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I have been voiced by the likes of [[{{WesternAnimation/Superfriends}} Vic Perrin and Don Messick]], [[WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries Ted Levine]], [[WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers John De Lancie]], [[WesternAnimation/TheBatman Miguel Ferrer]], [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold Xander Berkeley]], [[WesternAnimation/GreenLanternFirstFlight Victor Garber]], [[WesternAnimation/GreenLanternEmeraldKnights Jason Isaacs]], [[WesternAnimation/GreenLanternTheAnimatedSeries Ron Perlman]] (because every person in [[Franchise/DCUniverse the universe]] deemed evil has to be voiced by him at one point), [[VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs Troy Baker]] and [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueAction Darin De Paul]]. Creator/MarkStrong portrays me in the [[Film/GreenLantern2011 film]]. Creator/LuisMiguelPerez and Creator/RaulAnaya dubbed me into spanish four times each, more than anyone else! But I will [[NeverLiveItDown never live down]] the... fact... that Charlie Callas played me as well.

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I have been voiced by the likes of [[{{WesternAnimation/Superfriends}} Vic Perrin and Don Messick]], [[WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries Ted Levine]], [[WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers John De Lancie]], [[WesternAnimation/TheBatman Miguel Ferrer]], [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold Xander Berkeley]], [[WesternAnimation/GreenLanternFirstFlight Victor Garber]], [[WesternAnimation/GreenLanternEmeraldKnights Jason Isaacs]], [[WesternAnimation/GreenLanternTheAnimatedSeries Ron Perlman]] (because every person in [[Franchise/DCUniverse the universe]] deemed evil has to be voiced by him at one point), [[VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs Troy Baker]] and Baker]], [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueAction Darin De Paul]].Paul]], and [[WesternAnimation/GreenLanternBewareMyPower Rick D. Wasserman]]. Creator/MarkStrong portrays me in the [[Film/GreenLantern2011 film]]. Creator/LuisMiguelPerez and Creator/RaulAnaya dubbed me into spanish four times each, more than anyone else! But I will [[NeverLiveItDown never live down]] the... fact... that Charlie Callas played me as well.
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I have been voiced by the likes of [[{{WesternAnimation/Superfriends}} Vic Perrin and Don Messick]], [[WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries Ted Levine]], [[WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers John De Lancie]], [[WesternAnimation/TheBatman Miguel Ferrer]], [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold Xander Berkeley]], [[WesternAnimation/GreenLanternFirstFlight Victor Garber]], [[WesternAnimation/GreenLanternEmeraldKnights Jason Isaacs]], [[WesternAnimation/GreenLanternTheAnimatedSeries Ron Perlman]] (because every person in [[Franchise/DCUniverse the universe]] deemed evil has to be voiced by him at one point), [[VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs Troy Baker]] and [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueAction Darin De Paul]]. Creator/MarkStrong portrays me in the [[Film/GreenLantern2011 film]]. Creator/LuisMiguelPerez and Raúl Anaya dubbed me into spanish four times each, more than anyone else! But I will [[NeverLiveItDown never live down]] the... fact... that Charlie Callas played me as well.

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I have been voiced by the likes of [[{{WesternAnimation/Superfriends}} Vic Perrin and Don Messick]], [[WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries Ted Levine]], [[WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers John De Lancie]], [[WesternAnimation/TheBatman Miguel Ferrer]], [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold Xander Berkeley]], [[WesternAnimation/GreenLanternFirstFlight Victor Garber]], [[WesternAnimation/GreenLanternEmeraldKnights Jason Isaacs]], [[WesternAnimation/GreenLanternTheAnimatedSeries Ron Perlman]] (because every person in [[Franchise/DCUniverse the universe]] deemed evil has to be voiced by him at one point), [[VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs Troy Baker]] and [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueAction Darin De Paul]]. Creator/MarkStrong portrays me in the [[Film/GreenLantern2011 film]]. Creator/LuisMiguelPerez and Raúl Anaya Creator/RaulAnaya dubbed me into spanish four times each, more than anyone else! But I will [[NeverLiveItDown never live down]] the... fact... that Charlie Callas played me as well.
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To think [[SelfDemonstrating/LexLuthor that baldheaded fool]] and [[SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker that miserable clown]] would have pages before me...

