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1Back to [[Characters/GreenLantern the Green Lantern character sheet]].
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3[[foldercontrol]]
4!The Black Lantern Corps
5->'''Emotion:''' None (Death)
6->'''Leader:''' Black Hand
7->'''Base of Operations:''' Ryut, Xanshi
8->'''Entity:''' Nekron
9
10->''[[TheStarsAreGoingOut The blackest night falls from the skies,]]\
11[[DarkIsEvil The darkness grows, as all light dies]],\
12[[TheHeartless We crave your hearts and your demise,]]\
13[[{{Necromancer}} By my black hand]]-- [[ZombieApocalypse the dead shall rise]]!''
14
15Per the Blackest Night prophecy, the emergence and conflict among the other colors led to the stirring of the Black Lanterns. Their Power Battery is made from the corpse of the Anti Monitor. Their leader is the Black Hand, a long time Green Lantern enemy and necrophile. They have their own Guardian, Scar, an Oan corrupted during the war with Sinestro. The being behind it all is Nekron, the avatar of Death, who claims that the natural state of the universe is eternal darkness and death absent of time and that the light of creation and life is but a temporary disturbance of that state; and to that end, death has stirred to restore this "peaceful" state of rest.
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17The Black Lanterns devour the light of all other Lanterns (whose lights are supposed to collectively represent Life). They've been manipulating heroes and Lanterns to make them experience pure extreme emotions which they can feed upon. Their rings animate the dead, giving them whatever abilities and memories they had in life (though the souls are absent) along with flight and ridiculous levels of regeneration.
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19Though Nekron was defeated, the consciousness of the Black Lantern ComicBook/{{Firestorm|DCComics}} remained in the Firestorm Matrix; soon splitting off and naming himself Deathstorm. Deathstorm then claimed the White Lantern and used it to recreate more Black Lanterns, who served the Anti-Monitor until the real Firestorm intervened and destroyed them.
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21* AuraVision: Their vision allows them to detect and track anyone holding strong emotions, which are represented by the corresponding colors also seen amongst the Lantern Corps.
22* BreakingSpeech: Utilizes the memories of their host to provoke emotion and stab tender points in their targets.
23* CameBackWrong: Everyone revived this way is a soulless villain.
24* CombatPragmatist: They'll do anything to provoke emotion and take over new bodies.
25* DarkIsEvil: Nekron considers that it is for the greater good of the universe (and technically he's right. No life, no problems, right?)
26** LightIsNotGood: Despite all of this, their outfits have tons of white in them, and their powers manifest as silvery light; at some points in the comic, they glow radiantly.
27** DarkIsNotEvil: [[spoiler:Hal Jordan as a Black Lantern in ComicBook/WrathOfTheFirstLantern.]]
28* EmotionEater: They consume the emotions of their victims to power their battery, [[RuleOfSymbolism by ripping the targets' heart out.]]
29* EvilerThanThou: They've forced ''every'' character to fight together in the name of survival.
30* FromASingleCell: If just one cell survives then the ring can rebuild its host.
31* RevenantZombie: Black Lanterns retain all their memories instead of being just mindless corpses, however they're as malevolent as any zombie.
32* ZombieApocalypse: Their origin is one of these and it spreads far and wide.
33
34!!Notable Black Lanterns and Associated Characters
35
36[[folder:Nekron]]
37[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/250px-Nekron_Black_Lantern_3352.jpg]]
38->'''Homeworld:''' The Land of the Unliving
39
40The Death Entity. The universal personification of oblivion--the absence of all light, life, and emotion. Nekron is the shadow cast by the light of life and emotion. For eons, he was trapped in the Land of the Unliving, a kind of limbo dimension where dead souls linger before judgment, but the death of the immortal Krona brought the universe of the living to his attention. He seeks to bring an end to all life, extinguishing the light of emotion and bringing the universe back to its original state of being: darkness and death.
