Sinestro

Sinestro
Art by Ethan Van Sciver
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	Green Lantern (vol. 2) # 7 (August 1961)
Created by	John Broome Gil Kane
In-story information
Full name	Thaal Sinestro
Species	Korugarian
Place of origin	Korugar
Team affiliations	Green Lantern Corps Sinestro Corps The Society Injustice League Anti-Justice League Indigo Tribe White Lantern Corps
Partnerships	Anti-Monitor, Parallax
Notable aliases	Green Lantern, White Lantern, Yellow Lantern, Indigo Lantern, Parallax
Abilities	Power ring (typically yellow/green variety) Allows flight, superhuman strength, and hard-light with use of power ring. Psychological Intuition: innate understanding of the fears and phobias of others Expert hand-to-hand combatant Host of Parallax: Vast superhuman conditioning including Enhanced Strength Durability Stamina Flight Self-Sustenance Enhanced Fear Energy Manipulation Construct Creation Higher sense of awareness Large scale Space-Time & Reality Manipulation

Thaal Sinestro is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Sinestro is a former Green Lantern Corps member who was dishonorably discharged for abusing his power. He is the archenemy of Green Lantern and founder of the Sinestro Corps, though he occasionally has acted in anti-heroic roles as well.

The character was created by John Broome and Gil Kane, and first appeared in Green Lantern (vol. 2) # 7 (August 1961).

In 2009, IGN ranked Sinestro as the 15th Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time.

Sinestro was born on the planet Korugar in space sector 1417. His dedication to preserving order originally manifested in his previous career, an anthropologist specializing in reconstructions of ruins of long-dead civilizations. One day while he was on one such site, a Green Lantern named Prohl Gosgotha crash-landed into the site, injured and apparently dying. He quickly gave his ring to Sinestro, just in time for Sinestro, who barely even understood what the ring could do, to defend himself from the Lantern's pursuer: a Weaponer of Qward; however, Sinestro had to destroy the ruins he had spent time restoring in order to crush the Qwardian. Afterwards, Gosgotha turned out to still be alive and asked for his ring back to keep him alive long enough to get help. Sinestro, knowing this would mean not being a Green Lantern himself, instead let him die and took over his post. The Guardians were unaware of his actions.

In Green Lantern #45, his wife is shown for the first time in a flashback, and revealed to be the sister of Abin Sur.

When Hal Jordan joined the Green Lantern Corps, Sinestro was assigned to be his instructor. Jordan was horrified at his new mentor's totalitarian methods, though Sinestro maintained that his iron-fisted rule was necessary to protect his people from alien forces. During his training, Jordan helped Sinestro repel an attempted invasion of Korugar by the alien warlords known as the Khunds. When Jordan called for help from the other Green Lanterns, Sinestro's dictatorship was exposed and he was forced to appear before the Guardians for punishment. Katma Tui, the leader of a Korugarian resistance movement who felt that Sinestro's "protection" kept her people from growing as a society through contact with other alien races, was recruited as his replacement in the Corps. Though Katma Tui eventually grew into one of the most respected Green Lanterns, she and the rest of Korugar initially resisted her appointment to the Corps; due to Sinestro's actions, Korugar had come to consider the symbol of the Green Lantern Corps an emblem of terror and oppression.