Modern Age Enemies
| Villain | First appearance | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Javelin | Green Lantern vol. 2, #173 (February 1984) | The Javelin’s true identity has never been revealed but it is known that he is a German former Olympic athlete who turned to a life of crime, using his uncanny abilities with a javelin-based weapons arsenal. | |
| Demolition Team | Green Lantern vol. 2, #176 (May 1984) | The team of supervillains who's hired by Congressman Jason Bloch to destroy the Los Angeles branch of Ferris Aircraft. The Ferris employees were virtually defenseless against the team and their state-of-the-art weaponry provided by the Monitor. | |
| Bolphunga the Unrelenting | Green Lantern vol. 2, #188 (May 1985) | An alien who fought against Mogo and Guy Gardner. | |
| Ranx the Sentient City | Tales of the Green Lantern Corps Annual #2 (1986) | A city prophesized to destroy Mogo and introduced in current continuity in Green Lantern Corps #5 (Dec 2006). | |
| Major Force | Captain Atom vol. 3, #12 (February 1988) | Clifford Zmeck was transformed into a quantum-powered super-soldier in an experiment similar to that which created Captain Atom. Major Force is a brutal murderer responsible for the death of Kyle Rayner's girlfriend, Alex DeWitt. | |
| Legion | Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn #2 (January 1990) | After Green Lantern Corps conquering planet Tchk-Tchk, they began to spread to the rest of the galaxy, at which point the Guardians of the Universe decided to take action, sending the Green Lanterns to beat back the Tchk-Tchk and seal off their planet. Tchk-Tchk quickly expended their food supply and began to die out. Realizing what was happening, they put their minds into their new invention, the Soul Jar, wherein they became a sort of hive mind. Once all the remaining minds had entered, they built themselves a new body and called themselves Legion. | |
| Tattooed Man | Skin Graft: The Adventures of a Tattooed Man #1 (July 1993) | John Oakes, a former cellmate of Abel Tarrant who learned the art of mystical skin graft, allowing him to open gateways and absorb people into the tattoos on his body. | |
| Parallax | Green Lantern vol. 3, #50 (March 1994) | A fear-inducing demon who once merged with Hal Jordan when he entered the battery of Oa. | |
| Ohm | Green Lantern vol. 3, #51 (May 1994) | There is little information regarding the supervillain called Ohm. He stole an experimental suit of armor from S.T.A.R. Labs and threatened to destroy Los Angeles. | |
| Duality | Green Lantern vol. 3, #62 (May 1995) | Created by the last Guardian, Ganthet, Duality was a simple energy construct designed to retrieve Kyle Rayner. He is a melding of two warriors; the left half is a sword wielding alien humanoid, the right half is a mechanized being armed with an energy blaster. Duality confronted Rayner to test the neophyte Green Lantern's skills in wielding the ring. | |
| Purgatory | Green Lantern vol. 3, #66 (September 1995) | Paul Christian lost his legs in a subway accident, but little did he know his troubles were just beginning. He had the misfortune of being outside the New York Public Library during a fight between Green Lantern and an attacker in high tech battle armor. After the battle, Kyle Rayner figured out a way to give Paul some of his power permanently in order to create construct legs for himself. Later on, Neron offered to augment Christian's power, giving him greater control. He was hesitant at first, but he eventually agreed to Neron's deal and returned to confront Kyle as an enemy. | |
| Grayven | Green Lantern vol. 3, #74 (June 1996) | Illegitimate son of Darkseid, Grayven seeks to one day usurp his father's throne. He is an enemy of Green Lantern Kyle Rayner. | |
| Fatality | Green Lantern vol. 3 #83 (February 1997) | Yrra Cynril, last survivor of the planet Xanshi, which Green Lantern John Stewart failed to save in a moment of arrogance. Since then, Cynril trained with the Warlords of Okaara in order to wage a vendetta against all Green Lanterns. She harbored special hatred for John Stewart and Kyle Rayner. Recently, she's become a member of the Star Sapphires after they turned her hatred into love for John. | |
