Atrocitus

Atrocitus
Series	DC Comics
Age	Unknown
Birthday	Unknown
Sex	Male
Species	Unknown
Height	6'9" (206 cm)
Weight	250 lbs (113 kg)
Alignment	Lawful Neutral

1 2 “ With blood and rage of crimson red, Ripped from a corpse so fleshly dead, Together with our hellish hate, We'll burn you all, That is your fate! „ ~ Atrocitus “ This is a strange world full of strange people. I hate it. I hate them. Most of them. „ ~ Atrocitus

Atros, more famously known as Atrocitus, is a villain and occasional anti-hero from DC Comics. He is commonly the leader of the Red Lantern Corps.

Background

Atros once lived a peaceful life in Sector 666 as a stuggling psychologist supporting a familty of 4. Soon, however, his family and entire sector were killed at the hands of an army of rogue Manhunters, robots unsucessfully designed to be an early form of the Green Lantern Corps. At the end of the carnage, only Atros and 4 others survived. Furious, Atros and the other survivors formed a terrorist group called the Five Inversions, bent on taking down the Manhunters and their creators, the Guardians of the Universe. To combat the Manhunters, Atros and his comrades mastered the art of blood magic. When performing a scrying ritual, the Five Inversions foretold the prophecy of Blackest Night. After repeated conflicts, the Guardians ultimately subdued the Five Inversions and imprisoned them on the planet Ysmault.

While imprisoned, Atros had a fateful meeting with the Green Lantern Abin Sur, who Atros told of the apocalyptic prophecy of Blackest Night. Convinced that this apocalypse must be stopped, Abin Sur freed Atros and led him to Earth, where they crash landed. With Abin Sur found dead from the crash, Atros built a divining rod to locate William Hand, the eventual catalyst for Blackest Night, and murder him. However, Atros was quickly subdued by the new Green Lantern Hal Jordan and his mentor, Sinestro, before he could successfully assassinate the future Black Lantern. Sinestro ultimately took Atros back to Ysmault, where he was imprisoned once more. This time, however, Atros used a magic ritual and killed the other 4 members of the Five Inversions, using their blood and his immense rage to forge the Red Lantern Power Battery. In doing so, Atros forged a special ring, and he became the first Red Lantern, fueled by rage and hatred. Setting up base on his former prison planet Ysmault, Atros donned a new name, Atrocitus, and began to gather a Red Lantern Corps to deliver a raging, vengeful justice across the Universe.

Powers & Abilities

• Superhuman Physique: Even without his Ring, Atrocitus is vastly superior to humans on a physical level.
• Sharp Claws & Teeth
• Blood Magic: Atrocitus is highly knowledgeable in the ways of blood magic. Should he create enough carnage, he can use necromancy powers with the blood and gore to see into the future, create powerful blood vortexes, or locate a desired target.

