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|caption= Traitor in ''Legends of the DC Universe'' #20
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|real_name=Devlos Ungol
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'''Traitor''' is a ] supervillain to the ] Corps.

==Fictional character biography==
Traitor's true name is '''Devlos Ungol''', and he was originally a warrior of great ferocity on his home world. He was eventually upgraded, merged with an armor that fed on the energy of dying stars and could adapt to any weapon thrown at it. However, he rejected his people, having concluded, during the agony he endured as the armor was fused to him, that there was no meaning in the universe besides pain and death.

With this philosophy in mind, Ungol crushed his people, who died calling him 'Traitor', assuming the name on a permanent basis. As he travelled, he gathered a vast army of pirates and survivors, until, at last, he fought the ] ], an early defender of Sector 2814. During the battle much of Traitor's armor was damaged, forcing him to retreat, but Starkaor was badly injured, and forced to appoint ] as his successor.

It took Sur several years to track Traitor down again, and in that time he had stationed himself on Earth in the late 1800s, forming an alliance with a criminal called ] until he could replenish his powers.<ref>''Legends of the DC Universe'' #20</ref> Eventually, Sur arrived, but Traitor found what he believed to be the perfect weapon; gold-tipped bullets, their yellow color allowing them to injure Sur. However, Sur had formed an alliance with Marshall Henry Lee Jordan (coincidentally, an ancestor of Sur's future successor ]), and Jordan was able to get Sur to a town where the bullets were removed, allowing the ring to heal him. The two of them subsequently fought off Bloody Joe and Traitor, Sur destroying Bloody Joe's weapons and Jordan distracting Traitor until Sur could imprison him in a pocket dimension in the ring.<ref>''Legends of the DC Universe'' #21</ref>

Almost a century later, using technology he had acquired from the microscopic world where he had been imprisoned, Traitor would return and do battle with Hal Jordan and his ally ], the Atom. After developing a means of exerting control over the ring by witnessing how some of Jordan's other foes had attempted to do the same thing, Traitor lured the Atom into close proximity to the ring, using the white dwarf star fragment that gave the Atom his powers to provide himself with energy.<ref>''Legends of the DC Universe'' #28</ref> As a result, Traitor was able to exchange Earth for the microscopic world he had been imprisoned on, intending for the two of them to destroy each other when Earth expanded back to its normal size. As Hal and Traitor clashed, the Atom used a spare ring to slow the rate of Earth's growth, the other world exploding too early and thus allowing Earth to be restored safely. After this battle, the destruction of his equipment sent Traitor plunging into the sun, which blocked him from the dead star energy that he needed to survive.<ref>''Legends of the DC Universe'' #29</ref>

Eventually, however, Traitor escaped, managing to gain enough energy to flee when the Sun briefly went out during the ].<ref>''The Final Night'' #1-#4</ref> Travelling to the distant planet of Ramnos, Traitor destroyed the entire world, also gaining an unwilling ally in the form of the planet's champion, Stellera; a defect in the DNA of her people meant that they were forced to obey anyone who defeated them in battle. Using this, Traitor sent Stellera to Earth, ordering her to claim that she sought the aid of Green Lantern to defeat Traitor. Eventually finding the current Green Lantern, ], Stellera returned to the shattered remains of Ramnos, where Traitor crushed Kyle's ring and left him for dead.<ref>''Legends of the DC Universe'' #37</ref>

However, Kyle realised that his ring retained power, and used this to piece it back together through sheer will. Pursuing Traitor, the two of them clashed in an asteroid field, during which Kyle used the ring to create 'ghosts' of the Green Lanterns who had defeated Traitor in the past. As the fight continued, Traitor revealed that he had only drawn Kyle there to finally perfect himself; of all he'd fought, only Green Lanterns had been able to find the flaws in Traitor's armor, but now those flaws no longer existed. At the last minute, aided by Stellera distracting Traitor at a crucial moment, Kyle launched an electromagnetic pulse at Traitor, shutting his armor down. As Stellera died, her DNA killing her due to her defiance of Traitor- her last act being to heal Kyle's injuries-, Kyle took Traitor back to Ramnos, imprisoning him at the core of the planet, where no dead star radiation could reach him, hoping that now Traitor would never endanger anyone again.<ref>''Legends of the DC Universe'' #38</ref>

Traitor was last seen in a possible future killing Hal Jordan. This was shown to ] and the ] staff by ] in the '']'' storyline. Traitor was apparently an "old foe resurrected".<ref>''Superman'' #657</ref> Whether this has any bearing on the present of Traitor is unknown given the ambiguous nature of the future shown (Arion was convinced that it was real but the ] later assured Superman that it was still just one of many potential futures even if it was a likely one).<ref>''Superman'' Annual #13</ref>

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