For a Green Lantern, willpower is the name of the game. Willpower doesn't just mean mind-muscle to me, but the brain's capacity for creative thought - and there's no one more creative than Kyle Rayner. ln one DC story, Green Lantern learns the difference between power and creativity and how one can be channeled to sacrifice the other.

In JLA: Divided We Fall by Mark Waid and Brian Hitch, the Justice League is mysteriously split in half. There are now two versions of the famous heroes: their civilian sides and their superhero sides. What this means is that there's Kyle Rayner the artist and a pure Green Lantern.

As a pure Green Lantern, completely devoid of his civilian side and emotions, Kyle creates an ultra-powerful mech suit, focusing all of his mental effort on maximum power. But, as the story shows, when a Green Lantern is all power, he sacrifices his creativity.

Kyle Rayner Taps Into Raw Power as Pure Green Lantern

Green Lantern Fires Like a Tank Without Finesse

DC has shown fans time and again that to be a Green Lantern, all it takes is a little imagination. Even the evil Green Lantern Jadestone provsd that the other heroes were wasting their power, by creating his own super-suit that nearly destroyed dozens of heroes. What Jadestone doesn't have, however, is creativity, which is the hallmark of the human mind. When Green Lantern Kyle Rayner is divorced from his human side, he becomes a conduit for raw power that destroys everything in its path and leaves no room for finesse.

Jadestone is an Amazo with the power of a Green Lantern; he plays a major role in the Absolute Power event spearheaded by Mark Waid and Dan Mora.

Just as with an artist, the humanity of a hero is the most important part of them. There are many Green Lanterns, but none save the universe as much as those of Sector 2814 - the human Green Lanterns, who are the best of the Green Lantern Corps precisely because of the creativity of the human mind. To me, creativity is the ability to use flaws to one's advantage, and DC continues to flip the meaning of a Green Lantern's powers by constantly reinventing just what willpower means. As an ultra-powerful being without any humanity, Green Lantern loses touch with his ability to adapt to any situation - and just starts firing.

Green Lantern's Power Comes from Creativity

Kyle Rayner Has Creative Control of the Emotional Spectrum

Green Lantern's strength as a creative force is to be able to respond to any situation with a perfect construct like a key to a lock.

In my opinion, coolest Green Lantern constructs. Green Lantern's strength as a creative force is to be able to respond to any situation with a perfect construct like a key to a lock. I think Green Lantern needs the mind of Kyle Rayner to be the best there is.

The mark of an artist is to be able to respond to any situation with imagination and grace. The Justice League already has Superman who can lift planets; Green Lantern is there to see the problem and, instead of punching it away, imagine the solution into existence. That's real power, and power is what Green Lantern is.