History ComicBook / SinestroCorpsWar

Following his defeat in ''Franchise/GreenLantern: Rebirth,'' Sinestro has retreated back to Qward, where he has taken over and started to amass an army of Yellow Lanterns capable of "instilling great fear." Modeling his army after the Green Lantern Corps and allying himself with the Anti-Monitor, he launches an all out war against the Green Lanterns.

A BatFamilyCrossover between ''Franchise/GreenLantern'', issues #21 through #25, and ''Green Lantern Corps'', issues #14 through #18 with a prologue in the form of ''Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps Special #1'' (plus a single tie in with ''ComicBook/BlueBeetle'' #20), the Sinestro Corps War is the critically acclaimed second part of Creator/GeoffJohns' Green Lantern "trilogy." (preceded by ''[[ComicBook/GreenLanternRebirth Green Lantern: Rebirth]]'' and succeeded by ''ComicBook/BlackestNight''.)

The story entered production in 2006 and was released following the ''Sinestro Corps Special'' in June 2007. It proved to be a massive success, financially and critically. Fans consider it among the best Green Lantern stories and it is easy to see why. It introduced new storyline concepts including the variously colored Lantern Corps and the emotional spectrum.

!!This crossover contains examples of:

* XanatosGambit: Sinestro set things up so that no matter what the outcome was, he would win. Either he and his troops gained control of the Multiverse, or he forced the Green Lantern Corps into adopting more aggressive tactics that he feels would be more suitable to bringing order to the Universe.

*** Also to the [[UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootballPower5Conferences University of Michigan]] - said wolverines are [[StealthPun wearing U of M armbands]], and Guy's got a U of M sticker on his lantern battery. Johns is also an alum of UofM, so it's a nod to his ''alma mater''.

*** Also to the UsefulNotes/UniversityOfMichigan - said wolverines are [[StealthPun wearing U of M armbands]], and Guy's got a U of M sticker on his lantern battery. Johns is also an alum of UofM, so it's a nod to his ''alma mater''.

* AllThereInTheManual: The ''Green Lantern/Sinestro Corps Secret Files and Origins'' special has informative bios on every member of both Corps. This includes the names, homeworlds, Space Sectors and backstories of Corpsmen who either appeared only in crowd shots or were [[WeHardlyKnewYe abruptly killed off before there was a chance to know them better]].

* TheyDiedBecauseOfYou: Kyle's life was already the trope namer for "Women in Refrigerators", but now it turns out that the disease that killed his mother was a ''sentient virus'' who joined the Sinestro Corps. Sinestro lets him know this to weaken his mental defenses against [[PuppeteerParasite Parallax]].

* LastDisrepects: Superboy-Prime at one point sees the grave of Bart Allen, who was killed by the Rogues at the end of ''The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive'', and proceeds to vandalize Bart's tombstone by using his heat vision to cross out the epitaph "Fastest Man Alive" and write "Stupidest Boy Dead" in its place.

* AllThereInTheManual: The ''Green Lantern/Sinestro Corps Secret Files and Origins'' special has informative bios on every member of both Corps. This includes the names, assigned Sectors and backstories of Corpsmen who either appeared only in crowd shots or were [[WeHardlyKnewYe abruptly killed off before there was a chance to know them better]].

* LegionOfDoom: Sinestro, Parallax, Cyborg-Superman, Superboy-Prime, and ''[[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths the Anti-Monitor]]''? [-...[[IWantMyMommy Mother.]]-]

* ArtEvolution:
** Ethan Van Sciver overhauled Sinestro's character model from ''Rebirth'', with his look taking influence from Hitler and the Nazis to hammer home the fascism undertones.
** The Sinestro Corpsmen uniforms have also been overhauled from what was seen in the lead-up in the pages of ''Green Lantern''. They've gone from the blue uniforms shown there (modeled on Sinestro's original outfit) into the now-familiar yellow uniforms.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: Definitely one for Coast City. A city already destroyed and left basically a ghost city is viciously attacked by the Sinestro Corps and Hal Begs for the citizens remaining to evacuate immediately. Instead [[IChooseToStay no-one leaves]] and after the battle is over the city has a gigantic amount of people immediately moving in and also a brand new moniker "The City Without Fear".

* SequelHook: Before the climax, Ganthet and Sayd explain that more Lantern Corps will be emerging, and at the end they begin laying out the foundations for the Blue Corps.