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42Several times since his existence was revealed, Nekron attempted to enter our universe and destroy all life, but each time he was repelled by its heroes, most notably the Green Lanterns. However, Nekron had a plan: the ComicBook/BlackestNight. By engineering the creation of a tether to the material universe--William Hand--and the construction of his own power rings and Power Battery on the decimated planet Ryut, Nekron was able to create the Black Lantern Corps, who brought him physically to Earth. Nekron attempted to destroy his opposite, the Entity, and thus end all life in creation, but the combined forces of all seven lights of emotion with the Entity itself revived Hand, cutting Nekron's link to the material plane and banishing him back to the void.
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44* AboveGoodAndEvil: All are equal before death.
45* AndIMustScream: As powerful as Nekron is, he's trapped as a bodiless spirit until his tether dies. [[spoiler:He inflicts this on revived heroes, who're trapped in their ring-possessed bodies.]]
46* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Nekron likely isn't an embodiment of ''death'', as such, but rather of the void, of nothingness. As originally presented in the 1980s, he seemed to be merely the custodian of a dimension where recently dead souls waited to be processed into their proper afterlives.
47* BigBad: Of ''ComicBook/BlackestNight''.
48* CatchPhrase: DIE!!!
49** "[insert name here] of [insert homeworld here]... '''RISE'''."
50* DeathIsCheap: He allowed this in the first place, so that he has some sleeper agents.
51* DeathIsALoser: [[DownplayedTrope Sort of]]-Nekron is a legitimately powerful and threatening CosmicEntity that symbolizes death of sorts, however he can only enter the physical realm when his herald is undead. Otherwise he's a bodiless spirit stuck in the Unliving, and has faced uprisings from the souls in his realm.
52* DimensionLord: Lord of the Unliving, a sort of Purgatory realm.
53* EldritchAbomination: He can't even exist in our universe physically without a tether. In fact, it's his only weakness.
54* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:When all else fails, he's the one to kill [[ComicBook/WrathOfTheFirstLantern Volthoom]], under influence of Hal Jordan, the greatest Black Lantern of them all.]]
55* EnemyToAllLivingThings: Literal example.
56* FightingAShadow: Destroying his physical body means nothing to him. He can just get another one.
57* TheGrimReaper: Originally he was a deathly custodian. Later subverted in that he isn't in charge of death, but rather [[ThePowerOfTheVoid the absence of life.]]
58* HumanoidAbomination: He manifests as TheGrimReaper figure seen above when he does manifest in physical form.
59* HiveMind: The Black Lanterns are little more than extensions of his will.
60* {{Hypocrite}}: Hates it when people who cheat death, but has no problem when he allows certain people to come back to life so they can serve as his sleeper agents.
61* InvincibleVillain: Since Nekron isn't "alive" in the way we understand the term, nothing can kill him. He's [[TheImmune immune]] to ComicBook/TheSpectre's judgment, and destroying his body will just slow him until he can possess a new one. He has only one weakness: if he wants to interact with the living, he needs a link between the DCU and the Land of the Unliving, like a rip in space-time or a living tether like Black Hand.
62* NotSoAboveItAll: For all he claims to be an amoral and emotionless agent of eternal cosmic nightfall, he has a rather nasty personality and seems to enjoy what he does a bit too much.
63* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: For somebody who preaches about restoring order to the universe in his own weird way, the fact that he’s quite the sadist in what he does and commits some truly nasty actions for no real reason makes one wonder how well-intentioned he truly is.
64* OmnicidalManiac: Wants to destroy life itself.
65* OrderVersusChaos: With death and darkness being order, while light and life falls under chaos.
66* ThePowerOfTheVoid: This is what he represents; the absense of life.
67%%* PowerTrio: Has been portrayed as this with [[Comicbook/TheSandman1989 Death of the Endless]] and [[Comicbook/NewGods the Black Racer]].
68* SealedEvilInACan: Until Black Hand's death opened the seal.
69* SinisterScythe: Its hilt holds a black power battery.
70* StrawNihilist: More understandable than other examples. He thinks life is meaningless because he's death/the absence of life.
71* TheSoulless: Allows him to NoSell the wrath of ComicBook/TheSpectre. [[CosmicEntity Being a force of nature]] must've helped as well.
72* SubvertedCatchphrase: With the original Dove. "Don Hall of Earth... at peace." The black ring kept trying anyway. It didn't work.
