Superhero weaknesses?

[bauble]

Thanks, guys. I figured there must have been some reason that made (comic-book) sense.

[Nametag]

Any true Tick fan knows his weakness is straws.

[DocCathode]

@Nametag

Any true Tick fan knows his weakness is straws.

Then why is a straw the official MOAV implement of menace?

[Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor]

Captain Ultra, yeah.

[MonkeyMule]

@Happy Clam

Ah. Long story short, there was a yellow weakness worked into the rings for a while. Original story was that there was a villain (Syndrome? Pretty sure it was an “s” name) who was trapped in the power crystal on the planet (Oa) from whence the Green Lantern Corps originated. His malign influence weakened the Green Lantern’s control over the part of the spectrum he was trapped in (in this case, yellow).

Post-Crisis, that’sation for hte yellow we been replaced with yellow being a “Rookie Weakness” deliberately implanted by the Masters of Oa (or whoever the bosses of the GL corps are) to control new Lanterns. In other words, it’s because it is not designed for the Corps to take advantage of, but the Masters.

Well the current explanation for the yellow weakness is along the PC vein. In the sense that there is a creature (Paralex) who is basicly THE fear parasiste housed in the Central battery. For a while the gardians never told the GL’s about this and just said there was a yello weakness (they really are pricks BTW.)

You see basicly each emotion has a corasponding color on the visibile light spectrum. Fear-Yellow and willpower-Green. Since the embodyment of fear was locked inside the thing that powered all the Lantern’s ring, they were powerles sagainst it.

At least till Kyle came along, someone who was not what a typical GL was up untill that point: HE Was not a man with out fear. SInce he knew fear, and overcame it he could in fact use his ring on yellow.

Jump foward to now and it means that Yes GL’s can use their Rings on YELlow but only if they remember fear. Hince it’s a rookie problem as they are still learning how to work with the rings, and understandibile considering ALL Gl’s for thousands of years coudn’t figgue that one out.

[MonkeyMule]

@Menocchio

The Corps recently learned that the yellow weakness wasn’t a flaw in ring design, or an intentional feature to hobble the GLs, but because there’s an ancient fear demon (Parallax, he possessed Hal Jordan for a while) imprisoned in the central power battery. Yellow represents fear as green represents willpower, so GLs couldn’t handle yellow. Now that they know what the deal is, Green Lanterns can confront their fears and overcome them, and thus handle yellow objects. But that’s not easy, and rookie GLs have a hard time with it.

damn it dude! Why do you have to answer the question faster and better then I did? :smack:

[Nametag]

@DocCathode

Then why is a straw the official MOAV implement of menace?

It works both ways:[spoiler]In Tick #whatever, a fellow diner patron insists The Tick isn’t really a tick: “Ticks suck blood – do you suck blood?” “I’ve got a straw right here, buddy!” Diner patron shuts up, but keeps breaking in with skeptical comments, which The Tick silences with a threatening “fwip” of his straw. Hence the offical MOAV etc. (this is all from memory, BTW).

Unfortunately, Tick keeps the straw in his mouth for the entire issue, breathing through it, and eventually passes out from lack of oxygen. Thus, the straw is also his weakness.[/spoiler]

[Der_Trihs]

@Otto

Iron Man is an alcoholic, so that could be considered a weakness, although not one that’s easily exploited by enemies.

Not that hard; put him under stress, or wait until he’s under stress, and arrange for him to be exposed to alchohol; Obidiah Stane did just that.

@JThunder

Ultra Man? Do you perhaps mean Captain Ultra?

Definitely Captain Ultra; Ultraman was one of those Japanese man-in-a-rubber-suit series; way back when I was a kid.

[Menocchio]

@MonkeyMule

Well the current explanation for the yellow weakness is along the PC vein. In the sense that there is a creature (Paralex) who is basicly THE fear parasiste housed in the Central battery. For a while the gardians never told the GL’s about this and just said there was a yello weakness (they really are pricks BTW.)

My impression was that Parallax somehow made the Guardians forget about him. They themselves thought the yellow weakness was either a necessary flaw or a deliberate check on the Lanterns’ power. If not, you’d think Ganthet would have mentioned something earlier…