Gleen

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Real Name: Gleen

Class: Extraterrestrial (Krolotean) technology-user

Occupation: Scientist, Sinestro Corps member

Group Affiliation: Sinestro Corps

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Krolot (homeworld), Earth

First Appearance: Green Lantern IV #5 (November, 2005)

Powers: Gremlins were brilliant bio-engineers, capable of accelerating evolutionary pathways in other organisms and totally reconfiguring anatomy. His primary weapon was his power ring, which is virtually identical to the power rings used by the Green Lantern Corps, except that it only utilizes the yellow range of the spectrum, tapping into the emotional energy of fear. Gleen’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. Gleen’s power ring could also counter the abilities of any Green Lantern’s power ring.

History: (Green Lantern IV #5, 6) - Gleen was a Gremlin, capitalist scientists who lived to take things apart and put them back together again and play with the evolutionary capacities of different species. Gleen and his fellow Gremlins sped up the evolution of a shark to make him the humanoid supervillain Shark and created a super-evolved man in Hector Hammond. They left Earth, but returned years later to check on their experiments, as well as taking the time to evolve a man into a Grey style alien form. Hector Hammond sensed their presence and alerted Green Lantern, sick of his super-evolved but immobile body. After checking up on Hammond they took Green lantern’s old enemy Black Hand, who’d lost his right hand to the hero. They replaced his hand, and his new hand killed any life that was anywhere near him. The Gremlins then checked in on Shark, who’d become almost completely animalistic, and confronted Green lantern, who was battling the villain. They wanted to further modify Lantern and his foes and sell them as weapons in an intergalactic war, but Green Lantern repelled them and handed them over to Green Lanterns Tagort and Venizz, who’d previously been affected by the Gremlins and were determined to apprehend every last one.

(Green Lantern / Sinestro Corps: Secret Files #1) - Gleen was considered the nastiest of a nasty race, and recruited into the Sinestro Corps.

(Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps Special #1) - Sinestro gathered Gleen 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 that 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 #22, 23) - Kyle / Parallax battered Hal, promising him he’d feel the same fear his father felt before he died. Gleen 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. Gleen and the Sinestro Corps pursued, but were unable to prevent them from freeing Ion from the Anti-Monitor.

(Green Lantern IV #24) - Sinestro communicated with Hal via his power ring as the Sinestro Corps invaded Earth. He intended to conquer the planet, making it a symbol of the Sinestro Corp’s power and their ability to control any planet. He intended to makes slaves of the Earthlings, and execute anyone who did not submit. Gleen and his fellow Sinestro Corps soldiers wrecked havoc on Earth, but were staved off by the GLC and an army of Earth’s heroes.

Comments: Created by Geoff Johns & Ethan Van Sciver

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