Atrocitus

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caption=Art by Ethan Van Sciver
character_name=Atrocitus
alter_ego=
publisher=DC Comics
debut="Green Lantern" (vol. 4) #25 (December 2007, Appeared)
"Green Lantern" (vol. 4) #28 (First time Speaking)
creators=Geoff Johns
Ethan Van Sciver
homeworld= Ysmault
species= Unknown
alliances=Red Lantern Corps (Founder), The Empire of Tears
aliases=
powers=red power ring|

Atrocitus is a fictional character, an alien supervillain in the DC Comics Universe. Created by Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver, Atrocitus is the former arch-nemesis of former Green Lantern Sinestro. He first appears in "Green Lantern" (vol. 4) #25 in a two-page "War of Light" spread [Green Lantern (vol. 4) #25] , and made his chronological first appearance in "Green Lantern" #29 as a prisoner of Lantern Hal Jordan's predecessor, Abin Sur. [Green Lantern (vol. 4) #29]

Fictional character biography

"Green Lantern: Secret Origin

Long ago, when the rogue Manhunters rampaged through space sector 666, Atrocitus was one of only five beings in the entire sector to escape death. He and the other four survivors formed a terrorist cabal known as the Five Inversions, bent on the destruction of the Guardians of the Universe and all who served them, and with Atrocitus serving as their leader. The Five Inversions performed a ritual which allowed them to peer into the future and discover the prophecy of , which decreed that all life in the universe would end.

After Abin Sur began making periodic visits to the planet Ysmault, where the Five Inversions were imprisoned after the Guardians destroyed their Empire of Tears, he began to ask questions regarding the Blackest Night. Sur even went so far as to free Atrocitus from his imprisonment so he could lead the Green Lantern to Earth, the birthplace of "the black" that would end the universe. Caged in Sur's starship, Atrocitus instilled fear in Sur, allowing the yellow impurity to seep into his willpower constructs and weakening them enough to escape. After slashing the Green Lantern in the chest, mortally wounding him , Atrocitus jumped from a point high Earth's atmosphere to escape Sur's failing ship. [Green Lantern (vol. 4) #29] .

Atrocitus continued his violent rampage on the planet Earth. After killing an unspecified number of Air Force troopers, Atrocitus recited an oath that will possibly become the battle cry of the Red Lanterns and performed a ritual which gives him the name of the herald of the Blackest Night: William Hand. Atrocitus created a device using gun parts which acted as a cosmic divining rod, and used it to lead him to Hand (the device eventually became Hand's criminal weapon). Once he tracked down the human who, it is said, will play a prominent role in the coming of the Blackest Night, he attacked, and planned to take Hand's innards back to Ysmault. Before his plan proceeded, however, Sinestro and rookie Green Lantern Hal Jordan intercepted him, spiriting William Hand to safety. Atrocitus used his newly-constructed device to sap the power from their rings, leaving them with only their wits to defend them before the master of the Five Inversions. Sinestro is able to restore their rings' powers through his power battery, but Atrocitus still has the upper hand. Just as he is about to crush Sinestro with a power shovel, Hal uses his ring to blow up the yellow vehicle, suprising Atrocitus greatly, as he believes Green Lantern rings do not work on yellow. Defeated, Atrocitus is contained by Sinestro, and taken to Oa.

Connection to "The Blackest Night"

Atrocitus is shown in the aftermath of the "Sinestro Corps War" to be the first to forge a Red Lantern power battery, utilizing the power of rage. [Green Lantern (vol. 4) #28] He said that his first new victim would be the one who called himself "the greatest Green Lantern:" Sinestro, who had long since abandoned the Green Lantern Corps to forge a Corps in his own namesake. He also murdered Qull of the Five Inversions, a fellow member of the Empire of Tears and the one responsible for telling Abin Sur the prophesy of the Blackest Night (which cause the Guardians of the Universe to continue the Empire of Tears' incarceration on Ysmault, rather than transfer them to Oa's sciencells, closer to the enemies of the Five Inversion). In this way, his Red Lantern power battery was christened with blood.

External links

* [http://en.dcdatabaseproject.com/Atrocitus_(New_Earth) Atrocitus at the DC Database Project]

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