History Characters / GreenLanternThaalSinestro

[[Characters/GLGreenLanternCorps Green Lantern Corps]] ([[Characters/GLGreenLanternCorpsEarthLanterns Earth Lanterns]], [[Characters/GreenLanternHalJordan Hal Jordan]]) | [[Characters/GLSinestroCorps The Sinestro Corps]] ('''Thaal Sinestro''') | [[Characters/GLRedLanternCorps The Red Lantern Corps]] ([[Characters/GreenLanternAtrocitus Atrocitus]]) | [[Characters/GLBlueLanternCorps The Blue Lantern Corps]] | [[Characters/GLStarSapphireCorps The Star Sapphire Corps]] | [[Characters/GLOrangeLanternCorps The Orange Lantern Corps]] | [[Characters/GLIndigoTribe The Indigo Tribe]] | [[Characters/GLOtherLanternCorps The Black, White, Ultraviolet and Gold Lantern Corps]] | [[Characters/GLOtherVillains Other Villains]] ([[Characters/SupermanCyborgSuperman Cyborg-Superman]], [[Characters/SupermanGeneralZod General Zod]], [[Characters/DCComicsMongul Mongul]], [[Characters/SupermanSuperboyPrime Superboy-Prime]]) | [[Characters/GreenLanternSupportingCharacters Supporting Characters]] | [[Characters/GreenLantern1941 Golden Age]] -]]]]]

* BigDamnHeroes: He plays this role in ''Forever Evil'' during the scuffle against Power Ring. While Power Ring was able to fend off [[Characters/BatmanTheCharacter Batman]] (who, at that time, also held a Yellow Lantern Ring) and [[Characters/CatwomanSelinaKyle Catwoman]], Sinestro suddenly shows up, formerly presumed to be dead, to take on and defeat Power Ring.

* DynamicEntry: He starts off the fourth issue of ''Forever Evil'' [[CombatPragmatist by blasting Power Ring in the back]].

** He is also one to [[Characters/ShazamBlackMarvelFamily Black Adam]]. Both are powerful, feared leaders who command great fear in their subordinates, have a personal relationship with their arch-enemies, and tend to display their superiority towards others on multiple occasions. This gets played up in ''Forever Evil'' where Sinestro and Black Adam recognize their similarities and end up bonding and becoming friends over these.

* KarmicDeath: Sinestro delivers this trope to Power Ring in ''Forever Evil''. Power Ring's [[ShapedLikeItself ring]] is powered by one's own cowardice; because he is a massive coward, that makes him very powerful. However, Sinestro's ring ''also'' feeds on Power Ring's cowardice. Their [[CurbStompBattle battle is brief]] and - for Sinestro - hilarious.

** Like most of the villains in Earth 1, Sinestro naturally ends up being this in ''ComicBook/ForeverEvil2013'' where he's pitted against Power Ring, an evil version of Hal Jordan from Earth 3 who is defined by his supreme cowardice as well as being selfish, an exact opposite of the Hal Jordan Sinestro knew.

* RedemptionRejection: The villains are granted full pardons for their help in defeating [[ComicBook/ForeverEvil the Crime Syndicate]] but only Luthor and Cold accept it. Sinestro and Black Adam openly [[EvilLaugh laugh]] at the idea.

* TookALevelInBadass: Johns has pulled this with a number of characters. Sinestro went from being a good arch-enemy to Hal and already badass to becoming a full-blown MagnificentBastard.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:Slaughtering all the Guardians but Ganthet is horrific, but given this was after they'd taken several major levels in jerkass from ''Sinestro Corps War'' onwards, up to and including trying to wipe out all sentient life in the universe... it's not unfair to say they kinda had it coming. Even Hal, when trying to stop him - not knowing he'd already done it - is trying to talk Sinestro down from killing them not for their sake, but ''his''.]]
** In ''Forever Evil'', Sinestro is the one to kill Power Ring, a member of the Crime Syndicate who think nothing other than invading other worlds to conquer and indulge in their own evil.

** EvilIsNotAToy: Naturally, Parallax is ''not'' happy with this treatment, and it's noted that even for Sinestro it is often hard to maintain control over the entity for extended periods.

* TheParagonAlwaysRebels: He used to be "The Greatest Green Lantern". Now he's the Corps' worst enemy.

