How powerful is Sentry by comparison at his BASE levels?
We all know how powerful Reynolds is when imbued with the void or in his 'death seed' mode, but how powerful is he at his base levels like when he fought WWH and compared to others in that class?
The Sentry has always been limited by Bob's imagination. This is why he was able to force Galactus to retreat. Base level? He had none. Death Seed Sentry even claimed to know the future of the 616 time line in reference to his conversation with Thor.
I wouldn't say that his 'base' level is WWH. If you're looking at the 'stable hero' level, i.e. from the original mini-series, he is the most powerful conventional hero [>> Thor/Hulk].
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Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
We're dealing with an addict with several severe mental disorders.
He became a danger not just to his intended target, but to everyone around him - that's why Stark's plan to involve him was very risky and could've very well ended in the total destruction of New York City, if not the entire planet.
I dig that. Its just that usually when he goes bonkers, the void is in the mix. In this case, the void was completely absent and his agoraphobia was heavily used as a plot device.
Agoraphobia is actually just one of his many issues.
Void appeared to be absent, yes, but this just shows that Bob's good, heroic side can lose its way, too.
Also, don't expect Pak to respect any continuity that is not a part of the main characters he writes about.
But we see in WWH how it took Bob 80% of the event to move his ass out of his armchair, as his mental condition was f*cked up and did include the extreme agoraphobia episode - only when he saw Hulk going too far with his gladiator games, he decided to power through his illness and leave the house.
Sentry's main concern was endangering others - as it would take a shitload amount of power in order to subdue an amped version of Hulk (who happened to be immune to his calming aura) - all stated on panel, by Bob himself.
What point are you trying to make? He knew what he was doing. He was using the Hulk as a vessel to unleash his energy. By doing so, his energy release was still in a concentrated area. While fighting Photon his energy release was destroying worlds in the microverse, but yet it was only a few city blocks in the WWH arc. Again, I realize what Pak was trying to do there, but it was utterly horrible execution in the storytelling. He went against the million other times we have seen the Sentry flip out and revert to the Void. Regardless, the thread is using Paks rendition of the Sentry so i'll concede to that point.
His power increase was noted by everyone because they had no idea what he's capable of so it only makes sense.
Hammond Torch bluffed him out of the storyline by feeding him a load of BS and the feeble minded Bob bought it and left. A convenient way of writing him out of the story. Hardly an assraping. Do you or anybody else actually think Hammond Human Torch can hang with the Sentry if Bob felt compelled to actually engage in combat with him? That fight would be a one panel beat down with Hammond left as a pile of nuts and bolts.
She-Hulk? Lol. He casually threw her to another state. She then sucker punches him and then again gets rocked by another punch. Thats an assraping in your book?
Blue Marvel lost.
Hercules kneeing him in the nuts was comedic writing. I dont even remember the Hercules and Hulking deal but that was probably something like Civil War or something to again write him out of the story (like Wolverine and Namor before).
Sentry is above all those characters you've listed above, but you know that.