Ring of Powah!!!
Not really a versus forum thread and I hope the mods don't close this bit I have a question.
Do more rings mean more power? If you are a standard GL and your given 10 rings, would that put you over the top of your class? Or would you just be the same. And if it does give a significant boost, just how powerful would that make you? Trans? Sky?
Hal with 10 rings vs SMP....can he beat him? And if so how far up the ladder will he get?
Originally posted by Sin I AMNo. It's an amp. Read Emerald Twilight issue 2. You can visibly see the difference in the amount of power Hal was wielding from the beginning to the part of the story where he dropped them all.
Based on what then? I always thought of them as twenty gallon tank of gas, and by adding another ring you'd essentially be adding another tank...
He goes from the beginning with one ring, all his constructs and bubbles are clean slightly glowing lines. To the later he has a fistfulls of rings and is just arcing energy in all directions in a massive radius around him like a supersaiyan. Even his fist looks like he's carrying a lightning storm rather than the soft glow of a single lantern ring.
As he's running through lanters and collecting the rings, fights go from PAGES long battles, to single panels, even though he's fighting tougher and tougher competition.
When he encounters Kilowog, he says "You can't beat me Kilowog, you can see how I'm armed.", -- Kilowog doesn't even pose as a threat.
Later, when he encounters Sinestro. Sinestro says his victory is a "forgone conclusion" when he's wielding that much power. So Hal takes them off.
More rings. More power.
If you read Blackest Night, it shows having more rings means more power. Sinestro became the White lantern because of all the rings merging together i believe.
Same thing with Kyle right now in the new Green Lantern arc. He's learning how to access all the rings so he can become Super lantern once more.
As far as the actual battle here goes, I doubt Hal could beat Prime with 10 rings.
Cyborg Superman was 10 rings roughed up badly on Superman, but was later defeated. I'd think Hank rocking the rings would boost him to about trans level, no more. I don't think Hal with 10 Oan rings would make him any more powerful than Hank nor capable of beating Prime.
Then again, if Hal attempted to "Krona Buster" him, he might kill Prime to death.
Originally posted by JakeTheBankPsh.
As far as the actual battle here goes, I doubt Hal could beat Prime with 10 rings.Cyborg Superman was 10 rings roughed up badly on Superman, but was later defeated. I'd think Hank rocking the rings would boost him to about trans level, no more. I don't think Hal with 10 Oan rings would make him any more powerful than Hank nor capable of beating Prime.
Then again, if Hal attempted to "Krona Buster" him, he might kill Prime to death.
Originally posted by Juntai
Psh.
Rookie Hal with one ring beat pre-Zero Hour Hallax. 😄
Which is a ridiculous outlier, but the rings perhaps best embody "high end feats" due to their nature and source of power.
Plus even in the early/mid 90s, power rings were doing a lot more impressive stuff than energy beams and simple constructs as it seems to be under Johns' pen.
Originally posted by SquallX
If you read Blackest Night, it shows having more rings means more power. Sinestro became the White lantern because of all the rings merging together i believe.Same thing with Kyle right now in the new Green Lantern arc. He's learning how to access all the rings so he can become Super lantern once more.
I did. And nowhere did it outwardly state that more rings meant more power. They give them more power to use but not more power
Originally posted by Sin I AMI explained above that Emerald Twilight explains in both story and art that he was more powerful the more rings he got. He went from fighting fairly evenly with some lanterns individually, to railroading them. The art went from neat little outlines like you usually see to MASSIVE arcs of energy flowing from and around him. Hal commented on it to Killowog, and Sinestro commented on it to Hal.
No. Your taking it too literal. It increases the charge that's it. So one equals 100% and ten 1000%. Two rings does however help when a task is beyond a single rings capabilities like when Hal went ape shit and tried to rebuild coast city.
Originally posted by Sin I AM
No. Your taking it too literal. It increases the charge that's it. So one equals 100% and ten 1000%. Two rings does however help when a task is beyond a single rings capabilities like when Hal went ape shit and tried to rebuild coast city.
I'm going by the comics themselves.
Rings aren't like they used to be with that stupid charge limitation that Johns brings up constantly. They had it, sure, but it wasn't referenced nearly as much.
Look at guys like Henshaw for example. The Hal example from Emerald Twilight too.
Hal was stopped from building Coast City by the rules, not because the ring couldn't do it.
Originally posted by -Pr-He couldn't do it because the Guardians stopped it.
I'm going by the comics themselves.Rings aren't like they used to be with that stupid charge limitation that Johns brings up constantly. They had it, sure, but it wasn't referenced nearly as much.
Look at guys like Henshaw for example. The Hal example from Emerald Twilight too.
Hal was stopped from building Coast City by the rules, not because the ring couldn't do it.