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Sinestro is a fictional supervillain within the DC Comics universe. He first appeared in the Green Lantern comic in the 1950s, and has since been featured in cartoons such as Super Friends (where he was part of the "Legion of Doom") and Justice League. He is considered both the Green Lantern Corps's greatest foe, and - as he was originally one of their own - their greatest failure.
A native of the planet Korugar, Sinestro was initially considered to be one of the greatest Green Lanterns, but as the years passed, he became more and more fixated not simply on protecting the magenta-skinned Korugarians, but on preserving order in their society. Eventually he concluded that the best way to accomplish this was to conquer them, and to rule the planet as a dictator.
When Hal Jordan joined the Corps, Sinestro was assigned to be his instructor; during his absence, the Korugarians rebelled. When Jordan saw this, he reported Sinestro to the Guardians; consequently, Sinestro was arrested, and his Green Lantern Ring was given to Katma Tui, the leader of the rebellion. It should be noted that this is a retcon; Sinestro's first published appearance was as a criminal.
The Guardians put Sinestro on trial and, as punishment, banished him into the "anti-matter universe" of Qward (note that the DC Comics concept of antimatter does not coincide with that used by physicists). However, in Qward Sinestro found allies in the Weaponers, a group of warriors that wanted to invade our universe. To that end they created a yellow power ring for him to use. This gave him an advantage against Green Lanterns, since their power rings cannot affect anything yellow (ironically, the yellow ring drew its power directly from whatever green rings were used against it). Despite this, skilled Green Lanterns like Jordan always found ways to defeat him.
At one point, Sinestro was caught and put on trial again by the Corps after the Guardians had left their universe. Finding him guilty of several murders, they condemned him to death and executed him, not realizing this activated a failsafe system within the Central Power Battery on Oa that caused it to be destroyed should ever a Korugarian male be killed by a Guardian or their agents, a measure taken by the Guardians after their mates, the Zamarons, left them to live with Korugarians. Ironically, Sinestro's death thus achieved what he had long sought... the destruction of the Corps.
Eventually, however, the Corps were reestablished, only to be attacked by Jordan himself after he was driven mad by the destruction of his home city. Sinestro, apparently revived by the Guardians, was sent to stop him, only to be killed again in battle. Again, his death led to the destruction of the Corps, but this time at Jordan's hands.
Sinestro has recently returned from the dead, but the details behind his resurrection are as yet unknown.
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