Morro
The Green Lantern of Space Sector 666. Morro, along with his fierce pet dratures, has volunteered to keep a vigil over all that have fallen in service of the Corps. Formerly, this meant being the keeper of the Crypts of Oa. Currently, it means he tends the memorial to the honored fallen erected on Mogo, where the Green lantern Corps has made their home after Oa's destruction.
Name:
Morro
Publisher:
Real name:
Morro
Aliases:
- Morro the Cryptkeeper
Birth date:
None
Gender:
Male
Powers:
- Blast Power
- Energy Manipulation
- Flight
- Force Field
- Light Projection
- Omni-lingual
- Phasing / Ghost
- Power Item
- Telepathy
- Unarmed Combat
- Willpower-Based Constructs
First issue:
Great American Comic Books (2001) #1
Green Lantern Statistics
- Status: Active
- Sector Assignment: Mogo
- Space Sector: 666
- Predecessor: Unknown
- Sector Partner: None
- Home-world: Sarc
- Successor: Inapplicable
Origin
Morro was born on the desert planet of Sarc. He was part of a nomadic tribe called The Relentless, named on account of them being able to march without food or water for weeks. But when one of them fell from hunger, heat exhaustion, or thirst, they wouldn't even try to help him...they'd just strip him of his belongings as they walked by and then kept moving. They would move in the daytime. At night, they stayed locked in their tents, because that's when the beasts would come out to hunt. One night, while camping under a plateu, Morro woke-up and found his brother, Marrg, gone and the tent flap hanging open. Morro decided to check on him. When he made it outside, he found an adult Drature flying off with his brother in its teeth. He followed it to its nest, knowing that the three suns the planet orbited would be rising soon.
When he reached the top, one of the suns had already risen. The Drature was sleeping with his brother's blood all over its mouth. He was about to strike it down when the Drature woke-up and attacked him. He kept dodging it until he found the right opening, and he struck it down with his staff. He kept up the attacke until, finally, the Drature was dead. But, just then, he found four now orphaned baby Dratures lying down, still asleep. Next to them lay what the mother Drature really took, fruit who's juices looked like blood. Morro climbed down from the nest only to find his tribe gone. He decided to follow their footsteps, but he didn't get far when he found his brother collpased on the ground. His brother had been looking for him and the heat overcame him. His brother wasn't dead though. They were able to sleep through the night without a tent because the four orphaned Dratures watched over them, making sure nothing harmed them.
For years he, his brother, and the dratures lived as a family. The dratures even took the two to an unlimited amount of water that resided in a cavern. More years passed before Morro's brother, Marrg, died in his sleep. A few months later, Morro recieved his Green Lantern power ring. And, since then, along with his four pet dratures, protected sector 666 and has been the crypt keeper for the Green Lanterns Corps on Oa, a job for for which he volunteered.
