HBO's Lanterns reveals its true alien threat with major villain reveals

The Green Lanterns go cosmic in a new look at the DCU's new show If HBO's Lanterns looked a little too grim and grounded — and not green enough — for your tastes, a new trailer for the True Detective-inspired mystery series might just change your mind. Revealed Friday at San Diego Comic-Con, the final trailer for HBO's Green Lantern show takes things out of its small-town setting and into space. Lanterns is raising the stakes by bringing a new threat to the DCU: Manhunters. In DC Comics lore, Manhunters are the predecessors to the Green Lantern Corps. Created by the Guardians of the Universe as an interstellar police force, the robotic Manhunters eventually become self-aware and ultimately resentful of their creators, rebelling against the Oans who built them. While the Guardians destroyed many of the Manhunters in their uprising, some have infiltrated planets across the galaxy, disguised as living creatures who turn others toward their cause. The Guardians of the Universe created the multi-species Green Lantern Corps as a replacement. Thus, they've often clashed with the Manhunters. (If this is already sounding like a better version of Marvel Television's terrible Secret Invasion,

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