After ingesting an experimental super-soldier formula, the lowly Robert Reynolds became the Sentry, if only in his mind.
In constant battle with his dark side known as the Void, the Sentry has been forgotten and dead, he has resurrected and vanished. Even if he is one of earth's greatest heroes, he is also one of the world's greatest dangers.
He should be as strong as Thor and more powerful on certian levels. But the way he is now, he should be able to smack Thor around, and that's not right.
Retcon Sentry to the point where he doesn't exist anymore. That would make me happy. He doesn't really have much significance in Marvel, and was only made to be a carbon copy of Superman.
"Retcon Sentry to the point where he doesn't exist anymore. That would make me happy. He doesn't really have much significance in Marvel, and was only made to be a carbon copy of Superman."
But Marvel needs a Superman. Or Someone to call on when Thor isn't available.
"Retcon Sentry to the point where he doesn't exist anymore. That would make me happy. He doesn't really have much significance in Marvel, and was only made to be a carbon copy of Superman."
But Marvel needs a Superman. Or Someone to call on when Thor isn't available."
Yeah, but can he ever really be a "superman" without a leading role in Marvel? I mean come on, he doesnt even have his own title to get himself some street cred with comic readers
He should be as strong as Thor and more powerful on certian levels. But the way he is now, he should be able to smack Thor around, and that's not right. "
If he is that powerful, I wish they would get on and use him at that power level consistently. I have always said that the Sentry could be a great character as long as someone did something constructive with him again.
Additionally, from the looks of it, Blue Marvel may be more powerful than Sentry is. So there could be an even stronger 'Superman' loose in Marvel.
He's ok, I think he needs a story to evolve his character. I mean we don't know anything about him except that he is powerful and has to deal with the void. Everytime I see him, I have no idea what he could be thinking. Other character I can usually get an idea how they would feel about something, Sentry I have no idea.
He should be as strong as Thor and more powerful on certian levels. But the way he is now, he should be able to smack Thor around, and that's not right. "
If he is that powerful, I wish they would get on and use him at that power level consistently. I have always said that the Sentry could be a great character as long as someone did something constructive with him again.
Additionally, from the looks of it, Blue Marvel may be more powerful than Sentry is. So there could be an even stronger 'Superman' loose in Marvel."
I agree with you as far as his ever changing power levels and someone needs to sit down and make him into what he could be.
As far as Blue Marve, I don't think he is stronger or more powerful in a since but his power may work on another level that in certain situations make him more. Like with the Anti Man. His power is anti-matter based and he seemed stronger than Sentry and Blue Marvel was his equal, but it may be cause his power is anti-matter based too.
I agree with you as far as his ever changing power levels and someone needs to sit down and make him into what he could be.
As far as Blue Marve, I don't think he is stronger or more powerful in a since but his power may work on another level that in certain situations make him more. Like with the Anti Man. His power is anti-matter based and he seemed stronger than Sentry and Blue Marvel was his equal, but it may be cause his power is anti-matter based too."
Actually what caught my eye was not the fact that Blue Marvel was beating Anti Man (although this was impressive) but the feats he was performing. Particularly the stopping of the asteroid that was heading towards Earth that was described as the size of Arkansas.
Based on a very rough calculation, which I will show below, an asteroid this size would weigh in around 155,254,000,000,000,000 tonnes (rounding off). Now admittedly encoutering the asteroid outside of Earth's gravity would reduce it's weight but there is the momentum that the asteroid would have had to take in to account. This figure is in to DC levels of strength we throw around for some of the DC top tier big guns.
Here's the calculation.
Arkansas is 261 miles long by 239 miles wide. As we are dealing with an asteroid, I have assumed it's 3rd dimension to again be equal to the smaller width (239 miles). This gives it a volume (converting to metres cubed) of 62,101,836,219,368,400. With a common rock having a density of 2.5 tonnes per cubic metre that gives the big number above.
I agree with you as far as his ever changing power levels and someone needs to sit down and make him into what he could be.
As far as Blue Marve, I don't think he is stronger or more powerful in a since but his power may work on another level that in certain situations make him more. Like with the Anti Man. His power is anti-matter based and he seemed stronger than Sentry and Blue Marvel was his equal, but it may be cause his power is anti-matter based too."
