Sinestro WANTED to Be Locked Up — Lanterns Never Told You Why

Lanterns tells you three things about Sinestro: he tried to take power, he killed a Guardian, and Hal Jordan locked him away. The comics tell you the rest — Hal beat him with no ring, arrested him instead of killing him… and Sinestro walked into that cell smiling.
In this video: who Sinestro was before the yellow ring, what really happened on Korugar, the Coast City fight the show never showed, why his arrest was part of his plan — and who might have broken him out in Lanterns.
⏱️ Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:45 The greatest Green Lantern
1:37 Korugar
2:26 Fear: the yellow ring
2:58 Coast City — the fight nobody showed you
4:30 The cell
5:16 What the show changed
6:00 Who broke him out?
📚 Comics referenced
• Green Lantern: Rebirth #1–6 (2004–2005)
• Green Lantern #25 (2008) — Sinestro Corps War finale
• Green Lantern: Secret Origin (Green Lantern #29–35, 2008)
• Green Lantern #43–50 / Blackest Night (2009–2010)
📺 Lanterns (HBO, 2026) — Season 1, Episodes 2, 3, 4 and 6
Who do YOU think broke Sinestro out? Drop your theory below 👇
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