Originally posted by Existere
Well, I just took my own cursory glance through this three-page thread and it seemed like people were largely on either team "leave him dead" or team "...maybe if they do it right this time?". People aren't easily categorized though, and opinions are all over the place. If people want Sentry to be Superman, that doesn't ring a lot of sense to my ears, but whatever.There should be plenty of opportunity for subtle or nuanced development when writing a paranoid schizo with a massive god complex and nearly limitless powers that he doesn't really understand. Sentry's entire direction as a character felt forced, awkward and uninspiring, and it insisted on dominating Marvel's focus until he was dead. Nobody should want that to return.
I mean, christ, Typhoid Mary has had better writing.
Typhoid Mary doesn't have a god complex or powers that add credence to that belief.
Sentry is what Lex Luther fears in Superman, only worse. Lex worries that Superman's powers are too much for one man and that the absolute power will corrupt anyone but the most noble. Well not only is Bob morally ill-equiped to handle the power, he is mentally ill-equiped to handle it as well. He is insane. There isn't anything subtle about him. I don't see how you can take an impotent paranoid schizophrenic with a deep seated inferiority complex, give him limitless god like powers that create a god complex in on of his alters and expect anything but an off the rails crazy train.