Atrocitus
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| Atrocitus | |
| Real name: | Atrocitus |
| First Appearance: | Green Lantern Vol 4 #28 |
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Created by: | Geoff Johns Ethan Van Sciver Mike McKone |
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Team affiliations: | Red Lantern Corps Formerly Five Inversions Empire of Tears |
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Abilities: | Red Lantern Power Ring |
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Sector: | Space Sector 0666 |
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Home planet: | Ysmault Ryut (former) |
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Partner: | TBA |
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Portrayed by: | TBA |
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[edit] History
[edit] Origin
Long ago, when the rogue Manhunters rampaged through Green Lantern Sector 666, Atrocitus was one of only five beings in the entire sector to escape death. He and the other four survivors formed a terrorist cabal known as the Five Inversions, bent on the destruction of the Guardians of the Universe and all who served them, and with Atrocitus serving as their leader. The Five Inversions performed a ritual which allowed them to peer into the future and discover the prophecy of the Blackest Night, which decreed that all life in the universe would end. They ruled a massive domain known as the Empire of Tears, until the Guardians of the Universe defeated the Five Inversions and imprisoned them on their capital, Ysmault.
After Abin Sur arrives trying to locate survivors of a crash, he went to the imprisoned demons and asks for their assistance. Atrocitus refuses to help him, but his comrade Qull freely offered to answer three questions: the location of the survivors, the fate of Abin Sur, and the prophecy of the Blackest Night. Sur told this to the Guardians of the Universe, in turn kept the Five Inversions on Ysmault instead of transfering them to Oan sciencells. Following this, Sur began to make periodic visits to Ysmault, to learn how to prevent the Blackest Night. Sur even went so far as to free Atrocitus from his imprisonment so he could lead the Green Lantern to Earth, the birthplace of "the black" that would end the universe. Caged in Sur's starship, Atrocitus instilled fear in Sur, allowing the yellow impurity to seep into his willpower constructs and weakening them enough to escape. After slashing the Green Lantern in the chest, mortally wounding him , Atrocitus jumped from a point high Earth's atmosphere to escape Sur's failing ship.
Atrocitus continued his violent rampage on the planet Earth. After killing an unspecified number of Air Force troopers, Atrocitus recited an oath that will possibly become the battle cry of the Red Lanterns and performed a ritual which gives him the name of the herald of the Blackest Night: William Hand. Atrocitus created a device using gun parts which acted as a cosmic divining rod, and used it to lead him to Hand (the device eventually became Hand's criminal weapon). Once he tracked down the human who, it is said, will play a prominent role in the coming of the Blackest Night, he attacked, and planned to take Hand's innards back to Ysmault. Before his plan proceeded, however, Sinestro and rookie Green Lantern Hal Jordan intercepted him, spiriting William Hand to safety. Atrocitus used his newly-constructed device to sap the power from their rings, leaving them with only their wits to defend them before the master of the Five Inversions. Sinestro is able to restore their rings' powers through his power battery, but Atrocitus still has the upper hand. Just as he is about to crush Sinestro with a power shovel, Hal uses his ring to blow up the yellow vehicle, suprising Atrocitus greatly, as he believes Green Lantern Rings do not work on yellow. Defeated, Atrocitus is contained by Sinestro, and taken to Oa.
Later after Sinestro dropped Atrocitus back on Ysmault, Atrocitus and the other Inversions imparted a prophecy of the eventual rebellion of Sinestro's homeworld of Korugar. Sinestro didn't believe his lies and told him unlike Abin Sur he would not fall to fear.
[edit] Connection to The Blackest Night
Atrocitus is shown in the aftermath of the Sinestro Corps War to be the first to forge a Red Lantern Power Battery, utilizing the power of rage. He said that his first new victim would be the one who called himself "The Greatest Green Lantern:" Sinestro, who had long since abandoned the Green Lantern Corps to forge a Corps in his own namesake. His Red Lantern Power Battery needed to be christened with blood, and he used it to beat Qull to death.
Swearing to destroy Sinestro, Atrocitus became the first member of the Red Lantern Corps.
[edit] Rise of The Red Lantern Corps
Still trapped on Ysmault, Atroticus was still filled with hatred and rage and knowing the prophecy of the Blackest Night, killed the other four Inversions and forged a Red Lantern of blood and rage. Using his newfound instrument, he began his own corps dedicated by their hatred of Sinestro and his corps.
The first of his corps to be recruiting was former Green Lantern Laira, who had been expelled from the Corps for killing in cold blood. Once his corps was assembled, Atrocitus and his followers headed to find Sinestro, who was being transported by a squad of Green Lanterns to Korugar for execution. When Atrocitus got there, he discovered that Sinestro Corps members were there too and ambusing the Green Lanterns. Atrocitus and his troops attacked, killing both members of the Green Lantern Corps and Sinestro Corps. They overwhelmed the other Corps and managed to capture Sinestro, taking him to Ysmault where he was crucified yet alive whilst Atrocitus planned his revenge.
