Did you ever feel like certain characters would be simply perfect with a specific Lantern Ring? Did you ever feel that the character would be unstoppable, and you could defend them to hell and back? Well, you can't, because you didn't sign up for my tournament, but you do get to watch the people who did!
Arguably the smartest person on Marvel's earth (sorry Reed), Victor von Doom is the monarch of Latveria and has even ruled the world a couple times. The man is a genius in both the fields of technology and in the mystical arts, mastering whatever it is that he decides to put his brilliant mind to. His willpower, respect, and dominance has been well noted across the world and even the universe. Despite being a villain, his motivations are pure and ultimately not based in evil.
Since many of his abilities are vast in nature due to his knowledge in both technology and magic, I won't list them here.
Terrorst, leader, businessman, martial artist...call him what you will, but he is The Mandarin! Iron Man's most iconic, this man is very familiar with controlling and using the powers of foreign, unearthly rings to get the job done.
Here is a basic idea of what his Mandarin Rings can due:
Eve Eden aka Nightshade, is the master of the Nightshade dimension, which gives her extremely versatile darkness manipulation. She was the field leader of the first Suicide Squad, and would later go on to join Shadowpact. Think of her as a mid-tier version of The Shade.
Due to her ability to expose and torture others with their nightmares and phobias, she is the perfect candidate to wear a Yellow Power Ring!
When the Guardians of the Universe discovered that Sinestro, the Green Lantern of Sector 1417, had used his ring to take control of his homeworld of Korugar, the Guardians expelled Sinestro from the Green Lantern Corps and banished him to the planet Qward in the Antimatter Universe. On Qward, Sinestro met the Weaponers of Qward, and told them of the Yellow impurity, how the Green Lantern Rings could not affect anything colored yellow. Having been working on a weapon similar to the power rings for several millennia, the Weaponers of Qward developed the Yellow Power Ring, designed to project yellow energy and and take advantage of the Green Lanterns weakness.
Powers Granted To The Team as a Result of the Ring:
Yellow Energy Conduit: The rings use yellow energy, supplied by a Power Battery, which in most cases takes the form of yellow light. Yellow Power rings, considered by some to be one of the most powerful weapons in the known universe, has the ability to affect and use fundamental forces of the known universe, including electromagnetic energies such as gravity, radiation, heat, light, and powerful blasts of concussive force. It is also theorized that the ring also has a basis in other dimensional energies commonly called magic by users of such energies. The ring can also create fields of force formed from an unknown energy that was bound by the users' will. The limitations of such use are the skill, knowledge and imagination of the user. This gives the team:
My teams 6 months of training will take place in Doom's Castle in Latveria. Dr. Doom and Mandarin are both brutal and brilliant tacticians with supreme intellects. Much of their leadership and respect is based on fear and intimidation, so the Yellow Power Ring can adhere to such emotions and influence quite nicely. They both have experience becoming experts in using advanced and other-worldly tech. I do not see them having any issue understanding and mastering the use of the Yellow Power Rings. Doom will combine and enhance the powers of his standard tech and mystical abilities using the ring, and Mandarin will use the ring as an 11th piece to his 10-ring as additional offensive/defensive support.
Nightmare's use of the Yellow Power Ring will almost become a natural bond due to her powers and abilities being so connected to nightmares, fears, and phobias. Her realm, the Nightshade Dimension, is the embodiment of terror. The Yellow Power Ring's abilities will come naturally to someone like her.
I believe Doom's leadership and motivational style will bring his team's powers and abilities into cohesion using these power rings in the 6 month duration of their training.
This comes later on in our fight. Until then, back to you @jdalsim@thenewbluebeetle007 :)
One thing that my entire team has in common, besides all being bearers of the Yellow Power Ring, is that they all have the uncanny ability to bring forth third party minions and proxys to the battlefield to fight for them or with them.
This will be the opening strategy, as it will create an even bigger numbers game against Gol D Roger right off the bat.
I will associate this ability with their Yellow Power Rings after showing off a few examples of what I am talking about...
Doom has the ability to summon monsters/demons and Mindless Ones to do his bidding.
These beings are strong enough to swallow, engulf, and throw down with the Avengers and the Fantastic Four, including powerhouses like Ms. Marvel and Thing.
One of Mandarin's own 10 rings, Remaker - the Matter-Rearranger, grants the ability to manipulate matter on a subatomic level either organic or inorganic. He has used this powerful ring on a number of occasions to animate random objects as weapons against his foes.
From left to right (1 - 5):
1 - 3) With a single gesture, Mandarin brings to life a couple of large statues, strong enough to engage Iron Man in combat. Iron Man resorted to charging at them in full force to destroy them.
4) Mandarin brings to life a statue. As you will note, they become self aware.. Strong enough to break a man's arm and knowledgeable of weapon use.
5) Arguably Mandarin's best Remaker feat. Here he brings to life an entire mountain to fight off Iron Man. He reveals that whatever he animates does not fight for him, they are actually an extension of himself.
One of Nightshade's most prominent offensive attacks is her ability to create power shadow construct giants instantaneously
From left to right (1 - 4):
1) Shadow giants are created to toss around an army of warriors, fodder, but it gets the point across.
2) Creates even bigger giants, strong enough to smash demons. These demons were giving the entire Shadowpact trouble.
3) Stomps (literally) Jack of Fire, and KOs him. Jack of Fire was giving Blue Devil major trouble in a fight prior to this.
4) Instantly creates many giant hands to grab hold an army of thousands, then traps them in an shadow orb. She says how if she was vindictive, she would crush them all in the orb. In this tournament, my team is morals off. Therefore, she would resort to such an attack.
How do the Yellow Power Rings come into play?
Creating groups or armies of constructs based on sentient beings or creatures to combat opponents is a specialty of the Yellow Power Ring bearers:
In the final scan to the right, you see Scarecrow, a novice and first time Yellow Ring bearer, was naturally able to summon an army of crows, mobilized to attack. My team has 6 months of training to master combat with these rings. Each member of my team has based their lives and successes on fear and intimidation, and all are very intelligent in their own right. Therefore, it is highly likely that my team will be able to create armies of Yellow Ring constructs in addition to the armies they can create using their own powers, as described above.
When you put all this in perspective, Gol D Roger could be out numbered by a few hundred, and would still have to deal with my actual team members who are formidable in their own right.
to be continued... @jdalsim@thenewbluebeetle007
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