Ganthet
Ganthet is a male extraterrestrial comic character who features in Green Lantern.
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Biography
Ganthet was a male member of the race of beings known as the Guardians of the Universe who originally evolved on the planet Maltus. At some unknown earlier point, Ganthet made use of a time viewer in order to witness the origin of his species. Unlike Krona, the Maltusians renegade who had thousands of years earlier attempted to do the same, Ganthet used a yellow reflective mirror to witness the dawn of creation without introducing entropy into the universe. Thus, he learnt the truth of his ancestors savage beginnings and that his people orchestrated the great lie that they were always all powerful. The act had driven Ganthet insane for a time until he managed to recover himself. (Green Lantern: Ganthet's Tale v1 #1)
He later came to Earth in order to recruit Hal Jordan to help save an entire race. (Green Lantern: Ganthet's Tale v1 #1)
During the emergence of Fernus the Burning, John Stewart was badly wounded in an encounter with the Burning Martian. Green Lantern was then transported to Oa where Ganthet conducted surgery to save him. (JLA v1 #86)
Ganthet the embarked on a plan to bring about the resurrection of Hal Jordan and to help cage the rogue fear parasite Parallax. This involved making preparations on Oa whilst having Kyle Rayner take a starship to gather the preserved remains of Jordan from the sun. He arrived on Earth in time to help Rayner after he was attacked by several Green Lanterns that were infected by the fear entity with among them including Kilowog. (Green Lantern: Rebirth v1 #3) Parallax then continued to operate from Jordan's body but the power of the Spectre helped cast out the fear entity and in the process helped resurrect Hal. (Green Lantern: Rebirth v1 #3) The displaced fear parasite then took control of Ganthet and sought to use him to set fire to the entire universe but the Green Lanterns working together managed to free the Guardian from Parallax's control. It was then that a plan was activated whereupon the Guardians came to trap the fear parasite within the Central Power Battery once again. (Green Lantern: Rebirth v1 #6)
He decided to resign himself from the Guardian's council and inducted himself as a officer of the Green Lantern Corps. This saw him forge his own Power Ring with Ganthet being assigned to patrol Space Sector 0 which was the location of Oa. (Green Lantern Corps v2 #48)
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)
Upon Sinestro's re-admission as a Green Lantern, Ganthet did not agree with the decision of his kin at letting him return to the Corps. For his outburst, the Guardians decided that they would no longer tolerate his dissent and used a combined mental assault on his mind to change his mind-set to match their goals. (Green Lantern v5 #1)
In the aftermath, Ganthet and Sayd lived a life in exile on the planet Nok in Space Sector 2814. Their departure from the affairs of the universe was broken when a Green Lantern Power Ring forged by Hal Jordan arrived seeking its wielder with Ganthet impressed with the human at the achievement. (Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps v1 #9)
After the defeat of Perpetua, the Multiverse was restored and became an infinite landscape of worlds. During this time, Ganthet was among the Quintessence as they investigated a disturbance from Earth-Omega where they were all killed by Darkseid who had absorbed all his various shards to restore himself to the height of his power. (Infinite Frontier v1 #0)
Overview
Personality and attributes
He often stated that he did not joke and that there was only one joke which was his own existence. This was not a snipe at his own being but rather the fact of his peoples distortion of history and their complicity in introducing evil into the universe which Ganthet felt was a great cosmic joke. (Green Lantern: Ganthet's Tale v1 #1)
It was said that it was rare to see him angry or show any kind of emotion with this being a trait shared by the Guardians of the Universe. (Green Lantern: Rebirth v1 #3)
Powers and abilities
Similar to the rest of his race, he had a lifespan that measured in billions of years. (Green Lantern: Ganthet's Tale v1 #1)
As a Guardian, he was a source of energy that was used by the Power Rings and was able to automatically repower them. (Green Lantern: Ganthet's Tale v1 #1) Such was his power that he could crack a planet with a thought. With his abilities, he was shown as being effortlessly able to overpower a Green Lantern. (Green Lantern: Rebirth v1 #3)
His body held a number of devices that were used to enhance his natural abilities with these tiny instruments allowing them to fully control their natural psychic abilities. Ganthet's knowledge was vast that allowed him to create advanced devices such as time-viewers allowing him to witness the origin of the universe. (Green Lantern: Ganthet's Tale v1 #1)
Notes
- Ganthet was created by Larry Niven and John Byrne where he made his first appearance in Green Lantern: Ganthet's Tale (1992).
