White Lantern Corps = Life Red Lantern Corps = Rage Orange Lantern Corps = Greed Sinestro (Yellow Lantern) Corps = Fear Green Lantern Corps = Will Blue Lantern Corps = Hope Indigo Tribe = Compassion Star Sapphires = Love Black Lantern Corps = Death You can pick any Transformers characters from any continuity that you think would best represent each of these Lantern Corps BUT you can only choose one character for each color. I'm going to stick to the Beast Era cause that's my favorite so... White Lantern Corps = Life Botanica: Since she played such a huge role in literally bringing LIFE to Cybertron I put her here. Red Lantern Corps = Rage Rampage: He was a literal rage monster, like that was his entire character and the reason why he was called Rampage so who else was I going to put here? Orange Lantern Corps = Greed Rattrap: He wasn't overly greedy all the time but there are times when he did exhibit selfish behavior... It seems a little weird that out of all the characters the most greedy one I can think of is a Maximal but here we are. Sinestro (Yellow Lantern) Corps = Fear Dinobot: I had considered putting him under Death but TM2 Dinobot is legitimately terrifying so I put him here. Green Lantern Corps = Will Megatron: OK it might seem odd to put Megatron in the Green Lanterns since they're usually heroes but Sinestro was originally a Green Lantern too and it makes sense because a lot of the things Megatron managed to accomplished was because of sheer willpower and determination. Blue Lantern Corps = Hope Cheetor: This was the hardest one to figure out but of all the characters I think Cheetor actually inspired hope the most often. Even if he didn't always have it himself he inspired it in others. This comes a cross especially in times where Optimus wasn't around and he had to step up. Indigo Tribe = Compassion Silverbolt: Showed a lot of compassion for Transmutate and he's very compassionate in just about everything he does. Even in Beast Machines the reason he is that way is because of his time as Jetstorm and the guilt he feels even when he wasn't in control of his actions, that's all because of compassion. Star Sapphires = Love Tigerhawk: It was really hard to choose cause there's a lot of couples in the beast era but only one character, can't put two here. I was debating between Silverbolt and Blackarachnia because they both had to fight to bring the other back to Maximals. But then it hit me... Tigerhawk is basically a representation of the love between Tigatron and Airazor so here we are. Black Lantern Corps = Death Optimus Primal: The dude died like three times... so yeah... I'm putting Optimus here because no one dies more than him.
G1 Green lantern corps will: I'm really tempted to say Megatron because he through sheer will he rose out of a low menial worker class and instigated a movement that would be felt across cyberron and beyond. Yes his ideals ultimately became corrupted but to go from were he started he to leader of nearly half an entire population must have taken tremendous willpower. orange lantern corps greed: Starscream. Constantly trying to gain control of the decepticons generally after whatever power he can get hold of. red lantern corps rage: Grimlock I can see him falling prey to a red lantern ring he's naturally rebellious and is contemptous towards the weak. Yellow lantern fear: Motormaster. This guy basically uses psycholological torture to turn the stunticons into effective warriors and has them all pretty much terrified of him. Blue lantern corps hope: Optimus prime. I think Optimus is a better fit for hope than willpower for his hope the war will someday end and the unshakeable faith he shows in the matrix and its infinite wisdom. star sapphires love: only real fit I see here is Arcee though I'm hesitant to dump her here because girlbot. indigo tribe compassion: This is interesting because indigo ring bearers are not selected for their compassion but rather their lackoff so with this in mind I think Galvatron his a perfect fit he often attacks in fits of rage opens fire on his own troops often white lantern corps life: this one was tricky but as a field medic the only really fit I saw was Ratchet. Though I imagine the ability to grant and restore life could easily corrupt him and make him a bit power mad. black lantern corps death: I'd go with Bludgeon since he's a skeleton samurai death is kind of hard to define so he seems a good fit.
I think that's actually Love you're thinking of. Cause Star Sapphires are all people who have LOST love which is why I had considered Blackarachnia. But some of those ring colors can mean different things. Like Fear can either be someone who instills fear in others or is just really cowardly themselves. Blue can either inspire hope in others or have a lot of hope themselves. And I think Compassion is another of those weird ones and I think Silverbolt/Jetstorm would still fit because Jetstorm is on the exact opposite side of that same spectrum. I almost reconsidered my choice there cause you said that but no I think it still works.
