For the qotd: I'd probably construct multiple lantern light copies of myself to do a bunch of tasks at the same time
Am I the only one who thought the DCAU Sinestro looks John Astin?
I'm most impressed with how many times you put pop culture references to yellow in this one.
(And the Hawkgirl shirt comment made me make a noise of amusement, it was very unusual.)
Yellow (fear) rings are strong against green (will) rings, and green absorbs blue (hope) light. Its a rock paper scissors thing as you go down the emotion spectrum.
Does Blue absorb Yellow, right? Because Hope defeats Fear
In case anyone's wondering, the art on that Alan Scott part was substandard, because that was work by Mart Nodell, the guy who first drew Alan Scott back in the 40s. He also gave us the Pillsbury Dough Boy.
The Alan Scott retcon was, IMHO, a bad idea. Not because I object to Yalan Gur - I like that part - but because of the Guardians being able to switch off the yellow weakness at any time. I sez: Yalan Gur found the Starheart on earth, used it to patch the yellow weakness, and the rest of the story proceeded in much the same fashion (including the Guardians making his ring weak to wood).
In other words, the Guardians can introduce weaknesses, but they don't. The yellow weakness, on the other hand, was real.
Oh, I like that a lot better too. It does reintroduce the question of what the Star Heart is, though. Maybe some ancient artifact associated with Ion?
@@Idran The original pre-Crisis idea was, the Guardians scooped up most of the magic of the (Earth-One) universe, and sent it off to another universe (that of Earth-Two). In the early 90s, it was changed to, the Starheart was still a big bundle of magic, but the Guardians disposed of it in some other manner (since there were no other universes any longer).I like your idea that the Starheart was somehow connected to Ion, but it wouldn't be something the Guardians built. So how about, there was a sorcerer who tried to bind Ion to magic, and the Guardians undid his work and contained the magic. It would explain why a magic GL ring functions so much like a scientific one.
@@kingbeauregard Ooh yeah, that's a cool direction to take it; I like leaning more into Scott's ring being magical with that take
It's one of those things where you got rid of it decades ago but nobody lets you live it down
18:33
Nah that’s just her cool new monocle
My headcanon is that if you called a Green Lantern "yellow-bellied" they'd pop like a balloon
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19:26 No, that's _Unovan 3_ (actual thing from the anime, this part's not a joke) lorem ipsum. Completely different alphabet.
R.I.P Benny the Comicstorian. You are eternally missed.
Parallax is kind of all over the place too, one moment he's scaring off The Spectre, the next he's getting taken down by Thunderer mooks on Quard while in possession of Superman.
If I had a Green Lantern ring, the first thing I'd make would probably be a bubble. But a really good bubble... shield!
@dcauwatchtower, Questions that bug me, that you can answer...
1) Exactly what events happened in the original "Hereafter" present, before Bearded Superman went back in time ?
2) Exactly what was the gravity machine Vandal used ? What did it look like ?
3) How Exactly did Vandal vs Lobo's Justice League play out ? Did any other heroes join ?
4) What events happened, between Deadshot shooting Batman And The Final Battle ?
Your guess is 100% as good as ours 🫡
John Stewart is definitely my favorite Green Lantern
I think he's your favorite because Bruce Timm ruined it by introducing John Stewart before Col Hal Jordan. Hal is a part of the original seven.
@@BleedinggreenDrakeford7 Also Jon isn't a total mess.
He is my favorite, aside from Bruce and Clark, he’s my third favorite, flash is 4th and Wonder Woman is 5th, 6th is Jon and 7th is hawkgirl, just because she is last dosent mean I didn’t like her, she was amazing, I liked the other leaguers more
No offense but you all didn't read comics because if you did. You wouldn't like this lineup. Wally west, John Stewart and Hawkgirl are not original seven. They should've came along later.
@@GabePuratekuta they turned Hal into it. All characters in someways or another have some kind of hang up.
Yeah I'm guessing from everything that it's there, to an extent, in some GLs, but it's not telegraphed for obvious reasons, and doesn't completely nullify the green energy, just works better against it (& maybe specifically yellow energy/gas, not really solid objects, unless it's jello). I like the idea that overcoming fear is in play too, and DCAU John hasn't really overcome it like his Justice Lord counterpart, but would be immune to the yellow impurity is he was, like Jessica becomes. Then at some point the Guardians are able to remove it completely.
Hey maybe Kai Ro is weak to wood
"You can't even make the color green without [yellow]!"
If he were a paint man, sure. But we're talking light frequencies, mate.
Indeed, it's the other way around, yellow is primarily produced from the green emitter in RGB systems.
Right now I would want to make a self cleaning cat litter box.
It may not be the first thing I'd make, but if I were a lantern, I'd absolutely make use of feints. You think I'm hitting you with a construct from the right? No, that one isn't solid. The one behind you is
They explained the weakness to yellow in the first appearance is due to impurities in the ring causing vulnerability to yellow in the visible light spectrum. It’s been repeated too many times without the explanation, making it into sort of a joke.
It's always a good day when the WD posts a new video! Always found weird that we never had that classic weakness for the GL in the DCAU, especially before the comics' retcon.
Green lanterns should use more goofy weapons.
For a short time, one writer made a point that the phrasing was "Due to a necessary impurity..." (As opposed to an "inherent impurity.." The idea was that a lantern or two abused the power of the rings and they added an flaw/weakness so that the Lanterns would not be "all-powerful." This fact allowed the Guardians to make changes to rings at times. too. The ring that Alan Scott would come to possess was a regular Lantern Corp ring that was being abused by a GL on Earth in Asia. He was tormenting Rice Paddy farmers and a Guardian *shifted* the weakness from "yellow" to "wood" -- which allowed the farmers to stop the rogue Lantern. When Alan Scott found the ring, it retained the new weakness to wood and not the color yellow.
I really liked this ret-con and thought it was quite elegant and innovative. It answered a lot of questions and added to the lore.
Yep! We bring that up later in the video 🫡
@@dcauwatchtower I wrote that after watching half the video. I saw that you had indeed covered it later on. I should have had more patience....
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Also, not to chew up comment space in the comment section (lol) but the fact that this video ended with a variation of the song I was hoping would play the entire video, made every minute so, sooo, SOOOOO worth it! You're a class act and delivered in full!😂👏🏾
I never tought they would make this video, I hear that idea for old video, and it finally came out.
Here lies a Green Lantern...defeated not by Darkseid, or by a universe-level threat...but by a banana peel. Wait, what was that? Oh, sorry. It wasn't a banana peel...it was a kernel of corn.
First thing I would do with a Green Lantern ring? Give myself a cool hat.
I would make little green goblins and scare the sh*t out of people
What an amazing episode
Oh I was so worried when I saw how the Chinese people were drawn that things were going to take a more... racist route. Wood, glad it was wood.