r/FanTheories • u/Hippopotomus_Tho_321 • 20h ago

FanTheory Lanterns: Out There Theory

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Been hearing a lot of Antaan=Atrocitus lately, and lots of manhunters being one of the main cast. Most of my this is comic inspired.

Here are the facts we know:

Guys on the ranch have funding
The town is weird
People don't get sick/injured
Antaan spoke of a massacre (many assume to be of sector 666)
The word "Manhunter" comes up a lot, and in the comics, the Manhunters operate as more of a collective.
DC has two types of Manhunters, one is an enemy of the Green Lanterns, and the other a member of the Justice League who likes Oreos.
Tom King is sort of a show runner, and he's all about reckoning with Trauma
The Sheriff is Kerry Kane

My Theory:

Kerry Kane is too close to "Kate Kane" aka batwoman from the comics. I believe Batman sent her there
Batman is funding the ranch outfit to patrol the town, which is filled with white Martian (manhunters).
The White Martians don't know they're Martians, and believe themselves people. Like in Justice League. Lulled into a trance. They're super-human, but are in a dormant state. Grant Morrison's JLA will detail how this is possible. Just go with me on this.

Antaan is J'onn Jonzz, the Martian Manhunter. The massacre John Stewart saw was the white Martians massacring the Green Martians, of which J'onn is the sole survivor.
Tom King is well known for writing about the consequences of war, cost of victory, ptsd, trauma, etc. Atrocitus is not a Tom King-esque villain. He just gets mad. J'onn Jonzz is right up King's alley. He defeat the white Martians, but at great cost to him and his people, and lives with guilt.
The real question: who wants to wake the white martins up?

But... if I'm wrong and Atrocitus is in the show, we better get Dex-Starr. Real ones know.

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r/FanTheories • u/BARGOBLEN • 7h ago

FanTheory Lanterns Theory: Paul Ben-Victor's Antaan is [Potential Spoiler], not [Potential Spoiler] Spoiler

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(TL;DR - at bottom)

Marking as Potential Spoiler because I don't want to be that guy.

I know it's wrong. I know this isn't the case but it's a theory.

Antaan was introduced in Lanterns Ep 2. It's clearly setting him up to be Atrocitus, one of the few survivors of the Massacre of Sector 666. But I'm starting to think he's actually Abin Sur. Here's my thinking on the situation:

Abin Sur transported the survivors of Sector 666 to Earth, and intergalactic backwater. Fakes his death so that he can stay and care for the survivors. In doing so, he has his ring find a replacement to care for the rest of 2814. It chooses Hal Jordan. Eventually Hal does something to break his oath, which causes Abin, now disguised as Antaan, to distrust him. He waits for another Lantern to take his place. John Stewart is chosen as a protege. Anataan discovers a Manhunter is after them. He uses John to try and find it.

Atrocitus is fueled by hate and trauma. It doesn't feel entirely in character for him to lay low, unless maybe he's already building the Red Lantern Corps. Abin is always seen as a more compassionate figure, so putting him in a place where he makes a sacrifice to care for others does make sense. He would have temperament and stay low. He would see their suffering as a failure of the corps and internalize it himself.

Why did Abin need a ship? It's stated that he did crash a ship in Nebraska. He was transporting a mass amount of people, meant to be under the radar. Instead, a Manhunter caught wind, tracked him. He faked a death to go into hiding and govern, but also if he "dies", and the ship exploded perhaps the Manhunter would assume that the other survivors are dead. It buys them time and freedom.

Hal steps into the role and becomes a Lantern. Maybe Abin's actual last words are related to "Hail in Rushville."

The show already plays fast and loose with established comic canon, so I really don't think this would be seen as a "drastic alteration" by the writers of the show. I don't like the idea of this, but I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility considering the writers and the overall take on Green Lantern mythology.

TL;DR - I think Paul Ben-Victor's character, Antaan, is Abin Sur in disguise and not Atrocitus. Though smart money says he is Atrocitus.

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r/FanTheories • u/Dismal-Ad8382 • 11h ago

FanSpeculation Zodd is Gut's father [Berserk]

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Look at their appearance. They both have spiky hair and guts has kinda pointy ears, plus in the battle fo dordley, Zodd helpedd Guts by giving him his sword. I know that they had met once before and that Zodd respected guts for his skill as a warrior, but I think there was also something personal about It. Migth Zodd had sacrificed Gut's biological mother while she was pregnant to become an apostle? More abotu Zodd here.

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