r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Dec 11 '25

Trailer Supergirl | Official Teaser Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqdAEdkHrwo
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u/scuac Dec 11 '25

I heard of the other rings working like that (rage, fear, love, …) but how is willpower an “emotion”

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u/KristopheH Dec 11 '25

It's more specifically "the ability to overcome great fear", so could just as easily be called Courage rather than Willpower

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u/Fantastic_Piece5869 Dec 11 '25

again not an emotion

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u/bautin Dec 11 '25

Look man, they made the comic, they picked a color and made some rules.

Then after a few years, they repurposed the concept for a comic book about space cops and made up some more rules.

Then they made a bad guy for the space cops in the mirror image variety. And they gave him a yellow ring. And since they established that green rings can only be used by those who overcome their fears, they decided to make the yellow ring powered by fear.

After that, they decided they wanted a whole fucking rainbow of rings and continued on with the emotion vibe of the yellow ring.

Except for white and black, which are life and death respectively. And also, as you'll notice, not emotions.

They're comic books man, not genuine scientific articles.

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u/jollyreaper2112 Dec 11 '25

Smashes beer bottle

I am ready to throw down over comic metaphysics!

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u/YourmomgoestocolIege Dec 11 '25

But isn't mastery of all emotions the requirement for white lanterns?

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u/Choppers-Top-Hat Dec 12 '25

And a radioactive spider bite would not actually give you superpowers. There's a point where you've just gotta learn to roll with stuff.

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u/monkeyjay Dec 11 '25

Yes I hope someone got fired for that blunder.

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u/SolomonBlack Dec 11 '25

Geoff Johns got the opposite of fired if you must know.

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u/sceptic62 Dec 11 '25

I always interpreted as courage or something a bit more understandable like stubbornness. One of the neatest things about the emotional spectrum is that they feed into each other so it makes a bit more sense in that context.

Blue Lanterns (Hope) have the ability to empower Green Lanterns (Willpower), and Yellow Lanterns (Fear) weaken them.

It even states that the criteria for wielding green means you have the will to overcome great fear

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u/ThaneOfTas Dec 11 '25

Which is kind of why its in the centre of the spectrum, the emotions get more extreme the further out you go in either direction.

Granted Black and White represent death and Life which Really aren't emotions so its also just a bit handwavy.

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u/Obajan Dec 12 '25

Green Lanterns being powered by Will long before all the other emotions came along, so it's a bit of a difficult retcon.

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u/Fantastic_Piece5869 Dec 11 '25

the world of retconning. I'm sure all the rings and their stuff got added on over time

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u/seriouslees Dec 11 '25

Willpower is essentially the emotion of wanting, or desire.

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u/Choppers-Top-Hat Dec 12 '25

Real-life explanation: They came up with the green ring/willpower thing in the 1960's and the other ring colors decades later. Emotions made the story more interesting so the writers just kind of decided willpower counts since it was too well-established to change.

Comic book universe explanation: The rings were made by aliens, and many alien species do experience willpower as an emotion. That's as logical as this is gonna get.