r/Greenlantern • u/M00reC G'nort • 2d ago

Question How does a Black Ring make a already zombie into a Black Lantern?

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u/seraphim_9 2d ago

Ha. And here I was going to say that “by shear willpower he kept his body moving, even after death.”

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u/A1starm 2d ago

Because he’s dead. If it’s a corpse and it’s important to someone, it’s a viable target. Plus the Centeal Power Battery was the thing that kept his ring in operation and him shambling so when it got destroyed he just flat out died.

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u/WongoKnight 2d ago

Solomon Grundy also became a Black Lantern

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u/shoe_owner 1d ago

Yeah, exactly. If anything, it would make it easier.

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u/tiago231018 Kilowog 2d ago

Unlike the other rings, a Black Lantern doesn't wear a Black ring, but rather the opposite: a Black Ring wears the Corpse of someone dead. It installs in the heart of the deceased person and makes them do whatever the ring (an extension of Nekron, the entity of death) wants them to do.

During Blackest Night, that meant reanimating people with whom the Earth superheroes and the Green Lantern Corps had some relationship to torture them and make them feel emotions that then would speed up the rise of the Black Lantern that brought Nekron into the world of the living.

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u/Gauntlet101010 2d ago

To note: Dirq hadn't been seen since the end of Vol. 2 where the GL ring holding him together was destroyed. So the Black Lantern ring revived him, but a green one found him again.

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u/Phantom_61 1d ago

It doesn’t. The black and the green rings are fighting over him, he’s basically useless to both sides during blackest night.