Following the events of the Green Lantern Corps' confrontation with Agent Orange, the Black Hand became the herald of the Black Lantern Corps. At the same moment, a countless number of Black Rings began to emerge from the black power battery and search the universe for bearers. The Green Lanterns could not stop them as they simply broke through their shields like tissue paper. The Guardians of the Universe, knowing that the Blackest Night was upon them and could not be prevented, attempted to call a code black and summon all Green Lanterns back to Oa. However, Scar intervened and savagely attacked her fellow guardians one by one.Black power rings descended upon the dead all over the universe, but especially in Earth's solar system. One breaches J'onn J'onzz's tomb on Mars, reanimating the Martian Manhunter. He flew to Gotham City and attacked Hal Jordan and Barry Allen. Reanimated corpses ofElongated Man and Sue Dibny ambushed and killed Hawkman and Hawkgirl, killing them both and revealing what the Black Lanterns were after. They were after the hearts of the living at the peaks of their emotions to power their black battery. Black power rings immediately reanimated Hawkman and Hawkgirl. The first Firestorm also became a Black Lantern. Aquaman rose from his grave, attacking Mera and Tempest along with the deceased Dolphin and Tula. Garth's hopeful heart was torn from him, and he became another Black Lantern while Mera escaped. More dead rose all over Earth. Kal-L rose from his grave, attacking Smallville.Deadman saw his own corpse rise.
Nekron claimed that none of the resurrected heroes had truly escaped death. He allowed them all to return and kept them connected to him. The rise of an apparent Black Lantern Batman succeeded in creating emotional tethers between Nekron and these resurrected heroes, unleashing more black power rings. Superman, Wonder Woman, Ice,Donna Troy, Kid Flash, Superboy, Animal Man and Green Arrow were all taken by rings and transformed into Black Lanterns. Rings also went after Hal Jordan and Barry Allen. Barry was able to flash himself and Hal two seconds into the future to avoid the rings. Wonder Woman, however, was set free from the Black Lantern Ring when a Star Sapphire Ring went upon her finger.Dead AgainEven when some select heroes and villains of Earth were empowered by power rings, Nekron proved unbeatable. The combined light of the Emotional Spectrum had no effect upon him, and he called the entire Black Lantern Corps from all over the universe to Earth, including the dead planet Xanshi. All of the living Lantern Corps united to try to hold the line against the Black Lanterns, but the risen dead far outnumbered the living. Nekron sacrificed the life of a Guardian and revealed why he had targeted Earth of all places.
Earth was where life first appeared in the universe and where the Entity hid. Nekron intended to destroy it and all life by extension.Sinestro intervened by bonding with the Entity and becoming the first White Lantern. Wielding the power of the white light, he fought Nekron on an equal footing and seemingly destroyed him. However, Nekron could not die because he did not live. Nekron tore Sinestro and the Entity apart from each other as the Black Lantern Corps swarmed for the final assault on life itself. It was Deadman who exposed the key to defeating them, pointing to the Black Hand as Nekron connection to the world of the living. Hal Jordan made contact with the Entity next, and it bonded not only to him but to all of the resurrected heroes, freeing them from the Black Lantern Corps. These new White Lanterns turned their focus on the Black Hand and returned him to life, severing the Black Lantern Corps' connection to the living world.Nekron was destroyed in an explosion of white light, and his Black Lantern Corps fell. The only exceptions were those sought out by twelve white power rings and brought back to life rather than be returned to death. Aquaman, Martian Manhunter, Jade, Maxwell Lord, Professor Zoom, Hawk, Ronnie Raymond, Captain Boomerang, Osiris, Deadman, Hawkman and Hawkgirl stood no longer as dead Black Lanterns but living beings once again.
