Boodikka
Green Lantern Corps (2006) #63 (2011), Now and Forever! chapter one, story page 2, bottom two panels. Joe Prado (pencils and inks); Hi-Fi (colors). Artwork source & details.

Green Lantern Corps

Boodikka

A Bellatrixian warrior in the Corps.

Boodikka is a former mercenary whose Green Lantern career includes difficult questions about discipline and institutional loyalty. Her early service and later Alpha Lantern role are distinct chapters.

Continuity: Main DC comics continuity; this profile follows the cited era rather than asserting a permanent present-day status.

First appearance
Green Lantern (1990) #20 (1992); becomes a Green Lantern in #23 (1992)
Story history — History and later developments — spoilers

Recruited from Bellatrix, Boodikka brings combat experience but resists taking orders. Her early training puts cooperation alongside fighting ability. She later survives the Lost Lanterns ordeal and becomes an Alpha Lantern, part of the Corps’ internal-affairs force. That transformation should not be described simply as becoming the organization’s conscience; the Alpha stories examine what enforcement can cost the enforcers themselves.

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Sources & further reading

Reference scope: DC identifies her Bellatrixian mercenary background. The secondary index distinguishes her introduction from joining the Corps and supplies early issue references.

Profile reviewed 2026-11-04.

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