| Sinestro Corps | |
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 Cover toGreen Lantern vol. 4 #21. Art byIvan Reis. | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | Green Lantern vol. 4 #10 (May 2006) |
| Created by | Geoff Johns (writer) Ethan Van Sciver (artist) |
| In-story information | |
| Base(s) | Qward |
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TheSinestro Corps, occasionally known as theYellow Lantern Corps, is asupervillainous group andanalog to theGreen Lantern Corps in theDC Universe. They are led bySinestro, and derive power from the emotional electromagnetic spectrum of fear.
The Sinestro Corps first appeared inGreen Lantern vol. 4 #10 and was created byGeoff Johns andEthan Van Sciver.[1]
The Parallax entity is a space parasite that is the embodiment offear and was imprisoned within the Central Power Battery onOa. This caused green power rings to be weak to the color yellow, and Parallax subsequently became known as the "yellow impurity" over time.[2]
Thaal Sinestro, at the time the universe's greatest Green Lantern, was sent to Earth bySupernova in a plot to eraseGuy Gardner from history.Booster Gold was assigned to prevent this from happening. To do so, he convinced Sinestro to leave Earth, claiming that he was an admirer from the future, and that his yellowLegion of Super-Heroes flight ring was a tribute to Sinestro. When asked what Corps he belongs to, Booster ad-libbed, "The...Sinestro Corps", leading Sinestro to twirl his mustache in thought while mumbling, "Of course...Of course."[3]
After Sinestro went rogue, he was banished by theGuardians of the Universe toQward in the antimatter universe. When he returned, he wielded apower ring which used yellow energy. After various encounters with Earth'sGreen Lantern,Hal Jordan, he was imprisoned within the Central Power Battery. There he was able to use his ring, which usesfear, as opposed towillpower, as a power source, to awaken Parallax from hibernation. From there,Parallax and Sinestro were able to influence the fall of Hal Jordan and instigate the fall of the Green Lantern Corps, leaving one last Green Lantern:Kyle Rayner.[4][5]
After theGreen Lantern Corps was restarted with the return ofHal Jordan,[6] the Sinestro Corps began actively recruiting members, offering yellow power rings and a role in the Corps to those who can "instill great fear". Members of the Corps are immediately taken to Qward to "...be subjected to psychological and physical reconditioning". The members of the Sinestro Corps work in sectors, like the Green Lantern Corps. Qward also has a huge yellow Central Battery on its surface like the one used on Oa.[7] Although the Sinestro Corps uses fear, and opposes the Green Lantern Corps and the Guardians, Sinestro has stated their goal is to bring order to the universe, which he claims the Guardians have failed to do.
Arkillo, a large and muscular vicious alien, is enslaving all the Qwardian Weaponers and forcing them to continuously build new yellow rings which are programmed to breach the barrier between the antimatter and matter universes to find and recruit new ring-wielders. Arkillo also serves as the Sinestro Corps' drill sergeant, similar toKilowog's role in the GLC.[8]
Members recruited include Karu-Sil, raised by animals; Despotellis, a sentient virus capable of attacking Lanterns from the inside; and Bedovian, the sniper of the Corps, capable of taking out a target from three sectors away.[9]
During this time, the Sinestro Corps attempted to recruitBatman, known even to some alien races for his formidable ability to instill fear in others. However, Batman's willpower combined with his previous brief exposure to a power ring allowed him to reject the yellow ring before it took him to be properly trained and molded into one of Sinestro's soldiers. The yellow ring then sought a replacement and selectedAmon Sur, the disgruntled son ofAbin Sur, who was on Earth attempting to steal Hal Jordan's ring.[10]
It was revealed that after untold millennia, theWeaponers of Qward,Ranx the Sentient City, the Children of the White Lobe, and the Empire of Tears will rise united against theGreen Lantern Corps.[11] This was largely ignored up until upgradedManhunters started to appear throughout the universe. Hal Jordan encountered one on Earth and, withGuy Gardner, followed their trail to Sector 3601. Hal and Guy found several Green Lanterns, all of whom were assumed to have been killed duringEmerald Twilight, and the Manhunters' new grandmasterHank Henshaw, the Cyborg Superman. The Manhunters were defeated and Henshaw's head was brought to Oa.[12] The Book of Oa has a forbidden chapter on cosmic prophecies, which includes the following:
A face of metal and flesh shall speak of the secrets ofthe 52.
Fear will rise.
Willpower will gather.
