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Subj: Is this like that Batman cover where he had a closet full of rainbow colored costumes? Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 at 10:05:20 pm EDT (Viewed 381 times) | Reply Subj: Doctor Who/Green Lantern crossover idea: Who Lantern Corps Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 at 09:33:50 pm EDT (Viewed 394 times) | ||||||
Quote: So, DC Comics has long since expanded the concept of the Green Lantern Corps into an entire color-coded emotional spectrum of Lantern Corps, with Red Lanterns representing rage, Orange Lanterns associated with avarice, Yellow Lanterns fueled by fear, Green Lanterns powered by willpower, Blue Lanterns drawing on hope, Indigo Lanterns dispensing compassion, and Violet Lanterns embodying love.So, there are seven separate Lantern Corps, and there have been 10 different incarnations of Doctor Who to date (in recognized television canon, anyway), so I started to wonder, because I'm a nerd, which Doctors would be best suited to each Lantern Corps? Working my way backwards, here's what I've concluded: Tenth Doctor = Blue Lantern of Hope. The Blue Lanterns exist to inspire others, which has been a theme of the Tenth Doctor since well before Martha Jones turned him into such a meme that he became Tinkerbell!Jesus just by virtue of the Earth's population praying to him. Ninth Doctor = Red Lantern of Rage. The Red Lanterns become savage as a result of their Power Rings not only constantly feeding their hatred and pain, but also replacing their hearts, literally, with their own energy. This seems like an uncomfortably appropriate fit for the Ninth Doctor, who tortured a captive Dalek, and seemed to feed off his own anger. Eighth Doctor = Violet Lantern of Love. Who better to be a Violet Lantern than the Eighth Doctor, who fell in love with everything and everyone around him, from his own shoes to the companion he'd just met? Especially since Eight and Grace were the first Doctor/companion pairing in the character's history to be portrayed explicitly as a romantic couple? Seventh Doctor = Yellow Lantern of Fear. Like Sinestro, the Yellow Lanterns don't surrender to their own fears, but instead play upon the fears of their opponents, and draw strength from those. For as much of a Chaplin-esque (or should I say Troughton-esque) comic figure as the Seventh Doctor acted like at times, his capacity for viciously vindictive, yet coldly controlled, master-level manipulation was nothing short of terrifying to his enemies. Fifth Doctor = Indigo Lantern of Compassion. The Indigo Lanterns are largely neutral, tending to the injured on all sides of conflicts, and seem devoted to spreading goodwill. Likewise, the Fifth Doctor was perhaps the most collaborative and cooperation-oriented - and in some ways, the most vulnerable and accessible - of all the Doctors (at least in the original series). Third Doctor = Green Lantern of Willpower. Hal Jordan was the greatest of all the Green Lanterns, and he personified the square-jawed, barrel-chested, straight-arrow, forthright, does-what's-right-without-question Silver Age Superhero, with a will of iron and (almost) no fear. Aside from the Third Doctor's more flamboyant wardrobe and more liberal politics, this describes him nearly perfectly, too, especially since, in spite of his stubborn and outspoken differences of opinion with the Brigadier, Three was the only Doctor who was enough of a team player to join the ranks of First Doctor = Orange Lantern of Avarice. This one makes a lot more sense when you realize that the First Doctor was the Scrooge McDuck of the Doctors; he was a cranky, stingy old man who was too greedy to freely share his adventures with any more younger companions than he absolutely had to. The TARDIS was One's equivalent of Scrooge's Money Bin, and he was even more annoyed by Barbara and Ian being in his happy place, and touching all of his hoarded stuff, than Scrooge was toward his nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie's intrusions. ... And yes, I left out Two, Four and Six, but quite frankly, I have no clue how to classify them. My gut-level instinct would be to connect Two to either hope or compassion, and Six's temper-tantrums would lend themselves more toward rage than anything else, but I can't even imagine reducing the full spectrum of Four's WTF to any one emotional color, unless Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver create the Ultraviolet Lantern Corps of Tricksters, or something. And your thoughts? | |||||||