Equipment

• Red Lantern Power Ring: Like all Lantern Corps, Atrocitus wields a Power Ring. For Red Lanterns, their rings are fueled by the wielder's rage and hatred to draw power and generate a variety of abilities. Unlike other Rings, however, Red Lantern Rings forcefully stop the wielder's heart and eject all their blood through their mouths, with the Ring replacing the heart and rage plasma replacing the wielder's blood.
  • Godly Physique: Though he is already superhumanly fit, the Red Lantern Ring drastically boosts Atrocitus' physical capabilities.
  • Red Energy Conduit: The rings use Red energy, supplied by a Power Battery, which in most cases takes the form of red light. A Red Lantern's ring is one of the most powerful weapons in the known Universe. Red Lantern's ring, has the ability to affect and use fundamental forces of the known universe, including electromagnetic energies such as gravity, radiation, heat, light, and powerful blasts of concussive force. The ring can also create fields of force formed from an unknown energy that was bound by the users' will. The limitations of such use are the skill, knowledge and imagination of the user.
    • Rage Plasma: The Red Lantern can vomit plasma, which has been described as napalm and acid mixed together, it burns away at anything. It can be surmised that is the internal rages effect on the blood. These flames burn even in space. The effect it has on living beings allows it to ignite the flames of rage in a victims' blood and has the effect of burning through an energy aura of an opponent as well as corrupting other power rings depleting them at an accelerated rate and greatly weakening the structures they create. This power is so strong that it can destroy members of the Black Lantern Corps by obliterating them faster than they can regenerate. It was so potent that it could even burn the New God like Relic despite his odd regenesis within the reality lesion elevating him to deified status.
    • Energy Projection: The ring can be used to fire blasts of Rage energy. This power is unique as it takes the form of rage-energized blood. The ring can project this blood as a blast that has the effect of a concussive blast with high destructive capability. The weapon's power is more an indication of the Rage of the user, rather then their willpower.
    • Energy Constructs: The ring can form constructs of Rage energy. The primary function of the Power Ring is to provide a weapon capable of transforming the wearer's thoughts into physical constructs through the wearer's rage. A Red Lantern can create any particular items or construct that they can imagine as long as they have the appropriate amount of rage necessary to will it into existence. The constructs are made out of red energy, which is a tangible form of pure rage, and they exist only as long as a Red Lantern is fueling it with their rage. Items created by the rings are not indestructible and are only as powerful as the rage of the Red Lantern creating them. The types of constructs usually reflects the ring wearer's personality.
    • Force-Field: The ring can create various force-fields of various sizes and shapes to protect the wearer and others around him. With the cosmic duties of the ring wielder, it is only natural that the power ring is designed for operation in space. The ring creates a force-field around the wearer, protecting him/her/it from the hazards of the void including filtration of stellar radiation and microscopic particulate matter which would ordinarily be fatal should the space debris strike the ring wielder at high speeds. An atmosphere appropriate to the ring wielder's biology is created inside the force-field, body temperature is maintained and waste products are removed. Gravitational stresses which could cause injury are stabilized for the ring wielder. Theoretically, a ring wielder could use the ring as his/her/its sole source of life support. The force-field seems to be created instantaneously, whether this is due to programming or an instinctive reaction from intensive training has not been established.
    • Flight: By the manipulation of anti-gravitons and directed molecular movement, the ring allows the user to fly at incredible speeds.
    • Rage Absorption: The Red Power Ring can be used to absorb red energy that has been released into the air of a world, absorbing another's rage if the person being absorbed from is not wearing a Red ring themselves.
    • Rage Infection: The Red Power Ring is capable of infecting others with the rage of the Red Lantern, which can lead to them being converted to the the Red Lantern Cause.
    • Rage Transformation: All Red Power Rings bring about an odd transformation within the hosts being, most every change varies from wearer to wearer. Said transition can be as menial as a simple costume change to as dramatic as a full on biophysical metamorphosis, two such transformations occurred in Red Lanterns Rankorr and Judge Sheko. The alterations are more than skin deep, those with exceptionally strong fury can become physically and emotionally more powerful than the average feral lantern. Even retaining some small part of their mental stability while developing new powers unique to themselves.
    • Rage Empowerment: the Red Lantern ring is unique in that its base of power, Rage, can be manipulated by the ring user. A Red Lantern can detect the rage in the heart of others and by connection the heart that pumps that blood. The rage and hatred of a individual red lantern empowers their abilities as well as the rage and hatred of others.
    • Rage Telepathy: As learned by Judge Sheko and taught to Guy Gardner, the ring can be used, on contact with a particularly rage-filled individual, to discern the motivating factor behind said rage. More skilled users can read the minds of anyone with or without rage in their being and judge them accordingly. However, it takes a strong mind to be able to handle the amount of rage of certain individuals, and so the user may be overcome if they are not careful.
    • Blood Portals: A unique quality of the Power Ring, is their capacity to open portals out of the red lantern's plasmoid blood. Enabling the wielder in question to traverse interstellar distances in an instant.
    • Black Lantern Resistance: As the Black Lanterns favor attacking and killing their victims by ripping their hearts out, the Red Lanterns can survive the attack for as long as their wrath burns bright, due to their bodies running on the red energy rather than their own blood.
    • Haemopotent Replication: It has been said by Atrocitus that should a Red Lantern consume the blood of another Red Lantern possessing certain abilities unique to themselves, i.e. creating energy constructs, they too will gain the ability said blood source possesses.
    • Illusion Generation: The outfit of a Red Lantern can be made invisible to any who the user does not want to see it.
    • Rage Mind Control: Through the red light, Atrocitus can warp the psychological state of anyone who comes in contact with it. Making them both a slave to his will as well as their own mindless ire, whether the effected are wearing a red ring or not. The more powerful the underlying anger is within the subject, the greater chance there is of succumbing to its influence. Moreover, the exceptionally powerful manipulated who succumb to it are more prone to calling a Red Power ring to them.
  • Green Lantern Weakening: His Ring's presence naturally drains the energy stored in Green Lantern Rings.
• Red Lantern Power Battery: When his Ring runs low on energy, Atrocitus can use the battery to recharge it.

