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Aye... This thread is dedicated to one of the most controversial characters in not only the battle forums of Comicvine, but in almost all the comicbook community. In this thread not only I, but all of us will go over the Sentry's abilities, capabilities, feats and most importantly potential. I feel I had to make this thread, especially for the new members to try and figure out where the Sentry and the Void stand in the scale of power level. IMO I think the Sentry at best is a bit above the Silver Surfer, but nowhere near past herald level. Some people think he is above Thanos or Odin level which I disagreed with. But this is what this thread is about for all us Sentry fans to come to an agreement. :)
Anyhow I consider myself to be one of the biggest Sentry fans. Why do I love the Sentry? On the outside he seems like some extremely powerful character, but really on the inside he has a lot of flaws. He's a mentally ill powerhouse of a character with schizophrenia! How interesting is that? His weakness is actually...Well himself. His mentally stability i.e his schizophrenia plays a part in his powers. That's how complex the character is.
But...Due to the character's complexity he has been victim to some unfair critizim, one of my least favorite being that he's a "Superman ripoff". While I do like Superman and respect the history of the character. The Sentry especially when it comes to character is vastly different then Superman. Sure they both have "S", though I don't believe Superman has a trademark on the letter "S" nor being a powerhouse. But that's besides the point, when it comes to characters the two are vastly different. Superman's character is that of being noble, a true hero, near pefect(not that this is a bad thing) and complete control of himself. Sentry's character is that of someone who is well...Has a lot of flaws from being a drug junkie who doesn't really deserve his powers, to a person who is afraid of himself and to a person who has a severe case of schizophrenia.
Then we get to powers which like characters is also vastly different. Superman's power source is the sun. While Sentry's power is connected to his mental state. So yeah...While they may "look the same" they're really are not the same...
Anyways first lets address how the Sentry's powers work...
To understand the Sentry's and Void's powers in a simple way just think of Robert Reynolds as the scale. Bob=host/scale, Sentry=Hero and Void=Balance. Remember people Bob is the scale, his mental stability is the scale! One misconception people have is that they think the Void is more powerful. That is completely not true in the slightest bit, because the Sentry has defeated the Void many times back in his miniseries when the Void manifested himself into a separate being. But lets get back to Bob being the scale; again Sentry's powers are based off Bob's mentally stability. When Bob is completely mentally stable, the Sentry becomes more powerful, gets to use all his powers/abilities and the Void is severely weakened and he can not take control.
But when its the other way around, the Sentry becomes severely weak and the Void takes his chance to take over. We seen this towards Dark Reign and Siege. The Sentry or Void are not more powerful than one another, they are just split personalities of Bob. If Bob is completely stable than Sentry is more powerful...If not than the Void is. When Sentry is completely stable minded he has access to his limitless powers, if he is not stable minded than he can not use most of his powers. The Sentry and Void are also like Yin and Yang where they balance each other out. That's how I describe his powers.
But before we dwell deeper into this topic, lets dwell into the origin of the Sentry. :)
Origins:
From Sentry #8 vol. 2, the origins according to the Void.
From Dark Avengers #13 the Sentry's/Void' origins going back to the bible days. This one was very interesting to me...
His origins according to his wife and one of the scans she mentions of biblical proportions.
A cool and neat video that addresses his origins. ;)
His Potential
Okay... Okay... Brace yourselves because what I am about to say may piss off a lot of people and I know A LOT will disagree with what I'm going to say. Most of it is a copy and paste from one of my older threads I made about the Sentry's potential power compared to House of M Wanda. Just note that this is just speculation on my part. Again SPECULATION. I am not trying to wank the Sentry.
Anyhow... We've never seen Sentry's true potential in comics. The closet thing we got to a stable Sentry was his run during his creators Paul Jenkin's Sentry vol. 2 miniseries. But still he did not display much of his true powers. The only real time imo where we saw Sentry display almost all his power was his battle against Photon in the microverse where both were holding back and yet were releasing enough energy to "destroy worlds".
Other than that we really have not seen Sentry at his true potential. We also have the famous Sentry stalemating Galactus with the help of X-Man. I personally stray away from using that statement, because one it was off panel and two we don't even know the context of the fight. Was Galactus at moderate power or was he starving? So me personally I hardly bring up the Sentry stalemating with Galactus.
Anyways lets address his fight with Molecule Man. While I do think Molecule Man is much stronger than Sentry and should cream Sentry, the Sentry still beat him. We can call it PIS or whatever, or maybe there was some context behind it. It didn't seem like the Sentry even killed Molecule Man, but sent him away somewhere else. Sentry even asked Molecule Man to fix what he has done. So it can still be hinted that Molecule Man is still more powerful than Sentry when it comes to Molecule Manipulation, but who knows?
Molecule man is stated to be the most powerful cosmic cube being in existence. And note this was stated after his retcon. The Molecule Man that fought fought Sentry was not depowered since again there is no significant evidence that he was. Bendis never hinted that. Also one should note that Molecule Man had his own version of Beyonder( a cosmic cube capable of creating his own universe pretty similar to 616), Zarathos(powerful demon), Set (an elder god), Mephisto(powerful hellord), and Enchantress. That by itself is kinda impressive.
Anyways the Sentry beat Molecule Man or at least had him on the ropes. Whether its PIS or not is debatable. But... Me myself did not find the fight itself interesting. No... I found something after the fight more interesting. His power on panel being compared to that of House of M Wanda?
Now one would not take such claim seriously, but then you have this.
