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More than likely, they'll just lump in with the Beyonder storyline and declare his powers are like Molecule Man's again and that they're both Beyonder agents, blah blah, blah blah.

Honestly, I'd prefer he be Sir Not Appearing In Secret Wars.

As always, I have a cynical view.

My hope is that he'll be allowed to be redeemed as a character and brought back to some semblance of his original intent and characterization, a deeply mentally ill hero with a terrifying level of power who's grappling with his issues and trying to be better -- but knowing all the while he'll never be as good as he could've been.

I continue to maintain that the Sentry really ought to've looked to a Beautiful Mind as a template for his story.

Man.

The one thing I love most about Sentry is the epic level of nerd rage he causes in folks like the guy who wrote the above whose name I do't even remember.

He flew off into space to carry the body of Exitar away from earth, and hasn't been heard from since.

I think you can write that up as Terrax having absolutely /no idea/ who the Sentry was or his true power level.

That said, the character was only a walking plot device to Bendis. :P

Honestly? He'll probably return to character limbo until Remender revisits the Horseman. I can't imagine he won't be with the Twins still being alive and having to deal with Banshee, Daken, and Grim Reaper. And with Apoc himself set to return in AXIS, I imagine he'll be getting to it after the storyline is over.

Remender has shown he can do the Sentry some degree of justice. Let's hope that the character is able to be rehabilitated.

In all seriousness, most of the Sentry's 'mary sueish' stuff wasn't really designed with him being a full part of the MU in mind and, really, most of it was more metaphorical than actually meant to be taken completely literally.

When you talk to people about the mentally ill, and the way their illness made them fade out of their own lives, and how their own lives are impacted by this, they all seem to talk about how much 'better' their lives were before the illness claimed their son/brother/nephew/friend, and so on. It's about the contribution made by someone, and then how when illness claims them, all that is forgotten. It's a bit ham handed, but honestly, it's not really essential to the character except to show that he was integrated and previous existing relationships. I don 't mind him having been best friends with Reed Richards back in the day, though, and it's been shown that the Sentry's memories aren't exactly reliable and is often prone to delusional narcissism anyways. xD

Well, in Sentry mini 2 they explained that this was an enhanced version of the super soldier serum that unlocked access to energies beyond it. Worse, it would work on anyone. There was nothing special about the Sentry. At all. And the only thing worse than /one/ Sentry would be an entire world of them. One of the best things about the character was Bob's averageness, weakness, and frailty, and just how impossible the burdens he had to cope with were, but managed to find a way anyways. People are capable of coping with a lot of things.

I can accept a 'serum' unlocking such powers in someone if I can accept a radioactive spiderbite giving someone spider powers. xD

(Also, Remender is presently doing a good job with him. I admit, I still wanna see a Grant Morrison Sentry. <.<)

A schizophrenic hero is more interesting than yet another powerful, schizophrenic villain.

Most people just don't know how to write serious mental illness as anything other than caricature, or worse, demand that it fit the popular stereotype of what a schizophrenic MUST be.

Robert Reynolds could be an amaziing character. A man with all the power and potential in the world who can't overcome his most basic frailty: the mental illness that has continues to hamstring him at every turn. There are /so many stories/ born out of that. I mean, it's what 'A Beautiful Mind' is about, for god's sake, and the Sentry is more or less the same thing: a man with great potential who is, for most of his life, unable to meet those expectations until he he becomes something akin to a shadow in his own story.

Marvel made some basic mistakes, like trying to keep aspects of the Sentry's metafictional nature as seen in the original series when they moved him into 616. They needed to decide early on what was true, but rather, they tried to play the Wolverine card with him. This lead to an inconsistant portrayal of exactly what was true about the character. Combine this with all the flip-flopping Bendis did with the character up until Dark Avengers (when he FINALLY had a concrete direction) over the years and it's no surprise it didn't work. It just seemed like Marvel itself wasn't sure what to do with the guy once they had him, and it seemed like Bendis had a heavy hand with regards to developments about the character. I think he bears a lot of blame for the failure of the character. Remender's doing interesting things with him right now. He clearly still wants to be a hero.