| Effigy | Green Lantern vol. 3 #110 (March 1999) | Martyn Van Wyck was once an aimless drifter until he was abducted by the Controllers and turned into a super-powered being capable of manipulating fire. Rebelling against his masters, Effigy became an enemy of Green Lantern Kyle Rayner. | |
| Nero | Green Lantern vol. 3, #132 (January 2001) | Alex Nero, a disturbed mental patient with highly developed artistic skills. Nero was given a yellow power ring by the Weaponers of Qward, similar to that of Sinestro, and became a dark opposite of Green Lantern Kyle Rayner. | |
| Amon Sur | Green Lantern vol. 3, #162 (June 2003) | The son of Abin Sur. Driven by his jealousy of Hal Jordan, whom his father had given his Green Lantern power ring, instead of to his son, Amon became a powerful interstellar criminal, and for a time, was the leader of the Black Circle Syndicate. Became a member of the Sinestro Corps, but was soon killed by Laira. | |
| Tattooed Man | Green Lantern vol. 4, #9 (April 2006) | Mark Richards, a former US Marine turned hit man who tattoos the sins of his victims onto their bodies. | |
| Ragnar | Green Lantern Corps vol. 2, #1 (August 2006) | Ragnar, a prince of Betrassus in Space Sector 1417. He did not have his eyes on ascending his world's throne, rather his focus was on the star-spanning Green Lantern Corps. With the wealth and power at Ragnar's command, it would come as no surprise that he had amassed quite a collection of items related to the Green Lantern Corps, but Ragnar's interest did not end with the mere accumulation of memorabilia. | |
| Sinestro Corps | Green Lantern vol. 4, #10 (May 2006) | After Hal Jordan's resurrection and the reorganization of the Green Lantern Corps, Sinestro organized his own corps, with himself as their leader. Members wield a yellow power ring, like Sinestro's, and must be able to invoke fear in their enemies. | |
| Arkillo | Green Lantern vol. 4, #10 (May 2006) | Drill sergeant of the Sinestro Corps, the monstrous Arkillo consumes the weaker recruits of his organization. | |
| Tarra Karn | Ion #1 (June 2006) | Formerly with the Thanagarian Navy, Tarra Karn has since turned to a career in bounty hunting. At this time, her most notable quarry was Green Lantern, known as Ion. | |
| Loragg | Green Lantern vol. 4, #12 (July 2006) | Loragg was the aide to Amon Sur, formerly the magnate commander of the Black Circle Crime Syndicate. It is not known if Loragg had been a member of the Black Circle, as Amon Sur killed thousands of members in the Black Circle as well as their families as vengeance for expelling him. | |
| Despotellis | Green Lantern Corps vol. 2, #10 (May 2007) | A sentient virus and member of the Sinestro Corps, Despotellis is responsible for the death of Kyle Rayner's mother, Maura, as part of Sinestro's revenge against the Green Lantern. | |
| Bedovian | Green Lantern Corps vol. 2, #20 (July 2007) | The resident sharpshooter and sniper of the Sinestro Corps, a hermit crab-like creature who lies in wait for his victims within his shell. | |
| Lyssa Drak | Green Lantern vol. 4, #18 (May 2007) | Member of the Sinestro Corps and keeper of the Book of Parallax, that organization's most cherished text. | |
| Karu-Sil | Green Lantern vol. 4, #19 (May 2007) | Member of the Sinestro Corps, Karu-Sil is a feral alien who was raised by a pack of wolf-like creatures on her home world. After their deaths and her recruitment to the Corps, she used her power ring to create copies of her pack. | |
| Kryb | Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps Special #1 (June 2007) | Member of the Sinestro Corps, a monster that murdered parents and stole their infant children for reasons as yet unknown. A cage like sac would open on her back to hold the many infants she had stolen. | |
| Tri-Eye | Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps Special #1 (June 2007) | Member of the Sinestro Corps, a carnivorous predator that lives at the bottom of waterwells where it springs up and captures its prey when it comes to for a drink. Its three mouths leave no trace behind as Tri-Eye tears through meat and bone. As prey would eventually learn to fear a waterwell that harbored a dangerous predator, Tri-Eye changes feeding areas by traveling across its home planet by a system of underground tunnels. | |
