Originally posted by bbrem123
seems like bob was punishing himself in the sun. Void got bored and left him because he was no longer in controlshows me bob was the real reason he died in siege(as the context clearly shows).
and that burning down to an atom over and over again is boring to the void ha.
Thank you. Finally someone smart.
I would like to tackle that "Robert didn't pull the Void back... Thor simply killed him" for a moment. I've written it down in the Sentry Respect Thread, but here is the majority of it, so you can read it here as well.
This is now for the guy, who thinks that Thor had the power to kill the Void, which ... he really didn't and here is an in-depth explanation on why:
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The first real attack Thor started against the Void was a Mjolnir strike against Void's chest, which left the Void unimpressed and Thor staggered:
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The second real shot Thor got during the fight was while the Void was in the sky and Thor said that he was attacking with all the power under his command. Thor summoned a big lightning, which didn't all too much to the Void either:
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The third real shot Thor got at the Void was after all the heroes (including Thor) got empowered by Loki's Norn stones. The Norn stones boosted the power level of the heroes so much - or at least made them so effective that even Captain America was easily capable of piercing Void's body with his shield toss:
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In the two scans above you saw Loki talking about healing and empowering the heroes and you see them shining in rainbowy colors. The empowered Thor then summons yet another lightning in order to attack the Void:
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But the Void takes that one as well. The Void then kills Loki. The Norn stones disappear and the heroes state that they've lost the power upgrade:
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What happens then is that Iron Man uses the Helicarrier to drop it onto the Void, which does enough damage to revert the Void back to Robert Reynolds.
Robert realizes that he caused all the death and destruction around him and asks the heroes to kill him. Thor denies that, while Robert starts becoming the Void again and yelling at Thor to kill him, which Thor then does by striking him down with Mjolnir:
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In my opinion the comic made it pretty much clear that Robert Reynolds was holding his dark side back and not allowing it to resurrect itself / heal itself.
Thor was trying his best in the fight before and he didn't achieve much. Thor even got a major power upgrade in the fight and it was still not enough to beat the Void, but when Robert finally regained the control and asked to be killed Thor managed to land the killing blow.
The writer of that story (Brian Michael Bendis) also confirmed that Robert Reynolds only lost and died, because he realized that it couldn't go on like that and wanted to die:
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=26287
Q: CBR NEWS: In this scene, Thor finally ends the threat of the Void AKA Bob Reynolds by killing him. It seems like when you consider the Void's power level, the only way this could have happened was because the Void wanted to die.
Brian Michael Bendis: I see there is a lot of online speculation about that, and I thought it was pretty clear. I don't like to over analyze these things. I prefer the work to speak for itself, but I'll put two things out there.
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Bob realized that things had gone as far as they could possibly go. There was no other end for him and without his cooperation he doesn't go away. I just didn't want to have a line in the script where someone like Spider-Woman goes, "Boy, if he didn't want us to kill him, we couldn't have killed him." I see a lot of people got it, though.
Originally posted by LordofBrooklynEven with the addition of Blue Marvel and Doc Strange I think the only chance they'd have is try to send the Void to another dimension. I think it's clearly been proven high heralds aren't powerful enough to beat Void.
Blue Marvel and Dr. Strange are now part of the team.
