Black Lantern Corps
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| Black Lantern Corps | |
| Official Name: | Black Lantern Corps |
| Allies: | Death Entity Anti-Monitor |
| Founder: | Nekron |
| First Appearance: | Green Lantern Vol 4 #25 |
| Creators: | Geoff Johns Ethan Van Sciver Ivan Reis |
| Team Leader(s): | Nekron |
| Current members: | List of Current Black Lantern Corps Members |
| Former members: | List of Former Black Lantern Corps Members |
| Status: | Active |
| Base of operations: | Ryut |
| Place of Formation: | Space Sector 0666 |
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[edit] History
[edit] Origin
[edit] The Sinestro Corps War
The Black Lantern Corps began during the Sinestro Corps War, when the Sinestro Corps declared war on the Guardians of the Universe and the Green Lantern Corps. Under the leadership of Sinestro, the Anti-Monitor, Superman-Prime, Cyborg Superman, and Parallax, the Sinestro Corps waged the most substantial battle of the Sinestro Corps War on the planet Earth, home to many of the superheroes that have thwarted the domination of it's members time and time again. With the war almost over the Green Lanterns were able to take down the Anti-Monitor by hurling Warworld with its Qwardian Power Battery into him. The combined power of the Corps was able to contain the resulting blast around the Anti-Monitor. This blast was not able to kill him, but substantially damaged him and shattered his armor. Enraged at the defeat the Sinestro Corps was suffering, Superman Prime hurled the Anti-Monitor's body into deep space.
After drifting in space the Anti-Monitor's shriveled and substantially weakened physical form crash-landed on a dark, barren planet. After the damage suffered on Earth, the Anti-Monitor was unable to protect himself when the ground around him began to envelop him, forming the Black Lantern Central Power Battery.
[edit] Powers and Abilities
[edit] Powers
The Black Lantern Power Battery contains the body of the Anti-Monitor. It is not known whether the Anti-Monitor is still alive within the battery, however his power is the source of power for the Black Lantern Corps. The Black Lantern Power Rings that were sent out have the ability to re-animate the dead. These re-animated corpses make up the members of the Black Lantern Corps.
[edit] Abilities
- Resurrection: Upon being inducted into the Black Lantern Corps, dead people are restored to a fully functional state. Even if they keep the semblance of a dead, shambling corpse, Black Lantern members are resurrected with the same abilities and powers they had in life, and the same level of intelligence, though their mindset is warped by a deepening belief in death. They, however, don't possess a soul anymore, as shown by the co-existance of the soulless Black Lantern Boston Brand and his disembodied spirit, the superhero Deadman: Ray Palmer, known as The Atom explains that as the Black Ring merely instilling in dead, reanimated corpses the memories pertaining to their former lives, without actually restoring their souls and emotions, for maximizing their abilities to elicit emotions into their former faimilies and peers;
- Healing Factor/Regeneration: No matter how much damage a Black Lantern sustains, the Black Ring will always restore it to a fully functional state, in a time directly proportionated to the punishment taken by the Corpse. Since the Black Rings bond with the corpse they're reanimating, there's no way to destroy a Black Lantern until the combination of two or more lights of the emotional spectrum shine on them: when that happens, the connection is disrupted and the Black Lantern loses his/her regenerative capabilities.
- Energy Spectrum Assimilation: Upon killing individuals feeling strong emotions, the Black Lanterns can forcibly extract their hearts and siphon away their last feeling recharging the Central Battery on their home planet. A Black Lantern power ring is charged by .01 percent for every heart collected by the bearer.
- Aura Recognition: To aid in their assimilation the Black Lantern can see what's the prevalent feeling of their opponent. When the feelings reaches their maximum point, they can see a colored aura, shining with one or more of the seven Emotional Spectrum colours. When that happens, their opponents hearts are ripe for assimilation. As a notable exception, Black Lanterns are unable to perceive the emotions of the superheroine Dove, as they can't rise his namesake and predecessor.
[edit] Weaknessess
Black Lantern power rings are apparently unable to resurrect an individual who died in a state of peace with themselves, such as the original Dove, Don Hall. They similarly can't steal the hearts of people able to balance their emotions in a peaceful white aura, as with the second Dove. Although their rings will rebuild their bodies when damaged, a strong amount of punishment can slow them down.
The light of two or more different power ring can distrupt their powers: it's surmised that the combined light of the Seven Emotions, by restoring the original White Light of Creation can exstinguish darkness and bring on the end of the Black.
[edit] Oath
- The Blackest Night falls from the skies.
- The darkness grows as all light dies.
- We crave your hearts and your demise.
- By my black hand, the dead shall rise!
[edit] Equipment
[edit] Weapons
[edit] Notes
- The Anti-Monitor is the Founder of the Black Lantern Corps and Powers the Central Power Battery but is not an official member because it is kept prisoner inside the Central Power Battery as its energy source.
- The Former Guardians of the Universe member, Scar, is a member of the Black Lantern Corps, and the official Guardian of the Black Lantern Corps. However unlike the Guardians of the Universe who are the leaders of the Green Lantern Corps, even with Scar's rank as Guardian, she is not the leader of the Black Lantern Corps; the leader is the Nekron.
[edit] Trivia
- The first two members of the Black Lantern Corps were Superman (Kal-L) and The Martian Manhunter.
- Later Confirmed Members of the Black Lantern Corps were Aquaman (Arthur Curry) and Firestorm (Ronnie Raymond).
[edit] Symbol
- The symbol on the Black Lantern Power Ring, is the same that was worn by the villain Black Hand, and he has been confirmed to be the Embodiment of Death (Scar being its Guardian, and Nekron being its leader)
