Early history Carol Ferris is
Ferris Aircraft's vice president, as well as the only child of aerospace mogul
Carl Ferris and his wife Christine. She hires
Hal Jordan as a test pilot and quickly finds herself attracted to him. When Hal becomes the first human chosen to wield the power of the
Green Lantern, he keeps it a secret from Carol. However, the young couple's romance quickly becomes complicated when Carol takes over the company from her father and struggles to balance her new responsibilities with romance. When the
Zamarons discover that she is in love with Green Lantern, a servant of their ancient rivals, the
Guardians of the Universe, they abduct Carol and infuse her with a gem known as the Star Sapphire. Transformed, Carol is brainwashed and ordered to destroy Hal. Star Sapphire and Green Lantern duel several times over the years. Each time Jordan defeats her, Carol reverts to normal but inevitably turns back into Star Sapphire again. The two separate when Carol decides to marry her old sweetheart, Jason Belmore. It is around this time that Carol finds out that Hal Jordan is Green Lantern.
Secret Origin The
Green Lantern: Secret Origin storyline revises parts of Carol and Hal's history. In this retelling, the two first meet when they are eight, as they watch Hal's father, Carl Ferris' best friend, experience mechanical problems with his plane. With a choice between crash landing in
Coast City or the nearby desert, Hal's father chose to fly into the desert. Over the years, the guilt over the accident eats away at Carol's father and ruined his health, forcing Carol to give up her dream of being a pilot and take over as
CEO of Ferris Air. Unwilling to have people know of her father's illness, Carol tells them that he retired to Miami. Hal hated Ferris for what happened to his father, but, after discovering the truth, he and Carol find solace in each other's grief. However, their relationship is stifled by Carol's refusal to date employees.
The Predator When Carol Ferris is cured of her evil Star Sapphire persona, she develops a third subconscious identity, the male "Predator". Deprived of Hal Jordan's love at the time, Carol finds everything she wants from a man in the Predator—masculinity, strength, and care. Physically separated from Carol's body, The Predator repeatedly appears as a mysterious figure, protecting Ferris Aircraft from the threats of
Eclipso, the
Demolition Team and Jason Bloch. He also establishes the company Intercontinental Petroleum (Con-Trol) to let her regain control of Ferris Aircraft. Finally, The Predator starts to court Carol (who does not know what The Predator really is) and battles Hal Jordan for her love. Hal defeats him and witnesses him merging with Carol into Star Sapphire. Now fully evil, Carol takes over ruling Zamaron but her reign is short; the Zamarons, following the
Crisis on Infinite Earths, abandon their queen and their homeworld to live in another dimension with their male counterparts, the Guardians of the Universe. Carol gets furious and vows revenge on Hal and the Green Lantern Corps. After several battles, Carol finds her chance to hurt her ex-lover and murder
Katma Tui, whose power ring is rendered inert following the destruction of the main power battery on Oa. Hal keeps John Stewart (Katma Tui's husband) from killing Carol, straining their friendship in the process. In the third Green Lantern series, the nature of The Predator entity is retconned as being a parasitic creature from the planet Maltus. The entity corrupted Carol and is responsible for making her murder Katma Tui. The Green Lantern Corps purge Carol of the entity, saving her life in the process. But her time under the creature's control, along with the destruction of Coast City and the discovery that her father faked her mother's death, causes Carol to reject a distraught Hal Jordan. Instead, she opts to stay with her mother and find her own path. However, Carol is not gone from the world of super-heroism for long. She becomes the administrator of
Extreme Justice's Mount Thunder facility. Her time with the team comes with the revelation that she is pregnant, despite not having sex in a long time. She realizes that Star Sapphire was not a subconscious identity created by her, but an energy-based being who inhabited her body. The child in her womb was conceived when The Predator entity raped the first Star Sapphire. Shortly after she gives birth,
Neron appears and offers to purge her of both The Predator and Star Sapphire. Carol agrees, and then watches as the now separate entities are killed by Neron, who departs with their baby in his arms. Ultimately though, the events of
Infinite Crisis changes the above-mentioned stories. The Predator is re-introduced as one of the manifestations in the emotional spectrum; the living embodiment of love. The entity is held by the Zamarons on their home world. It gets freed during
Sinestro's liberation of his Yellow Lanterns during the 2009–2010 "
Blackest Night" storyline.
