"In brightest day, in blackest night..." which wuxia heroes would merit a power ring?

In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight. Let those who worship evil's might beware my power: GREEN LANTERN'S LIGHT!"

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In DC Comics' GREEN LANTERN mythos, the Guardians of Oa grant a power ring and battery of power to individuals who are fearless, honest, and possessed great willpower. Over the years, the Guardians of Oa have chosen thousands of individuals across the universe for this great power and the responsibility that comes with it, including Earthmen Hal Jordan, Guy Gardner, John Stewart, and Kyle Rayner.

Among wuxia heroes, however, whom do you think the Guardians of Oa would select to wield a power ring?

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I reckon most main characters fit. GJ and XF comes to mind as they put the wellbeing of society above all else.

Xiao Feng with a power ring would wtfpwn the universe.

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In DC Comics' GREEN LANTERN mythos, the Guardians of Oa grant a power ring and battery of power to individuals who are fearless, honest, and possessed great willpower.

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Sounds just like Guo Jing and Xiao Feng.

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fearless, honest, and possessed great willpower.

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Sounds like IMPARTIAL JUDGE Shan Zheng -- honest, respected, dignified, fearless & feared.

How much time do you spend thinking up these weird questions, Ken? :D

The original Green Lantern of Earth was Chinese. He used the power ring that eventually went to Alan Scott. But he turned evil.

The Green Lantern ring scales proportionately for how much willpower the user has.

So who has the most ridiculous willpower in the series?

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Originally Posted by ChanceEncounter

The Green Lantern ring scales proportionately for how much willpower the user has.

So who has the most ridiculous willpower in the series?

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Traditionally, it's been Hal Jordan. More than anyone else, he has been regarded as the greatest of the Green Lanterns.

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Originally Posted by sniffles

How much time do you spend thinking up these weird questions, Ken? :D

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Sniffie, nice one. I second that :D

Within my knowledge, XF, or whichever character who has the, yeah, ridiculous willpower (or stubborn?).

Actually, I'm more curious who would be that Joker in Wuxia world? :evillaugh

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Originally Posted by remember_Cedric

Actually, I'm more curious who would be that Joker in Wuxia world? :evillaugh

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If you could somehow combine the humorousness and immaturity of Chow Bak Tung with the deviousness and cruelty of Sing Kwun, you'd pretty much have it.

I hate these topics. After I read them I always wind up on wikipedia for hours reading about superheroes and their powers =(

There needs to be a site where you can enter two characters' names and then click submit and it tells you who's more powerful. It's kind of hard to judge when they all have near infinite power. Silver Surfer vs Green Lantern? Beyonder vs Galactus? etc.

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Actually, I'm more curious who would be that Joker in Wuxia world? :evillaugh

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The closest one I can think of would be Dongfang Bubai: wicked, chilling, unpredictable and vicious.

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Originally Posted by tape

I. It's kind of hard to judge when they all have near infinite power. Silver Surfer vs Green Lantern? Beyonder vs Galactus? etc.

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I don't think Galactus is enough for even Beyonder's breakfast on a bad day.

I believe Beyonder was retconned into being really, really weak (by cosmic standards).

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Originally Posted by The Batman

Traditionally, it's been Hal Jordan. More than anyone else, he has been regarded as the greatest of the Green Lanterns.

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Why is that dude carrying a green handbag?

Gay.

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Originally Posted by Candide

Why is that dude carrying a green handbag?

Gay.

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That's no handbag.

It's a lantern, which the GLs actually call a "power battery."

Every twenty-four hours, those power rings have to be charged up at these batteries.

Kind of inconvenient, really. Over the years, Green Lanterns have often inconveniently run out of ring energy at the worst possible times.

It's a plot device to prevent them from becoming all-powerful. For the longest time, their rings were also ineffective against objects that were colored yellow.

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Originally Posted by The Batman

That's no handbag.

It's a lantern, which the GLs actually call a "power battery."

Every twenty-four hours, those power rings have to be charged up at these batteries.

Kind of inconvenient, really. Over the years, Green Lanterns have often inconveniently run out of ring energy at the worst possible times.

It's a plot device to prevent them from becoming all-powerful. For the longest time, their rings were also ineffective against objects that were colored yellow.

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Why can't they just wear the lantern round their neck for more power or something then?

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Originally Posted by CC

Why can't they just wear the lantern round their neck for more power or something then?

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That's a damn good question.

Hal keeps his inside his locker at his workplace at an airfield in California (Hal is a test pilot for experimental aircraft).

Kyle keeps his in his apartment in New York, but not all of his adventures took place in New York. Sometimes, he was halfway across the galaxy or even in a parallel dimension. Oops.

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Originally Posted by The Batman

That's no handbag.

It's a lantern, which the GLs actually call a "power battery."

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Still, a dude carrying a green lantern is pretty gay.

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Originally Posted by Candide

Still, a dude carrying a green lantern is pretty gay.

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Which is why almost all the GLs leave theirs at home/in their lockers, sometimes to their detriment.

Many GL stories have had the GLs run out of juice at the most inconvenient of times, and their batteries are often a continent or even half a galaxy away.

PIS. Such brilliant minds with such access to powerful technology and resources aren't able to make the damn thing more portable in a "non-gay" way?

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Originally Posted by Ren Wo Xing

PIS. Such brilliant minds with such access to powerful technology and resources aren't able to make the damn thing more portable in a "non-gay" way?

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I think the DC Comics writers were painfully aware that the set of abilities they had given the Green Lanterns made them effectively omnipotent. What could you do with a character who arguably could defeat even Superman by just using his/her power ring to turn everything around him into Kryptonite (yes, Green Lanterns can do that)?

So DC contrived several limitations on the GLs to make them powerful, but less than omnipotent.

The power rings description on wiki makes them sound a bit like Tolkien's elven rings. The elven rings had a more interesting history, and more logical limitations though, being designed for a specific purpose that didn't necessarily mesh with worldly power.