New 52 Rainbow Raider Redsign

One of my favorite books is Starman by James Robinson, which has the Shade. Mr. Robinson took the Shade, a B Level villain and turned him into a anti neither good nor bad force of nature. He was also immortal, and a well rounded character with a taste for finer things. So This is my attempt at redesigning another classic but B Level Villain, Rainbow Raider. http://ift.tt/1oOP6vo

Rainbow Raider was a guy who used goggles to effect peoples emotions by blasting them like Cyclops with a color from the emotional spectrum. In the New 52 I think it would be so easy to take him, patch his origin into the Green Lanterns and the Shade and work from there. Also I am going to try and write his back story as if the Shade is writing it, so don't judge me too harshly if it isn't as good.



From the Journal of the Shade, 1998

"Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. This is the story of my equal and opposite, Roy G. Bivolo better known by the tacky moniker Rainbow Raider. I prefer to call him Chroma. He came to my attention during the height of the Pop Art movement, though I assume he had existed longer than that. Looking into him I found out that he was a failed artist who came into possession of what was thought to be the fabled "Technicolor Dream Coat" belonging to Joseph. Where my birth came from a very violent action Roy's came as simple as putting on the coat. He gained a great deal of powers, most importantly the power to control the emotions of others by using every color in the spectrum the Lanterns have been fighting over. He doesn't even need a ring to do this. So if he flash a red light on a person they would become uncontrollable dogs of anger. If he used yellow energy however they would be almost crippled with fear. At first he used this power for petty crimes such as robbing art museums. While I enjoy art and cannot fault him for stealing it his power was more than this. He, like I, is immortal. Converted to pure energy no doubt. Also like I he can travel by teleporting through his power source. He doesn't know the full extent of his new self, but I hesitate to teach him. The day may come when one of us must destroy the other, light versus dark and all that. I have spent time with him however, we toured art museums and talked about Pop Culture. He seems to revel in the tacky while I can't say I do. But I do enjoy his company and against my better judgment I may show him how powerful he has actually become."