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Team Scarlet Centurio... wait, no no .... the Blood Stryke Forc- no no, that's not it.... the Crimson Commando's?
From Red Lantern Corps 101

From Les Miserables, "Red and Black"
From Red Lantern Corps 101

- "Red - the blood of angry men!
Black - the dark of ages past!
Red - a world about to dawn!
Black - the night that ends at last!"
From Les Miserables, "Red and Black"
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Date: 2009-04-21 03:57 pm (UTC)GayGrim Ghost.no subject
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Date: 2009-04-21 02:08 pm (UTC)Although I had kiiiind of been thinking about looking at GLC, but I really don't know if I want to get involved with an event.
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Date: 2009-04-22 02:12 am (UTC)Otherwise they'll never learn.
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Date: 2009-04-21 05:20 pm (UTC)I think we should allow predators into the possible prerequisites for Red Lanterndom.
This promo pic is clearly inaccurate ...
Date: 2009-04-21 04:42 pm (UTC)Or is the "Nerdrage Corps" in the infrared spectrum?
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Date: 2009-04-21 02:23 pm (UTC)I love how Ruffles actually seems to be clawing Atrocitus. That takes serious furballs.
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Date: 2009-04-21 03:04 pm (UTC)Wow. The Guardians are real prickholes, aren't they? Just about everything in her backstory is one fuckover after another, and they then have the raw arrogance and sheer audacity to condemn her posthumously for the "crime" of being pissed off. Who the hell wouldn't be?
My question is, as an outsider to the whole mythos, is this deliberate or is it bad writing? Because this isn't the first thing I've read that paints the Guardians and the GLC in a far less than flattering light, and it really makes me wonder if we're supposed to sympathize with them or not.
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Date: 2009-04-21 03:10 pm (UTC)For instance, all the laws they've initiated in the Corps since the Sinestro Corps War have been with the best intentions in mind, but have ended up for the worse. The authorisation to kill led to Laira's dismissal, the rule forbidding relationships between Lanterns saw the retirement of hundreds of Lanterns, and so on. It seems to be in their nature to screw up.
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Date: 2009-04-21 03:11 pm (UTC)So we can sympathize with them but remember no one is perfect. Everything has a downside or flip side.
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Date: 2009-04-21 03:13 pm (UTC)Over the years they've gotten more and more incompetent and evil, a graph the slope of which has skyrocketed since Johns took over the mythos - unsurprising, he seems to have a very hard time with the basic "hero bows to more powerful superiors who gave him his mission" dynamic that the Guardian-Lantern relationship always used to be.
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Date: 2009-04-21 03:40 pm (UTC)...and people wonder why Johns ditched that characterization.
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Date: 2009-04-21 04:01 pm (UTC)Now, though, Hal's all perfect-never-harm-a-soul-not-a-shred-of-racism-or-sexism shiny-man, which makes him way less interesting IMO and loses a really good place to make that kind of really needed commentary.
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Date: 2009-04-21 04:05 pm (UTC)As Kurt said, writers defaulted to that and tried to keep Hal in that era regardless of sliding time scale, which meant he was a whiney, insecure middle aged man. How is that not lame?
Hal's pretty much the action hero now that he should be, strong, witty and confident in action while flawed, unsteady in his private life.
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Date: 2009-04-21 04:45 pm (UTC)I've been saying this for the past decade, yes.
And much like the Time Lords on Gallifrey, or the Pro-Reg side of Civil War, there are plenty of times each when their prickishness is either a) intentional, b) the result of shitty writing, or c) both.
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Date: 2009-04-21 02:51 pm (UTC)While I'm at it, I'll provide the kittykitty with a lifetime membership to an all-you-can-eat sushi buffet, thus eliminating him as well. Bleez and I will also spend our downtime petting and cuddling the kitty, and giving him a warm bed to curl up on and lots of curtains to shred.
Between the three of us, we'll all be contented and purring most of the time and far too tired and happy for rage, death, or destruction.
Someone else can deal with the rest of the freaks, but I got those two.
You're welcome.
[=^.^=]
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Date: 2009-04-21 03:14 pm (UTC)Reminds me of a funny internet thing of a Transformer who becomes a gun. "Predestination: It's hard to be a good guy when you turn into a damn gun."
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Date: 2009-04-21 03:10 pm (UTC)Ruffles the Rage Kitty yay!
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Date: 2009-04-21 03:22 pm (UTC)While the sector has a bunch of monsters (Red Lanterns) they actually do a nice turn around to the fact the Inversions (which Atrocitus was a member) weren't evil but driven to rage after the Guardians screw ups with the Manhunters led to their sectors almost total annihilation.
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Date: 2009-04-21 04:02 pm (UTC)I feel ashamed.
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Date: 2009-04-21 08:57 pm (UTC)I'm not sure but I think they actually tried to suggest something like that.
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Date: 2009-04-22 11:09 am (UTC)I don't really care about anything else
Date: 2009-04-21 03:23 pm (UTC)Um
I mean
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Date: 2009-04-21 03:25 pm (UTC)Re: I don't really care about anything else
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Date: 2009-04-21 05:26 pm (UTC)Are they just undoing everything Alan Moore ever conceived for the GL corps? whats next? The big dramatic reveal that Mogo isn't really a living planet, but just a giant space hamster on a wheel that powers the planets motion?
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Date: 2009-04-21 05:42 pm (UTC)It's the 'Wizard of Oz' trick, so that bad guys think they have killed the 'planet', when it's really only a teeny weenie hamster. Part of next year's major arc: "When the Fur Flies: Battle of Planet of the Hairless Apes" when they bring back Ch'p.
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Date: 2009-04-22 02:11 am (UTC)Indeed, like the British in the Empire period, they may think "something outside their particular control" and "chaos" to be synonymous.
There's a lot in all this too, and I haven't noticed this mentioned, that seems to be inspired by Europe after the Cold War, with all the splinter nationalisms and ancient hatreds(i.e. Yugoslavia) coming back to the fore without the USSR to repress them. Totalitarian systems oppress much that is good, it is true, but keeping order is also about repressing certain destructive things too, and opening the door to one meant opening it to the other too, and so with the GLC and the other colors.
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Date: 2009-04-21 06:22 pm (UTC)... What? There's other stuff in the picture? Where?
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Date: 2009-04-22 05:56 am (UTC)My god, that is so fucking adorable!
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