Okay guys, here's the lantern corps info! I'll be posting a small bit of info on each color. the ups, the downs, powers, stuff like that.
And we start with the Red lantern corps!
Now, I'd put the oath here, but it's rather gruesome. I'll use the one from the recent animated series. (Side note. The oath is a cerimonial thing. You could say anything while charging your ring and it wouldn't change anything. Hal jordan, for a while, didn't say the oath. he just held the ring to his battery for 10s)
"With blood and rage of crimson red,
We fill men's souls with darkest dread,
And twist your minds to pain and hate,
We'll burn you all—that is your fate!"
The red lanterns are a lantern corps whose center emotion is, yes, rage. The red lanterns were created by Atrocitus, the last survivor of sector 666. The entire sector was destroyed by the manhunters, the precursor to the green lantern corps. He and five others were the only survivors, however soon Atrocitus killed the others to forge the first red power battery.
The red lanterns main powers focus around blasts of energy and internalizing their power, allowing them to become five, ten, one hundred, one thousand times as strong as they would normally be. They also have an incredible effective, but nasty, weapon:Their own blood. They spew it (Yes, like throwing) in waves, it having a acidic power like nothing else. It was even able to burn a black lantern wielder to ash before the black ring could rebuild its host.
The one big downside to all this? They can't make constructs. Most red lanterns have uncontrollable rage, not utilizing their power. Most can only make crude whip-like or blunt rod constructs.
Atrocitus was the first one to use a construct that was the norm of the others, followed by Bleez. once channeled, a red lantern is a force to be reckoned with with.
However, the biggest downside to the entire corps is that once you put the ring on, there isn't any going back. The red ring can drive you insane with fury if you don't control it, eventually leading to you throwing up your heart. The only way to repair yourself and take the ring off safely is to either have a blue lantern heal you and take the ring off, or be converted to a star sapphire (Violet lantern.)
Upsides: Powerful. Respected (And feared.) Not many people will try to mess with you. Physical force is stronger than most.
Downsides: Being on one end of the emotional and color spectrum, red rings are hard to control and easy to misuse. you can use the ring, or the ring can use you. also, the ring becomes your entire life (And not in a good way.) Also, red lanterns are prone to killing each other or dying in horrible ways.
All in all, not the worst ring of them, but one that is dangerous to all.
Next up, The orange lantern!