History ComicBook / SinestroCorpsWar

-->'''John:''' That'd take the grenade the size of a moon.
-->'''Guy:''' Hey, Johnny Boy... ''[points to Warworld]'' ...what do ya think ''that'' is?

--> [[spoiler:'''Ring:''' ''Warning. Power levels approaching 0.0%.'']]
--> [[spoiler:'''Sinestro (to Hal and Kyle):''' Come on, then. The ''both'' of you.]]

-->'''Sodam Yat as [[SuperMode Ion]]''': Now where were we?
-->'''[[HeroKiller Superboy-Prime]]''': '''Ion''', huh? you act tough, but you don't look so special to me.

-->'''Guy:''' You ever see ''"Film/{{Red Dawn|1984}}"''? ''[makes constructs of]'' '''"Wolverines!"'''

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. It also brought back many Green Lanterns not seen in over 20 years such as Mogo and Sodam Yat.

* FiveBadBand
** BigBad and TheDragon: Sinestro and the Anti-Monitor, though YMMV which is which: the Anti-Monitor has far more power and officially holds the higher position of Guardian; but [[TheHeavy it's Sinestro's corps, his plan, and he's calling the shots]]. That the "lower" one could be a DragonInChief just complicates things further. Seems to fall just shy of being a BigBadDuumvirate, though.
** TheEvilGenius: Hank Henshaw
** TheBrute: Parallax
** TheDarkChick: ComicBook/SuperboyPrime - as powerful as any of them, but the most unstable. Becomes the SixthRangerTraitor by the end.

* CListFodder: Particularly [[spoiler: Jack Chance]], who Geoff Johns admits was killed for being "Guy Gardner-lite".

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 ''Green Lantern: Rebirth'' and succeeded by ''ComicBook/BlackestNight''.)

* MonumentalDamage: The Sinestro Corps destroy the Statue of Liberty and, somehow, replace it with a statue of their leader while they're busy invading Earth. Kyle and Guy fix it during the epilogue. Averted with the bit at Mount Rushmore, as the mountain doesn't take any damage.

** Henshaw punches Superman through the Statue of Liberty, snarling that he can't kill him. Superman calmly replies that he's never tried.

* SealedEvilInACan: Ganthet and Sayd dissect Parallax and seal him in four separate prisons - the Lantern batteries of the Earth-based Lanterns. The Anti-Monitor also becomes trapped in the Black Lantern Battery.

** '''Earlier Prime regains his power when the Sunlight reaches him, causing every hero to go: OH CRAP

-->'''Earlier Prime regains his power when the Sunlight reaches him, causing every hero to go: OH CRAP

* HereComesTheSun: The heroes have seemingly beaten Prime, and are in the process of removing his armour when the sun comes up... and Prime is back to full power. He breaks free of everyone and rises into the sky knowing he's won.

* UpInTheSky: Prime regains his power and everyone looks up at him as he takes flight. Except while people would normally be relieved or excited, the heroes all bear looks of horror and despair.

* ThouShaltNotKill: No longer enforced. (Hey, if real-life cops can shoot to kill, why can't SpacePolice?) Rather than take it too far in the other direction, debates over proper use of this power continued being discussed within the Corps even after the war. Most Lanterns (including the human leads) make it a point to leave killing as a last resort.
** Notably, Kilowog considers a willingness to kill to be a weakness, and defeats [[BloodKnight Arkillo]] handily while Arkillo's focusing on murdering bystanders.
* TookALevelInBadass: Every GL still alive after the Battle of Mogo, but particuarly a young Daxamite named Sodam Yat, who was a simple nobody until he was given the Ion Entity to [[SuperMode increase his powers 100 fold]] (Oh and Daxamites have [[SuperpowerLottery all the powers of Superman]]).

* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: Just like ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', everything the heroes throw at the Anti-Monitor won't bring him down until [[spoiler: the Anti-Monitor's OWN TEAMMATE Superboy-Prime disposes of him in revenge for the death of his Earth.]]

