@tendrin said:
I did, in fact, have to type that. Because when the issue comes out or the storyline resolves, I am nearly 100% certain (and I would like to be wrong) this will be another iteration of the Sentry getting used to prop up Thor, who doesn't really need the propping up. And a whole -lot- of crap has been thrown at the Sentry by a *lot* of Thor fans on this very forum, who hate him for 'displacing' Thor and how he hasn't 'paid his dues'. I have a feeling this will be a battle in which Thor will smoosh the Sentry, and Thor fans will go 'HAW HAW HAW'. It will likely do very little for the Sentry -- a character held in low regard by many -- and I doubt anything significant will come of it for the character except getting killed again.
Which is a shame.
I am a Sentry fan, and a Thor fan. I could and eventually will write a blog about why i like Sentry and want I would like Marvel to do with him, ditto Thor. I agree with you as far as I don't want Sentry to be revived just to prop up Thor. I am not sure if that will happen, I know they are being touted as having a rematch, but I don't know what that will entail. For all I know it might mean Sentry comes back and beats up Thor substantially before Thor makes a come back and kills him again.
Thor fans? Well sure, they have thrown a lot of hate towards Sentry, and Hulk, and Superman, and Rogue and - I have seen a lot of Sentry fans throw hate at Thor and Blue Marvel, and Superman and Hulk and... I can think of many fans of many characters who throw hate at other characters. Its a human thing to love one thing and hate another. Personally I dislike hate, in general and I don't see the point of it towards fictional constructs. Also as a Sentry fan I tend to note that a lot of non Thor fans hate him, some even hate Thor and Sentry. As a fan of reason and psychology I also tend to note when people make assertions that sound objective in nature but are born of purely subjective reasoning - sometimes even fallacious reasoning. The interesting thing to me isn't so much with people and assertions but people and assertions and counter assertions and arguments and reasoning behind arguments and preemptive arguments and simply put fans interacting with other. One thing I know about how conflict escalates rapidly is that often people do not realize how their actions potentially offend others whilst simultaneously being offended by others actions and because peoples perceptions being peoples perceptions, people underestimate how their own actions can offend and overestimate how other peoples actions intend to offend. Hence they retaliate but of course retaliate to the perception.
Which is to say as a Sentry and a Thor and a Namor and a Ares and a Hulk fan, I can often see how animosity can build between fan bases. An innocent comment like X character is more powerful than Y character phrased as a fact without being proven as a fact can unintentionally trigger a strong response in a person who believes Y character is actually more powerful. Which can prompt other fans to start weighing in and as more people respond you end up with people asserting X character is a ****** ******** wimp who ******** and deserves to die because he ******* and Character R is stronger than him anyway and character H curbstomped him anyway and creator G thinks Character L is stronger anyway and fans of Character X are this and that.
Michael Avon Oeming much like Paul Jenkins wrote a wonderfully crafted mini series about a character that many people also overlooked. In the end both characters of both mini's were drafted into Bendis New Avengers earning them both a legion of new fans. Both new characters were teased and paralleled with Thor for a few reasons, both naturally many comic fans read such comparisons as literal and or jumped to speculation about what such comparisons really meant - some fans starting to get to a point where what they interpreted was the only possible meaning... in the end Ares will pretty much killed just to boost Sentry and his reputation. Writers own sentiment. As a fan of both characters I don't mind though, its just the writers style. Different writers have different styles and opinions, different fans have different styles and opinions. Different characters affect different characters in both a negative and positive sense. Many characters helped prop Sentry up, many have helped Thor prop up (Namor, Thing, Hulk) Thor has helped prop many other characters up (Hercules, Wonder Man, Ares, Sentry, Rogue, Silver Surfer and Sentry) - there is a lot of give and take. Oh Sentry has helped boost many characters too.
My objective view on all this which coincides with my opinions, is that Sentry and Thor shouldn't be pitted together. Creates too much animosity and Marvel as a company should want its fans to pick up books with both Thor in it and Sentry and making fans dislike a character so much they want them buried or humiliated isn't good business practice. Both characters have more value than their ability to beat the other. Many Thor fans can be touchy and even though I think he had great moments in AVX it seems many disagree with me and - well sometimes writers can exploit that by propping a character up. Greg Pak did that with Hulk - a huge Hulk fan his run is adored and celebrated by Hulk fans and a large part of Pak's motivation was to have Hulk victorious in a physical sense in many of his story arcs. I am not sure Remender is Thor's equivalent writer though so Sentry fans should have plenty of room for hope.
Hope I didn't bore you ^__^
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