Lanterns Episode 2 is here, and fans believe it's hiding a vicious Green Lantern villain in plain sight.
Warning! Lanterns Season 1 Episode 2 spoilers follow.
There's some extraterrestrial activity in Rushville, Nebraska, and Hal Jordan (Kyle Chandler) is determined to get to the bottom of it. While he's off constructing a plan to get dead bodies out of the morgue and through town, John Stewart (Aaron Pierre) is sent on a fetch quest to bring back a big green battery and keep his little bird safe. The Green Lantern-in-training doesn't make it too far before he's ambushed and kidnapped for a quick chat about what is said to be a new threat to Earth: Manhunters.
It's here viewers run into Paul Ben-Victor's Antaan, the leader of a group of aliens looking to root out a Manhunter who's believed to be taking shelter in Rushville. He's threatened to level the town if John isn't able to unmask the Manhunter within 48 hours, but some fans suspect we've already encountered one of the most infamous supervillains the Green Lantern Corps has ever known.
Antaan is definitely Atrocitus. The vibe I get from him just makes me think that’s who he actually is. pic.twitter.com/acPYDlFmmB
During his meeting with John, Antaan says the Manhunters are responsible for wiping out his people, going as far as to forcibly project their supposed atrocities into John's mind. It just so happens that backstory shares a few things in common with the Red Lanterns and their angry alien bad guy, Atrocitus.
Past incarnations of the Red Lantern are also known to have suffered at the hands of the Manhunters, and with fans looking for Antaan's other connections to the DC universe, Atrocitus is who is making the most sense. Where Green Lanterns use will to build their Constructs and Yellow Lanterns use fear, Red Lanterns are driven by their rage, potentially presenting a vengeful entity for Hal and John to deal with as Lanterns progresses.
Considering Atrocitus typically looks bigger and meaner than Ben-Victor's character, these loosely connected dots might not have you convinced another classic DC villain will be joining Sinestro in this latest jump to the live-action DCU. However, fans aren't letting up.
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