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| Sinestro
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| Gender
| Male
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| Publisher
| DC Comics
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| Origin
| Korugar
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| First Appearance
| Green Lantern #7 (1961)
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| Creator(s)
| John Broome and Gil Kane
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| Alter ego
| Sinestro’s true name is lost to antiquity.
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| Aliases
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| Abilities
| Wields a yellow power ring from the Qward anti-matter universe.
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| Affiliations
| The Sinestro Corps, The Secret Society of Super-Villians, Former member of the Green Lantern Corps.
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Sinestro is a fictional comic book super-villain owned by DC Comics. He is the arch nemesis of Hal Jordan, the Green Lantern of the Silver Age of Comics, as well as the present day. While beaten, imprisoned, and even apparently killed several times, Sinestro always returns more powerful than ever.
Sinestro is a disgraced member of the Green Lantern Corps, who now uses a yellow power ring in his never ending efforts to rule the universe and to destroy the current Green Lantern, the entire Green Lantern Corps, and the Guardians of the Universe.
Character Origin
Sinestro began as an anthropologist on his home planet Korugar. The people of Korugar are a typical, productive race of humanoids with beet red skin. Sinestro’s passion is restoring an archeological dig located somewhere in the mountains of his home world. He enjoys the work, as the symmetry of this reconstruction work appeals to his sense of order. One day, while hiking towards the dig, he is surprised to see Prohl Gosgatha, a strangely formed alien who was also the Green Lantern of Sector 1417, fall out of the sky and land near the ruins. Prohl has taken a beating from whoever was pursuing him, and is barely hanging on to consciousness. He beckons Sinestro closer, and then passes his amazing ring to him.
Prohl warns Sinestro in a faint whisper, “Time is short….the danger grave. Be worthy of the duty before you.” And then his pursuer is upon them. It is a warrior of the Weaponers of Qward. Qward is located in an anti-matter universe. The Qwardian Weaponers worship evil and are long-time enemies of the Green Lanterns.
Sinestro reacts instinctively at first, not sure at all how the ring works. He observes that the Weaponer has a yellow shield that the ring’s energy will not affect. Using strategy and cunning, Sinestro, with great difficulty, manages to beat his adversary.
An early Sinestro appearance.
Flushed with victory, Sinestro again approaches Prohl Gosgatha. The alien asks Sinestro for his ring back so that he may use its power to help sustain his life. Not ready to give up the power of the ring, Sinestro just stands there and watches him die.
The Guardians, who know nothing of this last part, are impressed with Sinestro’s victory over the Qwardian Weaponer. They decide to give Sinestro a chance at replacing the late Prohl Gosgotha and being the new Green Lantern of Sector 1417.
At first, Sinestro does well, completing all his missions and defeating all foes successfully. What the Guardians don’t know is that in the meantime, Sinestro is slowly using the power of his ring to impose order on the people of Korugar. Using fear and intimidation, Sinestro imposes regimented order over every aspect of life on Korugar, and with the power ring behind him, the inhabitants are helpless to stop him. They grow to hate their world’s Green Lantern, but are too beaten down and afraid to show it in any way. Sinestro has become a despot.
As time goes on, the Guardians are impressed by how trouble free Sinestro’s space sector becomes. They are so impressed that they ask him to train their newest Green Lantern of Sector 2814, Hal Jordan of Earth. When Hal eventually visits Korugar, he observes, seeking to learn from his mentor, and he is shocked as the true relationship between Sinestro and his people comes clear to him. While Sinestro and Hal are defending the planet from war-like aliens called the Khunds, a citizen of Korugar named Katma Tui takes advantage of the chaos and leads a rebellion against Sinestro's government. Hal calls for help from his fellow Green Lanterns, and Sinestro's crimes are at last exposed. A trial is held, and Hal Jordan's testimony condemns him. The Guardians strip Sinestro of his power and banish him to the anti-matter universe of Qward. Where better to send a disgraced Green Lantern but to a place where evil is worshipped and Green Lanterns are hated? The Guardians make Katma Tui the new Green Lantern of Sector 1417.
Sending Sinestro to Qward turns out to be another error on the Guardian's part. Sinestro is glad to be in a place where they hate the Guardians as much as he now does. He bargains with the Weaponers of Qward who rise to the occasion and make him a power ring that works with yellow light instead of green. With this ring, Sinestro returns to our universe and sows destruction across it, motivated by his need to impose order on an unwilling galaxy, as well as his hatred for the Guardians and Earth’s Green Lantern.
Eventually, The Guardians of the Universe imprison Sinestro in the main power battery on Oa, which turns out to be (you guessed it) yet another great blunder. There, he gains access to the "yellow impurity" representing the emotion of fear. The personification of this element is the being Parallax, who has also been imprisoned in the power battery untold billions of years ago. Sinestro uses his yellow ring to awaken Parallax, and helps it to escape and possess Hal Jordan. This leads to the near destruction of the Green Lantern Corps, and the closing down of the Corps for a while with Kyle Rayner as the sole Green Lantern of the galaxy. Thanks partly to Kyle's help, Jordan is freed of Parallax's influence and the Corps are restored to its former glory.
Sinestro in his new uniform.
Sinestro Today
Sinestro is now the head of the Sinestro Corps, made up of the most ruthless warriors in the Galaxy, all supplied with yellow power rings from Qward.
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