Soranik Natu (New Earth)

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 * Theme                  = Green Lantern
 * Image                  = SoranikNatu.jpg
 * RealName               = Soranik Natu
 * CurrentAlias           = Green Lantern
 * Aliases                =
 * Identity               = Public
 * Alignment              = Good
 * AlienRace              = Korugaran; Ungaran
 * Affiliation            = Green Lantern Corps
 * Sector                 = 1417
 * Partner                = Princess Iolande
 * Relatives              = Arin Sur (mother), Thaal Sinestro (father), Abin Sur (uncle), Amon Sur (cousin), Dgibb, Karoll Natu (adoptive parents)
 * Universe               = New Earth
 * BaseOfOperations       = Sector 1417,Korugar


 * Gender                 = Female
 * Height                 =
 * Weight                 =
 * Eyes                   = Purple
 * Hair                   = Black
 * UnusualSkinColour      = Pink
 * UnusualFeatures        = Alien Physiology


 * Citizenship            =
 * MaritalStatus          = Single
 * Occupation             = Green Lantern; Neurosurgeon
 * Education              = Medical School Graduate


 * Origin                 =
 * PlaceOfBirth           = Korugar
 * Creators               = Geoff Johns; Dave Gibbons; Patrick Gleason
 * First                  = Green Lantern Corps: Recharge #1


 * Quotation              = There was no risk. I'm a doctor. A very good doctor. The best on Korugar.
 * Speaker                = Soranik Natu
 * QuoteSource            = Green Lantern Corps: Recharge Vol 1 3


 * HistoryText            =

Origin
A neurosurgeon by trade, Soranik Natu, like the rest of her race, saw the Green Lanterns and everything associated with them as a symbol of oppression, because the first Korugaran to have been a Green Lantern was the renegade Sinestro. Sinestro, unbeknownst to his superiors, the Guardians of the Universe, who recruit and administrate the Green Lantern Corps, used his GL power ring to enslave his people and rule over them as a dictator. As a result, he was known among Korugarans as "The Wicked." Although Sinestro's crimes were eventually exposed to the Guardians by Earth's Green Lantern Hal Jordan, and he was imprisoned as a result, the Green Lantern power ring and logo became to the Korugarans what the Nazi swastika became to the people of Earth. When another Korugaran, Katma Tui, subsequently became a Green Lantern, this did nothing to restore the Green Lanterns' image. Rather, Tui was seen as a monster by her own people for allying herself with them, even after she eventually gave her life in the line of duty, and is known among the Korugarans as "The Lost".

Green Lantern Corps
The Corps suffered devastation when the demonic parasitic entity known as Parallax took control of Hal Jordan, turning him into a psychotic mass-murderer, and killing almost all the other members of the Corps, including all the Guardians but their leader, Ganthet. The ranks of the Guardians were eventually restored by Jordan's replacement, Kyle Rayner, and after the Parallax entity was removed from Jordan, and Jordan restored as a Green Lantern, the Guardians set about to repopulate the ranks of the Corps, searching for 7,200 new Green Lanterns. When Tarkus Whin, the Green Lantern of space Sector 1417 (of which Korugar was also a part) was killed on his first day as a GL after Star 196 collapsed into a black hole, his ring sought out a replacement, and found Dr. Natu in the middle of delicate neurosurgery on her home planet, Korugar.

Natu was horrified at the appearance of the ring, and rejected it, but when her patient’s condition immediately began to worsen before her, Natu, desperate to save him, took the ring, and used it to conjure an elaborate medical apparatus that saved him, though her comrades in the operating room felt that by accepting the ring, she had damned herself. Although she allowed the ring to take her to the planet Oa, which served as the headquarters of the Guardians, she soon left, refusing to be inducted. However, on her way back to Korugar, she was haunted by thoughts of Tarkus Whin, because the rites of death are sacred on Korugar. Her ring took her to the black hole that had been star 1417.196, which sucked her in as it had Whin. She found herself at unknown location devoid of light, and found Whin’s corpse. Sensing that his killers were coming for him, and realizing that Tarkus’ ring obviously was not able to protect him, Natu demonstrated an impressive presence of mind and an ingenious level of creative thinking by swallowing her ring, ordering it to slow her vital processes and store her life force within itself, so that she would appear to be another lump of organic waste to the spider-like creatures that took her. Her brain functions minimal, she remembered ordering the ring to send rescue signals when it was safe, and to respond to nearby power rings. When Kyle Rayner and his fellow Earth Green Lantern Guy Gardner found Natu, she came back to life. Rayner and Gardner convinced her to honor Whin’s memory by accepting the role of a Green Lantern.