73* TimeAbyss: Nekron is as old as the universe itself. The darkness that created him is older than that.
74* TookALevelInBadass: Nekron was always regarded as a serious threat, but he was so underused that very few people knew who he was.
75* TouchOfDeath: What he can do to others. This makes him a WalkingWasteland.
76* UndeadAbomination: A CosmicEntity embodying ancient void and darkness in the form of an undead being.
77[[/folder]]
78
79[[folder:Black Hand]]
80[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/250px-Green_Lantern_Vol_5-11_Cover-3_Teaser_7391.jpg]]
81[[caption-width-right:250:"William Hand. [[DeathIsCheap Born. Died. Re-born. Died. Re-re-born. Died.]] Say what you like about Black Hand. Death fetish aside, the man's a survivor."]]
82->'''AKA:''' William Hand
83->'''Homeworld:''' Earth
84
85The son of a funeral parlor owner, William Hand, even at a young age, had an unhealthy obsession with death. Atrocitus predicted that he would become a threat to life itself, and tried to murder him, only for Hal Jordan and Sinestro to rescue him. In the aftermath of the battle, William stole Atrocitus' weapon (a rod that could absorb energy and channel it into energy blasts) and became a supervillain, Black Hand.
86
87Eventually, he found his true destiny. By committing suicide, he rose from the grave as the first Black Lantern, providing Nekron with a tether to join the living universe. He led the Black Lanterns as Second-In-Command, until the power of the White Light restored him to living, breathing flesh and blood, taking away his powers and Nekron's link. He was taken into custody of the Indigo Lanterns, being forcefully converted into one of them; however, he later died escaping the tribe, becoming a Black Lantern once more.
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89
90* AllianceWithAnAbomination: As [[UndeadAbomination Nekron's]] [[TheAntiChrist herald and tether to the physical universe]], he's the only person who serves him willingly. Notably he's the only Black Lantern to retain their sense of self and personality, rather than be a SoullessShell.
91* AndIMustScream: His situation after the ComicBook/BlackestNight. [[spoiler: He is kidnapped by the Indigo Tribe and is forced to feel compassion to counteract his natural sociopathic detachment from life. He breaks out of it when the Compassion Battery is shattered and commits suicide to keep from going back when it is restored]].
92** Again when he accidentally absorbed petrifying Source Wall properties after reanimating its entrapped titans. Now all he touches turns to stone, with the [[BlessedWithSuck inability to raise]] his newly stone dead.
93* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Much like the Emotional Entities personify certain emotions, Black Hand is meant to be the Black Lanterns' embodiment of death.
94* TheAntiChrist: He serves as the connection for Nekron to invade the living universe. He had to arrive before Nekron could make his move.
95* BlackSheep: The rest of his family are good, proud Christians. It's also the origin of his name. He's the '''black''' sheep of the '''Hand''' family.
96* DeathActivatedSuperpower: Dying only allows him to rise again as a Black Lantern.
97* DrivenToSuicide: Unfortunately, this makes him come back as something [[TheAntichrist even worse]].
98* ElementalEmbodiment: Upon committing suicide in the leadup to the Blackest Night, he is revealed to have become the embodiment of ''[[TheGrimReaper Death]]'', similar to the opposite entities that were offshoots of the [[LifeEnergy Life Entity]].
99* EnemyToAllLivingThings: Naturally. However, in the ''Godhead'' arc, he mentions to Hal that he actually ''likes'' the living, solely because they bring more death by their very design; according to him, the two main driving forces for the living are procreation (which creates more beings that will eventually die) and self-preservation (which often involves killing other beings, or dying in the process).
100* EnfanteTerrible: Even as a toddler, he frightened his parents with his obsession with dead bodies. He has ''no'' FreudianExcuse.
101* FromNobodyToNightmare: That creepy kid, and joke villain? Yeah, he's TheAntichrist for a ZombieApocalypse.
102* GraveRobbing: He did this due to his obsession with death. After he became the Black Lantern NumberTwo, he has more practical reasons for it.
103* IAmTheTrope
104--> Death always wins in the end. It's just a matter of time. And I am death. I'm '''Black Hand.'''