All right, here goes: Life: Optimus Prime, since he resurrects so often. He also places a very high value on all life. Death: Starscream; he dies a lot and frequently returns, but usually as a ghost or in some other undead fashion. Alternatively, anyone from IDW's Dead Universe (since they're all technically zombies). Red Lantern: Tantrum (the Predacon). His main character trait is that he's in a near-constant state of rage. Slag (the Dinobot) would also be a strong candidate. Orange Lantern: Swindle. No explanation needed. Yellow Lantern: There are a LOT of potential choices here, particularly amongst the Decepticons. Motormaster would be a good choice. Other characters who come to mind include Dirge (since he can weaponize fear) and Galvatron (since he's obscenely powerful and so unstable he'll attack anyone). However, since I can only pick one, I think I'll go with Marvel UK Galvatron, who was almost invincible and even more dangerous than his cartoon counterpart. Green Lantern: If I hadn't selected Starscream for the Death Lantern, I might have put him here, simply because of his incessant attempts to take over Megatron's position. As it is, I think that Marvel Ratchet is the best fit for the Green Lantern Corps. He never gives up, no matter the odds. (Ironhide gets an honorable mention.) Blue Lantern: Optimus Prime would be an obvious choice here, but since he's the Life Lantern, I don't want to put him in two different categories. Thus, since I'm trying to stick with G1 (the continuity I know most about), I am nominating bio Trailbreaker for the Blue Lantern Corps, since he's always trying to cheer others up. (This one was REALLY hard to pick a character for.) Based on some cursory research, it appears that the Indigo Lantern Corps selects individuals without compassion to bear its rings. Thus, I will be listing two choices for the ring: the character with the most compassion (whom the ring would choose on its own) and the character with the least compassion (which the corps would direct it to choose). Indigo Lantern: First Aid is the obvious choice in terms of a character who has a lot of compassion. There are a lot of potential candidates for the character with the least compassion, but IDW Overlord (not Masterforce Overlord) was the first one to come to mind. Star Sapphire Corps: Assuming that the corps aren't solely about romantic love, I think I'm going to do something really weird here and nominate Ironhide. His dedication to Optimus Prime is unrivaled.
From my limited knowledge of them it does seem to be romantic love however since a lot of the rings do seem to have their own sort of spectrum I think it's safe to assume to that it doesn't have to be romantic as long as it's still love of some kind. That said... I don't know if I'd really describe that relationship as "love". I mean they obviously don't hate each other but by that logic literally every Autobot loves Optimus... at least in G1. Usually a character has to have a strong connection to that emotion to use the ring and I don't think Ironhide really has a strong enough connection. If anything I'd put him in Rage cause he seems really angry all the time.
I was really grasping for straws for that one. Maybe Inferno would work better (because of his friendship with Red Alert).
RED (rage) - IDW Whirl, who confessed to needing anger to keep on living. ORANGE (greed) - G1 Hun-Grr. Dude just can't stop eating. YELLOW (fear) - BW Rampage, he claims his spark feeds on fear. GREEN (will) - I'm leaving this one blank. I consider it a neutral color and maybe the most accessible since all soldiers (including Transformers) are trained to be determined badass warriors. BLUE (hope) - Optimus Prime in general. His name is synonymous with hope. INDIGO (compassion) - Can't use one choice here. The closest I can think of are ex-Decepticons/Predacons, so G1 Jetfire, BW Dinobot (even if still proud), BW Silverbolt (the best fit?), ARMADA Starscream. VIOLET (love) - IDW Arcee maybe, she's a female and pink and she was able to find love and peace eventually. BLACK (death) - TFP Airachnid, a creepy spider-lady killer who ends up a zombie. WHITE (life) - Ratchet in general, as befits his role as a medic. (Thinking on it, Unicron and Primus would fit too as Black and White Lanterns) Some new colors were recently introduced. ULTRAVIOLET (Id) - Maybe IDW Prowl, he has serious inner darkness and is the Autobot most likely to go villainous. GOLD (joy) - IDW Swerve, considered one of the happiest Transformers.
