

PURPLE LANTERN CORPS MOVIE
Additionally, DC enthusiasts will delight in discovering allusions to beloved characters like Batman, Superman, Flash, and even a cleverly concealed Green Lantern Easter egg.īlue Beetle History In The Opening Credits - The studio logos for every DC movie release undergo a subtle transformation in appearance. In truth, numerous Easter eggs within the movie pay homage to Jaime's position within the Blue Beetle legacy. In the realm of DC Comics, Jaime is not the inaugural bearer of the Blue Beetle mantle, and this fact is mirrored in the film. This marks the silver screen debut of Blue Beetle, who will have a role in the future of the larger DCU, although it remains uncertain if the movie itself aligns with the main timeline.

The film centers around Jaime Reyes (Xolo Mariduena) and his family, as Jaime accidentally forms a bond with an extraterrestrial artifact known as a Scarab, transforming him into a new superhero. James Gunn and Peter Safran's DC Universe presents the unofficial first chapter of Blue Beetle, a movie brimming with DC comic book Easter eggs and references to the wider cinematic universe. Wonder Woman temporarily becomes a deputy member during Blackest Night and then again when the Sapphires need a leader to help them fight a war on Zamaron.Spoilers for Blue Beetle lie ahead. Fatality, a Green Lantern villain and member of the Sinestro Corps, gets converted to a Star Sapphire through the corps' "rehabilitation" process and develops feelings for John Stewart, who also briefly becomes one of the only male members of the Sapphires. The ring chooses her when Mongul kills her husband in order to fill the hole in her heart, demonstrating that the Sapphires seek to heal those who experienced tragedy. Other notable wearers of the ring include Miri Riam, the first member of the corps after the Zamarons repurposed the Star Sapphire stone for their power battery. She plays a vital role in the Blackest Night event and converts to more of an anti-hero rather than a traditional villain. Over time, her personality developed beyond a scorned lover as she rose in the Sapphire ranks to eventually become the most powerful one of them all, eventually taking on the role of their queen. The most significant bearer of the violet power ring is Carol Ferris, who came into possession of the weapon due to her heartache over Hal Jordan. In comparison, the light on the other side of the spectrum is the Red Lantern Corps, whose rage overtakes all other feelings to turn its members into manically vengeful monsters. The power ring wields more power over its user the closer it gets to either end, meaning that the violet rings can strongly influence the will of whoever wields its energy. The strange ruthlessness and moral dubiousness of the Star Sapphires' agenda are because the violet light lies on the edge of the color spectrum. RELATED: Bryan Hitch's Hal Jordan Art Fights for COVID-19 Relief Charity The Green Lanterns see this as a cruel and immoral method of sapping the will from their prisoners, but the Sapphires argue that this is merely resurfacing the love that the rings' hosts have buried deep inside them. However, the violet ring's unique ability is to encase members of other power corps in crystals in order to convert them to the Star Sapphire cause of reigniting dying love across the universe. The Star Sapphire power ring grants its user many of the same types of abilities that other rings do, such as flight, light constructs and protective shielding. Admitting that they have shunned all emotions except one in the same manner as their enemies the Guardians have, they redirect the concentrated energy into a power battery to charge violet-colored rings, thus forming the Violet Lantern Corps. Although they initially seem power-hungry, the Zamarons realize that they cannot harness the power of the Star Sapphire when the gem takes control of one of their own. Larfleeze, the Orange Lantern?įerris' Star Sapphire persona had been a primary Green Lantern villain since the Silver Age, but Johns and artist Ethan Van Sciver expanded on the mythology of the character to create an entirely new lantern corps of power ring wielders. The Zamarons, as the race now called themselves, sought to find a suitable host for their crystal and decided to make Carol Ferris, Hal Jordan's on-and-off girlfriend, their queen. Instead, the Sapphires traveled to the planet Zamaron and uncovered a pair of skeletons, lovers who had died while embracing each other, huddled around a glowing violet stone. The Star Sapphires began as an all-woman splinter group of Oans who left the planet because they did not agree with the Guardians' oath of shirking emotions.