** TheDarkChick: Superboy-Prime - as powerful as any of them, but the most unstable. Becomes the SixthRangerTraitor by the end.

Burn like his power... Sinestro's might!"''\\
--'''[[AlwaysChaoticEvil Sinestro Corps]] Oath'''

* ShoutOut: When Karu-Sil comments that Earth's beasts are weak:

** 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.

** Hal refers to Lyssa Drax as the "[[WizardOfOz Wicked Witch]]", and then uses his ring to create a house which he then drops on her.

** UnwantedRevival: He almost gets his wish, but is revived by his Manhunters at the very end.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The commentary in the second collection reveals that Parallax was going to take over Guy and John in addition to Kyle. This was rejected because it distracted from the rest of the story and would've led to VillainDecay by making him less unique.

Following his defeat in ''Franchise/GreenLantern: Rebirth,'' SelfDemonstrating/{{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.

* NietzscheWannabe: Henshaw

* SpaceWhale: Ion's true form.

* MassOhCrap: The yellow lanterns realizing that the greens are now allowed to use lethal force against them.

* AscendedMeme: It didn't quite reach meme levels, but there's a rooftop fight with the sound effect "eepaa". The sound effect's origin? A one off gag in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie''. (This is lampshaded in the commentary in the back of ''The Sinestro Corps War Volume Two''.)

* PreAsskickingOneLiner: Its War, so quite a few, a notable one however...

-->'''[[HeroKiller Superboy-Prime]]''': '''Ion''' huh? you act tough, but you don't look so special to me.

* OrcusOnHisThrone: Superboy-Prime sits on the Moon watching Earth for much of the Sinestro War. When he finally gets involved, he does whatever he wants including punking his own teammates. The only reason Sinestro picked Superboy-Prime as a teammate, plus two other OmnicidalManiacs, at all was that he knew they'd eventually try to kill each other but not before advancing their own plans by hurting their mutual enemies.

* OrcusOnHisThrone: Superboy-Prime sits on the Moon watching Earth for much of the Sinestro War. When he finally gets involved, he does whatever he wants including punking his own teammates. The only reason Sinestro picked Superboy-Prime as a teammate, plus two other OmnicidalNaniacs, at all was that he knew they'd eventually try to kill each other but not before advancing their own plans by hurting their mutual enemies.

* OrcusOnHisThrone: Superboy-Prime sits on the Moon watching Earth for much of the Sinestro War. When he finally gets involved, he does whatever he wants including punking his own teammates. (Though who knows why Sinestro thought Prime would work alongside the being who destroyed his universe.)
** Presumably, Sinestro thought that since there were now 52 (known) universes, Prime would be able to find one to suit him, not to mention the fact that he misjudged Prime's hatred of the Anti-Monitor to that of the DCU (as it turns out, Prime hates the Anti-Monitor ''slightly'' more than Earth-0).
*** It's more than that. The Anti-Monitor wanted to destroy all the earths, which would have ruined Sinestro's plans. Superboy-Prime wanted to destroy the Anti-Monitor and find his way back home. Cyborg-Superman had incredible resources and means to control them efficiently, wanted to die, and the Anti-Monitor was his only way to do so (and then, only after everything else was done -- the Cyborg had been planning on pushing the issue earlier). Sinestro picked three OmnicidalManiac teammates for their raw power, and then had them pitted against each other so that they'd likely destroy each other once their plans advance to a point they'd threaten Sinestro's.

-->Maybe it's the sound of Sinestro throwing Green Lantern into a vat of acid. Eepaa!
** Sadly, no vats of acid were involved.

* TookALevelInBadass: Every GL still alive after the Battle of Mogo, but particuarly a young Daxamite named Sodam Yat. Who was a simple nobody until he was given the Ion Entity to [[SuperMode increase his powers 100 fold]] (Oh and Daxamites have [[SuperpowerLottery all the powers of Superman]]).