Natu, Rayner and Gardner rendezvoused with Corps trainer Kilowog and new recruits Vath Sarn and Isamot Kol, who discovered that the recent rash of stars collapsing into black holes was caused by the subspace web created by the inhabitants of the Vega star system known as the Spider Guild.

Natu again demonstrated her emotional control when, during a battle against a horde of mechanical spiders and a group of bounty hunters, her ring faltered, because of the Parallax Fear Anomaly, which made GL power rings ineffective against anything yellow during times of fear or panic, until and unless the Lantern could muster their courage. With her fellow GL's power rings depleted in power, it fell to Natu to save them, which she did, by encasing them all in an energy sphere and retreating the Spider Guild’s Nest. Realizing that Oa's sun was the Guild's next target, the five Lanterns, along with Lanterns Green Man and Stel, raced back to Oa where the Spider Guild had already begun an attack on the planet, which Natu and her fellow GL's successfully repelled.

Natu participated in the defense of Oa from the onslaught of Superboy-Prime. She helped form the wall of emerald energy that slowed the rampaging Teen of Steel and arrived on Mogo in time to destroy the kryptonite threatening the life of Superman.

Natu's role as a Green Lantern, however, conflicted with her role as doctor. When her hospital fired her and suspended her license, and her neighbors evicted her from her apartment, Natu angrily burned her personal effects, declaring that "Soranik Natu is dead". Going to Mogo, the planet form Green Lantern showed her images of the patients she had failed to save, who thanked her for not giving up on them and for giving them hope. Following this, Natu went to work helping the disenfranchised of Korugar, leading to a few hostile encounters by the military police.

Sinestro Corps War
By the time of the Sinestro Corps War, she was nearly in a face off with the police when Sinestro himself appeared. Sinestro and Natu fought, a battle which Sinestro easily dominated. Sinestro, however, allowed it to appear that she defeated him, so that she would remain on Korugar to guide the Korugarans to hail her as a hero.

Filled with anger, Natu went to Earth, where the Sinestro Corps was launching an invasion, gunning for Sinestro himself. Natu was particularly horrified to see the Green Lanterns using lethal force against the Sinestro's. Regrouping in New York, she joined Sodam Yat and others in charging Sinestro and the Anti-Monitor over Kilowog and Salakk's orders. She later tended to Yat after his battle with Superman-Prime, and saved Guy Gardner's life when he was infected with Despotellis by injecting him with Leezle Pon. In the immediate aftermath of the war, Soranik would often assist wounded Green Lanterns by constructing replacement limbs created by manifestations of their willpower (via their rings and Power Batteries).

Shortly afterwards, Natu joins a a group of Lanterns searching for the assassins of rookie Green Lanterns families. During the mission, she works closely with Kyle Rayner, becoming much closer to him. Following the capture of the Quintet, Kyle and Soranik are pulled into KT21 and the Pree couple's mission to locate Kryb. During the search, Soranik, Kyle, KT21, and Matoo Pree are taken under Kryb's control, causing them to attck Amnee Pree and force her to go into labor. Kyle is able to break free of Kryb's control, and free the others, leaving Matoo and Soranik to help Amnee give birth. The Lanterns are assisted by Miri Riam, the newest member of the Star Sapphire Corps, and the baby is delivered, though KT21 is killed when she tries to kill Kryb. Though Soranik does feel that Miri's claim to rehabilitate Kryb is flawed, she make a rather profound revelation in the process, as when the Star Sapphires show her true love, it turns out to be Kyle Rayner. Upon returning to Oa, Kyle and Soranik confess their feelings for one another and being engaging in a relationship, despite the fact that the Third New Law prevents Green Lanterns from doing so with one another.

Prelude to Blackest Night
Soranik returns to Korugar to explain to the people of her planet that Sinestro had escaped the custody of Green Lanterns. She reassures her people that they can move on from Sinestro's legacy. While she discussing Korugar's situation with her partner Iolande when Sinestro appears before the duo knocking out Iolande. He reveals to her that she is his daughter. Doubtful of the fallen-Green Lantern's claims immediately denies his claim it. Sinestro explains that he took control of Korugar because he did not believe it fit to raise her in. Soranik's mother receiving threats for Sinestro's actions and after failing to convince him to stop his takeover she leaves him and takes Soranik with her. She gives up Soranik to Karoll and Dgibb Natu, the former of whom being the obstetrician who delivered Soranik.