And a war of light will unleash the truth behind the power of the ring.
— Book Of Oa,Green Lantern vol. 4 #20
After his interrogation, the Guardians learned that Henshaw is aware of the main fifty-two parallel universes focused on in theNew 52 era and that if New Earth was destroyed, the new Multiverse would collapse and the Antimatter universe would take its place. Two of the Guardians,Ganthet andSayd, warn the other Guardians not to ignore the prophecy because it could destroy the Green Lantern Corps.[13]
Following his defeat inGreen Lantern: Rebirth, the events ofGreen Lantern: Sinestro Corps Special #1Sinestro retreats to the planetQward in the antimatter universe. There he amasses an army, the Sinestro Corps, that he selects based upon their ability to "inspire great fear". Each member is armed with a yellow power ring, mirroring the green ones of theGreen Lantern Corps. Amongst Sinestro's allies areParallax and the resurrectedAnti-Monitor. The Sinestro Corps then launches an all-out assault against the Green Lantern Corps and the universe itself. During the assault on Oa, the Sinestro Corps manages to inflict heavy casualties and freeSuperman-Prime and theCyborg Superman from their imprisonment.Kyle Rayner is captured and transported to Qward, where Sinestro manages to separate Rayner from thesymbioteIon allowing Parallax to possess him.[13]Hal Jordan,John Stewart, andGuy Gardner return to Earth to warn theJustice League of the Anti-Monitor's return.
As the Sinestro Corps spreads out to ambush Green Lanterns across the universe,Green Lantern vol. 4 #23 sees theGuardians deciding to rewrite their sacred text, the Book of Oa. They add ten new laws, the first of which authorizes the use of lethal force against the Sinestro Corps. As the Green Lanterns gather on Oa in preparation for a Sinestro Corps assault, the Sinestro Corps teleport themselves and their Central Power Battery instead to a newWarworld, their objective revealed to be Earth.[14] Events inGreen Lantern Corps vol. 2 #16 show Hal informing the Green Lantern Corps of Sinestro's plans.[15]
Green Lantern vol. 4 #24 continues the story, with Green Lanterns and Sinestro Corps members battling across Earth. Hal manages to free Kyle from Parallax before the entity is imprisoned in their power batteries by Ganthet and Sayd.[16] After John and Guy arrive, the former Guardians reveal to them the prophecy of the "Blackest Night", seen inGreen Lantern vol. 4 #25. It foretells of five more Corps arising, each based on a different color and emotion. After the five corps are established, a "War of Light" will ensue, in which all the corps are destroyed, leading to the "Blackest Night".[17]
The Guardians arrive on Earth and appointSodam Yat to be the new Ion. After a lengthy struggle inNew York City, the Sinestro Corps are defeated by the overwhelming numbers against them. One of the Guardians sacrifices himself to send Superman-Prime to an alternate universe, while Hal and Kyle subdue and arrest Sinestro in Coast City. In the aftermath of the battle, seen inGreen Lantern vol. 4 #25, the Guardians decide to bring the second of the new laws into effect. After realizing that the "Blackest Night" prophecy will come to pass, Ganthet and Sayd depart after creating ablue power ring with the intention of creating their own Corps, based on the spreading of hope to the rest of the universe.[17]
Following the Sinestro Corps War, theGreen Lantern Corps tracked down the abandoned Sinestro rings and prevented them from finding new bearers. Among these is Amon Sur's ring, which attempts to recruit the self-proclaimed "Master of Fear",Jonathan Crane.[18] The surviving members of the Sinestro Corps continue to try to bring fear to the Green Lanterns, in part by murdering the family members of Green Lanterns.[19] Meanwhile,Mongul (who had since obtained a yellow ring in the aftermath of the war) begins his quest to take command of the Sinestro Corps in their namesake's absence. After obtaining an additional five rings by killing corpsmen who refused to follow him, Mongul takes over the planetDaxam and then a large contingent of the Sinestro Corps, after besting Arkillo in one-on-one combat, he becomes the new leader of the Sinestro Corps. In "Rage of the Red Lanterns" #1, a group of rogue Sinestro Corps members still loyal to Sinestro release him from Green Lantern custody as he is being transferred for execution. Their rescue attempt is temporarily spoiled by an attack fromAtrocitus and his newly formedRed Lantern Corps.[20]
