10 Things Every DC Comics Fan Forgets About Sinestro

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With the ability to inspire great fear, Sinestro is one of the deadliest beings in the DC Universe.

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00:00Once thought to be the greatest Green Lantern of all time, Sinestro became one of the most feared

00:05villains in the universe and a constant thorn in the side of Hal Jordan, Jon Stewart and the rest

00:11of the Green Lantern Corps. Originally the only wielder of the Yellow Lantern ring, Sinestro

00:16created his own corps based on the concept of fear, the Yellow Lantern Corps. So with this in

00:22mind, I'm Dan from WhatCulture and here are 10 things every DC Comics fan forgets about Sinestro.

00:30Number 10, the Sinestro Corps has their own oath. The oath has become one of the most recognisable

00:37aspects of the lanterns. Recitation of the oath is generally done during the charging of the rings

00:42which happens once every 24 hours for most ring bearers. Each oath is specific to the colour on

00:49the emotional spectrum that recites it. Hal Jordan began to use the familiar Green Lantern oath when

00:55charging his ring and eventually found that all lanterns used a similar one, although there were

01:00changes based on culture, sensory issues and more. It was discovered with the emotional spectrum that

01:07each corps had an oath. The oath for the Sinestro Corps is especially sinister because it talks of great

01:13fear and extols Sinestro's might specifically. Number 9, Guy Gardner used Sinestro's ring for a time.

01:21At the end of the crisis on Infinite Earths, Sinestro was executed by the Guardians and his spirit was

01:27held within the central power battery. John Stewart charged his ring directly from the battery and a

01:32malfunction allowed Sinestro to free himself and briefly invade Stewart's mind. After being ejected,

01:39Sinestro's spirit wandered over aimlessly for a time. Former Green Lantern Guy Gardner was on Oa to

01:46steal Sinestro's ring from the crypt of the Green Lanterns and Sinestro rose up to battle Gardner,

01:52but Guy won and got away with the ring. The Guardians eventually recaptured Sinestro's spirit

01:57and returned it to the battery. Guy had a bit of trouble with the yellow ring however. He did not

02:02read or speak Quodian, so he didn't understand what the ring was saying to him. They instead developed an

02:08instinctual understanding of each other. Also, the ring had no battery to charge it, but instead got its

02:14charge from battling a Green Lantern ring. This wasn't information Gardner had at first, and then

02:19a parallax-possessed Hal Jordan came and took Gardner's ring to add it to his collection.

02:25Number 8. Skill and Will

02:28Sinestro had a number of skills that have nothing to do with his Yellow Lantern ring. In addition to

02:33his genius intellect, Sinestro was said to be specifically attuned to what those around him

02:38feared. Even without employing any ring power to augment the skill, Sinestro could centre on

02:44a person's fear and use it to manipulate and intimidate them. Sinestro had superior leadership

02:50skills and was a master tactician and an unparalleled hand-to-hand combatant. He had

02:55regularly taken on a number of lanterns at once by himself, and in a group of people where willpower

03:01was a benchmark of greatness, Sinestro was considered to possess the most indomitable will

03:06of any being in all of the universe. This determination was made by the Guardian's living embodiment of

03:12willpower, Ion. Despite his fall from grace, there was probably a reason why Sinestro was

03:18once considered the greatest Green Lantern of all time. Number 7. He's a team player. In addition

03:24to his own Sinestro Corps and his former affiliation with the Green Lantern Corps, Sinestro was a member

03:30of a number of different supervillain teams made mostly of Earth-based villains, whose involvement

03:35brought him in direct confrontation with the Justice League. Sinestro has been a member of the

03:40Secret Society of Super-Villains, the Injustice League, and most recently Sinestro joined nearly

03:45every costumed villain currently active in the Society, a group created by Alexander Luther of

03:51Earth-3, who was posing as Earth-1's Lex Luthor. The Society was created to work together, coordinate,

03:58and make the heroes pay for the perceived mind-wipes of villains by the Justice League.

04:03Number 6. Sinestro's ring comes from another dimension.

04:07To punish Sinestro for his crimes on Karuga, the Guardians banished him to the planet Quod in the

04:13Anti-Mata universe. There, he met the Weaponers, who were a group of engineers, designers, and weapons

04:19makers in the community. Sinestro told them about the Green Lantern rings and their necessary yellow

04:24impurity. The Weaponers then created the yellow ring and the power battery to charge it. The yellow rings

04:30created yellow energy constructs, usually based on some aspect of the emotion of fear. The rings also

04:36created energy blasts with varying degrees of force. The stronger the will of the user,

04:41the greater the blast. Additionally, the ring created force fields and bubbles that protect

04:46the user from harm and allow them to fly in space without the benefit of a ship. The ring has also

04:51created wormholes, spatial warps, and has engaged in limited time travel.

04:56Number 5. The New 52.

