All The Lanterns Of DC You Should Know About

1. Green Lanterns

Emotion: Will

Origin: In the early days of The Universe, natives of the overpopulated planet Maltus evolved into immortals of great power. They subsequently settled the planet Oa and declared themselves the Guardians of the Universe and enemies of evil after one of their own performed a forbidden experiment that had terrible consequences for the Universe at large.

Oath: 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!

2. Yellow Lanterns

Emotion: Fear

Origin: Created by the Anti-Monitor in order to facilitate his plans to feed on New Earth and the Multiverse. Co-Created by Sinestro to instill fear in the Universe and the Guardians of the Universe so that they would be forced to change the laws of the Book of Oa.

Oath: In blackest day, in brightest night,

Beware your fears made into light.

Let those who try to stop what's right

Burn like my power Sinestro's might!

3. Red Lanterns

Emotion: Rage

Origin: The Red Lantern Corps was formed by Atrocitus because of the rage he felt over being imprisoned and because due justice was not brought to the Guardians of the Universe, whose Manhunters had slaughtered almost the entirety of his Space Sector. Given that a Red Lanterns's rage is centrally felt over loss, he likely feels rage specifically over the loss of his sector, or the billions of years of his life lost because of his imprisonment.

Oath: With blood and rage of crimson red,

Ripped from a corpse so freshly dead,

Together with our hellish hate,

We'll burn you all--that is your fate!

4. Blue Lanterns

Emotion: Hope

Origin: Created to bring hope to the future in the light of so much destruction, when good faces overwhelming odds. At the end of the war with the Sinestro Corps and after being exiled from the Guardians of the Universe for their individuality, Ganthet and Sayd started the Blue Lantern Corps by creating a Blue Power Ring out of their hope for the future.

Oath: In fearful day, in raging night,

With strong hearts full, our souls ignite.

When all seems lost in the War of Light,

Look to the stars, for hope burns bright!

5. Orange Lanterns

Emotion: Avarice

Origin: Many years ago (too long ago even for ancient beings to remember), the Guardians of the Universe hid the fact that they made a treaty to stay out of the the Vega System with Larfleeze. The extent of this treaty seems for Larfleeze, the keeper of the power of avarice, to be left in peace and isolation and the Green Lantern Corps to be forbidden to enter the vega system. The Orange Lantern Power Ring is powered by avarice, or greed.

Oath: What's mine is mine and mine and mine.

And mine and mine and mine!

Not yours!

6. Black Lanterns

Emotion: Death

Origin: The Black Lantern Corps consisted of various slain and deceased beings throughout the universe who fell into the domain of the dead. There, they were used by the Lord of The Unliving, Nekron as part of a plan to wage a war against the Emotional Spectrum.

Oath: The Blackest Night falls from the skies,

The darkness grows as all light dies.

We crave your hearts and your demise,

By my black hand, the dead shall rise!

7. White Lanterns

Emotion: Life

Origin: The White Lantern Corps. appeared near the end of the Blackest Night, after Thaal Sinestro, who had absorbed the Entity of Life, had the Entity removed from him. No sooner had this happened, then Hal Jordan absorbed it himself, and spread its power over a number of earth's super heroes, some of them Black Lanterns, thus resurrecting them. With their combined powers, they defeated the Herald of Death, Black Hand, thus allowing the Indigo Tribe to take custody of him, and defeated Nekron, Lord of the Unliving. The White Lantern Corps disbanded soon after this, as the Life Entity vanished.

Oath: None

8. Indigo Tribe

Emotion: Compassion

Origin: The Indigo Tribe was a mysterious group that had harnessed the power of the Indigo Light of Compassion from the Emotional Spectrum. Their creation was traced to the Green Lantern Abin Sur during his service to the Green Lantern Corps.

Oath: Tor lorek san, bor nakka mur,

Natromo faan tornek wot ur.

Ter Lantern ker lo Abin Sur,

Taan lek lek nok--Formorrow Sur!

9. Star Sapphire

Emotion: Love

Origin: Created by the Zamarons to collect the various emotions of emotional energy spectrum and to spread and protect love throughout the universe in order to promote order and take revenge against males.

Oath: For hearts long lost and full of fright,

For those alone in Blackest Night.

Accept our ring and join our fight,

Love conquers all with violet light!