105* ILoveTheDead:
106** It was heavily implied he ''masturbated'' to dead bodies, even as a kid!
107** He also seems to be in love with death in a platonic sense.
108* KinslayingIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Kills his family and himself to establish his allegiance to Nekron and the end of all life.
109* LackOfEmpathy: Towards the living.
110* MurderSuicide: Killed his siblings, parents and then himself in preparation for the Blackest Night.
111%%* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning
112* {{Necromancer}}: Not to the extent of Nekron, but as a Black Lantern he is able to reanimate corpses. They're more classical zombies than [[RevenantZombie Black Lanterns]] though. He's even able to reanimate dead viruses.
113* NightmareFetishist: Obsessed with death and the dead, even implied to be a [[ILoveTheDead necrophiliac]].
114* NotBrainwashed: The only Black Lantern who retains his personality.
115* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He used to be a joke villain whose only power was [[EnergyAbsorption stealing Green Lantern's energy]] and [[CatchAndReturn redirecting it back at him]], while [[{{Idiosyncrazy}} basing his crimes around]] cliched sayings. Not any more.
116[[/folder]]
117
118[[folder:Deathstorm (Black Lantern Firestorm)]]
119[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/deathstorm_new_earth.jpg]]
120
121During the Blackest Night, the Black Lantern of Ronnie Raymond, aka ComicBook/{{Firestorm|DCComics}}, stood out among his colleagues as one of the most sadistic and twisted, turning the girlfriend of the current Firestorm, Jason Rusch, to salt and forcing Rusch to help. Ronnie was later returned to life by a White Ring, but the Black Lantern consciousness remained in the Firestorm Matrix, eventually separating from Firestorm and calling itself Deathstorm. Deathstorm was able to claim the White Lantern Battery and bring it to the Anti-Monitor before Firestorm arrived, foiled the Anti-Monitor, and destroyed Deathstorm with the White energies.
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123* AscendedExtra: He was one of the more popular Black Lanterns, so he came back as a character in his own right, separate from either Ronnie or Jason.
124* TheDragon: To the Anti-Monitor.
125* EnemyWithout: Deathstorm is the remains of the Black Lantern conscious and given its own life and form.
126* EvilCounterpart: To Firestorm, especially his ComicBook/{{New 52}} incarnation from [[spoiler:Earth-3]] that shows up in ''ComicBook/ForeverEvil2013''.
127* FauxAffablyEvil: He's retained Ronnie's slacker attitude and has [[BlackComedy a wicked sense of humor]], but is arguably the sickest of the Black Lanterns.
128* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Both of them are names you wouldn't want to meet in dark alley, or anywhere for that matter.
129* NinetiesAntiHero: The creators confirmed that he was designed in this style, though obviously skipping the "hero" part.
130** TotallyRadical: He had the typical nineties slang to go with it.
131[[/folder]]
132
133[[folder:Scar]]
134[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/250px-Scar-12_2865.jpg]]
135->'''Homeworld:''' Oa (formerly Maltus)
136
137During the final battle of the ''ComicBook/SinestroCorpsWar'', one of the female Guardians of the Universe was burned by the touch of the Anti-Monitor. This fundamentally changed her, to say the least. She soon began exhibiting suspicious behavior, including goading her fellow Guardians into increasingly dubious decisions regarding the GLC and emotion, manipulating other Corps into conflict with the Green Lanterns, and dispatching agents to locate the corpse of the Anti-Monitor. All the while, she secretly began composing a "Book of the Black", chronicling those who would play a role in the upcoming ComicBook/BlackestNight. It was eventually revealed that she had been ''killed'' by the Anti-Monitor and was now Nekron's agent in the land of the living. She was destroyed during the Blackest Night by Hal Jordan and the New Guardians, who combined their individual lights into white light, obliterating her.
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139* DeadAllAlong: Scar died the instant the Anti-Monitor touched her, and Nekron raised her so quickly that nobody knew.
140* GoodScarsEvilScars: Revealed to be an evil one after the above trope was discovered.
141* TheMole: Ever since her brush with the Anti-Monitor she had been Nekron's agent and laying the ground work for his EvilPlan.
