Amon Sur

AMON SUR

Real Name: Amon Sur

Class: Extraterrestrial (Ungaran) technology-user

Occupation: Sinestro Corps soldier, professional criminal

Group Affiliation: Sinestro Corps, formerly Black Circle Syndicate

Known Relatives: Abin Sur (father, deceased), Arin Sur (aunt, deceased), unnamed mother

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Qwrd, Anti-Matter Universe

First Appearance: Green Lantern III #162 (June, 2003)

Powers: Like all Ungarans, Amon was capable of limited regeneration. Amon utilized a fighter-class starship capable of interstellar travel, and was equipped with an energy pistol and a belt that let him teleport. As a member of the Sinestro Corps, Amon Sur's primary weapon was his power ring, which was virtually identical to the power rings used by the Green Lantern Corps, except that it only utilized the yellow range of the spectrum, tapping into the emotional energy of fear. Sur's power ring was capable of doing almost anything he could imagine. Examples of its’ powers include flight, phasing, creating giant objects formed of energy, and force fields.

History: (Green Arrow III #24, 25, Green Lantern III #162-164, Green Lantern IV #17 (fb)) - Abin Sur left his mate to become a Green Lantern, unaware that she was pregnant. She gave birth to Amon, who grew to resent his father and his fame as a Green Lantern. Years after Abin Sur’s death the Corps learned that he had a son, and Katma-Tui, Kilowog and Tomar-Tu delivered news of his death to the boy and his mother. Amon was enraged that his father’s successor Hal Jordan was not the one to break the news. He was further angered that his father’s body was buried on Earth, and his starcraft remained there. Amon founded the Black Circle Syndicate, a cartel of interstellar drug dealers. Amon traveled to Earth to discipline a splinter cell of the Black Circle that exceeded their authority by setting up shop on Earth. Amon got Green Arrow and Green Lantern Kyle Rayner together, and told them he was a member of the Ungaran Light Brigade hunting down Black Circle members. He informed Arrow and Kyle of the Black Circle's next visit to Earth. Arrow went to the pier where cleaning supplies were being delivered, but was ambushed by the Circle. Kyle went into space with Amon and met a Black Circle ship that blasted him unconscious. They quickly recovered and they went back to Earth to help Arrow fight the Black Circle and force them to flee off-planet. Unbeknownst to the heroes Amon blew up the ship of Lavvak, the leader of the Black Circle splinter cell. A war erupted between the splinter cell and the mafia they'd treated so shabbily, with Kyle and Arrow containing the damage. One Syndicate member was about to reveal the identity of the Circle's leader, so Amon broke his neck, arousing suspicion in the heroes. The Black Circle armada approached Earth and teleported Amon aboard. Arrow and Kyle followed, only to be trapped in a containment field. Amon stole Kyle's power ring, which he viewed as his rightful legacy. He planned to torture the heroes to death, but Kyle remote-controlled his ring to turn against Amon, and when the Black Circle crew shot at the heroes they damaged their starship. Amon knew the battle was lost and teleported away, but warned the heroes to never cross his path.

(Green Lantern IV #17 (fb)) - Amon was not killed when Lianna blew his head off, Ungarans not being as vulnerable to cranial injury as terrestrials.

(Green Lantern IV #14-17) - Sur set a bounty on Hal’s head, demanding he be brought back to him alive so he could strip him of his ring and acquire what he considered his birthright. He worked through his alien assistant Loragg, who hired the hunters, who were notably unsuccessful against Hal. Two Faceless Hunters closed in on Hal while Hunger Dog, actually GL John Stewart in disguise, accepted the bounty to figure out why so many aliens were gunning for Hal. The Faceless Hunters reported to Sur that they had Hal in custody, and he told them to bring him to southern California at the very place where his father passed the ring to Hal. The Hunters lost Hal, but Hunger Dog made a show of capturing the hero. Amon Sur broke into Edwards Air Force base Hangar 44, where extraterrestrial prisoners and tech was kept. He told the guards they were thieves because they had possession of his father’s spacecraft. He gunned down the guards and reclaimed his father’s ship. Amon and Loragg met Hunger Dog in the desert and put a gun to Hal’s head, throwing out more accusations of him stealing from the Sur family. He demanded that Hal lead him to the grave where he’d buried Abin. They unearthed Abin, and Amon yelled at his father’s Corps, blaming him for everything he’d become because he was never there for him as a father. Hal pointed out that his father was never there for him either, and it didn’t give him a free pass to be evil, and challenged Amon to a fight. They fought, and Hunger Dog revealed himself as Hal’s ally John Stewart, but at that moment Amon was teleported away by a yellow power ring sent by the Sinestro Corps. Amon had been chosen for his ability to instill great fear, and Hal wondered exactly what Sinestro was doing with a Corps.

(Green Lantern IV #18) - Sinestro’s drill sergeant Arkillo sent Amon to Qward for initiation into the Sinestro Corps. He was met by Lyssa Drak, who told him he’d spend time in a fear lodge confronting his own fear until that fear powered his ring. Once he understood his own fear he’d be able to choose the method in ehich he’d spread fear throughout his space sector, his duty as a corpsman. Lyssa read him a story from the Book of Parallax about Sinestro Corps member Despotellis, a sentient virus who spread fear by wiping out planets with his disease. Amon Sur loved the story, and asked for one more before entering the fear lodge.

(Green Lantern IV #19) - Lyssa told Amon Sur the story of Katu-Sil a Corps member from Graxos III, a world of hunters and sociopaths. She made people fear not through what she did, but who she was.

(Green Lantern IV #20) - Lyssa told Amon the story of Bedovian, the Sinestro Corps sniper, and led him to his fear lodge. She warned him that inductees sometimes went mad or starved to death before finding the fear nin their hearts. Amon entered the lodge, and his first thoughts of fear were about Hal Jordan.

(Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps Special #1) - Sinestro gathered Amon and the Sinestro Corps on Qward. Sinestro laid out their mission of using fear to make the chaos of the universe bend to their will, and to replace it with law and order. Their first step was to burn anyone thst would oppose their plan, so they had to destroy the Green Lantern Corps. They brought Kyle Rayner to Qward and stripped him of the Ion entity. Sinestro made Kyle feel fear, and infected him with the Parallax entity, which he then presented to his guardian, the Anti-Monitor.

(Green Lantern IV #21) - Sinestro sent out Amon and a number of his fellow corpsmen across the space sectors to pick off Green Lanterns one by one.

(Green Lantern IV #22, 23) - Kyle / Parallax battered Hal, promising him he’d feel the same fear his father felt before he died. Amon and the Sinestro Corps joined the battle, threatening to overwhelm Hal. Parallax told him the GLC despised him and had abandoned him, but just then the Lost Lanterns appeared, to save him. Parallax killed Lost Lantern Jack T. Chance, and Hal and the remaining Lost Lanterns retreated to Qward’s underground catacombs. Amon and the Sinestro Corps pursued, but were unable to prevent them from freeing Ion from the Anti-Monitor.

(Green Lantern IV #25) - The Sinestro Corps War raged on Earth, but when Amon learned that the Guardians had rewritten the Book of Oa, allowing the GLC to use lethal force, he deserted his post.

Comments: Created by Judd Winick & Charlie Adlard

Amon Sur received a profile in Green Lantern / Sinestro Corps: Secret Files #1.