Sinestro was unable to locate Soranik for years, but thought it was better this way for the best. However he eventually found her, he marked her with their family coat of arms which contained micro transmitter, so that he would always be able to find her. He has been watching her from the background even attending her graduation from medic school while in disguise; taking a photo of her and her adopted parents for them. Soranik starts to accept the truth she still wants nothing to do with her biological father. Despite this Sinestro tells her to call him if she needs his help and beware of Red Lantern Corps leader Atrocitus. After her reunion with her father Soranik attempts to destroy the transmitter however she fails to do so.

Blackest Night
Soranik and Iolande traveling back to Oa run into Kyle and Guy who are also heading for Oa. When Iolande is about to reveal what happened on Korugar Soranik interrupts her saying that she was busy with operating on people a lie that Iolande goes along with. They group is swarmed by a group of black power rings on route to Oa. The four try to stop it by creating a wall the rings break through it. The group split up with Soranik and Iolande going to the medical bay. They fight off Black Lanterns trying to kill injured Lanterns. After a brief battle the duo decide to send the injured Lanterns to Mogo were they will be safe until the attack ended. She sees Kyle is being attacked by his former girlfriend Jade who was also resurrected as Black Lantern; she immediately goes to help him.

She rescues Kyle and the two do battle with Jade. During the battle Jade tries to break Soranik by revealing that Kyle saw Jade's face, not her own, in Star Sapphire gem, and that all of Kyle's former lovers have all been killed, even going as far as to create a construct of Soranik in casket. However, this only causes Soranik to fight harder. The battle is cut short when all the Black Lanterns are ordered to destroy the Central Power Battery. While battling alongside her fellow Lanterns she receives a transmission from Kyle telling her that he loves her. Shortly afterwards Kyle sacrifices his life to destroy a great number of Black Lanterns.

As Soranik attempts to resuscitate Kyle, Guy is consumed with rage over Kyle's death. Vice's Red Lantern ring manifests itself and Guy takes it, transforming into a Red Lantern. As he battles the Black Lanterns, Soranik tries to fight off a black ring that attaches itself to Kyle and attempts to resurrect him, but Munk of the Indigo Tribe destroys it before it can. He and the rest of the Green Lantern Corps defend her and Kyle's body from the swarm of Black Rings around them. Miri Riam of the Star Sapphires, arrives having sensed the true love between Kyle and Soranik in jeopardy. Riam uses her ring's power to connect Soranik's heart to Kyle's, and combines their power of will together with her power of love, successfully restoring Kyle to life. Sensing this, his ring returns to him.

Soranik is one of the Green Lanterns trying to stop red ring infected Guy Gardner from his rampage. Kyle ask her to help Guy she is unable to do anything for him, but Mogo itself cures Guy from the red rings influence. She joins the rest of the Green Lantern Corps as they ally with the other six corps to defeat the leader of the Black Lantern Corp Nekron. After Nekron's defeat at the hands of seven corps, the heroes of Earth and the Entity of Life she witness the resurrections of many fallen heroes and villains. To her surprise the resurrected Jade kisses Kyle in front of her.

Brightest Day
In a attempt to keep Jade away from Kyle, Soranik runs test on her under the guise of testing for any ill side-effects. During the test Jade becomes frustrated and asks her if she thinks the test are keeping her from Kyle. Soranik confesses that Jade has been in perfect condition the entire time, than asks Jade why she is not trying to spend time with Kyle. Jade tells her that Kyle no longer looks at her the same way and that she can see that he is in love with Soranik now and she does not plan on getting in Soranik's way.

She along with the other Green Lanterns helps to rebuild Oa, than attends a Memorial for the fallen Green Lanterns on Mogo. After the memorial she and Kyle discuss his mural's destruction. While Kyle decided to put the mural on hold until Oa is rebuild Soranik convinces him not to wait, reasoning that all the Lanterns could use a moral boost. The two share tender moment. In Green Lantern Corps #48 Kyle tells his fellow human Green Lantern John Stewart that he is staying with Soranik until he can find a new place of his own; indicating that her relationship with Kyle has not only been progressing, but also become public ( mostly like due to the Third Law was repealed).


 * Powers                 =
 * Abilities              =
 * : Soranik Natu is a skilled doctor, particularly in neurosurgery.
 * : Soranik Natu is a skilled martial arts fighter.
 * Strength               =
 * Weaknesses             =
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 * Equipment              =
 * Green Lantern Power Battery
 * Transportation         =
 * Weapons                =
 * Green Lantern Ring

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