End of Star Sapphire In
Green Lantern (vol. 3) #119, Hal (as the
Spectre) decides to visit Carol. He makes himself visible and tells Carol he is going to help her, but that she will not remember his visit. He reaches into Carol and pulls out the Star Sapphire gem, which causes Star Sapphire herself to re-emerge (it appeared she was previously killed by Neron, but somehow a part of her survived in Carol). The Spectre detains Star Sapphire and puts her back into the gem. He hands the gem to Carol and lets her finish the job, which she does (essentially finally killing the Star Sapphire persona that would take control of her), and starts feeling much better. In
Green Lantern: Rebirth #6, Hal and Carol finally come to terms with their relationship. In Northern California at Ferris Aircraft, Carol Ferris is reminiscing over her former life when a mysterious power revitalises and reforms the abandoned, condemned fields. Hal Jordan, using his powers as the Spectre, appears. She asks Hal whether he remembers anything from when he was the Spectre. Hal says he remembers it as if he were watching it from the outside. How Spectre thinks, and who he talked to beyond this life, Hal cannot recall. Hal apologizes for everything Carol had to go through. Carol says she survived and that she is not going to sell the airbase. She says that if Hal can rebuild his life, so can she, and that she is going to do so with her husband, Gil. Carol says that she can use a good pilot. Hal says that he appreciates the offer, but he has other plans.
Return The Star Sapphire crystal briefly repossesses Carol, before detecting that Hal Jordan had much stronger feelings for his fellow pilot,
Jillian "Cowgirl" Pearlman, and abandoning her to instead bond with the latter. She and Hal work together to free Cowgirl from the crystal. Knowing that she still loves Hal and that it is not fair to her husband Gil Johns, she files for divorce. The
Star Sapphires, sensing the heartache Carol has been carrying over Hal (Hal having quit Ferris Air because he could not stand to work with Carol when she would not love him), summon her to become the first human Star Sapphire as part of their new corps. Wielding a violet power ring and wearing a new costume, Carol leads her fellow Star Sapphires in reciting the corps' oath. . The
Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps miniseries shows the moment when Carol is visited by the new violet ring. The ring says that all those chosen to wield the violet light must accept it willingly (this appears to overcome the controlling aspect of the violet light). It also tells Carol that she has a hole in her heart, as she has continually put aside her own happiness for the benefit of others. Because this represents selflessness (the purest expression of love), Carol has the potential to be the strongest Star Sapphire in the universe. Carol refuses to accept the ring, which shows her a vision of the War of Light and indicates that Hal Jordan will not survive. The ring then suggests that if she truly loves Hal, she will accept its power. Still having feelings for Hal, Carol accepts and is called back to Zamaron by Queen Aga'po. She assembles the Star Sapphires as they prepare to battle the
Sinestro Corps. In her first battle, Carol takes on
Sinestro who says that he has never held ill will toward Carol and wonders why she is doing this for a man who has never truly given his heart toward her. The fight takes a turn when Carol attempts to encase him in one of the brainwashing crystals that the Zamarons use to "recruit" new followers. Sinestro lashes out after witnessing a vision of Arin Sur, his former love, blasting Carol across the battlefield. She is then subdued by Sinestro and two other Yellow Lanterns. Before he can capitalise on the advantage, the
Black Lanterns invade, led by
Amon Sur, shocking both Carol and Sinestro. The two are rescued from certain death by Hal and the
Indigo Tribe. The group escapes Zamaron moments before Black Lantern rings reanimate the bodies of the two beings whose love fueled the Star Sapphire's central power battery, devastating the planet in the process. For some reason, the loss of the Star Sapphire's power source does not seem to affect Carol's powers. It is revealed that the Queen was powering the violet rings in the absence of the central power battery; this, however, is causing her to age. After a failed attempt to combine the light of her power ring with the six lights coming from the other Corps-Leaders makes
Nekron able to possess resurrected heroes,
Ganthet forces a secret protocol in her ring, forcing Carol to seek out a deputy. Eventually, she deputizes
Wonder Woman as a temporary Star Sapphire, due to her great ability to feel love, thus undoing Nekron's control of the Amazon. The Lanterns are then attacked by the Black Lantern
Spectre. In an attempt to stop the Spectre, Hal releases Parallax's essence, deciding to join with him again to fight back. Carol tries to stop Hal, but he refuses to be swayed. Carol kisses Hal, telling him "I love you", before Hal allows Parallax to possess him. In the epilogue of
Blackest Night, Carol wants to talk to Hal about their relationship, but Sinestro comes along and interrupts their talk to serve his own goals. She is in Las Vegas where she takes on The Predator who has possessed a man who is infatuated with a young woman to the point of obsession. She frees him from The Predator by kissing him. After that, Carol and Hal are taken to Zamaron. Having sacrificed the last of her power to preserve the Star Sapphire battery, the Queen names Carol her successor before dying. During the "
Brightest Day" storyline, Queen Khea opens a portal from
Hawkworld to Zamaron. She and her start an invasion on Zamaron when Carol and The Predator appear. Carol battles the Hawk family
Hawkman and
Hawkgirl to a standstill while trying not to destroy the universe. She is saved by Hawkman and Hawkgirl. They manage to do this because of their great love for each other, a greater love than she and
Hal Jordan could ever have. Carol and the other leaders of the color corps are later sucked into the
Black Book, although Hal is able to escape with her ring. Guy Gardner later uses Carol's ring along with
Atrocitus's Red Lantern ring to remove Parallax from the central power battery. Hal and
Kyle Rayner rescue her and the rest of those stuck in there from the Black Book. After Krona is killed by Hal, she reclaims the violet ring of the Zamarons. When Hal is stripped of his ring, she returns with him to Earth.
