10 Things Every DC Comics Fan Forgets About Sinestro

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With the ability to inspire great fear, Sinestro is one of the deadliest beings in the DC Universe.

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00:00 Once thought to be the greatest Green Lantern of all time, Sinestro became one of the most feared villains in the universe

00:06 and a constant thorn in the side of Hal Jordan, John Stewart and the rest of the Green Lantern Corps.

00:12 Originally the only wielder of the Yellow Lantern Ring, Sinestro created his own corps based on the concept of fear, the Yellow Lantern Corps.

00:21 So with this in mind, I'm Dan from WhatCulture and here are 10 things every DC Comics fan forgets about Sinestro.

00:29 Number 10. The Sinestro Corps has their own oath.

00:34 The oath has become one of the most recognizable aspects of the Lanterns.

00:38 Recitation of the oath is generally done during the charging of the rings, which happens once every 24 hours for most ring bearers.

00:46 Each oath is specific to the color on the emotional spectrum that recites it.

00:51 Hal Jordan began to use the familiar Green Lantern oath when charging his ring and eventually found that all Lanterns used a similar one,

00:59 although there were changes based on culture, sensory issues and more.

01:04 It was discovered with the emotional spectrum that each corps had an oath.

01:08 The oath for the Sinestro Corps is especially sinister because it talks of great fear and extols Sinestro's might specifically.

01:16 Number 9. Guy Gardner used Sinestro's ring for a time.

01:20 At the end of the Crisis on Infinite Earths, Sinestro was executed by the Guardians and his spirit was held within the central power battery.

01:29 John Stewart charged his ring directly from the battery and a malfunction allowed Sinestro to free himself and briefly invade Stewart's mind.

01:37 After being ejected, Sinestro's spirit wandered Oa aimlessly for a time.

01:42 Former Green Lantern Guy Gardner was on Oa to steal Sinestro's ring from the Crypt of the Green Lanterns

01:49 and Sinestro rose up to battle Gardner, but Guy won and got away with the ring.

01:54 The Guardians eventually recaptured Sinestro's spirit and returned it to the battery.

01:59 Guy had a bit of trouble with the yellow ring however.

02:01 He did not read or speak Quadian, so he didn't understand what the ring was saying to him.

02:06 They instead developed an instinctual understanding of each other.

02:10 Also, the ring had no battery to charge it, but instead got its charge from battling a Green Lantern ring.

02:16 This wasn't information Gardner had at first, and then a Parallax-possessed Hal Jordan came and took Gardner's ring to add it to his collection.

02:25 Number 8. Skill and Will

02:28 Sinestro had a number of skills that have nothing to do with his Yellow Lantern ring.

02:32 In addition to his genius intellect, Sinestro was said to be specifically attuned to what those around him feared.

02:39 Even without employing any ring power to augment the skill, Sinestro could centre on a person's fear and use it to manipulate and intimidate them.

02:47 Sinestro had superior leadership skills and was a master tactician, and an unparalleled hand-to-hand combatant.

02:55 He had regularly taken on a number of Lanterns at once by himself,

02:59 and in a group of people where willpower was a benchmark of greatness,

03:02 Sinestro was considered to possess the most indomitable will of any being in all of the universe.

03:08 This determination was made by the Guardian's living embodiment of willpower, Ion.

03:13 Despite his fall from grace, there was probably a reason why Sinestro was once considered the greatest Green Lantern of all time.

03:20 Number 7. He's a Team Player

03:23 In addition to his own Sinestro Corps and his former affiliation with the Green Lantern Corps,

03:28 Sinestro was a member of a number of different supervillain teams made mostly of Earth-based villains,

03:34 whose involvement brought him in direct confrontation with the Justice League.

03:38 Sinestro has been a member of the Secret Society of Supervillains, the Injustice League,

03:42 and most recently Sinestro joined nearly every costumed villain currently active in the Society,

03:48 a group created by Alexander Luthor of Earth-3, who was posing as Earth-1's Lex Luthor.

03:54 The Society was created to work together, coordinate, and make the heroes pay

03:59 for the perceived mind wipes of villains by the Justice League.

04:03 Number 6. Sinestro's Ring Comes From Another Dimension

04:07 To punish Sinestro for his crimes on Karuga,

04:10 the Guardians banished him to the planet Kord in the Anti-Mata universe.

04:14 There, he met the Weaponers, who were a group of engineers, designers, and weapons makers in the community.

04:20 Sinestro told them about the Green Lantern rings and their necessary yellow impurity.

04:24 The Weaponers then created the Yellow Ring and the power battery to charge it.

04:28 The Yellow Rings created yellow energy constructs, usually based on some aspect of the emotion of fear.

04:35 The rings also created energy blasts with varying degrees of force.

04:39 The stronger the will of the user, the greater the blast.

04:42 Additionally, the ring created force fields and bubbles that protect the user from harm

04:46 and allow them to fly in space without the benefit of a ship.

04:50 The ring has also created wormholes, spatial warps, and has engaged in limited time travel.

