When the character was resurrected, following "Blackest Night", in the story "", he prepared to erase the world's memories of his past criminal actions; in order to survive the trauma to his brain, he placed his body in a large tub of ice and hooked himself up to a blood transfusion machine. The entity somehow changed his abilities and would initially convert living people into the corpses of a Black Lantern. With his task completed and life restored, he then exhibited voluntary activation and control over every resting O.M.A.C. infected within the global populace.