142* TwoFaced: Half her face got severely scarred.
143* WellIntentionedExtremist: Spoke Nekron's philosophy that the only way of keeping the universe peaceful and orderly was to wipe out emotion, and thus all life.
144[[/folder]]
145
146!The White Light
147->'''Emotion:''' All (Life)
148->'''Base of Operations:''' Earth
149
150->''In brightest day, there will be light.\
151 To cleanse the soul and set wrongs right.\
152 When darkness falls, don't fear the night.\
153 A new dawn comes. Let there be light''
154
155During the battle with Nekron he revealed that Earth was home to a White Entity, a being similar to Ion and Parallax but one that sparked life itself in the universe. In order to fight Nekron and protect the entity, Sinestro bonded with it but proved unworthy; Hal Jordan then bonded with it and briefly turned himself and other previously resurrected heroes into White Lanterns. White Lantern rings also revived a handful of other metahumans that had perished, starting with Black Hand and thereby making Nekron unable to exist in the physical world.
156
157After the battle, only one of the resurrected heroes, Deadman, still had a white ring. A white Power Battery has also appeared, but nobody has yet been able to lift it.
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159* AllYourPowersCombined: Skilled users are capable of replicating the colors of every other Corps.
160* DismantledMacguffin: After returning from the beyond the Source Wall by rewriting the Life Equation to allow it, Kyle Rayner returns with said equation in his head. He saves himself and the universe from such power being unchecked by dividing it between seven white lantern rings and starting a new, permanent White Lantern Corps.
161* EarthIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse: Specifically, ''Oa'' is at the center of the universe. Earth is at the "center" of the Multiverse, with the Earth of the main DC Universe sitting at the base of the multiverse supporting the other 51 earths.
162* LifeEnergy: Produces it.
163* OnlyTheChosenMayWield: Hal and Carol compare it to the Sword in the Stone while they and Sinestro try to lift the battery.
164
165!!Notable Characters Associated with the White Light
166
167[[folder:The Entity]]
168[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/250px-The_Entity-2_7772.jpg]]
169->'''Homeworld:''' Earth
170
171The Life Entity--the living embodiment of the White Light of Creation, the being who represents life itself and, indeed, brought life into existence. The Entity was created by [[{{God}} The Presence]] and found itself on Earth, where the process of evolution was sparked. Over the eons, its progeny--the lesser entities of the emotional spectrum--manifested, while the Entity itself slept in Earth's core. The Entity is the opposite of Nekron; the yang to his yin.
172
173It has revealed to Deadman that it is dying from Nekron's attack, and that a replacement must be found.
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175* AllYourColorsCombined: The White Entity is made from pieces of the other entities. It has Butcher's tusks, Ophidian's spine, Parallax's limbs, Ion's face, Adara's wings, Proselyte's hair, and Predator's chest.
176* TheChessmaster: Every hero and villain that was revived after the Blackest Night was used to play a part in ThePlan. [[spoiler: This plan was to restore and revive The Green, a.k.a Swamp Thing so that life would have a guardian.]]
177* GoodIsNotNice: Has no problem manipulating villains to do dirty work on its behalf and gave heroes their lives back without telling some of them that theirs was a temporary arrangement.
178* OmniscientMoralityLicense: It gives out cryptic directives for the revived heroes (and Maxwell Lord), basically jerking them around if not puppeteering them like it did Deadman, dismissing any deaths that occur to their loved ones due to its machinations all the while. Even though its guidance of Maxwell Lord almost lead to a a BadFuture it's all justified because a new guardian of Life was needed and apparently leading everyone by the nose through trauma was the only way to do it.
179* OurAngelsAreDifferent: In appearance, at least, the Entity resembles an alien angel.
180* RuleOfSymbolism: In the Literature/BookOfGenesis, the first thing God creates is light. The Entity is that very light.
181* TimeAbyss: The first living thing and source of all life in the universe, being at least 10 billion years old.
