However, as it always is with the early age of comics, with many powerful superheroes, Green Lantern had a silly and strange weakness - yellow color. Yes, just anything that is yellow. If enemies use yellow things and throw them at Green Lantern, one would weaken or defeat the superhero.
5 The Entire Green Lantern Corps Originally Possessed A Weakness To The Color Yellow This is by far one of the worst weaknesses any superhero has ever had. A weakness to the color yellow, which was used quite a bit during Hal Jordan's earliest years as a member of the Green Lantern Corps. The color yellow is Green Lantern's primary weakness, but he was able to use it to save the Justice League.
In 1960's Brave and the Bold #30, the Justice League confronts the android Amazo for the first time. Amazo steals the team's powers, including Green Lantern's and when he tries to use his ill-gotten powers it backfires on him spectacularly-all thanks to Green Lantern's. There was a yellow 'fear bug' that was hidden in the green lantern power battery that was the cause of the weakness.
It caused an impurity in the rings. At least that was justification in later years. The color yellow why yellow probably one of the worst colors because it is Green Lantern's weakness since it makes since green and yellow don't match that makes since.Then also green has.
Look, we get why superheroes need weaknesses. You can't just have them going around doing as they please without any limitations or every crisis would be over in five minutes. But for whatever reason, comic book writers ran out of weaknesses that make any kind of sense at all right around the time that they decided the Green Lantern's weakness is the color yellow.
6 Wonder Woman: Having Her. Some examples of superhero weaknesses include Superman's weakness to Kryptonite, Green Lantern's weakness to the color yellow and Wonder Woman's weakness to her own magic lasso. Superheroes' weaknesses make them more complex characters and allow for conflict within stories.
Why on earth is Green Lantern's biggest weakness the color yellow? It sounds ridiculous - and honestly, it kind of is! But there's actually a surprising story behind this bizarre flaw. Marvel Comics and DC have some powerful superheroes, and everyone had a weakness, but some weaknesses are more ridiculous than others. The weakness to yellow came from the fact that yellow is the color of fear and the fear embodiment called Parallax was held captive inside the Green Lantern central battery.
In the GL mythos green is willpower and yellow is fear.