Feats

Strength

• Can easily destroy Green Lantern's energy constructs, which can withstand supernovae and blows from the likes of Superman, with his bare hands.
• Regularly fights against the strongest of Lanterns like Hal Jordan and Sinestro, who can destroy planets.
• Threw Excavator with utter ease, who weighs over 20 tons.
• Without a Red Lantern Ring, can pick up massive vehicles weighing dozens of tons with ease.
• Without his Ring, can break out of Sinestro's constructs.
• Created energy chains strong enough to restrain the Butcher, the Entity of Rage.
• Vomit plasma can destroy 3 buses full of prisoners.
• Hurts Martian Manhunter with his rage plasma.
• Can effortlessly lift firetrucks.
• Took down 2 powerful Red Lanterns at once.

Speed

• Dodged laser fire.
• Regularly keeps up with various Lantern Corps members, who regularly move and fight on interstellar to intergalactic scales.
• Can escape from the likes of Guy Gardener and Supergirl.
• Without his Red Lantern Ring, can attack a group of trained soldiers faster than they can react.

Durability

• Can take hits from the strongest of Lantern Corps members.
• Tanked a combined shot from multiple members of his own Red Lantern Corps.
• Without his Red Lantern Ring, shrugged off blows from Hal Jordan and Sinestro's constructs.
• Without his Ring, Survived jumping out of a crashing spaceship while it was undergoing atmospheric reentry.
• Can take hits from the god Apollo.

Skill

• Founded the Red Lantern Corps and constructed their primary battery.
• Mastered blood magic.
• Scried the events of Blackest Night far before they occurred.
• Located the cause of Blackest Night before the event happened.
• Strong enough to overpower the Butcher's possession and controls it.
• Defeated someone possessed by the Butcher.
• Dispatched several Lanterns from the Sinestro Corps.
• Killed several Guardians of Oa, who are essentially the leaders of the Green Lantern Corps.
• Without his Red Lantern Ring, can combat the Manhunters, an army that killed his entire sector and were the predecessors to the Green Lantern Corps.

Weaknesses

• Irrational: While a fairly clever strategist, Atrocitus' heavy rage can cloud his judgment and lead him to making irrational choices.
  • Underusage of Ring: Despite his ring's various powers, Atrocitus tends to ignore them and rely mostly on his fists in combat.
• Power Ring Limitations: As powerful as he is, most of Atrocitus' powers come from his ring, so without it he becomes drastically weaker. The Ring also replaces Atrocitus' heart in function, so his heart stops pumping blood without his ring. Without immediate treatment, this can kill Atrocitus almost instantly.
  • Life-Support Dependency: As the Red Power Ring assumes the functions of the heart, a Red Lantern cannot remove his ring without risking death.
  • Emotion Dependency: As with all Power Rings should the user's feelings fall too far out of sync with the Ring's affiliated emotion(in this case anger), then the Ring's effectiveness can drop significantly.
  • Uncontrollable Rage: Before Atrocitus decided to grant thought to his lanterns, the Red Lanterns suffered from literal uncontrollable rage, due to red being on the farthest edges of the emotional spectrum they were unable to think clearly or be reasoned with. They rarely spoke, save for their leader Atrocitus, and often attack without distinction. Only the Red Lanterns Corps new recruits suffer from this rage.
  • Hope Influence: The Blue light of hope can extinguish the red flame and depower a Red Lantern.
  • Love Influence: Love can be fatal to a Red Lantern. Being the opposite of anger, any Red Lantern who feels love for another being may immediately be rejected by their ring and die without its life support.