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White Lantern Corps
The White Lantern Corps
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	Blackest Night #7 (April 2010)
Created by	Geoff Johns (writer) Ivan Reis (artist)
In-story information
Member(s)	Deadman

The White Lantern Corps is a fictional organization appearing in comics published by DC Comics.

The first White Lantern Corpsman was created when Sinestro of Korugar bonded with The Entity, the embodiment of life itself.^[1] However, the entity was removed from Sinestro by Nekron, and then claimed by Hal Jordan, who used its power to rescue Superman, Superboy, Wonder Woman, Donna Troy, The Flash, Ice, Animal Man, Kid Flash, and Green Arrow, who had all been turned into Black Lanterns by Nekron as well as the Anti-Monitor. Jordan then used the power of the entity to revive Nekron's tether to the living world, Black Hand. The revived Black Hand then regurgitated twelve white rings that destroyed Nekron's body, and revived the Martian Manhunter, Aquaman, Deadman, Hawkman, Hawkgirl, Jade, Firestorm, Osiris, Hawk, Maxwell Lord, Captain Boomerang, and Professor Zoom.^[2]

After the defeat of Nekron all heroes that were turned into White Lanterns were discharged from the Corps, save for Deadman, who, as of Brightest Day #0, is shown to be the only resurrected character retaining a white power ring.^[3]

Deadman learns from the Entity that it is dying and needs to find the "chosen one" to take his place which is Deadman's task. He thought of Hal Jordan as the perfect candidate and as he told the Entity to take him to him.^[4] Instead of taking him to Hal Jordan, the White Lantern Ring takes Deadman and Dove to Aquaman and Mera. Aquaman explains what the White Lantern told him, to find Jackson Hyde. Deadman questions why the Lantern took him to Aquaman when he could be searching for the Entity replacement. The ring replies that to find the new Entity, Deadman must help all the other resurrected complete their tasks. Aquaman understands what's at hand and explains to Deadman that for him to succeed he must find and help others and tell them what has to happen.^[5]

The White Lantern was recently acquired by Deathstorm (the Black Lantern version of Firestorm) who by infecting it with his essence was able to generate Black Lantern duplicates of the twelve heroes and villains resurrected by the Entity apparently with the goal of preventing them from achieving their missions.

When his White Lantern Ring reaches 100%, Deadman approached Hawkman and Hawkgirl after their mission on Hawkworld. When the Entity wanted them to live separate lives as a secondary labor so that they can live life stronger, Hawkman and Hawkgirl objected to that and Hawkman tries to remove the White Power Ring from Deadman by force. The Entity quoted "So be it" and reduces them to white dust right in front of Deadman's eyes.^[6]

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Each White Lantern Corps member possesses a power ring that gives the user access to white energy constructs powered by life itself. The original wielder of the "Entity", Sinestro, showed the ability to eradicate swarms of Black Lanterns effortlessly and is described as "godlike." He also appeared to be immortal, able to survive a seemingly fatal wound and recovering within minutes.^[7] When Hal Jordan wielded the power, he demonstrated the ability to create additional rings, restoring heroes claimed by Nekron to life.^[2]

Currently Deadman is the only one possessing a white ring, and demonstrated the ability to restore life to a bird that had died falling out of its nest.^[2] He was also able to transform the area devastated by Prometheus into a lush forest. However, this seems to be the work of the "Entity", as Deadman has so far been unable to access the ring's powers himself.^[3]

Similar to black rings, white rings start with no charge. As the wearer embraces life again the ring rises in power level.^[8] What happens when a white ring reaches one hundred percent charge remains unknown. The only thing known is that the ring as it charged itself gave Deadman the sensation that someone would die. As the ring reached 100%, it forced Deadman to meet the Hawks where the ring tasked them a second labor, however when Carter and Shiera refused to obey, both lovers were apparently reduced to white dust in the process.^[6]

• Deadman^[2] - Currently the only member

• Sinestro - Possessed by the Entity and discharged from the Corps after Nekron removed the Entity from him.^[1][2]
• Hal Jordan - Possessed by the Entity, discharged from the Corps after Nekron's defeat.^[2]
• Superman - Discharged from the Corps after Nekron's defeat.^[2]
• Green Arrow - Discharged from the Corps after Nekron's defeat.^[2]
• Kid Flash - Discharged from the Corps after Nekron's defeat.^[2]
• Superboy - Discharged from the Corps after Nekron's defeat.^[2]
• Wonder Woman - Discharged from the Corps after Nekron's defeat.^[2]
• The Flash - Discharged from the Corps after Nekron's defeat.^[2]
• Donna Troy - Discharged from the Corps after Nekron's defeat.^[2]
• Ice - Discharged from the Corps after Nekron's defeat.^[2]
• Animal Man - Discharged from the Corps after Nekron's defeat.^[2]
• Batman - Chosen by Deadman, but discharged after the ring reveals that Batman was not the true heir to the White Light.^[9]

Nekron unearths a creature referred to as "The Entity". Like Black Hand, the Entity does not belong to the Emotional spectrum, but instead is the embodiment of the white light that creates life. There is no telling if the birth of "The Entity" was by accident or with purpose. As the light fought against darkness, stars and planets were born including a planet at the very spot "The Entity" entered - Earth. As "The Entity"'s influence spread, life was created and, with life, emotions. As emotions began to manifest, so did the seven emotional embodiments.^[1]

Currently it appears that "The Entity" resides in the White Power Battery that landed in Silver City, New Mexico.^[2]

The Entity reveals that it is dying and that the twelve heroes and villains were resurrected with the express purpose to complete a task before they can truly live again.^[10]

The tasks are as follow:

1. Deadman - Locate "the chosen one" that will take the Entity's place.^[10]
2. Hawkman - Prevent Queen Khea from leaving Hawkworld.^[10] His labor was completed.^[6] Given a second task - Must live life separately to live life stronger. He failed this labor when he didn't want to be separated from Hawkgirl again.^[6]
3. Hawkgirl - Prevent Hath-Set from killing Hawkman.^[10] Her labor was completed.^[6] Given a second task - Must live life separately to live life stronger. She failed this labor when she didn't want to be separated from Hawkman again.^[6]
4. Martian Manhunter - Burn down the newly-formed forest on Mars.^[5][10]
5. Aquaman - Locate Jackson Hyde before Xebel's Death Squad does.^[5][10]
6. Firestorm (Ronald Raymond and Jason Rusch) - Learn from each other and defeat the Black Lantern Firestorm (currently calling himself Deathstorm) in the Firestorm Matrix before he destroys the Entity.^[10]
7. Hawk - Catch the boomerang that Captain Boomerang throws at Dawn Granger.^[10][11]
8. Professor Zoom - Free Barry Allen from the Speed Force. His labor was already completed in The Flash: Rebirth.^[10][12]
9. Captain Boomerang - Throw a boomerang at Dawn Granger.^[10][13]
10. Osiris - Save his sister Isis from her fate.^[10][14]
11. Maxwell Lord - Prevent Magog from plunging the world into war.^[10][15] His labor was completed.^[16]
12. Jade - Help her brother Obsidian to "balance the darkness".^[10] Her labor was completed^[17]