* EvilMentor: Granted, he wasn’t evil at the time, but he was Hal’s main teacher when he was starting out in the Corps, and still sometimes makes reference to being his teacher, albeit usually as a way to condescend to him. He is very quick to state that Hal has ''not'' yet SurpassedTheTeacher, though it’s not like his ego would allow him to say otherwise.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Sinestro just can't figure out why people who fled his subjugation react with varying degrees of horror and fury when he catches up to them and transports them to a repurposed prison planet he and his army keep an eye on from the old guard moon. He also mistakes his heroic daughter sticking around to keep an eye on him and his plots as burgeoning loyalty.
* EvilCounterpart: Fitting that his team is a villainous counterpart to the Green Lanterns, Sinestro is this to Abin Sur, with both being among the best that the Corps had to offer, with both of them acting in unorthodox ways compared to other members. That said, Abin Sur was more in lines of negotiating things peacefully whereas Sinestro thought that was best done by dominating others and enforcing order, effectively making him a dictator. Regardless of their differences and alignment, both saw each other as {{Best Friend}}s with Sinestro being shown to [[AntagonistInMourning grieve for Abin Sur]].
* EvilMentor: Granted, he wasn’t evil at the time, but he was Hal’s main teacher when he was starting out in the Corps, and still sometimes makes reference to being his teacher, albeit usually as a way to condescend to him. He is very quick to state that Hal has ''not'' yet SurpassedTheTeacher, though it’s not like his ego would allow him to say otherwise.

* EvilerThanThou: During the Red Lanterns' introductory arc, he and Atrocitus spent much of the time boasting in each other's face about being the bigger threat.

* TheAce: Before Hal, he was considered the greatest of the Green Lanterns. It shows, as he has tricks up his sleeve that Hal ''still'' hadn't learned, even after over a decade on the job. When it comes to tactical use of the power ring, Sinestro has no equal.

* {{Determinator}}: There was a reason he was a member of the Green Lantern Corps after all. In fact, Sinestro was considered among it's greatest member because alongside willpower, he demonstrated great resolve and determination in his convictions and goals. It's one of the traits he's consistently maintained throughout his appearances, with Sinestro being one of the hardest individuals to put down partly because of his drive to see his goals succeed, no matter what.

* FaceHeelTurn: Once, he was among the best of the Green Lanterns, that is until Hal discovered that Sinestro was actually using underhanded tactics to govern Korugar like a dictator, all while out of notice from the Corps. Once he was caught, stripped off of his privileges, and arrested, Sinestro vowed that he would have revenge. And revenge, he would attempt in a glorious fashion.

* FallenHero: Sinestro used to be the single most respected member of the Green Lantern Corps, until he took a shortcut in his work by enslaving his home planet. Just to add to the tragedy, Johns' run suggests that Sinestro didn't just start off a jerk (though he was) who happened to turn evil, but through losing his family to violence on Korugar.

** He is also one to [[Characters/ShazamBlackMarvelFamily Black Adam]]. Both are powerful, feared leaders who command great fear to their subordinates, have a personal relationship with their arch-enemies, and tend to display their superiority towards others on multiple occasions. This gets played up in ''Forever Evil'' where Sinestro and Black Adam recognize their similarities and end up bonding and becoming friends over these.

* GalacticConqueror: Sinestro's greatest aspirations is to bring order to the universe and ensure it safe and secure under his watch, but given his own actions being more in lines with a militant dictator, he's more in lines with this trope than anything else.

* RealMenWearPink: Sinestro ''is'' pink, and he's a formidable leader, an expert manipulator, skilled fighter, and an incredibly talented figure in his own right.

* RingOfPower: He had one, and was considered it's most skillful user. Sometime after his defection from the Green Lantern Corps, he ends up in the possession of another powered ring, this one being yellow and powered by how much fear it inspires. It leads Sinestro to create his own corps.

* TomeOfEldritchLore, Being the founder and leader of a Corps dedicated to using Fear as their main emotion of power, he has owner of the ''Book of Parallax'', which details everything the Corps' member have, can, and will do in the name of inspiring fear.

* VillainousBreakdown: He has one during ''Blackest Night''. Whenever he finds out that the Guardians made Abin Sur (his only true friend) look like [[HeroicBSOD he had gone insane]] when he really was [[OnlySaneMan the only one who knew the truths behind Blackest Night]], he gets really pissed off. Understandably so! Also his reaction to Hal getting the Parallax entity again instead of himself and the part around the end with his need to get the White Lantern battery.

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* YourWorstNightmare: Sinestro conjure up a projection of one's worst nightmares in case his ring picks up emotional residues of their fear. He enforces a routine ala a "fear lodge" in an attempt to indoctrinate others into his cause and teach them how to weaponize their fears.