Yesterday I made a post about Hal Jordan's epic moments and explained a little bit who Sinestro is. Then I realized that instead of making a series of Hal Jordan's epic moments, I want to do a Hal Jordan's enemies series, I think it's more interesting for those who want to keep reading about the best and greatest Green Lantern there ever was.
I told you a little bit about Sinestro's story in my previous post, so I will continue where I left off...
For years, he laid low in the Anti-Matter universe, perpetuating the rumor that he was, in fact, dead. But once the truth about Parallax was discovered by Kyle Rayner, Sinestro returned, battled the newly-freed Jordan and again swore revenge upon his defeat. This time, his revenge is in the form of the Sinestro Corps, an immense army of yellow-ringed fear-mongers who are currently wreaking havoc upon the positive universe and killing dozens of Green Lanterns.
Sinestro's first plan was to find a new host for Parallax. He chose Kyle Rayner and set up a scheme to break his will. First, he had Despotellis, the sentient virus, infect Kyle's mother and then he had the crazed villain Alex Nero seemingly replace Kyle Rayner. Sinesto's plan worked, when he captured Kyle and brought him to Qward, he extracted the Ion entity from him and then replaced it with Parallax. Kyle became the new Parallax. Sinestro sent his new Corps to Oa where they killed dozens of Green Lanterns and released many prisoners including Superman-Prime and Hank Henshaw, the Cyborg Superman. Sinestro recruited these two into his ranks and they along with Sinestro and Parallax became the Heralds of the Anti-Monitor.Tthe Sinestro Corps' guardian, the Anti-Monitor, sought to destroy the positive matter universe and saw the Sinestro Corps as his means to achieve that end.
Sinestro went to his home planet of Korugar and defeated that sector's Green Lantern, Soranik Natu. He arrived back on Qward to find Parallax and members of the Sinestro Corps fighting Hal Jordan and other Green Lanterns. The Green Lanterns escaped and managed to save Ion. Sinestro knew it was time for his main attack. He gathered his Corps and went to Earth, the center of the Multiverse. The Sinestro Corps battled the Green Lantern Corps and Earth's heroes in New York while Sinestro led a wave of his troops, including Amon Sur down to Coast City where Hal Jordan and Kyle Rayner, now free from Parallax, engaged them in battle. Sinestro drained the two Green Lanterns powers using Manhunters and Hal countered by doing the exact same thing to Sinestro. The three warriors began a fist fight on the rooftops of Coast City. Sinestro couldn't handle both of them and was arrested. His Corps retreated and he was brought to Oa.
