Red and Orange Lanterns

If you have been following the late Sinestro Corps war storyline, you know that they have come up with a virtual rainbow of colors and corresponding emotions to fit. The Green Lanterns are the ones in the middle, they serve to "balance" out the other ones. On one side of the spectrum, you have the Red Lanterns, which symbolize Hate or Rage. Then the Orange Lanterns are Greed, the Yellow Lanterns are Fear of course. On the other side of the Green, are the Blue Lanterns for Hope, Indigo for compassion or something, and finally, the Zamarons, and Violet for Love.

This is all very interesting of course, and I can hardly wait to see what Mr. Johns is going to be doing with the concept in the future. However, it occured to me this morning, that I have a perfect candidate for either the Red or Orange Lanterns.

Mace.

Ok, granted, Mace Gardner is supposed to be dead. Harumph to that, I say! If I remember, Major Force killed him, and his body was taken by the Quorum. We never saw it after that did we? Kalinara once pointed out that it would be so very easy for them to resurrect Mace.

Mace is a great character. He's Guy's older brother, the golden child, the parent's favorite, and he could do no wrong. Everything was easy for Mace...unlike poor Guy. Mace was a bit on the lazy side however, and certainly came across as having a real sense of entitlement. He gave up on college and became a cop instead. Then, he became a dirty cop. Unfortunately for Mace, he ended up getting shot and paralyzed, so he dragged himself over to the canal, and all they found was his wheelchair. Except that the Quorum found him, fixed him up and gave him a supersuit and used him for any number of missions.

You would think that this would be enough to make ol' Mace happy, but he just couldn't deal with the fact that his little brother had managed to make something of a success out of his life and ALSO became a superhero. Mace's resentment and jealousy made him REALLY eager to take Guy down a peg, and they had some pretty spectacular fights there for a while back in the old "Guy Gardner" series.

All of which makes me think that if...IF...they could resurrect Mace, he'd be tailor-made for either the Hate or Greed corps. I really don't think that he inspires fear, so he'd be pretty useless to Sinestro, and heaven knows, he isn't much for compassion, hope or love. He's a selfish little bastard, and he wants WHAT he wants,and he wants it now! I actually think that he'd be better as an Orange Lantern than a Red one. He's been a greedy little snot his whole life.

Plus his hair would look MUCH better in an orange outfit than a red one. Red would clash.