Haasp The Hunter

HAASP THE HUNTER

Real Name: Haasp

Class: Extraterrestrial technology-user

Occupation: Big game hunter, Sinestro Corps member

Group Affiliation: Sinestro Corps

Known Relatives: Harvid (brother)

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Space Sector 3492

First Appearance: Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps Special #1 (August, 2007)

Powers: Haasp was a consummate hunter. Haasp'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. Haasp’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. His power ring could also counter the abilities of any Green Lantern’s power ring.

History: (Green Lantern / Sinestro Corps: Secret Files #1) - Haasp traveled the cosmos hunting the rarest and most endangered sentient species and selling their skins on the black market. When Haasp tried to kill one of the most endangered species in the universe his brother Harvid, a Green Lantern, arrested him and placed him in an oan sciencell. Haasp was chosen to join the Sinestro Corps because of his ability to instill great fear, and his hatred for his brother became an obsession. he was determined to hunt and skin Harvid.

(Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps Special #1) - Sinestro gathered Haasp 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 the Sinestro Corps’ guardian, the Anti-Monitor.

(Green Lantern IV #25) - Haasp and the Sinestro Corps continued to wage war on Earth while Hal and Kyle went to Coast City to protect it from Sinestro, and Hal issued a radio broadcast asking the residents to flee. Not a soul left, everyone had faith Hal would save them from Sinestro. Sinestro and a number of his soldiers engaged Hal and Kyle, and Sinestro told them he’d already won the war. His actions made the Guardians rewrite the Book of Oa, and now that the GLC could use lethal force they would be feared. Sinestro always wanted the GLC to be a more totalitarian police force to bring order to the universe, and he’d succeeded. Sinestro and Hal’s rings were both drained of power, and they squared off in hand-to-hand combat. Hal won, and told Sinestro he was under arrest. In NYC the Anti-Monitor tapped into Earth’s energy and prepared to unleash an anti-matter wave to consume Earth. The GLC ruptured the heart of Anti-Monitor’s Warworld, the Sinestro Corps central power battery, and created a shield around Warworld and the Monitor. The ensuing blast nearly destroyed the Anti-Monitor, and he was finished off by Superman-Prime, who betrayed him for having destroyed his home, Earth-Prime. With the Anti-Monitor destroyed, Sinestro vanquished, and having no way of recharging their rings the Sinestro Corps fled Earth to lick their wounds.

Comments: Created by Geoff Johns & Ethan Van Sciver

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