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To think [[SelfDemonstrating/LexLuthor that baldheaded fool]] and [[SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker that miserable clown]] would should have pages before me...



%%* MagnificentBastard: I shall take it as a compliment.

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%%* * MagnificentBastard: Does this mean performing evil works with grandeur? Ha. From you Earthmen, I shall take it as a compliment.

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* VillainHasAPoint: I plotted the ComicBook/SinestroCorpsWar to ensure the Green Lanterns would remove their restriction on killing. Given they needed to remove their restriction on killing to survive against my own Corp in the first place, I think you would argue the universe is better off with the Green Lanterns using lethal force.

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* VillainHasAPoint: I plotted the ComicBook/SinestroCorpsWar to ensure the Green Lanterns would remove their restriction on killing. Given they needed to remove their restriction on killing to survive against my own Corp in the first place, I think you would argue the universe is better off with the Green Lanterns using lethal force. Even Jordan begrudgingly admitted it.
* VillainRespect: While ''I'' am the greatest Lantern of them all, I will concede that my old student, Jordan - frustrating as he can be - is the nearest thing that I have to a rival. His constructs are pedestrian, his abilities as a leader are middling, but though I hated to admit it, his infuriating habit of doing the unexpected can flummox even me. I also have to admit that his mastery of Will is second only to my own. While ''I'' am the greatest Green Lantern, I have to admit that he is the greatest of those still serving in my old corps. He is my greatest student, my only friend, and I sometimes wonder [[WeCanRuleTogether if he were beside me once more... what could we not achieve?]]


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* WeCanRuleTogether: I have sometimes made Jordan the gracious offer to instruct him in Fear as I once did in Will - he has an aptitude. He has, typically, refused.

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* GreenLanternRing: [[CaptainObvious Of course]], as I stated above I was formerly a TropeNamer before using my own variation.



* MagnificentBastard: I shall take it as a compliment.

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* MeaningfulName: So my name happens to sound like something evil in the Earthmen's language. It's probably what biased Jordan against me.

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So my name happens to sound like something evil in the Earthmen's language. It's probably what biased Jordan against me.
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* HerosEvilPredecessor: While I take issue with being labeled as "evil", I did hold the title of the greatest Green Lantern before Jordan surpassed me in the eyes of the Corps., only in that he still clings to their flawed ideals as he does what he can.


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* TheParagonAlwaysRebels: Once I was hailed as the greatest Green Lantern. And only I could see how flawed the Guardians' attempt at maintaining order in the universe truly was. I ''had'' to ensure the universe would be a better place.
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* CompleteMonster: Not me, no. But my alternate universe counterpart in [[ComicBook/BatmanInDarkestKnight Universe-32]] is far more of a tyrant than I, with none of the good reasons I have for what I do.


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* MagnificentBastard: I shall take it as a compliment.
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* DarthVaderClone: A paltry handful of mouth-breathing Terrans have noted that Creator/GeoffJohns' depiction of me might invite comparisons to a certain black-clad villain from Creator/GeorgeLucas' [[Franchise/StarWars insipid melodramatic pablum]]. I'm a rogue member of an intergalactic peacekeeping force [[spoiler: who ultimately finds redemption]], I was once partners with Hal Jordan's mentor [[APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil before turning against him]], and I wield an energy-based weapon that's identical to Hal Jordan's--[[GoodColorsEvilColors apart from being a different color]]. Johns' art direction for my first battle with Kyle Rayner in ''Green Lantern: Rebirth'' lays it out blatantly, comparing it to a similar fight scene in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''. It's all nonsense, of course: there is only one Thaal Sinestro, and he has no equals.

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* AdultFear: I will admit to feeling fear only once: when that brute Atrocitus threatened my daughter. Wouldn't you, if someone threatened to go after your children?