04:58After Flashpoint, when the DC universe found itself rebooted in the New 52, Sinestro found himself

05:06again. The Guardians saw this as an opportunity for Sinestro to redeem himself, and with the

05:11help of Hal Jordan, he disassembled his own Sinestro core. At one point, the Indigo tribe

05:16forced an indigo ring on Sinestro, but Jordan was able to get them to free him into his custody.

05:22Then, the Guardians turned and instructed the Black Hand to kill Jordan and Sinestro. As they

05:28felt their energy waning, they fused their rings together and sent it off for health. The pair was

05:33banished to the dead zone. There, they encountered the deceased Green Lantern, Tomar Ray, who asked

05:38them to stop Valthum, the first lantern. Sinestro was able to escape, acquire a Green Lantern ring,

05:44and return to Karugor to prepare to battle Valthum. The entity consumes the hopes and fears of the

05:50people and destroys the entire planet. Sinestro is discovered in the rubble by Star Sapphire and the

05:55White Lantern, Kyle Rayner. However, Rayner was unable to resurrect the planet with his power,

06:00and Sinestro reclaims his yellow ring and goes off to gain his revenge.

06:05Number 4. The Blackest Night

06:07An alliance between the old Green Lantern villain, Black Hand, and the entity Necron saw the dead rise

06:13as members of the Black Lantern Corps, an event that Sinestro's mentor, Abin Sir, had long feared.

06:19Necron summoned the embodiment of the life force into the universe, called the Entity. Sinestro entered

06:25the Entity, and emerged as a being of white energy, who was in harmony with every being in the universe.

06:31During the battle with Necron, Sinestro was killed, but he was healed by the Entity. Sinestro could then

06:36become the true guardian of the universe, but his own egotistical nature made him unable to retain the

06:42White Lantern energy. He reclaimed the yellow energy, and the lanterns worked together to separate

06:47Necron from the energy that powers the Black Lantern, and his armies expired again.

06:52Number 3. The Sinestro Corps

06:54The return of Hal Jordan and the reconstruction of the Green Lantern Corps prompted Sinestro to

06:59create a corps of his own. Returning to the antimatter world of Quard, Sinestro created more

07:05yellow rings and sent them out in search of the most savage beings who could instill great fear in

07:11others. Sinestro directed his corps to fight on many fronts, and then they began an assault on the

07:16Green Lantern's home planet of Oa. To stop the Sinestro Corps, the Guardians authorised the Green Lantern

07:22Corps to use deadly force, and Sinestro claimed that this had been his goal all along. Even when he

07:27was defeated, he claimed victory because he said that the now deadly Green Lantern Corps would now

07:33spread fear throughout the galaxy. Number 2. The Greatest Green Lantern of All Time

07:38Long before Hal Jordan ever slipped on a Green Lantern ring, Sinestro was considered to be the

07:43greatest Green Lantern of them all. Sinestro was chosen for his honour and fearlessness. However,

07:49they were unaware that he took the ring from his predecessor and allowed him to die. The Guardians

07:53were also supremely impressed that Sector 1417, the sector Sinestro patrolled as a Green Lantern,

08:00was virtually devoid of crime. Again, the Guardians were oblivious to the dictatorial hold he had on his

08:07home world, and his extreme methods of dealing with those who opposed him. Sinestro hid his true side

08:12well from them. After Abin Sir died and passed his ring on to Hal Jordan, Ganthit assigned Sinestro to

08:19mentor him in the use of the ring, and they became friends until Sinestro's true nature and criminal

08:25actions became evident, and Jordan had to stop his new friend, gaining a deadly enemy in the process.

08:30Number 1. He is the Master of Fear. Each Lantern Corps embraced a one-word aspect on the emotional

08:37spectrum. The Blue Lanterns embrace hope, the Green Lanterns embrace will, and the Yellow Lanterns

08:42embraced the concept of fear. Sinestro was the true master of the concept, leading every member of

08:48his core to instill great fear in every corner of the universe. Sinestro embraced the teachings of

08:54Parallax, who he spent a great deal of time with while they were imprisoned together in the central power

08:59battery on Oa. Sinestro aided Parallax in taking over Hal Jordan, and in trying to destroy Kyle

09:05Raina's will, when he was on Ion, to allow Parallax to possess him. When Parallax merged with Sinestro,

09:12he put him on the physical strength level of Superman, and his energy constructs were much

09:16stronger. Sinestro had the innate ability to determine and understand the fears of others.

09:22He was also able to communicate these fears to his core members telepathically. Sinestro also had the

09:28ability to coerce or intimidate others through fear without the use of his ring. This made him a

09:33particularly effective, if not always lawful, investigator. And that's our list. Know of any

09:38other things fans forget about Sinestro? Let us know in the comments section below. You can follow

09:43me on Twitter, at Dan J Durkin, and after that, be sure to swing on over to whatculture.com for more

09:48lists and articles like this every single day. For now though, I've been Dan, and I'll catch you in the next one.

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