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DC has redefine theRed Lantern’slore , and in the process made himGreen Lantern’strue opposite . The unexampled Red Lantern had promptly become Alan Scott ’s slap-up foe , a former buff turned enemy through no fault of his own . The Red Lantern is also one of DC ’s most mysterious characters , but now the story of the Crimson Flame is on display inAlan Scott : The Green Lantern#5 .
Alan Scott : The Green Lantern#5 is write by Tim Sheridan and drawn by Cian Tormey . Alan Scott has been saved by the Emerald Flame , a personification of his force source . It explicate to him both the origin of the Emerald and Crimson Flames . The Guardians of the Universe gathered wild conjuring trick into a giant green ball and jail it within a star , where it maturate sentient . A sliver of its essence escaped , becoming Green Lantern ’s power generator . Another bit saw the safety valve , and grew envious and finally yield to rage .
It would become the Crimson Flame .
The Crimson Flame Has Ties to the Emotional Spectrum
It Has Deep Ties to Green Lantern Lore
The Emerald Flame fall in it down even further for Alan , explaining that his abilities infer from self-control , a part of the Emotional Spectrum . The entity name crack other emotions in the spectrum , such as fear , love and anger . It explains that the Crimson Flame is power by the red light source of rage , standing on one end of the Emotional Spectrum . Being so far up the Spectrum , cherry blinds its hosts , fleece them of their will and identity element , as seen in the numerous appearance ofAtrocitus and the Red Lanterns .
The Emotional Spectrum is one of the primal effect of the DC Universe , adequate in grandness to the Speed Force and other such concepts . structure like the traditional light spectrum , with red on one end and violet on the other , each colouring material is assigned a exceptional emotion . Red , as mentioned before , is on one utmost end of the Spectrum , meaning it is a far more intense emotion and as such , can overrule its host ’ personality , turn them into craze - fueled zombies . Atrocitus , the loss leader of the present - day Red Lanterns , eventually experiments with giving his minions devoid will , about destroying the Corp.
Red is not the onlyother color in the Emotional Spectrumthat can have such an burden on its user . Violet , the color of honey , also engage an extreme end of the Spectrum and , just like Red , it can overwrite a person ’s identity . The Star Sapphires , the current wielders of the Violet Light of Love , take a more severely - line approach than fan would ask , forcibly recruit cleaning lady to the movement . as well , the Indigo Lanterns , who wield the Light of Compassion , lose their ability to find other emotions , which could cloud their judgements .
Perhaps the best fuck colour of the Emotional Spectrum is green , which , as the Emerald Flame pointed out to Alan , is the colour of will power . The Guardians of the Universe , the bosses of the Green Lantern Corps , were the first to rule the Green Light of Willpower . The Guardians attempted several times to bring fiat to a helter-skelter universe , including the Manhunters , the Green Lantern Corps and the Third Army . The Guardians ’ war on conjuring trick , and the subsequent creative activity of the Starheart , were another such attempt .
The Starheart Links Alan Scott to Hal Jordan
The Starheart Also Ties Alan Scott to the Emotional Spectrum
When editor in chief Julius Schwartz rebooted Green Lantern in the late 1950s , he give the concept a scientific discipline fiction - orient spin , a revolutionary departure from the character ’s Golden Age similitude . Alan Scott , the first Green Lantern , was a magic - establish Heron whose doughnut was susceptible to woods . He was still able to fly and make difficult - light construct , just like Hal Jordan . The two Green Lanterns would conform to a few year later in the first Justice League / Justice Society crossover . For many geezerhood , there was no connectedness between the two submarine sandwich .
That change in 1978’sGreen Lantern#111 . A crossover between Alan Scott and Hal Jordan , the tale revealed the being of the Starheart . Its narrative is very similar to the one the Emerald Flame recount to Alan Scott : the Guardians waged a war on deception , and in the consequence , gathered it all into one source , which became the Starheart . The Guardians then jail it within a star , and in time it became self - cognisant , and yen for escape cock . Eventually , a small-scale portion broke free and traveled through the cosmos , eventually crash landing place in medieval China , where it finally notice Alan Scott .
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From there , the metal from the Starheart was fashioned into a lamp by Billie , a psychiatric patient . Alan took the lamp for himself , and after well-nigh being killed in a train shipwreck , it restored him to life and cave in him the powers that he is known today for . InAlan Scott : The Green Lantern , Sheridan and Tormey have hem intimately to this original story , but have added more modern elements to it . For example : it was revealed that Billie had been in the infirmary with Alan . Both were LGBTQIA+ and were hospitalized to be “ cure ” of their “ deviancies . ”
Alan Scott : The Green Lanternhas redefined the role for a raw earned run average by reaffirming what made him so great in the first place : his heroism and unbreakable tone . The Emerald Flame explains to Alan that this is what makes him a hero : his will power . Growing up as a festal gentleman in the former twentieth C gave him a serious character of self - loathing and ego - doubt . As an adult , Alan had to keep his affairs under wrapper and was jeopardise with being come out of the closet more than once . Yet he pushes through it every fourth dimension , always doing the right thing .
Fans have speculated if Alan Scott , and the Starheart , had a connection to the Emotional Spectrum , and this issue answer that with a resounding “ yes . ” The Emerald Flame excuse to Green Lantern that military capability of will is the Francis Scott Key to his powers , and it is a drive that exists deep inside of him . The Crimson Flame is an branch , and through its growing anger and resentment , finally strays to another closing of the Spectrum : the Red Light of Anger . Thus far , no other bit of the Starheart has embraced another aspect of the Emotional Spectrum .
Fans have theorize if Alan Scott , and the Starheart , had a connection to the Emotional Spectrum , and this yield answers that with a resounding yes .
Can Green Lantern Contain the Crimson Flame?
Or Will It Consume Him and the Earth As Well?
The Emerald Flame explains to Green Lantern that the Crimson Flame is its diametrical , in more way than one . The Emerald Flame brings animation , just as it pull through Alan Scott yr prior , but it tells him that theCrimson Flame will bring only death . It warn Alan that a great evil is coming , one entrenched in the Crimson Flame . As soon as Green Lantern come back to reality , the Crimson Host , a team of Soviets power by the Crimson Flame , get on the panorama , ready to replace the Red Lantern .
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Whether the Crimson Host is the threat the Emerald Flame warned Green Lantern about or not is unclear , but now Alan and the Red Lantern must team up up to bar them . It is ironic that the Emerald Flame tells Green Lantern that the Crimson version only brought death , as it is the only matter keep theRed Lanternalive . The Crimson Flame , much like the Red Light of fad on the Emotional Spectrum , corrupts and destroy everything it touch , a stark contrast toGreen Lantern .
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