Sinestro Corps

## Appearances

**The Sinestro Corps** was a group formed and led by the former Green Lantern Corps member Thaal Sinestro.

## History

### Formation

After leaving the Green Lantern Corps, Thaal Sinestro, now having become a maniacal terrorist, decided to form his own corps of ring wielders, in order to force his will on the Universe. However, instead of harnessing the green light of willpower like the Green Lanterns did, Sinestro decided to use the yellow light of fear, and forged his own rings for him and the other members, though unlike the Green Lanterns, not every Sinestro Corps member used one and some even preferred to use their own weapons and powers. Though the thing they all had in common was unconditional loyality to Sinestro. Over time, the ranks of the Corps grew and members such as Lyssa Drak, Arkillo, Despero, Kanjar Ro, Lord Damyn and even the fear entity itself Parallax joined and created even more chaos across the galaxies.

### Destroying the Green Lantern Corps

At some point, Sinestro’s former apprentice Hal Jordan was assigned to overwatch the Rannian-Thanagarian Zeta-Beam experiment, during which a ship was teleported from Thanagar to Rann. Sinestro and his Corps, who had been compromising past peace efforts between the two species, saw their opportunity in this and sabotaged said experiment so that it would teleport the whole planet of Thanagar into Rann's atmosphere, murdering countless Rannians and Thanagarians in the process and starting their war a new. As the Green Lantern was lying unconscious on the grounds of Thanagar, after sending his Power Ring away, Sinestro released the Parallax entity, which then infected Jordan. Sinestro did so, in hopes of bringing his former student on his side once again, by letting him be corrupted by Parallax, but due to Jordan’s incredible willpower, he controlled Parallax, instead of the other way around, though he would not show that until later. They then payed a visit to Oa, home of the Green Lanterns and completely destroyed it. After the Sinestro Coprs members had killed even the last survivors, Sinestro and Hal looked upon the destruction they had caused. It was then that the now corrupted Hal Jordan decided to call for the rings of the fallen Lanterns, and took them for himself, becoming more powerful than ever before in the process. Seeing his new might, Sinestro wanted to escape but was captured and Jordan not only gained his allegiance but that of the whole Sinestro Coprs, though most of them were unaware of that, and instead took their orders from Sinestro, who received them from his new master.

## =Fight against the Justice League and final defeat

Sometime later, Jordan’s replacement, another Human named John Stewart, along with a group of people all somehow related to the Rann-Thanagarian war, including Shayera Hol, Oliver Queen and Adam Strange, who formed a sort of space version of the Earth based team of heroes known as the Justice League, followed a trace they had picked up after gaining information from the ship of a Rannian captain and visited the Sinestro Corps in their base, though they were unaware of its inhabitants. After a short battle which the Sinestro Corps seemed to be loosing, their leader, Sinestro, arrived and quickly dealt with the intruders. After having taken them captive, their new leader, Hal Jordan, posed as a fellow prisoner of them in order to gain the heroes trust. Due to Green Arrow and him having been best friends in the past, the group immediately trusted him, after he lied about the precise events of his capture. They then escaped the facility, though on their way, Hal murdered Arkillo with Shayera‘s Mace. However, due to Jordan secretly being part of the corps, they were able to track them down and followed them in their ship, until they reached Sardath's lab, which had been located over the planet Rann. As they attacked, each of the Yellow Lanterns chose one of the heores for themselves to fight. This would however prove to be their last battle, as Lyssa, Despero and Kanjar Ro were incapacitated, while Damyn and even Sinestro himself were killed during the fight, by Jordan and Stewart respectively. After this, Jordan revealed his true nature and intentions and quickly defeated the heroes and started to prepare the satelite's Zeta Beam to teleport both Rann and Thanagar into a supernova. On his second attempt though, John Stewart was able to overpower him and take the Green Lantern Rings he had stolen back from him. While Adam Strange sacrificed himself to save his homeworld and Thanagar, Hal tried one last time to take John's life, but was shot from behind with an arrow by his former friend Oliver. This ended both Jordan’s as well as presumably Parallax's life and therefore marked the end of the Sinestro Corps's reign of terror, with their final mission being a catastrophic failure.

## Known former Members

* Hal Jordan (leader, deceased)
* Thaal Sinestro (former leader, deceased)
* Lyssa Drak
* Arkillo (deceased)
* Despero
* Kanjar Ro
* Lord Damyn (deceased)
* Unidentified Member
* Parallax (deceased)

## Enemies

* Green Lantern Corps (formerly)
	+ Guardians of the Universe
* Justice League
	+ Green Arrow
	+ John Stewart
* Rannian Military
	+ Adam Strange
	+ Sardath
	+ Jorson
* Thanagarian Military
	+ Shayera Hol
	+ Banth Dar

## Notes

* **The Sinestro Corps** was created by Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver and first appeared in DC comics in Green Lantern vol 4 #10 in March 2006.
* Members such as Despero, Kanjar Ro, Lord Damyn and the Unidentified member are not part of the Sinestro Corps in the comics, or in case of the unidentified member, do not exist in the first place. It is also odd how Lyssa Drak is the only member of the Corps except Thaal Sinestro to use her Ring, especially seeing as Arkillo, who, even though he is most commonly known as Sinestro's right hand man, didn’t use one in Green Lantern: Beware My Power, while strangely, Despero did, even though he was never associated with the yellow lanterns in the comics.