The Spectre's host, Crispus Allen, was even taken by the Corps. Don Hallproved to be the only dead the Black Lantern Corps could not take, because he was at such peace. Hank Hallwas not such a problem to reanimate. The Doom Patrol was soon confronted by Black Lanterns Joshua Clay,Negative Woman and Celsius. Booster Gold was attacked by Ted Kord. Vril Dox met up with Black LanternsHarbinger and Vril's wife Stealth. Justice League Detroit members Vibe and Commander Steel became a Black Lantern,as well as Outsiders member Katana's deceased family.The Honored DeadElsewhere, black power rings breached the Green Lantern tomb on Oa and reanimated all of their honored dead. Not only that, but Jadeappeared before Kyle Rayner as a Black Lantern. Amon Sur rose from the dead, leading an army of deceased Sinestro Corps soldiers to Zamaron to confront Sinestro. OnOkaara, Agent Orange and his Orange Light were surrounded by Black Lanterns risen from the dead of the Orange Lantern Corps, and black power rings rained down on Ysmault, where the Red Lantern Corps called home. The Black Lantern Corps was assaulting all of the lights of the Emotional Spectrum it could find with Scar directing the war fromRyut. Quickly, the Star Sapphire Corps on Zamaran fell. Then the Indigo Tribe appear, finally making the Indigo Light of Compassion known. Scar commanded that every Black Lantern that could be spared to go after the Indigo Light.Nekron, Rise.With the death of Damage on Earth, the Black Lanterns' Central Battery reached 100% capacity. It then transported itself from Ryut to Coast City on Earth, where Nekron rose. Earth's heroes assembled to fight him, and soon they were joined by Lanterns representing every color in the Emotional Spectrum. None of them could stop Nekron and his Black Lantern Corps. The attempts to destroy the Central Battery appeared only to make it even stronger.
Blackest Night
For further details: Brightest DaySomehow, a remnant of the Black Lantern Corps endured within the Firestorm matrix withRonnie Raymond and Jason Rusch. This remnant eventually took the physical form of the Black Lantern Firestorm, referred to asDeathstorm, and stole the White Lantern Power Battery following the commands of an unknown source and began to corrupt it.. To aid in this mysterious agenda, Deathstorm recreated several of his fellow Black Lanterns.All were subsequently destroyed when Firestorm came to retrieve the White Lantern from them and the Anti-Monitor.The White Lantern reveals Swamp Things original history. It reveals that Alec Holland was a researcher in the amazon when he was killed when his lab exploded.
Contrary to what everyone believes, Alec was not reborn as Swamp Thing. When he died his hope, ambition and hatred of pollution was imprinted on nature, thus Swamp Thing was born, believing it was Allec Holland and began defeating polluting tyrants. The White Lantern explains that after the Blackest Night, Nekron's desires and hatred was imprinted on the earth instead of Alec Holland. Swamp Thing then rises, powered by death and believing he is Nekron. He begins destroying life on earth, until the white lantern transforms Firestorm, Hawkman and Hawkgirl, Aquaman and Martian Manhunterinto the avatars of Fire, Air, Water, and Earth to combat the new Avatar of Death. It then resurrects the true Alec Holland and transforms him into the Swamp Thing and has it combat the Black Lantern Swamp Thing.FlashpointIn the Flashpoint universe, the successful murder of William Hand at the hands of the Red Lantern called Atrocitus freed Nekron from imprisonment long before several of the different colored Lantern Corps and the long-prophesied "War of Light" they would participate in ever erupted across the Universe. Shortly after being released, Nekron used his dark powers to create The Black Lantern Corps using the corpses of the Green Lanterns and countless other lifeforms that have fallen before him.Like in the original DCU, Nekron is leading his Black Lanterns on a quest to eradicate all life. As of now, over 200 of the Sectors under the jurisdiction of The Guardians of The Universe, save for those that have already been rend asunder by a roving army of soulless, renegade Manhunter drones, have been systematically wiped out by Nekron and his forces. Of the 2,793 remaining sectors left, at least half of them have come under attack from The Black Lantern Corps.
Brightest Day
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