Dex-Starr

Dex-Starr the Red Lantern was once Dexter, a regular house-cat with a loving owner. One night, a burglar broke into their apartment and during a confrontation, Dexter's owner was killed. The next day, when the police came to investigate the murder, one of the cops kicked Dexter out saying that the cat could contaminate the crime scene. Dexter was left homeless for an unknown amount of time, living in a box on the street when two thugs called him out and bagged him. To their amusement, they decided to throw Dexter off the Brooklyn Bridge to see him drown. Just as they did, a Red Lantern Power Ring flew in, detecting the rage within Dexter's heart and turned him into a Red Lantern, in the new identity of DEX-STARR! After he killed the thugs, Dex-Starr, remembering his owner's kindness and having the ring express his rage in coherent thoughts, vowed to find and kill her murderer.