OK, let’s say Green Lantern’s ring still had its weakness to yellow. If he were fighting and getting trounced by Banana Man, could GL just flip the lights off and then smash him with a giant boxing glove?
Or what if GL lured Banana Man into a photographer’s darkroom where the red light would make an orange BM (eeew)?
Of course, they glow green. I’m not sure what color you’d perceive a yellow object to be under a green light filter, but I’m guessing it wouldn’t be “yellow”.
A yellow object is yellow because it reflects yellow light only. Hence, it absorbs green light and does not re-emit it. An object that is yellow under white light would not be visible at all under only green light.
Which GL? Because Alan Scott would just LAUGH at a yellow foe, unless it was also made of wood. And Kyle Rayner would just laugh.
During the Silver Age, on the other hand, a GL was once injured by an “invisible yellow” force field, apparently from the same source as the invisible pink unicorn (who, obviously, could take GL). In the Silver Age DCU, color was a fundamental quality of matter and energy, not affected by such niceties as lighting. :rolleyes:
I’ve been told (but never read for myself) that Alan Moore once addressed the issue of aliens who can’t see the colour yellow in a story for the Green Lantern Corps back-up in the late 80s. There was a Green Lantern who was a musical note - a sentient sound. No idea what “yellow” was all about at all.
I’ve wondered about Green Lanterns with yellow skin. Can a GL ring convey such an alien, or do they use a power beam to lift themselves up by the nostrils, and thus fly?
I think you’re conflating two of the unusual Lanterns that Moore created. In Mogo Doesn’t Socialise, Tomar Re mentioned to Arisia a sentient mathematical progression, whose name I don’t remember.
The one who addresses the ‘can’t see colour’ thing is Rot Lap Fan, the F-Sharp Bell (which was what he and Katma Tui came up with when she couldn’t explain the concept of either ‘green’ nor a ‘lantern’ to him), who comes from a lightless region of space. He’s a physical being, but has no concept of light or colour, for obvious reasons.