A question: Can a shield generated by a Green Lantern Power Ring stop a Killing Curse?

I was discussing the powers of the ring with a friend who's planning a GL Harry story and this question came up. Frankly I can see arguments for both yes and no and was wondering what people here thought.

So, yes or no?

 

Eh. Maybe Ion could stop it, but seeing as the Killing Curse is supposed to be the epitome of destructive magic, I expet only something on a similar level could stop it.

So I guess no, your normal GL's shields would just break.

 

There shouldn't be any magic way to block the killing curse, but it can be blocked by inanimate objects in canon. So it kinda depends on how you mesh the two universes. If you have it so HP magic is kinds the same as what the GLs do then it couldn't block it, because there are no magical ways to block the Killing Curse. But if they are completely separate then I think it could be blocked by a GLs shield, in the same way as it can be blocked by a statue.

 

It has been emphasized, several times and by several characters, that the GL rings function squarely on science, not a drop of magic in them.

Only one dude's ring functions with magic. He uses the name Green Lantern too, and uses a ring but isn't part of the GL Corps. Alan Scott or somesuch. His be a magic ring.

 

Then I would take that to mean the Killing Curse could be blocked.

 

Personally, I'd make it that as with physical objects, the ring constructs can stop the Killing Curse. But as it destroys these objects, it would destroy not just a construct, but also the ring itself (or at least seriously damage it).

 

Yeah, he draws his ring's powers from the Starheart, a semi-sentient entity of magic that is supposedly "all the magic of Earth-1 collected by the Guardians and put into Earth-2" Or it was before the relaunch. Kinda curious to see how they'll reboot it. I'm hoping something akin to being a magical version of Ion or Parallax.

 

The rings make solid or not so solid constructs with protoplasmic energy (whatever that is) Since they are solid constructs, I would imagine that the curse would be stopped just as it's stopped by other solid objects. I can't see as to where it would destroy the ring either. They are supposed to be neigh invulnerable, having never been destroyed before even being in the heart of a supernova in one instance.

However that's all been tossed out the window, as recently Sinestro destroyed one with his GL ring through the power of his will alone.

 

Er ... many rings have been destroyed throughout the series, with various means. It's just really hard to do.

 

It likely would destroy the construct and drain the ring of a great deal of its power at a minimum.

 

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Only the rings don't work like that.

 

Green Power Rings? I know a number of them from the other colors have been destroyed or even altered color. I've never seen it, but then again I haven't read even a moderate majority of the comics to begin with. I just point out that in a recent issue of GL that Hal freaks out that Sinestro destroyed a GPR, saying that it was impossible.

But I'll take your word for it.

 

Pretty sure they were Green Rings. I've read the majority of the Green Lantern comics, and while I can't remember specifics, I'm pretty sure I've seen a few get destroyed here and there.
I think most were during the Sinestro Corps War. I seem to recall the Guardians destroying a Yellow Ring at some point, Sinestro or his men picking out a couple of GL rings. Not sure, mind you, but that's what I remember. At some scenes, a single concentrated blast from a Ring was enough to take another out, but I don't know if that's only because powerful users like Sinestro did it.
I could be wrong entirely though.

Ring changing color? When was this?

 

I'll do a little research on it , maybe I can narrow it down.

Color changes:
Star Sapphires have encased Yellow Lanterns like Fatality in their violet crystals and it alters their personality and eventually the rings they are wearing into Violet Power Rings. It takes time though.

Indigo is the same way, except there is an immediate transition. That happened to William Hand - Black to Indigo and most recently Sinestro- Green to Indigo.

During the Blackest Night and Brightest Day stories there were a number of times rings destroyed one another or just don't work.

Green destroys Red.
Violet changes any color.
Green and Blue work in conjunction to make a hybrid.
Indigo changes any color.
Red overtakes Green, but doesn't destroy it.
Blue apparently is the Hufflepuff Ring. It just sucks.
And White kicks everyone's ass changing as it sees fit.

 

If anything, the Star Sapphires are one of the more insidious Corps - they don't frenzy you with rage and nor do they make people fear you; they brainwash you.

 

Very true. Up until Blackest night they were considered the bad guys... girls. Then they tempered the influence of the sapphire crystals with a power ring of their own. Since there are a lot of the old corps still involved with the new, they still hold to the old ways more often than not.

With the onset of the New 52, Indigo are the biggest brainwashers. it's just been revealed two GL issues ago that their entire corps are in fact murderers, rapists, etc. of the worst sort and the ring forces compassion on them until they obey. "Nok!"

At least Fatality has freedom of choice now... after she was brainwashed. In the latest issue of New Guardians she disobeyed direct orders of the leadership to help out Kyle Rayner.

It's all very confusing now.

 

I always assumed that the Violet and Indigo Light just brainwashed people, and the Saphirres and the Tribe provided the Rings.
Areyou sure green and blue formed a hybrid? I know how they amplify each other, but actully unite? Really?
Many colors affect or subvert each other, I always assumed, and usually saw, that the original Ring was intact, if unused.

 

No, they don't unite as one ring, they turn that GL into a hybrid of a blue/green. What I'm getting at is that they work together and don't fight each other. That list is just what has happened when one ring encounters another.

From what I read in Blackest Night, the GL ring is never destroyed like a lot of the others. Their wearer can be killed obviously, but their ring always survived and went off in search of another user.

The GL ring either was forced off, was changed, or abandoned their wearer when encountering another. However, there were tons of deaths during that storyline so I'm sure there were inconsistencies somewhere. That's why I didn't outright doubt your claim that some GL rings were destroyed. With that many writers involved, someone inevitably fucks up.

 

Eh, I remember when that happened. Didn't exactly work out.

That is what usually happens, yes. Sinestro Corpsmen used to make a habit of killing a Lantern, and then following the Ring to the rookie, rinse and repeat. Many times though, when people don't want another Ring to run away, they just blast it to bits.

I suppose it does depend on the writer though. The Rings seem to very easily escape situations that they couldn't save their wearers from.

 

But, Saint Walker is my Waifu. Also do you mean at destroying other rings or just in general?