| Atrocitus | Green Lantern (vol. 4) #29 (May 2008) | An alien supervillain who was responsible for the death of Abin Sur. He is currently the leader of the Red Lantern Corps. | |
| Red Lantern Corps | Final Crisis: Rage of the Red Lanterns #1 (October 2008) | Shortly after the Sinestro Corps War, the Red Lanterns organize themselves on the planet Ysmault. Members of the Corps are driven by great rage. Instead of a power battery, the Red Lanterns recharge their rings with the blood of their victims. They are currently led by Atrocitus. | |
| Orange Lantern Corps | Green Lantern #39 (April 2009) | The Orange Lantern Corps (Avarice) is made up of only one member, Larfleeze, who goes by the name of Agent Orange. All other members of the corps are in fact constructs created by him as he is too jealously possessive to share the lantern's power. All the construct-members appear as beings who have been chosen by the lantern in the past (but failed to survive Agent Orange's greed) encased in an orange glow similar to Green Lantern ring constructs. | |
| Agent Orange (Larfleeze) | Green Lantern #39 (April 2009) | In the Vega System on the planet Okaara lives Larfleeze, a being so filled with greed that it has consumed his entire being. He now lives in a cave isolated for centuries after an ancient pact with the Guardians of the Universe let him live with the Orange Light undisturbed. The Controllers try to take his power and he kills them; thinking his deal has been revoked he sends a message to the Guardians warning them to leave him alone. | |
| Keepers | Green Lantern Corps (Vol 3) #1 | The Keepers was the name given to a race of humanoid beings that inhabited the planet Urak. These skeletal beings native world was a barren world where their race struggled to exist. Their existence changed when their homeworld was visited by the Guardians of the Universe who were seeking a place that would serve as a storage ground for the Green Lantern Power Batteries. This came after it became apparent that members of the Green Lantern Corps began to suffer when their Power Rings ran out of charge. Thus, the Oans sought out a means of addresisng this issue by providing easy access between a Green Lantern and their Power Rings. They learnt that the unique properties of Urak allowed for a temporal conduit between a Power Battery and Power Ring whereupon they made a pact with the native species. In exchange for rebuilding their world, the race would act as protectors and custodians of the Power Batteries that were stored in the Emerald Plains. Thus, the native inhabitants of Urak became known as the Keepers due to their new role. The unique composition of their homeworld led to the Power Batteries growing as if they were crops within the Emerald Fields. Though they held an important role in the Green Lantern Corps, their existence was not known to the Green Lanterns with even their Power Rings unable to identify the species.
These conditions, however, led to a form of symbiosis as the Power Batteries provided energy that nourished Urak and fed its people. The energy of Willpower was thus infused into the singular DNA of the Keepers and provided them an amazingly potent force of will. As a result, they became beings that possessed an innate reserve of willpower which was overwhelming and not in proportion with their relatively common forms. This trait made their armor completely immune to the effects of Lantern Energy Construct that derived from Willpower in the Emotional Spectrum. Their strength of will made them capable of actually willing their own bodies to shut down and kill themselves. The lush homeworld allowed their race to prosper as shepherds in this role. Events changed for the race in 2012 when the Oans arrived on Urak and removed all the Power Batteries from the Keepers care who they referred to as undeserving parasites. This act led to Urak returning to its formerly barren existence with the Keepers struggling to simply survive, so they begin to attack another planets in order to steal their resources. |
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