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* IHaveYourWife: I will admit to feeling fear only once: when that brute Atrocitus threatened my daughter. Wouldn't you, if someone threatened to go after your children?
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Soon enough I encountered there the ComicBook/AntiMonitor, who had engineered the ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths, and embraced the doctrine of spreading fear. In order to counteract Jordan and the reborn Green Lantern Corps (Whom I will admit have improved their rings to finally be able to directly affect the color yellow for at least their hardened troops), I decided to form my own army... the Sinestro Corps! I offered Rings like my own to the most fearsome warriors in the universe! Together we would spread fear and our own ways of policing the universe. Of course, the Green Lanterns [[ComicBook/SinestroCorpsWar had to be eliminated first.]] Or at least, [[XanatosGambit I had to make the Guardians change certain policies to truly make their corps a serious police force, ready to apply appropriate measures when necessary.]] As it happened, I achieved that secondary goal and even my naive opponents like Jordan and Stewart grudgingly agreed with me in principle with this reform.

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Soon enough I encountered there the ComicBook/AntiMonitor, [[Characters/TheMultiversity Anti-Monitor]], who had engineered the ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths, and embraced the doctrine of spreading fear. In order to counteract Jordan and the reborn Green Lantern Corps (Whom I will admit have improved their rings to finally be able to directly affect the color yellow for at least their hardened troops), I decided to form my own army... the Sinestro Corps! I offered Rings like my own to the most fearsome warriors in the universe! Together we would spread fear and our own ways of policing the universe. Of course, the Green Lanterns [[ComicBook/SinestroCorpsWar had to be eliminated first.]] Or at least, [[XanatosGambit I had to make the Guardians change certain policies to truly make their corps a serious police force, ready to apply appropriate measures when necessary.]] As it happened, I achieved that secondary goal and even my naive opponents like Jordan and Stewart grudgingly agreed with me in principle with this reform.
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* EnemyMine: To survive the ComicBook/BlackestNight I have had to form a cease fire with the ComicBook/GreenLanternCorps and work together with them and the other Corps. The truce is still intact (at least until we decide what to do with [[spoiler: the missing emotion Entities and the White Lantern Battery that we've found on Earth]]).

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* EnemyMine: To survive the ComicBook/BlackestNight I have had to form a cease fire with the ComicBook/GreenLanternCorps ComicBook/GreenLantern Corps and work together with them and the other Corps. The truce is still intact (at least until we decide what to do with [[spoiler: the missing emotion Entities and the White Lantern Battery that we've found on Earth]]).
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* BadassMustache: Would it not feel ''desperately'' wrong if I were to shave?
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That is, until [[Franchise/{{Batman}} my chosen wielder of the Yellow Ring in Jordan's sector]] [[ComicBook/ForeverEvil used a ring]], drawing me back to save the Earth from evil. After aiding the Earth, I have gone my own way with my daughter and my Corps to spread my message and preserve the universe to the best of my ability, including New Korugar.

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That is, until [[Franchise/{{Batman}} my chosen wielder of the Yellow Ring in Jordan's sector]] [[ComicBook/ForeverEvil [[ComicBook/ForeverEvil2013 used a ring]], drawing me back to save the Earth from evil. After aiding the Earth, I have gone my own way with my daughter and my Corps to spread my message and preserve the universe to the best of my ability, including New Korugar.
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* XanatosGambit: The ComicBook/SinestroCorpsWar wasn't merely an attempt to overthrow the Green Lantern Corps. It was a way to force the Guardians to do what was necessary to strengthen the Corps. Now that they can kill, [[NotSoDifferent the universe will fear the Green Lanterns.]] [[ArcWords And the universe will be better for it.]]

