References in Popular Culture
- Sinestro is referenced in The Simpsons Movie by Comic Book Guy. He suggests that Grandpa Simpson's cries of "EPA!" during a prophetic vision of disaster (which late turns out to be the initials for the Environmental Protection Agency) reference Sinestro throwing Green Lantern into a vat of acid..
- In response to this, "eep-aa" was a featured onomatopoeia of an attack in issue 25 of Green Lantern during the Sinestro Corps War story arch, the attack coming from Sinestro.
- The Super Friends version of Sinestro appears in the MAD episode "Avaturd / CSiCarly". He tells a young boy and girl that it's not good to yawn in front of someone else, because it's contagious. The young girl looks at the boy and accuses him of giving her "yawn," and then they ask Sinestro if he could cure their condition. He tells them he'll cure them with his Yellow Power Ring if they give him five bucks. They comply, then he blasts them with a laser from his ring and kills them. He flies away, calling the two kids "suckers."
- In the Robot Chicken episode "Beastmaster & Commander", Sinestro accidentally cuts Hal Jordan's hands off and runs away.
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