Avarice

Orange Lantern Corps

A Corps of one. The orange light is so greedy it refuses to be shared — so its only Lantern keeps it all.

a miserly alien lounging on a hoard of glowing orange treasure

Green Lantern (2005) #39 (2009), main-cover artwork with a changed background. Ivan Reis (cover pencils); Oclair Albert (cover inks); Nei Ruffino (cover colors). Artwork source & details.

The Oath

What's mine is mine and mine and mine. And mine and mine and mine! Not yours!

The Emotion

Avarice — greed so absolute it collapses in on itself. The orange light doesn't want an army; it wants everything, and it wants it alone.

That's why there is only ever one Orange Lantern. Sharing would mean giving something up — and the orange light would rather die than share.

Base of Operations

Okaara, deep in the Vega system — a region the Guardians themselves agreed never to enter, bound by an ancient pact.

There, amid his hoard, Larfleeze sits upon the orange Central Power Battery like a dragon on its gold, daring the universe to try and take it.

The Ring

An orange ring grants the usual arsenal — constructs, flight, protection — but its signature power is identity theft: those Larfleeze kills are absorbed as orange energy constructs, bound to serve him forever.

Quirks: the light corrodes the bearer's mind, leaving little but hunger. And woe to anyone who borrows it — the ring forces its oath on every wielder, no exceptions.

Lore

Larfleeze has held the orange light for longer than the Green Lantern Corps has existed, and in all that time he has shared it with no one. When he learned the other Corps had oaths, he demanded one of his own — and, being Larfleeze, produced three lines of pure greed.

The Orange Lanterns are the spectrum's joke with teeth: avarice is the one emotion that cannot build anything shared, so its Corps is a single miser and an army of the dead he refuses to let go of. What's his is his. What's yours is also his.

Key Stories

Agent Orange (Green Lantern #39–42, 2009) — Larfleeze's origin revealed: the Orange Lantern's greed, the Vega system, and why only one being can wield the orange light.

Blackest Night (2009–10) — Even Larfleeze is drafted into the war against the dead — greed, it turns out, also wants to survive.

Larfleeze's Solo Series (Larfleeze #1–12, 2013–14) — The Orange Lantern's misadventures across the universe, greedily collecting everything in sight.

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