What do we do with the Lantern concept?

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Poll What do we do with the Lantern concept? (21 votes)

Remake 62%
Keep it the same 24%
Modify it but otherwise keep what's there 14%

So there's a great thread somewhere on here where someone many moons ago made a great Lantern concept. I've been using it (Solar Hawk is a White Lantern and Vai is a Green Lantern) and a few others have on and off. Unfortunately most people don't know it exists (as exemplified by someone recently going "wait, there are lanterns?") and while the background is amazing it's a lot of reading for someone who just wants to make a character that has a ring.

Personally I think we could use a new Lantern concept (though I would not remove the other one from canon, merely provide a new one that's more focused around Earth rather than space) that would have a coherent list of powers so no one can be accused of making things up on the fly and everyone knows what they're dealing with if they run into one.

What do you think?

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Woot

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REVAMP.

REVAMP.

REVAMP.

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#3  Edited By HeroUp2112

Revamp

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Revamp without "Lantern" in the name. It's like calling a team the X-Men or the Avengers. Guardian, Beacon, anything but Lantern.

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We need a part of the Corps.

That's made entirely.

Of fists.

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Calling Them Lightsmiths might help?

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Vote for remaking it.

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The Green Lamp Corps.

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@lichter said:

Revamp without "Lantern" in the name. It's like calling a team the X-Men or the Avengers. Guardian, Beacon, anything but Lantern.

ahem

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Remake

I also reccomend the name Beacons over lanterns

Beacons of Hope

Beacons of Will

Beacons of Rage

Beacons of Fear

etc

etc

etc

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Call them Guardians to annoy LG. That way he cant call himself Last Guardian anymore because it's a bogus name or he has to go evil and kill all the other Guardians.

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@scouterv said:

Calling Them Lightsmiths might help?

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Call them Guardians to annoy LG. That way he cant call himself Last Guardian anymore because it's a bogus name or he has to go evil and kill all the other Guardians.

Jokes aside the name isn't half bad. Guardians of Will. Guardians of Wrath. Guardians of Envy. And so forth.

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Aside from the name (Lightsmiths sounds pretty cool to me), I don't really think the concept itself needs a revamp. I'm fine with how it is.

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uuuh....There is a guy here who has the name Last Guardian, because he has entire in depth world based around the name of a universe wide group already called the guardians. It'd be a dick move to use it for something else.

I don't get why you'd even try to use it..can we stop with the bs.

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He was just teasing around. No one's going to use the Guardian name.

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I like Lightsmiths....Beacons isn't too bad either

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Just figured I'd nip it early...been a lot of weird passive shade thrown at LG lately and it's getting old. Dude is cool and it's not justified.

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@meison_calidus:

I RP with him all the time, don't worry I won't call them Guardians.

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Remake, I believe.

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@lunahawk: Ok.

As far as lightsmiths, it's a cool name but it's been done in the books you know? You give it an original name like Beacons and you have more freedom in your head space for coming up with divergent things about the concept. I just know when I try and put as much originality into names as possible, it sets a tone for developing a concept into something all it's own, rather than taking cues from source material/the original concept.

I'm shamelessly pushing beacons lol...but even if not that I think you could come up with something more original. You're other concepts have had creative names, I think you can do better than lightsmiths.

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Lol.

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Personally I don't have an appetite for another lantern concept. But if you do, I'd like something other than lightsmiths. Sounds a little.... Eh :P

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Lightsmiths or Beacons is fine with me. I just don't think we particularly need a new Lantern concept.

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@pyrogram said:

Personally I don't have an appetite for another lantern concept. But if you do, I'd like something other than lightsmiths. Sounds a little.... Eh :P

I'm the opposite; I'm all about every Lantern thing that comes along lol. But.. gotta agree on the Lightsmiths name. What was wrong with Punk's Avatars? Those were good, they have plenty of canon, great looking OP/concept thread and so forth. Re-inventing the Lanterns every couple of years is preventing them from building lasting canon.

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@lady_liberty: Avatars was probably the best version of the lanterns, the word itself is good. Luna probably wants autonomy on the concept though. The novel kind of concept. You know? But personally I don't really want a new lantern concept (never wanted them in the CVnU myself either). I just feel too many GL archetypes weaken them all.

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I just want someone to give wheatley a red ring now

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@pyrogram: Yeah it was. It had a real ring to it. 'Avatar of Will' - 'Avatar of Rage' and so forth. Punk always had a knack for capturing the spirit of a comic book concept. (I kept my Avatar ring and may go back to it someday hehe.)

That's probably true of any concept, to be honest. Too many Knightfalls was the downfall of the Knightfalls. Too many mutants/anti-mutants, too many Batman guys, too many Superman characters and so forth. But I feel like the Lantern concept can endure a bit more than most other concepts, simply because its suppose to be a team. The Vine could probably handle three or even four Lanterns long term without the concept becoming devalued.

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@lady_liberty: I think it would endure less, because once everyone has lantern powers they seem kinda generic and it'll spawn some new "innovative" way to use GL constructs that'll low key suck but nobody will say anything. It always happens when everyone uses the same concept. I know a GL arms race will happen LOL It's inevitable if enough people took to a concept.

But I'm selfish, Kurt uses constructs and if everyone else has em it'll be less novel :P

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@pyrogram: Yeah, you aren't wrong. There's always something wonky and out of place with any concept that becomes popular. I just look at it as the price of success I guess. Its like people ripping off your bio; it sucks but it just means you've made it big lol.

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I'm all for Beacons and an entire revamp

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Green Lightbulb Corps.

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A revamp would be sick, but not a total change.

Like, if Avatar ever comes back around, I want him to still be able to tear up a mothafluffa.

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@pyrogram: Yeah it was. It had a real ring to it. 'Avatar of Will' - 'Avatar of Rage' and so forth. Punk always had a knack for capturing the spirit of a comic book concept. (I kept my Avatar ring and may go back to it someday hehe.)

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When I do this, it won't erase previous canon, it will create something else that will allow people to use a cohesive set of powers and easily accessible back story. The other canon would view those using this canon as young upstarts that are trying...well, you'll see. Spoilers.

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Just so you guys know, I did say Lightsmiths earlier because nobody is currently calling the Corps that. I think either the term Corps or Lanterns replaced Lightsmiths.

But if you want to avoid anything from the comics, the term Avatar has been used. Coincidentally by the Earth-2 Lantern counterparts. The Green Lantern was Avatar of The Green, Solomon Grundy was Avatar of the Grey, Yolanda was Avatar of The Red, etc.

Just in case I was the only one still reading E2 haha. (But seriously, you should read E2.)

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Is this still a thing?

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@lunahawk: when you get this up can you tag me?

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I vote reboot...just start anew...

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Calling Them Lightsmiths might help?

I like that, I like this, I like you...

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