Lianna (DC)

Lianna attacks Kyle Rayner in Green Lantern v3 #160.

Lianna is a female comic character that features in DC Comics.

Biography

Lianna was a female member of the race of immortal cosmic beings known as the Guardians of the Universe. She was actually created after the destruction of their kind when the last Green Lantern Kyle Rayner used his powers to relight the Central Power Battery on Oa. This act restored the Guardians to life but instead of beings adults they were brought back as children of mixed genders with some being male whilst others female. Kyle Rayner and Jade visit the planet Oa and meet several of the Guardian children. Kyle was surprised to see that one of them named Lianna had already developed the ability to use a small amount of her powers. At this point, she still looked the same as the others. Later, Lianna suddenly turns up missing and was found nearby on the planet Aroxe. The inhabitants had called for help after a mysterious attacker demolished their capital city and set off disasters across the planet. Green Lantern Rayner along with Jade arrived to help only to be quickly defeated by a mysterious figure. The figure was then revealed to be Lianna who had changed into an adult Maltusian as a result of her powers prematurely awakening with the process leading to her forgetting who she was at that point. Ganthet intervened where his arrival managed to stop Lianna from demolishing what was left of Aroxe and he took her back to Oa in order to teach her how to use her powers properly. Lianna helped the other Guardians protect Oa from the attacking Qwardians. Afterwards, she was shown killing villainous Amon Sur who was the son of Abin Sur in order to stop him from further assisting the Qwardians. She later apparently attempted to kill Green Lantern Kyle Rayner, although her reasoning for the attack was never revealed.

She was later taken away from Ganthet's manipulations by the Zamaron Mother Zed whereupon Lianna became a member of a "sacred order"; a group that watched over the powerful cosmic artifacts known as the Heartstones. It was revealed that the source of her transformation to a full-sized adult is a gem called a "heartstone", a fragment of the power that created the universe itself. However, the villainous Lady Styx was seeking this heartstone and others like it and unleashes the warriors of the Spider Guild of Vega to retrieve them with Mother Zed being killed in the process. Lianna joined forces with the Omega Men and, eventually became a member of the team.

Overview

Personality and attributes

Unlike the other Guardians, Lianna was usually shown as around 6.5 to 7 feet tall, with pale bluish grey skin, dark hair with a slight bluish tint, green eyes (or sometimes red), and a very muscular physique. She initially wore a strange costume that appeared as though it might be a form of construct, since its appearance is different in almost every panel. She also had a pink-purple mark over her left eye when first seen on Aroxe, but later that disappeared. Lianna's appearance in Omega Men shows her with long greenish-white hair similar to that the other Guardians have.

Powers and abilities

While Lianna has been stated to have "all the power of an adult Guardian," it is never been explained exactly what that is. She has been shown to have strength, speed, and toughness well beyond that of a human. She has also been shown wielding a variety of psionic and energy abilities, though their limits have not been stated. It has however been shown that the Guardians are powered by willpower (the same as the Green Lantern rings they created). Thus it seems likely that the strength of her powers is at least partially determined by her willpower (similar to Gladiator in Marvel Comics.)

In Omega Men, Lianna was shown to have bonded with the Heartstone that triggered her transformation, thus giving her some sort of electromagnetic powers in addition to the abilities that Oans naturally have. The only thing she has been shown using this ability to do was firing of energy blasts.

Notes

• Lianna was created by Judd Winick and Dale Eaglesham where she made her first appearance in Green Lantern v4 #160 (May, 2003)
• In Omega Men, Lianna is referred to as a hybrid. It refers to how she is of the same genetic stock as both the Guardians and the Zamarons, but is a mix between the two

Appearances

• Green Lantern:
• Omega Men:

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