"...since such an overloard could have easily triggered outbrust to remake the world more openly and give us another House of M to deal with"
And then we have a purely physical fight between Sentry and the Void had potential to destroy all life on Earth.
Now we have had the Sentry being referred to as omnipotent by multiple characters and writers. I know must of you don't give a sh*t about that. And I agree 100%. I mean Odin has been called omnipotent, and he has not down any to suggest he is near that level and neither the Sentry. But still...A character such as the Sentry being referred to as omnipotent. Does that tell us his potential(not him being omnipotent, because of course he's not)? We know that he is very immortal and can come back when ever he pleases. During Siege he wanted Thor to kill him, as shown when Bob was holding the Void back. And again one could argue that we've never seen Sentry at his best, because we've mostly seen an mentally unstable Sentry(besides Paul Jenkins run) and Sentrys powers are obviously based off his mental state.
"When stable he has potential for limitless power....... however if his mental states waves he becomes weaker and easier to defeat. "
^^Again going back to how his powers is connected to his mental state.
But then we have the narration referring to Sentry's powers as "bigger than God and the universe".
I know its just a mere statement, but does it mean? Where does the Sentry's powers actually lie? What is his true limit? That's what I badly want to know...
Strength
Now in my opinion the Sentry ironically isn't know for his strength like Superman, Hulk, Hyperion, Gladiator or any other powerhouse, but he does have some good strength feats.
Speed
In my opinion the Sentry has some of the craziest speed feats. But more importantly throughout his career he has shown to be quite a speed blitzer.
Telepathy
Yes the Sentry has telepathic abilities and yes he has demonstrated it more than once. I mean his powers are connected to his mental state... But more importantly the Marvel telepathic elites have stated more than once that his telepathic abilities and mind is grand, complex and potentially more powerful than theirs. Also many telepaths have stated that it is extremely difficult to enter inside his mind. So like the general potential of the Sentry, we don't really know the limits of the Sentry's telepathic abilities.
Molecule Manipulation, Energy Abilities and Healing
Okay some Sentry fans I have talked with consider Molecule Manipulation to be the root of his powers and I mean everything even as little as him changing into his costume and healing. I don't 100% agree that Molecule Manipulation is the root of his powers but it is a good theory imo. The Sentry prior to Dark Avengers had no Molecule Manipulation, or at least he didn't know he had the power. The introduction of the Sentry having Molecule Manipulation really inflated the argument that we have not really saw his true potential.
Though before Molecule Manipulation he has shown impressive energy manipulation and healing powers.
Immortality, Regeneration and Nigh Invulnerability
Okay to me the Sentry's immortality makes him seem like a "god". I'm not trying to wank, but its very impressive. Us Sentry fans for the longest have speculated that the Sentry chooses to die or that he can come back to life if he wants. I mean some of his showings seem to hint such a thing; he has died more than once and has came back... And when he dies, where does he go? Some have speculated the white hot room. Anyways Sentry also has crazy regeneration and durability feats... Lets take a look.
MISC
Meh... Just some of his other abilities and some statements.
The Void
The evil half of Robert Reynolds. Or some people say Robert Reynolds himself. The "balance" of the three. The complete opposite of Sentry. Since he is the evil half the Void represents the dark part of Reynolds. And his powers are slightly different from the Sentry's. While the Sentry's powers represent light, the Void's represent darkness.
Some people misinterpret the Void as being stronger than the Sentry due to some high end showings of the Void especially from Siege. This is false. As I said neither are stronger than the other and like I said Roberts mental state is the power scale. Though like I said the Void has before separated himself into a separate entity. Not only that many heros(and villains) seemed to consider the Void a large threat. Some stating that he can end all life on Earth. But lets take a look...
Deathseed Sentry
How can we go on without this guy? This version of Sentry has been making a name for himself in the battle forums ever since his appearance. I consider this Sentry to be the strongest version of the Sentry so far. Others think he's extremely powerful enough to be characters such as Silver Surfer or even Thanos. I don't know about the latter, but Deathseed Sentry really shows us what the Sentry is capable of amped or not amped. But the most unique thing about this character is the fact that there is no Void, since the Void is most likely left in the White Hot Room... So this imo dis-spells the myth that the Void is more powerful than the Sentry.
Here is Rick Remender confirming there is no Void.
The Sentry uses his molecule manipulation or telekinesis to stop Mjolnir and drop it to the ground.
Now this imo completely debunks the myth that Molecule Manipulation is exclusive to the Void. Here we see Deathseed Sentry using his MM powers to create sand golems to attack the Wasp.
Sentry overpowers Thor and punches him through multiple buildings, while the impact already is felt on the entire planet!
In order to stop Exitar's descend Rogue is forced to absorb the powers of many Avengers and X-Men. She ends up having the powers of over 100 heroes and still fails to stop Exitar.
Sentry then arrives on the scene and helps Rogue by lifting the other foot of Exitar-
Later on Sentry flies Exitar's dead body into space at high speed.
Sentry covers hundreds of miles before Wolverine can even warn the Avengers and then proceeds to grab Thor and fly away with him at a velocity, which totally overwhelms Thor, because he can't handle the speed... And Thor is someone, who already covered lightyears in a matter of moments, which means that the Sentry is even much faster.
A creepy feat by DSS. He rips his face open and strikes down Thor with what appears to be heat vision.
Another creepy and disturbing feat by DSS. He literally rips apart his head and overpowers the Wasp with his telepathic abilities which seemed to increase imo. His head latter regenerates...
The Sentry states that can feel Exitars energy in the White Hot Room which is another dimension. Impressive imo.
Sentry telepathically talks to Thor.
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