Soranik Natu
Soranik Natu is a female comic superhero who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Soranik Natu was a female inhabitant of the planet Korugar where she was the daughter of Thaal Sinestro. (Green Lantern Corps v2 #36)
Her mother came to fear for her child and decided to protect her by giving her a new life. This involved her being adopted by the obstetrician who delivered Soranik thus leading to her being taken in by Karoll Natu and Dgibb Natu. (Green Lantern Corps v2 #36)
A family photo was taken where she along with her parents were there when Soranik received her medical degree. (Green Lantern Corps v2 #36)
She was performing surgery when a Power Ring arrived in Sector 1417 to select her to be a Green Lantern. (Green Lantern: Recharge v1 #1)
In reality, her death was faked as she had determined that a clever poison was used that consisted of microrganisms that targeted the fear centre of the brain. The Green Lanterns had determined from one of the culprits that it was actually Prince Ragnar who was responsible for the deaths. Thus, they arranged a trap for him where they held a funeral for her and had a Power Ring seemingly choose Ragnar as a new addition to the Corps. Taken to Oa, they revealed the trap for him with Soranik shown to be alive where she arrested him. However, his status as a royal meant that he had diplomatic immunity and he was returned to Betrassus where he was found guilty of murdering his brother in a bid to be selected by a Power Ring to become a Green Lantern. Ragnar was sentenced for execution but not before he saw Soranik Natu revealing that his sister Iolande had been chosen to be a Green Lantern. (Green Lantern Corps v2 #3)
The people of Korugar held a rally demanding that Natu lead them into a new age of prosperity, such as Korugar used to have under the protection of the GLC. Natu again reminded her people that she was a healer, not a leader, and that as a member of the Corps she couldn’t condone her people overthrowing the government. Sinestro appeared and engaged her in battle, taking their skirmish to the skies. He bested Natu, but told her he would leave and allow the Korugarians to think she was the victor. He knew she rejected power, and feared that it would corrupt her and turn her into someone like him. Sinestro made it clear he needed someone to keep his planet safe, and she was obligated. Sinestro let her fall to Korugar, and just as he suspected, she kept up the premise of being their champion against Sinestro as a matter of duty. (Green Lantern Corps v2 #14)
Soranik Natu and the GLC continued to battle the Sinestro Corps on Earth while Hal and Kyle went to Coast City to protect it from Sinestro, and Hal issued a radio broadcast asking the residents to flee. Not a soul left, everyone had faith Hal would save them from Sinestro. Sinestro and a number of his soldiers engaged Hal and Kyle, and Sinestro told them he’d already won the war. His actions made the Guardians rewrite the Book of Oa, and now that the GLC could use lethal force they would be feared. Sinestro always wanted the GLC to be a more totalitarian police force to bring order to the universe, and he’d succeeded. Sinestro and Hal’s rings were both drained of power, and they squared off in hand-to-hand combat. Hal won, and told Sinestro he was under arrest. In NYC the Anti-Monitor tapped into Earth’s energy and prepared to unleash an anti-matter wave to consume Earth. The GLC ruptured the heart of Anti-Monitor’s Warworld, the Sinestro Corps central power battery, and created a shield around Warworld and the Monitor. The ensuing blast nearly destroyed the Anti-Monitor, and he was finished off by Superman-Prime, who betrayed him for having destroyed his home, Earth-Prime. Sentient virus Despotellis infected Guy Gardner, trying for a Pyrrhic victory, but GL Soranik Natu diagnosed Guy and sent Leezle Pon, a sentient smallpox GL into Guy’s body to capture Despotellis. Leezle had wanted revenge on Despotellis ever since he’d killed his partner Reemuz. With the Anti-Monitor destroyed, Sinestro vanquished, and having no way of recharging their rings the Sinestro Corps fled Earth to lick their wounds. (Green Lantern v4 #25)
