The Most Powerful Version Of Guy Gardner Is Way Too Overpowered For The DCU
"Superman" and "Lanterns" both exhibit different flavors of Nathan Fillion's wonderfully abrasive Guy Gardner. However, in the comics, Guy has gone through far more changes, and there's one particularly powerful version that the DC Universe will probably never adapt. Looper's video above will let you know just how overpowered the mightiest version of Gardner really is.
As we have previously covered in the only Guy Gardner explainer you'll need, the full history of the bad boy Green Lantern is just as convoluted as any other superhero who has been around for decades. Apart from his significant role in the Green Lantern Corps, he has wielded both yellow and red power rings as part of his character journey, and for a time he used the superhero name Warrior. However, none of these roles can hold a candle — or rather, a lantern — to his most powerful incarnation, known as Allsight.
The Allsight power would be too much for the DCU version of Guy Gardner
Guy Gardner becomes Allsight in the aftermath of the DC K.O. storyline of 2025-2026, which features a tournament where multiple DC heroes fight for the opportunity to become King Omega, an entity who can defeat the villainous Darkseid. Superman wins, of course — but in the process, infuses other heroes with powerful Alpha Energy. For Gardner, this power-up grants him access to the sentient embodiments of every color in the emotional spectrum. While they're somewhat downgraded for this particular story arc, in normal conditions these are extremely powerful creatures that represent the green willpower energy of the Green Lantern rings, the red of anger, the yellow of fear, and so forth.
The ability to communicate with such central entities in the Lantern system makes the robe-wearing Allsight pretty influential in the eyes of the Green Lantern Corps, and soon enough, he has a temple and the ear of multiple Lantern factions. Even with his years of character development, the comic book Gardner has conflicting feelings about his new status, to say the least. It's easy to see why the considerably newer and less developed Nathan Fillion version would be a bad fit for the cosmic leadership level of the Allsight role, and Looper's video above will loop you in on why the DCU will likely avoid handing him such great power any time soon.