Alternate Versions
- In Kingdom Come v1 #3 (1996), an alternate version of Ganthet appeared in the Kingdom Come reality that was designated as Earth-22 in the Multiverse. Ganthet was a member of the Quintessence, a group of five cosmic beings who watch over the events that take place in the universe without much direct influence over it. They watched Captain Marvel becoming brainwashed through torture by Lex Luthor which ultimately led to the UN bombing at the Gulag. They were unwilling to do anything and are questioned by the Spectre about it. Ganthet and his three other members sent the Phantom Stranger to give a faith healer named William, whose faith in Superman being a deity was shattered when his idol confessed that the disaster in Kansas was his fault and not his intention, a seven-sealed scroll. This scroll would give the man power to change events so that the Kansas disaster does not ever happen. However, the Phantom Stranger finds out that the other four members of the Quintessence were planning to use William, now transformed into Gog, as their agent to make the Kansas incident happen years earlier for their own ends and purposes. Ganthet hoped that the Green Lantern of the late 20th Century would stop it, elevating his status above Superman's. This required the Phantom Stranger to enlist the aid of his own agent, Hunter of the Linear Men, to stop Gog's plan.
- In Injustice: Gods Among Us prequel comics, an alternate version of Ganthet was shown in a universe where Superman was driven into tyranny following his intentional killing of Lois Lane. As a result, Supermam killed the Joker and formed the Regime that took over the planet that he placed under his harsh rule. His activities drew the attention of Ganthet and the Guardians of the Universe that Superman had begun to rule through fear. As a result, Ganthet came to Earth to ask Superman to stop but the Man of Steel refused and became enraged when he learnt that the Oans had allowed Krypton's destruction by not intervening to save it. Green Lantern Hal Jordan sided with Superman and claimed about the good they were doing to save the Earth but Ganthet saw only tyranny. Thus, he had the Green Lantern Corps arrest Hal Jordan whilst a move was made to take Superman into custody to stand trial for his actions. Ultimately, Hal Jordan opposed the Green Lanterns by fighting them with Ganthet stripping him of his power ring forcing him to become a Yellow Lantern in the Sinestro Corps. Ganthet battled Superman where he badly wounded him only for the Kryptonian to return empowered with a yellow power ring. Drawing upon the collective fear on Earth, he managed to overwhelm Ganthet who he smashed into Mogo whereupon he threw the pair into the sun killing both of them.
- In Green Lantern/Star Trek: The Spectrum War (2015), an alternate version of Ganthet appeared in the cross-over between the two franchises. A different version of the Blackest Night was shown whereby the universe lost its war against Nekron. As a last act, Ganthet activated the Last Light protocol that involved gathering a power ring from each part of the Emotional Spectrum and using them to open a doorway to another universe. This act also took a Lantern from each of the different Corps along with the shift to the other universe. However, the act killed Ganthet leaving his skeletal remains on a barren world that was visited by the U.S.S. Enterprise who recovered his remains.
In other media
Television
- In Green Lantern: The Animated Series, Ganthet made an appearance in the animated television series where he was voiced by actor Ian Abercrombie.
Films
- In Green Lantern: First Flight, Ganthet appeared in the animated film where he was voiced by actor Larry Drake.
- In Green Lantern: Emerald Knights, Ganthet appeared in the animated anthology film where he was voiced by actor Michael Jackson.
Video games
- In Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, Ganthet appeared in the fighting video game where he was voiced by Michael McConnohie.
- In Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters, Ganthet appeared in the video game tie-in to the live-action film where he was voiced by actor Michael Jackson.
- In Injustice 2, Ganthet was mentioned in dialogue in the fighting video game.
Appearances
- Green Lantern: Ganthet's Tale v1: (1992)
- Green Lantern v3:
- JLA v1:
- Green Lantern Corps v2:
- Green Lantern: New Guardians v1:
- Green Lantern v5:
- Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps v1:
- Infinite Frontier v1:
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