Vril, Blackfire, Sardath and the R.E.B.E.L.S. welcomed Honor Lantern John Stewart to Rann, and after a public handshake and media coverage they went behind closed doors for negotiations. Their talk quickly broke down, with Stewart demanding he let the GLC do their job, and Vril claiming his rhetoric hadn't influenced the Vegan people to turn against the GLC and demands that they vacate their sector. The Citadelian Liberation Front announced that they had a singularity module, and were going to implode the Vegan sun unless the GLC left the Vegan system. Stewart suspected that Vril orchestrated the affair, but Vril said he had no proof. Stewart sent GL's Admos and Gorius to handle the situation, but after taking out the Gordanians they couldn't figure out how to defuse the module. Stewart said he had faith in them, and refused Vril's offer of L.E.G.I.O.N. assistance. Vril reminded Stewart that his arrogance destroyed the planet Xanshi, and Stewart's temper started to flare. Stewart had called in Ganthet, Soranik Natu, and Kyle Rayner to back up his rookie Lanterns, but Gorius figured out how to destabilize the bomb, cracking its shell and causing an explosion, but preventing it from opening a black hole. Ganthet promoted the rookies to full GL status, and Vril was forced to maintain peace with the Corps, at least in public. (R.E.B.E.L.S. v1 #23)
Soranik was later captured by the Yellow Lanterns who were now under the command of Arkillo after the disappearance of Sinestro. He had intended them to be his 'Arkillo Corps' where he began a mass recruitment campaign to increase their ranks into an army so that they could attack the Green Lantern Corps. Before this could come to pass, her father had returned and after defeating Arkillo he resumed his place as the leader of his Sinestro Corps. He then had his daughter freed where he revealed that he had returned as he had learnt that there were survivors of Korugar who he intended to rescue. Thus, he sought her aid to help save their people and even provided her a Green Lantern Power Battery to recharge her ring with him revealing that no one was harmed in its acquisition. She later helped in the treatment of Arkillo to help him heal his injuries in the fight with Sinestro where she took some pleasure in the pain she caused in treating him as revenge for his own treatment off her when she was his prisoner. (Sinestro v1 #2)
Overview
Personality and attributes
On her left cheek was a simple aesthetic halo that was put there by Sinestro. These were in the shape of his family's secret coat of arms with it being laced with a microscopic deep derma transmitter allowing him to track her. (Green Lantern Corps v2 #36)
Initially, she saw the Green Lanterns and their Power Rings as symbols of oppression as well as pain. This was similar to the other inhabitants of Korugar following Sinestro's tyrannical reign over them. (Green Lantern Corps v2 #36)
For much of her life, she came to believe her parents were Karoll Natu and Dgibb Natu. (Green Lantern Corps v2 #36)
In reality, her father was Sinestro but she was not aware of this as her mother had sent Soranik away when she was a child. (Green Lantern Corps v2 #36)
Powers and abilities
Originally, she was an ordinary Korugarian who had become a noted doctor and surgeon. (Green Lantern: Recharge v1 #1) She had majored in brain surgery whilst at medical school. Medicine though was not her only skill and she was skilled in hand-to-hand combat. (Green Lantern Corps v2 #3)
She was later chosen by an Oan power ring and inducted into the ranks of the Green Lantern Corps. The ring was programmed to execute her metal commands provided it did not conflict against the code of the Guardians. (Green Lantern: Recharge v1 #1)
Notes
- Soranik Natu was created by Geoff Johns, Dave Gibbons, and Patrick Gleason where she made her first appearance in Green Lantern Corps: Recharge v1 #1 (November, 2005).
Alternate Versions
In other media
Television
- In Young Justice, Soranik Natu appeared in the setting of the animated television series in the episode "Rescue and Search" where she was voiced by actress Vanessa Marshall. In early September 2020, Soranik Natu and Forager studied the Kaizer-Thrall on Oa.
Films
- In Green Lantern: Beware My Power, Soranik Natu made a cameo appearance in the setting of the animated film. Her statue was present within the Hall of Famous Lanterns.
Video games
Appearances
- Green Lantern: Recharge v1: (2005)
- Green Lantern v4:
- Green Lantern Corps v2:
- Sinestro v1:
- Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps v1:
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