Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6369172-20150616123743

Green Lantern Corpsmen have an ability that's hard to name. Hal Jordan used it a lot, back in the Gardner Foxties, when he wanted a better understanding of a situation, or where to find the bad guys, he would simply ask his Power Ring, and it would tell him. This falls well short of "omniscience," and isn't quite the same as "cosmic awareness." Or at least the "Powers" category page doesn't present any G.L. examples for those two powers. It's also not really the same as "clairvoyance" or "precognition" or even "retrocognition." It's not just a Green Lantern thing, either. The 1940s Wildfire character, Carol Vance Martin (Quality Universe) also had this power; she could ask a bunch of flames where the bad guys were hiding, and they would make a big flamey arrow to point them out. What's it called, when she does that? 