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* XanatosGambit: The ComicBook/SinestroCorpsWar wasn't merely an attempt to overthrow the Green Lantern Corps. It was a way to force the Guardians to do what was necessary to strengthen the Corps. Now that they can kill, [[NotSoDifferent the universe will fear the Green Lanterns.]] Lanterns. [[ArcWords And the universe will be better for it.]]
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I have been voiced by the likes of [[{{WesternAnimation/Superfriends}} Vic Perrin and Don Messick]], [[WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries Ted Levine]], [[WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers John De Lancie]], [[WesternAnimation/TheBatman Miguel Ferrer]], [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold Xander Berkeley]], [[WesternAnimation/GreenLanternFirstFlight Victor Garber]], [[WesternAnimation/GreenLanternEmeraldKnights Jason Isaacs]], [[WesternAnimation/GreenLanternTheAnimatedSeries Ron Perlman]] (because every person in [[Franchise/DCUniverse the universe]] deemed evil has to be voiced by him at one point), [[VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs Troy Baker]] and [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueAction Darin De Paul]]. Creator/MarkStrong portrays me in the [[Film/GreenLantern film]]. Creator/LuisMiguelPerez and Raúl Anaya dubbed me into spanish four times each, more than anyone else! But I will [[NeverLiveItDown never live down]] the... fact... that Charlie Callas played me as well.

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I have been voiced by the likes of [[{{WesternAnimation/Superfriends}} Vic Perrin and Don Messick]], [[WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries Ted Levine]], [[WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers John De Lancie]], [[WesternAnimation/TheBatman Miguel Ferrer]], [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold Xander Berkeley]], [[WesternAnimation/GreenLanternFirstFlight Victor Garber]], [[WesternAnimation/GreenLanternEmeraldKnights Jason Isaacs]], [[WesternAnimation/GreenLanternTheAnimatedSeries Ron Perlman]] (because every person in [[Franchise/DCUniverse the universe]] deemed evil has to be voiced by him at one point), [[VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs Troy Baker]] and [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueAction Darin De Paul]]. Creator/MarkStrong portrays me in the [[Film/GreenLantern [[Film/GreenLantern2011 film]]. Creator/LuisMiguelPerez and Raúl Anaya dubbed me into spanish four times each, more than anyone else! But I will [[NeverLiveItDown never live down]] the... fact... that Charlie Callas played me as well.
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* DependingOnTheArtist: The fools can never seem to decide what color my skin is, whether or not my ears are pointed, or the size of my forehead.

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* DependingOnTheArtist: The fools can never seem to decide what color my skin is, is,[[note]]red, purple, pink or pinkish-purple[[/note]] whether or not my ears are pointed, or the size of my forehead.
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Soon enough I encountered there the Anti-Monitor, who had engineered the ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths, and embraced the doctrine of spreading fear. In order to counteract Jordan and the reborn Green Lantern Corps (Whom I will admit have improved their rings to finally be able to directly affect the color yellow for at least their hardened troops), I decided to form my own army... the Sinestro Corps! I offered Rings like my own to the most fearsome warriors in the universe! Together we would spread fear and our own ways of policing the universe. Of course, the Green Lanterns [[ComicBook/SinestroCorpsWar had to be eliminated first.]] Or at least, [[XanatosGambit I had to make the Guardians change certain policies to truly make their corps a serious police force, ready to apply appropriate measures when necessary.]] As it happened, I achieved that secondary goal and even my naive opponents like Jordan and Stewart grudgingly agreed with me in principle with this reform.

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Soon enough I encountered there the Anti-Monitor, ComicBook/AntiMonitor, who had engineered the ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths, and embraced the doctrine of spreading fear. In order to counteract Jordan and the reborn Green Lantern Corps (Whom I will admit have improved their rings to finally be able to directly affect the color yellow for at least their hardened troops), I decided to form my own army... the Sinestro Corps! I offered Rings like my own to the most fearsome warriors in the universe! Together we would spread fear and our own ways of policing the universe. Of course, the Green Lanterns [[ComicBook/SinestroCorpsWar had to be eliminated first.]] Or at least, [[XanatosGambit I had to make the Guardians change certain policies to truly make their corps a serious police force, ready to apply appropriate measures when necessary.]] As it happened, I achieved that secondary goal and even my naive opponents like Jordan and Stewart grudgingly agreed with me in principle with this reform.

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