You do realize that you can do all that shit while also having him shoot lasers at bad guys, right? Those two things aren’t mutually exclusive.
Lanterns is a story about a man coming to see that fear isn't failure, and any attempt to excise it diminishes him, submits him to others' wills, and prevents him from self-actualizing. It's not a story about how a guy gets a magic ring that lets him shoot lasers at bad guys.