Religion: Controller religion 
Name: The Controllers
Classification:
villains
group
Publisher(s): 
First Appearance: Adventure Comics (vol. 1) #352 (Jan. 1967): "The Fatal Five!"
Creators: Jim Shooter, Curt Swan, George Klein
Number of Appearances: 4
Enemy of: Superman, The Legion of Super-Heroes
Ally: Sun-Eaters
Type of Organization/Group: alien race
Note: created Sun-Eaters to destroy evil/immoral planets
Sun-Eaters are artificial lifeforms - living nebula created by the alien Controllers. The Sun-Eaters are unleashed by the Controllers in order to destroy planets deemed by the Controllers to be too "evil" (or too immoral) to continue living. The Sun-Eaters are literally capable of absorbing all of the energy from entire suns and shutting them down, thus dooming the surrounding planets to death.
The name "Sun-Eater" is intentionally similar to "Sin-Eater." The Controllers are obviously motivated by their religious and strongly-held ethical beliefs to create and unleash "Sun-Eaters." They literally use their creations to eat up or destroy the sins of planets.
Number of group members listed below: 4
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The Controllers (leader); Theatre of Pain |  |
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[created Sun-Eaters to destroy evil/immoral planets] | |
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[created by alien Controllers to destroy immoral planets] | |
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The Controllers [Controller enslaved by real Trapper; used as proxy] |
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6 |
Adventure Comics (vol. 1) #352 (Jan. 1967): "The Fatal Five!"All-New Collectors' Edition #C-55 (Mar. 1978): "The Millennium Massacre"
Suggested links for further research about this character and the character's religious affiliation:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun-Eater
- http://comicbookdb.com/character.php?ID=8780
- http://comicbookdb.com/issue.php?ID=49799
- https://www.comics.org/issue/20638/
