Sinestro

Full Name: Thaal Sinestro

Age: 75

Homeworld: Korugar

Affiliation: Sinestro Corps

Position: Founder and supreme leader of the Sinestro Corps

Former Affiliation: Green Lantern Corps

Power Source: Yellow Power Ring — fear

Alignment: Authoritarian antagonist / occasional antihero

Primary Domains: Interstellar space, Korugar, Qward, sectors influenced by the Sinestro Corps

Description

At seventy-five, Thaal Sinestro is one of the galaxy's most formidable ring wielders: a former Green Lantern who transformed his fall from grace into the foundation of an interstellar empire.

Sinestro was once considered among the finest officers the Green Lantern Corps had ever produced. Brilliant, disciplined, fearless, and extraordinarily skilled with a power ring, he genuinely believed that civilization could flourish only when chaos was contained.

His downfall came from the method.

Sinestro ceased viewing order as something that should be protected and began seeing it as something that should be imposed. On Korugar, peace became obedience. Crime diminished because dissent itself became dangerous. Sinestro considered the results vindication; the Guardians considered them tyranny.

His expulsion did not humble him.

It convinced him that the Guardians lacked the courage to finish what they had begun.

Sinestro eventually mastered the yellow light of fear and built the Sinestro Corps, creating an organization reflecting his own philosophy: fear is not merely an emotion. Properly understood, it is one of civilization's most effective instruments of control.

Now seventy-five, Sinestro is no fading elder. Decades of warfare and ring mastery have made him more dangerous, not less. He has survived cosmic wars, betrayals, imprisonment, revolutions, and conflicts that destroyed younger warriors.

He does not need to prove himself anymore.

That makes him considerably more frightening.