Originally posted by BouboumasterYou see this?
This, alone, makes Starfox a countender.
This fits my definition of a douche. An a.sshole can be a lot of things, but a douche imo should be smug to the max, and this picture couldn't be anymore smug if Starfox was posing in the mirror ala American Psycho while humping She-Hulk.
Originally posted by RE: Blaxican
Can someone intelligent please explain to me how Sentry is a rip-off of Superman?
He's not, not really. He does have similar elements/concepts to Superman, though. Flying brick powers, powers based/linked/fueled/otherwise connected to the sun, the "s" motif, being Earth's "greatest hero".
But no, I wouldn't call him more of or even the same level as a Superman analogue as I would Gladiator or Hyperion.
Originally posted by RE: Blaxican
Can someone intelligent please explain to me how Sentry is a rip-off of Superman?
Bendis once called him "Marvel's Superman" in the early days on New Avengers. It's just that since then, the character has shifted so much so that the similarities between the two are as little as they've ever been.
Originally posted by BouboumasterBut I still put Cyclops above amybody else in the douchebag department.
Here, look at this:
Cyclops wins hands down.
because context doesn't matter, right? ermm
Originally posted by Deadline
I can see why people find him annoying. But I think everybody would be a whiney ***** if you went through what SBP did. He was an interesting character at first but it seems they haven't developed him further so that gets annoying.
plenty of characters have lost the people close to them and managed. Prime just seems extra whiney imo.
Originally posted by RE: Blaxican
Can someone intelligent please explain to me how Sentry is a rip-off of Superman?
Originally posted by Omega Vision
I think there was a definite attempt, at least at first, by Marvel to make him fill the Superman niche as the greatest hero of the world, a powerful hero who everyone looked up to and who basically tied the hero community together.
There was that, yeah.
Honestly, I didn't have much of an issue with Sentry being powerful as much as I did having him shoe-horned into canon and having all these characters in the Marvel U act like he was their personal Jesus and a better human being than the rest of them. If was, say, some random ass guy who showed up in the modern universe or an omega level mutant - cliche, I know - it would have been better received than some guy who had been there at around the same time as the first modern Marvel heroes, the Fantastic Four, and was lauded as the greatest and most powerful hero in the planet that we all "forgot" about.
Originally posted by JakeTheBank
There was that, yeah.Honestly, I didn't have much of an issue with Sentry being powerful as much as I did having him shoe-horned into canon and having all these characters in the Marvel U act like he was their personal Jesus and a better human being than the rest of them. If was, say, some random ass guy who showed up in the modern universe or an omega level mutant - cliche, I know - it would have been better received than some guy who had been there at around the same time as the first modern Marvel heroes, the Fantastic Four, and was lauded as the greatest and most powerful hero in the planet that we all "forgot" about.
Yeah, they really overdid the "omg look how wonderful he is" aspect of the character.
Yeah. Honestly, I would have liked him as a neophyte hero with mental/psychological issues; not enough of those in the medium, at least portrayed in a way that's not as simple as "He's f'n crazy, man" or used as a gimmick. Ideally, I would have just introduced him as a new hero to the Marvel Universe instead of attaching all this nonsense of backstory to him and all these needless character relationships.
They made the character a confusing mess... they should have picked one angle and covered it.
1st: Void is some evil part of Sentry's mind, but he can deal with it because the good within him can win.
2nd: Void and Sentry are both just persona's that he generates because he's a ****ed up schizophrenic with superpowers.
3rd: Void is some evil entity from ancient times and Sentry is actually just the cover.
Because they never had a long-term plan with this character inconsistencies just piled up until they were reduced to throwing one plot device retcon after another to patch it up... and finally resorting to just killing the guy when that failed.