The New 52 In 2011, "
The New 52" rebooted the DC universe. Carol, having renounced her role as a Star Sapphire (although she retains her power ring), bails
Hal Jordan out of jail after he saw a woman being attacked on a film shoot and thinks it's real. Carol offers Hal a job at Ferris Aircraft, but not as a pilot because of insurance issues. Hal asks her out to dinner and Carol thinks he is going to propose. When he does not, she walks out on him and drives away, leaving him without a ride. Later, Carol is shocked by the TV news and finds Hal was working with Sinestro. After Hal returns to Earth, he asks Carol to take him back after telling her she is the one person he thought of when he thought he was going to die. Carol accepts Hal's apology and they renew their relationship. When Sinestro forces Hal to assist him by threatening to kill Carol, she manages to slip on her power ring, but Hal and Sinestro are confronted by the Indigo Tribe, who take both of them and teleport away. When
Kyle Rayner comes to Ferris Aircraft looking for Hal, he and Carol witness Hal and Sinestro fighting Black Hand, prompting Carol to re-don her Star Sapphire ring to help Kyle fight off Black Hand's Black Lanterns. However, when they arrive at the scene of the fight, they discover nothing but more 'conventional' zombies and are informed that Hal and Sinestro are apparently dead. However, Carol rejects the idea that Hal is dead as the link between her heart and his which she can sense via her ring is still intact, with her ring's visions informing her that Kyle must unite the powers of all seven Corps in himself to stop this latest threat. When the First Lantern is freed, he begins to drain off all the Lantern Corps of their emotions, minds, and memories with the intention of seeing how their life choices had changed them. In the illusions of Carol, she is battling the Atlantean warship on the carrier, but she eventually regains her Star Sapphire ring and escapes from the First Lantern's influencing powers. Carol locates Kyle and helps him after he is attacked by the First Lantern. After getting a lock on Sinestro's location, Carol and Kyle arrive at the planet Korugar's ruins, where Sinestro attacks them both, blaming them for his home's destruction by the First Lantern. When Carol demands to know where Hal is, Sinestro states that Hal is dead, but Carol refuses to believe him and attacks. While they attack Sinestro, Green Lanterns
Simon Baz and B'dg arrive and subdue Sinestro. Simon (who met Hal) tells Carol that Hal is alive, but trapped in the Dead Zone. In the final battle, Carol and the reserve Lantern Corps attack the First Lantern. When the First Lantern is finally destroyed, Carol reunites with Hal after he escapes from the Dead Zone. Despite her past with Hal, Carol goes on to develop feelings for Kyle as she spends more time with him as he explores his
White Lantern abilities, to the extent that she is one of the few people aware of his survival after he seemingly sacrifices himself to recharge the emotional spectrum. When Kyle splits the White Lantern ring into seven after realizing that the power is too great for him to control on his own, he chooses Carol as one of the six new members of the White Lantern Corps; however, she decides to keep her violet ring.
DC Rebirth In 2016, DC Comics implemented another relaunch of its books called "
DC Rebirth", which restored its continuity to a form much as it was prior to "The New 52". Carol is able to sense Hal's actions when he creates a ring out of willpower. Sometime later, Carol returns to Earth, and has broken up with Kyle Rayner. Hal thinks about her throughout the
Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps run, and his greatest desire is revealed to be having a family with her, as previously shown in the
Book of Oa.
Dawn of DC Carol Ferris has broken up with Hal Jordan for unknown reasons, has given up her power ring, and is dating Nathan Broome. Hal Jordan asks to work for her, is briefly fired due to his recklessness, but is hired as her pilot. During the
Knight Terrors event, Carol and Hal are among the heroes attacked by
Insomnia. Hal Jordan's recent actions with
Sinestro has caused Ferris Air to lose all of their military contacts which makes her company nearly bankrupt. While slightly intoxicated at a bar, she asks Nathan to marry her, and they travel to
Las Vegas to hold a makeshift ceremony at a superhero theme chapel. Before they can exchange their vows, her Star Sapphire Ring appears in front of her. She realized Hal is in need of help and that she still has feelings for him. She abandons Nathan, leading him to awaken the emotional spectrum of sorrow and the Sorrow Lantern. In the
DC All In initiative, Carol Ferris formally joins the
Justice League as Star Sapphire. ==Powers and abilities==