The 24-hour charge limit

[SD80MAC Not a True Fan Find all posts View Profile Close SD80MAC]

Is it gone from the current GL rings? Because it's sure as hell back in the 31st century, if LoSH #2 is any indication...

[Alone Rider Green Lantern Initiate Find all posts View Profile Close Alone Rider]

At the time, that's gone.

[Jeffi.Kaiser Guy's Designated Dr Find all posts View Profile Close Jeffi.Kaiser]

I never really understood the logic behind that rule though. It just doesnt make any sense. So under that idea, a Green Lantern could use his ring at full force for 24 hours (Or however long a day is from the native planet)? Or does the rotation of the planet somehow affect the powerlevel?

Besides, wouldnt that be somewhat of a liability in battle? Suppose Hal is fighting an enemy along with a Lantern from a world that has a day of 10 minutes. That sure would suck to have to rely on that guy for backup.

Just never really understood the idea of a planetary rotation being connected to the ring.

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I never really understood the logic behind that rule though. It just doesnt make any sense. So under that idea, a Green Lantern could use his ring at full force for 24 hours (Or however long a day is from the native planet)? Or does the rotation of the planet somehow affect the powerlevel?

Besides, wouldnt that be somewhat of a liability in battle? Suppose Hal is fighting an enemy along with a Lantern from a world that has a day of 10 minutes. That sure would suck to have to rely on that guy for backup.

Just never really understood the idea of a planetary rotation being connected to the ring.

Nah, it was always 24 hours (appox), or whatever the equiv time was on a natives world. It was just supposedly chance that the time limit worked out to 24 hour.

And yeah, the limit went with Kyle's first ring, which made a heap more sense, load it up with juice and it's good to go til it runs down. BTW, where the hell did his old ring go? That seemed to happen while i was doing other things.

[Bolerathon Avant Guardian Find all posts View Profile Close Bolerathon]

Nah, it was always 24 hours (appox), or whatever the equiv time was on a natives world. It was just supposedly chance that the time limit worked out to 24 hour.

And yeah, the limit went with Kyle's first ring, which made a heap more sense, load it up with juice and it's good to go til it runs down. BTW, where the hell did his old ring go? That seemed to happen while i was doing other things.

I think Kyle's old ring is on Mars so Martian Manhunter could deliver it to Kal-El in the far future to foil an assassination attempt by Solaris? Then again at that point they say there is no Green Lantern corps so either that didn't happen anymore (yet to be retconned) or the corps is going to be wiped out again someday and stay dead for more than a million years.

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Well, the Corps does get annihilated by the 31st Century. Only Sodam Yat was left.

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Well, the Corps does get annihilated by the 31st Century. Only Sodam Yat was left.

See I was thinking that as well but he would have to go at some point as well since no-one in that time has ever heard of a Green Lantern at all so Sodam might just be laying low? Either that or he stole Superman's idea and went to live in a star for a few thousand years?

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Well, to be fair, there's a lot of time between the 31st and 853rd centuries. For all we know, the Corps falls and is reborn many times during that time period. (Hell, it's already happened a few times within the past few decades, let alone centuries!)

[Gauntlet101010 Alpha-Lantern Find all posts View Profile Close Gauntlet101010]

1) Kyle's still wearing his ring. There's an implied retcon that it's only unique feature was it's ability to affect the color yellow. It now behaves like a regular GL ring, so either it's been "upgraded" or it's been retconned that it's features no longer existed.

2) The "gas tank" thing is probably still in effect. You'll recall the Secret Files and Secret Origins saying similar things. It's trying to tie in the new "gas tank" thing with the old "24 hour" thing.

But future issues will let us know for sure. If it measures a ring's charge by percent remaining, then it functions as a gas tank. If it measures it by remaining time, then it's hourly.

I suppose it could be hourly, however. Since the series already breaks with the continuity of Legion of 3 Worlds.

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Kyle's ring has definitely been retconned; that's been made clear since Rebirth. The powers-that-be didn't want his ring being any more special than other Corpsmen. Even the yellow thing was retconned to be an accident, not a custom feature.

[Power Ring Torch Bearer Find all posts View Profile Close Power Ring]

I recall that Kyle no longer had his ring after becoming Ion, and was later granted an ordinary power ring by Ganthet (I actually saw that bit), just don't know the details of him losing his 1st one. It's unique.

[Gauntlet101010 Alpha-Lantern Find all posts View Profile Close Gauntlet101010]

Johns has stated that that ring is the one he had as GL and left on Mogo. It looking different was a mistake on the part of the artist.

[Levy Fatality's Blacksmith Find all posts View Profile Close Levy]

So Kyle's ring is still connected to his DNA, right?

one thing I wonder if his battery is still able to work independently from Oa.

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I truly doubt it on both counts. Kyle's ring has not been shown to be unique since Rebirth. His ring even flew off his finger in BN, so that implies it doesn't have the genetic lock anymore (else it's new bearer would be quite useless). And the batteries all seem to be less important than ever.

Although, technically, both could still be true. We haven't seen anything outright that disproves it. But I wouldn't count on that bit of confusion to pop up any time soon.

Edit: I mean, you have to think practically. Why would they ever bring up any of Kyle's unique attributes at this point? Why would they ever use the genetic lock thing when there's thousands of GL rings out there and they all require will to use? Why would Kyle's battery retain it's unique origin if there's thousands of batteries out there? They are no longer especially unique items, even if their attributes were kept intact, so it doesn't make sence to reference those attributes anymore.

Since even GL 25 showed the wrong design for Kyle's ring ... well, it just goes to show you how much the creators actually think of it as a unique item. Even his battery is drawn incorrectly at times. Their uniqueness is just no longer an issue.

[Levy Fatality's Blacksmith Find all posts View Profile Close Levy]

Mh, my reasoning was more thermodynamic than editorial.
Who would bother undo this special features of Kyle's ring if it's stated that's the same ring he had previous Ion..? The Guardians..? why?

Obviously none at DC cares about this nowaday but that alone doesn't mean the ring has been altered. Its unicity doesn't show because the condition for this features to be evident are no longer present in the plot, but I don't see a reason why the ring, if it is the same, should have been changed in his properties when it has to serve the same purpose of before - be Kyle's power ring.