After preventing his minions from killing Sinestro, Atrocitus used his blood magic and power of prophecy to determine the one thing that the leader of the Sinestro Corps feared most which was the life of his daughter. Before he could proceed with his plans, the Red Lantern Corps was attacked by Hal Jordan, the Blue Lantern Corps and members of the Sinestro Corps determined to free their captured leader. Despite the addition of the powerful Blue Lanterns, Atrocitus and his forces managed to overpower their attackers and the leader of the Red Lantern Corps revealed that he knew the secret of the blue light which was that it required the green light of willpower to charge it. During the fight, Laira was killed by Sinestro which filled Hal Jordan with rage and led to him being taken over by a Red Power Ring. Becoming a Red Lantern, Atrocitus urged his new protege to kill Sinestro but it was the Blue Lantern Saint Walker who saved Jordan by placing a Blue Power Ring on him. This led to the expunging of the Red Power Ring and Hal Jordan sent a powerful blast that wounded Atrocitus who was forced to flee the battlefield.
Atrocitus later used his magic to discover the homeworld of the Blue Lantern Corps in an effort to track them down.
[edit] The Blackest Night
Whilst still on Ysmault, Atrocitus and some of his Red Lanterns came under attack from the Lost Lanterns who sought to retrieve their fallen former comrade Laira. During the battle, they witnessed Black Lantern Power Rings going onto prison worlds surface and reanimated not only Laira but the Five Inversions turning them into members of the Black Lantern Corps. The Five Inversions attacked Atrocitus and even tore out his heart seemingly killing the Red Lantern leader, however, his power ring kept him alive and he destroyed the undead Black Lanterns.
Atrocitus later managed to find the fleeing Larfleeze who was escaping an attack from Black Lanterns. Destroying his pursuers, he demanded that the leader of the Orange Lantern Corps hand over his Central Power Battery. During the initial skirmish, he managed to steal Agent Orange's Central Power Battery but the two were both besieged by Black Lanterns. Atrocitus at first managed to hold them back but was knocked out by Larfleeze who attacked the Black Lanterns but his Lantern constructs did not aid him. The pair were saved by the arrival of Saint Walker, Hal Jordan, Carol Ferris and Indigo. Later, when Atrocitus woke up, he attacked Sinestro and intended to get his revenge; fighting the various Corps leaders who stood in his path. Whilst attempting to subdue him, Saint Walker tapped into the blue light of hope and showed it to Atrocitus in order to calm him by showing him his life on what it could have been. Hal Jordan later managed to restrain him and they attempt to convince him to aid them in destroying the Black Lantern Corps.
Sinestro later told Atrocitus that he would aid him in destroying the Guardians of the Universe in light of the sins they had committed. However, the Red Lantern showed that he did not care. Later, Indigo transports them to the last known location of the Black Lantern Central Power Battery which happened to be Ryut. Once there, Atrocitus broke down in despair as he was reminded of his past and the pain he had felt. Saint Walker attempted to console him by recanting his own tragic past but Atrocitus angrily told him that they were nothing alike as the Blue Lantern faced tragedy by accident whilst he himself along with his people were completely innocent. The leader of the Red Lantern Corps finally stated that they deserved nothing that the Manhunters had inflicted on them. Agreeing to join with the other Corps to destroy Nekron, Atrocitus, however, vowed that he would kill the Guardians once the Blackest Night was over.
Atrocitus later powered up with the other corps leaders with the exception of Larfleeze who's greed needed to be sated. For a time, the Red Lantern in his angry considered killing Agent Orange in order end his constant chatter. He later participated with the other corps in an attack against Nekron on Earth at Coast City. Combining the various lights, they created a White Light to attack Nekron but this simply powered him further and led to him releasing more Black Power Rings that latched onto various reborn superheroes on Earth thus turning them into more Black Lanterns.
[edit] Powers and Abilities
[edit] Powers
Claws
Sorcery: using blood magic he is able to call upon the necromantic powers formally used by the Empire of Tears and later the Five Inversions. This magic is steeped in ancient and complex rituals.
- Precognition: by using blood rituals he is capable of opening himself to discern the future. general prophecy apparently is easier then specific knowledge. He and other inversions where able to fortell of the Blackest Night prophecy and determine the beginning of the fall of Sinestro from the Green Lantern Corps. But when he was upon earth looking for William Hand he had to enact a blood ritual to discern his name. His particular form of precognition, according to Scar, is apparently primitive, as she claims to be able to use the same abilities, but with far more accuracy, and without the need of blood sacrifice.
[edit] Abilities
Boundless Rage: over countless millennia of imprisonment Atrocitus has developed a tremendous rage and hatred for his jailers the Guardians of the Universe and their Green Lantern Corps.
Inventive
Occultist
[edit] Strength
- Brute Strength
[edit] Weaknesses
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[edit] Equipment
[edit] Transportation
- Flight
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[edit] Notes
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[edit] Trivia
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