

For Black Power Rings, these abilities include: Transforming: The rings can transform anyone or anything, be it into an animal, altering their state of appearance, or their size.Įach new Lantern Corps Ring has unique abilities.Temperature Control: The rings can increase or decrease the temperature of anything, even something as large as stars, or even create bubbles of intense heat or cold, even down to Absolute Zero.Probing: The rings can probe the Lantern's or another person's mind, allowing him to uncover memories or the person's thoughts.Phasing: The rings allows the user to go through walls.

Mirages: The rings can create mirages/illusions.Mind Control: The wearer of the Ring can use it to plant post hypnotic commands or control a person.Matter Manipulation: A Black Lantern can use their ring to manipulate nearby matter, such as water, for various purposes such as a construct that acts like an energy construct but can block something yellow and may serve a purpose that an energy construct couldn't perform.Invisibility: The rings can make the wearer or anything else invisible.Flight: The rings allows the wearer to fly in atmosphere or in space, and can achieve incredible speeds, moving from planet to planet in a matter of hours.The constructs can even be so complex as to form working machines, computers, and even people. The more determined the wearer is, the more complex and intricate these things can be. Energy Constructs: The rings can construct anything the wearer can imagine from hard-light energy, as long as they are willing to make it.Sometimes, depending on the wearer, the beams and blasts make sounds. Energy Projections: The rings can also project beams, form protective bubbles and force fields, and fire destructive blasts.The ring projects the costume over any clothes already worn at the time. Costumes: The wearer of the ring may create any costume they choose, based on their personal preferences, whenever they choose.They have also been seen connected to telephones. Communicator: The rings can act as a personal communicator between Black Lanterns.Burglar Alarm: A Black Lantern can coat anything with the rings beam and thus, if anyone other than himself touches it, his ring will glow, alerting him to the possible theft.The ring also translates nearly every language to and from the wearer, which is why the Corps can communicate with each other. It can either respond out loud, or silently directly to the wearer's mind. Artificial Intelligence: The ring acts as an "on-board computer," telling the wearer what they need to know.Animation: A Black Lantern can will objects to move how he or she wants.Reanimation: Black Power Rings attach to corpses and animate them, whether they are regenerated or simply mobile corpses is unknown.Powers & AbilitiesĪs a conduit of power from the black range of the emotional spectrum, the Black Power rings have a number of abilities akin to those of other Lantern Rings. When the rings started going after him and Hal Jordan, they were able to keep up with them until Barry carried them both two seconds into the future and the connection was lost. When Barry Allen tried to remove Black Lantern Firestorm's ring, he noticed this and that the ring was like a plant that wore the body. It is also shown that the rings wear the bodies they appear on and they only have memories of the person up to their time of death. Black Lanterns can also read the emotions of the living as a colored aura that correlates with the emotional spectrum. Each heart they remove restores the Ring's power by one percent. It is shown that when a Black Lantern Ring is presented to the deceased it either has no charge or is fully drained of power by resurrecting its bearer, therefore, the rings constantly demand for flesh and are recharged by killing living beings and removing their hearts. Hand did, in fact, return to the DCU as the first recruit of the Black Lantern Corps. The symbol on the Black Lantern Power Ring is the same that was worn by the Green Lantern villain Black Hand, alluding to a possible return of Black Hand to the DCU. The Black Lantern Power Battery was created from the corpse of the Anti-Monitor at the end of Sinestro Corps War.
