Karu-Sil

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Publication information
Karu-Sil

Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	Green Lantern #19 (May 2, 2007)
Created by	Geoff Johns Ethan Van Sciver
In story information
Team affiliations	Sinestro Corps
Abilities	Qwardian power ring

Karu-Sil is a fictional character, a supervillain in the DC Comics Universe.

[edit] Publication history

Artist Ethan Van Sciver said on Karu-Sil's creation, "With Karu-Sil, I had the idea for Ghost Rider. If I ever did Ghost Rider, she was going to be a Ghost Rider villain. And I just mentioned the idea to Geoff [Johns], and we turned her into part of the Sinestro Corps." On explaining her name, Sciver said "She's got animals all around her. She's a human carousel. So [Geoff] called her Karu-Sil and came up with her origin."[1]

[edit] Fictional character biography

Karu-Sil was born on Graxos III in Sector 2815, a primitive and violent jungle world. At a very young age, her parents are slaughtered in a raid on her village by a rival tribe, and she is forced to fend for herself in the jungle. She is adopted by a pack of predators. In order to resemble her new family better she carved off her lips, permanently exposing her fanged teeth.

One day, in her adulthood, she is drinking water from a river when she is discovered by a young man from a nearby village. Though the man approaches her in friendship, she strikes him down. As her pack began devouring the corpse, the Green Lantern of the sector shows up and kills them all. Not realising she had been part of the pack, the Green Lantern Blish intervened killing the pack and taking here away to Graxos IV, a more technologically advanced world, to be cared for. There, she brutally kills a psychologist who was treating her, and she was institutionalized.

It was during this imprisonment that she is recruited into the Sinestro Corps. Once she obtains the power of the ring, she used it to create duplicates of her pack. Despite the fact that they are energy constructs, Karu-Sil still cares for them deeply, even comforting one after Guy Gardner kicked it. She refers to them as her "fathers three", and when her ring runs low on power, she states "they need to be fed!".