Black Lantern Corps
The Black Lantern Corps are an organization that features in DC Comics.
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History
Origin
The origins of the Black Lantern Corps was deeply rooted into the magical prophecies of the Five Inversions of the Empire of Tears. After their imprisonment on their home world of Ysmault, its members remained trapped by the victorious Guardians of the Universe who sentenced them to remain on that planet. At one point, the Green Lantern Abin Sur arrived on that world forbidden to the Green Lantern Corps in order to rescue a crashed civilian ship. It was there he met the Five Inversions where Qull told Sur of his death and the death of the Corps by telling him the prophecy known as the Blackest Night. Later, Abin Sur once again broke the Guardians ban on Ysmault and journeyed to it in order to learn more about the Blackest Night prophecy. Despite Atrocitus telling them not to say more, Abin Sur managed to capture the red skinned demon and take him to the ship in order to find the vessel that contained the Black that would bring about the death of all life. The ship arrived on the planet Earth where Abin Surs fear of dying led to his ring constructs weakening and freeing the prisoner Atrocitus. His escape led to severe damage to the ship which crashed and mortally wounded the Green Lantern. Free on Earth, Atrocitus himself sought to claim the host of the Black through a Cosmic Divining Rod and use its power to destroy the Guardians. Through his blood magic rituals he learnt the being was a Human known as William Hand but before he could accomplish his goal, the Green Lanterns Hal Jordan and Sinestro captured him. (Issue: Secret Origin)
Blackest Night
At the prophecised moment, William Hand killed himself with his weapon which he shot through his head. In that instance, a corrupted Guardian called Scar arrived at the behest of her hidden master where she vomited out a Black Lantern Power Ring. It attached itself to Black Hand's finger and resurrected him as a Black Lantern who was the embodiment of their corps along with being herald of their master. (Green Lantern v4 #43)
Overview
Their purpose was said to be extinguishing the light of life in the universe. (Green Lantern v4 #43)
Upon finding a host, the ring generated black tendrils that rooted themselves into a corpse and made them impossible to remove by physical force. (Blackest Night v1 #3)
Once the ring was destroyed, the Black Lantern's body went inert and returned to being a corpse. (Blackest Night v1 #3)
The oath of the Black Lanterns was:
- "The Blackest Night falls from the skies."
- "The darkness grows as all light dies."
- "We crave your hearts and your demise."
- "By my black hand-- the dead shall rise!"
Members
- Black Hand : a male human called William Hand who was destined to be the incarnation of the Black and the embodiment of the Black Lantern Corps as well as the herald of its master. (Green Lantern v4 #43)
- Martian Manhunter :
- Elongated Man :
- Ronnie Raymond :
- Abin Sur :
- Arin Sur :
- Hal Jordan :
- Krona :
Notes
- The Black Lantern Corps was created by Geoff Johns, Ivan Reis, and Ethan Van Sciver where they made their first appearance in Green Lantern v4 #25 (January, 2008).
Alternate Versions
- In Tales from the Dark Multiverse: The Death of Superman v1 #1 (2019), an alternate reality was shown to exist within the Dark Multiverse showed a universe where the Black Lantern Corps dominated the cosmos. This was because Sinestro refused to share the power from the white ring thus leading to the heroes being killed and the Black Lantern Corps scouring reality of all life.
In other media
Video games
- In Injustice: Gods Among Us, though not appearing in the game itself a number of the player characters had Black Lantern skins available to them as alternate costumes.
- In Injustice 2, the Black Lantern Corps again did not appear in the fighting video game but appeared as palette skins for Green Lantern.
- In DC Universe Online, the Black Lantern Corps were introduced into the MMORPG setting.
- In DC Legends, Black Lanterns appeared as antagonists in the iOS video game where the dead became Reanimated Lanterns that had the symbol of the Black Lanterns and served Nekron.
Appearances
- Green Lantern v4: (2008)
- Green Lantern Corps v2:
- Blackest Night v1:
- Green Lantern v5:
- Tales from the Dark Multiverse: The Death of Superman v1:
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