Controllers (DC)
The Controllers are a powerful alien species that feature in DC Comics.
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History
Shortly after the creation of the Green Lantern Corps, a rift emerged among the Oans with a faction believing that evil should not be contained but destroyed. This schism saw half the population departing Oa for another dimension in order to build weapons of great destructive power. In time, they would change and evolve where they eventually took the name of Controllers. (Crisis of the Infinite Earths v1 #7) For millennia, these Controllers had sought to develop anti-war weapons. (Justice League: A Midsummer's Nightmare v1 #3)
One Controller was charged with creating the ultimate anti-war weapon for his sector as it was determined a great threat would arise in the future. For reasons unknown, his starship ended up crashing on primitive era Earth when mankind were barely above monkeys and was dying from the impact. Before he died, he sought out one to continue his mission and sought out the primitive humans in the area. One was deemed too savage but the other was selected to continue the Controller's mission. Empowering him, the individual who would in time become known as the Know Man was given the gift of immortality and intellectual curiosity with the latter being used to study the Controller's ship. In time, the Know Man would learn of his benefactors mission and seek to protect the world by creating defenders to save it from destruction. (Justice League: A Midsummer's Nightmare v1 #3)
The Controllers would embark on a similar approach as the Guardians by creating their own peacekeeping organization which would become the Darkstars. At first, this body was created in order to protect Controller territory and rather then be involved in its management, they made use of aliens that worked in such roles that worked for NEMO. This would be a highly successful venture as the Controllers expanded the role of the Darkstars, however, their distant relationship with the organization meant that it was corrupted by its director as well as mismanaged. An act that ultimately meant that it was dissolved eventually.
The race would continue their development in building on the early success of the Darkstars and created Effigy. After this fiery beings battles with Green Lantern Kyle Rayner, it was decided that a corps of such warriors would be useful in policing the galaxy. However, the experiment proved to be a failure as the newly created soldiers lacked free will which made them ineffective against Rayner who destroyed the facility where they were being created.
The Justice League registered the Controllers as one of the many threats to them but by the Oblivion crisis they had been dormant for several months since their last encounter with Kyle Rayner. (Green Lantern/Atom v1 #1)
After the Sinestro Corps War, the Controllers were one of many that sought to build their own Lantern Corps by finding the orange light of avarice. As part of their quest to find the light of the emotional spectrum needed to make their own corps, they travelled to the Vega system. Arriving on the world, they found nothing but decaying bodies and found a lantern. But before they could take it with them, however, they take the light with them, it exploded with energy and the Controllers were all killed by Larfleeze and the members of his Orange Lantern Corps. (GL #39: Agent Orange)
Overview
Unlike their cousins the Oans, the Controllers evolved somewhat different with their skin taking a more pinkish tone and were all completely hairless. Despite this, they were still quite capable of manipulating matter and energy as well as being long lived. They were said to be immortal beings with powerful cosmic powers that were claimed to have been a match for the Guardians. (GL #39: Agent Orange)
The Controllers did not believe in the containment of evil but rather the extermination of it which meant they created a great deal of weaponry for such tasks. They furthermore did not believe in the individuality of their servants like the Guardians did, preferring entities that were controllable and obeyed.
Appearances
- Justice League: A Midsummer's Nightmare v1 #3:
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