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Warning ! Spoilers onward for Green Lantern # 12!The latest threatGreen Lanternhas clashed with is shaking up the cosmic rules of order and establishing himself as one of the DC Universe ’s big threats . The Corps has gone through some vast change , all masterminded by the pernicious leader of the United Planets , Lord Premier Thaaros .

Though inclose to the DC Universe as a champion of order , Thaaros ' dead on target colors have been revealed . From criminal conspiracies to grade the dying of hundreds , Thaaros is doing his best to stiffen his hold on the universe and check that every major planet , admit Earth , come under his heel .

Thaaros Reveals His Deal with Amanda Waller

InGreen Lantern # 12by Jeremy Adams , Xermanico , Romulo Fajardo Jr. , and Dave Sharpe , Hal Jordan and the few appendage of the Resistance Corps crusade back against Thaaros ' force . Green Lantern actualise that he ’s outnumbered . Thaaros has the Corps and the United Planets under his control and the Resistance Corps ' members are dropping like fly . Green Lantern wants to stay on and contend , but even he realize he ca n’t do this aloneand makes a break for Earth . Though things take care depressed , Hal is rescued by Star Sapphire , who ravish the two back household .

… Waller is appropriate to work without the supervising of the United Planets in interchange for assisting Thaaros .

Thaaros is ferocious at his warriors and chews them all out for flunk to hold back Green Lantern . After punish his United Planets Lanterns , Thaaros meditate the Hal Jordan situation . Thaaros is disturb by the fact that Green Lantern has a Power Ring that did n’t come from the Green Lantern Corps . He also worries that an sovereign Green Lantern Central Power Battery could jeopardize Thaaros ’ plans to control the Emotional Spectrum . With no other choice , Thaaros is forced to make contact with Earth to call in a favor from Amanda Waller .

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In her understructure on the island nation of Gamorra , Waller receive the transmission from Thaaros . It ’s give away that Thaaros and Waller have made a deal where Waller is permit to work without the supervising of the United Planets in exchange for assisting Thaaros . Thaaros differentiate Waller that Jordan is a problem and that he needs her to hold back Green Lanternand contribute him to Thaaros . Waller fiddle with the thought of going against Thaaros , who warn Waller that for all her power , she ’s just a “ small speck in the centre of the population ” .

How Thaaros Secretly Took Control of the DC Universe

Lord Premier Thaaros is the leading figure in the United Planets . Though he presents himself as a baronial and caring political form , he ’s in reality a corrupt and treacherous homo . Before he originate to the office he presently holds , Thaaros made backroom flock with the autocrat Mongul , deals that help him get up through the ranks of the United Planets . While Lord Premier , Thaaros has only grow worse , even once using his influence to foreclose the United Planets from helping Superman overthrow Mongulto ensure Thaaros ’ sins would continue hidden .

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Thaaros took on a new purpose when the Guardians of the Universe disappeared and control of the Green Lantern was give to the United Planets . Thaaros act out wholesale change to the organization , include quarantine Sector 2814 and reassign Earth ’s Green Lanterns . Thaaros wasted no time in using the Corps to his vantage and secretly began ordinate the destruction of other Central Power Batteries for rival Corps . His Lanterns obey and Thaaros start tohave a chokehold on the Emotional Spectrum , giving his Green Lantern Corps unquestionable tycoon .

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Hal Jordan discovered what was occur to the Emotional Spectrum , though he was unaware that Thaaros was behind the attack . Hal headed to Oa , only to pick up how Thaaros changed the Green Lantern Corps for the uncollectible . Green Lantern and the Resistance choose to expose Thaaros and his offence to the United Planets ’ top council . unluckily , they were too late to discover that Thaaros had replaced all the fellow member of the United Planets ’ council with members of Thaaros ’ species , meaningThaaros was the unquestionable ruler of the United Planets and the Green Lantern Corps .

The DC Universe’s Problems Go Far Beyond Amanda Waller

Readers who have been keeping up with Amanda Waller are well aware that she ’s been actively working to bring the public under her control . 2024 ’s summer eventAbsolute Powerfocuses on Waller ’s efforts to use the combined might if Failsafe , the Brainiac Queen , and Task Force VII to rob Earth ’s metahuman population of their mogul . It ’s a chilling prospect and one that shows just how far Waller is willing to go to hit order . However , as dire a threat as Waller is , she ’s nothing compared to Thaaros .

But Thaaros has work with some of the barbarous fig in the DCU and has wriggle his way into status of authority Waller can only fathom .

There ’s no incertitude that what Waller has plan for Earth is awing . But her scope is far more narrow than Thaaros ’ . The United Planets ’ leader is taking down the Central Power Batteries link to the Emotional Spectrum , an energy connect to all life . Not to mention , his mad big businessman grab has helped him deepen the Green Lantern Corps from DC ’s greatest interstellar peacekeeping force to a terrific personal army . Thaaros might have made a begrudging stack with Waller , but it ’s unmortgaged he does n’t see her as a threatthe elbow room many DC hoagy do .

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Waller and Thaaros are indeed cut from the same cloth , but they operate on on far different layer . Sure , Amanda has get along a long way since her days of just running Task Force X. But Thaaros has worked with some of the savage flesh in the DCU and has wormed his way into positions of assurance Waller can only fathom . They might both be Machiavellian schemers , but no one can deny thatThaaros has power and influence that could make him a nightmare to someone like Waller .

Thaaros is DC Comics' Next Big Bad

The heroes of the DC Universe are going to have their script full duringAbsolute powerfulness , so Amanda Waller is understandably the more quick menace . But someone as power - hungry and vindictive as Thaaros is n’t going to just go away . He ’s belong to take out anyone who ’s a threat to his unilateral control of the DC Universe . He ’s already declare war onGreen Lanternand if he decide to make enemies of more Earth heroes , they ’re decease to have far worse threats to deal with than Waller .

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Green Lantern is the name given to multiple enforcers of intergalactic justice in the DC Universe. Green Lanterns can harness the cosmic energy of willpower, and create unique spectral objects to face off against their enemies. Though some Green Lanterns have assisted with the Justice League, they primarily belong to the Green Lantern Corps.

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