Kilowog

Kilowog
Kilowog Interior artwork from Green Lantern Secret Files 2005 1 (May 2005 DC Comics). Art by Patrick Gleason.
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	Green Lantern Corps # 201 (June 1986)
Created by	Steve Englehart Joe Staton
In-story information
Full name	Kilowog
Place of origin	Bolovax Vik
Team affiliations	Green Lantern Corps Rocket Red Brigade Justice League
Partnerships	Hal Jordan Guy Gardner John Stewart Kyle Rayner
Notable aliases	Dark Lantern
Abilities	Power ring, Technological genius, Superhuman strength and endurance

Kilowog is a fictional superhero from DC Comics, and a member of the Green Lantern Corps.

Kilowog first appears in Green Lantern Corps #1 and was created by Steve Englehart and Joe Staton.

A towering alien with a brutish cross of porcine and bull-doggish appearance, Kilowog is renowned throughout the Green Lantern Corps as the primary trainer of the Corps' newest recruits. The Guardians of the Universe recruited Kilowog, a gifted genetic scientist, from the planet Bolovax Vik, located in Space Sector 674. Kilowog was trained by Lantern Ermey (reference to Gunnery Sergeant R. Lee Ermey), who would often use the word "poozer", which means "useless rookie" (a word Kilowog would later adopt, albeit in a friendlier way). In the middle of a particularly arduous training session, Ermey had Kilowog and his fellow rookies help stop an attack on a group of Lanterns, one of whom was the future renegade Sinestro. Ermey, fatally wounded in battle, commended Kilowog on his abilities, telling him that he had the makings of a great leader. In addition to serving with distinction as the Green Lantern of that sector, Kilowog also began to spend extensive periods of time on the Green Lantern Corps' home planet of Oa instructing new recruits on how to handle and best utilize their power rings. In this capacity, Kilowog acted as the first trainer to a young Hal Jordan, the ring-recruited successor to the slain Abin Sur of Ungara, the Green Lantern of Space Sector 2814. Kilowog and his new recruit helped the Guardians confront Abin Sur's murderer, the hive mind interstellar malefactor known as Legion.

During the Crisis on Infinite Earths (referred to as a "great crisis"), Bolovax Vik was destroyed. This was a powerful blow to the giant Green Lantern, as his race lived a highly communal lifestyle, and to be alone was one of the worst things imaginable. Owing somehow to this genetic similarity to and affinity for each other that all Bolovax Vikians possessed, Kilowog was able to rescue the entire population of his homeworld (billions of beings) by storing their collective life essences within his ring upon that world's annihilation.