Sinestro is abducted by Atrocitus' forces and brought to the Red Lantern base planet: Ysmault. Planning to use Sinestro's blood for their own means, Sinestro's faction of the Sinestro Corps eventually arrive and liberate him from the Red Lanterns. After their escape, Sinestro and his faction of the Sinestro Corps return to Qward, revealing that there is a backup Central Power Battery. Sinestro orders his men to free the Sinestro Corps members imprisoned onZamaron by theStar Sapphires and meet him on the darkside of Daxam's moon. After Sinestro attends to "family business", they will retake the Sinestro Corps from Mongul.[21] In addition to those members imprisoned on Zamaron, Sinestro Corps members are also being held prisoner on Oa. Their power rings are held in containment along with other rings (abandoned due to casualty in war) that were prevented from finding new bearers. When Red LanternVice is freed from confinement in his Sciencell, he attacks the Green Lantern jailer.[22] Though the imprisoned members of the Sinestro Corps initially cheer him on, they find that he is just as likely of attacking them in his rage. During the jail break,Scar frees the yellow power rings and they find their bearers in the Sciencells. Upon being reunited with her ring,Lyssa Drak claims to once again be able to feel the Book of Parallax. Now armed with their rings the Sinestro Corps join in the battle with the Green Lanterns and Vice.[23]
The faction of the Sinestro Corps led by Sinestro are planning an invasion of Zamaron to retake the female Corps members being held prisoner there.[24] After being repelled from Daxam, Mongul's faction (which he has renamed as "The Mongul Corps") invades Korugar.[25] Sinestro's rescue attempt is interrupted by aBlack Lantern attack, which he only survives through the arrival of Hal Jordan and Indigo-1, leader of theIndigo Tribe. Indigo-1 brings Sinestro to Korugar, so that he may finally confront Mongul. After a fierce battle, Sinestro activates the override systems in Mongul's rings, using them to imprison him inside the Sinestro Corps Central Power Battery, thus overthrowing Mongul, taking control of the Mongul Corps, and renaming it "The Sinestro Corps" after himself.[26] When he departs with Hal Jordan's group of light-wielders, he commands his Corps to gather at Korugar and protect it while he is away.[27]
In the aftermath ofBlackest Night, the Sinestro Corps and Green Lantern Corps maintain a fragile truce where neither will attack each other. However, while helping Hal Jordan and the ring-wielders of the other five corps investigate the abduction of the emotional entities, Sinestro is separated from his ring and imprisoned in the Book of the Black, along with the other five members of the group, with Hal only just managing to escape with their rings. When Sinestro and the others escape, renegade Guardian Krona takes command of their rings, prompting Sinestro to attack Krona on his own, with the unexpected result that he is once again chosen as a Green Lantern.
Returning to Korugar after the Guardians decide to leave him with the ring, Sinestro learns that his Corps have reverted to their brutal methods, terrorising and slaughtering the people of Korugar rather than ruling it, Sinestro creating a new Green Lantern ring for Hal Jordan albeit one that he can shut off at will so that Jordan can help him retake control of the Sinestro Corps, who now want him dead in the belief that his killer will become the new Sinestro Corps leader.[28][29] After turning various Korugarian prisoners into a temporary Green Lantern Corps using short-lived duplicates of Sinestro's ring,[30] Sinestro and Hal are able to hold off the Sinestro Corps long enough to drain the power away from the Central Power Battery of the Sinestro Corps, de-powering all of the Corps members on Korugar, although those more distant from the battery will still have access to their own power supplies.[31] Later all Lanterns' rings registered that the Sinestro Corps have disbanded with 98% of all known Corpsmen dead or incarcerated, requiring Arkillo, who was cut off from the other Corps in the Orrery with theNew Guardians during this attack, to use a new, independent power battery forged by the Weaponer from the fear of the Korugarians.[32] It has since been revealed that the Guardians were responsible for Sinestro acquiring a Green Lantern ring in an attempt to undermine the Sinestro Corps as part of their future plans to destroy all seven Corps.[33]
During the events ofForever Evil after theCrime Syndicate had taken control of much of Earth, Batman revealed that he harbored a Sinestro Corps ring since the organization'sattack on Earth as one of his weapons to deploy against the Justice League should they ever go rogue. WhenBatman and his allies at the time are attacked byPower Ring, Batman puts the Sinestro Corps ring on in an attempt to counterattack him. However, the ring's power is heavily depleted and Power Ring manages to get it off Batman's finger before ultimately being attacked by Sinestro himself, who was summoned to the planet by Batman's use of the ring.[34] In a brief ensuing battle, Sinestro severs Power Ring's arm from his body, causing his ring to deem him unworthy and leave. As Power Ring thanks Sinestro for freeing him from the curse of the ring, Sinestro incinerates him.[35]
