Originally posted by Mindset
He had a few seconds of free time because IM convinced Doom to stop attacking Sentry. IM didn't even know what Doom was doing to Sentry, it's hilarious to think that IM knew Sentry would kill Doom because of that attack. What Doom said, "It doesn't seem that he is able to do anything.", and he was right.
Sigh ... here we go again ...
Iron Man saw that Sentry was struggeling with something Doom was doing to him and he told Doom to stop, otherwise Sentry would have killed Doom.
Sentry is the one with the power level which can't be measured by Iron Man, Reed Richards, S.H.I.E.L.D. and so on. Not Doctor Doom.
I never said that Iron Man knew what Doctor Doom was doing there. I simply said that Doctor Doom was using a spirit-reversal-spell, which was stated on the next page. Either you don't know about that, since you simply took that scan out of nothing to prove a false point, or you know it exactly and wanted to skip it out.
Fact is: that spell did something to the unstable Sentry, who then started struggeling and fading away, the reason why Iron Man said that Sentry would kill Doom and not even know that he did it, because usually then the Void takes over and if Sentry sees the Void and is scared of him, the Void has an easy game.
Originally posted by Mindset
He casually used a spell that incapacitated Sentry.
No, he had luck that he was using basically the only spell in his book which was capable of holding the Sentry off for few seconds.
Sentry already faced magic, especially black magic in the past and he did just fine. Doctor Strange, who is a better sorcerer than Doom also said that Sentry was always too powerful for black magic, mind cancer magic.
As I mentioned it above, Sentry was unstable when Doom attacked him with his spell, the reason why it affected Sentry in the first place. Let Doom face in a moment where Sentry is clear minded and Doom is history, like already shown in the past.
Originally posted by Mindset
In your post you said he was never able to defend himself from Sentry.
He was not. He was never able to. Do you call it defending if you get rid of the opponent for few seconds without actually doing much to him and he then kills you afterwards? I don't call that self-defense, I call that not using the opportunity to run away.
Additionally to that I'm not even sure if he could really escape the Sentry, since the Sentry can teleport and track people by their "aura". He did it to Noah-Varr, but I guess because of Noah-Varr's tech he wasn't able to detect him later on, so chances are there that Doom could also avoid a further detection.
Originally posted by Mindset
What I proved is that you're wrong.
No, you didn't prove anything, but listen. I think that Doctor Doom is an awesome character. In fact he is probably like my only, only, only favorite villain in the comic books.
I like bad guys, but most of them are not appealing, yet Doctor Doom is miles above them and I'm the first one who would argue for Doom in his battles, yet when it comes to the Sentry, Doom's track is far than worse.
Originally posted by Mindset
I can't think of a time where Sentry attacked Doom while Doom was either aware of his presence or wasn't busy fighting someone else.
That's not the point.
Doom is not a uber-duber-superhuman, who can do much against it. He does not have the movement speed, nor the reaction speed to react to the Sentry, someone who kills Morgana by simply flying behind her and ripping her head off, before she can react.
Doom is a great sorcerer and he is a genius. He builds tech and he awaits from that tech to protect him, but that tech which gave him few wins over the Silver Surfer, took a blast from the Infinity Gauntlet, protected him from being thrown away by Galactus was not enough to keep the Sentry away from him ... TWICE.
Sentry broke through Doom's shields which were at 100% of their capacity, ripped apart Doom's armor and left everyone around him impressed, even Doom. He impressed Doctor Doom.
The second time he also walked yet again through Doom's shields, after Ms. Marvel told him too, since the entire Avengers were not able to help Iron Man out, who was overwhelmed by Doom who was wielding the Crimson Bands Of Cyttorak and in the end Sentry took him down once again.
In a different encounter the Void one-shotted a Doombot (and Doombots also have their awesome showings), while Sentry later on also ripped apart the Doombot and destroyed all of the flying weapon thingys from Doom.
And then we also have your scan, where Doom gets rid of the Sentry for a moment and then Iron Man yells at him and tells him to stop, if he wants to live.
In What If? 200, written by Stan Lee, the creator of Doctor Doom we see Void one-shotting Doom, in Siege we see Loki, yet another powerful sorcerer saying that he didn't know Void was that all-powerful.
No matter who was writing the stories, they all saw Sentry being superior to Doom, so yeah ... Doom does not really have a chance to take Sentry down in a random encounter. If he has prep-time he would find a way. A prep-genius always finds a way.
Doom at his peak would also take down the Sentry, since then it would be basically Sentry VS Beyonder and Sentry would lose most of his fights against reality warpers, if you ask me, since he is limited to powerful, raw molecule manipulation, while reality warping is simply a higher scale.