Traitor (comics)

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Traitor is a DC Comics supervillain to the Green Lantern Corps.

[edit] Character History

Traitor's true name is Devlos Ungol, and he was originally a warrior of great ferocity on his home world. He was eventually upgraded, merged with an armor that fed on the energy of dying stars and could adapt to any weapon thrown at it. However, he rejected his people, having concluded, during the agony he endured as the armor was fused to him, that there was no meaning in the universe besides pain and death.

With this philosophy in mind, Ungol crushed his people, who died calling him 'Traitor', assuming the name on a permanent basis. As he travelled, he gathered a vast army of pirates and survivors, until, at last, he fought the Green Lantern Starkaor, an early defender of Sector 2814. During the battle much of Traitor's armor was damaged, forcing him to retreat, but Starkaor was badly injured, and forced to appoint Abin Sur as his successor.

It took Sur several years to track Traitor down again, and in that time he had stationed himself on Earth in the late 1800s, forming an alliance with a criminal called Bloody Joe Tuscano until he could replenish his powers. Eventually, Sur arrived, but Traitor found what he believed to be the perfect weapon; gold-tipped bullets, their yellow color allowing them to injure Sur. However, Sur had formed an alliance with Marshall Henry Lee Jordan (coincidentally, an ancestor of Sur's future successor Hal Jordan), and Jordan was able to get Sur to a town where the bullets were removed, allowing the ring to heal him. The two of them subsequently fought off Bloody Joe and Traitor, Sur destroying Bloody Joe's weapons and Jordan distracting Traitor until Sur could imprison him in a pocket dimension in the ring.

Almost a century later, Traitor would return and do battle with Hal Jordan and his ally Ray Palmer, the Atom. After developing a means of exerting control over the ring, Traitor lured the Atom into close proximity to the ring, using the white dwarf star fragment that gave the Atom his powers to provide himself with energy. As a result, Traitor was able to exchange Earth for the microscopic world he had been imprisoned on, intending for the two of them to destroy each other when Earth expanded back to its normal size. As Hal and Traitor clashed, the Atom used a spare ring to slow the rate of Earth's growth, the other world exploding too early and thus allowing Earth to be restored. After this battle, the explosion sent Traitor plunging into the sun, which blocked him from the dead star energy that he needed to survive.

Eventually, however, Traitor escaped, managing to gain enough energy to flee when the Sun briefly went out during the Final Night crisis. Travelling to the distant planet of Ramnos, Traitor destroyed the entire world, also gaining an unwilling ally in the form of the planet's champion, Stellera; a defect in the DNA of her people meant that they were forced to obey anyone who defeated them in battle. Using this, Traitor sent Stellera to Earth, ordering her to claim that she sought the aid of Green Lantern to defeat Traitor. Eventually finding the current Green Lantern, Kyle Rayner, Stellera returned to the shattered remains of Ramnos, where Traitor crushed Kyle's ring and left him for dead.

However, Kyle realised that his ring retained power, and used this to piece it back together through sheer will. Pursuing Traitor, the two of them clashed in an asteroid field, during which Kyle used the ring to create 'ghosts' of the Green Lanterns who had defeated Traitor in the past. As the fight continued, Traitor revealed that he had only drawn Kyle there to finally perfect himself; of all he'd fought, only Green Lanterns had been able to find the flaws in Traitor's armor, but now those flaws no longer existed. At the last minute, aided by Stellera, Kyle launched an electromagnetic pulse at Traitor, shutting his armor down. As Stellera died, her DNA killing her due to her defiance of Traitor, Kyle took Traitor back to Ramnos, imprisoning him at the core of the planet, where no dead star radiation could reach him, hoping that now Traitor would never endanger anyone again.

Traitor was last seen in a possible future killing Hal Jordan. This was shown to Superman and the Daily Planet staff by Arion in the Camelot Falls storyline. Traitor was apparently an "old foe ressurected." If this has any bearing on the present of Traitor is unknown.