Optimus prime in the green lantern Corp grimlock in the red lantern Corp Starscream in the orange lantern Corp Megatron in the yellow lantern Corp Cheetor in the blue lantern Corp rhinox in the white lantern Corp silverbolt in the indigo lantern Corp Tigertron and airrazor in the Star sapphire corps shockwave in the black lantern Corps
Though most of their members are women I don't think being female is actually a requirement. She was actually more of a vampire than a zombie but either way it's still a good choice. I understand why Primus would be a good choice for the White Lanterns. However Black Lanterns are all dead characters who were resurrected by Black Lantern rings. They're not necessarily always characters who CAUSE death like Unicron would be, in fact many Black Lanterns were former HEROES like Batman and the Flash have been Black Lanterns. Even when Unicron is defeated he's usually still alive. Like in G1 he continued to live as just a head. In Armada he essentially went into Stasis Lock. In Prime... I really don't understand what happened there because we saw his Spark get extinguished and even then he was some how still alive after that and possessed Megatron. I'm not sure he's ever been truely "dead" which is the one requirement to be a Black Lantern is that you must DIE. What's this? So I looked these up and it seems they've retconned Sinestro's costume here. Cause the uniform is based on a more classic Sinestro design and he's also one of it's members. Originally Sinestro would wear this costume but still had a Yellow ring back before the Sinestro Corps was a thing. When they introduced the Sinestro Corps and the other Lantern colors they changed Sinestro's costume to the yellow one so it'd actually match his ring color. But this is essentially bringing back that old costume with a new ring color to match it. Anyway... it says that UV rings are powered by an INVISIBLE emotional spectrum which I think would make it impossible to tell who would be placed here. I mean it sort of makes sense UV is a light wave that is invisible and undetectable but if we're going with the idea of an invisible emotion, something a character has but doesn't actually exhibit how would we even know if they have it then? I suppose we could go with characters who LITERALLY turn invisible like G1 Mirage or Armada Thrust. In which case, since I don't know what else to put here I'm going to say Ravage because he did have a cloaking device in Beast Wars. I actually just realized there's a note at the bottom of the page saying their emotion seems to be shame which actually kind of makes sense as well. Anyway... I'm still going to Ravage. Despite being rebuilt as a Predacon and technically not really being a Decepticon anymore, he still identifies as a Decepticon, he never refers to himself as a Predacon as if he's ashamed to be anything other than a Decepticon. So for Gold I'm going to say Tarantulas cause he seemed to take joy in everything he did. Even when his body was crushed and mangled and he needed Blackarachnia's help to get himself into the CR chamber you can still hear him laughing as he takes joy in tormenting Blackarachnia. While looking these up I also found a Grey Lantern Corpse which is suppose to be Apathy but I should mention that both Gold and Grey didn't actually have any images from the comics and I found them on a totally different site that did not include UV so I'm not sure these are even official. Anyway I'm going to say Noble/Savage. Apathy is a lack of interest or concern in anything and since Noble Savage was essentially a neutral party who didn't care about about the conflict between the Maximals and Vehicons I'd say that makes him the only possible candidate.
Only Gold is official, having been recently announced. The Grey Lanterns are fan-made and are unofficial (at the moment).
Green (Will): Bumblebee, Hot Rod Blue (Hope): Optimus Yellow (Fear): Soundwave, Shockwave Red (Anger): Megatron and Grimlock Orange (Greed): Starscream Indigo (Compassion): Just about any member of a bad guy Transformers faction probably given their modus operandi. But removing that probably a character like Drift or Thundercracker who turned on or has doubts about the Decepticons. Violet/Pink (Love): Arcee or Windblade. Maybe Ratchet if not restricted to females. White (Life): Primus Black (Death): The Fallen
Because fun... Also it's not like Transformers have never appeared in the DC universe before. Soundwave appears on Teen Titans
I think Prime Megatron is a pretty good candidate for black lantern corps. This guy literally created an army of the undead terrorocon transformers plus that time he plundered a dead primes tomb so he could take his hand and use it to wield the forge of solus.
