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Should Marvel forget about the Sentry and work on Hyperion or Gladiator to become there Man of Steal?

Hyperion and Gladiator have great potentail to beoceme the Superman of Marvel, what do you guys think?

That's spelled steel.

The only decent Hyperion was the one in exiles.

I have a friend who loves Sentry like a fat kid loves cake, with that said I could care less about the Sentry.

But no one is going to give any sort of damn about Gladiator or Hyperion on the large scale.

yes, Sentry is just a wet dream of Joe Q

Originally posted by Redatom65
yes, Sentry is just a wet dream of Joe Q
Nah, thats Superman.

Gladiator has potential. Hyperion sucks worse than Sentry though.

Gladiator is more interesting than Hyperion, I think, but there's no way anybody can take a purple alien with a mohawk seriously. Sentry's been good so far, and I think they should build on it. They just need to make sure they don't tread the ground that they have before, where they just try "forcing coolness" on the audience. They've started out strong enough that he has the attention...now they need to start giving him some character development and be patient. Don't just make him come to save the day in every situation, but possibly give him something to do when Hulk comes back.

there is hope for galdiator, he's the only one of the three who's history hasnt been explained in detail there is a lot of room for writers to go crazy and come up with anything... and we'll totally believe it. like the way marvel has been jerking with the idea that he could have once been a herald to the G man. which would imply that he is so f ****ing powerful he didnt need a cosmic makeover like all the others did. plus now that gabriel is the ruler of the shiar empire and he's pure f ****ing evil... but calculating evil tho, not the regualr old, lets destroy the universe and remake it in my image, and the fact that glads is so " unflappingly loyal" as marvel letw to tag him im sure vulcan is gonna have him doing all manner of cool evil stuff that's gonna out him back on the map.

plus i like that fact that they usually use PIS to keep him in check(unknown radiation) rather than bullshit like in the case of hyperion "heroes dont kill" and "there has to be another way" and "lets' rehabilitate a bad guy and if he seems sincere let him join our super team". or in the case of the sentry who is the most powerful meta human on earth, instead of having him be unapologetic about his might, he has to have a super weak psyche(his kryptonite) and an evil darkside he has to keep repressed for if he cuts loose here comes the void again. plus the unknown radiation thing forever trips me out cuz i fail to understand how a guy who can fly unaided in space where there is all sorts of radiation would ever be allergic to it in any form

Sentry is less of a copy than the other two - because he's more like Miracleman.
And all the Hyperion's I find more interesting than Gladiator, who was originally conceived as an in-joke.

Anyway, Thor's coming back - that's what I care about!

Originally posted by roughrider


Anyway, Thor's coming back - that's what I care about!
i second that, and also im more of an Ikaris fan that Hyperion/Gladiator

Originally posted by roughrider
Sentry is less of a copy than the other two - because he's more like Miracleman.
And all the Hyperion's I find more interesting than Gladiator, who was originally conceived as an in-joke.

Anyway, Thor's coming back - that's what I care about!

That is an INSULT to Miracleman.

I forget. Was it Kid Miracleman, or regular Miracleman who butchered London?

Nah Marvel should stay with Sentry but I would like to see them give Gladiator alot more shine. But like Roughrider said I'm ready for THOR to return. A pissed off Thor and Hulk nuff said.

hyperion as he appeared in supreme power/squadron supreme, tucked away safely in a non-616 universe, was the most interesting incarnation in my book. i haven't been following the ultimate power story, so i don't know what's happened there, but the skew of a superman character being taught morality, then having that abused and used against him by the same people who taught him is the best take on the "superman" character i've seen thus far.

gladiator's job seems to be jobbing. i haven't been interested in kallark in years, especially when the captain universe stuff was coming out. bleh.

sentry can drop off the map or become an a-list hero for all i care. i dont read much crap with him in it, anyway.

Not at all sentry the man

Originally posted by TricksterPriest
I forget. Was it Kid Miracleman, or regular Miracleman who butchered London?

Kid butchered London, Miracleman and team finally stopped him.

I would like to see more of Gladiator, hes always interested me as a character but he at the moment is a glorified jobber.

They wheel out Glads to get his ass beat by the Hero to show what a bad ass the hero is.

That seems to be his job, which saddens me!

No.

Hyperion's fine over in MAX (well he should be back there).

Gladiator, well he doesn't leave the X books often, which are pretty much a universe onto themselves.

Sentry pwns both of them, you better learn to love him 'cause I doubt Paul Jenkins and Joey to let him go anywhere anytime soon.

Originally posted by CasanoVa
Sentry pwns both of them, you better learn to love him 'cause I doubt Paul Jenkins and Joey to let him go anywhere anytime soon.

DC has more then one Superman type why not Marvel. Sentry should stay his writters should go.

Originally posted by CasanoVa

Sentry pwns both of them, you better learn to love him 'cause I doubt Paul Jenkins and Joey to let him go anywhere anytime soon.

Originally posted by the Darkone
Should Marvel forget about the Sentry and work on Hyperion or Gladiator to become there Man of Steal?

Hyperion and Gladiator have great potentail to beoceme the Superman of Marvel, what do you guys think?

Why? What's wrong with Sentry?

Originally posted by grey fox
That is an INSULT to Miracleman.

I didn't say Sentry was better; his origin is just similar.

I think Sentry has a great deal of untapped potential. He just needs a writer that will stop putting him on the back-burner.

Sentry isn't even really focused on in Marvel anymore...

Hyperion and Gladiator have had YEARS to be built up as Marvel's Superman, but they haven't gotten anywhere. I think its time to give Sentry his shot...and for the most part, he's doing well so far. But like others have said, he needs to be given more than just a few cameo appearances of running in and taking care of some villain.

Hyperion only works in his own dimension, not in Earth-616. Gladiator doesn't belong outside his duty to the Shi'ar; why would he adventure on Earth?

What a stuppid thread, both of Sentrys min series have been excellent.
He's a littl like Miracleman in that he had a false origin and had forgotten who he was. All deconstructionist comis of that type bow to Moore though.