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It turn over out that many of the threats theGreen Lanternsface to keep theDC Universesafe can all be trace back to one peculiar source . Hal Jordan ’s earliest days as a Green Lantern expose a legacy of pain in the neck and torment that begins with the Green Lantern Corps ' founders , the Guardians of the Universe .
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But that achiever has come at terrible cost that can be seen firsthand in the Green Lantern storyline " Secret Origin " by Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis . The next leader of the terrifying Red Lantern Corps , Atrocitus , is on the lose on Earth thanks to Hal Jordan ’s precursor , theGreen Lantern Abin Sur , being misled by an ancient divination . It ’s revealed that Atrocitus is really one of the few survivors of a vicious mass murder intrust by the Manhunters , the Guardians ’ former peacekeeping mission power . A computer programing glitch caused them to pass over out an entire sector , position Atrocitus on a way of vengeance . Atrocitus fashions a equipment and seeks to steal a great power prophesized to be within William Hand . However , after Atrocitus is apprehended , Hand hit off with his innovation , which would be the same arm he would use as the supervillain Black Hand .
Black Hand ’s artillery helped himfulfill the death - meet Blackest Night prophecyby kill himself and giving the death entity Nekron a connection to the living humans . For eons , the Guardians were warned of a War of Light that would end in a waving of last that would spread across the universe until nothing was bequeath . In their attempts to keep this calamity , the ancient beings made decisions that result to the DC Universe nearly being destroyed .
It all lead off with the Guardians ' innovation of the Manhunters , who they thought could effectively patrol entire wandflower . If they had accounted for the potential of glitches , Sector 666 would n’t havebeen massacred and the Red Lantern Corps loss leader Atrocituswould never have cuss payback . But the Manhunters ' genocide sent Atrocitus on a itinerary to shoot down William Hand and take his power . Because of that , Hand became a supervillain and his enthrallment with death lead him to becoming the incarnation for the Black Lantern Corps . Though the universe reign in the look of a zombie Revelation , everything that happened in the up to it can be traced back to the poor direction of the Guardians . In the efforts to protect theDCU , theGreen Lanterns’leaders only managed to put it on a path to its near - destruction .
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