Actually what caught my eye was not the fact that Blue Marvel was beating Anti Man (although this was impressive) but the feats he was performing. Particularly the stopping of the asteroid that was heading towards Earth that was described as the size of Arkansas.
Based on a very rough calculation, which I will show below, an asteroid this size would weigh in around 155,254,000,000,000,000 tonnes (rounding off). Now admittedly encoutering the asteroid outside of Earth's gravity would reduce it's weight but there is the momentum that the asteroid would have had to take in to account. This figure is in to DC levels of strength we throw around for some of the DC top tier big guns.
Here's the calculation.
Arkansas is 261 miles long by 239 miles wide. As we are dealing with an asteroid, I have assumed it's 3rd dimension to again be equal to the smaller width (239 miles). This gives it a volume (converting to metres cubed) of 62,101,836,219,368,400. With a common rock having a density of 2.5 tonnes per cubic metre that gives the big number above."
Now that is impressive. That would make him stronger than Sentry (or even the Hulk) but does it make him more powerful?
For example: The Hulk is stronger than the Silver Surfer but the Surfer is more powerful when considering all his power and what he is capable of.
He just simply needs to be used at the level hes claimed to be.....having him do NOTHING in civil war was stupid.....have him do NOTHING in SI is stupid......having him draw with hulk is STUPID given hes ment to be marvels superman. is short hes just done nothing I like him just fine and I think hes got a spot in the Marvel U but its hard to justify him when hes done nothing and THOR is back. At this time hes just about the same as Ms marvel and wonderman both who are behind THOR hell even Ares and Namor have pulled off greater feats.
I would have liked him if he would have beaten HULK in WWH thats the least they could have done with him. Now as normans goon I dont know how he could do anything positive
If the Sentry has powers equivalent to the cosmic-level characters like the Silver Surfer and Galactus (and the writers are always implying this) then the whole problem with the story is the background. Civil war, Secret Invasion, World War Hulk...all of these arenas are too damn small for him to fit into. It's as the critics say: "The writers screwed him up so that he wouldn't be the deus ex machina of the story." The stories would be much more interesting if he placed against greater threats such as the Annihilation Wave. Right now he could just wipe out all of the problems of the Earth-616 world without a problem, but they make him so that he's essentially useless except as a pawn.
What would be great if the Void subconsciously turned him against all the superheroes of the world. Instead of fighting him, the Void could be flattering the Sentry into thinking only he has the right to fix the problems of the world (because he's the most powerful human in the world).
If Marvel wanted their own Superman they failed terribly, Superman is as important as he is not because of his powers but because of his sense of justice.
that being said, Sentry is actually a copy/paste of triumph
"Retcon Sentry to the point where he doesn't exist anymore. That would make me happy. He doesn't really have much significance in Marvel, and was only made to be a carbon copy of Superman."
"If Marvel wanted their own Superman they failed terribly, Superman is as important as he is not because of his powers but because of his sense of justice.
that being said, Sentry is actually a copy/paste of triumph
The original nutjob Superman wanna be "
Not familiar with this guy. Who does he belong to?
I am not a very big Sentry fan, but I think that's because he hasn't been written very well. I think as time goes if he gets his own title and gets some dedicated writers he might not be looked at as a Superman clone. But until then I think they need to stop using him as a stooge for the likes of Osborn.
"He just simply needs to be used at the level hes claimed to be.....having him do NOTHING in civil war was stupid.....have him do NOTHING in SI is stupid......having him draw with hulk is STUPID given hes ment to be marvels superman. is short hes just done nothing I like him just fine and I think hes got a spot in the Marvel U but its hard to justify him when hes done nothing and THOR is back. At this time hes just about the same as Ms marvel and wonderman both who are behind THOR hell even Ares and Namor have pulled off greater feats.
I would have liked him if he would have beaten HULK in WWH thats the least they could have done with him. Now as normans goon I dont know how he could do anything positive"
Don't be ridiculous.If Sentry was as powerful as he claimed to be..people would still hate him.He would own everybody.He owned alot of powerful villains as it is.He killed Carnage and Absorbing Man with no effort.He didn't do nothing in Civil War..he was Iron Man's bodyguard and personal errand boy for the Registration Act.Being on Tony' side..if he had actually done what he was capable of..Tony would have won without Cap surrendering.The same goes for Secret Invasion.There was nobody in the Savage Land that could have stopped him if he had actually been part of that fight.My guess is Marvel is saving him...Saving him for something huge.