In the aftermath of the war with the New Gods of New Genesis, Sinestro has created Warworld into the new base and headquarters of the Sinestro Corps, after the Green Lantern Corps have vanished into another universe.[36]
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Subsequently, inDC Rebirth, Sinestro uses the opportunity to establish the Sinestro Corps as the new force of 'order' in the universe, imposing fear rather than inspiring faith, with Soranik joining her father out of a lack of perceived options. However, as they establish a presence where Oa was once located,Hal Jordan forges a new ring for himself as the rest of the Corps return to this universe.[37]
Sinestro then sends out his enforcers of his Corps to control the new order of the universe. The Sinestro Corps attacks a planet, but soon Hal Jordan arrives with his restored Green Lantern powers and drives the Sinestro Corp back.[38] Hal causes the Sinestro Corps members to flee and pursues them. He follows them to the planet, where all the Sinestro Corps are ambush and restrain him.[39] In order to defeat Hal Jordan the Sinestro Corps used the full power of fear throughout the universe, and were ordered by Sinestro to bring Hal to him alive.[40] The Sinestro Corps return to the Sinestro with the captured Green Lantern, who they thought was Hal, but it's actuallyGuy Gardner instead. Furious, Sinestro demands to know where Hal is. The Sinestro Corps then begin capturing people and imprisoning them in Warworld's engine to increase the power of fear.[41]
When Hal has recovered he invades Warworld and attacks the Sinestro Corps. As they were about to attack Sinestro appears and orders his Corps to stop so that he and Hal can go face to face in battle.[42] Before Sinestro attacks him, he discovers too late his powers are decreased due to Soranik rescuing people from being imprisoned and escaping with them. Hal then uses his energies as a living construct to incinerate the Fear Warlord, apparently destroying Sinestro and Ranx.[43]
Like theGreen Lantern Corps, the Sinestro Corps has 7,200 ring bearers, two for each of the 3,600 sectors of space.
When recharging their power rings, members of the Sinestro Corps recite the following oath:
:In blackest day, in brightest night,
- Beware your fears made into light
- Let those who try to stop what's right,
- Burn like my power(*)... Sinestro's might(**)!
— Sinestro,Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps Special #1 (June 2007)
As the embodiment of fear which is connected to the yellow light of the Emotional Spectrum, Parallax is revealed to be the emotional entity for the Sinestro Corps. Born when one of the earliest life forms first felt terror, it is insect-like in appearance. Parallax was the first of the seven entities to be captured by a still unknown person and currently is held captive in Ryut. The Sinestro Corps insignia is based on drawings created by life forms who looked into the mouth of Parallax and lived to tell the tale.
The Book of Parallax holds in its pages all the history of the Yellow Light of Fear and of the greatest Sinestro Corpsmen histories. For unknown reasons the book was chained to Lyssa Drak with yellow energy by Sinestro himself. This was possibly for the need to have a historian for his Corps and a way for Sinestro to revisit his Corps' success. Lyssa Drak is quite loyal to Sinestro and highly devoted to updating the Book and keeping it safe.[76]
Members of the Sinestro Corps use yellow power rings built on Qward. Though functionally similar to a Green Lantern's power ring, yellow power rings are fueled by fear instead of willpower. Members are selected for their skill at intimidation and terror. The ring amplifies the aggressive tendencies of the wearer. The yellow rings are charged by yellow power batteries, which are in turn linked to a yellow Central Power Battery based on Korugar. Aside from the recharging limitations common among the various Corps, their only known weakness is that their power can be drained by aBlue Lantern's power ring.[21]
The Sinestro Corps appear in theJustice League Action episode "The Ringer", consisting of Sinestro and Despotellis.
The Sinestro Corps appear inSmallville Season 11. This version of the group was created byParallax and is served by theManhunters as heralds. In the "Lantern" arc, Parallax possessesJohn Stewart and sends yellow power rings to Earth, where they chooseArkham Asylum inmates, such asMan-Bat,Firefly,Bane,Mr. Freeze, andPoison Ivy, before they are all defeated bySuperman and the Green Lantern Corps and depowered byEmil Hamilton.[78] In the "Chaos" arc,Lex Luthor employs a security force empowered by yellow power rings until they are defeated and depowered byBooster Gold and Skeets.[79]
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