182[[/folder]]
183
184[[folder:Dove (I and II)]]
185->'''AKA:''' Don Hall, Dawn Granger
186->'''Homeworld:''' Earth
187
188Members at different times of the superhero duo Hawk and Dove, Don and Dawn are pacifistic heroes paired with a much more aggressive hero called Hawk. During the Black Lantern invasion, both Doves displayed unexplained power over their enemies: Don's corpse could not be moved from its resting place by the black rings, and Dawn could emit white light energy that would obliterate Black Lanterns completely.
189----
190See Comicbook/HawkAndDove page.
191[[/folder]]
192
193[[folder:Deadman]]
194[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Deadman_400x600_3578.jpg]]
195->'''AKA:''' Boston Brand
196->'''Homeworld:''' Earth
197
198Boston Brand was originally a trapeze artist who went under the stage name of "Deadman". Unfortunately, the stage name became literal when he was killed by a mysterious hook-handed man during a show. He spent the next several years as a ghost under the Hindu goddess Rama Kushna, solving crimes and aiding the superhero community from the other side.
199
200In the wake of the ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'', none were more shocked than he was to find himself back in the land of the living. He realized that he alone still wore a White Lantern ring, which soon spoke to him. It began bringing him to different places, allowing him to witness the other resurrectees (unseen and unheard, not unlike when he was a ghost) and asking him to help them before delivering him to RedOniBlueOni team Hawk and Dove. The three are now working together to try and unravel the mysteries of the White Light.
201----
202* AlliterativeName
203* BodySnatcher: His main power as a ghost.
204* CivvieSpandex: Post-resurrection, Boston wears a BadassLongcoat over his Deadman costume.
205* StatusQuoIsGod: At the end of ''Brightest Day'', [[spoiler:Deadman dies again]].
206* TheWatcher: Some of his actions as Deadman (as he can't intervene without possessing someone's body), and his first role as a White Lantern is to watch and observe.
207[[/folder]]
208
209[[folder:Swamp Thing]]
210[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1779178-www_dccomics_large1_2902.jpeg]]
211->'''AKA:''' Alec Holland
212->'''Homeworld:''' Earth
213
214Alec Holland was hit with a lab explosion and ran into the swamp, becoming a monstrous plant creature - at least, that was the original story. It was later revealed that Alec perished, and the Swamp Thing was a separate being created by the accident that had Alec's memories.
215
216Nekron's attack corrupted Swamp Thing, making it believe it was Nekron instead of Alec. The Entity responded by resurrecting Alec and making him an actual Swamp Thing, and once the original Thing was killed it appointed Alec its successor as protector of life. In the ComicBook/{{New 52}} reboot, Alec is now fighting along with ComicBook/AnimalMan as champions of nature (Swamp Thing representing "The Green", or plants, and Animal Man representing "The Red", or beasts) against another force of death known as "The Rot" or "The Black", a new incarnation of "the Grey" force of decay (which is now its counterpart in ''ComicBook/{{Earth 2}}'').
217----
218See ComicBook/SwampThing page.
219[[/folder]]
220
221[[folder:Kyle Rayner]]
222[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_1green-lantern-new-guardians-16-white-lantern-kyle-rayner_1951.jpg]]
223-> '''Homeworld:''' Earth
224
225In ''Green Lantern: New Guardians'', Green Lantern Kyle Rayner is shown to have the ability to channel all seven colors of the emotional spectrum. During the ''Rise of the Third Army'' event, Kyle is trained by Lanterns of each color to prepare himself for the Third Army. By issue #16, he masters all seven colors and becomes a White Lantern.
226[[/folder]]
227
228!The Ultraviolet Corps
229
230[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/b39f796d_bb7f_4ce8_a2f9_a0208f198788.jpeg]]
231 [[caption-width-right:350:]]
232
233->'''Emotion:''' Repressed emotions [[note]]e.g. shame and resentment[[/note]]
234->'''Leader:''' Sinestro
235->'''Entity:''' Umbrax
236
237->''[[DespairEventHorizon By shield of day, and shield of night]]\
238[[TheCorruption We feed and grow, beyond all sight.]]\
239[[BeneathTheMask Your darkest self shall be our knight;]]\
240[[SuperpoweredEvilSide Wield the sword of unseen light!]]''