04:56 Number 5. The New 52

04:58 After Flashpoint, when the DC Universe found itself rebooted in The New 52,

05:03 Sinestro found himself with the Green Lantern ring once again.

05:06 The Guardians saw this as an opportunity for Sinestro to redeem himself,

05:10 and with the help of Hal Jordan, he disassembled his own Sinestro core.

05:14 At one point, the Indigo Tribe forced an Indigo ring on Sinestro,

05:18 but Jordan was able to get them to free him into his custody.

05:22 Then, the Guardians turned and instructed the Black Hand to kill Jordan and Sinestro.

05:27 As they felt their energy waning, they fused their rings together and sent it off for help.

05:32 The pair was banished to the Dead Zone.

05:34 There, they encountered the deceased Green Lantern,

05:36 Tomar Ray, who asked them to stop Volthoom, the first Lantern.

05:41 Sinestro was able to escape, acquire a Green Lantern ring,

05:44 and return to Karugo to prepare to battle Volthoom.

05:47 The entity consumes the hopes and fears of the people and destroys the entire planet.

05:52 Sinestro is discovered in the rubble by Star Sapphire and the White Lantern, Kyle Rayner.

05:57 However, Rayner was unable to resurrect the planet with his power,

06:00 and Sinestro reclaims his Yellow Ring and goes off to gain his revenge.

06:04 The Blackest Night

06:06 An alliance between the old Green Lantern villain, Black Hand, and the entity Necron

06:11 saw the dead rise as members of the Black Lantern core,

06:14 an event that Sinestro's mentor, Abin Sur, had long feared.

06:18 Necron summoned the embodiment of the life force into the universe, called the Entity.

06:23 Sinestro entered the Entity and emerged as a being of white energy,

06:27 who was in harmony with every being in the universe.

06:30 During the battle with Necron, Sinestro was killed, but he was healed by the Entity.

06:35 Sinestro could then become the true guardian of the universe,

06:38 but his own egotistical nature made him unable to retain the White Lantern energy.

06:43 He reclaimed the Yellow Energy, and the Lanterns worked together to separate

06:47 Necron from the energy that powers the Black Lantern, and his armies expired again.

06:51 The Sinestro Core

06:54 The return of Hal Jordan and the reconstruction of the Green Lantern core

06:58 prompted Sinestro to create a core of his own.

07:00 Returning to the antimatter world of Quard, Sinestro created more Yellow Rings and sent

07:06 them out in search of the most savage beings who could instill great fear in others.

07:11 Sinestro directed his core to fight on many fronts,

07:14 and then they began an assault on the Green Lantern's home planet of Oa.

07:18 To stop the Sinestro Core, the Guardians authorized the Green Lantern core to use deadly force,

07:23 and Sinestro claimed that this had been his goal all along.

07:26 Even when he was defeated, he claimed victory because he said that the now

07:31 deadly Green Lantern core would now spread fear throughout the galaxy.

07:34 The Greatest Green Lantern of All Time

07:38 Long before Hal Jordan ever slipped on a Green Lantern ring,

07:41 Sinestro was considered to be the greatest Green Lantern of them all.

07:45 Sinestro was chosen for his honor and fearlessness.

07:48 However, they were unaware that he took the ring from his predecessor and allowed him to die.

07:53 The Guardians were also supremely impressed that Sector 1417,

07:57 the sector Sinestro patrolled as a Green Lantern, was virtually devoid of crime.

08:02 Again, the Guardians were oblivious to the dictatorial hold he had on his home world,

08:07 and his extreme methods of dealing with those who opposed him.

08:10 Sinestro hid his true side well from them.

08:13 After Abin Sur died and passed his ring on to Hal Jordan,

08:17 Ganthit assigned Sinestro to mentor him in the use of the ring,

08:20 and they became friends until Sinestro's true nature and criminal actions became evident,

08:26 and Jordan had to stop his new friend, gaining a deadly enemy in the process.

08:30 He is the Master of Fear

08:33 Each Lantern core embraced a one-word aspect on the emotional spectrum.

08:37 The Blue Lanterns embrace hope, the Green Lanterns embrace will,

08:40 and the Yellow Lanterns embrace the concept of fear.

08:44 Sinestro was the true master of the concept, leading every member of his core

08:48 to instill great fear in every corner of the universe.

08:52 Sinestro embraced the teachings of Parallax, who he spent a great deal of time with

08:56 while they were imprisoned together in the Central Power Battery on Oa.

09:00 Sinestro aided Parallax in taking over Hal Jordan,

09:03 and in trying to destroy Kyle Rayner's will when he was on Ion to allow Parallax to possess him.

09:09 When Parallax merged with Sinestro,

09:11 he put him on the physical strength level of Superman,

09:14 and his energy constructs were much stronger.

09:17 Sinestro had the innate ability to determine and understand the fears of others.

09:21 He was also able to communicate these fears to his core members telepathically.

09:26 Sinestro also had the ability to coerce or intimidate others through fear without the use of his ring.

09:32 This made him a particularly effective, if not always lawful, investigator.

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