Nascent Drama

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Welcome to The Corpse.

 

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—Von Daggle

 

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"The Corpse" is an elite, top-secret Black Ops division of the Green Lantern Corps.

 

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Members of The Corpse are not restricted by the same rules that regular Lanterns follow, and they perform the darkest, most dangerous missions.

 

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These members do not use Power Rings; instead, they swallow special coin-like disks that give them all of the powers of the standard ring for a limited time.

 

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These disks produce purple energy instead of the traditional green.

 

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Members of the "Corpse" do not wear Green Lantern uniforms, or display the Green Lantern symbol.

 

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Instead, they seem to prefer black uniforms that have no symbol.

 

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They are also not bound to rules such as the restriction of using lethal force like the main Green Lantern Corps, though since The Sinestro Corps War, the main Green Lantern Corps have been enabled use of lethal force against Sinestro Corps members, and later all enemies of the Green Lantern Corps.

 

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Very few Lanterns are even aware of the existence of the "Corpse".

 

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Guy Gardner said that in all of his years in the Corps, he never heard of them and after participating in a mission with the Corpse, his memory of the them was erased.

 

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With the recent authorization of lethal force for the Corps in the aftermath of the Sinestro Corps War, the future and necessity of the Corpse remains unknown.

 

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The Alpha Lanterns

 

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After the Sinestro Corps War the Guardians create a new class of Green Lantern called the Alpha Lanterns.

 

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The Alpha Lanterns are seasoned Corpsmen who have been fused with their Power Rings and Batteries.

 

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Boodikka, Varix, Kraken, Green Man and Chaselon are all confirmed Alpha Lanterns; Hal Jordan is notably not chosen, and John Stewart is chosen but he declines the position.

 

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Geoff Johns stated in an interview with IGN that the Alpha Lanterns function as Internal Affairs for the Green Lanterns Corps[citation needed] - Hal Jordan refers to them in the same manner.

 

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They have "the sentient drive and thought process of the Green Lanterns and the efficiency and logic of The Manhunters," as the Guardians turn them into cyborgs using Manhunter technology, and mainline their minds directly to The Book of Oa and the Central Battery.