241
242The wielders of the Invisible Spectrum, the [[EvilCounterpart dark counterpart]] to the Emotional Spectrum that was sealed away for an eternity, until [[ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal the Source Wall]] [[ComicBook/JusticeLeagueNoJustice was damaged]], allowing it to once more [[ComicBook/JusticeLeague2018 influence the universe]]. With the aid of Lex Luthor's LegionOfDoom, [[Characters/GLSinestroCorps Thaal Sinestro]] -- who [[FaceHeelTurn once worked to keep it hidden away]] -- was made the first Ultraviolet Lantern in service to Umbrax, the sentient black sun at the center of the Invisible Spectrum.
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244* BeneathTheMask: The Invisible Spectrum draws from repressed emotions like hate, shame and resentment.
245* TheCorruption: Unlike the seven colors of the Emotional Spectrum, which are wielded by those who can control their emotions, the Invisible Spectrum controls ''you''.
246* TheCorruptor: Works by attracting self-destructive people and causing them to act on their darkest impulses.
247* GuiltComplex: Plays on this as one of the repressed emotions it draws from.
248* PowerTattoo: Rather than wearing rings, Ultraviolet Lanterns have ring-like tattoos on their middle fingers.
249* PurpleIsTheNewBlack: Rather than being literally invisible, the Ultraviolet Corps' energy is a dull purple, with its uniforms being the same black and blue-purple of [[CallBack Sinestro's original outfit]].
250* StrawNihilist: As one of the seven dark forces connected to the ideal of Doom -- giving in and embracing life's worst instincts -- the Invisible Spectrum enforces this in its victims.
251
252!!Notable Characters Associated with the Invisible Spectrum
253
254[[folder:Umbrax]]
255->'''Homeworld:''' "Living phantom galaxy"
256[[/folder]]
257
258!The Gold Lantern Corps
259->'''Emotion:''' Joy/Bliss, [[spoiler:possibly Will and Fear combined]]
260->'''Leader:''' Elders of Oa
261->'''Base of Operations:''' Oa
262->'''Emotional Entity:''' Unknown, [[spoiler:possibly Ion and Parallax]]
263
264The Gold Lantern Corps draw their power from their members’ unfathomable happiness and joy, and furthermore can only be wielded by those who have known and expressed nothing but happiness and joy their whole lives. They make their debut in the era of the Legion of Superheroes.
265----
266* AmbiguouslyEvil: [[spoiler:Brainiac 5 has learned whoever these people are, they're not the people who created the Green Lantern Corps and Gold Lantern's ring is not a Green Lantern ring at all. Brainy even makes it a point of muting Gold Lantern's ring as he realizes the Elders are using it to listen to them.]]
267* EnergyBeings: By the 32nd century, the Elders of Oa have evolved into energy beings, bathed in golden light. Because of that change, their version of Oa is also golden instead of green. [[spoiler:They're not the Elders of Oa, and whatever Gold Lantern is using it's apparently ''not'' an advanced version of the Green Lantern ring.]]
268* FlatJoy: They risk becoming this.
269* FusionDance: It's implied they are [[spoiler:the future unification of the Green Lanterns and the Sinestro Corps Sarko tried to avert. Their symbol bears details of both Corps. The top and bottom parts are almost identical to the Sinestro Corps' upper part of their symbol. However, Brainiac 5 has revealed whoever they are, they're ''not'' the Elders of Oa.]]
270* FutureBadass: They exist in the 32nd century.
271* GoldColoredSuperiority: They are far sturdier than any known Lantern, and are quite likely the Green Lanterns' SuperiorSuccessor.
272* PowerEqualsRarity: A single Gold Lantern has jurisdiction over an entire dimension, or Galactic as Kala Lour calls them.
273* SealedEvilInACan: The Elders are able to seal evil beings with the Light of Eternal Justice, trapping them in tiny glowing pyramids.
274* StepfordSmiler: They risk becoming this.
275* SunnySunflowerDisposition: As befits their color.
276* SuperiorSuccessor: They are this to the Green Lanterns, as they wield the greater purpose of the Emotional Spectrum in the form of the Golden Light of Happiness.
277* ThinkHappyThoughts: In order to serve as Gold Lanterns.

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