Think You Know The Black Lantern Corps? Get Featured in DC Universe Encyclopedia!

This week, we’re asking DC fans to submit their fun trivia facts about a group that is the slain and deceased beings from throughout the universe who fell into the domain of the dead. They are the army of Nekron, the Lord of the Unliving, and their purpose is to eliminate all life.

The Black Lantern Rings are wielded by the deceased. The symbol on Black Power Rings is the same symbol used by Green Lantern super-villain Black Hand (a triangle pointing downward, with five lines radiating upward from the base). The black rings also symbolize a total absence of emotion and life. Black Lantern Ring-possessed sentients are driven by a need to take the hearts of those who will be most emotionally affected by their return, to use the power of the emotions of those hearts to bring about the return of Nekron.

Of course, we can only be talking about the one and only Black Lantern Corps!

Let us know all your little-known intel in the comments below, and it could be selected for featuring in our new “Trivia” Encyclopedia section! Anyone whose Fun Facts are selected will receive a rare “Daily Planet Editor” badge!

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—You can submit AS MANY facts as you’d like! However, submission to this thread DOES NOT guarantee that your fact will be selected for featuring in the Encyclopedia. The selection process is entirely up to the discretion of DC Universe.

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—We will be accepting fun facts now through Tuesday, October 20th!

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In Blackest Night Titans #2 it is revealed that the Black Lanterns can infect the living by biting them.


It’s revealed in Untold Tales Of Blackest Night that the bite causes the infected to turn into Black Lanterns.

In Blackest Night #5, Neckron is able to turn those whom have previously died and been brought back to life into Black Lanterns.


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Time travel can deactivate the searching of a black lantern ring.

Source: Blackest Night #6

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The symbol of the Black Lantern Corps and Black Hand (a triangle pointing downward, with five lines radiating upward from the base) was in fact the logo for his family’s funeral home in Coast City

Green Lantern #43

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Black rings cannot recruit the dead that are at peace.
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Blackest Night #2

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The leader of the Black Lantern Corps, Black Hand, was almost killed as a child by Atrocitus, who saw the darkness he would eventually unleash.


Green Lantern (2005) #43

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Black Lanterns see in the emotional spectrum.


Green Lantern (2005) #44, Green Lantern Corps (2006) #39, Blackest Night #1 (too more instances to list)

This means you can be a low priority target by suppressing emotions or being a robot


Doom Patrol (2009) #4

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