Originally posted by grey fox
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Well I see where you comiong from but thats not that twisted.
Originally posted by Rewmac
This Sentry thing is annoying. They asay they wanna depower him now coz he is too strong and all, but since he appeared he proved to be junk...I mean we saw more powerful heroes in the MU then him and yet still they wanna mess up another character.
I agree.
I don't mind if they introduce him as this insanely powerful character, but when they do they shouldn't make him perform so poorly. I would much rather have him just walk all over everyone instead of giving him some ridiculously high feats and then some random low ones.
WWH had a central conceit of PIS that sooner or later, almost everyone will try to punch it out with the Hulk and loose, despite having other more prudent options, simply because the Hulk is the one whose name is on the cover. Stark and Strange both choosing tactics that rely on close quarter brawling for example.
Where Bob was concerned however, I think it might be more legitimate CIS in play. He was clearly in the middle of a neurotic episode before he even left the house. Acting agoraphobic while in Sentry form is particularly out extreme. Usually Bob is the phobic persona while the Sentry is more confident and capable.
WRT the OP's question, I don't think we've seen anything to suggest that there is a 50/50 split between the energies that each persona can bring to bear. However, we have seen a shift in the amount of power (and ruthlessness) that each persona brings to bear based on Bob's mental state.
Compare Void's "Silver Age" appearances as a man in a coat kidnapping the Avengers or controlling the Kingpin to his two attacks on NYC when Bob was in an overall depressive state. In the second Sentry mini, they're more-or-less evenly matched with the Sentry gaining the upper hand as Bob is coming to grips with his illness. He is by no means well though. (Here's hoping for a Void-led Master's of Evil in a future MA arc.)
Originally posted by llagrok
I agree.I don't mind if they introduce him as this insanely powerful character, but when they do they shouldn't make him perform so poorly. I would much rather have him just walk all over everyone instead of giving him some ridiculously high feats and then some random low ones.
Oh my god I agree. The problem is that they want to create an insanely powerful character but the problem is that insanely powerful characters are not interesting. So in the end they try to do a balancing act
If they make him insanely powerful all the time its boring, but they want to remind us hes powerful with the odd random uber, mega power feat. I guess his mental problems are there to stop him from becoming too powerful, every once in a while he conquers his fears and thats when the power comes out.
Originally posted by Laminator_X
WWH had a central conceit of PIS that sooner or later, almost everyone will try to punch it out with the Hulk and loose, despite having other more prudent options, simply because the Hulk is the one whose name is on the cover. Stark and Strange both choosing tactics that rely on close quarter brawling for example.
I dunno man I think Strange tried other stuff apart from Zom.
It seems like Marvel designed Sentry to see if they could make a completely overpowered character work on personality alone. And then they start straying from that now because they have him lose all the time. It seems like he was conceved as a guy who would win every fight with overwhelming ease, but not anymore.
Originally posted by Alfheim
I guess his mental problems are there to stop him from becoming too powerful, every once in a while he conquers his fears and thats when the power comes out.
Absolutely. When his head's in the game (1st issue of the second mini, vs the Collective, his Civil War issue of NA, NA annual 1) he's awe-inspiring. When the crazy's winning out, not so much.
Originally posted by Alfheim
I dunno man I think Strange tried other stuff apart from Zom.
Yes, but not much. Head trip was Plan A. That didn't work. Instead of doing any number of useful things like rescuing others, removing Hulk's wizards from the field as a prelude to neutralizing the spaceship/army, or simply intervening quietly here and there to lower the intensity of the conflict, Strange goes strait to the Zom cocktail as Plan B.
That really should've been well into the back half of the alphabet, preceded by any number of things that didn't involve drinking the essence of a world-destroying primordial demon and risking it getting loose on top of anything that might go wrong while brawling with the Hulk.
Originally posted by Laminator_XWhat do you mean,? Strange can beat anyone with prep, even the Infinity Gauntlet.
Absolutely. When his head's in the game (1st issue of the second mini, vs the Collective, his Civil War issue of NA, NA annual 1) he's awe-inspiring. When the crazy's winning out, not so much.Yes, but not much. Head trip was Plan A. That didn't work. Instead of doing any number of useful things like rescuing others, removing Hulk's wizards from the field as a prelude to neutralizing the spaceship/army, or simply intervening quietly here and there to lower the intensity of the conflict, Strange goes strait to the Zom cocktail as Plan B.
That really should've been well into the back half of the alphabet, preceded by any number of things that didn't involve drinking the essence of a world-destroying primordial demon and risking it getting loose on top of anything that might go wrong while brawling with the Hulk.
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