Talk:Indigo Tribe

Indigo power rings

One of the more interesting features of the Indigo Tribe that people have been fixated on, in their limited appearances up until now, is that they carry power staffs. A lot of attention has been paid to this feature in interviews leading up to the Blackest Night event as well, since the creators behind their appearance have been unwilling to say much about them beyond the way they look. Due to this dialogue on indigo power staffs, a lot of fan speculation emerged that Indigo Tribe members did not have power rings at all and used their staffs instead.

This assumption is false. Indigo Tribe members do have power rings.

Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps #1 features the story Tales of the Indigo Tribe. This first extended appearance of the group contains multiple scenes featuring Indigo and other members wearing/using indigo power rings.

1. In the full page panel on the second page of the story, indigo power rings can be seen on the second finger of the humanoid male standing behind Indigo and the second finger of the green male humanoid at the bottom of the page.
2. Indigo's power ring can first be seen on the next page, in the fifth panel, where she is reaching toward the Green Lantern (or viewer) with her outstretched hand.
3. On the next page (after the advertisement) she places her ringed hand on his chest (panel 1), a simple goo-like construct is clearly formed from the ring (panel 2), the ring uses it to smother the Green Lantern (panel 3).
4. On the following page in the bottom left panel: the humanoid male to Indigo's right and bird-like tribesman to Indigo's left are wearing indigo power rings on the hand gripping their staffs.
5. In the next panel, Indigo's power ring is on the hand letting go of her staff.
6. On the last page of the story, in the top panel, yellow light is focused around her right hand as she makes the construct that scares away the Sinestro Corpsmen.

Since the indigo staffs produce the icon energy display for the Tribe and Indigo was seen absorbing a yellow light attack into her staff, they clearly have a function that is closely connected to their rings. Exactly what that is isn't clear yet, however, (even though Geoff Johns' lack of disclosure has led to inconsistencies in artwork) indigo power rings are now proven to exist and are seen being used by the Indigo Tribe. -Hooliganb (talk) 00:06, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Healing abilities

Where is there evidence that shows the Indigo Tribe has healing abilities? This article states that they do, but I have seen no evidence of this or a citation for this. Given that Indigo-1 appears to euthanize a Green Lantern, and that I do not recall an instance of the Indigo Tribe healing anyone, I do not feel this assumption is valid. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.145.254.30 (talk) 12:41, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

Original research

Almost all of the references in this article are to comic books in which the Indigo Tribe appear. This suggests that the topic may not be notable and that the article may consist largely of original research. The article should be based on independent, reliable sources which discuss the Indigo Tribe, not on primary sources in which the Indigo Tribe appear as characters. Pburka (talk) 01:29, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

Primary sources are okay for references as long as the descriptions and events are from the comic itself, and are not synthesized or interpreted beyond that. I agree there needs to be secondary media sources that describe the creation and development of the group, such as interviews with the creators, or reception from notable critics. -AngusWOOF (talk) 17:08, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

I have since added an Indigo Tribe#Background section which has the interviews with the creators and artists about the development of the Indigo Tribe. For the plot itself, if there are reliable secondary media sources that review the stories, that would be great. Otherwise, I'm trying to keep it as tone neutral as possible - someone who has access to the stories please fact-check further. A Reception section would be helpful as well, it can tie to reviews of Blackest Night and related Green Lantern storylines. -AngusWOOF (talk) 22:53, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Indigo Tribe

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Indigo Tribe's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "fcrrl":

• From Sinestro: Final Crisis: Rage of the Red Lanterns (October 2008)
• From Sinestro Corps: Final Crisis: Rage of the Red Lanterns #1 (December 2008)
• From Emotional spectrum: Johns, Geoff (w). Final Crisis: Rage of the Red Lanterns, vol. 1, no. 1 (October 2008). DC Comics.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 02:05, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

 Fixed - pulled from Emotional spectrum -AngusWOOF (talk) 22:54, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

krona a member?

I removed this from the article:

• Krona (of Sector 0): During the War of the Green Lanterns, Krona was briefly able to take control of Indigo-1's ring and the other six rings, using them against the Green Lantern Corps, but the ring returned to its master after Hal Jordan killed Krona.

Even though Krona can use any of the rings, it doesn't make him a member. -AngusWOOF (talk) 05:57, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

details from article

I removed the following section from the article's Oath section as it was already detailed in the history of the group and didn't have much to do with the oath itself and was starting to get into an interpretation of the oath. If one of the characters explained the oath's verbiage then it can be added back where appropriate. -AngusWOOF (talk) 06:47, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

• Indigo-1 describes him as being her "savior." Its eventually revealed that Sur had a hand in the creation of the Indigo Power battery and gave Indigo-1- then his arch-enemy Iroque, who had killed his daughter, the first Indigo ring because he wanted to prepare a defence against the Guardians' plans for the universe after the Blackest Night. Likewise Natromo is revealed to be the name of the Indigo light's guardian, and the Tribe's home planet is discovered to be called "Nok".

This part isn't explained very well in the powers and abilities section, since it's an attempt to use a power that isn't typical of one of the Corps of the emotional spectrum. -AngusWOOF (talk) 07:19, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

• In Green Lantern (vol. 4) #48, Indigo-1 channels a black power ring and her face takes on a decayed appearance; she describes the power source as a "black hole of emotion."