Sentry drawing with Hulk was not stupid.If you actually read World War Hulk..you would know,Sentry was never meant to or trying to beat Hulk in the first place.Also it was WORLD WAR HULK? Who the hell do you think is going to win in this situation..the character for whom the comic is named after or some random superhero?
Sentry basically is what Thor was when the Avengers had him as a teammate.Ridiculously powerful but held back by the Avengers.The Avengers had pretty weak opponents.Most of which Thor could have taken out himself..but they made it seem as if he had trouble with them and needed the Avengers to help him win because that would have been boring to write.
The problem more or less is Marvel characters are too weak and Marvel tries to be too realistic.A Sentry level character could let loose in a DC or A Wildstorm because there are plenty of people who could take him if he got out of hand.With his status on Earth..if Sentry decided to destroy it and kill everyone on it.There isn't a soul there who could stop him from doing it.
Man i would love to see the Sentry vs. Starman(from JSA) let's face it there both nearly invincible & could easly level a town or city or country bt themselves but there both cockoo in the head. i wonder if Marvel is ever gonna Sentry get ova his mental condition and give him his own ongoing series, he's too powerful to be wonderin' round the Marvel Universe. & give him his own rogue's gallery.
I didn't like what he did to Morgan. Okey she's a witch and he's on the Dark Avengers, even so I would expect more off an super "hero". - He's really just a wanna be....
"I didn't like what he did to Morgan. Okey she's a witch and he's on the Dark Avengers, even so I would expect more off an super "hero". - He's really just a wanna be.... "
If they want to make Sentry a serious character they first need to figure out what exactly is wrong with him. So far he has had schizophrenia, agoraphobia, multiple personality disorder and a misplaced sense of right and wrong. His illnesses come and go as fast as silver age Superman's powers.
"I didn't like what he did to Morgan. Okey she's a witch and he's on the Dark Avengers, even so I would expect more off an super "hero". - He's really just a wanna be.... "
Osborn is confusing Sentry. "
I think Sentry does that to himself even without Osborn, but I understand your point. He had second thoughts about what he did, but he's not in the best team... =(
"If they want to make Sentry a serious character they first need to figure out what exactly is wrong with him. So far he has had schizophrenia, agoraphobia, multiple personality disorder and a misplaced sense of right and wrong. His illnesses come and go as fast as silver age Superman's powers.
They do that because if they don't Sentry will be unstoppable.They are trying to keep Sentry at a manageable level.That's why they made the whole "Unlimited power with mental stability" thing because if he can depower himself by being a nutcase then that can be the writers excuse for his low end feats.
Calvin said:
"erik said:
"Calvin said:
"I didn't like what he did to Morgan. Okey she's a witch and he's on the Dark Avengers, even so I would expect more off an super "hero". - He's really just a wanna be.... "
Osborn is confusing Sentry. "
I think Sentry does that to himself even without Osborn, but I understand your point. He had second thoughts about what he did, but he's not in the best team... =( "
Sentry won't be a Dark Avenger for too long.When he realizes he's doing something wrong he'll go crazy and disappear again.Sentry needs to be taken away from the writing of Bendis because Bendis is a cop-out writer.Instead of using his head and coming up with a smart solution for Sentry..he depowers him and makes him scared of things he had overcome his fear of..then his missing for an entire arc and nobody acknowledges it. (In the comics I mean).
"If they want to make Sentry a serious character they first need to figure out what exactly is wrong with him. So far he has had schizophrenia, agoraphobia, multiple personality disorder and a misplaced sense of right and wrong. His illnesses come and go as fast as silver age Superman's powers.
They do that because if they don't Sentry will be unstoppable.They are trying to keep Sentry at a manageable level.That's why they made the whole "Unlimited power with mental stability" thing because if he can depower himself by being a nutcase then that can be the writers excuse for his low end feats.
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I don't have a problem with him having a mental illness, but they can't agree over which mental illness it is. In every book he's in something different is wrong with him. It just seems as though they're not giving any thought to the character.
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